skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish people didn't trivialize the struggle with moving from a metropolitan area, as if leaving everything and everyone close to you is a simple, rational, mathematical decision to save a few hundred a month on rent.
Currently, ROTC cadets who are offered a scholarship (not all are), receive:

1) Full tuition and fees OR $10k/year to cover room and board. Cadet chooses. I'd expect at most schools the tuition+fees is worth more, but some cadets have other scholarships that might cover all or part of tuition.

2) $1200/year for textbooks

3) $300-$500/month (depending on year) living stipend
xkcd is always fun and supported by facts, but that chart only goes as far back as 20000 years ago.

No chart-based argument is ever fair if it does not show all available data and includes zero. Which is to say that it needs to cover about 4.5 billion years and show temperature in degrees Kelvin. Not that it isn't rhetorically effective; it's just not fair.

To restore the effectiveness, you'd probably have to put everything on a log scale, also chart the first derivative of the mean global temperature function, chart the partial pressure of CO2, and label all the mass extinction events.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:All_palaeotemps.png might be a good starting point.

The facts speak for themselves; no one should need to be tricked in order to believe them. And cherry-picking is a rhetorical trick. The rate of change in mean global temperature is at a level that is a hundred times more rapid than the warming and cooling rates seen in previous geological eras. And while we are still under the Eocene maximum for absolute mean temperature, biological evolution needs time to keep up with temperature change. Species that produce new generations on the scale of decades can possibly handle a 5 degree change, when it occurs over 100000 years, but not so much when it only takes 100 years. If you swing the needle on the temperature gauge fast enough, only the species that can produce new generations in a matter of hours will survive it.
Nobody cares what the skilled trades do. Tradition for the sake of tradition doesn't really get in the way of preventing human error in software, accounting or engineering.

Cops and doctors (in that order) seem to be the biggest offenders when it comes to rejecting process improvements to the detriment of society but there's definitely others. It's not a binary value.
With regard to the difference between pilots and surgeons in this matter, it has been noted that the latter are not personally at risk from not using checklists. I am not suggesting that surgeons deliberately or cavalierly put patients at risk, but risk to oneself has a way of concentrating the mind.
Since paper is almost literally tinder, and old libraries exist, I posit that not burning over a long period of time in no way invalidates characterization as a “tinderbox”.

Besides, there’s more to this piece than the title.
We all keep saying that. So how do we get the ball rolling?
This, x1000. I just can't believe there is no setting to turn it off.
but then they might not go to college at all.
Singapore’s stunning expansion of Changi Airport redefining what an airport is
Only from skimming the first few pages of "Why's (poignant) guide to Ruby" I wanted to learn Ruby.

I didn't checked recently, but I found bizarre (maybe not the right word) how the author one day decided to disappear and nuke his Internet presence.

https://poignant.guide/
The solution may be found in the legal system and its corresponding arm, the malpractice insurers, if both were to mandate a minimal standard of care including the use of checklists.
Thanks for linking to this, the story is interesting without a shadow of a doubt. From Verges point of view looks like Zuckerberg has a clear tendency to be monopolistic personality, which is sort of typical for huge CEOs. Currently reading on Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos scam, control freak to say the least.
Everything about this is great, I'm not a big video watcher but I just sat through that whole thing it was gold. The selfie direction flips, the interjections from you in another setting instead of chopping the video (both funny but also a nicer way to do it honestly). The concepts you're showing. All really good. Keep it up I'll be watching!
The real reason to make this spec is not to improve integrity o privacy or something else but to make users stay on Google's domain instead of going to other site. Google wants to build its little walled garden, and this spec is needed to make users think that the walls aren't there.

> With this setup, documents can be prefetched while preserving user privacy and after the user clicks all browser behavior continues as normal from that point forward.

But Google can already preload and show cached version of the page without this spec. The only difference would be that address bar shows "google.com" instead of publisher's domain. There is no need for this specification.
Scientists are tackling climate change using AI
Dunno what this means overall, just another reminder that this stuff is complicated.

If climate change in Antarctica causes more snow/percipitation, ice will accumulate there, even if average temperatures increase.

If I understand correctly, this isn't something new. It isn't clear if the trend is accelerating or reversing. Ice always accumulates in Antarctica, because whatever snow falls in the interior just sits there.
Everyone hates this but we need...

A digital driver’s license/ID card type of thing for using the Internet(by country), especially considering deepfakes. You can still post anonymously but it won’t hold much weight vs. using your real name/ID. Something that if posting junk your reputation/credit/trustworthiness takes a hit!
I do this. Everyone seems to think I'm insane however. This is the same people who's lives regularly descend into chaos doing the same stupid things over and over again.
http://greyenlightenment.com/college-a-necessary-evil/ In spite of increased debt and tuition, no matter how you crunch the numbers, college grads--especially 'high-ROI' subjects such as computer sci, econ, math etc.--do better than non-grads. And the gap in wages and employment between grads and non-grads, especially since 2009, is the widest it has ever been and shows no signs of narrowing. In the aftermath of the financial crisis, college is more expensive but also more necessary, partially due to the continued decline of manufacturing jobs, but the failure of middle-class, medium-skill jobs such as construction and auto to recover to their pre-crisis peaks .

This guy ran the numbers and found even the worse-ranked college still provided a positive ROI https://www.conradbastable.com/essays/the-bermuda-triangle-o...

And this is the WORST university we give a ranking to? A $309,000 estimated return on investment, not-adjusted-for-major. You have to visit Payscale, click “See Full List”, and scroll past 1,752 colleges before you find one that doesn’t have a positive RoI — not-adjusted-for-major.
Getting away from your comfortable home is a good thing. Once you have agreed to leave everything you know and move it doesn't matter where you go.

Visiting local schools is important because you need to ensure that the details work. Can you get from your parents home to class during rush hour? Can you get from class to your weekend job?

If you are going far away from home though, who cares. What you can do in Fargo North Dakota are very different what you can do in Maui Hawaii, but either way you there are plenty of things to do. You will find out when you get there. If forced to either you will find something you like that you didn't know before. You will meet new friends.
Not seeing the meat on the bone here. It's quite normal at large companies for interview requests to be approved by someone. It's quite normal for infrastructure, support, tooling, resources to get moved around a lot. It's quite normal for people in one department to be irked at the (perceived) extra attention another department receives.

I'm not FB fan but I'm pretty sure MZ isn't jealous of the growth of anything.
...the Overton window is sliding to a place where we'll soon see the POTUS tweet about his dreams of Cthulhu and it will not even seem weird anymore :P
I live in NY and I'm not a conservative taking a shot at a liberal city. There was shit on the building wall of my (not cheap) hotel. I was honestly shocked at how many areas of the city, while beautiful, clearly had a slight smell of piss or shit. NY smells like garbage half the time, but other than when you get on the bad car on the subway where some homeless guy has camped up, very rarely does it smell like human waste.
Logic Puzzle: The Joy of Recursion
If you're going to break the way the web works, you might as well break it hard. At least that seems to be Google's philosophy with this unasked-for inserting itself between people and publishers.
The article is short so doesn't really delve into what happens after those deaths - specifically investigation into cause or the legal ramifications.

I was hoping to get that info because the first thing that popped into my mind was that people are/were apparently dying due to unnecessary reasons if a simple checklist prevents 37% of surgical deaths. If that's the case, the only way I could imagine classifying those deaths would be "gross negligence" and therefore not subject to the protections of the legal agreements you sign before surgery.
"Questions I'm going to investigate..."

By reading Wired.
That's exactly what it was. Atul Gawande wrote a column in the New Yorker [0] and was presumably offered a deal to expand it into a book.

[0] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/12/10/the-checklist
> AMP documents don't share user data with Google, which can be trivially seen by inspecting the network events that the page generates.

Is there anything preventing Google from changing this later?
It has been happening to me for about a year now, with specifically Jack-in-the-Box. Seems like a win-win situation, street names are harder to detect while moving at higher speeds than a huge sign for a fast food place, and businesses get advertised. That's how I give directions to people as well, using landmarks.
History is full of awkward acquisitions and politics where business decisions are made poorly and for all the wrong reasons.
Fable: React you can be proud of Part 1
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/bjs.11151

Here's a link to the study.

Please point out the parts of it that you find to be scientifically failing.

There's a valid point to be made that the original article implies a greater causal link than the study, but that isn't the study's fault, and it doesn't actually diminish the effect of the checklist in the process. Poor reporting on science is always a problem, and journalists typically use layperson phrasing in order to make the information more consumable.
Given the mindset of senior managers in companies like HW, I think it would be not something unexpected.

I once thought of tech companies being ran buy bankers and lawyers as an American thing, but Chinese MNCs have since outdone US on that few times over
I always find it curious in the Chrome vs. Firefox discussion, that while people bash chrome and think of Firefox as the truly free alternative, in the end, even in this very technical community here, many people still choose Chrome. Now, I got the theory that this has to do with many techies here being US based, there are probably lots of you using Macs and from what I understand, Firefox on Mac is even worse than Chrome on Mac? But really, I never understood it at all, because I never experienced Firefox as "unusable slow" as I hear people often complain about and thus I never switched to Chrome, because I felt it offered far more annoyances than the slightly lower speed of Firefox in comparison.

But what I am getting at, even now, that many people are starting to get really critical about Chrome and when Firefox seems to have redeemed itself regarding speed, many here still seem to think, Chrome is the end-all-be-all. And with that attitude, you have to wonder, is it really google holding Firefox back or is it us, the experts, who in large parts seem not to use it, while still preaching how bad chrome/google is becoming. If there is no easily pointed to technical superiority to Chrome, why are we not all using Firefox and installing it on our families and friends computers?

And a bit unrelated: Reading this rant on twitter is just ridiculous. Get a blog, dude!
> I clarified that immediately in my first followup.

Where? I don’t see it. On the contrary, you doubled down by saying “Jarvis”, and gave a link, which, as I said previously, is exactly the same style of interface as in Minority Report, and has the same problem. You also said that you thought that the Soli technology could make the Minority Report interface “achievable”.

Later, when we were discussing the Soli interface specifically, you said “I’m only moving my hands. I can still move my hands while resting my arms.”, but you never said that Soli is what you wanted.

So if you, contrary to what you originally wrote, don’t want Minority Report and/or Jarvis, what do you want? Soli? That style might possibly work, but I remain skeptical; I would have to be convinced that Soli does not suffer from the gorilla arm problem, since nothing in the Soli demo video seem to show a comfortable mode of working for extended periods, only spiffy short-term interactions.
You know what service had both communities of interest that thrived AND individual followings AND wasn't overrun with Nazis?

Google Plus.

Now excuse me while I shed no tears for Jack.
I was thinking of the original etymology of "nova", which is derived from the Latin term for "new star". Though to be insufferably pedantic, a real nova within the bounds of Earth's atmosphere would not seem particularly stationary to those unlucky enough to observe it from the ground. :)
The article mentions "“There was a 25 percent drop in sales overnight when the changes came into effect in India,” he said in an interview. “So we think SCA is a huge deal.".

I highly doubt that 25% is anywhere close to the long-term impact, but any fraud detection that increases friction decreases the number of impulse purchases. If it's not clear that reduced fraud creates a bigger benefit than lost purchases the industry won't implement it. Add the sometimes weird incentives (chargeback fees etc) and something that's beneficial to the consumer might never be implemented willingly by payment providers.

If the friction from better fraud detection reduces impulse purchases it might be detrimental
Worth noting that Mozilla's current position on this standard doesn't really make sense: https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/29#iss...

There may indeed be valid issues with the standard, but their current rationale for marking it as "harmful" isn't technically sound.
UK Age Verification Checks for Online Pornography to Begin in July
Its where bureaucracy and red tape starts.

What people call bureaucracy is process that they follow without knowing why it's there. Every single rule in a business is there because something went wrong, and someone didn't want it to happen again.

The answer to bureaucracy is transparency. If you explain why a rule has to be followed people don't mind that there's a rule.

(You also have to regularly review the rules and get rid of ones that don't make sense any more, but that's much less common that you'd think.)
That really isn't how mass works.
I don't think I need to justify a private company spending private funds but since you insist,

According to Pew Research, 95% of Americans own cellphones. 75% of the world population owns cellphones. When you include other mobile networked devices that number goes up if only a little. Any infrastructure improvement to the wireless telecom infrastructure will benefit the vast majority of the world's population. Even people who insist on using 4G will see major benefits due to less congestion as people migrate over to 5G systems and guess what, the 5G standard includes keeping the 4G system intact and running so this isn't a planned obsolescence but purely an expansion of capability!

Historically, nearly all infrastructure development has yielded significant positive returns not just for the capital holders (Telco's) but for the users as well. While we can certainly extend additional 4G coverage, 5G has a significant number of technical improvements that allow for better backhaul network and network management. Once the initial development costs are paid, there is no reason not to use 5G access standards over 4G.

Most of the 5G mmWave standards are backhaul for the foreseeable future. These enable low cost, low latency deployments to areas which are currently undeserved because of the costs of deployment. This is important because it enables technologies like tele-robotics. It would allow rural areas to invest in a surgical robot at their local hospital and have an expert surgeon working from a more prominent location potentially saving lives.

There are standards for out of channel spectral masks to prevent problems like (including specifically) the one postulated in the article. There exposure standards for safety that the military has been researching for decades as part of their radar work in the mmWave band. I've yet to see any concerns that were not specious and certainly not from anyone familiar with the technology. Most of the concerns are just repeated talking points from dozens of other older technologies that never showed any substance with a helping of, "It's different THIS time." So, you're right, it's not funny, it's sad to see people on Hacker News arguing that 2010 was the ideal level of technology and we shouldn't bother trying to develop more. Hell, it's literally the same argument Comcast makes on why broadband standards shouldn't be raised. "What people have is good enough and they don't want more so you can't justify the costs to improve!"
The Vessel, a honeycomb shaped structure
You can see this effect by going to fast.com.

Using my smartphone, it induces and measures > 700ms latency on my cable modem connection. That’s worse than old-fashioned high-orbit satellite internet!
Yes, drew everything myself, took years of my free time given the size of the book :)
Are you being facetious? :) "Sufficiently smart compiler" - http://wiki.c2.com/?SufficientlySmartCompiler

Don't get me wrong, I like C - especially on small problems. I don't get the feeling that I'm creating something flexible with C, though, it's very much bespoke and tailored. I get involved in micromanagement of fine details. This is OK for a small problem, but extremely aggravating for a big problem. As soon as I want higher level abstractions, and start building structs of function pointers and whatnot, I just shake my head - I'd rather write a parser and corresponding text generator than manually compile that into C.

C++ has been hobbled by the concept of a sufficiently smart compiler. It's so afraid of introducing abstractions that aren't cost-free, it tries to make them all optional, and the resulting explosion in feature combination means some combinations don't work well together, and then every big C++ project has to decide which set of features they'll adopt, and which ones they won't.

Give me the freedom to think closer to the problem, and even if the abstractions have some costs, and even if the compilers aren't quite sufficiently smart, the chances are I'll come up with algorithm improvements that meet speed and space requirements and let me move on to the next problem much sooner. Agility trumps hyper-optimization.
Thanks!

> And it would result in combinatorial explosion of translation message versions if source code had to add special case for each quirk in each language.

This is the exact problem we designed Fluent to solve. If you get a chance to try it out, feel free to reach out to me if you questions. I'll be more than happy to help and to hear feedback.
Many anthropologists seem to think that a lot of hunter-gatherer populations had a fairly laid back life in terms of hours worked per week. It seems plausible to me that unnecessarily industrious tribes living in rainforest could overtax their environment, for example.
My guess is that a substantial part of those costs are probably to pay a few people a middle class wage.
This is a fantastic overview - thanks for taking the time to write it. I think probably a lot of the negatives seem more to do with the "for profit education" angle (not rejecting obviously disruptive or incapable candidates) than the "boot camp" format itself, which is interesting. I expected that part of it to be challenging, as I remember a lot of cases in uni where I needed time to let problems "simmer" for a while before I could actually sit down and write the code.

It makes me wonder if there's a way that the public education system could offer something semi accredited (and publically funded) in the boot camp "format" for software education, and maybe alleviate some of the challenges you mentioned. My classes certainly didn't slow down when people struggled or weren't trying, those people simply weren't around for much longer (or mostly weren't there in the first place.

Anyway - very glad that it's worked out for you, and I think you're spot on with the questions bit. At the end of the day, there's too much to know out there, so all one can do is ask questions and stay curious!
Lyric raises $160M Series B led by Airbnb
Actually it looks like the Air Force offers scholarships in 3 tiers: https://www.afrotc.com/scholarships/high-school/types/

In addition to the offer I described above, it looks like a "Type 2" scholarship is the same, but with tuition+fees capped at $18k/year, and "Type 3" is the same, but with tuition+fee capped at the in-state rate at a public university.
>risking your life for a counterproductive endless war that the American public barely knows is happening.

Yet the American public happily votes for these wars over and over.
EEG headset hacking and plausible new hacking methods
It reminds me on my Mom. Whenever we were traveling, she wrote a checklist. Very organized. I do it now too, helps me to offload.
Google's response: https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/29#iss...

In all fairness I have to agree with Google on this one. Mozilla's current objections don't really make sense.
Great. That way you have absolutely no basis to make any decision on.

It’s utterly impossible to verify even a tiny bit of the information you rely on every day from first principle. If you don’t find some way to establish trust, you’re almost literally lost in the wilderness (if you include Google Maps and all map makers in your “trust no one” shtick).
”Though I think that user can install new CA certificate, so it's possible to manuall work around that problem.”

Good point. Generally it’s a bad idea for users to install any CA certificates on their devices, but in this case I think it makes sense.
I dimly remember it being more involved for me than that and probably included group policies + registry. But it is gone for now and has not come back with updates. I am not sure I ever do a new install of windows 10 on my home PC should the need arise. For me, the signs point to Linux more with every new "feature" MS builds into Windows 10 and the only thing really holding me back still is gaming.
The Ascetic Habits of Saint Paisios
I already loved figs, but TIL they are metal AF and I love them more.
Open-plan offices reduce face-to-face interactions (2018)