skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have checklists for almost everything. Recently I’ve started worrying that I’m depending too much on them because I should be able to think up things I need to do without these checklists. As in I’m not engaging my brain as much. But your comment just made me realize that now I have the cognitive load to do things other than remembering tasks. I recently passed two licensing exams without being stressed out that a lot of my friends failed. And I think I may attribute my checklists habit to that.

(Shameless plug from a happy user: I rely heavily on the Things app for Mac and iOS)
What surprises me is that there aren’t institutions that take advantage of this in a different way — by paying significantly higher salaries and health benefits, attracting the top 1% of adjuncts with skills like teaching and mentorship, then advertising that as a differentiator for students.
The government does compel you to have water and sewerage handling out in the country. You can’t build or get a conventional mortgage without both.

Wells and septic tanks scale better in sparsely populated regions, so they require that in places that are outside of municipal systems.
"Offending one's delicate sensibilities" is a stock phrase. It's generally used in a tongue-in-cheek/mocking manner, referring to someone who is being overly dramatic; often used together with phrases like "clutching one's pearls".

I think they're mocking both Facebook and Systrom at the same time.
Instagram meme makers are unionizing
This is actually the opposite: users are deceived because they think they connect to publisher's site but in fact they are still inside Google's walled garden. Their data are collected according to Google's privacy policy but it is difficult to spot looking at the address bar.

Also, Google controlling AMP means that Google decides what analytic systems and ad networks are allowed on the AMP page. With Google having its own ads and analytics business, doesn't this tempt them to make life little easier for its own products and little more difficult for competitors'?
I'm not really sure what your point is. Ultimately, any kind of negligent behaviour would be "malpractice", but that's not something that can be completely eliminated. Mistakes always happen, regardless of care or attention paid; it seems like the focus should be to develop systems which can minimise their occurrence, minimise the severity of them if they do occur, and help to provide information that can reduce recurrence.

I find the approach of things like rail and air accident investigations to be really useful. The goal for the investigation of any accident should not be about apportioning blame, but understanding why accidents happen and how their occurrence can be effectively reduced or eliminated.
The first was apprehended by local police while attempting to pawn the stolen TV. The second one was shot and ended up in the ER. I suppose I can't speak for the third, but if you had to take an educated guess...
I guess it depends on the definition of progress. I see people able to do things previously impossible, which I say is progress, and you say that is not progress because the new things are not objectively better.
Kanban boards e.g. Trello, Kanbanflow, Microsoft Planner, and others. They all support checklists, and you can categorize/organize as you need.
But it's served from Google, so they still control all the analytics
Specific programs also tend to set their own prices. Even in Canada with all public schools tuition for business, medical, veterinary, etc. Are all higher
So you're telling me a broader book can't have bias? At what point do books start to have bias then? Also, how does that help us understand something like fracking on all it's axises? A geology book might tell you the fundamentals behind the hydrology, but it won't mention the possible environmental impact. You're still leaving giant gaps in your knowledge.
If the situation is as described, then I would agree with the idea that this shouldn't be treated as an "issue".

Discrimination's common definition has the negative connotation, but in this case, it seems to legitimately be "discriminating" based on ability to hide contraband, however in this case "discriminating" is synonymous with "differentiate".
The type of person that joins the military doesn't mind deployments. In fact the entire point of becoming a pilot is to fly those damn planes and shoot stuff.
Here's the easiest way to understand how inaccurate most reporting is:

Read any mainstream coverage over a topic you are deeply knowledgeable in.
I saw Pocket on there once or twice when they initially included it, and have not seen it since. I don’t see that they are “keep trying to push” it in any way. Just say no/disable it and move on.
1. Reverse-engineer what you read. If it feels like good writing, what makes it good? If it’s awful, why?

2. Prose is a window onto the world. Let your readers see what you are seeing by using visual, concrete language.

3.Don’t go meta. Minimize concepts about concepts, like “approach, assumption, concept, condition, context, framework, issue, level, model, perspective, process, range, role, strategy, tendency,” and “variable.”

4.Let verbs be verbs. “Appear,” not “make an appearance.”

5.Beware of the Curse of Knowledge: when you know something, it’s hard to imagine what it’s like not to know it. Minimize acronyms & technical terms. Use “for example” liberally. Show a draft around, & prepare to learn that what’s obvious to you may not be obvious to anyone else.

6. Omit needless words (Will Strunk was right about this).

7. Avoid clichés like the plague (thanks, William Safire).

8. Old information at the beginning of the sentence, new information at the end.

9.Save the heaviest for last: a complex phrase should go at the end of the sentence.

10. Prose must cohere: readers must know how each sentence is related to the preceding one. If it’s not obvious, use “that is, for example, in general, on the other hand, nevertheless, as a result, because, nonetheless,” or “despite.”

11. Revise several times with the single goal of improving the prose.

12. Read it aloud.

13. Find the best word, which is not always the fanciest word. Consult a dictionary with usage notes, and a thesaurus.
Reddit bans ads for adult-oriented products and services
As a life long patient, while I appreciate the checklists, I think some of the repeated rechecking is a bit much.
I agree with you, the article could have omitted the mention of the thundering herd and would still not feel any more incomplete.

I think it becomes a thundering herd problem when every request that's a potential cache miss tries to obtain a lock on the Promise for that request. Likely what the author was trying to get at which was lost due to overly generalising the problem.
There is https://usesthis.com/categories/developer/ , where people describe the hardware/software they use.

The site was fairly popular a decade ago. I'm glad it's still up and doing new interviews.
If US schools are Veblen goods then we can look to luxury goods as a comparison.

Consider Ray Ban/Burberry who at points in the past crossed the line from exclusivity into mass market and suffered a reputation hit, only to go under new management and tightly control the supply.
> I keep threatening to do a trip without it and see just how many things we forget, don't do and screw up. MAybe one day... :)

I don't have a checklist, and usually I'm fine. So, it's certainly possible :)

Also, I think if you have a list of over 100 items, maybe it's time to simplify it or break it up into sublists. That length itself probably produces more anxiety than saved by the list. It sounds like an over optimization

For background, I create todolists and checklists all the time in my life. Just so far, I haven't felt the need to make one for taking vacations.
You've been posting a lot of unsubstantive comments lately. Could you please up the quality?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This is entirely revisionist history propaganda. The opposition forces seized control of the government through violent means. You can throw out any election that took place after that as complete propaganda. Crimea already declared independence from the US-backed military coup established government. I suspect eastern portion of Ukraine also didn't get much of a voice in those 'elections'

Try reading some non-pro-western sources for the other side of the story.
Google already knows the unencrypted contents of the page, and they know you clicked on a link to it (from their search results page). The signed exchanges system doesn't reveal any information to Google _or_ the publisher that they don't already know.

Your browser controls the contents of the URL bar, not Google or the publisher.
[censored]: Instagram Bans Pro-Trump Cartoonist Ben Garrison
while the Colossus looks really interesting, I think the biggest impact was the video feed. I don't have the specs, but just by quick glancing of the video, that small stream of water probably didn't help at all in this particular case. You would have to be way closer for it to be effective, or use a different pattern of water if you're trying to achieve something else (e.g. ventilation or cooling down). In any case, really interesting tech.

Source: firefighter for over 8 years, attend hundreds of structural fires, tens of 5+ alarms, few of them in historical buildings.
The Fed Will Have to Risk More in the Next Recession
Survivorship bias is heavily affecting your views on what previous era housing actually looked like. For example:

"they'd also likely be appalled by the level of maintenance required to maintain"

Modern materials have much lower maintenance requirements. You can put up a tar-asphalt roof and aluminum/vinyl siding and be fine for multiple decades without needing any maintenance whatsoever. Meanwhile, a lot of older houses needed extensive maintenance every year to keep the roofs and walls in passable shape. Wattle and daub was a common material used for walls, for example, and thatch a common material for roofs. Both are incredibly labor intensive to maintain.

"With that taken into account, we spend a good deal more of our lives providing ourselves with shelter."

Huh? How are you measuring this? The average person centuries ago lived at just barely subsistence level. They spent most of their efforts on basic survival, and sometimes didn't even have enough to eat. We spend much less of our lives laboring now than our ancestors used to. Compare how hard and long a subsistence farmer or serf works vs a modern office worker. It's much easier for us to provide shelter; we just spend some fraction of our salary on it.

"home of five hundred years ago was likely built with the most durable materials that were feasible for the time and budget"

Yeah, so only the palaces were built amazingly well and everything else was not. The living standards were so much lower back then that almost no one had the money to get access to the best available stuff, whereas nowadays most people do.

"a home with a beautiful bay window is a thrown rock away from being essentially uninhabitable until that window is replaced"

I don't even understand this criticism. The only way to not have this be a problem is to literally not have glass windows at all. Either you have an empty hole in your wall that's terrible for retaining warmth in cold weather and keeping out bugs and rain, or you don't have holes in your walls at all and live in darkness (both were common options). Would you seriously rather live in a house without windows??? To the extent that people didn't used to, it was only because glass was so expensive that the average person couldn't afford it. Now that we have modern production methods, glass is cheap, and everyone can benefit from it. I guarantee you that if you went back in time offering free glass, the average person would gleefully put it in their house. It was only used in palaces, cathedrals, and the like because of how expensive it was.

The average person 500 years ago lived in what you would call nowadays a ramshackle hut. I don't know what is coming into your mind, but you're probably thinking of one of the few well-made structures that persists to this day, rather than what was actually commonplace. Keep in mind that entire cities used to burn down too, which no longer happens in good part because of modern fireproofing codes and materials. Drywall, for instance, is an amazing material.
"But....we don't get shocked when we stand out in the sun? And yet solar power is a real thing!"

The reason I said "shocked" is not that shocking is the only way that energy can manifest itself. It's because it's the way that significant static electricity manifests, the claimed mechanism being used to obtain power.

You can tell just by standing in the sunlight that it has substantial energy, because you get warm, along with anything else in the sunlight. Therefore it has at least enough energy to do that. Not to mention power the ecosystem.

"I am sure people scoffed back in the 1800's when scientist first worked with solar power."

With all due respect, you do not appear to be in a position to be lecturing people about this sort of thing. You may not understand how energy works, but some people do.
Groupcache is one implementation in Go. However, it uses its own in-memory cache on your app servers instead of an external cache service.

https://github.com/golang/groupcache

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6121501

https://talks.golang.org/2013/oscon-dl.slide#43
That's not entirely true though, is it ? any link shared on reddit, or here, on on any social network by a chrome user can be an amp one.
> They instead borrowed two commercially available models which were in service with the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Culture. [...] But DJI actually has a system in place where operators can request these limitations be lifted temporarily, which allowed the manufacturer to work quickly with the French authorities

Given that both drones were owned by branches of the French government, it's possible that they already had their geofencing permanently disabled, at least within France.
My reading is that the cache is just another JavaScript service - a proxy that says "on: URL, if (in cache) return val, else fetch, add val to cache, return val."

Changing the cache to store promises is indeed an easy way to deduplicate most requests that occur roughly at the same time.

The logic now is:
"on URL: if (in cache) return promise.resolve(), else add promise to cache, fetch, return promise.resolve()"
Being in D.C., did you expect it to be an ICBM? I would have.
Could also be part of the ratings scheme.

Maybe there are events triggered by a score (e.g. 3/7 is a review of skills, 6/7 is consider a promotion).

Or perhaps the manager has to justify any above-average ratings to their superiors -- meaning that "everyone gets a four" makes the wheels move slowly.

I think the most likely answer though, is that they don't feel they know you well enough (yet) to judge. One month isn't very long at all. Once you've been on a few projects, your manager will get a better feel for your skillset.

When you get to a 6- or 12-month appraisal, ask again -- but ask it differently. The question you want to ask is "Are there any things you think I could improve / any skills you'd recommend I learn or improve on?"
TikTok Has a Pornography Problem in India
The thin I do that I think is most important is use Little Snitch (https://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html) to track/block/approve incoming and outgoing network requests.

It's how I caught a new Seagate external hard drive making calls to Baidu and Google. https://fosstodon.org/@lukewrites/100907932236227641
Checklists are probably good but looking at the actual paper[0] I don't think we can conclude "a third" with much confidence. The mortality rate for surgeries was already declining--the argument is that it declined faster during the implementation period (Fig 2; 2008-2010). Also it appears the types of admissions changed a lot during the same period based on the stark difference between Fig 1 (unadjusted) and Fig 2 (adjusted).

I'm surprised that the researchers didn't use better data or variation (e.g., hospital-level mortality or the timing of the rollout) to strengthen the case. So much can be lurking beneath annual country averages...

[0]: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/bjs.11151
The trick is to just don't care, they want to watch go ahead watch. For example, I browse youtube/fb whenever I want, of course not something extreme like browsing porn. Whats the worse that could happen ? Some coworker complain that I'm not doing my job ?
The Sacrificial Puppies of the Shang Dynasty
This is how many HTTP caches and CDNs work. The terminology used to describe it is often request collapsing or request coalescing.

Some examples:

* varnish: https://info.varnish-software.com/blog/hit-for-pass-varnish-...

* nginx: http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_proxy_module.html#pro...

* fastly: https://docs.fastly.com/guides/performance-tuning/request-co...

* cloudfront: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/Develope...
In general, a twin will weigh considerably more than a single as well as having greater drag, making for shorter glides.
It reads to me like there's a distinction between ice and snow. Like the snow isn't considered part of the ice or isn't able to be measured as part of the ice until some compaction has happened, and the "snow" layer might be hundreds of years worth of snow. That's the only way I can resolve the definitions with the statements, and I'm hoping someone can more authoritatively describe the paradox because I'm feeling unsatisfied.
We used pilot at my company (Gyroscope; sold to BlueVoyant in March last year). I had been doing my own books, which was annoying and not a good use of my time or something I’m good at. Pilot saved me a few hours a week for not too much money, totally worth it. (Full disclosure I know the founding team very well)
For me Firefox wins hands down because of containers.

I have a very old gmail account that my book, music/YouTube Red, and movie purchases are on. Otherwise I use my G Suite account. Firefox makes it possible to live with this inconvenience. If Firefox went away then I would cancel G Suite.

Firefox containers make web browsing tidy and somewhat private.

I believe that Google tries to hinder Firefox.
We lost Google but it's hard to let go
No they don't. The page contents are controlled by the publisher and cryptographically signed so Google can't alter it. Another improvement over the previous situation.
Yep. What surprised me: certain things end up with surprisingly long checklists. My "monthly" checklist at home has 30+ items on it, and it's not padded.

When I hit 50 I started making lists like a mofo, because I realized it would relieve my cognitive load. And it did, big time.
But there's not a hoax. Lots of people have been covicted in connection with it, and the President who is at the center of it all acts extremely suspiciously, trying to destroy evidence, intimidate witnesses, and shut down investigators. You would have to ignore a whole heck of a lot of evidence to call the story a "hoax".

The most charitable thing Contra-Coverup Barr could say in his summary is that the President wasn't personally involved with Russian governmental officials in connection with the Internet Research Agency scheme. That is an absurdly specific denial, not even close to "no collusion".

Nobody forced Don Jr to release his emails to representatives of the Russian government saying he would love their help.
Intel quits 5G modem business hours after Apple settles with Qualcomm
On their page about AMP Viewer Google admits that they are collecting user's data when they view AMP pages [1]:

> The Google AMP Viewer is a hybrid environment where you can collect data about the user. Data collection by Google is governed by Google’s privacy policy.

With replaced URL it will be more difficult to spot.

[1] https://developers.google.com/search/docs/guides/about-amp
Exactly. It's extremely predictable and stereotypical that we tech workers would make this argument, and there's the whole "it's difficult to get someone to understand something when their salary depends upon their not understanding it" thing. But it seems obvious to me that the problem is people and society, and the media (which are just giving the people what they want, mostly), not the social network companies. (The Cambridge Analytica incident is kind of a separate topic, and does deserve criticism.)
https://www.cato.org/blog/crime-along-mexican-border-lower-r...

According to the FBI it's lower. Unless it's changed dramatically in the last 2 years, at which point I'd suggest that maybe this new "tough on immigration" tactic isn't working.
Assuming you are actually reading it right.
I'm probably not your average SaaS consumer, but here's my 2 cents:

As a person who prefers to manually pay every bill every month I consider this a great thing. I'd be happy if this was already in place for every company in every country.

I do find 2FA very annoying though so I wish they didn't put that in...
"Per Wikipedia a B2 bomber has an hourly operational cost of $135,000."

I was thinking about this number when the B-2 flew over the Rose Bowl this year :-)
Counterpoint, If there's a known terrorist named "James Williams" and you flag everyone with that name going through the airport, yes you are going to be HIGHLY correlated with males, but the feature wasn't chosen by gender it was selected because of the increased risk of danger associated with that feature.
Serverless Schedule – Easily Run a Scheduled/Cron Task in AWS Lambda
Maybe one could build a retro Lisp machine keyboard using the same modular parts as: https://old.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/
Remember that our strategy against the soviets was to bankrupt them through military buildup in their massively corrupt and inefficient economic system. Back then, we could build things a lot cheaper than them, so we built a lot of stuff we didn’t need because they would have to try to keep up.
Eyesight for me. Didn't join, but part of me still wishes I'd joined anyway and had them pay for school.

Now I learn they actually started allowing laser surgery corrected vision some time ago.

C'est la vie.
Europe passes online platform rules placing new limits on Amazon and Google
Is there a good app for storing/sharing various checklists (travelling checklist, selling house checklist, etc.)?
That's where my mind went in the initial seconds, yes. It's sad to think that there's a latent worry about that sort of thing living in this city.
Thanks for sharing the Wired article - it's really good and I have read the entire thing.

What stood out was the conclusion to me, when Zuckerberg was asked how FB would be in 10 years, and his replies show that he does not understand the implications technologies will have on society and the dangers they enable - it sounds like that's his main repeating pattern. From comments like dumb fucks, to impossible FB had any influence on the presidential elections, to being excited about future mind reading devices FB should build - Facebook (Zuckerberg) doesnt seem to learn to enable technology with safeguards.

That's what continues to stand out to me, and why I would not trust FB any time soon again.
The future of free speech: The panic button and social media regulation
I credit checklists for being much more creative in my work and personal life. An in-memory checklist is a huge distraction. Once you flush it to offline storage, you have more memory for other things, like thinking about how to solve the harder problems in life.

I wish I knew this when I was 30.
Cloudy: Workflow offloading to another PC, for when yours is not powerful enough