skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would up vote this.

There's a distinction between self promotion and genuine honest expression of who we are, what we presently think is true.

I feel like there is something fundamentally human when people try to do that with each other.
If speech has power, why shouldn't we criticise it?
The actual problem is covered in the article: they planned something else, tested that, made a last minute change to adopt a pixelated pattern because the Marines did it (without the Army testing the particular choices made in adopting their specific pixelated pattern), and got a poor design.
Here are a number of things youth sports helps foster:

1) leadership qualities

2) coping with adversity

3) how to win and lose gracefully

4) coordination (all sports take practice)

5) fights childhood obesity

6) forces kids to be around other kids instead of in isolation

7) Experience working with a team from an early age

These will work for any child, not just me.
Can you give any links or pic of those shoes?
That's a good question. This comes up every-now-and-then with my wife. She's usually says that pockets don't really matter, and then I point out that I have to carry her goods in my pockets.

I suspect it's something really subtle along these lines: Beautiful women can often get by being useless, so women in general acrew certain trappings of uselessness so as to associate themselves with beauty.

It's sort of like men and commuter pickup trucks (trucks are associated with hard-working men, so men buy trucks and drive them around town, even though they have no hard work to do).
”Up until the late 70s, watches were tools to keep you from being late.”

That’s not true at all. There have always been a lot of reasons to wear a watch that have nothing to do with getting the time. Cheap movements expanded the market to the low-end, but didn’t really change the reasons that people buy watches.

Fundamentally, watches are jewelry. That’s been true forever, but it also isn’t something that can be reduced to “aesthetics” alone (for example, people pay handsome premiums for better mechanical movements, even though it has no impact on the look of a watch. The idea of wearing a well-crafted, tiny mechanical device is itself an attractive prospect.)

It’s the equivalent of people who talk about Windows machines being “better deals” than Apple machines. After all, they both flip bits, right? If all you do is fixate on the function, everything becomes a commodity.
You should change fields then. CSS is amazing and not going anywhere.

It's one leg from the tripod letter soup (HTML, CSS and JS) on which the Web stands.
I'm not defending Russia, or whataboutism. Is the international politics version of, 'yeah, but what are you'. All I am pointing out is that the US government would carry greater moral weight when lecturing others if it didn't keep invading places and propping up dictators. Also, the overall problems we are dealing with as humans are systemic and not specific to one country, so if trying to solve them, pointing fingers at others just does not really help. The current situation with Trump, for instance, is an interesting reflection of the installation of Yeltsin.
Taiwan: watching the sun set over Kaohsiung Harbor from this old fort on a mountain. Pretty magical.

South Korea: Climbing Hallasan volcano on Jeju Island. Really neat.

China: Exploring Suzhou/Hangzhou old towns. Suzhou is like the Venice of China.

All these places warrant a trip in and of themselves; but they didn’t feel holy to me if that makes any sense. Imperial Gardens felt different, like one thread of contiguous history, unrent by tragedy and upheaval, touching you on the face.
and a lot of it has to do with people's willingness to use those remote methods, and the culture at those companies. Right now there's a lot of young people working in tech that don't have much incentive to be remote. But, in the coming decades, some of them will want families of their own. At that point a desire to move out of the bay area may overcome their resistance to working remotely.
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>This stands under my general concern that tech companies are neither cognizant of nor culpable for the impact they have on society.

I have to imagine this is not a new phenomenon. How many young adults have listened to music and been persuaded (or influenced) to commit suicide?
What makes it strange is that suicide spike after releasing popular work of fiction featuring suicide is an effect known at least since https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sorrows_of_Young_Werther
Exactly, I won't trust a company based in the US my privacy, no matter how cool it is.

Maybe for stuff that requires convenience but not security. I don't trust any five eyes country neither.

I currently use Swiss and Romanian services for my business, and while the experience is not as smooth as, say, Gmail or Digital Ocean, it's good enough.
> I fail to understand the use of python in a distributed environment while the language has such poor concurrency support (on top of the lack of a type system).

Well, without knowing the exact issue people trying to solve, of course you won't understand the motivation behind.

Reading their post, it seems that they are not using Python for serving, mainly for long running daemon processes. Concurrency is probably not something people care about in such situation, nor squeeze CPU perf. In fact such workload probably wants to maintain a low-key finger print.
Who is supposed to be wearing these wristwatches? I can comprehend the use case for wrist-worn electronics devices that do more than just tell time, but we have mostly gone back to pocketwatches now--pocketwatches with a rounded-rectangular form factor that also function as telephones, cameras, notepads, maps, compasses, calculators, game consoles, and televisions.

As adornments go, I also think that handing over $500 to a local jewelry artist would get you a better bracelet.

The mechanical-movement wristwatch is obsolete. Bring on the Pip-Boy.
Max Howell
Presumably that consideration goes both ways? The employee may be critical to the company, but the reverse is also very true -- the company is likely the sole source of income to the employee and losing it unexpectedly would be devastating. So what kind of mandated compensation is due to employees that are involuntarily terminated?
For alcohol use, huge in comparison to peer influence, though?
Difficulty in understanding non native speakers is largely subjective. It depends heavily on the perception of the listener.

Basically if the listener believes that it is difficult, it will be. Additionally, the harder the listener tries to engage with and understand the non-native speaker, the easier it becomes.

French could be unique among languages, but my strong suspicion is that if what you describe is true for most French speakers, it's mostly due to a widespread cultural perception that non-native French speakers are hard to understand rather than objective difficulty.

There is a professor at Georgia State University who's primary research focus is on this topic if you're interested in reading more.

http://www2.gsu.edu/~eslsal/cv.htm
My wife and I cannot drink to keep pace. She's done after 1/4th of a drink. I'm done after 2. The one time she let her coworkers pressure her to finish a drink, I had to stay up with her in the bathroom.
The Problem Isn’t Twitter. It’s That You Care About Twitter
It's the same, and it won't change due to licensing. You can change it on your own, however.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Fedora/comments/8bh7av/quick_font_r...
Do you sell domains now? Last I tried, you only allow transferring domains into cloudflare, not purchasing new ones. And that was for a very limited set of TLDs.
Look for "Triggers" under the "Advanced" tab of your profile. You just need to enter a regex and specify an action.
The last CEO, James McNerney, was some Yale B.A dude with a Harvard MBA. The 737 MAX is fruit of the poison tree.
ATSC 3.0 is a possible avenue for offloading some streaming traffic. It seems that the consumer hostile packages we've come to love are taking shape and 2020 may see some adoption...

https://www.atsc.org/newsletter/atsc-3-0-where-we-stand/
I don't have specific products but https://indiehackers.com should have a couple of these projects.
Why Go West?
Why do we credit the last thing that a suicidal person listened to, and not the long line of shitty life events that lead them up to that point?
Pretty reasonable way to solve this problem really. Are they really going to bring the hammer down on a hobbyist?
Thankster.com has an API you can use as well as several integrations. You can reach out via the site and if you can mention HN we'll give a discount on your first order. Thanks.
Agreed. There's a a few guys on /r/languagelearning who learned Italian to a C1 level without ever stepping foot in the country, or being married to a native. It can be done, it's just more difficult.
Considering clearbit started at a time when there was not so much focus on privacy and customer data protections... I’m gonna take a wild guess here and say they are scraping it from publicly available (ish) sources.

That is discounting the obvious possibility of looking at ARIN allocations, where in some cases the IP address might be registered to an ASN belonging to the company. In that case it’s a simple lookup.
Art shouldn't be free from criticism though. And the ways in which this particular work is poorly executed do to some degree line up with why this work can be harmful (or more than it should be), so I don't think dealing with these criticisms and making good art are mutually exclusive.
I understand your concern, but I think you can avoid a lot of the negative sides by only writing about things you like. It’s really hard to piss people off if you’re sharing experiences about things you love, especially if you stick to just your experiences and never try to tell people what the “right” way to do things is.

Political views have never been much of a problem for me. I’m strongly opinionated, but I also work in the public sector, which means I leave my personal political views completely out of my professional life. That is certainly a form of self-censorship, but even though it it’s forced upon public servants, I can’t think of a single time I regret keeping my political opinions to myself. There are certainly political movements I wouldn’t work for, but over all it rarely seem like a good idea to get into politics unless you actually want to make a career out of it.
> This is a great example of where we need to get humans out of the equation now that a machine performs consistently better.

No, it's not.

The system is an image classifier with a HUGE false positive rate (and false negative rate). When false positive rates exceed actual incident rates in the population (or far exceed by orders of magnitude, in this case), then it's practically worthless. This is something that the medical community just does not get about statistics (edit: I'm not making a wild generalization here, there are articles out there about this issue).

What this study actually shows is that an image-only diagnosis of melanoma sucks and should never be used. It doesn't matter if it out-performs doctors, because in either case the diagnosis is garbage.
I tend to mix it up on my blog. If there is a problem I encounter, I write about the solution.

I also like to write about ideas I strung together that I sourced from books, podcasts, and other posts. I followed the same path as OP in regards to blogging in early 2000's then kinds letting my site languish. I have been trying to write a bit more over the last year.

I have found that checking out the analytics on the blog from time to time also helps me guage what topics to write about.
Anecdote: my wife and I got rid of our TV 2.5 years ago. One of the best decisions we ever made. We're happier and vastly more productive. Our kids were sad the day we sold the TV, but they've seen the value in it and have thanked us.

Edit: We haven't substituted TV for smaller versions (phone, tablet). We use electronics for work and school but not entertainment. It's been amazing.
> That video does not show the removal of the harness.

This article includes that video and also pics of the removed harness. Apparently the buckle is marked with the brand "Equipment St. (logo) Petersburg."

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/27716/did-this-beluga-...
> Researchers warn that their study could not prove causation. Some unknown third factor might have been responsible for the increase, they said. Still, citing the strong correlation, they cautioned against exposing children and adolescents to the series.
Every doctor tends to have a very static sensitivity-specificity preferences (true positive rate aka recall and true negative rate, respectively). One of the interesting consequences of using an automated diagnostic tool (already mentioned in Esteva et al 2017's Nature article) is that the sensitivity level can be chosen dynamically, depending on additional risk factors.
Why shouldn't we examine the last thing as much as the others?
This site pegged my i9 and spun the fan up. I tried profiling the site, there's tons of garbage and errors in the console and looks like most of the CPU is spent in Teads' code which is some kind of marketing platform.
Why is using United States citizens as live test subjects with their lives at stake, "cost-effective"?

I often complain about a lack of test coverage in code, but I cannot fathom how testing was COMPLETELY skipped on a $5 BILLION dollar project that directly impacts lives.

Disclaimer: 4 year USAF veteran
This is quite dishonest, they make it seem like they develop the apps themselves. But they don't and they give no credit to the actual original apps.

Librem Chat = Riot.im

Librem Social = Mastodon (specifically the Tusky app)

Librem Mail = K9 Mail

Librem Tunnel = OpenVPN
AI-generated musak shows us the limit of artificial creativity
> I'm saying they're not asking questions because the scammers checks are clearing, and I don't think that's right.

Where are you getting the information to assert that as fact? Or even as likely?

> I'm saying companies are inherently unethical, and only act ethically when mandated to. So let's mandate it.

If a company knows it's being used in a crime, then it's an accessory to the crime. We don't mandate ethics, we create laws. In this case, how is the law failing, beyond you asserting some situation is happening without providing any evidence?

Can you actually explain what we know to have been done wrong here, even ethically if not lawfully? All I've seen so far is a lot of accusations about what must be happening, when I see (and have provided) clear examples of how it might not be the case. Or should we just punish people and companies based on assumptions now?
I've been using F30 through the beta, it's been great (I've been away from Fedora since 21? or so)

Using both the default and KDE spin in VM's and on Lenovo laptops.

Ubuntu is much more 'polished' in feel and appearance, but (especially the KDE spin) Fedora feels so much faster or maybe just smoother.
What Is Stoicism and How Can It Turn Your Life to Solid Gold?
Speaking as the project lead for Matrix; we are continuing to work on Synapse's RAM use, and it will only get better over time.

One big misconception is that somehow RAM usage is related to the number of users on your server - instead, it's related to the size & complexity of the rooms your users are participating in. In other words, one person who joins thousands of rooms with thousands of users in them will use a lot more RAM than a server with a thousand users who use it only for small group chats.

The things to check if your Synapse RAM is high are:

* Make sure you're running postgres. Sqlite is not currently
usable in production.

* Make sure you're running Python 3.7

* Increase the synapse cache factor a bit.

* Check for and prune extremities (https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/1760), which will soon be a thing of the past, but we're not there quite yet.

If it's still overloaded, then you need to look at splitting the synapse master process off into workers (https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/master/docs/worke...) or disabling presence.

In terms of whether you get response in the support rooms - whilst the core team has been preoccupied with infrastructure security over the last few weeks, the rest of the community is generally happy to help with synapse tuning and the rooms are far from idle...
Above commenters are correct, in the US you have to have a special designation to consider a values-based mission as more important than providing value to shareholders.

Right at the root of something very fundamentally wrong about our way of conceiving of/enforcing how business is done.
186 Interesting Code Names
[Without writing on the ethical issues of producing such a show or the validity of the studies]

The Netflix spokesperson's response is utter nonsense:

"The spokesperson noted that the study conflicts with research published last week out of the University of Pennsylvania. That study found that young adults, ages 18-29, who watched the entire second season of the show 'reported declines in suicide ideation and self-harm relative to those who did not watch the show at all.'"

There isn't any conflict at all. The original study being discussed is data on the release of Season 1. Data on the effect of Season 2 is irrelevant (not to mention the article's note that the second study is still problematic regarding those who did not watch the entire season).
It's ridiculous for a company that can fire an employee with no notice at all to expect an employee to give them 2-3 months of notice, no matter how high-level the employee is. If your company needs such a long notice period, they should negotiate a contract with the employee that gives the employee similar protections, e.g., a 2-3 month notice before they can be fired (or at least a guarantee to pay salary and benefits for the entire notice period, even if the company hires a replacement after a couple of weeks).
> It's actually the algorithmic improvements that were faster

I’d really like to know about those! Any links?
No, transfer only.
Teaching a Kid to Code with Pygame Zero · Matt Layman
Twitter is a perfect example of why the squeaky wheel gets the grease.
"Midnight" by Sara Holbrook

When it’s Sunday
and it’s midnight,
the weekend
put back in its chest,
the toys of recreation,
party times
and needed rest.

When I lie in wait
for Monday
to grab me by the ear,
throw me at the shower,
off to school
and when I hear
the train at midnight
from so many miles away . . .
when it’s Sunday . . .
and it’s midnight . . .
the train
in passing brays and boasts
it’s steel-track-straight,
on schedule,
arrival times to keep.
And I meander to its rhythm,
flopping like a fish.
Why can’t I get to sleep?
Why can’t I get to sleep?

(I personally have never really understood poetry. Possibly because I don't have a sense of rhythm.)
Once upon a time they called it a commonplace book
Though note that "Little Boxes" originally refers to Daly City, California (you can see them when riding BART to or from SFO).
You could just link to a stack on a network share, but yeah.

trivia: Macintosh aliases, starting with System 7 I believe, were able to link to network shares and automount them if they weren't yet mounted
Python has seen an increase because most ML is done in Python and ML is a popular topic right now.

"most popular" is hard to measure or even define.
Ah, for sites using U2F rather than WebAuthn you may (depending on Firefox version) need to explicitly tell Firefox to emulate the old U2F APIs.

https://support.yubico.com/support/solutions/articles/150000...

https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2019/04/04/shipping-fido-u...

My GitHub has two Security Keys registered via Firefox this way.
I can't access the study. How did they distinguish correlation with this event from the fifty billion other things that happened during March 2017? E.g. did they check if the people who committed suicide tended to have a netflix account with this show in their history? Is it really just the date that they're using to correlate?
Because there may be 100 things before it, so it's only 1% of what lead up to the event. & the things which came earlier had a longer time to cause impact. ie a series of early events can lead to a result, whereas what is the actual percentage of people immediately committing suicide after listening to something suicidal? Better to focus on how to mitigate people reaching this point, as opposed to the straw that broke the camel's back
> many are strongly opposed to the confusing messages in the show (justice in life is not possible, but kill yourself and you might just get revenge). Many experts insist that the show glamorizes suicide and may even set off or increase suicidal ideation in vulnerable teens.
From [0], April 2017

[0]: https://www.weareteachers.com/problem-with-13-reasons-why/
> as much as the others

Which is to say, not at all? Nobody takes the mental health of students seriously. If we did, our schools would look quite different.
Without going too far off-topic: Marxist Socialism is inherently anti-religious, but there were Socialist traditions before Marx, and a number of them were Christian in philosophy. The Diggers in Seventeenth Century England are one example, and there's still a non-Marxist strain of Socialism in the Liberation Theology movement.

So, is Socialism inherently anti-religious? Only if you think the Marxists own the term.
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Didn't the MS patent PR puff piece solve shit like this ?
It's a bit of a shame that Librem Tunnel doesn't use WireGuard, though I imagine they'll switch once it's in mainline.

Otherwise, seems like a pretty neat idea -- it could open the door to more lay-people using open protocols like Matrix without everyone jumping on Matrix.org for free or having to self-host. I am interested to see how the Librem Files/Backup system will work if it comes about (I would guess NextCloud but if they have a better solution I'd like to see it since I've had my fair share of pain with self-hosting NextCloud). It looks like there would be some kind of cohesive management of all these services, which I think is a great example of the usefulness (for users) that open standards can have.

It does bother me a bit that the apps are clearly mild reskins and there is no mention of the original app creators -- obviously this helps with brand recognition but seems a little bit dishonest. Really, you're paying for hosting (which is totally fine), and it should be clearer that they're just giving you mostly-consistent apps that work with their service out-of-the-box.

I also am doubtful the Librem Pay idea will pan out though. The number of real businesses which accept $x-coin is effectively zero for most people.
> And Camus' The Stranger led to an increase in shooting Arabs on the beach because of a sunny day.

Except that it didn't?
> Inductive reasoning is a method of reasoning in which the premises are viewed as supplying some evidence for the truth of the conclusion; this is in contrast to deductive reasoning. While the conclusion of a deductive argument is certain, the truth of the conclusion of an inductive argument may be probable, based upon the evidence given.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inductive_reasoning
Should we name kids common names to protect their privacy?
>Surely there have been other depictions of suicide in the media? Did they have the same corresponding uptick in suicide rates?

Yes.[0] Newspapers try not to cover suicide whenever possible and when they do they always also write about emergency suicide prevention hotlines. At least in switzerland.

[0] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-suicide-media/suic...