skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You were well equipped to answer that particular question.

Do you think the answer would be as straightforward if you substituted your jury on this case?
Who hasn't had a bad experience with spirituality?

This is the same kind of thing that's used to promote anti-vax campaigns and scam people out of thousands of dollars for fake medical treatments.
'Gratitude' is a mental concept as much as it is spiritual and issues such as this and 'forgiveness' I suggest go far beyond merely addressing 'causes', they represent a certain perspective, a mental posture more than anything.
Lenovo shows off the world’s first foldable PC
It is not - from what I gather it's capturing a single exposure of a scene lit via a strobe to give a virtual 1/2000000s shutter speed.

Still super cool - the meat of what's novel here isn't the image assembly though, but rather the reverse engineering of the pi cams in a global shutter mode - I'm definitely interested in what the tradeoffs are around global vs. rolling shutter, if there's image artifacts or bandwidth issues, or what. Neat work gang!
Right, because your blog is tiny and meaningless. When you control the eyeballs of a country it is a different story.
(data engineer here)

Nice post! It's always fun reading about people being creative and challenging the analytics status quo (aka GA). Besides the joy of doing it yourself, you've accomplished a couple other things worth mentioning:

1. You'll never be sampled. GA samples historical data pretty heavily, and you have to pay for 360 to retain unsampled event data (at a tune of $160k+ per year).

2. You have full access to all generated data.

I'd highly recommend using Snowplow's javascript tracker (https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow-javascript-tracker) in a very similar manner to what you've outlined here. You'll get a ton of extra functionality out of the box, which would add yet another level of insight. With snowplow, you get the following for free:

1. Sessionization, which is consistent with google analytics' definition - effectively a 30 minute window of activity.

2. User identification - the tracker drops a persistent cookie (just like GA), so you can see returning visitors.

3. Tools for splitting requests

4. A variety of event types, out of the box: https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow/wiki/2-Specific-event-t...

5. Ability to respect Do Not Track

6. Time on page, browser width/height, etc

7. Ability to make your event tracking 100% first-party

(Disclaimer: I don't work for them, but I've seen the system work very well a number of times.)

I'm running a similar setup on my blog, and it costs well under $1 per month: https://bostata.com/client-side-instrumentation-for-under-on.... I'm doing the same exact thing with Cloudfront log forwarding and have several lambdas that process the files in S3. From there, I visualize traffic stats with AWS Athena (but retain a ton of flexibility, since they are all structured log files).
I just believe they should have revised their advisory and classifications as new science is done. That is all.

I apologize for getting worked up about this and I removed the offending line on a previous post.
Could take off?

It already has. Four of my buddies that play Rocket League almost exclusively have dropped AU$300 on a headset because we showed them Beat Saber at a LAN party, and they haven't stopped playing it since.
I think the reason is because LineageOS is listed as an approved Google ROM which passes the safetynet tests that google added to block custom roms. Some apps use safetynet to block users who have higher levels of access to their system. Allowing microg to work would put the google tick of approval at risk.
Do you think these security defects are really bugs or are back-doors left in for the state security apparatus? Who or what department is tasked with testing Cisco devices for security vulnerabilities. I mean didn't anyone test the devices for potential remote root access and the ability to bypass the Trust Anchor? Lastly I don't know how an internet router can be not connected to the Internet and still function?
> The system isn't set up to answer or ask the question "did it specifically cause this cancer", because that question is known to be unanswerable.

I'm curious how you draw this conclusion. While many substances may not, with 100% reproduction rates, cause a particular response there can be a majority that happens when excessive or improper exposure happens. If you're saying the question is unanswerable because it's not 100% guaranteed you'll get cancer, but say 67% chance then that's proof it did cause cancer in the subset. In this case it appears there has been suppressed study data which points directly to the outcome which brings into question, for the jury, the morality of the organization selling the product which are likely influencing reference points for a jury.
The only counter suggestion I've ever seen are expert panels that remove decisions from The People and move it up the ladder of control and power, where the elites and bureaucrats can ideally be more easily paid off by companies like Bayer to rule in their favor. The elites love choke points that amplify their control over society, always under the guise that they know best (inevitably resulting in vast, systemic corruption that is nearly impossible to stop).

Panels and government oversight boards are just another easy target for lobbying (in all of its various flavors). As though the US system doesn't have enough of those corruption points in place now. There are an enormous number of jury cases in the US every year however, and bribery is rare.

If you replace traditional juries with expert panels, it's guaranteed that the system will be designed - by those that benefit from all other forms of lobbying - to have holes in it that allow forms of legal lobbying and influence, whether direct or indirect.

I'll take juries of The People in all regards, and without exception, over the extraordinarily dangerous, anti-democratic risks involved in shifting the system toward elitist expert panels. We already have enough of that shit dominating our country as it is. I choose the less perfect system - if that's indeed the choice - that retains power in the people broadly, keeping a critically important piece of the justice system mass-involved - something we're all part of.
Why not just intelligently respond to my questions/ comments instead of projecting your feelings ("hella mad") onto me? Did what I write offend any of your sensibilities?
That's a ridiculous nitpick. GP just quoted you that nuclear has the carbon footprint comparable with wind power, and also most of that is completely incidental. All heavy equipment could be in principle electrified. It isn't because of various reasons, but then the same equipment is used for manufacturing and transporting everything in every other type of power source.
Since I can't tell if you are being sarcastic or not, are you aware of what residency is?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_resident_work_hours

You may enjoy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_House_of_God
Firefox could be released for iOS if not for this ban.
Because Google, along with Facebook, control the advertising market. They integrate well together, but it presents a long term problem.
A list of tech needed to build such a craft[1]. I was interested in how they are thinking about getting a signal back to Earth from Alpha Centauri. It looks like they are hoping a 1W laser might be detectable from such a distance[2].

[1]https://breakthroughinitiatives.org/challenges/3
[2]https://breakthroughinitiatives.org/forum/14?page=2
I remember trying out Julia for the first time. There weren't many libs but I found out about @pyimport and I was like "cool, let's try some stuff" and I found out that pretty much all I wrote was calls through Python bindings, so I thought "wait it's probably simpler to just use Python then", and left it at that.

Point is, I hope the ecosystem has gotten better last time I tried it ~3 years ago, and I also hope the interoperability didn't turn out to be "too good" for the ecosystem's own health.
Also engineering—meaning physical engineering, not software. Think: CAD, simulations, architecture, manufacturing. You could do a virtual walk though of a factory before breaking ground, or just look at the output of a numerical simulation to get a gist of it instead of spending time writing summary tools.

When VR controllers get there you could program an industrial robot arm just by doing the activity yourself in a simulated environment.
What I read and makes sense the way to adjust the manual trim if the force on the stabilizer is too high is to push the nose down to unload it and crank on the wheel. Probably when this was needed the pilots killed the electric trim long before it got too far out.

So I agree the manual trim has always been kinda scketch.
I'm serious. If the final backup system is to revert to mechanical cranks, pulleys, and cables to move the horizontal stabilizer, then the pilots have to be able to exert sufficient torque and power on the control wheels to do so.
I'd put it closer to the HTC TyTn or first Google phone levels. It's still an enthusiasts thing, and there's no barrier for entry other than knowing what you want.

Once it becomes something that people want without knowing why, then it'll be iPhone level.
> “Once the biometric exit program is a nationally-scaled, established program, foreign nationals will be required to biometrically confirm their exit from the United States at the final [boarding] point,” said CBP spokesperson Jennifer Gabris in an earlier email to TechCrunch. “This has been and is a Congressional mandate,” she said.

> Facial recognition data collected by the airlines on U.S. citizens is stored by Customs and Border Protection for between 12 hours and two weeks, and 75 years for non-citizens. That data is stored in several government databases, which border officials can pull up when you’re arriving or leaving the U.S.

Data will be stored for 75 years for foreigners (excl. some Canadians, and other exceptions). At which point the data is so obsolete I question what use case they might have for it.
Isn't sequentiality just an implementation detail too?

We use Apache Camel to orchestrate messages and you just declaratively state where you want sequential vs multicast / parallel behavior.
> And since there is currently no consumer high-multicore processor, I can't explore those problem spaces.

It depends on your definition of "consumer" but you can buy a 32 core Threadripper at the top end of consumer now and there's a chance we might see 64 core Threadripper this year. They're not exactly cheap but they are likely cheaper and faster than anything comparable you could do with an FPGA and they are fully compatible with existing toolchains and operating systems.
No, it doesn't legitimize any quackery or pseudoscience. Inspecting the financial motivations for bias behind studies can only reveal them to be weaker evidence than they appeared to be at first glance, but it cannot reverse their conclusions.

If removing from consideration the Monsanto-funded studies changes the balance of evidence from "probably safe" to probably unsafe" instead of merely changing it to "I don't know", then that's only because there was already credible evidence on the unsafe side of the scale.
Honestly, after all the stories I’ve heard of US juries everyone is right to be dismissive.

I very much doubt all of them spent hours carefully looking at documents, much less understanding them.

It’s not necessarily that I disagree with the verdict, but I strongly dislike jury justice.
Stop being so rational and go yell at some conservatives.
Note that most of the research referenced there isn't properly controlled - it's sort of hard to control for something like that, you'd have to have a therapy that could offer something comparable without matching it, so comparing it's effectiveness to placebo seems in some ways quite apt.
So I want to start off and say that there are some good books on this list and that there is a decent range of topics: biology, chemistry, mathematics, and physics. However, it is like 90% physics books and not a whole lot in the computer science or engineering fields which are massive. I own 20-30 textbooks in my very narrow sub-slice of a subsection of electrical engineering. This is a terrific start, but we need a whole lot more.

Wikipedia is completely inadequate in my field too.
What I should have said is they're not talking about the distributed warehouse model where all these small partner companies would be storing little bits of inventory.
I've never heard of it. Looks promising! Thank you!

Edit: While the tables aren't perfect, this seems to be the best option so far.
I mean, counter-cultures are complex in terms of what they question and what they absorb as immutable, etc. But arguably the 60s in the US and across the Western world were way more confrontational and itching-for-revolution than most counter-cultures are today.

I mean, let's not get distracted by the acoustic guitar, a lot of protest folk music was explicitly calling for the abolition of capitalism, the end of US military dominance, etc.
The crazy thing is: it's got a question mark, in the fucking headline. There's a question mark in the fucking headline.

Can people not just go "erm... no?" internally, when the question offends them?

Truly we are lost.

EDIT: Perhaps downvoters are assuming that while the headline actually reads "Was Shakespeare a woman?", it could instead read something else. And, yes, that is true. There is a huge number of possible combinations of letters that could occur in a headline, even if we ignore the meaningless ones. But I am restricting myself, perhaps unreasonably, to considering the headline that is actually there.
FWIW, everybody pretty much agrees that McCarthyism was bad. And, more importantly, it's a thing of the past. To be honest, litigating present issues by citing the past positions of people who are now mostly dead is kind of odd and nonsensical.
Its already the reality for most TVs and furniture (at least from Target), child car seats/strollers are the other big one that's always ship-alone
I'm located in the Midwest, Chicago area. I find the job search grind a distraction because I can't extract any quantifiable progress in my ability to get offers. I've changed my resume multiple times, and got feedback from peers from a few mock interviews.

Big takeaway from the mocks is that I come off as too junior or entry-level. Applying to junior jobs with my 10 years experience will lead to sticker shock for the employer so this is a tricky spot that I'm in. Even if that wasn't a problem, they would think I'm slow as a turtle to work and learn.

A very overlooked topic is how brutal the software industry can be for a person who has that prolonged junior phase. I fell into a 'perpetual temp worker' career by accident, and a contractor cannot expand their role in a company, esp. if they only work for 6-12 months at a time.
Though corporate lobbying can co-opt government violence, which creates many dangerous scenarios.

"I see you edited our software in violation of the DMCA, the police will arrive shortly"
Happiness might be well associated with a specific mental state or emotion while well-being is really one's overall health.

Someone who is in a very good position, and general state of well being will have bouts of every emotion, and surely won't be 'happy' in every moment.

Though surely one could make the case that 'general happiness' and 'general well being' are the same thing if they wanted to.
Nice work: not a skin over the python one but an actual, optimizable implementation.
I use YNAB though I’ve never vetted their privacy respect.

Their business model is more obvious though & I like their opinionated approach to budgeting.
And this would make a difference if motorola were trying to hide any reports, and influence investigators.
ZeroCater (YC W11) is hiring a principal engineer in SF – must love food
That's why the suit will probably fail in the end. In terms of app selection, Android is not inferior to iOS. People aren't choosing Apple's products because they have no other choice. They're buying them BECAUSE Apple has tighter control over the platform. If the company conducts a survey asking iPhone users if they want Play Store on their phone, I suspect the vast majority would vote no. The choice to install malware isn't one that people want.
Why not use NFC instead? You don't have to get your phone out and focus the camera, just hold it near the sensor. Works with wearables too like Apple Watch. NFC is just better.
I never talk about what I wrote here to an interviewer. I do the opposite- I convince myself that I don't even need the job when I walk into the interview. I tell them what I've brought to the past companies I worked for.
Did you read your own link? One line from it mentions the study that actually brought me to this conclusion:

"A meta-analysis on meditation research published in JAMA in 2014,[167] (that included a combined total of 3515 participants), found insufficient evidence of any effect of meditation programs on positive mood, attention, substance use, eating habits, sleep, and weight."

While there may be other with differing results it's... pretty sketchy in any case. I would hardly say scientific enough to belong in such a class.

I had a look at this when I considered meditation once but found it'd most likely just be a waste of my time. I'd rather not flush my time down the toilet.
Yeah this is Haskell formatting
I agree with that. They should review this again.
Exponential growth, not linear.
Wallowing in resentment for all the wrongs in the world is an unhealthy way to go through life. Gratitude is about escaping that.
Bloomberg, America is subsidizing $650b/year using fossil fuel https://www.imf.org/~/media/Files/Publications/WP/2019/WPIEA... -
I was also impressed by the original Hololens. The hardware, however, needs some improvements. The headset was a bit heavy for long term use and the resolution of the AR image was not as good as I had expected. The software and SDK were solid; what stood out to me was the realtime spatial construction of the environment.
In 1637, one gilder was worth about $10 in today’s money.
300 gilders would be about $3,000. That amounts to quite
good yearly wage at the time.

How does that work? $3k is not "quite good yearly wage" in most places these days.
This is the gospel truth. It does take discipline though, because writing tests sucks. I like to have a policy of never committing a non-trivial function without a test. That way, I can never put it off and wind up with a huge chunk of untested code.
Google Just Handed Amazon an Advantage in Smart Home Tech
What is a "non-essential" difference, according to you, between gratitude (defined as: "the quality of being thankful; readiness to show appreciation for and to return kindness.") and appreciation (defined as: "recognition and enjoyment of the good qualities of someone or something.")?
Hahaha, you are so intelligently determined that you need to copy and paste the same response to different people.

Don't you recognize that you are forcing people to tell you what you want to hear?
You seem in your answers to be prioritizing "direct answer to the question regardless of reliability" rather than "useful information about the question's subject." I suppose there's an argument to be made for that, but it's an argument that leads to prioritizing a search engine that will return the answer "orange pinstripe" to the question "what is the color of the sky" over a search engine that returns a scientific article about how sunlight behaves in atmosphere.

(In any case, this all seems a bit orthogonal to whether Google is right or wrong to prioritize widely-recognized news outlets over smaller ones when it surfaces searches for news articles, doesn't it?)
WhatsApp discloses vulnerability; Israeli spyware was installed on iPhones
That's true. The problem is the monopoly position they have and the massive adoption has put them in a public role.

Everyone needs to get from point A to point B and roads are a key way that we accomplish that.

In a similar vein, everyone needs to search for information and search engines are a key way that we accomplish that.

With Google, it's almost like one company owns 90% of the roads. On multiple continents.

It is sort of like a utility company, except way beyond that.

I personally think that platforms with this scope should be built on public, open, decentralized protocols and networks. Something like YaCy might be the right direction.

Then maybe we could have companies built on top of that platform to add value. But the core functioning of the platform would be auditable.
I already have poor leverage anyways, because over half of my jobs I lose/finish before I could get another offer ready.
You have the burden of proof reversed.
That's why I was careful in my wording. I said I wouldn't be taken advantage of "in that way"

And yeah residency is kinda of bullshit. Not looking forward to it :(

I don't think anyone goes into medical school these days without knowing about residency, though. At least, I would hope not.

At least I won't feel like a robot could be doing better than me, though? Although that might soon change with AI advancements, depending on what I specialize in.

Overall, if I could do it over again, I would have just gotten a CS degree. I'm afraid to read House of God because I feel jaded enough as it is.

Are you a physician btw?
Coal companies folding, robots taking Amazon warehouse jobs –– it's a week of future economic pain foreshadowing on HN.
I think what's kind of odd though is that it didn't happen sooner. Nothing technologically-speaking today is much different than, say, 15 years ago. Other than bandwidth and console-maker's willingness to work with each other for the greater good.
Ancient sea creature fossilized in tree resin. How'd that happen?
Probably glyphosate isn't really carcinogenic. It's a substituted amino acid and lots of studies have shown it to be benign.

But maybe it is. Maybe there is something we didn't know. Maybe Monstanto pumped out a bunch of fake studies. Probably not but this could be.

Something to consider is this. The cheapness of our food production, which is not just the US but much of the world at the moment is in part to use of glyphosate aka "roundup ready" base crops like corn and soybeans. This allows higher yields with less cultivation. Now maybe this is all wrong and we should do it differently, but at the moment that is how it is. These "base" products trickle up into all sorts of things like meat, sodas, beer, who knows what else. And internationally.

If glyphosate is not carcinogenic and this case is about lawyers and sensationalists and non scientific people out to stop "chemicals" or make a fast buck and in so doing raise global food prices it would be very egregious. Because it won't just be Wheaties in California that go up in price, it will be tortillas in Honduras and flatbread in Algeria and who knows what else. In those places, unlike the US, a non insignificant portion of income is spent on food so the pain will be greater.

I'm not suggesting if a chemical is shown to be harmful it should be allowed. But there are ramifications of short term greed and non scientific thinking beyond the immediate.