skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a world where some people have a reach millions or even hundreds of millions larger than others, the analogy may be much more apt than you give it credit for.

What I find so myopic is the insistence that the 2016 election was somehow a milestone in this. The precedent was already there, and the playbook already written. But it was mainly used by the dominant left wing cultural elite to enforce their favored view, so it was seen as justified. It was only when the counter culture on the right started making use of it that the moral panic took off.

Before Milo there was Shanley, combining reasonable sounding intersectional medium pieces with an ascerbic Twitter persona to create a one-woman motte and bailey. Who directed witch hunts to industry figures and got rewarded with paying subscribers for it.

Before Trump there was DongleGate and ElevatorGate, showing the power of a narcissist who rewrites history to be the underdog, and whose audience doesn't listen to opposing views and experiences.

Before Cambridge Analytica, there was the Obama campaign, hoovering up all the same data, except with Facebook's full knowledge and approval, and the progressive media's admiration and blessing for leaving those Stone age Republicans in the dust.

In many ways, the big tech companies are just the scapegoat. Nobody was forced to move into Facebook, they did so voluntarily. Nobody was forced to push out buzzfeed level content, they just stared themselves blind on pageviews while losing their core audience. Nobody was forced to abandon critical thinking, they just succumbed to wishful thinking and tribalism.
>There is no incentive for being a pioneer in a culture where IP is not protected.

This is demonstrably false https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGJ5cZnoodY
I have yet to be convinced that comparisons of IQ between cohorts have as much practical utility as rockets or pesticides (on the contrary, the sole utility of intergenerational comparisons of IQ tests seems to be in highlighting the limitations of IQ as an objective measure of intellectual capacity...)
> You can't just make secular church,

Um ... Unitarian Universalists?
One reason its such a problem is that many studies are observational, rather than experimental. There's a lot more room for ex post hypothesizing (first look at the data, then pose a hypothesis), which invalidates statistical confidence.
Part of the problem is actually in the process of being solved: the social role that Holy Immaculate Science had been acquiring.

I know this sounds a bit reactionary in times of antivaxers and even flat-earthers, but we cannot afford to trust "Science" in the way we had been doing up to the mid 2010s. How much social policy was being enacted in the name of p-hacked psychology and social science? How much of our baseline ideologies?

Even the first announcement of results from the LHC was botched. Now, you may say "great, this is science, it's supposed to be conjectures and refutations". But then we can't trust it as guarantee of ground truth. Scientific papers can't be used in service of internet debates, etc.
It's a tragedy of the commons, where the commons is our individual and collective mental health. Working your ass off might be an individually rational choice, but even if that's true (opinions definitely vary) the result of everybody doing it is a significantly crappier society.
The Pixel fingerprints aren't as unique since only the accelerometer is factory calibrated.

>In the case of iOS devices, the SensorID includes both the calibration fingerprint of the gyroscope (GyroID) and magnetometer (MagID). In the case of Google Pixel 2 and 3, the SensorID includes the calibration fingerprint of the accelerometer (AccelID).

You can also stop websites from doing this by turning off JS in browsers like Firefox Focus or using something like NoScript.

>We only have access to a few Pixel devices,and therefore we are unable to perform the same analysis as we have done on iOS devices to determine whether the fingerprint we obtain for Pixel devices is globally unique or not. The IMU in other Android devices is also likely factory calibrated but the calibration is typically restricted to offsets(i.e., bias compensation). Our approach targets the gain matrix and cannot recover bias compensation.

If you want "to be fair", why not mention all these details too?
The GP said "on a Boeing plane", not just on 737MAXs.
While I was reading those chapters I thought, I'll bet the people who implemented, say, the Java standard library would have spent a lot of time reviewing these chapters. Later I noticed some comments in the Javadoc for the Java standard library that refer back to TAOCP, so I guessed correctly ;)
I don't think you have to reverse engineer an open source operating system...
While you raise some good points about the "fixed risk costs" of flying not scaling by distance, deaths per hour isn't a much better metric. The use case for most people is to travel a specific distance. e.g. "I need to get from A to B" so should I fly or drive there. It's usually not, "I need to move around for an hour" should I take the bus or a plane.
Inflation can hurts pretty badly pensions though, so it's not only a rich vs poor thing.

And also inflation is not uniform and depending on its composition can hurt poor people much worse than rich ones.

Historically I haven't found any clue that a higher inflation would help against inequalities. Actually the only literature I have found on the topic seems to indicate a positive correlation between inequalities and inflation but the relation between both seem very complex and not really understood/modeled correctly right now.
Right, I live in South America and since childhood kitchens with doors were the norm. Only in relatively recent years has the "open floor plan" become fashionable, and open kitchens have become trendy. They are a selling point for trendy young people, and I do agree open kitchens look nice. Many come to regret it when they want to grill a steak and end up smoking up the house.
Building my own Clojure tools
VLC continues to be riddled with crashes in the menus, because of a bug in how they use A List, that is almost 10 years old.

The only way I can make sense of it, is that they must build VLC against a modified Qt distribution, or something they just never update.

I've totally switched to SMPlayer and MPV.
And that is exactly the issue, that within the very short period while the 737 MAX has been active it has had major incidents.

Naturally it'll be skewed but also naturally it tells something about its risk given the safety record of the aviation industry.
They don't need what? Free testing and debugging from thousands of people running their software on completely different hardware and OS? You may see useless tickets but companies are paying millions for QA and testing.
What history? Did china reversed engineered Windows?

Isn't also Android notorious for re-implementing Java? So it would be hypocritical for Google to claim that you can't reverse engineer the Google Play APIs
Run Your Eclipse IDE with Shenandoah GC
Congrats, your site is 100x more comprehensible than the wall of text on the original link. :-)
The quote in question:

> "The key point here is our programmers are Googlers, they’re not researchers. They’re typically, fairly young, fresh out of school, probably learned Java, maybe learned C or C++, probably learned Python. They’re not capable of understanding a brilliant language but we want to use them to build good software. So, the language that we give them has to be easy for them to understand and easy to adopt."

Full context: http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Lang-NEXT/Lang-NEXT-2014/Fro...
Some of the tech in ARM chips is licensed from US companies, mostly in the from of patents. Plus ARM has thousands of engineers working in the US, so some of their own tech in their CPUs will be covered by the ban as well.
I'm not optimistic about the long term future of that model, I just don't see any emancipation of the EU. Of course, Trump is not at all what Merkel, Macron, Juncker etc want, but he's also not at all part of the 20th century US empire.

What China or Russia do is this: key industries must be domestic. The EU countries never did this, they've accepted the US as the provider for information discovery (search), information transmission (news) and communication, granting them enormous powers. Merkel's own BND (certainly not without her knowledge, it's closely lead by the Bundeskanzleramt) cooperated with the NSA to provide access to virtually all German internet traffic so the NSA could spy on German citizens wholesale.

Good luck with that EU army. If the state of Germany's Bundeswehr is any indicator, we'll be lucky if the EU army has a functioning bicycle in 2040.
GrailSort – A stable, in-place, worst-case O(n*log(n)) sort
Personal finance classes growing at colleges
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilbert_principle
Note: If on an iPhone with iOS 12.2+. This attack has been mitigated by Apple adding random noise to the sensors and disabling motion api access in safari by default.

I’m still surprised this wasn’t caught sooner as many techniques have been used over the years to effectively fingerprint devices.
This is basically his content marketing[0]. Whether he believes it or not, it doesn't matter, because this topic is on trend right now. He's likely taking what he believes is the most attractive option to early stage entrepreneurs right now.

[0] - https://avc.com/2016/08/understanding-vcs/
Spotify has a nice blog post about shuffling music. Not the exact same thing, but interesting nonetheless.

https://labs.spotify.com/2014/02/28/how-to-shuffle-songs/
That's pretty wild. Most atoms are 0.1-0.2nm in diameter.
IQ's not the most robust measurement, but it is one of the best we have for predicting overall success in life.
This explanation isn't nearly as fun as all the wild speculation we're all posting below you.

+1 for actually hunting down the original study and interpreting it.

-1000 for spoiling our self-righteous party.
Seems like your IQ isn't a problem...
The free dev version
With .NET core in place, definitely yeah.
Thanks. I feel like I shouldn't link to my own blog on here myself, but yes - these are my thoughts as I finished each volume.
Not many people are going to subscribe to a service to watch the same movies over and over again. DIS+ is dead int he water unless it somehow creates exclusive novel new content, which it wont just for its service, ergo DOA
Also let's not forget about Operation Paperclip. You can toss the moral high ground out of the door.

"Operation Paperclip was a secret program of the Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency (JIOA) largely carried out by Special Agents of Army CIC, in which more than 1,600 German scientists, engineers, and technicians, such as Wernher von Braun and his V-2 rocket team, were taken from Germany to America for U.S. government employment, primarily between 1945 and 1959. Many were former members, and some were former leaders, of the Nazi Party" [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip
This talks about other asian countries that dont use chinese alternatives.
How to make possible cryptocurrency micro-payments in your app
The layout of the homepage is nice, but it doesn't really show what I would be in for as far as this product.

1. What does the interface looks like while you're coaching?

2. Are there any public coaching sessions/demos that you could show as well?

3. How does one earn $100/hr with this product?

4. Most importantly, how does one find their desired coaching?

5. @anthony-thomas doesn't exist

I'm guessing these are just ideas you would like to explore.

That's a really big ask to expect someone to sign up just to "Get Started". All I know is that you could very well be collecting emails just to collect them. Also, the need to add your social network items seems like much right out of the gate. Unless this product scrapes those networks to help find leads, I would reserve that to the user's settings.

Also, I don't think you would need to send HD webcams to projected teachers. I'm willing to bet that most people looking to do this would already have a camera (either on laptop or phone) that they could use.
We can see a bit of this celebration of old tech in horology.
I got accosted by a full page modal to sign up for emails.

No thanks.

Then I realised as I was reading that every paragraph was on average two sentences long.

It seems like this is done on purpose to drive a more conversational style of writing. Too bad it interrupts my flow of reading.

In the end I couldn't finish the article.

It read like a sales pitch.
Tanker: End-to-End Encryption SDK for JavaScript
If you can't get over a word being used in the title then how can you be expected to grasp the content? Child-proofing the internet is absurd
> ...but if one tech founder is working 60 hours a week versus 40 hours a week (assuming they are both efficient) then there is a clear advantage.)

There really isn't a clear advantage here either since no one is achieving 100% efficiency like that week after week. [1]

[1] https://hbr.org/2015/08/the-research-is-clear-long-hours-bac...
You seem to forget that China has like 50+ minorities that are encouraged to rise up in society, with preferred employment in the regions they are from or better chance to get at top universities. That some Uyghur have been trying to create domestic terrorism and that the central government response is blunt that is true, but the same can be said of how a lot of members of the Muslim community are treated in the West, especially in places like Gitmo. As for pioneering, just by seeing what happened with digital payments, I think you are in for a surprise. The worst thing one can do in general is think that you are so superior that no other people can overcome you. China suffered greatly from having such delusions in the past and so will the US if they don't get any wiser.
The difficulty with that is that when writing a news article you can't always ask the person how they would prefer their name written.
While there's nothing you can do in C# that cannot be done in F#, the reverse is not true. The biggest thing that comes to mind is to influence the direction of the other language (C#). I've heard it said many times that if you want to see what features will be in C# in the future, look at F#. Too many features to cite (though Linq is the biggest that comes to mind) were in production use in F# long before they arrived in C#.
You're right, doubleplusungood. We really need to submit a proper report to the authorities for this flagrant violation of gender correctness rules. Thank you for your vigilance, comrade.
technically Go is not a product but your point still stands.
Tanker is an open-source client SDK that can be embedded in any application.
Encrypt data, share it between users, create groups, etc.

The SDK handles key exchanges, cryptographic operations, and identity verification for you.

Also available for iOS and Android!
I agree, i think there's nothing wrong with being passionate about your work or building a company. However, it's not ok for others to suffer because of it. Neglecting family or spouses is wrong... it's a contract violation more or less. An absentee dad/mom/partner is not what they signed up for.
Gary Vee is the anti-vaxer equivalent of "hustle culture" - you'd learn more about business listening to one of Michael Eric Dyson's unintelligible rants than listening to Gary Vee...

He has no understanding of the notion that working hard is supposed to compound your productivity not always be the way you go about life...
Could you give some examples for "required to succeed" and "instant fail if this occurs" signals?
Decentralized AI for the Rest of US
I agree with the article and I am voting with my wallet. My next vehicle will be a 1970 Chevy truck.
Minor typo in the Reflections on 3 years of reading TAOCP.

> Quicksort is O(log n)

Should be

> Quicksort is O(n log n)
Vox publishes it's share of viral clickbait but it also publishes some quite good investigative journalism. Like Sara Kilff's stuff on hospital billing. There are writers at Vox who I think are bad but also writers there good enough for me to put them in my RSS reader. There's less editorial control at Vox which means both that the bad is worse but also that the good is better. And the bad is probably what goes viral on Facebook to pay for the stuff I consume.
.Net Core makes this work very well.
Node has its place, i wouldn’t call F# an alternative to it. The node community is absolutely fantastic. F# is also an amazingly powerful language and im happy using it on the back end
The modern democratic and republican parties are chock full of pro-totalitarian, pro-authoritarian, "pro-state control of people's lives" politicians (of course they're inconsistent and they'll say or vote the opposite when they are pandering to their base though).

If the "modern socialist" types gained tons of traction tomorrow and became mainstream within the democratic party people like Feinstein and other authoritarians won't stop pushing regressive authoritarian policy. They'd just do it in a way that's sculpted to line up with the (newly) popular "socialist" sentiment. So the end result would be pretty darn Stalinist IMO.

So yes, you're right that current socialists are generally not in favor of secret police and shipping undesirables to the gulag but you're also wrong because if socialism becomes popular it will include all the totalitarians on that side of the isle who do want secret police and gulags.

As regrettable as it may be I don't see any path for going from the status quo to something more socialist without the current crop of totalitarian jerks in the ruling class turning it into a 1984 dystopia (the technical, procedural and much of the precedent for said dystopia already exists) along the way.
With ordinary DNS you are asking in plain text hey, what's the IP address for reddit.com and it does not take a genius to guess that's because you're visiting reddit.com

With HTTPS using TLS 1.2 or earlier the site sends its certificate in plaintext too, so even if you just remember the IP address, it will tell anybody snooping "Hi, this is reddit.com".

In TLS 1.3 the site's certificate is encrypted. However the SNI, which is used to make virtual hosting work, is not encrypted. So your ISP can see where you said you were going, but not whether they proved they were the real deal.

DPRIVE such as DNS over HTTPS cures the first thing, you use an encrypted transport to do DNS queries against somebody trustworthy who won't rat you out.

eSNI (encrypted SNI) is intended to one day cure the other problem.

Even with both these, seeing that you visited a very popular system like Facebook or Reddit is always going to be easy. So Tor remains important.
A new type rating will mean that the plane gets the worst of two worlds. Instead of saving a type rating yet delivering a paritally-modern aircraft, Boeing is requiring a type rating yet delivering a paritally-legacy aircraft.

I'm not sure where the quirks bit comes in. Sure, all planes have their quirks but obviously taildraggers don't intentionally squat their props _closer_ to the pavement on landing. There's no danger of a prop strike on a jet-powered airliner, so reducing nose bounce with some elevator is not a problem. That's not a quirk.
Wow, that's ridiculous they didn't consider that, or chose to ignore it.

Good find.
Floating for decades, but they were controlling the senate, the congress, and the presidency, and I have yet to see it enacted.
The mus and sigmas in this paper on risk modelling would not make Nicholas Taleb very happy
Years ago I was working a miserable job writing boilerplate template code where I had to sub in variables based on certain conditions, it was using a very bland language to look up data from our database and format the output. I wasn't allowed to download any software onto my work computer despite having a technical background.

So what I did instead to make my life easier was write F# to create a kind of DSL and create the template lookup scripts for me. I did it all from the browser with repl.it, and I generated dozens of scripts and saved myself a lot of time in the process.

Now I mostly use Racket, but F# is where I kind of started out. It's a fun dialect.
Certain placental stem cells can regenerate heart after heart attack
The problem is F# doesn't get enough resources internally at Microsoft. How many times has VS shipped missing the latest version of F# tools? In terms of community, it's tiny. If I want to do functional programming, F#/.NET isn't the strongest option. I have several books on F# and as much as I'd like to learn/use it beyond toying around, I can't help but feel like all it's worth using for is tinkering (outside of the few shops that use F# extensively.)
I might be in the minority but I think there should be a 0% corporate tax rate. For the amount of revenue received by corporations doesn't match how much affect they can have on the tax code. They lobby quite a bit to affect their tax status and situation because they have the means. Yet its the individuals that contribute the most taxes but have the least amount of lobbying power. The tax code should be decided by policy of the democratically elected. Reduce the corporate rate to 0% and lobbying will decline I believe.
The thing I find most interesting about a lot of C# developers I've worked with, trained, etc. is their understanding of "Object Oriented" programming. I have the same discussion over and over again.

"Have you looked at F# even to just to see how it works?"

"I won't ever use it. I'm an OO programmer, and it suits me just fine!"

"Do you use LINQ, and understand you can pass functions into methods etc.?"

"Yeah, it makes things so much easier. I don't understand why people wouldn't use it."

"That's really more like functional programming"

"...."

Edit:formatting
Repeat ... coupling and strict error processing kill token ring and let Ethernet win. So is sna and internet.

Cross system require much flexibility and to allow for error.
It is not true that dumber people have more children. At lest not generally:

Cognitive ability and fertility among Swedish men born 1951–1967: evidence from military conscription registers
"We examine the relationship between cognitive ability and childbearing patterns in contemporary Sweden using administrative register data. The topic has a long history in the social sciences and has been the topic of a large number of studies, many reporting a negative gradient between intelligence and fertility. We link fertility histories to military conscription tests with intelligence scores for all Swedish men born 1951–1967. We find a positive relationship between intelligence scores and fertility, and this pattern is consistent across the cohorts we study. The relationship is most pronounced for the transition to a first child, and men with the lowest categories of IQ scores have the fewest children. Using fixed effects models, we additionally control for all factors that are shared by siblings, and after such adjustments, we find a stronger positive relationship between IQ and fertility. Furthermore, we find a positive gradient within groups at different levels of education. Compositional differences of this kind are therefore not responsible for the positive gradient we observe—instead, the relationship is even stronger after controlling for both educational careers and parental background factors. In our models where we compare brothers to one another, we find that, relative to men with IQ 100, the group with the lowest category of cognitive ability have 0.56 fewer children, and men with the highest category have 0.09 more children."

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2019.035...

At lest for this group of men, higher iq correlated with more children. There might be something to the belief that dumb people procreate more, but it might also be a stereotype popularized by movies like Idiocracy.