skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It also defines how you get treated.

If you need to use the bathroom, you're very often better off walking into a lawyer's office than walking into a restaurant, because the restaurant workers have the expectation that a certain percentage of customers are going to shit on the floor, and the lawyer's secretary doesn't, so you don't have to work as hard to combat that expectation.

The same thing happens with community colleges, which have all kind of policies designed to protect the college from the students. Everything down to when you can be there and whether you can talk with a friend in the library is subject to much more negative expectations than in a real university. You can get a lot out of community college in terms of learning, but it's generally more of a struggle.
That he will keep his promise. Duh!
Any chance a feature could be added to delete posts by year?

Would love to scrub like 5 years or so but keep some more relevant memories.

Thank you.
Except there's an entire literature of false positives and the costs associated with these detections [1]. Costs here include not only direct financial costs of potentially unnecessary surgical procedures, but include everything to additional complication due to treatment and patient emotional grief/loss of earnings due to aggressive care.

The lesson a lot of people who are not familiar with public health is that you need to sorta take the long view for these things since we don't make rational decisions.

To bring back your analogy, it's then sorta like requiring an all hands meeting every time your IDE catches a typo. It's still monitoring a something that MAY cause a problem in the future, but to a good enough degree the costs associated with monitering may not be relevant to your actual end goals.

[1]. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3079487/
The use of goto to jump out of nested loops is available in many languages as the ability to break out of a labeled loop. Regular structured programming plus this single extension allows any algorithm that can be written with goto to be written without, with no loss of efficiency.

I have seen multiple ways to implement finite state machines. Autogenerated code with goto is indeed a clean option. However I strongly prefer it if the state machine has a relatively clean definition that does not involve goto.
Omg. Pundits were saying the same thing about North Korea, that Trump was prepping 100k troops for that invasion. When will they catch on to Trump's negotiation style?
> Less than three in ten Millennials expect to stay at their current job for the next five years.

Well yeah. I can stick around my current company for 5 years and get a 2-4% increase each year, or job hop every 2-3 years and get a 20% raise each time.

With a market like this, why wouldn't you job hop? Loyalty to a company only inhibits you.
The difference is that one is an actual problem and the other isn't. That's it. There isn't some deep legal theory driving lawmaking.
Great read. Really highlights all the problems I have with touch interfaces. Unfortunately I don't see it changing much in the near-future mainly because it's Good Enough for most people and most operations. Wish someone would put money into researching tactile screen interfaces that physically deform and respond to touch.
And the comments boil down to: "I have strong opinions but avoided what looked like an opportunity to become more informed".
"Keeping up with the Joneses" was an idea far before social media existed. As was worship of the wealthy and celebrities.

And the people "most visible" on social media are very specifically the people we choose to follow. Maybe we can ask why do people choose to follow so many of the "richest/best looking/most successful" people, but that's putting the cart before the horse. We could just as easily ask in the 1980's why people buy so many fashion magazines or watch Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous. This pattern of behavior transcends media formats.
Is there a guarantee that `pip install` download the exact same script as the GitHub one ? If not it seems risky.
> Do you own ocean front property or did you just list that for some abstract reason?

I know some nice Dutch people :)
“American Investment in the 21st Century” – Sen. Rubio [pdf]
As far as I know it wasn't friendly banter
There are a million reasons to agree that the data is never actually deleted

* need to retain data to fulfill government requests

* internal auditing

* it's all backed up in some "data lake" somewhere to do internal ml or analytics on

* hundreds of copies in database backups from different times

* internal logs that contain the data

* it's already been analyzed and aggregated into learning products and models that aren't going to be recomputed

It's not being "paranoid". As someone who has worked on large scale saas, I say: there is zero, 0, ZERO, 0.00 chance of that data every actually being deleted
Trump hasn't gotten us into any trillion dollar boondoggles in the middle east (knock on wood) so I think the history books in 100yr are going to consider W "bad" and Trump "mediocre". I'd still rather have W in the white house though. Uncouth comments and geopolitical stupidity get forgotten in the long term. Iraq, the GWOT and the accompanying erosion of our freedoms will be what's in the history books. Obama will be known for the ACA (even if it is subsequently repealed it will be known as the first attempt at a nation wide healthcare solution). Trump will be a footnote. It'll be interesting to see what the next administration brings.

Edit: Is this at -2 because I'm wrong or because people lose the capacity for critical thought when the orange man is involved?
Who said “at cost”?

Universal service obligations worldwide. Anti-discrimination laws. Mandatory customer warranties. Regulatory standards. The whole world is replete with examples where regulation places restrictions on goods and services, and the conditions under which they can be offered. It is absolutely feasible to disallow mandatory data collection for services. I am honestly struggling to see what problem you can possibly be seeing with this.
And yet the MIT imprimatur is slathered all over this... whatever it is.

Since the Boeing fiasco is cited here a question occurs to me; how, exactly, would licensing the programmers involved in writing MCAS have empowered them to correct the culture of indifference to safety that has clearly compromised Boeing, given them the ability to override the questionable marketing strategy of trying to extend an ancient air frame with control system work-arounds, force management to reverse obviously stupid decisions regarding non-redundant angle of attack indicators on a model that pitches up by design and therefore requires work-arounds that rely on angle of attack indicators, cause Boeing to provide accurate operating manuals to pilots or make Boeing admit that training on legacy 737s was clearly inadequate for MAX models?

I submit that it is self evident that licensing the programmers would have prevented none of these management failures. Not one.
The vast majority of FDM filaments will not be water tight. I'd recommend sealing with an epoxy coat after printing and sanding.
That's a pointless technicality and irrelevant to the discussion. Largely as irrelevant as claiming that it's not my software that's spying on you, it's your CPU and my software is just suggesting your CPU what to do.

For the past two decades browsers have been extended year after year to better run arbitrary applications delivered via the website. New tracking techniques crop up all the time and anti-tracking won't keep up, and often can't do much without breaking compatibility with the existing sites, not something browser vendors are willing to do, except when it serves Google's ends.
The link states "As a result, in our study the maximum hours per week on each scanner was limited to 35 h for the Vision (no hours on Tuesdays), 39 h for the Harmony, 32 h for the Sonata (no hours on Wednesdays) and 38 h for the Avanto."

Why guess 67 when you can look at the answer?
Or insert GPT2-generated essays about post-modern privacy models. Regularly. Generate noise, and lots of it.
In those exact words no, but if you break down the nutritional content of the Sausage McMuffin, yes, probably. A lot of studies are done on rats where even the rats eating "quality" food in the study are still eating things much lower in quality than a fast food muffin. That doesn't even sound particularly challenging.

To be honest, if you're trying to make my point sound absurd by exaggeration, you've shot way too low. The mainstream nutritional view would be that a Sausage McMuffin every morning on its own isn't going to be a particularly bad thing. You need to be a lot more specific with an overall diet to be a problem. You should have asked something like whether you could find a study about eating nothing but lard is available.

To which my reply would be that the principle of charity would make it clear that in general I meant any semi-realistic nutritional view is available, not that there are studies that prove humans can be healthy on a diet of rocks and asbestos. It really isn't to anyone's advantage if I also have to append to my little post a complete discussion of what is and is not within the boundaries of nutritional theories that have been studied.

I mean... is that... really... what you want...?
For some simple examples, inflation-adjusted home prices have gone up by a factor of 6 and inflation-adjusted education prices have gone up by a factor of 3 over the past few generations [1], while inflation-adjusted average wages have only gone up by $2/hour [2]. That single mom would have had a dramatically easier time providing housing and education for kids even with lower purchasing power for most consumer goods.

[1]: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/29/how-much-college-tuition-has...

[2]: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/08/07/for-most-us...
You are a wet squishy clump of really advanced bacteria trying their damned best to physically hold together, barely alive. Don’t expect much. Human politics is the literal definition of shipping the org chart.
Utilization is less in a hospital, especially when you're measuring "active scanning time" and not all the time that you're really using a room. Hospitals also don't book scans so aggressively since someone might need a scan pronto- in an emergency, or near-emergency- and it can't be scheduled weeks in advance like you do in outpatient settings.

Complex cases where you need anesthesia, especially, may involve a lot of mucking about before and after the "active scanning" period, where the room is being used, but the scanner is not actively scanning anyone. Also, paediatrics cases.

Utilization is a lot higher in outpatient settings where you can line patients up and turn the room around in a few minutes.
I'm always torn about this. My girlfriend and I (no kids) just bought a 1050 sq. ft. house in a very dense area and the biggest problem with separate rooms/separate spaces is square footage--it's hard to do that without making it feel really cramped. And that's just with two of us and two dogs.

We ended up taking out all of the walls on the first floor to create a large kitchen/living/dining space and it feels so much larger and more pleasant than it did beforehand when there was a (small) kitchen, a (small) living room, and a (small) third room that was probably being used as a dining room. If you live somewhere where square footage is cheap--although, growing up in such a place, heating and air conditioning might not be!--I can see the appeal. But urban life puts some severe constraints on space and more open plans seems to make it more pleasant as well as more usable, at least for me. I don't know if I'd want to go back.

(Though, at the same time, I really value having an office with a door that I can close. That too is important!)
> What do you think the chances are that Facebook actually does any delete operation on their data?

Close to 0%. There is no way they're actually deleting things on the backend, but this could help prevent your content from indexed by search engines inside and outside of facebook.
You still get to deduct half of your SE tax from your ordinary income, which is fairly generous from the IRS's perspective.

From the perspective of someone like me, my W2 job already puts me in the 24% bracket this year. If you use a platform to freelance, they'll take their 5-20% cut, you'll owe FICA at ~15%, ordinary at 24% (a little less because W4 withholding tends to overestimate), and state taxes at 5-10%. It's fair because those are what the rates are and I know what I'm getting into, they just appear higher at first glance.

It's also easy for me as a software engineer to set my own rate to account for the extra taxes I'm responsible for. In fact, my rate is significantly higher on the one particular platform where I'll only see ~$150 of the first $500 billed to a new client after everyone takes their cut (on which the client also pays ~$10 in transaction fees to the platform).

It's nowhere near as easy for a Uber/Lyft driver to do so since their rate is set for them by some algorithm that tries to balance supply and demand. These companies went out of their way to classify drivers as contractors, but still want to present an interface to the riders that tells them that they're taking an Uber and not that they used Uber to find an independent driver.

IMO they can't have it both ways. Drivers should be able to set their own rates and riders should be presented with a list of drivers and rates to pick from. Uber still gets to take their cut and they can still set up surge pricing as a % of the driver's rate. There can still be an option to pick the cheapest driver for those who don't care. This would better reflect what these companies are trying to legally classify themselves as.
> I'd be slightly more confident (slightly) that editing the post might cause the core data in the db to be updated, however.

Don't be confident. They have [1], or used to, post edit history. Even if the feature isn't there in the UI, I bet they didn't remove it internally.

[1]: DDG: facebook post edit history.
The article's about open-plan homes, not offices though
Open floor plans make better and worse use of space. One space can serve many functions, so that's a gain.

But when you eliminate a wall, you eliminate a place to put bookcases and such. One of the rules in making the most of a small space is "go vertical". Walls help you do that. So that's a loss for open plans.
> we tend to think anyone sliding around corners and squealing tires to be one as well

So why mention the type of car?
Underground network of microbes that connects trees mapped for first time
You’re not talking to enough people. Also, you’re too picky. I pick friends based on their kindness, sincerity, etc. Whether they are intelligent or not is pretty much irrelevant to me. I do all my intellectual work by myself.
A single point of anecdata, but I couldn't care less about what my acquaintances are posting on social media (though I do think that the marketing there is designed to create fomo, etc.) I've been feeling pessimistic lately, and it's almost entirely due to the idea that my two kids will live in a world defined by climate-induced catastrophe and upheaval, and that most of those in a position to make the large-scale changes necessary to mitigate this are at best ambivalent and at worst openly hostile toward those changes.
Owning a home is a big one. Being able to afford retirement is another. Not having college debt.
I don't really see rooms making a full recovery from the current open floor plan trend. While I agree that there are some downsides to an open floor plan (sound, cleaning, etc), I would be surprised if the open floor plan does not have serious longevity.

Specifically, the open kitchen, which seems to be where the open floor plan started. Attitudes towards meal preparation have had significant changes over the past few decades, and given the changes to women's roles in society, I don't really see a potential to return to separate cooking and serving spaces.

I wouldn't be surprised if the pendulum swings the other way soon, so that there is at least some compartmentalization of the first floor (kitchen, dining room, living room, entry, etc). But probably the dining room and kitchen will be that last to be divided, if ever.
A counterpoint to these stories of early diagnosis is that not all cancers are equal, and there are some cancers which may not ever have affected the patient had they not been treated (or detected). Examples include some prostate and breast cancers. Autopsy studies have shown occult prostate cancer in about half of men > 70 years old who were asymptomatic and died of other causes.

Of course it is often impossible to know which cancer will or won't kill you, but it should be recognized that there is a risk to scanning oneself without a proper indication, for example, getting a prostatectomy for indolent prostate cancer and risking impotence.
Because life generally sucks and people are start talking about it.
Yup, this is definitely all social media and Millennials' fault.
My guess here would not be to have the entire interface equidistant from the user, but, rather, to have the equivalent of a wrap around monitor.

We're already used to having flat screens to interact with and simply curving the display doesn't, in my experience with a curved monitor, have any detrimental effect on your ability to view the display.

Beyond that, in a mathematical sense, a square and a cylinder are very topologically similar. Of note is that the relative size and shape of things on the surface are well preserved[1] as you don't need to significantly deform a square to turn it into a cylinder.

This is not the case for a sphere.

As a practical demonstration, take a piece of paper and draw some boxes on it before wrapping it around a reasonably sized ball. You'll see that the boxes (particularly the larger boxes) become deformed in a way that likely will make them seem to "bulge out". As far as I'm aware, the effect happens to any regular polygon wrapped around a sphere. The same thing will happen to any interface that attempts to project onto a sphere.

So, given that:

a) we're already used to flat interfaces

b) curving that interface into a semi-cylinder doesn't[2] have any detrimental effects

c) that traditional square interfaces don't map directly/cleanly onto a sphere

It's easy to conclude that a cylindrical interface is probably the simplest to make and easiest to understand interface. It requires the smallest amount of work to make and the least learning on the part of the user.

1: Obviously, things on the cylinder will be curved, but the 2 dimensional shape is still consistent.

2: for me, at least
that just means a single mother today working the same job would be able to afford fewer things than 20 years ago.

where is the comparison with cubicle drones?
Here's a question.. why the fuck is college even a requirement here? I'm not saying it doesn't have value. But, if you are creating a startup and are that young, does college even matter at that point?

The fact is, that for many things, a lot of people are perfectly capable of spending a few hours a day on a project above and beyond actually working a full time job. Yeah, people have advantages and others don't. There are risks and rewards. Are you willing to pay them? (you, being the hypothetical startup creator).

In the end, this is how economics works. This is how you make things happen. Nothing is without risk, and anything that is probably isn't worth much to someone that doesn't already have huge means to live without doing it. Creating something is WORK and means not doing something else.
Class is an accent, not a bank balance.
Not true. Boeing is already manufacturing 787s with 3D printed parts.

https://aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org/departments/making-3d-prin...
Are you sure? Does the climate change affect your personal life more than inability to afford reasonable real estate or kid-related expenses off most today's salaries?
Thanks, I'll have a look!
Time will tell, but you might be right. Almost everything I dislike (or fear) about Trump is stuff W was on board with, but it was the status quo then. W wasn't great for LGBTQ+ rights (for example) either, but his views and polices didn't stand out as much. Trump's SCOTUS picks will probably look worse in the 100 year view.
Curved monitors are basically meeting the same need - to maintain the same focal depth as one looks side to side, shifting between windows, applications, etc.

I did find a few papers with a quick search that covers the topic for monitors. I would assume there is some carryover of any kind of finding about curved monitor ergonomics to the cylindrical view idea in VR.

See https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/d1c0/3f54a46b5fefc27b7a4207... and https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/15980316.2015.11... for example.
OK, the first link answers the question. Why does the article in ArsTechnica make it sound like it could possibly a fake made by Voynich?
many of the problems in this world can be explained by one thing : too many people.
Constantly hitting records for economic highs. Lowest unemployment rate for blacks and Hispanics in the history of recorded unemployment rates. Rising wages. Just took a huge step in eradicating HIV in the US by securing free treatment for 200k poor people every year. Between the technological advances in solar/wind/batter, renewed interest in nuclear, and shrinking CO2 it seems climate change is well on its way to being solved. Significant prison reform which should be great for young people, especially minorities. Marijuana is well on its way to becoming legal. Gay marriage was recently made legal across the nation.

I'm on the older end of the Millennial generation, and everywhere I look things are heading pretty rapidly in the right direction. Sure, millennials aren't the top political priority, but that age range isn't ever the top priority, so it can't be the cause of this wide spread pessimism.

I mostly agree with you about social media, but I would add news and how news interacts with social media. Once the news figured out how to get the most views by really ramping up the hate/anger/fear, and were able to track that to the extreme, it really destroyed the way people get information. Every day is just more rage-bait fueled by this news/social media cohort.
Forget politics, let's just see how well Huawei's Androids sell outside without Play infrastructure. My bet that people will only choose China's consumer software offerings is if they have absolutely no choice.
The article touches upon but does not elaborate on one of the main reasons open designs grew in popularity: money. Increasing population density drives the cost per square meter up and having a dedicated home office, dining room, etc becomes too expensive. Sure you can have lots of rooms if you have the space, but try to cram a family of four in 50 square meters with all these environments and you end up with tiny rooms. A solution would be, as stated on the last paragraph, multi-purpose rooms (e.g. guest bedroom with office)

Off topic: this article is like a fly trap for people who comment without reading the article.
I was just thinking the same thing.

Seems like it would be easy to pop the text (and even comments) into some sort of structured dataset for archiving's sake.
Thanks! My immediate goal is to ensure that the Summer 2019 batch is fantastic and I'll be working closely with Michael on that. Besides that I think it'll take some time to figure things out.
It never use to bother me, perhaps because we didn't have a TV for so long, so watching a movie or a TV episode was a bit of an event: Power Up Modem, Power up old PC, load Chrome, Fire up Netflix and a good 2 minutes had elapsed.

Now that we have a TV and still only watch Netflix or Youtube but because it's so easy I find myself watching stuff almost like a TV and get really annoyed when there is noise coming from the kitchen.
There’s No Boom in Youngstown, but Blue-Collar Workers Are Sticking with Trump