skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gotta love the amount of anecdotal evidence in here.
I think part of it can be explained or attributed to a life of people "catering" to you. Higher social class will in a lot of circles mean that a lot of people look up to you or wants to be your friend. One way of doing that is always giving the higher social status peer a lot of praise for anything he/she does.

If you always receive a lot of praise for anything you do, no matter the actual significance of it, then naturally your own perception of your skills inflates unproportionally to reality.
Ouch man, ouch..... That isn't a good sign coming from your wife.
I'm really bad at working with numbers (I get computers to do that for me).

I read that the new Japanese craze "Sudoku" would fix all that. They claim it is a good brain exercise.

Years later, I still suck at dealing with numbers (and still get computers to do it for me) but I'm really good at Sudoku.

Useful? Only if Sudoku was my end goal. The skill hasn't impacted any of the traditional targets you'd expect if you believe the mind games vendor claims. And the skill is definitely not connected to math/numbers/etc or any part of real life outside of personal entertainment. Replace the numbers with fruit or emojis or whatever, and you quickly notice its an advanced pattern matching game like they use to train parrots. A toddler's game re-jigged for adults.

Dual n-back is a hard game/puzzle/skill test, and I never used it because I expect it to be more of the same. You might get good at the game, so do it if you want to be good at that game. But we already know how focus works, so you just might develope a strategy for this one way the puzzle purposely distracts you. It doesn't translate to the real world. Try to come up with a real-world situation that mimics dual n-back's mental process. There are some, but the moment you change the objects and context, it all goes out the window.

I believe the "lab" results only prove people can answer questions better when in a really focused state of mind, and nothing more. No new skills added outside a new strategy or two that don't affect your day-to-day.

tl;dr dual nback is the same as that audio jammer toy. You might master it, but the moment someone changes the context (eg: inserting wrong words) you'll be back to babbling like a buffoon.
Am I interpreting this right as "assholes in an area drive the type of car that poor people in that area think rich people drive"?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limited-access_road

I guess I should have said 'controlled access' but anything gravel is not in this category.
Why does this even matter? Resale value is just interesting if you don't plan to use a product to its fullest and maybe till its death.

Choosing phones by looking at how much you can make of it a year from now is part of the problem this world faces.
Those ads aren't natural photos, or any other kind of photos.
Not sure why you are downvoted - always good to remember. In many ways thats what he kept saying until last year, even to congress - just with nicer, politically more appropriate words.
"Sorry, this functionality is not covered by Developer Technical Support"
First of his name. Protector of the realm (of the valley) :)

Congrats Geoff! Much deserved. Looking forward to seeing great things at YC
If only reality was whatever I considered it to be.
IDK what time period you're talking about, but I thought around 10 years ago it was pretty good. You could download and install all the documentation locally, they had pretty thorough class documentation and also higher-level conceptual documents around various topics (seems like those are all deprecated now).

Was able to basically just code against the standard library and the documentation actually seemed to be one of the perks of native development, since it was all in a standard place/format with pretty good baseline quality. I'm working with a greater variety of library dependencies now and of course the documentation isn't as consistent.

It's kind of mind-boggling how Apple seems to have gotten bad at this now.
I don't understand why companies are doing this.

Without these overlays, they violate the GDPR.

With these overlays, they violate the GDPR and annoy their users.
The replication crisis that's plaguing much of the social sciences, but especially psychology, did not cherry pick studies. It started with an effort to replicate studies only from high impact well regarded journals in psychology. [1] It found that 64% of the studies could not be replicated, leading to the curious outcome that if you assumed the literal and exact opposite of what you read in psychology (e.g. - what is said to be statistically significant, is not) - you would tend to be substantially more accurately informed than those who believe the 'science.' [1]

But more to our discussion, two of the journals from which studies were chosen were Psychological Science - impact factor 6.128, and the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology - impact factor 5.733. The replication success rate for those journals was 38% and 23% respectively. I'm certain you know, but impact factor is the yearly average number of citations for each article published in a journal. A high impact factor is generally anything above about 2. These are among the crème de la crème of psychology, and they're worthless.

As you mention pubmed, preclinical research is also a field with just an absolutely abysmal replication rate. And once again these are not cherry picked. In an internal replication study Amgen, one of the world's largest biotech companies, alongside researchers from MD Anderson, one of the world's premier cancer hospitals, were only able to replicate 11% of landmark hematology and oncology papers. [2] Needless to say those papers, and their now unsupported conclusions, were acted upon in some cases.

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All that said I do completely agree with you that the current system of publish or perish is playing into this, but your characterization of the current state of bad science is inaccurate. Bad science is becoming ubiquitous. However, I'm not as optimistic that there is any clean solution. There are currently about 400 players in the NBA. If you increased that 4,000 what would you expect to happen to the mean quality and the lowest common denominators? Suddenly somebody who would normally not even make it into the NBA is a first round pick. And science is a skill like any other that relies on outliers to drive it forward. We now have a system that's mostly just shoveling people through it and outputting 'scientists' for commercial gain. The output of this system is, in my opinion, fundamentally harming the entire system of science and education. And this is a downward spiral because now these individuals of overall lower quality are working as the mentors and advisers for the next generation of scientists, and actively 'educating' the current generation of doe-eyed students. This is something that will get worse, not better, over time.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis#Psychology_...

[2] - https://www.taconic.com/taconic-insights/quality/replication...

[3] - http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/education/harvarde...
Temporarily embarrassed or not, millionaires still look out for other millionaires like themselves.
Of course they care. Every tourist killed brings more attention to them than needed, if the person was high profile enough it can bring enough international pressure for the government to take them down.
A New Kind of Terrorism
Aww, makes SLIP users sad..
Nothing. Capitalism solves all problems. If not then wed be socialist.
They will drug you and beat you to shit until you unlock it.

Wonder why you are so naive and think that they won't do bad things if they are _really_ interested into getting into your phone.
I think there's a larger issue of flawed heuristics for progress. The kind of memetics this article is talking about is one such heuristic. Going for the money is another.

They are both potentially flawed in their core if the expectation is that they will solve our societal issues. They are both memes in that they are evolved to propagate themselves. And that's what they do best.
Easier to just throw the system libraries into Hopper, honestly.
Survivor bias combined with a very large initial sample size leads to it looking like risk-taking works out most of the time regardless of the actual odds. This makes it very hard to figure out whether that risk-taking is really adaptive or not.
I think the author makes an important point.

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By contrast, membership in groups of necessity cultivate a rather different set of habits and expectations, certain virtues are inculcated because the group of necessity requires them to function.
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Thats really the problem with all these virtual activities "on the computer". They beat the real thing by a mile while not providing the psychological sustenance human beings need. Online porn is a million women at your finger tips that will never reject you so why go talk to woman in real life? Why be funny or interesting or well groomed, that's so hard.

Instagram is full of beautiful vistas you can see without breaking a sweat so why go exploring in your back yard?

Games are full of achivments, ones you are certain to get so why work hard at anything real where it might be for nothing?

The problem is that we need all of that real life friction to lead a full human life and we really need to strive to find meaning. We need to sweat, we need to fail and we need to get rejected every once in a while, too. That's the real reason why if you live a mostly virtual life it feels so empty and bad that you want to kill yourself.
Huawei Abandoned by Google and Major US Chipmakers: Updated
Sprint is a dead carrier walking. They wasted a fortune years ago on WiMax. Now they don't have the capital or the subscriber base to build a 5G nationwide network. This merger is more likely to preserve some real competition over the long run.

Cheap Sprint MVNO prices aren't much good to the many consumers in areas where they have shitty coverage. Their network and spectrum is just really weak.
We’ve got this on the west coast where I’m from though :) The coastal climates are normally just a few degrees below zero. Granted, our snow-clearing teams are very effective, so there is rarely deep snow.
They obviously exchange (precisely targeted) attention for money: https://www.facebook.com/adsmanager/creation

And they obviously give away some data for free, especially pertaining to users who click through OAuth consent screens as in the Cambridge Analytica case: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api

What are some examples of transactions where they exchanged data for money?
Seen another story on HN a while back where someone also had trouble with Google Fi... Stories like this make me feel like Google doesn't have the customer service part down, and I'm not sure if I'd want to rely on them with anything that deals with money. However I'm sure people at Google read HN, so probably an issue they are working to improve internally I hope. I know technical wise they are ahead of their game though, but feel like the human touch side needs to be worked on especially for paying services or earning money from Google products as a partner. For example, I'm not sure if Youtube Partners who have any issues can talk to an actual person.

Also, he mentioned he kept having to re-explain his situation to several representatives when calling them. I don't get why companies can't transfer the call and leave a note for the next agent...

Sometimes I feel like at some companies agents in general that just don't know, press a button to transfer you to a random agent in the queue (with some priority to skip over everyone else) instead of transferring to someone more specific or higher level. One reason that gives me this feel for sure is when they ask your name and details even though you already told someone else before being transferred.

I think a key thing that would make me happy with support is when transferring over to someone else they already have a description of your problem, account information so you don't have to explain over and over.

I had an issue with another provider (not Google) where you could text but couldn't make calls and got transferred to like 6 different agents then decided to give up and porting away as I felt like just a number to them. As a tech geek, I feel like something probably screwed up porting in the first place but I doubt a support rep on a phone would even have the tools to investigate a problem with like. I hate talking on the phone unless I have to. I rather try to figure it out myself or use online chat first.
Ask jeff bezos.
Taking notes on a conference with smartphone and Bluetooth keyboard
In Chrome 76 you can hide the Add to Home screen mini-infobar
Now try to get certificates / “provisioning profiles” / “app capabilities” running, but with any configuration slightly out of the ordinary. You’ll want to rather shoot yourself.
Thought the tails/vortex look like curl noise. And after looking at the source, sure enough they are
> Unless the argument is "Microsoft should stop making browsers altogether"

Of course MS should keep making browsers. That gives them control over the UX, just not over the rendering engine.

My point is that assuming that Blink Edge means that there is now a variant of Blink not controlled by Google is optimistic.

> Its been either through exploiting an existing monopoly (IE, Safari on iOS) or merit (FireFox).

Yes, but which way is Chrome winning? I don't think it's merit, at least not solely.
My son wanted a Pixel to replace his iPhone but wouldn't buy one because like Apple it didn't have a headphone jack to enable him to use it in his car for music. He bought a Huawei instead.

I am not yet ready to replace my iPhoneSE but I'll be going Android as well - and if Google will provide a headphone jack they are in the running, but ONLY if they provide a headphone jack.
Are not they searching for new area to expand their business?
Their turnover is around $150b, if they go in healthcare they could reach $1 trillion.
Which other business path can safely offer similar potential?
I'm a doctor and a software developer. I frequently perform surgery. There's no way a computer/robot will be doing what I do as a doctor in the next 10 years.

Believe what you will. I don't really have a personal horse in this race, since I wouldn't mind if I was replaced as a doctor/surgeon. I actually took last year off medicine and focused on my tech businesses and it was great.
Not 100% sure I'd call it a strike but its just the free market working quickly.
I have a feeling though this will spread around the world and be adapted by drivers in many other countries.
I've traveled a bit in South America and Uber drivers there really do earn barely anything - I dont know how they afford the gas - e.g. 1/2 hour trip for $3-$4.
Hey thanks! I've never seen mailist before. I probably wouldn't have built this if I had haha.
Same here, fluentd is much better, performance wise.

But then I had to give ES more RAM because it couldn't take the hammering.

In fact, increasing the throughput to ES was causing some pretty spectacular crashes, with the /var/log partition at 100% because of the verbosity of the dumps.
I've been a MacOS/iOS developer for decades, alongside a healthy bit of Linux development, and more than anything this year I want to switch 100% to Linux-only development if only for the fact that Open Source still gives us the best developer experience when it comes to working things out.

If the documentation sucks - use the source. This is a lot more palatable on Linux than it is on MacOS/iOS.

That said, I do have to wonder if this is all just a bit of a side-effect of an internal re-org that Apple are preparing us for, with the move to Marzipan? I'm not holding my breath, but I find it difficult to conceive of the notion that Apple don't have something up their sleeve with the future merging of iOS/MacOS that will make us all quite devoted to their ways, yet again ..

Remember, its developers who drive computing forward. Whatever is done to the platform, it must accommodate the strategy of capture of developer mindset.
Germany was not a monarchy during ww2. The Italian king fought for both axis and allies (and joining the allies was a big reason why he was voted out after the war). Yugoslavia was invaded by the axis, as was Greece.
I used to be one of the scoldiers saying things like "oh all young nerds say dumb stuff when bragging to their friends"

Honestly the vibe's still there if you pay him/fb enough attention. I'm working on extracting myself completely from them (Still got a few group messages on upcoming events to clear)
No problem, disengage there. The problem seems to br no safe way to disengage.

Tesla crashes kill people because of this. (Ding ding, you have 1 second before impact.) Waymo probably wants to nail city driving first, because it's much lower speed, safer.
> Why is Chrome "the standard" again?

It has no adblocker.
Our application is calling GetTopic on a whole bunch of topics at startup to ensure that they were already created, so even though the publish error rate was only 1%, the app couldn't start because it kept failing the GetTopic calls :/
"Building a high performing home NAS"

"I was averaging 60-113mbps depending on the size of files being moved. This was a successful build in my mind! After selling my QNAP NAS, I came out ahead on my expenses for the build."

113Mbps is considered "high performing"?

"on a shoestring budget with the Rock64 SBC"

"TOTAL: $172.39 CAD before tax"

This is without the cost of the hard drives, doesn't seem ot include the cost of an enclosure, and results in:

* 1 Quad-core A53

* 2GB ram (the 4GB version is $45 USD without shipping, so it couldn't have been this one), which you can't ever change

* 0 SATA ports

* 1 USB 3 port

* 2 USB 2 ports

* 1x GbE

I would probably rather consider an HP Micro Server (e.g. https://www.amazon.com//dp/B079MFYDSL ), which for $282 provides:

* 1.6GHz dual-core Opteron

* 2 DIMM slots, 8GB DDR4 provided

* 5x SATA ports (4x in the disk bays, 1 in the optical bay)

* 4 USB3 ports, 2 USB2 ports, internal USB port

* 2x GbE

* 2x PCIe slots

* Hardware RAID support (I wouldn't use it, but it's available).

It would meet all of these requirements the poster had:

* Shoestring budget, under $300 preferred

* Scalable, not locked into a certain number of drive bays

* Gigabit ethernet

* USB 3.0 (for fast backups to my backup drives)

Preferred: compatibility with open source NAS offerings (OpenMediaVault, FreeNAS, etc.)

Low power usage (I don’t have high computing requirements for this system, so it doesn’t need to be driving up my electricity bill to run every month)

(I guess the Rock64 may have lower power consumption, but I don't think vastly lower).

I have a much older Microserver G7 (or NL54), which was much cheaper (I paid about $100), and it's great.

Edit: formatting
I have Raspberry Pi 3 B+ hooked with two LaCie Porsche Design P'9220 1T drives set up in RAID 1. I had to increase the USB current by configuring max_usb_current=1 in /boot/config.txt and also use good USB charger and cable (really, some of the cables I had were not good enough) to get it to work reliably.

It's been working perfectly. Sure, it's not the fastest thing ever, but mostly the limiting factor is our home WiFi, not the the RasPi.

EDIT: The USB drivers I use do not need external power supply, so the whole thing needs only two cables; power supply and Ethernet. Ethernet cable is not necessary if you are ok with WiFi speeds.
We should call this something, DocRot?
Dear friends at Google, since I guess many of you will read this, I have a question for you.
Is there any internal discussions going on about what you should do with all the money you are earning once your basic needs are covered and you find yourself with money that could be invested in interesting projects?
Let's see, for such communications we already have eyes, ears, fingers, and voice with all or nearly all of these well proven from most mammals from the smallest mouse to the largest elephant with development time 65+ million years.

And with those systems given, DARPA is going to try to do better, just externally, by using sound, optics, magnetic fields, etc.?

They are NOT going to put one of their devices anywhere near MY head!

Ah, DARPA has done some good stuff -- they are allowed some big losers!

Old Advice: The first step in good research is to pick a good problem!
I'm a doctor but not a radiologist. I imagine it would go like this:

Computer makes diagnosis on image of lesion that has already been biopsied and has a known correct diagnosis.

I don't know how it would work for human false negatives that were never biopsied. Possibly the AI could be trusted enough to make a biopsy on its recommendation.
Not remotely. You can buy a truly fast car-- 200mph fast-- for under $20,000 pretty easily. If you're willing to wrench on it you can get sub-4 seconds to 60 for under $15,000. That kind of performance would have been supercar territory not too long ago, and would certainly count as nice cars today. At below $100,000 I could name a dozen cars that offer a combination of great looks and incredible performance.
I think you can use uMatrix in Firefox on Android.[1] I know uBlock Origin works. But the UI is borderline unusable on a phone.

[1] At least until 2020, see https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/574#issuecomm... and https://www.zdnet.com/article/mozilla-end-of-firefox-for-and...
Benons Catering – The Nations Local Catering Service
what do you think the correct numbers are?
Im surprised no one has mentioned Kix here - Its probably one of the apps closer to the old days of IRC that I have played around with in quite some time.
Or nothing is needed other than cranking up the safety factor. Let me read a book while driving and if anything is out of the truly ordinary start to slow down. Much better than what Tesla does (keep velocity and signal the human godspeed, what could go wrong!?)
> are always looking for workers

Nothing is "always" in economy. Texas had >8% unemployment rate just 10 years ago. And out of the sectors you listed, health care requirements will be quite a bit higher than in other ones.
My local network speed and latency is much better to the point that I can use my NAS as a local disk for some applications (ie. Lightroom) - no way I could do that with a cloud only storage solution.
micro influencers, the data's useless.. it's against Facebook T's and C's to scrape from Instagram.
I got tired of ARM-board NAS boxes a few years ago, the performance has always been pretty bad, usually because of the USB attached storage. Although I had an orion5x-based WD ShareSpace a few years ago with 4 sata connectors, and that was terrible too!

These days I'm running a SFF PC with 7TB of SSDs wedged in it, seems to be doing the job nicely.
They can stop much faster even on crowded streets, and while tailgating. I wouldn't mind if it was slow when it knows it cannot stop in time.
Two words: gun control. Around 30% of the population may have mental health issues at any point. In a country like the US that's millions of people at any given time. It's a testament to relative peaceful human nature that more acts of random violence don't happen more often. And outside of those issues they may be perfectly normal people who would not think of doing anything to anyone... so if they didn't have the means maybe their crime may be much smaller and easier for them to continue their lives after their health issues lessen in severity.
What do you thing on using an Odroid XU4 for that? (with a big USB3 HDD with multimedia basically)?
Seeing as we're sharing, here's my (previously posted to HN) effort:

https://github.com/Jaruzel/DeleteFacebookActivity

It works very well, but needs Windows.