skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When faced with a task, there's a difference between believing that you can eventually learn and work it out given time and effort, and believing that you're already capable of doing it. What's frustrating is when the only people who are given the opportunity to fail over and over again and eventually get it right are the ones who never recognize that they can, do, and have failed.
A classic on the dangers on full rewrites - https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...
Nyt can now detect private mode browsing? Seems like a bug in Chrome.
Goro Shimura, giant of number theory, dies at 89
Not usually, but a lot of these drivers were people that were screwed by Uber and Lyft's dodgy (illegal) practices (for example ignoring taxi medallion requirements, which they still are doing right now). So if the only way these people can stop their own bleeding is by responding with illegal practices of their own, Uber and Lyft don't have a leg to stand on.
Capitalism is failing America, says a conservative Republican
That may not work. The TOR proxies are either blocked or using them means solving captchas for every website you would visit. Even google asks you to verify that you are not a robot if you are using TOR.
> Americans try to convince themselves there are a lot of ways to be high class.

I don't think this way at all. I tend to lean toward "high class" being an essentially meaningless term.
Yes, and then what happens when they don't get more water?
The user numbers are probably grossly exaggerated by bots.

I get a feeling the news feed of long time users get so spammy that "real content" gets lost.

I've made a twitter account for my niche real estate statistics site and the amount of answer I get from people that are following many users is minuscule. People with less followers are more prone to answering.

(NB: I'm not spamming my site to them, but like trying to talk about estate prices with people that are talking about real estate prices).

It's like what I write disappears when writing to those people. Twitter feels like a place where user involuntarily stalk the elite rather than a social network. Instagram the same thing.

The feed algorithm is hugely favoring algorithmic "friends" and popular users, most likely.
That's plausible. A good explanation would be that in general consequences back then were a lot more lethal. So the guy who was overconfident beyond their abilities and rushed into battle, or into a hunting situation, or a conflict with a neighbor, would probably end up dead pretty quickly.

So if they were expressing confidence, and still around, it would likely be pretty directly correlated with actual ability.

It's a bit of a just-so story but it has some resonance to it.
> but I think we are at a point where we need to weigh the actual costs that are involved and assess how well our approach is working - in my view, increasingly poorly.

Luckily, we don't need to consult your 'view' to see how these systems operate. Given that violent crime is at an all time low, especially when considering the entirety of history, I think it's safe to say that if we consult reality, things are for the most part working just fine.
This is a little short sighted. Small businesses only have so much room for expansion. In the same way that the person from GP's comment got their own truck, an employee could also save for their truck.

My first programming job was a part time position for a small group of programmers. There weren't more than 8 of us. Without taking on more clients or raising prices, there wasn't really a feasible way to get me to full-time. To get more clients also means that there are also more employees needed. We were all fine with the arrangement.

Their whole rationale was to get students a position for hands on experience completing actual projects for clients. You were welcome to stay on after graduation, but the expectation was that you'd leverage the experience on your resume to get a better paying job that was full-time. This fits the bill for the blurred line between dead end job and skilled labor. If I didn't leave (and they were alright with it), my room for growth would have been small barring the owners landing some huge contract that rapidly expanded their business.
Yeah, those have been displacing Japan along with China. I mentioned Samsung, but was mostly focusing on Japan as an example of a country whose star can and did dim, as a potential parallel for future China. It has taken longer than the few years the parent poster cited.

It's also worth noting that China still has a long way to go when you look at particular markets such as semiconductors, where export controls have slowed them down.
Huawei’s Own Smartphone Operating System Reportedly Named HongMeng OS
Following me around all over town like you did yesterday is considered stalking in my books.
Congratulations Geoff, it's fantastic to see how YC has grown and evolved over the years. I'm now six years into the Founder/CEO role, and am amazed about how much there is to learn in each stage of a company's growth. We also learnt a lot from our YC interview (which went horrendously badly on the day, but helped us out in the long run!).

Any advice for a founder six years in with a company of ~40 people is always appreciated :) https://errantscience.com/blog/2017/07/31/reflecting-on-the-...
From what I've personally seen the people who get away with incompetence the most are high-charisma people. I've countless times seen people with a certain "reality distortion field" kind of charisma spew utterly inane nonsense in front seasoned professionals who really do know better and they just nod and swallow it. Charisma seems to bypass the rational mind completely. It tells the brain stem "the person speaking is an alpha primate" and the neocortex switches off.

The inverse is also true. People with low charisma can say incredibly wise, rational, and insightful things and they're often ignored.

IMHO a lot of what is wrong with our world can be explained by this. At the same time it also creates a contrarian opportunity to benefit by calling bullshit on charismatic charlatans and paying attention to quieter people who know what they're talking about.
> haven't looked up her bio as that would be creepy

eh? how would it be creepy? honestly, your comment is creepy.

i did look her up (not independently, but inspired by your strange reticence), and what i found odd -- but shouldn't have -- is that the banner photo on the article isn't her. it's just a completely unrelated stock photo. that's interesting because the article is a self-pr SEO type piece, not a dispassionate generic "industry observer" piece or other type of actual analysis. it's the type of article that would actually benefit from an actual photo of the author.
You need a mix. Solar is great during the day in nice weather. It's useless at night, it's significantly reduced in bad weather, and it's completely inelastic to demand. If the population of a large metropolitan area turns on their air conditioner for an unexpectedly hot (but cloudy) day, you can't just generate more solar power. Pumped storage reservoirs can alleviate that demand to some degree, but we would need to flood significant new chunks of land and invest in relocation of humans/wildlife and construction of new dams and hydro plants. Combining solar with wind power, geothermal, and biomass can help to mitigate the issues of each solution alone. It's also just a good idea to have multiple systems in place as it makes the entire thing less prone to catastrophic failure.
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I liked their presentation of the data. Cool interactivity and scrolling transition with notes beside the plots.
5 Important Takeaways from Google's Two-Year Study of Remote Work
One can act in way that we consider racist while holding idealistic beliefs. I fail to see why this subtlety of human behavior needs to be justified over and over again.
1.5T or 3T is where imaging gets useful and then you’re back at the high end of the pricing.
I was thinking of the basic "moving back in with the parents fallback".

Of course different people have different advantages and disadvantages.

Paul Graham's children will probably have an enormous head start in becoming entrepreneurs. They'll have "startup privilege" en masse. But so what? Should we begrudge them having it? Should we compensate children of other parents for the non-privilege of not being Paul Graham's children? And if so, how? What amount of money would be appropriate? Or should we punish his children to take away their unfair advantage?

I just think the whole "privilege" mindset is unhelpful and unproductive.

Try to make the most of what you have. Can only PG's children become successful founders? I think not. Maybe your children will only become millionaires if the become founders, and PG'S children will become billionaires. Cry me a river.
I can believe in dark matter.

I can believe in dark energy.

I cannot believe in both…

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One thing I'm pessimistic about is this pigeonholing thing regarding to one's role in a job. I'm a programmer and therefore I can only program.

Or so it seems.

People don't take me seriously at entry level positions of:

- Consultant

- UX Designer

- Data Scientist

- Marketing (analytics)

I wish people would at least interview me on it. They'd be surprised what I know and am able to do.

One person made it obviously clear that I should become an entrepreneur, but I really can't justify taking the risk.
In my experience (running Lineage + microG for a month or so now) the main issue is with in-app purchases like "Pro" versions of things or subscriptions.
There are various workarounds to make it happen, but I haven't had any success. I've tried using the NanoDroid patched Phonesky apk but no luck on my Pixel.

Some apps attempt to check their license via PlayStore on startup and won't acknowledge your license otherwise (e.g. TitaniumBackup, DarkSky)
Others require play services to download additional stuff and refuse to function without it - e.g. Monument Valley.

Some work fine when the pro version is restored via TitaniumBackup, though - Solid Explorer is one example.
Hm I don't know. Smart watches block a hand, like Smartphones do, also they have much smaller displays.
Maybe you are right, but I honestly don't see how one can add value without adding complexity. Take any real life example: pizza vs plain bread, car vs bike, piano vs harp. There are still demand and markets for simple things, but it has much less profit margin vs complex goods.
Everything's better with a little Pi in it.
Great idea! Just tried it - my girlfriend will love it!
I've been following this field with great interest since my wife was diagnosed with brain cancer.

It seems many types of cancer can evolve resistance to treatment with a single type of immunotherapy. Similar to how HIV quickly evolved resistance to treatment by one ARV (antiretroviral).

But HIV can be kept in check by a cocktail of 3 ARVs simultaneously. And there's some recent research from Mass General where they managed to eradicate brain tumors in mice using 3 different immunotherapies simultaneously: https://advances.massgeneral.org/neuro/journal.aspx?id=1263

> Dr. Curry's group describes "a likely oversimplified, but reasonable" summary of the mechanism of the triple therapy: GVAX expands the number and diversity of activated tumor-specific T cells and increases the number of intratumor CD8+ T cells, while PD-1 inhibition further invigorates the effects of those mobilized cells. Meanwhile, agonist anti-OX40 continues to skew systemic and tumor microenvironments toward Th1 immunity, suppress regulatory T cells and prevent T cell exhaustion.

Hopefully this is a way forward for treating humans too!
For good examples (IMHO) of the above consult https://zeit.co/now
>Gardening is one of the many areas of life where the best information and the bulk of information is offline.

I've come to realize this is true, but why?
This from Bloomberg, is a bit like when someone slaps you in the face with your own hand and then tells you to stop hitting yourself - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-10/american-...
Change your title to Machine Learning Engineer and sell yourself.

Works wonders.
I was in last fall's Startup School which Geoff was very involved in. He seems like a great leader and you can tell the other YC partners get along well with him.
That makes sense but maybe we don't need that explanation. It could really be possible that the best-designed decision making robot would use confidence as a heuristic. It would fail in the same ways we fail, but it would probably perform worse in general if you removed that bias.
Systemd is not GPLv2, according to wikipedia it is LGPLv2.1+.

Of course someone here at work told me i am splitting hairs and they are pretty much the same thing and compatible.
Could it also be that it just became less of a taboo topic to discuss in the west, hence why we see so much more of it? Also explains why we are trying to pin it on millenials/genZ, as younger people are typically the ones to experience a lot of anxiety and uncertainty about the future AND are the ones to typically care less about entrenched societal no-nos.

Anecdotal, but I have family that lives in Eastern Europe, and mental health/anxiety/etc. is still very much a "no-no shameful" topic to discuss or air your feelings about there.

Another anecdote: all the mental health initiatives promoted and advertised at work, nationwide mental health awareness month, etc.
Machine Learning Jobs on Steady Path to Domination
I having been using the cylindrical layout shown here:

https://arcan-fe.com/2018/03/29/safespaces-an-open-source-vr...
desktop/

for a few weeks now - far from full time as the HMD display, lenses (CV1 here) and positioning/rotation tracking are not good enough with the open source driver but it feels really close. Except for some tweaking and extra "spacing" between the focus window and the side windows, it works exactly as I
want it to. I added some customisation so the 'layers' do not exist at different depths but on different arcs on the same layer. Switching "workspaces" simply rotates these layers to the 12 o clock position. Biggest problem right now is not having front cameras to see what my hands are doing.
Eliminate totally? Of course not.

But we have a long way to go before 1 fatality per 1 billion miles would be a bad thing. That would be an order of magnitude improvement. I think we can get two orders of magnitude in 10 years.

Autonomy absolutely will have a body count. It cannot save every single driver. And so if we want to be able to enjoy the benefits of autonomy that saves almost every single driver, we better get comfortable with the notion that some people will die in self driving cars.

If we can’t accept that the technology will never be perfect we will just keep dooming 30,000 people (in the US alone) to die each year, not to mention countless maimings (2 million actually) and property damage.
Great article!

Excerpt:

"Document everything. Write down dates, times, conversation points, who will do what and when. Get peoples’ names. Then if support drags on you can maintain some sanity and hold people accountable."

That's a gem of advice for anyone who needs to deal with an unresponsive customer service department in any nameless, faceless, and/or bureaucratic organization.

But, that being said, I wouldn't hold the lower-level people to be ultimately accountable... That's because they are usually not empowered to act by corporate policy, the proper infrastructure for action, internal politics, or any number of other company-imposed barriers...

Ultimately, what holds these companies to account, over time, is dwindling sales, the loss of profitability, and the migration of their customer bases to other companies...

Customers are always voting with their feet...
> In engineering and safety culture, iteration is necessary to approach an optimal system - the problem is here: How can we learn from what happened decades ago when the cause wasn't a part, a design or a process, something that can be simulated with a high degree of confidence? But a decision necessarily based on lots of unknowns? What can we do to be able to learn from it next time?

The answer is that you design systems with multiple levels of redundancy, and then monitor them.

That way in order for something bad to happen, four independent things have to go wrong at once. Then you monitor if any of them ever fails. If one does, the other three prevent any catastrophe while you correct it. Then you have a new data point about how to design things better going forward.
Standard way of sharing project templates (scaffolding). Might be useful on systems based on micro services and serverless. I don’t see much value in the task runner part of it, though.
Individual action will not in and of itself solve the climate crisis, but I believe it could be a powerful lever to build the critical mass needed to put global warming at the top of our politicians' agendas. We need to convince our families, friends and neighbors that the climate crisis is a big deal. Words are cheap. But if people see us actully making substantive personal sacrifices in our own lives, sacrifices that cannot be merely written off as performative signaling, but that can only be explained by a strongly held belief that climate change is a BIG DEAL, our exhortations will be far more persuasive.
In Pursuit of Clarity in Obfuscation
Could really do with the freelancer CRM actually, i haven't seen anything out there thats not targeted at enterpise.
I was an original Glass Explorer, owner of ~15 units, we spent 9mo full-time with our startup (DocHuddle, Inc.) working as CTO+Developer on glass use cases, and I can say this:

Real progress wont be made until there are great developer tools. Google, feeling that simulators ruined the true experience, didn't make simulators for the Glass SDK, which made development impossible. It meant you had to debug with the thing plugged in or on your face (or via Android Mirror).

Thankfully, the overheating problems have been fixed, but real progress also wont be made until you can work on it 18hrs a day (not just until the unit heats up.)

It was surprising to me how much money was spent on the Glass program yet how little was spent on the folks who would actually be coming up with the app ecosystem.

All that said, I still believe in the concept and think the Enterprise use cases are enormous. I just hope the opportunity isnt bungled again.
I think this is predominantly due to these generations feeling the affects of social media. They are the guinea pigs of a world wide experiment. They’re the first generation that is constantly barraged with photos that lead them to fomo and unrealistic expectations.

I would argue this is a greater factor in producing pessimests than a downturned economy or bearing the burden of the boomers mistakes (climate change etc). They were promised a better life than what they’re getting by college and the Internet.
I think many people are missing some facts from the article. They aren’t so much going on “strike” as they are just turning off their apps on masse 5 minutes before plane lands to trigger surge pricing, and then turning back on to catch the passengers at surge pricing. Obviously customers are still choosing to accept such fares, but may not know that the real price (if they wait a bit) would be much lower.
I'm surprised that half of people would believe businesses are making a positive impact on the world.
I didn't mean that everything was in a single binary, but that everything is tightly coupled. Just because a binary is replaceable, doesn't mean the replacements that have existed for decades will be "drop in" or integrate as well, which leads to feeling like a second class citizen or the overhead originally mentioned.
A promising step forward for predicting lung cancer
Yes exactly. In what type of bubble does the author live? "Group Chats" predate the web. So how can they make the internet fun "again" when they have never stopped making it fun?
So accurate, and perfectly describes the article I complained about in another comment[1]. The best part is, when NPR focuses on personal stories they really get to choose the narrative. Linked article happens to be two retirees who love gambling and working seasonally for Amazon, why them instead of some other family whose forced to work seasonally and can't get health insurance? No clue, but the framing sure makes Amazon look good.

[1] https://www.marketplace.org/2017/12/21/business/holiday-seas...
You're describing a problem with the doctors, not a problem with the scans. I'm curious to understand the real motivation to avoid information. Is it something in the system, litigation risk?

There are many ways to deal with incidentalomas. If full body scans were more widespread, maybe doctors would have confidence to deal with them properly. For example, watching them over time.
Suppose you run your system on a new, better, and faster computer architecture, newly supported by Linux. Now, let’s assume that this is a new architechure which in many ways is different in style to other processors, but let’s say GCC supports it and can generate 100% correct code from it. Your problem now is that much of all the old software was written and tested only on older architectures, and this new architecture exposes many bugs such as previously unknown reliance on undefined behavior, which worked on all old architectures, but not this new one.

Now. Do you blame the new architecture for this bad situation? Or do you blame the old software, which technically always had bugs but those bugs were previously not triggered?
Enigma 2000: An Authenticated Encryption Algorithm for Human2Human Communication
I must say, I'm a little bit impressed.
it's fast and has a lot of settings that are simple to understand and still looks to favor privacy.

it can run Extensions from Microsoft and you can install additional extension stores (like google) with just a click. (of course not all extensions will work, like 1password+app didn't but 1password x, did)
People have a right not to care about their own privacy. You've just described the entire target market for discord.

Why HN thinks this is a moral failing and downvotes accordingly is, in my opinion, their own ignorance, not anyone else's.
Not only that, but it's also an X-Ray and CT scanner. What a bargain!

In all seriousness the product linked is a CT scanner, which are way less expensive in general.
Sounds like prime territory for machine learning, though I don't know how much variance there can be in the presentation of anomalies and how much training data you'd therefore need.

Do tumors from various cancers typically share any discernable features?
That's the precipice of the argument though, right? It's not illegal to observe interactions that you witness, or take notes about customers you saw shopping your competition.

You could even hire someone to wander around your competing stores and take lots of notes about the people they saw. "Red shirt guy shopping around for slim fit pants". Unlikely scenario, but legal to do and to use that information.

My whole thing is - what makes the scenarios different enough that one is prohibited and one is allowed? Certainly if we told folks they must forget their observations about others upon request, that would face some baseline rebuttal about their own autonomy.
Anecdote from when I was in China. My friend and I were walking down the street in Jinan (a big city though not one of the Major Chinese cities - think Pittsburgh in the US) when a yellow Ferrari fishtailed around the corner, squealing its tires and speeding away down the street. My immediate reaction - which I imagine to be the average American reaction - was "what an asshole". However, the Chinese around us on the street had quite a different reaction: "wow what a cool guy/car". Not really sure what this means about the perceptions of displays of status between the two cultures, but it's something that has stuck with me ever since.