skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That doesn't mean it has always been as prevalent, accessible, dominant, acceptable, and so on...
Matlab - That was designed for engineers who are not experts in software, even if they were highly technical.
Orthosomnia: Are Some Patients Taking the Quantified Self Too Far? (2017)
E-Readers (like the e-ink Kindle and Kobo) have never broken out of the black-and-white, small paperback form-factor. Which makes them ideal for reading...small, black-and-white paperback titles. But nothing else.

Books come in an infinite variety of shapes and sizes. E-readers and tablets do not.

Shape, colour, double-page layouts, plus the tactile feel of paper are all intrinsic to the design of so many books. E-readers and tablets simply can't accommodate those qualities.

E-readers work well for reading paperback-sized fiction and non-fiction titles, but I don't think anyone really expected them to replace physical books.
With GDPR no backup can be kept more than 60 days.
Your backwards email doesn't work yo
Beginning in 2007, a new study finds, the rate of suicides among adolescent gir
Two day's worth of research. Horrible, absolutely horrible.
> you don’t expect the dentist to cure your heart and neurosurgeon to fix your hemorrhoids.

That's your problem right there. Your frontend is not as different from your backend as dentristy is from neurosurgery. If you think it is, you might lack some understanding of how things work.

Tbh., whenever someone hails the specialization and how their particular field is so special, I hear them saying "I really do not want to be bothered with all these nasty details". And that's fine. But it's not something to be proud of. Personally, I would love to have a better understanding of how user interfaces or database work internally. I think the understanding would only make me better.
So my stepson (so definitely not inherited IQ) didn’t have the standardized test scores to get into the school he wanted. But after 10 sessions at $100 a session with a tutor who was a college professor he more than made the score. Did he get smarter in 10 weeks or did he have the privilege of having parents that could drop $1100 on tutoring?

Another data point.

I had the highest SAT score in my school the year I graduated and the second highest in the county - not bragging it is consistently listed as one of the ten poorest cities in the US.

Do you think it was because I was so smart only or because my mom was not only a high school math teacher and whose best friend was an English teacher, they also taught SAT classes for years and I didn’t have to go get help before school from an overworked teacher who volunteered to help kids, but I could get all the help I needed at home?
You really think the keys will stay in a vault?

And you think this because you have assurances from who? The NSA? Xi Jinping? MBS? Kim Jung Un? Diane Feinstein? Donald Trump? RSA Inc.? NIST? David Sternlight?
> I do not think people understand how bad of shape psychology is in right now, social psychology in particular. Social psychology replication studies tend to be hitting around 20%.

Yes I think we do, at least on HN, because anytime any psychology study or result is mentioned at least two threads popup up citing the replication crisis.

The thing is, it kind of depends on how you define replication, also some of these studies were done decades ago, society has changed since then, possibly affecting the results.

How easy would it be to replicate the bystander apathy studies where people were in a smoke filled room after 9/11, for example?¹

It definitely should be taken into account, but it's much easier to tear down than to give a critical appraisal.

I don't mean to criticize your comment in particular, because it was actually a good appraisal of this particular body of work.

I do think HN has some biases² and the tendency to shout "replication crisis" in a self satisfied manner is one of the things that bug me the most about HN.³

1: https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1969-03938-001

2: No politics, but in human affairs, everything is politics.

3: Especially since most of us on here are from the hard sciences, which ironically are easier because they deal in concrete, measurable phenomena.
Dr. Charles Czeisler Talks Nasa and Sleep Science
Sonic 3D's Intro Sequence Is Impossible to Fit on a Cartridge – Right?
Just an observation. To all the folks who say we all need to consume less, not drive cars, yada yada.

Et toi? Y’all love telling other people they have to do xyz to save the world. Are you ACTUALLY doing just that of which you say you must do?

See, I do agree, we need to consume less. But let’s be practical. Do you grow your own food to not fuel the industrial capitalist complex? But nay you say! I live in a city! I can do no such thing! Whose fault is that? Don’t live in a damn city. Go live in the evil republican counties where they happily teach you the best way to grow veggies and cut the heads off chickens. The elderly are fucking awesome on gardening techniques.

And don’t give me this urban farming shit. It can barely produce 2% of a city’s needs on average. Not practical.

I also think more efficient everything is a good start. Like LED bulbs cut a lot of daily wattage across the board. However, all of that was negated when this stupid blockchain fad starting rolling in and added another Denmark (in essence) to the world power consumption. But that anti fiat currency stuff is all in the name of giving economic power to the poor who don’t have access to money or computers...

Yea and that New green deal requires the fed to print enough extra notes to make the war on terror look like a candy bar purchase at the checkout. Because why care about bankruptcy today when it will happen in 10 years down the road?

Climate change won’t happen through policy. You know why? Y’all think your congressmen and women are retarded anyways. Don’t lie. You do. You think they’re all morons. Why would you give an idiot the responsibility to do something smart? Why would you follow any of it?

Be the change you want to see. Go out and do the actual change for yourself, to yourself. Don’t buy big ag if you don’t like the industrialized farming methods. You have options. Pricey ones. Or do it yourself. How about turning off your own damn lights without a power sucking smart home system and getting high efficient everything? Walk around for fucks sake. Read one of those low energy devices called a fucking book instead of streaming everything non fucking stop. After your own damn carbon footprint is nill, then you have the right to start telling others what to do.

I’m off to smoke a cigar and check on my tomato plants.
What context? That he was lying about the whole thing?

It is interesting how frequently the Smollett case comes up, and coincidentally Trump just tweeted about it, from Japan, yet again (claiming that it's a "hate crime" against MAGA wearers, which is uproariously stupid and offensive). All of those mass killer MAGA citers, and countless and growing numbers of hate crimes against minorities, tossed aside because look, this somehow proves all of that untrue. You see the same thing by the incel crowd when a false rape account is found, then it's heralded from the mountaintops as if it invalidates the reality of rapes.
Which is absurd but has nothing to do with trusting the government.
There is a replication crisis [1] in the social sciences and most studies are not being replicated. [2]

Here is a study that is not able to replicate the most referenced study on subsaharan and Africa iq [3]. The tests were done on uneducated people, handicapped people, people in remote areas and in poor conditions ie under trees which is not the recommended test procedure. Higher scores were also intentionally dumped in favour of poorer scores for vague reasons with evidence of data massaging.

This kind of 'science' is extremely damaging especially when cherry picked results and sweeping conclusions that these kind of studies do not and cannot support are widely cited outside the scientific context by bigots and racists to construct a narrative that dehumanize others. The nobel laurette James Watson expressed 'gloom about Africa' on the basis of these studies.

There are a lot of well known funds like the pioneer fund [1] and volker fund that have spent tens of decades on 'race' science and that formed a lot of basis for Charles Murray's bell curve. There are not hundreds of heavily funded organizations in Africa and Asia trying to prove others are somehow lower iq or 'inferior'. This effort has been ongoing for over 250 years, first it was brain size and now its iq and evolutionary psychology. What exactly is iq measuring, can we measure something that we don't understand?

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

[2] https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/8/27/17761466/ps...

[3] http://www.iapsych.com/iqmr/fe/LinkedDocuments/wicherts2010....

[4] https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Pioneer_Fund
I noticed that automounter entry recently and was like "wait, why did I have this?"

OTOH I might have left it in there to make it easier to mount NFS volumes.
Seems to me like humans do lots of things for distant benefits: they die for ideals, work their whole lives to give their children a better future, save for retirement, produce research on subjects that will only achieve tangible outcomes in the distant future, etc
Ha, DrScheme! That brings back memories.
> “If Toyota makes pickup trucks and someone takes a pickup truck, welds an explosive device onto the front, crashes it through a perimeter and into a crowd of people, is that Toyota’s responsibility?” he asked. “The N.S.A. wrote an exploit that was never designed to do what was done.”

Let's rework that analogy. If the NSA knows a trick to make Toyota pickup trucks explode, and they don't tell Toyota about the trick for years because they want to keep using it, and then eventually they leak the trick and suddenly everyone's Toyotas are exploding left and right, is that the NSA's fault?

Yes, yes it sure is.

I wouldn't go quite so far as to say the NSA was obligated to tell Microsoft (metaphorical Toyota) immediately about the exploit. For better or worse it's in America's interest for them to hack into foreign computers, and they take some risks as part of doing that. But they're 100% responsible for the downside of the risks they take.
The enemy will have escrowed keys too.

But see my answer to Gödel_unicode.
Why are you constantly arguing in bad faith?

"For their own benefit" means literally what the words say -- something that benefits them. Your wrong assumption is that socially beneficial acts can't benefit individuals. That's something we can argue about, but you don't have to be a self-righteous jerk about everything. That doesn't benefit anybody.
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That's competition. In a properly functioning market, in the long run, the company's reduced costs should be passed on to consumers and not captured by developers. (Unless we're talking about an exceptionally talented individual, rather than changes in the industry, leading to one person doing the job of three.)
>How is this any different from turning our perception of what's real over to mechanical turk systems like newspapers and TV news?

In the sense that having some hot oil spill on your hands while frying something is not the same as being submerged in burning oil as a medieval punishment.

Network and scale effects affect the impact of technological innovations. Even quantitative increase, over time, leads to different qualitative impact. But here we also have qualitative differences (e.g. TV networks didn't know shit about you, social networks know everything about your preferences, searches, friends, and so on).
Self-distancing can help you make better decisions
Thanks for this insight. I will keep in mind if I ever decide to bother with Instagram again.
Dr. Matthew Walker, Author of “Why We Sleep” (Annotated Video Interview)
One or the other might squeeze out an extra point or three, depending on age; it's hard to predict which is better.

We know this because of a whole ton of social science research trying to measure the effect of childhood environment.
yup :/

i mean, i never did well at hackathons, never got first prize at anything and i'm not graduated.

but, i do have real-world-experience with early/mid/late stage startups as well as corp jobs (i did a project for a local bank working with mainframes). due to that, most companies don't even care about my lack of graduation -- but they do care that i know when to cut corners, when to do crunch-time/overtime, how to take care of customers (including answering support emails!).

real world experience is always much more important.
Maybe the 1st email was leaked intentionally, according to your logic?

The 1st leaked email about burning cash over 10 months

How convenient that email leaked when the stock price is getting clobbered, adding insult to injury.

How convenient
This is probably the worst username you could have chosen in trying to blend in “NotPaidToPost”.
> Some of us were geeks, some of us found social interaction difficult, but since there wasn't a real substitute for it, we had to stick it out and learn how to be with people. And then we got the benefits of being with people.

Or, we could just avoid being with people and play with tech instead. Many a geek kid, myself included, planted seeds for their future careers this way.
I have no sympathy with spurious contracts that involve parties that can't sign or display consent.
Annette Kellerman – the modern swimmer for modern women
> peak uranium in 2 to 5 years.

Is that with or without recycling/reprocessing?
You can probably store all the information computers stored at the beginning of 90s on a single server today. That's how simpler 90s were.
And how about the generations of computer architecture professors that have promulgated the lie that is "architecturally visible state," am I right? Speculative execution is fine, cause we just throw away the results before they become architecturally visible.

Those professors aren't doing too bad now either, with plenty of papers to be published outlining the flaws and proposing solutions.

/s

Really, though, humanity is still pretty new to this whole computer architecture thing in general, and running untrusted code securely in particular. Im skeptical that someone at Intel was aware for the possibility of vulnerabilities for 10+ years before any of them were made public.

To be honest, I'm a little perplexed by the animosity directed towards Intel after all these vulnerabilities. Vulnerabilities in software are most frequently the result of ignorance, but everyone seems to assume the engineers and managers at Intel knew better (or should have know better). Who would have told them?
Agreed. A big corporation working on products for a prolonged period of time has a different level of consciousness to their work than a single individual.

Take the 737 Max as an example: It's absolutely malice, because the level of incompetency you'd have to have to let a plane into the air that can tilt all the way down by means of a single(!) faulty sensor would disqualify anyone from ever building a plane.

An aviation problem such as that is still comparatively easy for a layman to understand. When it comes to CPU-microarchitectures, I'm not so sure. But I trust they have professionals designing their chips, and my default is to assume they are competent and that malice has occured, and rather they'd have to prove the opposite.
Only thing I really miss, memorizing phone numbers and just somehow always knowing where all my friends were no matter what. We could always find each other in town because we just... knew. Now if I go with friends to a store, I have to text them to find out where they are. And I miss having such a good memory on something practical, at the time, as phone numbers. You had everyone’s number in your head, pizza, most of their work numbers, etc.
I could see that but it doesn’t explain why my recently refurbished downtown Yankee office building is a frosty 67F in the height of summer. :P
Yes. Simplicity, getting piercings, tribal tattoos, singing about saving the planet and forming bands.

https://youtu.be/U4hShMEk1Ew?t=23
Any time I've encountered Cucumber-esque testing DSLs, the amount of work that was required to plumb things up to the actual test code made me want to throw up my hands and just write xUnit tests or whatever and cut that extra work out. It's very possible that I haven't worked with anybody that really understood how this is supposed to work, and with the ten thousand other things I am responsible for, I haven't had the time or inclination to take a real deep dive into it.
That entirely depends on your time frame. If you're willing to wait 70 years then sure there will be economies of scale to be exploited. If you want to do it in 20 then you will have to build more highly specialized factories that produce the custom parts needed by nuclear plants. After that the factories will be useless for the next 50 years after which you need them again because the 50 year old plants are about to be decommissioned and replaced with never plants.
by that logic, the 1st email was "leaked" intentionally?

The 1st leaked email about burning cash over 10 months, causing the stock to crash even more

"where there's a will there's a way". So by your logic he wants the stock to go down
Calling people "idiots" doesn't help your case. And that's almost certainly what was getting you downvoted.

> To be clear, there is no story here UNLESS one assumes the entire atol was submerged at some time AFTER the fossilization event.

Figure 3 of the original article suggests exactly that. Rather than call people idiots and heaping scorn for a "lack of critical thinking", find a counter-argument. Like, perhaps the atoll was taller, and a few meters' erosion could make the difference. But I'm not a geologist, so that's just an armchair guess.
> Video startup times, seek times, thumbnail scrubbing, fast forward, clip previews, ad insertion and many other things don't work in a file based experience.

One of these things is not like the others.
Amiga still teaching lessons, after almost 35 years.
most fullstack developers i know have a strong expertise into something and ok knowledge (as in, they can write features, review PRs, fix bugs -- but they are not super experts) in the other areas. which makes sense, it's quite hard to be amazing at everything.
This goes deeper than Correa vs Moreno.

(A) Ecuador received a $4.2B loan from the US-dominated IMF, which was approved around the same time Assange was dragged out of the embassy, and

(B) President Moreno was caught up in the INA Papers scandal where many personal photos, messages, and documents were published, and Moreno accused Assange of involvement shortly before evicting Assange.
> This is the most impressive example of the genre that I've seen: https://wiki.xxiivv.com/ (engine: https://wiki.xxiivv.com/#oscean)

Yeah. I am currently using org-mode (plus org-wiki, some bespoke elisp and a few shell scripts) for my own knowledge base, but Oscean/the Nataniev ecosystem in general has impressed me.

plus Zotero for papers/PDFs, plus a pile'o'files stashed using the Universal Decimal Classification for its folder tree, plus assorted odds and ends.

In fact, I spent this week messing around with some of its concepts - Indental plus Runic plus a lightweight markup language loosely based on txt2tags + sexps and which should be easy to render even outside the browser.

The idea is to move away from documents (which org-mode is very good at), and towards smaller, rich chunks of information (which org-mode can't handle that well - I hacked things up with properties, but that namespace is flat).
I left ahortly after Malda, tr days of conversations with Bruce Perens and Wil Wheaton are long gone, it’s mainly Infowars fans now.
The Bill of Rights covers the US Government.
Also SGI

A 250Mhz R5K O2 could map live video onto a changing surface in real time. Among lots of other spiffy, hardware enhanced things.
Hooks-Based WebGL Library for React
F* is rad! Idris indeed still has some way to go to be production ready but I like to give it relevant attention when I can. It's like a reimagined Haskell :)
One issue I have with nuclear is the potential for widespread environmental damage if there is a technical problem either in the power plant or in the subsequent containment systems (which so far have not been well managed).

I suppose some of the new-tech nuclear offers environmental benefits compared to other technologies - I'm not very familiar with those options.

But if the proposed technology could risk destroying huge parts of the environment, that does make me seriously question it. Others have said the unit economics of nuclear are so poor that a solar field the size of the power plants containment area would produce more energy faster and at a lower price, but I don't know how true that is.

I guess my point is - I've been giving a lot more consideration to the environmental negatives of nuclear lately.
It was known since the Pentium 4 era that hyper-threading had serious timing attack concerns, concerns Intel seems to have completely ignored.

http://www.daemonology.net/hyperthreading-considered-harmful...
Part of the concern though is that should biorender shut down, for whatever reason (or some other human factor comes into play), you may lose access to anything stored there. You are also entirely dependent on access to that service. This is in contrast to a desktop application - YOU control the data and access to the service. It would be completely doable to have collaborative features built into that too without needing a third party to be involved, just not as profitable.

It's bad enough that we have to deal with Elseveir - we really should not be encouraging stuff like this when it is not necessary as a general principle.
For starters, he did get smarter in ten weeks. That's a fifth of a year. Kids get materially cleverer and more intelligent as they grow. I've seen this in kids taking math contests and standardized tests without any special preparation. FWIW I think test prep can help -- if you don't know the material.

You could have had him do that test prep for free, without paying a tutor. Or gotten a cheaper tutor, a college undergrad, instead of some fancypants professor.
> More than seven million "hate speech" posts were removed, also a record high.

This is an example of a statistic designed to show progress without offering insight into the underlying problem, which is the insidious effect social networks have had on civil discourse. Absolute numbers are of little help in judging whether Facebook is actually addressing that issue in a meaningful way. It seems plausible that the main motivation for numbers like these is to fend off legislation to force social networks to take more responsibility for content, which would undermine Facebook's business model.

It's not all that different from the US military using body count numbers as part of propaganda to support continued funding for the Vietnam war. Here's a better reference to the controversy associated with those efforts.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War_body_count_controv...
“No” what?

Did you interpret the word “largely” to mean “entirely” by accident?

This post appears to be a generic diatribe on the facts about sound mixing. It does not appear to be a response to anything I wrote, which is not about sound mixing at all. My post was a rejection of the analogizing between MIDI data streams and sound recording.
Standardized test scores are not IQ (though correlated). A good IQ test should have high test/retest reliability (ie you don't get better after taking it again)
Line Riders – Blue Danube
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The aspect 'zulgan is probably missing is that back then, you didn't have to manage this at all, as it was not a possibility. A problem not existing in the first place beats being good at dealing with it.