skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't actually read Getting to Yes, so I could be wrong, but from what I gather (ie what I've heard about it), it very much focuses on persuasion through logic, facts, etc assuming that both parties are rational and a rational argument will persuade, while Never Split the Difference states that this doesn't work because humans are inherently irrational and react emotionally, so you need to be in tune with your counter-parties emotional state (which often simply comes down to that they want to feel like their concerns are being listened to and understood).

You don't want the typical sales pitch that you might hear from a telemarketer or "slick sales person" -- you come away from those drained and annoyed -- instead you want to be listened to and understood.

Never Split the Difference spends some time talking about why more traditional sales practices don't work very well, hence re-education. You want to break the habits that are (apparently) thought in Getting to Yes and instead work on you listening skills, empathy and techniques for learning about your counter-parties emotional state, fears and desires. There's a chapter called something like "getting to no" because once the person has told you no, you can work with them to find out what they actually want and if you can give it to them. Its also very clear that you shouldn't be doing much of the talking, you should let the other person talk while you listen and poke them with tactical statements and questions to get them to focus in on the important details. This is rather different from more traditional sales "pitches" where you talk at them most of the time.
It's not so much that. I had switched to Mac in 2007 and got them to switch. At the time it was much different in terms of viruses, and that machine ran smoothly until 2018 (I added ram and swapped HDD to SSD along the way I think).

I had them upgrade last summer due to their old machine no longer receiving updates, and ever since it's been hit or miss. I guess they can do more on the new machine because it is faster?

I think a good Windows 10 machine that is locked down would be solid, but at 84 transitioning back to software you haven't used since you were 72 is a challenge. They've had the Chromebook about 5 years and still haven't learned it all (not that there is much to learn, but they still aren't clear on how webmail on chrome lines up with the mail client on Mac, or how to get to the Gmail web interface from the Mac, even though they've done it a few times (and I've shown them). I convinced them to get a Chromebook so they wouldn't have to take the iMac with them while traveling and it would be easier if it were lost or stolen.

I would say it's time to just quit the internet and computers, but it's part of their freedom that I think they'd like to preserve and they do use it for light document editing, viewing photos of great grandkids, etc.

I guess I'm looking for guardrails / bumpers that I can put up to keep them on track. And honestly if this problem was solved in a non-patronizing way it would probably be a very successful security company that could be applied elsewhere. At the end of the day it is least privilege and fighting adware / malware / all the crap that most users run into who don't have good security hygiene.
This definitely underscores the point that government is not too big. If government regulation we’re keeping the markets free and efficient then DNA and personal data would be considered a good or service owned by the individual.
The problem is OA also specified the level of cherrypicking, including sometimes picking the very first one. Do any of the conditional samples, picking out of 1 or 5, look like the OA blogpost ones? I didn't read them all, but they didn't look like it. Or much better than the 345M recently released, for that matter.
Insane by Russian standards? In comparison to over a hundred of journalists who disappeared only to be discovered in separate body parts later, he got it easy.

Unlike journalists working in smaller newspapers, without international notoriety, and not stationed in foreigner packed Moscow, he had his high profile giving him a relative peace of mind.

In Vladivostok, on other hand, no independent journalist left. All and every journalist who did his job since nineties is either missing (dead) or wrapped up on upon own volition.

The Western media, and the few remaining "museum exhibit" self-censored "free" media do a great disservice to our cause by validating that "not so extreme" image of itself the Kremlin wants the world to see.

The ruling regime is great at manipulating its image in the West. One thing they do is managing how much they frighten the West. They really want Western elites to believe that the Kremlin is being ran by some soft bodied, inept bureaucrats trying to play junta, instead of seeing them as who they really are.
Beam is an educational AR gaming system for kids ️
"modern" UI is backwards. A lot of space wasting, hiding essential stuff, animations that are not necessary.
And just for people not from Russia - you don't really need to be an investigative journalist for the police to put you behind the bars, then to put 5+ grams of cocaine somewhere into your apartment and 228 you. All you need is a sucker who needs to meet the quota or a cunt who wants a bit of cash as bribe. As simple as that.
Ask HN: Why Doesn't Microsoft Fix Skype?
I think it's hard to argue that the current version of skype is an improvement over classic skype. It's much worse when switching between concurrent calls, and almost unusable with multiple people. Options to keep notifications on a single device only are missing. Skype contacts and calls end up into the phone's contact list. Why is it taking years for microsoft to put out a decent version of skype , or at least one that was as functional as skype classic?
Fastpictureviewer? I haven't found a program (on Linux too) that comes close to the performance.
More likely the reason to use all data as much as you can to find the cure.

manual grunt work will be replaced by automation anyway regardless of you develop chronic illness or not.
You can use anaonymous exams or maybe have them solve a project. If you do that, people who are qualified get in and not people who were good students as children.
Not in the least. It's quite easy to retrain, even for very different domains. Like my GPT-2 poetry: https://www.gwern.net/GPT-2 Or google around and look at all the things people have been retraining GPT-2 on, like https://www.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/
> From the link you posted it wasn’t clear that it could intercept anything.

That's Apple's fault if the permission screen didn't show that. What the app actually collected was different from what it had OS permission to collect and was clearly described to the user.
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I dunno; they’ve just been replaced with curated Spotify playlists and podcasts.

Hip hop culture exists on Instagram today, but it’s become a sociopathic mix of Wall Street values, luxury brand product placement and gang violence. Gucci has transformed gang wars into product sales that make rappers rich. Getting rich is the only goal.
Look, I consider Ananas on Pizza evil. Can Pizza Hut not use JSlint on its website now? That would be furthering evil.

On a more serious take: I support causes that a lot of fundamental Christians could consider evil. Equality for queer people, for example. Marriage for all. Am I allowed to use JSlint for a website that supports those goals?

Why do lawyers worry about things like that? Because it’s their job. Unclear definitions worry them, which is good. Ambiguity ends you up in court.
I use a small bookmarking site i made for saving links quickly. It filters by domain / date / tags, plus i use it to keep notes on links. It also tracks the referer which is handy to remember where i found the link (if available; google search and HN do not allow that though). It also saves an archived copy of the page for future reference. The site is https://pinplz.com/
what stops a company that charges for it's services from also making even more money by selling your data and showing you ads?

even traditional magazines and newspapers had ads.
I was surprised to find out that they were backed by venture capital. When he says that "I’m committed to keeping the print magazine going and the Maker Faire licensing program.” I'm assuming that is for the various other maker and mini maker faires that are organized outside Maker media? I think it would be great if they could reorganize as a non profit and continue with a scaled back operation. I also wonder if by doing the interview with the media they are not trying to strengthen their negotiating position with their creditors. I've attended a couple of the Bay Area maker faires, and several ones in San Diego and while there definitely has been a dropoff is attendance and exhibitors (both quantity and to some extent quality) I still think it's a good event and has a lot to offer. I think it would be good if they also had some exhibits focused also on repair and reuse. The last San Diego County Fair I went to I think the neatest thing I saw was some guy from a local phone repair shop fixing phones.
My youth did not include high quality on demand free or minimially expensive music and/or music discovery services that were not a FM radio (or MTV).

Independent radio stations have DJs and a culture around them that foster new music and support independent musicians.

To pick an example, Hot97 was _the_ voice of the bronx (literally, in the case of angie martinez) and the east coast hip hop scene from more or less the beginning. DJs would meet or be introduced to or know of local artists, get their demo tapes on the air, and launched major careers as a result.
There's a lot of churn in that market of startups doing it and stopping doing it.

The scientific community has already created all the tough parts of the software stack, and everything has been commoditized already, there's just not much of a customer base.

The customers that it's really really useful for are those with rare phenotypes that want to learn more, and they can't find a doctor with expertise, and there's no lab specialized in genetic testing for that.

However, those are also the cases where the off the shelf software/sequencing doesn't always give the right answer because it's not a simple small change, and then you need specialists both on the biology and bioinformatics side to really make it useful.
USA lags behind EU, Brazil and China in banning harmful pesticides
55MB is about as large as the entire Win95 OS install.
I think most discussions of political and economic topics in here tend to go around in circles without much intellectual progress being made. Curiously I see this applying to all sides of the political spectrum; you might think naïvely that this is only a problem on the "left", but attitudes on the 'right' can be just as frustrating or even more so, they're just a bit less salient.
Fake snooze: apps to help you sleep can cause insomnia
Or could cross-compile it with mingw-w64.
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It's actually cheaper to own in many areas than to rent. What stops most people is their inability to save for a down payment and/or obtain a reasonable interest rate on their mortgage, both tools used by banks to hedge against the risk of lending. I'd argue that measures of that risk are somewhat arbitrary and reflect an institutional lack of faith in Americans' creditworthiness. So it's not that people can't own homes because they lack wealth, it's that wealth is hard to come by because they're not allowed to own their domicile.
...perfect storm of factors outside their control...

This is what I was talking about above. Both Ds and Rs ran noxious morons, and they got beat by a different noxious moron. Both Ds and Rs ignored real things that real people care about, like fewer evil wars and more good jobs. Trump had some lip service on those topics, and that was enough.

Oh, also there was the fact that Trump was on every channel of TV news, all day every day for 1.5 years. That probably had something to do with it, and Russians had very little influence over that. Why has there been no great hue and cry about investigating MSNBC's and Fox's editorial and programming decisions? Why, indeed.
Please no it just means their lawyers aren't morons. What's evil? Are they getting sued for charging interest? Selling products on Sunday? Supporting the sale of secular texts?
Federal law requires that labs retain the results of genetic testing for a minimum of 10 years.

> Reports of genetic testing must be retained for at least 10 years. Electronic records are acceptable. Specific regulations for specimen retention are not proposed, but each laboratory must have a written policy defining its own specimen retention policy.

http://clinchem.aaccjnls.org/content/45/5/739
I'd be reluctant to fly on anything of this level of redundancy where an electrical failure results in a 0/0 landing (or an abnormal that precludes the use of the system added to ensure normal landing visibility).
No. They want clarity on what’s considered evil. Or alternatively clarification what the license allows and disallows under which circumstances.
IIUC most ban had an explicit announcement of the mods, but I'm not sure if after the ban the poster can see that their post are [dead]. (I think that there are some automatic bans for new accounts with too many automatic red flags.)
>>Now police arrests him, beats him, denies lawyer for hours and then says he had 10 kilo heroin in his apartment.

First I thought why would FSB do away with 10 kilos...but then remembered that the kilos will be put back in circulation. Hey, at least he's alive (but sometimes that's not any better)
Well if you’re happy with that then you can write your app with Xamarin Mono for iOS in Visual Studio. You can do it all in C# without even learning Swift or Objective C.
That’s on the founders and management, not the VC. You can choose to plan ahead and make sure you treat employees and customers fairly based on tracking your expenditures and reserves or you can run into the wall at full speed.

We did this. It wasn’t that hard but it required a lot of honesty. Having been through it I’m always shocked when startups fail with no warning.
So it’s 4x the size of mpc-hc, did the sky really fall here? I’m not on a computer but quickly scanning the repo there’s a fair number of image assets, so I don’t really know that that’s a good proxy for “bloat”
Very good article, and the video on that page is a must-watch to understand the perils of a state/tech/media alliance that runs too deep.
>Thanks, the damage was and is pretty bad- and long-lasting. But, "be like water" and all that. I'm slowly pivoting to hardware development. Studying welding and CNC operations now also.

Keep at it, you are setting an amazing example here. Very good luck with it all.

edit - if you are pivoting to hardware development, get one of these; http://www.latticesemi.com/en/Products/DevelopmentBoardsAndK...

use this on it; http://www.clifford.at/icestorm/

and this is where you can find some useful modules - https://opencores.org/

Is some of the most fun I have had in ages in making tech do weird shit. I currently have a stepper motor rumnning over optic fibre as the first stage of my new 3d printer build.
Glue traps are horrible by design. Just reading the label made me nauseous.

But given the mission there's no good outcome for the mice.

Even if you catch-and-release (in a far off field away from homes), mice are prolific and there's now probably a bunch of starving baby mice somewhere.
I just wish Windows 10 explorer had a columns mode like OS X's Finder. There are a few replacements, but none of them work quite right in my experience.
No they wouldn’t. So you’ve never been around a chicken or duck before? What kind of stupid comment is this?
I’m not sure swimming until you drown counts as more humane...
> "It's a pretty simple contraption: a wood brick with a burrow in it. You put a piece of food in the end of the hole, then tighten a steel spring and tie it down with a piece of thread, which goes through the trap and covers the hole, so that a rodent has to chew through the thread to get to that food. The spring pulls on a copper wire noose; you know the rest."

That sounds... overly complicated, and could only catch one per setting. Have they tried a glass bowl will oil?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxxFNkNf6q8
Then how did they identify a murderer from the dna submitted from a cousin/relative?
Yes, but the mosquitos will be replaced in their environment by other bugs that are equally tasty and don’t also kill humans in such massive numbers.
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What a stupid argument.

By the same argument all companies don't own their code or IP as soon as it's in someone else's hands.
I love the joke, but I hate the license. It makes using JSlint a pain in any corporate environment.

Strictly speaking it’s also incompatible with the GPL.
It is important to make the case as broadly as possible for human rights, otherwise the individual smaller scale observations become weaponized between the major powers.
On a similar process I find disturbing that when a friend decides to use WhatsApp and the decide to share their contacts with (f...ing) Facebook, they give them my name, surname, phone number, and who knows what else is in that contact card.

They don't ask me, I don't approve that, but still Facebook gets my data. Same applies for Viber, Signal, etc. of course.
Everything in the ecosystem has value, that’s why it exists.

Many creatures eat mosquitos and ants and the like. They also help to spread disease that keeps the population of the species they, in turn, prey on in check.
Yeah but now people have thousands and thousands of DJ’s to choose from.
Maybe that was all output from his model
There was a study sometime ago, about using a PET scan, to gauge responses about various topics, and the majority of the folks used the same part of their brain for both politics and sports teams.

Using their ‘gut’, not logical reasoning.
Great article that shows just how fragile and exploitable the global routing infrastructure is: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/12/how-3...

Note that MANRS would not have stopped this.
quick america! fix your health system before the insurance companies know all
The TV station is a private company, and has a right to publish, or refuse to publish, the material they want. Besides, free speech means you have a right to say anything you want - it doesn't protect you from the consequences, or give you a right to an audience. This xkcd says it best: https://xkcd.com/1357/

/censorship_apologist
You can use the REST API if you don’t want to use the JavaScript SDK.
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Ottawa has the Imagine Space at one of its branches. Quite popular and some great tools and resources.

I’ve also considered starting a community makerspace in the west end of town, a coop or some sort of publicly funded model. This comment section is a good reminder that we had better have a solid operations plan in place for it to be a success.

https://biblioottawalibrary.ca/en/imagine-space-0
Your proposal will only result in moderately reduced emissions, which isn't enough. We need zero, or ideally negative emissions, which the prize fund idea has a chance of providing.
> hoemother

Some kind of obnoxious reddit bot, probably
Yes, likewise pizza hut could argue that they do not consider it evil
And you think that major careers cannot be launched via Spotify or YouTube or any of a dozen other options?

This just feels like one of those “things are different” situations where nothing is better or worse, but simply not the way it was.
Anne Wojcicki, ex-wife of billionaire Sergey Brinand whose sister is CEO of Youtube is at the helm of the most invasive and extensive data set known to man. Don't fool yourselves: DNA databases form the bedrock of de-anonymization so crucial to the Surveillance State, containing the non-consentiory grounding of your existence and your lineage. And let us not forget the easiness of collection, for a sample of sputum suffices.
It’s funny that in the future comments this this will be used by our AI/alien/evil overlords to determine our ultimate fate.
I thought you meant it facetiously, since the hadoop train passed away five years ago.
Traditional magazines and newspapers were generally primarily ad-supported; paid circulation was important as a signal that the as
ads were getting viewed, drive there was no way to measure impressions delivered to actual readers directly; there's less reason for an ad-funded online service to charge users directly, since they don't need the indirect proxy measure of reach.
and the vast majority of them suck!

that probably makes me a grouchy old man, but the fragmentation and personalization of music does actually lead to a dilution.
That's the kind of talk I always hear from mediocre devs once they reach their first management job.
Actually, identical twins don't have identical DNA! See the case of Dwayne and Dwight McNair:

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/01/12/man-found-guilt...
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Show HN: Stein – Use Google Sheets as a No-Hassle Database
All these are quite well known but I wonder whether the contradictory progressive moves of IBM are also as known https://www.eweek.com/it-management/ibm-and-black-history-in...

Not sure that there is much ideology behind one or the other side though. I'd find it easier to believe that some execs then, now and ever, are trying to be in sync with the general wind direction (today it mostly comes under names such as "social responsibility" and "ecologic footprint") and not miss a good business opportunity in parallel. Of course that whole thing is hilarious when seen from outside and seems like the company is schizoid. In many ways that might not be a totally wrong outlook. These are huge multifaceted organizations and seen as a whole they don't make sense. Ideological or not though they all have to make profit or they'll die. Simple as that. It would be _very_ hard to any of them to say no to good business even if they knew it was trading with the devil. Collateral damage -such as negative publicity and potential future losses- would keep them back but only if the total net was really negative.

For what is worth though I think that IBM is one of the most inclusive companies atm (based on what I hear from LGBT/minorities people working there).

Regardless - the point of the post is valid IMO.
I don't understand what is the service I am paying you for that I can't do on my own easily with Amazon SES.
And I'm worried that if he loses, he won't accept the results of the election, and that many of his most rabid fans will follow him into the abyss. I'm worried that his jokes about staying President betray his actual desires, and that his lack of knowledge and respect for the Constitution and rule of law, or of norms of decency, alongside his narcissism and lack of inhibition, will cause him to do just that. I'm worried that this country has become two countries, and that Republicans would rather stick it to the libs than follow their own oft stated principle s. I worry that the talking heads self interest in stoking controversey and outrage puts ratings before truth, god, and country. I worry that no one wants to find the truth anymore,band that some believe that there is no truth, only power. I worry that each side no longer sees the other as friends, neighbours, allies, or even as Americans, perhaps not even fully human.
I don't feel this is true. Think of the best DJs as curators, yes a lot will be the same, but DJs will help you discover new music and discuss that music too.

The legendary John Peel of BBC Radio 1 being a good example.

I still listen to BBC Radio 6 these days for the same reason, good way to find new music and to be introduced to genres you may never be exposed to by an echo-chamber algo in your favourite music app.
My point exactly. How would that get decided if things end up in court.