skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s completely different. People didn’t joke around to make it available for millions of people on replay. They did it for fun!

Today we get fun from watching porn and speaking in quick bursts amid our increasingly hectic lives. The apps you mentioned just feed us entertainment like the TV did back in the day, and send endless notifications. Most people’s speech isn’t like it was 100 years ago because back then that’s how they entertained themselves back then. For the same reason people don’t play piano as much.
There is a neat book I picked up in Highschool called The Manual: The Ultimate Study Method.

It was cool. It advocated multiple forms of meditation for concentration training so you could speed read a book. Using your increased concentration, which was mentioned as super important, you'd do pass 1 of 3 speed reading through using the Visual Method mentioned. Meditation and clearing your head were mentioned specifically to reduce regressing, but it was okay to regress. Pass 2 would involve creating an outline of all the topics and information. Pass 3 would be creating a visual mind map of the information.

Point for me was that speed reading helps only to filter or get a first pass on something, but I doubt anything really complicated can be understood by simply speed reading it. Or even simply reading it once.
Well, the UK joined the EU (or the Precursor, the EC) when it was the sick man of Europe. They did three things

1. Joining the EU

2. Making reforms (Thatcher)

3. Found oil in the Northern Sea.

The oil is gone and they leave the EU. Lets see how that goes.

Please also take this into consideration:
https://hbr.org/2019/08/did-austerity-in-the-uk-lead-to-the-...
Indeed. Reminded me of when my brother got Pitted keratolysis. I can't unsee that.
I'm particularly perplexed by [location] sub-reddits. No one uses the FAQs, search, or Yelp. Everyone wants to post a daily request for a good place for a drink, and a good hike, for just about every city on the planet.

The annoyances in those threads seem to keep other participants away. It'd be nice to have a forum, message board, etc for people who are willing to try one tick more than the masses.
If all I want from the phone is five years, any of the flagship phones will do fine. Certainly I know several people still rocking iPhone 6's from 2014. Still running the latest OS (though that stops this year with iOS 13).
One of my favorite bug to feature stories is hidden files in unix starting with a period. In unix the current directory is . and the previous directory is .. Early on those directories where simply hidden by not showing anything that started with a period. Quickly though people realized they could not show their own files simply by starting the filename with a period.
I think your take is valid, but also missing large areas.

Even if they AREN'T bullied for lack, they'll miss out on all the socialization. When I was a teen people talked on the phone, they hung out at the mall. I barely did. When not at school, I stayed at home to care for my younger brother and make sure dinner was made (child of a working single mom). I went out of state to my dad's place every summer, so I never spent summer vacation around my school peers.

Now I'm an adult, and I don't have close friends. I never have. I don't know how to open up to people, or how to hang out with people where it isn't an obligation on one part or the other. I remain aloof, then desperately overshare (case in point), then feel awkward and embarrassed and withdraw. I've had two serious relationships in my life...and got married both times.

Today's kids won't be talking on the phone, they won't be texting, they won't even be tweeting, they'll be snapping or instagramming or any number of things. They'll be sharing the experiences they have in common and generating those experiences, and for many, MANY of them those experiences will be around smartphone tech.

And this author has decided their kids don't need that shared experience. That comes at a cost.
lots of things are virtually impossible to do for a living and people still manage it though.
The yo-yo price of the Pound as no-deal Brexit has become more or less likely over the past few weeks demonstrates that Brexit is very much not priced in.

No-deal would be so damaging that the markets don't think it's going to happen, and that props up the Pound. So it takes a lot of political madness to convince the market that the worst is happening, and that's when the Pound starts plumbing historical depths. Then the madness recedes, and the Pound bobs back up again.
Current Civic wouldn't be a "luxury" item anyway.
Probably more that they didn't account for weekends, $310 x 365 is $113k
Today I learned it's still available on those devices -- apparently it's hidden behind an option in Settings > General > Accessibility and off by default.
Your sleep schedule will get better, based on my experience, as the kid begins to sleep through the night. (Though they naturally revert back to staggered sleep from time to time as they develop, so good luck!)

And yeah - I significantly cut down on my drinking for awhile, because while waking up with a hangover is never fun, waking up with a hangover and having to take care of a small child is awful.
There aren't too many active newsgroups, but Usenet can be pretty authentic if you do find ones.

I tell people that I visit there to chat with senior citizens bitching at each other. It's great!

For the unmoderated groups, it's left up to you to filter out trolls. No shadowbanning/downvoting.
Huh I'm still on my first battery and it's decent but I have that same issue with the lightning connector so I'm also considering upgrading

Do you have AirPods ? or have you considered buying them ? I'm also on the fence about that Face ID stuff
I think you're setting the bar pretty low. You can get 5 years from an iPhone. Probably from some of the Android flagships as well.
Densifying Assumed-Sparse Tensors
It's not for sale: "The unsolicited approach".
> I've seen US-based IT-security-minded people saying on Twitter for a long time that SMS based 2fa is bad, but the problem with hardware dongles is that they can be too secure. I don't want to lock myself out of my own Gmail account. I guess apps like Authy as mentioned in the other comments are an alternative. In any case I guess there are (or should be) some special codes you can write down in case you lose access to your second-factor info.

All systems/services I have seen that allow 2FA through a hardware device like a Yubikey also provide you a set of several recovery codes that you need to note down somewhere safe so that you can use those if your device fails or is lost. Some systems/services also force you to first setup a TOTP based authentication (with an app like OTP Auth/Authy) and then proceed with setting up additional hardware based 2FA. Unless you lose access to your recovery codes, which is the same as losing your password on a system with no 2FA, you should be fine (though I do get the concern here). People also get two hardware keys and set them up for the same platforms/services, keeping one in a safe place for future use in case the first one that's regularly used gets lost or breaks.
A lot of people still communicate on messageboards - especially in specific niche communities. A fantasy football website I frequent has a messageboard and so does my favorite football team.
> In that area the feel and impact of music can be altered while no one can pinpoint why.

This has happened to me on many occasions. Having a part that needs to be in-the-pocket accidentally shifted (due to MIDI latency on weird gear or bad sample editing) just throws everything off in a way that's really hard to even identify.
"self-location uncertainty" seems to still assume what is basically the Born rule:

>MWI probability postulate: The probability of self-location in a world with a
given set of outcomes is the absolute square of that world’s amplitude. (http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/14389/1/defence-location-unc...)

It just applies the absolute square of the amplitudes to the chance of being in a given world rather than the chance of an event. The thing that needs explaining is why either probability is given by the square of the amplitudes.
I was going to say exactly this. It's amazing how many Americans honestly think it's clear that Snowden is a "bad guy" because he's close to the Russians. Likewise Assange was pushed into a position that made him very unlikable to the US center-left (he could have probably played his hand a bit better). So mainstream American's are distrustful of both and pretty much everyone hates Assange.
Because for at least the past 4 decades, one major political party has been running an enormous propaganda campaign to convince the country that "public sector" == "wasteful, inefficient, ineffective, and corrupt" and "private company" == "efficient market-driven utopia".

They've been so successful, they've even convinced themselves—so much so that every time actual evidence to the contrary is presented, they pretend it doesn't exist and try to make everyone else do the same.
I have a friend who was not allowed to own a cell phone in HS. Just as you said, she was often left out of inside jokes, group discussions (bonding), and more often than not left out of social meetups (organized via social media). But the worst? Gooooodbye to a dating life. No teenager is going to call a house phone or be prevented from texting their GF/BF -- doesn't work, period.
Nothing prevents you from rewarding 0 for anything other than a win. A win would be +1 and a loss would be -1 and every intermediate step is 0. However, this yields the new problem of your reinforcement learner needs to explore all paths to all possible outcome - the exact thing we are trying to get around. Thus, we can use human heuristics or neural networks to try and learn these heuristics. The latter approach is deep reinforcement learning and the basis for Alpha Zero.
What would you say the difference is between trying to make money on short term investments and trying to make money betting on sports?

Also your final paragraph seems to imply a causal relationship between how hard you work and remuneration. Hard work doesn't hurt, but luck is very important.
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Until Michael burry pointed out that indexes have a grown into a bubble...
Drivers themselves will probably do that, so they can work for multiple riding companies
While Google Fi appears to offer better security than other US-based carriers, the support team needs work:

Why I Can No Longer Recommend Google Fi https://onemileatatime.com/google-fi-review/

> I’ve been fiercely evangelical about Project Fi since Google launched their cell phone service a few years ago. ... I think it’s important to update y’all about some recent experiences and research, along with why I am withdrawing my endorsement.

> ...

> Previously, whenever I had issues with my Pixel 2 or prior Fi-enabled devices, the third-party support center was phenomenal. I’ve had them help me with hardware issues, system issues, a phone that just wouldn’t connect to WiFi, or tethering that didn’t work when it was supposed to — every interaction was great, and resulted in the problem being solved.

> Since November, this has not been the case. My calls and chats to support have gone nowhere, and the once-great support staff have been replaced (or supplemented) by random people using generic scripts. I’m sure the awesome trouble-shooters are still there, but the sampling I’ve seen doesn’t suggest pervasive competency.

EDIT: Actually there is another, possibly more serious issue with Google Fi mentioned in the article:

> If you can’t use Google Payments, you can’t pay for Google Fi

> ...

> Getting this fixed is actually impossible, and I say that as someone who really, truly, loves solving problems and has made a living off getting phone agents to want to help me.

> We have submitted copies of his ID four times, my ID twice, multiple photos of credit cards, and various credit card statements. We’ve talked to agents and supervisors at Google Payments and Google Fi. No one is empowered to do anything, and even a well-intentioned agent doesn’t get the same answer from the "security department" twice.

> I’ve since found hundreds of comments and Reddit threads from people having similar experiences, with almost zero positive conclusions.

> The only suggestion of a solution we’ve been given is that he abandon both his email address and phone number of the past twenty years and start fresh.
If a tree falls in the woods, and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?
At the time, we lived in Phoenix, AZ USA.
We just called up the hospitals and asked what programs they had for private-pay child delivery. Most had post-paid financing but a couple had prepaid programs that were cheaper.
TensorFlow Fast Inference for Estimator Models
> which in Jack's case should be ordering an immediate implementation of a non-SMS 2FA

Twitter supports U2F. Jack Dorsey just prefers not to use it, according to reports.
It's funny because all of these comments are ignoring the thousands of small businesses run by average people that have already solved this problem for over 30 years
Consider a perfectly spherical earth, and a vertical tunnel perforating it through the center, with an elevator in the tunnel. suppose you are halfway towards the center, coming from the surface, and you pause the elevator. How strong will the gravitational field be? Can we pretend all of Earth's mass is concentrated in the center? No, let's see why.

Consider a perfectly spherical hollow shell of mass, and an observer inside the shell, will she be attracted to the center of mass of the shell? No, let's see why.

We know that gravitational field falls of with distance squared ( 1 / r^2 ). Consider a random observer position, and a random direction. Now consider a cone tipped at the observer with the random direction as its axis, and also consider a second cone with the same cone angle but the opposite direction as its axis. So the observer position is where the 2 cone tips meet. Then consider the distance between the observer towards each patch of the spherical shell. The area (and thus mass) of this patch will scale with the distance squared, so if one patch is say 3 times further away than the other, it will be 9 times weaker due to 1 / r^2 gravitational fall off, but also 9 times heavier due to geometric scaling of the patch, so gravity due to the patches will cancel, and since the direction of the axis was arbitrary, the gravity of each part of the shell will be balanced by the gravity of a corresponding opposite part of the shell.

So when you are in an elevator halfway down the radius of the hypothetical spherical Earth, all the layers of Earth above you will cancel gravitationally, and the gravitational field will only be due to the mass of the Earth that is contained in the sphere up to your altitute with respect to the center of the Earth.

Similarily, when the electron is far enough from the (assumed spherical) proton, we can somewhat pretend the proton is a point particle. but when the electron is inside the proton, then the effective charge of the proton will be lower because of all the charge of the proton that is farther from the proton's center than the electron is invisible to the electron (since the electric field also falls of like 1 / r^2 ).

I hope that answers the question?
How will the UK be doing that? Against OECD rules? The EU would shoot them a second asshole.

You can also hide money in Switzerland, Liechtenstein or other offshore centers. But if you know the market, you know that it has gotten a little bit tricky, especially since last year.
> They text, they Snap—but only on weekends and a little bit this past summer

All I can see, reading this, is how similar that sounds to being grounded for the new normal teen. Its complete social isolation, and I hope the backlash the author receives from this article gets considered instead of some snarky 'your anger means I'm right' response.

> He would eat an entire bag of Nacho Cheese Doritos—the party-size bag—if left alone with the opportunity

This is hardly an example of an inability to make good decisions. This just shows the inability of these parents to let their kids learn on their own, and is creating the dependent teens they're trying to prevent.
> When did sitting at home isolated by closed doors and earbuds become a social life?

When it became a reliable way to express meaning and feeling with other people. One can quibble about exactly when it became ubiquitous and high-bandwidth enough for that purpose, but for many people it's clearly that way now. Pining for the days when kids hung out at bowling alleys or overpasses is just nostalgia congealing into snobbishness.
Please. Millions of dollars are spent every year researching alternative theories and modifications to GR that eliminate the need for Dark Matter and Dark Energy.

The problem is, and has always been, that these alternative theories are never as accurate or precise as GR and their observational evidence is never as good as what we have for DM and DE.

It's not a conspiracy that scientific consensus is that they both exists, and no one is preventing research into alternatives being done. Significantly more money goes into research that accepts their existence, yes, but that's because most scientists do as well. What outcome do you want? To force scientists to work on theories they don't put any stock in? There is still plenty of interest in research papers written by people advancing alternate theories. Good ones are widely read by the entirety of the community, but you make it sound like the scientific community is actively suppressing anyone from researching anything that casts doubt on the existence of dark energy and dark matter, and that's just not true.
It doesn't have to be black or white. Why don't regulators make a third category of worker between employee and contractor? Such a policy could reflect what people are already doing and give them some protection against abuse.
Yeah. Never post any facts about the BHO admin on HN or you'll be down-voted. It's amazing how many people have been sucked into the smooth and confident talk (and the complete lack then of media fueled outrage). Too many people's confirmation bais forces them to forget that actions speak louder than words.

If DJT did even half of the questionable things BHO did there would be blood in the streets. Point that out? Down vote!!!

God bless George Orwell. The guy nailed it.
No, because running a business and stock trading are different things.
The book How to Win Friends and Influence People and weight training for strength - Starting Strength, 5/3/1 etc.
Every time something like this comes up, I'm reminded of something Alan Kay mentioned, which I can't find but I'll try and remember: "I realized at an early age that to prevent needing to read a book more than once, I should read in a way so I remember what I've read".
I'm very curious what method he came up with to do this. Being a genius probably helps.
I wonder does a situation like this come up every 20 years?

Like before it was TV, then Radio, then... books maybe?

I guess the question is, is the internet worse or more addictive than these other distractions.
My partner entered into head of operations at a small company and had to learn all of this stuff on the fly [in Canada].

She's managed just fine as well. I've managed a department previously and had to deal with worker's comp matters and same thing. It's not very difficult to learn. It's a bit of overhead, sure. It's just part of the job of overseeing others.
Mobile Homes: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
There's a cutoff of a 20/40 on at least one eye (corrected with class A restriction)
Quanta has a lot of good articles like this one, definitely worth looking at every now and then.
That is indeed the case.
Just curious: Any parents in this thread? When did you give your kids smartphones?

We're at the point where we replace our phones every two years, and plan on letting our kids use the old ones. (Probably wifi-only, mostly to keep costs under control.)
don't most drivers already work for their competitor as well? they have no "driver network". It was actually one of the good parts of gig work.
"Radius" is a distance at which something stops happening, defining a boundary between some "inside" and some "outside".

Interactions between particles, waves, fields, etc. are quantized, which means there is a set of distances at which a given interaction can happen, and a set of distances at which it can't. This creates a boundary, often spherical, which can be described as having some "radius", and thus some "diameter".

Depending on the interactions you choose, a particle might have multiple diameters, or even boundaries with different topologies, but they're usually somehow related to each other for any given particle.
> Computers, so far, don't have the context to do this

As someone who did their Ph.D thesis on the statistics of shape using models based on the medial axis (i.e., a skeleton), I would beg to differ.

Whether these models are as easy to apply (computationally and conceptually) as the currently in-vogue techniques is another question, but there is nothing magical here that computers are incapable of.
I'm not sure how you read from my comment that I'm saying 'this shit is impossible'. I'm simply saying in many organizations 'how fast the intern got it up and running' is not always a valid indicator of how ready it is to be deployed to a few thousand concurrent users.

For example, large MMO guilds have a quite different regulatory environment from, say, a large healthcare organization in the US governed by HIPAA. It's an extreme example, sure, but a homegrown, dumbed down solution, might be the only way to ensure regulatory compliance.

It doesn't take a lot of imagination to come up with other scenarios. I can't defend Uber doing it because I'm not involved, but large MMO guilds are not archetypal of enterprise systems.
Two California hikers found a family's message in a bottle and helped save them
> no one was harmed

Citation needed.
Also relevant I think, what jurisdiction will China have over HK in 6 years?
Horseshoe Theory
I think I have seen projects using miniature neon indicator lamps tubes as GDD's / mixers

I have often toyed with the idea of making oscilloscopes, and spectrum analyzers with them, but that would take a long time to explain...

Also, I miswrote it's Glow Discharge Detector

Another idea is repurpousing plasma display panels as a grid of GDD detectors, as an imaging array.

For an example circuit using a neon indicator lamp see figure 1 of the 2010 article:

http://www.academia.edu/download/44461415/Heterodyne_Detecti...

This 2016 article measures the light emitted from the neon indicator lamp instead (with FMCW scheme to detect distance as well)

https://www.osapublishing.org/viewmedia.cfm?uri=prj-4-6-306&...

This setup improves response time (bandwidth) of the output signal.
if 8chan was cut off because they were subject to extensive network attacks and cloudflare did not see any profit or value in serving them then I am ok with that. I just don't think that's the reason.

I expect that a different site with the same contract and payment terms, subject to the same attacks would have continued to be protected. maybe I'm wrong but it looked like a political decision, not a business decision.