skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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I reran it:
https://webtest.app/?url=https://www.lavozdegalicia.es
Makes sense. So that means Snowden cannot be a traitor either or are there exceptions?
There's a great paper on this, Rape Culture and Epistemology[0] which, although provocatively titled, addresses why a lower standard of proof may be appropriate.

>We’ll argue that this sort of deference is mistaken, for at least two kinds of reasons. One is that, as anti-rape activists have often emphasized, law enforcement procedures themselves are deeply flawed when it comes to their practice of dealing with sexual assault. Another has to do with the connections between knowledge and action, and between knowledge and knowledge ascriptions. We also think that these disparate considerations are more closely interconnected than it may at first appear.

[0] https://philarchive.org/archive/CRERCA-2
This is a good article. Everyone has forgotten how much has changed since Snowden.
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Limited-capability self-driving cars have existed for quite some time, like in the DARPA Grand Challenge[0]. One could definitely see the people who competed there as "some of the first people to ever build a self-driving car".

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Grand_Challenge
I had to use it today to connect to some old activeX iLo console for a server. Our internal HR module also only works with IE.
That thing is nightmare fuel. What kind of power in voltage/amps is it on? With fusion technology, the iron man fuel cell will pretty much actually exist. Think about how much more capable these things would be with higher energies..
Me. Macbook 12 is one of my favourite machines ever. Every Thinkpad feels super heavy and bulky in comparison and I don't want to use those. I value mobility above all else. If I want performance, I have my desktop machine or cloud for that.
The weird thing is that they could have added the touchbar and kept a full function key row and still have plenty of room for a good sized touchpad. The current Macbook's touchpad is arguably too large.
Please don't use JP as a reliable source. He is extremely subjective and pushes many ideologies in his "non fiction" takes.
Google.

Consider:

- donations to climate deniers such as CEI

- work on totalitarian tools such as project dragonfly or PRISM

- sabotage of competitors, e.g. breaking search and YouTube on Firefox

- feigning investment to steal ideas

Of course, in big companies, bad stuff is bound to happen every now and then. I just think that the above can't be explained away as isolated mishaps, because it happened (or is still happening) over long periods of time, involving many people (quite a few of which resigned as a consequence).

Similar criticism can obviously be leveled at the other big players, and I wouldn't work for, say, Facebook either.

On the other hand, I wouldn't expect, say, Microsoft, to develop a dystopian search engine for an authoritarian regime.

Surely, most people who are working at Google do so without contributing to any sinister purpose (unless you consider ads evil I guess). I just feel there are other companies with considerable impact where I wouldn't have to worry as much about potential abuse of what I'm building.
I am able to load Shinsei in Chrome earlier this year, was this a recent change? Do you mean banking or another service?
Regarding: "Also I never realized it was SO BAD without adblock". That's part of the problem. We techies have no idea what's happening without an ad blocker because we all use one. This service wants to show the unseen.
Here is standalone client for Firefox Private Network: https://github.com/Snawoot/firefox-secure-proxy

Also works outside US.
I think you did not want to state Epstein is innocent right? That would go counter to your prior point.

And yes, conspiracy theorists don't have an accurate appreciation of how hard it is to manage projects and keep them secret.
No, but they are subjective anyway. But I do personally agree the Apple integration and UI is much nicer, they know what they are doing in that department. I would be interested to know how the multisport features compare on the apple watch. In my eyes the fenix series is for triathletes/endurance athletes and if you don't have excellent battery life it's a non-starter. And last I heard it doesn't have ANT+ support which is another blocker for me since none of my bike stuff has BLE.
> IMO the 2015 MacBook Pro is the best Mac out there, mainly because of its beautiful retina display, perfect weight, and most importantly, a good keyboard.

What about integrated USB and display ports that don't require external adapters? Isn't that the dream? o_o
On the Office front at least I suspect that Google Docs did more to push down prices than OpenOffice ever did
My LTO-7 drive needs about 2 minutes from one end of the tape to the other, so that is the maximum latency when the tape is already loaded. Adding another minute to manually find and load a tape, would reach a 3 minute latency.

So a few minutes of latency in the worst case, yes, but certainly not hours of latency, unless you must drive a car to an off-site location, but that would be the same for a HDD or optical disc stored in another place.
I recently estimated a task would take 30 minutes.

It took 40 minutes to do that estimate.

But, TBF, several important decisions were made during the process of estimating, such as what should be excluded from the task, basic organization, and some research.

BTW the task being estimated was doing time estimates for a project (which came out to be 2-3 weeks).
Well I never actually used it myself as I haven't crashed for years but I know it's there. Equally though I've never heard of this working from an Apple Watch before so I don't think my anecdotal opinion on that is worth raising.

I do know I use stuff like VO2Max estimation, FTP estimation, recovery estimation, power zones analysis and hill descriptions for climbing while on the bike and those features are not available on an Apple Watch to my knowledge. I know for sure that Apple doesn't support ANT+ and that's important for me.

An Apple Watch might be a good companion if you're a runner or a cycle commuter but it appears to be pretty limited if you want to use it for cycle sport.
> I think the odds for such an event are rather low.

And I guess you are writing just to the young users. There are a lot of old people living alone (in the part of the world where such watches are affordable). Falling, even in their own house, then remaining immobile and unable to call for help is a common cause of huge problems (1) (2).

The specialized devices already exist too, but a lot of people don't carry them, until they already suffer such event and also have luck to survive. Such people (who would otherwise not survive) get potentially (if the system do engage and what follows can be influenced) a huge benefit in a watch that has such functionality.

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1) https://www.medicalalertadvice.com/fall-detection/ also:

"With the monthly costs nearly twice that of a traditional medical alert monitoring system, the cost alone may be the deciding factor. Is the extra costs worth it? Only you can make that decision. Keep in mind, these emergency alert systems cannot detect 100% of all falls."

2) Also see the exponential increase of chances to die with age:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gompertz%E2%80%93Makeham_law_o...
1 - I'm doubtful of your claim there was nothing to vote on except where/whether the army fights.

2 - That's irrelevant anyway unless you're suggesting that it was still the case up to 1919.

3 - Even if it was, why does women not fighting imply they can't have opinions and thoughts on when and where the army fights? For sure it still affects them.
We make Construct 3:
https://editor.construct.net

The editor boots itself up using less bandwidth than the Apple homepage (last time we checked).

Compared to our executable predecessor it even boots up faster after first run.

We’ve focussed a lot on making it performant and get emails from customers telling us they forget they are using a web app.

Web apps don’t have to be “slow as fudge”!
> Google, please tell me how to update Chrome without keystone.

That's easy, just regularly download a new Chrome. The difficulty is managing to stop keystone from reinstalling and re-enabling itself.

> This is baked into Apple's AppStore. It works very well. Use that.

I hate keystone with a passion, but TBF getting a modern browser into the appstore is not possible, even ignoring all the limitations the store puts upon its software, there's no way you can actually get a browser (as opposed to a shell UI around the platform webkit) in the appstore by its rules.
> The suicide rate among their employees was below the general population’s.

Was their suicide rate lower or higher then that of employees with a similar socioeconomic status?
You can read the paper on arxiv: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1904.06612.pdf
Drilling open a smart door lock in 4 seconds
Yup, and this will be unavoidable in a no-deal Brexit situation, sadly.
I always try and park away from the busiest areas for the same reasons but, purely from observation, it's obvious most people don't since the area closest to the store entrance is almost always utilised the most.

I do often wonder why people are so lazy or so busy that saving on walking an extra few yards is so important to them?
Not in the criminal sense.

He violated several laws around the general topic of national security, he made the work of US intelligence agencies harder and he did endanger US troops abroad. He also helped along Putin's general interest of destabilization.

So colloquially, there may be a case to call him a "traitor". It's impossible to clear him from the accusation that he worked with/for a foreign government, maybe even before he fled to Russia. And at the current point in time, he wouldn't be able to refuse any request the Russian government made of him. He also featured in a fake "ask-me-anything" with Putin, just to make that point.
A few countries actively try to hurt us, so let's spy on everyone, including our own citizens and allies!
> hormonal differences rather than sex differences it wouldn't be as intrinsically controversial.

it is controversial only if you assume that

- we can control sex differences more than hormonal differences (in fact it's quite the opposite)

- cultural differences are more controllable than biological differences (same as above)

it doesn't matter how you frame it, the study shows a clear tendency, we can discuss the implications or the correctness of the study, methodology and title

For the first a functioning brain it's enough, for the rest we are subject to burden of the proof.
Apart from contracting, you can try 2 years working, 1 year leisure. But this will impact your career, if you care about that kind of thing.
I've always had strangely accurate time estimates. The basic idea is to divide up the work, and make a fair estimate each part, with special attention to unknowns (which get much more time).

Then double everything.

The individual task estimates are often out, but the overall estimate is close... as if, with a population of tasks, there's regression to an accurately estimated mean.

(An alternative explanation is that I over-estimate, and Parkinsonianly, work expands to fill time.)
Even the X1 Carbon?
I think the joke was she tried to use the pamphlet as evidence and thought the pamphlet was personally addressed to her - "how silly!"

I too had a hyper literal moment on this too, so I'm glad you asked. My conclusion is that the joke just isn't that funny or well written (everyone's a critic!:))
Totally agree. The loss of the arrow key space plus the no real escape key is the most pro-hostile (for coders at least) design decision. Although i guess could argue a keyboard that misses keys is worse but I haven’t had that problem.
We didn't establish anything. You grasped at the density straw in order to intellectually justify your prejudice.

The poor in India should increase their emissions, because otherwise they'll die. Life expectancy has risen from 40 to 68 years since the 60s. Would you halve your life expectancy to fix global warming? I don't think so.

In any case, the births have already happened, and India is now barely above replacement rates, which you've conveniently overlooked. You want them to die because of the choices their parents made.

If you excuse me, I'm going to go take a shower. I honestly can't believe I'm having this conversation on HN.
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I never fired anyone, but I expect the most common reason would simply be restructuring of an organisation, changing needs of the employer, and not so much anything the employee did.
You really have no idea what you're talking about.
She was given a pamphlet with the image of a card. She thought pamphlets had different numbers and were used to attribute SSNs. Twenty years later she tried to use it and when it wasn’t accepted she said “look, this is the number you gave to me”.
Try it this way: https://outline.com/hDqg78

Generally, you can add outline.com before any news or blog domain, and you get a reader view to share.
I can never sent to click and drag successfully with the new track pad. Plus it is needlessly big
I'm the optimistic driver and the childish enjoyment of finding that spot near the front when the whole parking lot is full is worth the back tracking when it fails. In reality the meek approach isn't really terrible in the grand scheme and you get more exercise.
>The way I read it

Looks right to me. She received a document from the Social Security Board with a made up SSN on it, and thought it was hers.
It's not a joke, just an example of how people can get confused by real-looking fake numbers.

This can be said to be the fault of the board in the sense that after dealing with the 1938 incident they could have learned that this is confusing to some people, and for example printed 219-09-XXXX instead.
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It was a legacy product where documentation had drifted from reality so far that marketing did not understand and were blatantly mis-selling it, this led customers to raise 'bugs' that were projects in themselves.

Coupled to this everything was estimated by senior devs, everyone else was 'junior' and not to be consulted, even if that junior was the only person who'd worked on that product in over a year. The senior devs probably could have done it in the timescales they gave but no-one with less than 5 years experience there could find the responsible line of spaghetti.
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Math, like economic rationalism, is only as good as your model and assumptions. GIGO.
You should take my response in context to the preceeding conversation.

When somebody says that using a VPN would be better. You need to consider what they are saying it is better than.
I understand.

Also, the word "colony" has been replaced with "Society" in all dom visible places.
This is quite surprising from Joel... So the new CEO is MBA and doesn’t even seem to have profile on StackOverflow. This tell me he has little clue how this complex community hangs on balance and what makes it tick. It’s also painful to see that we have now one of the largest website for developers run by guy who isn’t a developer. It looks like this person’s main achievement was to create business unit at Rackspace. How does it help building open community like SO? I can’t help but reminded of Jobs bringing in Scully with enthusiasm to do “business things”. I have admired Joel’s writing and wisdom for years but this somehow feels wrong given they could have chose almost anyone from their vast highly dedicated user base who understands the complex dynamics in SO community. Do we expect full blown value destroying commercialization of SO from now on?
My anecdata, everyone who I know who uses Edge (2 people, my parents on their Windows 10 machines) still call it Internet Explorer. They're tech savvy people too, but built up a habit with their new laptops. Hardly statistically significant I know though.
When our baby was younger we tended to park as far away from anyone else as possible to give us room to put her back in the car. It's amazing how often we come back to find someone parked right next to us.
I may be meek, but I always get a parking spot!
I work in one of the companies WeWork acquired. The first time I heard Adan in a townhall I kept wondering, what kind of hell is happening to the world so that guy was sitting in a massive pile of money thanks to VCs. His nonsense and lack of business mindset were evident in every interaction and announcement. So IMHO he deserves that.

The issue is that now we have +10k people wondering about their future because they have bills to pay and a hard path ahead. Meanwhile, Galloway brags about how he was right during all this time and suggest massive layouts to save "investors."

I'm getting tired of this.
Google has a reputation for being fairly laid back.
As will very dry conditions. The IceCube neutrino telescope at South Pole used LTO-3 tapes to store data until they switched to only hard drives around 5 years ago. At that point, the newer tape drives had been tried (IIRC LTO-5 was the industry standard by then) but they never seemed to work, presumably because the humidity on station is incredibly low. It was considered more reasonable to keep the old LTO-3 equipment in use, versus building a humidor for the tapes and drives.
'FIRE' pursuants do not generally buy $2M homes, or no, they wouldn't manage it!
Borscht is the pronunciation in Bulgarian of Борщ.
My 2015 has taken some serious abuse such as falls on hard floors and impact with a wall. The MBP came off better every time. This will of course curse it, but everything still works perfectly (only the rubber feet have fallen off). It runs the latest OS fine.

It was the first Apple product I bought but I can't see myself buying another MBP. They've signalled and demonstrated over and over I'm not in their target market.
Steven Pinkers the "blank slate" deals with this question in depth. From what I recall is that genes do determine a lot. Evidence for this are studies with twins that grow up separate. The crux however is that only because genes shape a lot of your behavior, that dosent mean they force you. You are not a marionette of you genes, you still have free will. There was also an interesting study where the correlation in behavior between parents and children weakens the older the children become. Meaning there is almost no nurture influence left if your 30. There was a lot more interesting stuff in the book but I dont remember it. I really recommend it though.
Why not both?
There are 3 models, MacBook, MacBook Air and MacBook Pro, why can't they diverge in focus? Sure, lighter is better, but that is if there are no trade offs. Some people accept the trade offs, other don't, but you have 3 product lines, why not letting them diverge on this question?

Also, you give people reason to have more than 1 Apple laptop, one with ports and great keyboard when ultra portability is not necessary, and the other for portability above all.
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I know little about him personally, and I shouldn't have quoted the last bit, because it wasn't related to what we're talking here.

The point is sex differences exist and are framed in a way that culture or nature have really no meaning anymore.

They are both hard to change and even if we change them in a meaningful way, we can't be sure it will fix what we think needs fixing.

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

> yet also ensure that girls and women will not avoid mathematics more than boys and men due to mathematics anxiety. Policies must take into consideration that sex differences in career choices are not a simple function of gender equality and equal opportunities; and that, paradoxically, other factors (e.g., sex differences in occupational interests [74–76] and sex differences in other skills [9, 81, 82]) emerge in highly developed, gender-equal countries that might disproportionately affect girls’ mathematics anxiety and participation in STEM.

It doesn't mean of course that one sex is intrinsically better than the other, but the fact that we as individuals have not really existed for thousands of years and our choices in life have always been a cat and mouse game between rules of society and biological instincts, makes the distinction harder to make.

Our DNA tells us what we are biologically, but that's only the bootstrap process, what we become is mostly about the experiences we live and even in the flattest possible ideal society, where every choice is possible, we will all live different experiences and become different individuals.

And we would not see a perfect random distribution of choices, but very clear patterns or clusters, much more clear than they are now.

EDIT: sorry for being verbose.

Another example I can make is universal welfare state in Italy.

It was supposed to help families raise kids with less effort than the previous generations.

The unwanted (I hope) effect has been that it shaped a society of full time men workers and part-time or no-working women.

Because one way or another kids needed to be with their moms more than with their dads, we're talking about 60s in Italy here and a salary or a salary and half were enough. More money meant bigger dreams, moving to the city, in shiny new houses, but away from families that had been the buffer that allowed women to go to work while grandparents took care of kids.

It meant hiring a nanny, but why hire a nanny that costed as much as the woman's salary, when she could stay home, save on money and raise the kids?

This way men monopolized the higher paid jobs and women dominated education and services, because it was more flexible on hours.

It was good nonetheless, my parents couldn't have raised two kids without the free nursery school that the public hospital offered to their employees (having to kids when you work 12 hours night shifts is not really possible without help), but that's how a system created to support natality and to make it possible for women to go to work, have become the disaster of inequalities that it is now.
Peterson is a particularly problematic source because he usually doesn't correctly declare where the science stops and his personal musings start.

The Big Five in your quote are a perfect example: They have a significant heritable component, but for all factors heritability ranges from 40 to 60%, meaning 60% to 40% are explained by environment.[0] Yet when listening to Peterson somehow the environmental factor doesn't seem to matter at all, which is clearly in contrast to the current state of research.

[0] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/neu.10160
You have to make the window larger (than "mobile-sized") to see it.
The tape story is really killing me. I even bought one old tandberg for 200 euros, used and run it on an ancient hardware just for backups. I just dont get it that in all those years not a one single vendor decided to make less expensive tape devices for the consumer market.
I would imagine that it's due to an accessibility requirement as technically it's still 5cm x 5cm but it's perceived size is larger
History observers will know that Google started the forced auto-update and permanent beta culture. "We know better than users".

When all is said and done, Google can die off or fail as a business, but this and persistent data collection as a norm will remain its most lasting "contributions".
I'm not aware of any studies showing that it has no effect either.

If I had to guess I would estimate a prayer to be as effective as a placebo, but to proclaim that as fact seems a bit unscientific.
I can confirm (I live in Russia for part of the year).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons
Thinkpads do not have OSX.
Apple has 3 lines of MacBooks, the MacBook, the MBP and the MBA, why can't they have different focus?