skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Luckily in our academic research group we administer our own workstations and servers ourselves. Has downsides as well of course, but at least we can fix or change anything we want hardware or software-wise.

I can imagine it would be excruciating to explain our requirements to an external IT department and then go back and forth clarifying what we want, make them learn stuff they'd otherwise not need, convince them that we really need it, wait until they have time...

The downside is that things are not "professionally set up" (we're computer scientists but not pro admins), but at least if there's a deadline and something isn't working, we'll surely fix it because we have skin in the game.
I don't understand the title of the article or presentation. It appears to be a quote, and on first glance doesn't seem to be part of the article body itself.
Open source developers shouldn't be forced to lock away additional functionality in their apps, or resort to special tricks just to be able to receive donations for their projects.

Google could make a positive impact by introducing new features that help users seamlessly fund their favourite open source apps, right from their Google accounts. GitHub has recently introduced a similar initiative called GitHub Sponsors [1].

> Taking a step back; it is pretty weird to have apps opening links to web pages that take your credit card number.

There is nothing weird about accepting payments outside of Google Play, and it is allowed if the payment does not result in buying a product that is used within the app. Buying a movie ticket, or operating an online store with a third-party payment processor are perfectly fine use cases which are allowed on Google Play.

[1] https://github.com/sponsors
Right. In the patriarchal society the patriarchs, the Abrahams, can have many wives. That means there are many men who can not have any wives. Now if those wifeless men had access to pornography they might get the idea that they want a wife too.

So it's better for the patriarchs to keep porn away from the less fortunate men who might be inspired by it to demand a rule that no man can have more than one wife.
What most people describe as "realism" is often just a depressive view. There's always two sides of a coin, realistic or not. What seems "real" to you depends on which side you spend most of your time.
Agree. Pandas seems to be a mixture of Python indexing syntax and R dataframes.
The trick is to recognize the things that are wrong, decide what (if any) course of action you can/will take to address them, then focus on that path. The rest you have to keep at arms' length. There are so many things wrong (and so many things that are so very, very wrong) that it should be overwhelming to a reasonable mind to try to "feel" them all.
Yes, it can be reprogrammed and yes, it works between power cycles.
Just because someone is your boss doesn't mean you have to be submissive to them.
> Most companies are out to make as much money as possible now or in the near future.

The company in the abstract, sure. Not managers and VPs and such. Not even the C-suite, necessarily, or at least they likely have other concerns in addition to just the company making money. It's the principal agent problem plus the management version of résumé-driven-development, basically.
Agreed. So 10'000 hours of practice isn't just doing it, it's actually becoming obsessed with doing it BETTER. I can make sandwiches all day long, but only if I focus on how precise I am in the dose of mayonnaise, how seamless my spreading it over the bread, and how exact is the time the sandwich spends on which part of the refrigerator, then I'll improve.

Sorry I'm tremendously eager to eat a sandwich right now. A good follow up book after reading Outliers is James P Catse's "Finite and Infinite Games": https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1476731713/ref=as_li_tl?ie...
It does make a case for not using common user names. I used to always try to use my first name in the early days of the Internet, but it was almost always taken.

The one time I got it was with one of the Maxis online accounts and for the next couple of years I seemed to get a bunch of password reset requests from people who thought it was their account.

While there's something to be said for not using the same user name across different systems using a very common name is not a mistake I'm going to make again.
PyCM 2.5 released: Machine learning library for confusion matrix analysis
Given the sentiment expressed in the comments here, I'd be interested to hear what technique others would propose to prevent access to porn by minors.
Why is that? What was causing the craving? Can you elaborate? I've heard that alcohol and cocaine cause this.

IME mushrooms cause any low-consciousness activities like smoking/drinking/mindless partying to seem repulsive.
Well, first off, the claim is not increasing violence towards trans people it's just there exists violence towards trans people and framing the debate as "let's talk about whether you exist" does little to help that.

As for sources, hard stats can be difficult for any hate crime (compounded by the fact homicide against trans individuals isn't often recorded as violence against their actual gender) and especially considering that the total trans population is small (and thus vulnerable to effects of small numbers) but the FBI hate crime database [0] and the NCAVP reports [1] are good places to start. Transequality center also collects good resources.

Somehow, I don't believe you've really wondered about this too much...

[0] https://ucr.fbi.gov/hate-crime/2017/tables/table-1.xls

[1] https://avp.org/resources/reports/

[2]https://transequality.org/issues/anti-violence
That's legitimate. I can agree with that and the downvote. But you realize that I was accused of flame baiting meaning I was accused of making up a statement purely for the purposes of inducing anger.

I would argue that clearly from the evidence in the responses, such a statement (while it did attract downvotes) did not attract flame and therefore was not "flame bait."
So, um, where is the technology that lets my phone float in free space as I execute these gestures, like in the video?
Simplest possible snapshot-style backups using rsync
Still not quite comparable. On iOS it takes 1 to n clicks to update n apps (click “update all” or “update” on each app). On a non privileged install of f-droid it takes at least 2n+1 clicks (“update all” to download the new apks, then “update” and “install” on each app, more clicks if any permissions changed).
They wouldn't be handing out powders and expecting you to measure out dosages yourself if they were legal.

It would be akin to visiting your pharmacy.
The Daily Mail is a tabloid and should never be cited.
A lot of people in this thread are justifying their own pathologies with the title. Nothing more powerful than a story that soothes the ego.

Maybe there is some truth to the idea. I wouldn't be surprised, although we probably can't make that general of a statement.

Either way, don't let something like this article stop you from improving your life. One thing is for sure, we can't accurately predict all of the possibilities for ourselves. Might as well aim for a few improvements, eh?

For what it's worth, I'm currently dealing with mild / moderate depression and anxiety. In my opinion, it's a shit way to be and I aspire to experience less of it in the future.
That has literally always been a lie.
Sexit
Your false dichotomy is that sure, your flat-earth approximation is fine, but only on basically personal scales (up to a few miles or so).

You can't charactierize your loacl approximation as a general theory because it will fail as soon as you scale up to horizon effects, and breaks completely when reaching planetary scale.

If you want to keep your flat theory in its applicable scale, fine. Just don't expect to project it outside of its useful scale.

Just like the Newtonian model works well until you reach the scales where relativistic effects demand the shift to relativity.
For me personally, I'm going to wait a few years for the price on this phone to come down, buy a pile of them, and stick them on the wall of every room in my house. Low-power wall control panel with gestural input. Throw a bit of custom software on there, and (coupling that with Google Assistant voice recognition) it's the closest I'll get to Star Trek rooms in this decade.
I recommend the following book under a few caveats the first one being no one without their highschool diploma or G.E.D. (General Education Diploma) should read it.

The Underachiever's Manifesto: The Guide to Accomplishing Little and Feeling Great (Funny Self-Help Book, Guide to Lowering Stress and Dealing with Perfectionism)

https://amzn.to/2pvYI6b

It will surely pierce a lot of people's beliefs.
What I think is interesting is how much emotion the 10k hour rule rouses in general. The Freakonomics podcast mentioned the 10k rule as well. They posit that given equally talented individuals, the person who puts in the requisite hours of hard work through deliberate practice would obtain the higher level of mastery.
I think there's an unaddressed point in the book that should include "for the average person with average physical/emotional/intellectual capacity 10k hours - give or take - of _deliberate_ practice should make you a master". This intuitively makes sense to me, and what I took away from the book. I guess others took away other things and if you want to fault the author for that I'm not going to stop you. It's also fashionable to over-analyze everything these days so some won't be satisfied unless there are exact data points involved it should warrant throwing out the whole book and to which I would say to them sometimes it's about the notion rather than it's exactness. In any way the book is interesting and still worth a read.
Technology is not important. The reasons to prefer trains and subways are not the technology so much as most buses are running in the same lane as cars and so they have the same limitations. A bus in a truly dedicated lane would work just as well for most purposes, if only we cared about them.

There are a couple advantages to trains/subways over buses, but for the most part they don't apply.

They can be longer: have more riders, which is only important when they come every 5 minutes. When the bus isn't coming every 5 minutes you should address overcrowding by adding more buses which makes the whole system more convenient for the riders.

They run steel on steel which is more energy efficient. While this is a factor, a bus is so much more better than cars we shouldn't count it.
Currently quitting nicotine, planning to go back to pipe smoking only when I'm "reset".

It's hugely psychological. I don't have the shakes or anything, but I'm drowsy, unalert, and feel slow. I can definitely understand how a shroom trip would "reset" my brain to a non-needy state.
I agree. I completely understand privacy criticism but we don't need to fill the whole thread with unsubstantial sarcasm.
I have a family, wife, kids, and I prefer my remote job, because I can focus on them, not on the relationships with co-workers. The commute is another problem.

To fill up the social meter without a family I think I would prefer one or two days in an office, but similar results could be achieved at a co-working space or taking the time to make friendships locally and spend time with them in the evening.
That we still use a single dimension to assess people's position on a topic as complex and multi-faceted as politics is mind-boggling.
> Instead, the government would instead focus on measures to protect children in the much broader online harms white paper.
"I just stare at my desk. But it looks like I'm working!" - Office Space
October 16th – National boss's day
SAP hits its leadership crossroads – breaking down my interview
>But sometimes I wonder why I can lose friends so fast by just saying things that are true or are very likely to be true.

I am like you. However, I hold the old quote to be true: "People may not remember exactly what you did, or what you said, but they will always remember how you made them feel." It doesn't matter if the things are true or not. You stating those things makes people feel scared, worried, and/or defeated. If you had those feelings when another person was around, how often would you want them around? This is not a criticism but simply another viewpoint.
Another requirement is focused practice, which means having a coach who can evaluate what you're doing and tell you where to improve.

Going to the driving range and hitting a bucket of balls isn't as helpful if you don't know what you're doing wrong and how to fix it. You'll just keep doing the same wrong thing.
I took a Peace Studies class in college which focused heavily on non-violent communication techniques. Despite being something I took my senior year because I thought it would be easy, I have used the communication methods I learned in that class constantly.

My most important takeaway was approaching problems in relationships as a me AND you problem instead of a me VS you problem.
Words are just a way of conveying meaning, and it's always possible to interpret someone's words as implying blame. A motivated listener can take the most impartial, detached observation and hear it as a blistering indictment.

If someone is told the words "I feel a lot of anxiety about our financial stability" it's completely possible for them to understand the "true meaning" as "You're a useless slob who can't hold a proper job and I hate you"

But this doesn't mean that words don't matter. We don't control the meaning we convey, but we do influence it. Choice of words and phrasing is a very powerful tool for that. There are other tools as well, of course. But getting the words right is the low hanging fruit for most people.
Oh it definitely happens. I think it would happen less if there was less of a taboo. We vilify drugs similarly, so people who just want to get messed up start to see them as all the same. I've been approached by people at raves who seemed like they would take anything I was willing to sell.

But drugs are so remarkably different from each other. I wish we treated them as such. If there wasn't already the drug <-> party association I don't think a first time LSD user would be very likely to rediscover it.
Making anything negative part of your identity is a dangerous thing to do, because if you make something part of your identity, it's much harder to give it up.
Most cars provide >120watt power through the cigarette lighter socket. It's just that no one has yet made a USB charger with that output power presumably because no single device requires it yet.
They feared to talk to them. That does not imply doing what they want. It implies people acting on ressentment in further interactions.
TBH, when this data is shipped up to the cloud, it may be used for customization that could be fed to the ad engine, but it's especially important for refining algorithm.

A lot of the leaps in high-fidelity human-computer interaction (voice, face, and likely this new gesture system) have been made with having enough data about real-world interactions to train the models. It's how a company finds out about the ten thousand things that happen in the real world that their lab-models missed, and gets their algorithm from 90% accuracy to 99.9% accuracy.
But why should lonely men decide to meet other men rather than other people?
Addicts cannot give up their addictions without fundamentally growing as people, raising their level of consciousness, and boy will psychedelics help you with that...!
> The left usually hates war.

At least politically that is not true. There is a anti-war left, but politically its long gone.

However you overall point that 'we can't leave otherwise genocide' or 'if we don't act genocide' has been part of the narrative for every war.

Remember Bengazi? Apparently Gadaffi was gone go in an slaughter 50000 people. That was of course total nonsense but it convinced the government to act.
The plans were also dropped by conservatives. I seriously doubt Boris Johnson cares about banning pornography, he has a girlfriend 24 years his junior (not that there's anything wrong with that), he is about as far from vicar's daughter May as it's possible to get.
It really would be nice if we were all honest with each other. Unfortunately it takes one bad actor to exploit everyone else, so instead we're always needing to watch our backs and poke others.
> Do you mean you set it and it works between power cycles?

Yes, the article stresses that explicitly. That's in section 5.1 of the datasheet I believe.
Strong agree. One of radar's primary utilities is imaging: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imaging_radar

I wonder how they phrased it in their patents.
YC Winter 2020 Interview Invites
Today is the day interview invites are sent out. Anyone who applied get one yet? (I've not)
It's a criminal law that has direct bearing on a person's ability to immigrate. Immigration status directly affects the penalties of 8 usc 1325 & 1326. ICE/CBP is going to enforce both.

>Federal Immigration Judges would disagree

They can disagree all they want, but only do it when it's convenient. They're arguing right now they don't even have decision making making capabilities, and can only do what's directed by the executive branch (for the sake of keeping their union). The DOJ can single handily over-rule any order signed by an immigration judge. They're a completely different animal than Article III courts. And so are the orders that they generate.

Can they be enforced by federal officers? Yes, but that's my point, the whole immigration system is complicated and is comprised of many different aspects of government and law.

But you can't split hairs on the intricacies between civil and criminal law (when for immigration, they're highly interwoven) and at the same time argue that a subsidiary of the executive branch should be treated as if it's part of the judiciary branch.

>Again immigration status is not a crime

The article is about crossing the border. By foreigners without a visa. Illegally.
To me that's crazy, to say "I know you're smart and worked hard to get the best GPA but don't bother applying to these schools since you're not vibrant enough."

I'm not saying the school has to take everyone, but we're focusing on discrimination here. How is that not discrimination? "We're not letting you in because of the intangibles, what is that intangible? We can't tell you."

How do you even measure vibrancy? So if a student excels academically that means he/she is not vibrant?
For a source, here's the Verge: https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/15/20915609/google-pixel-4-...

And Pixel 4 won't support it.
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantropa
There's "War is the continuation of Diplomacy by other means." - Carl von Clausewitz (Military theorist)
How is that better than just having an IAP donation through Google? Either way Google is taking their cut right?
You're right, except there's one big difference with email: spam. Slack is like a prioritized (only with co-workers or interest groups), white-listed version of email.
True. I tend to take either Brussels or Ghent. Maastricht is more appropriate if you want to go to Lyon rather than Paris.
Interestingly, this caused the Pixel 4 to get banned in India: https://www.androidpolice.com/2019/10/15/india-wont-get-the-...
Space ‘elevator’ to the moon may soon be a reality
This is Google wanting their 30% cut. It's that simple.
> taxis are still allowed (except for Uber and Lyft)

You don't need the exception. Uber and Lyft are not taxis.
One disturbingly accurate bit of snark I had is that a war on abstract concepts (Terror, Poverty) or inanimate objects will always end like a drunk fighting a lamppost - it will end with hurting themselves and looking like an absolute idiot.
How's your KDE neon experience been so far?
That's fine. However file system that I can even configure or use in a way that eats my data, I will simply not consider using. And I will not consider using OpenSuse because of that.

When it was eating my data it was also supposed to be stable. But turns out it wasn't.
Why Computers Will Never Be Truly Conscious
good old email is King when working remotely. I think most IM apps are used as monitoring tools. Maybe there is a better solution for that
That’s your “disaster?” 6 miles of new train line (4.5 underground) for $3.5 billion. Total construction time 15 years.

The first phase of the Second Avenue subway cost $4.5 billion for just 2 miles, and took 10 years. The next 1.5 mile segment will cost $6 billion (that’s just the estimate) and take another 10 years. And that’s not even all that over budget or delayed.

I’ve never encountered a major public project in the US that was on budget and on time. I’m sure there are some, but that’s not the rule. Here in the DC area, we recently spent $150 million on a bus station (it’s a nice, 3 level bus station on existing public land). That was delayed and was $50 million over budget. The $6 million renovation project in the parking garage at the metro station nearest to me is years behind schedule. The purple line in Maryland is years late and billions over budget. The silver line in Virginia is years late and billions over budget.

Your “disaster” would be a miracle in a major US city. Such a miracle that few cities are even contemplating such things. DC, for example, is growing rapidly, and WMATA desperately needs another tunnel through downtown. And people are willing to spend that kind of money—WMATA just invested $6 billion and a decade constructing the silver line to Virginia. And Maryland is investing a similar amount in a light rail through the suburbs. But a downtown tunnel would be a $15+ billion, 20-year project here.
There is a reason most modern music uses it. It's very good.
> It is clear to many of us that there are two genders. Particularly to those of us that have studied biology.

Biology addresses sex, not gender (whether ascribed gender or gender
identity), and there are vastly more than two ways in which the various biological attributes grouped under “sex” line up; which is why when (as is, to be sure, quite common) binary sex distinctions in biology and medicine are used they are drawn differently in different contexts.

I mean, there's documented cases of non-chimeric fertile females (in the sense of “people who produce ova and can reproduce with people who produce sperm”, which isn't the only biological definition of sex but is the one most relevant to fertility and reproduction) with 46,XY karyotype and normal male coding sequences in SRY and other genes associated with sex determination. Simplistic generalizations about sex and biology, aside from having dubious relevance to gender discussions, are pretty invariably factually
wrong.
Except that shift isn’t spontaneous. Someone has to propose it, someone has to promote it, someone has to popularize it, etc.

Manufacturing consent isn’t by default bad. Manufacturing convent to built pubic transit, manufacturing consent to have people vaccinated, etc., in the face of other interests is still manufacturing consent.
I'll just add my $.02

United is definitely targeting very high spend customers for their highest public status (Global Services is invite only). You can fly every other week on a coast to coast route and not qualify, even with $600 fares.
Sorry for your loss <3
Relevant cross post from Bret Victor and hands: http://worrydream.com/ABriefRantOnTheFutureOfInteractionDesi...

This technology seems promising in the face of his ideas.
I just watched MKBHD's Pixel 4 video and he said the wave gestures worked maybe 10% of the time. If that is true I hope it is a bug as shipping something like that should never happen.
I plan to use Command Strip tape and a convenient wall; your mileage may vary. ;)
I think the phrase you may be thinking of is the more poetic "War is the continuation of politics by other means" by Carl von Clausewitz.
To me that makes it even worse
- rather than teach how something that seems magical to a non-technical person came to be, it just reinforces the idea that it’s not understandable.