skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't matter what the book says about mastery, success, or practice, because Malcolm Gladwell isn't interested in the truth. "I don't write about what is true, I write about what is interesting." Systematic distortion is his stock in trade.

Even if he actually said something nominally true, it would still be wrong. Studying successful people and finding it took them 10,000 hours to get there (which he didn't) would not imply that anyone else could get there in the same 10,000 hours. I could practice basketball for 100,000 hours and never be able to sink a half-court shot, blind.

What does seem true is that people who enjoy practicing a thing are the ones who master it, probably because seeing progress makes practice enjoyable. When you stop seeing improvement, you stop, and move on to something else. People who master a thing are self-selected as those who could, for whatever reason. No one else is counted.
The Rise of Meta Learning
It's pretty obtuse to only permit 501(c)(3)s.

Likely this is Google avoiding additional regulatory complications/KYC. It's cumbersome to prove you're not enabling money laundering or funding terrorist organizations if you're an arbitrary money sink.

But I'd expect better than Google, a business with an astounding $836B market cap. They could just buy a company that primarily handles this sort of money flow (e.g. Streamlabs)
> the first one being no one without their highschool diploma or G.E.D. (General Education Diploma) should read it.

Could you unpack this for me?
I'm not sure I'd agree, unless you have statistics to back it up. Sure, porn may be unrealistic, but it does help normalize sexuality and might provide information to those who may otherwise not get it.
Tell doctors to stop prescribing heroine.
Virgin Galactic Unveils Jumpsuit for Space Tourists
Nothing like opaque, zero due process take downs which change day-to-day unexpectedly until you wake and find your app is no longer in the Play Store.

There has to be a better way to handle these sorts of things.

Were they even notified beforehand?
The Atlantropa Project: Lowering the Mediterranean, Irrigating the Sahara
Higher math 101 with 106-term glossary of higher math jargon
Percent of Vegetarians Go Back to Eating Meat
This is such a laughably dismissible idea, I don't even know where to start: navigating sidewalks and crosswalks autonomously is even more difficult than autonomously navigating the roadways (what with all the standardized signals, markings, rules, etc.) and yet here we are pitching it as if we already have the technology to accomplish this to any useful degree. Is it going to locate and push the correct crosswalk button to make sure it has a chance to cross the street safely and legally? Also, what are these things going to do when drunk (or otherwise unhelpful) passerby inevitably kick them over, rendering them completely immobile? This is 100% innovation theater.
"Marissa Mayer, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Mark Zuckerberg, and Steven Spielberg"

Most of the people listed here essentially built their own businesses. You don't really need to network and schmooze your way to the top when the top isn't even built yet.

How about people that started out as a non-executive at a company and worked their way through management and then to a top executive position? I'm guessing this is much less common for introverts (but more of a common leadership position) because you need to network and interact with people constantly and effectively.
Had a realization the other day that: "almost everyone around me is actually very sick".

This world we have created tends to encourage people to eventually become sick: whether it be diet, emotional, spiritual, physical, etc.

When we look around, we to have a positive outlook.

It's easy to see that a plant is not doing very well.
We aren't very good at seeing this in humans.
Is it possible they all use them once every few months? For example I've gone to a store, bought something rather large, and took it back to my apartment in a cab. I don't take a cab daily be I do take one once or twice a month. Note: I could try to get it delivered, that would generally require me taking a day off from work to be home for the delivery. With a cab I effectively get to choose the time.
OpenAI's rubik's cube solver shows that Meta-Learning Data Augmentation is very powerful for Sim2Real transfer. This article relates Automatic Domain Randomization (ADR) to Neural Architecture Search and Data Augmentation, arguing in support of Meta-Learning research.
Hmm, any idea how Google automatically catches a donation link? I feel like there's so many ways to do it that they must only be catching a handful.
Not meant to attack. I thought it was funny to see an article of this specific tone. Made sense after I realized who OP was.

I don't dislike the guy, I just know his views, and choose to contest them.
The inner magic behind the Z3 theorem prover
Exactly this.
But it's harder to get this stat, how would you properly measure it?
I think you are missing a few things. There are a lot of things to learn, someone who spends 10,000 hours on flat pick guitar will not be any good at finger picking guitar without a few thousand more hours practice in a different skill. There are a number of other ways to study guitar, before you branch to base, violin, Piano, drums - that is all playing interments. There is are completely different line of music you can go down: composition, conducting. In short, there is always something more to learn even if you are a master of something.
I recently showed some videos of Soli in the HCI class I teach. Students immediately hit upon the two major issues I wanted to discuss (I was pretty proud!).

The first is learnability. A big problem with gestures is that there is no clear affordance as to what kinds of gestures you can do, or any clear feedback. For feedback, one could couple Soli's input with a visual display, but at that point, it's not clear if there is a big advantage over a touchscreen, unless the display is really small.

The second is what's known as the Midas touch problem. How can the system differentiate if you are intentionally gesturing as input vs incidentally gesturing? The example I used was the new Mercedes cars that have gesture recognition. While I was doing a test drive, the salesperson started waving his hands as part of his normal speech, and that accidentally raised the volume. Odds are very high Soli will have the same problem. One possibility is to activate Soli via a button, but that would defeat a lot of the purpose of gestures. Another is to use speech to activate, which might work out. Yet another possibility is that you have to do a special gesture "hotword", sort of like how Alexa is activated by saying it's name.

At any rate, these problems are not insurmountable, but it definitely adds to the learning curve, reliability, and overall utility of these gesture based interfaces.
Security vulnerability found in popular Seesaw android app
> some people don't see the humor in dark humor because they are unfamiliar with darkness

Other people (like me) don't see the humor in dark humor because we live in a form of darkness all the time. My partner is bipolar, and I spend a several weeks a year literally talking her off the ledge. So if some edgy cynic makes a "joke" about suicide at work, I've probably already heard the punchline. And it dredges up a reminder of the biggest ongoing challenge in my life. Not finding that funny doesn't make me naive.
Funny how different people read this differently. I read it as a playful exploration of how far can you push your square peg into that round hole. No one uses Haskell as a faster C irl, that would not make much sense, that’s not where the strength of the language lies.
> AT&T SVR4 was the reference implementation

That is correct. When I was working on one of the early SMP UNIX flavors at Encore, the SVR4 code we used as a base was from AT&T. The only thing we got from Sun was NFS source - for which they'd accept patches, and apply them to their own version of NFS, but then ship the next version back to us with our own changes stripped back out. Such a lovely bunch of people.
I'd bet it's also more expensive, less safe, less space, basically none of the things that you think of when you imagine the typical American nuclear family
Because people like you are incredibly uncommon. I do not believe at all that there are millions of people like that in the US.
The weather will always be crap.

Climate change will solve that problem.
Or you know the people using the scooters could park them properly.
This is good news for F-Droid.

I just wish F-Droid had a better design but I guess that's just the nature of OSS. It always looked a bit shady and out-of-date, which probably hurts it's popularity.
Better yet, just charge a dollar for the app. Link from the primary website to the app store, so people can buy the right one.
" . . . America's oldest city . . ."

Santa Fe, Newport News, Hampton, Albany, and Jersey City would disagree.
I also think it's crazy.
Even in JVM land, spring boot is quite fast at getting a POC done.
Setting up infra for microservices when you are rushing for demos is too much.
My Facebook feed had been friends posting memes and angry political stories since 2010. I deleted it
When Will Mark Rebrand Facebook?
Empty, yes. Boring? No. The empty parts are where the national parks are like the Grand Canyon, Bryce, Zions, Canyonlands, Arches, Yellowstone, Crate Lake, etc.
Give me a house while you're at it.
That’s very frustrating - as I mentioned in another comment above, we had this tech (using infrared) back ~2005 and it worked pretty reliably.
It doesn't support NTLM/Kerberos yet, so it's definitely not ready for corporate environments.
Notably, prior to its acquisition Yahoo! (America) had a 35% stake in Yahoo! Japan along with 24% of Alibaba. Even while Yahoo! was independent and turning a profit, it was valued as an albatross dragging down Yahoo! Japan's prospects to the tune of about negative $4 billion.

People were suggesting that a holding company should be broken out to manage all three entities without doing any business of its own, so that Yahoo's terrible prospects couldn't cut into the value of the other two. (Since an independent business can't be worse than worthless to shareholders, it would have immediately switched to a positive valuation.) Instead, the market skipped a step, divesting the functional businesses to enable a positive-value acquisition of the remains.

What's fascinating is that Yahoo! Japan does something very similar to Yahoo! America, but one of the two profitable businesses was valuable while the other was understood to be doomed.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2014-04-17/how-ca...
Depending on the pornsites you go to you're never more than three clicks away from very disturbing content, even for adults.

(I don't think the idea of restricting access to some websites based on age is inherently bad, I just don't see a way to enforce it that isn't more harmful than useful)
A lot of the people using them mention killing the ego, I've never done anything like that and wonder what do you think under the word ego? I know the literal term obviously.
Heroin.
The best thing I've ever read on the subject of decriminalization:

Legalize This!: The Case for Decriminalizing Drugs by Doug Husak

The argument is simple and comes from the legal perspective: every person who is put in jail should have a satisfactory answer to the question "Why am I being put in jail?". As the author (philosopher) points out, no satisfactory answer has been (or likely can be) given in the case of non-violent drug users.

All currently-known drugs should be decriminalized.
It's understandable that they want to process payments only for registered organizations, but that still does not explain why are open source apps being taken down for linking to an external page that lists ways to support projects.
Good reason to have "Export Data" on every app you use (or create) and make it in a format which would be fairly easy to load somewhere else. Much better to make it easier on your users than to try to wall them into your product; your product will eventually disappear. Better to make quality products than dark patterns.
I grew up in LA but moved away in 2009. I was shocked when I visited this past year. Homeless encampments everywhere, taking over sidewalks in West LA, kind of scary aggressively homeless men harassing people in the street in West Hollywood. No wonder everyone drives everywhere in LA.
>the word "illegal" is used to refer to civil matters all the time (e.g. illegally parked car)

That's referring to a thing not a person. You would not label the owner of that illegally parked vehicle as an "illegal", "illegal car owner", etc... If a person illegally breaches a contract you don't call them a "illegal contractor". The term "illegal" is applied to undocumented immigrants because it fits a narrative.

>By breaking the law, these travellers got sorted into the "criminals" bin and are now treated like shit.

Going back to your illegally parked car, do we put the owner of that illegally parked car in the criminal bin and treat them like shit. Of course not, that would be ridiculous. Undocumented immigrants should be extended the same courtesy, and even if detained and put into civil removal proceedings they should not be treated as criminals or like shit for that matter.

> Not all undocumented immigrants are here illegally, but those who would be legally deported if discovered are.

Sorry, I don't know what your trying to say here. Any undocumented immigrant can be detained and subjected to removal/deportation proceedings at anytime...they don't need to commit any crime for this to happen.
Losing anonymity absolutely does affect privacy, that's the entire point to fingerprinting.

While anonymity and privacy are theoretically separate concepts, many current techniques used to compromise privacy on the internet are dependent on de-anonymization.

None of the data your browser leaks is being used to directly compromise privacy. Your screen resolution, user-agent, canvas fingerprints, etc aren't private information. Their only utility is to support de-anonymization, which in turn allows a compromise in privacy by aggregating your behavior.
It's an exhausting problem. I live in Portland, which is just another west coast city having increasing trouble with a rising homeless population. On one hand yes, they're people and they deserve help and support and appropriate housing and access to rehab and structure. But on the other hand, if you buy a house in Portland there's very little you can do to prevent your front sidewalk from getting turned into a homeless camp. Having seen first hand how frequently camps are also drug dens, it's really tiring stepping over hundreds of dirty needles and needle-caps when you leave every morning. And the smell of piss and shit in every offstreet doorway in the city. When my mom visited we were driving over the Morrison bridge and a homeless man was pissing off the side in broad daylight - not a care in the world.

So yes, help them. But also just do something, anything at all.
I agree. I have had a folder in gmail for synthesizers for probably 15 years now. I am able to research topics this way and it feels fabulous.

Facebook being so closed is a real problem.
> If I'm so close to a phone, why would I swipe in the air?

Because you don't want to extract it from your backpack/purst first? Or you are lying in the dark avoiding turning the backlight on but you also badly want to skip that terrible song you hate...

edit: or you're presenting and using your phone on the podium as a remote without breaking eye contact/physically fiddling with the phone/laptop.
I believe a change must come from bottom up and not from top down. Management won't change since they have little incentive to do so. Employees who are not happy with synchronous office work with a lot of interruptions should quit and start small successful companies that are asynchronous and remote.

To help this movement, we built open source SaaS boilerplate. We also built Async, an asynchronous team communication tool designed specifically for small teams of software engineers.
Yup, I pretty much read it as this: "if you are operating an open source project then you should use ads for funding instead of donations or introduce paid features/upgrades so that we get a cut"
Domestic Chores Automation
I built a $6M/year brand as an active duty soldier
> America has an attitude problem

The older I get, the less it feels like America.
That isn’t true. First, you have to distinguish between the visible and invisible homeless. Homeless women who aren’t mentally ill or heavily into drugs are very likely to get access to a shelter at least, so you wouldn’t notice them (the same is true for men as well, just less so). And then you have mentally ill or heavily drug addicted women, you notice these in LA also. It isn’t clear to me why there are more men in this category than women, but perhaps they get more family or social support as well.
There is no legal justification for criminalizing the use of any substance. We can put people in jail for armed robbery, why should a non-violent drug user be put in jail?
Yea, thanks... too late to fix it.
Woody Guthrie was on to something...

As I went walking I saw a sign there,
And on the sign it said "No Trespassing."
But on the other side it didn't say nothing.
That side was made for you and me.

In the shadow of the steeple I saw my people,
By the relief office I seen my people;
As they stood there hungry, I stood there asking
Is this land made for you and me?

Nobody living can ever stop me,
As I go walking that freedom highway;
Nobody living can ever make me turn back
This land was made for you and me.
Could be any number of things, in order of likelihood:

-Your Mac needs some tlc.

-Microsoft has been putting major effort into responsiveness lately.

-Apple isn't putting much/any effort into MacOS

-You're seeing a problem that isn't there.

-Gremlins
Good idea. I suggest "Altria."
Use a completely separate data-directory for your browsers. For chrome , —user-data-dir c:/secret. For firefox —-profile c:/secret
Our Oracle queries are written like:

select * from (
select * from pg_class order by relname
) where rownum <= 1

So select * from pg_class order by relname limit 1

works for us.
They create products but lack the leadership needed to follow through when the initial exciting moments are over. I'd say that if you can't follow through on your innovations then you aren't good at innovating. They can do it on the tech side, lots of successful projects there.
>Porn is to real sex like every YouTube movie about home improvement would only feature chainsaws, flamethrowers and jackhammers: it looks great - no doubt - but it's useless if you're looking for practical information how to fix your leaking roof.

Once you're competent in the relevant domain you can usually skim through those chainsaw and flamethrower DIY videos, find the parts you need and implement them with little issue.
And the military to stop destroying young men and then sending them out onto the streets with no useful support.
For a standard core collapse supernova, the vast majority of the released energy is in the form of neutrinos.
Some 850 gigabytes of mouse brain data just got released
A monopoly is not defined as a 100% market share though. I'd argue the playstore is the way to distribute apps on android, and realistically a monopoly.
Wether or not the "software distribution" and "payments processing" aspects of the playstore are separate markets/products is (in my mind) up for debate. If they were then google would be using it's distribution market penetration to push its payment processing business.
Then there's the argument that the way they selectively seem to cut off smalltime donation-based software does harm users overall, although it is a systemic harm, not individual, or at least that would be (as you said) very hard to prove.
As the other commenters have said, this is insanely dangerous if you don't know what you're doing.

This is always a good read, it's what happens if you do this wrong: https://blog.mycology.cornell.edu/2006/11/22/i-survived-the-...
Testing Leonardo da Vinci’s bridge: His design was stable, study finds
Seems like being able to detect eye attention would solve the midas problem -- if you aren't looking at it, it doesn't do anything?
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LOL, that's a good one.
Might also normalise unhealthy sexual behaviors and spread misinformation. I don't think anyone can backup their claim with stats on that subject though.
> I think we need to recognize the constant striving for happiness, and the inevitable disappointment when we don't reach it, as the unhealthy behavior that it is. It's okay, normal, even necessary to feel sad and pissed off at the world sometimes. It doesn't automatically mean something is wrong with you.

No, it doesn't mean something is wrong with you. But repeating that vicious cycle over and over and over and over again is a problem. I had a conversation with my wife the other night about seemingly inane and harmless complaining. "If we counted the number of these kinds of complaints coming from our mouths daily it would be in the dozens, perhaps more." This is death (via discontentment) by a thousand self-administered cuts. Once you see this clearly, when the veil is pulled back, you can't unsee it. It's an epidemic. The fact that it's unrecognizable to most and it is considered "natural" is guaranteeing the problem will never be solved.
Tranexamic acid reduces morbidity in patients with acute traumatic brain injury
> But if people choose these products because the convenience is worth it in their estimation, revealed preferences and all that.

"is worth it" requires people to be fully aware of what's going on.

I've described what some of these devices are doing based on product announcements, patents, investigative news stories, and that sort of thing. I've had numerous people tell me that I'm wrong. That they don't believe companies are doing this.

This has caused me to come to the conclusion that people aren't aware of the trade-offs or what is going on.

That lack of understanding concerns me.
The Russian heroin addicts are all on fentanyl by now, it's hard to find heroin nowadays from the streets in many places.
>I made eye contact with a homeless person pooping again today. This has become a regular part of life in the United States.

It's certainly not a regular part of life in the United States. It may be (but probably isn't) a regular part of your own life in the United States.

I've made eye contact with a pooping homeless person in the United States zero times over four decades of life.
As predicted in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: "...an electric pencil flew across the cabin and through the radio's on/off-sensitive airspace."
I think you would be persuaded by the book Legalize This!: The Case for Decriminalizing Drugs by Doug Husak

The argument is simple: ask "Why am I being put in jail?". As the author points out, no satisfactory answer has been (or likely can be) given in the case of non-violent drug users.

All currently-known drugs should be decriminalized.
Well, throw them a couple of bucks a month, they have a donation button on their homepage ;)
Many (most?) that buy them don’t understand the value exchange they are signing up for. Look at all the breathless articles about how humans listen to Alexa, Cortana, Siri, Google, etc assistant chats. That’s an standard expectation from anyone that gets close to working with supervised learning but from the reporting and interviews it seems many didn’t know. How could they with the ever growing legal soup of privacy policies and tos.

I’d love to see a counter product but more than that I’d like to see more standardized and short/brief lay person understandable policies. Maybe like a nutrition label but for consumer data.