skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a friend who participated in the JHU study. Unfortunately, he wasn't able to quit smoking and is continuing his two-pack-a-day routine. From what I gather though, 3+ years on, the majority of other participants in his study have managed to quit entirely. Shame he wasn't able to do the same.
You say this, but rooting attempts for flagship Android phones have failed at many recent pwn2owns. The grey market price for a root exploit on flagship Android is comparable to iPhone.

The most popular third party rooting services don't seem to support past Android 8.

Clearly it isn't easy to root these things.
It's true. Pr0n is greatly underrated.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21258503.
Oh no. No fun intended.

I just wasn’t able to get what OP meant without that clarification.
New Orleans lakefront and parts of New Orleans East were massive land building projects, specifically for neighborhoods. Lakefront Airport (KNEW) was also included in these projects. The land was sold to finance the levees before federal law put the Army Corps of Engineers in charge of levee building, ~1965.

http://richcampanella.com/assets/pdf/Picayune_Cityscapes_201...

https://neworleanshistorical.org/items/show/603

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakeshore/Lake_Vista,_New_Or...

Edit: I can't find the source, but the levee board still has title and standing permission from the state to fill-in something like an additional 2 miles out into Lake Pontchartrain.
There is a collective mind, a thoughtform or egregor, which can formulate around any particular subject.

Mass media is about the industrialised manifestation of these entities, in an effort to create 'godhead', or "everyone knows _ about _" conditions.

"Everyone knows that the _'s did it", is pretty much the epitome of such a substance.

Mass, collective 'reality' is basically a function of the things we can get as many people to agree to, as possible.

Alas, our individual instincts are not always aligned with the truth, nor the righteous, nor the just. Often-times our individual personalities, as functional components, mixed in certain ways into egregor, become vile creatures, nearly unstoppable power. This is why we do it.

There is no such thing as "America". This is a device invented, manifested, and maintained by an entity so large it seems undefeatable to an individual.

These powers are manufacturable. We can fabricate collective reality. What we can't do too well, is allow our collective minds to become too self-aware. This seems to collapse it in on itself.

Thus, a measure of ones prowess might be, how many lies can you get others to believe, and then: how many can you get them to repeat, in order that it eventually becomes a 'truth'?
In spirit maybe. But in practice it seems worse.
Actually that one was posted earlier; you can tell from the IDs. Timestamps get temporarily relativized on re-up; see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19774614 for explanation.
Had never heard of GaN. Googled and they are amazing! Thank you.
I'm fairly sure even Android has abandoned this type of time picker
There's even a whole book about this: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004SOVC2Y (by one of the authors of Peopleware[1], which is also excellent).

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Peopleware-Productive-Projects-Tom-De...
Be careful with that one, if they where older they could have found it offensive. Ira Hayes an American War hero of WW2 died drunk in a ditch and if IRCC "dead in a ditch" was coined as morbid reference to that event, and was not always used in the best light when referring to American Indians. It can evoke stereotypes of American Indians and alcohol abuse as he was more remembered at the time for his death, rather than for being one of the few Marines that survived to raise the flag at Iwo Jima.
Most car noise on high speed roads is tire noise, not engine noise
I use Contacts+ (formerly FullContact): https://www.contactsplus.com/

You can sign up for free and sync it with things like Twitter, GMail, Outlook, LinkedIn, etc. It's really nice and I've been using it happily for years. It helps with things like deduplication, keeping your contact info updated (it'll update contact records if people change their Twitter handle, etc.), and just all sorts of stuff.
Actually someone did try to apply the 10k rule to learn golf from scratch.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_McLaughlin_(golfer)

I remember seeing his blog post about his first hole in one. Even if I don't really believe the 10k rule, I was rooting for him to enter the PGA, just to prove that it was possible.
We've long since moved on from an era when anything above assembly could be considered high level.

And the performance difference between idiomatic C code compiled with -O3 (to inline functions and minimize the stack twiddling and housekeeping code) and handwritten straightforward assembly is low enough as to be negligible. Not so with, say, Haskell vs C.
> because they have access to that bank account now. Pretty simple

Have you ever considered that most countries don't have banking systems as ass-backwards as the US does?
I love that you pulled that question out of my post because I hadn't even considered it. Definitely food for thought!
Most of the examples appear to be NoSQL datastores. Now it is kindof obvious why Datomic is not open-source.

And yet software like Wordpress has thrived for many years without their creators being tempted to change licenses (Wordpress.com wasn't crushed by AWS, shared hosting or even WP-as-a-service vendors).

What is different about these DBs?
That's an interesting point. Frankly, I don't think we should punish DUI drivers if their only infraction is the DUI. Obviously, if they were driving wreaklessly then that is illegal, but I don't like the concept of charging someone for a crime because it COULD have lead to something worse. I think we should just impose extremely harsh penalties if it DOES lead to something worse. Usually, that "something worse" also has worse penalties. People should have the freedom to determine if they are impaired but also not be shielded from the responsibility freedom requires.
> Meanwhile in 2019, most people still find "nothing to hide" attitude perfectly reasonable.

I have had the exact same experience. I've long given up trying to explain anything to normies, including anything related to privacy.

I really pains me to say this, but the bleating masses are the bleating masses, and getting them to internalize anything typically takes a generation.
> You are shakespeare, you pass down the inheritance of your genes NOT through procreation, but through the creation of artistic work which affects the genetic expression of genes in the gene pool to give certain genes just a little bit of an advantage over others.

This isn't genetics! It's a messaging side channel in an unboundedly complex domain.

Manifested behaviors might be impacting millions of unrelated factors in other individuals that won't necessarily involve the same genes as the originating party. You're throwing a rock into a pond and trying to imagine why some ducks produce more ducklings.

For instance, some people have genes that lead them to be marginally worse drivers (ADHD, color blindness, alcoholism, ...). There will be a small increase in automotive deaths because of them. But how do their genes impact the gene pool vis a vis their bad driving?

Let's say you do select something specific. Let's say a new Hitler wants to kill all blue-eyed people. Does their desire to do so arise from genetic factors, or is it learned behavior? (Perhaps aspects of this desire do - psychopathic behavior, the want to kill, ...) How do we even begin model that in a useful way like we do with other epigenetic effects such as DNA methylation?

Changing the fitness landscape isn't genetics. Individuals procreating at differential rates under the new landscape is. You're proposing a new field that we don't have the sensors, math or compute time to model, and it's uncertain that we'd derive useful signal from the high dimensionality and noise.
>People get arrested for crimes they are never charged for all the time.

Yes and the point is we don't call those folks "illegals."

You responded to my comment, specifically:

>This group can't wrap their mind around the fact immigration status isn't a crime.

Your pointing to a criminal charge that has nothing to do with my point. Sure citizens and immigrants alike can commit crimes, including illegal boarder crossing, but illegal border crossing has nothing to do with immigration status. Immigration status is itself not a crime.
That tone tells me that the conversation is now in lawyer-mode. If I'm using it, it's because I'm no longer willing or able to communicate normally. If I cared about you, you'd see me angry. If I don't care about you, you'll see me having this style of conversation, which IMO is far more aggressive and dangerous than actual anger.

If I'm on the receiving side of that kind of tone, it's time to either re-engage with normal conversation and try to salvage the relationship, or now I'm also mirroring that tone and we can never have an honest conversation again.
How the frick do you accidentally drive into the US?
I guess this will get lost in the noise, but a few years ago Apple relaxed its restrictions on IAP donations and allows developers to offer a "tip jar" where IAPs don't unlock any specific features. I've been shipping a free and open source app with a donate button on the App Store since mid-2017 [1].

1. https://chatsecure.org/blog/sustainable-open-source-starts-w...
Thank you for writing this beautiful text :)
OT: Why did you feel the need to add this disclaimer? Isn't it assumed that there are always exceptions anytime somebody makes a statement on the macro level? I don't think anybody would mistake "JS devs" for "Every single last individual JS dev".
Cool technology no longer lives in a vacuum. Tech is now inextricably linked with ethics (in a good way) and will become more so in the future.

Directionally this is a great thing! If this was a DIYer or article about the human-computer interaction concepts of interfaces, I would agree with you. But it's not. It's about a device shipped by one of the most privacy-invasive companies on the planet.

IMHO privacy questions are exactly the right questions for a thread like this. No one gets a free pass because it's 'cool technology', nor should they.
The same thing that stops random stores from being "free with a donation"? Laws, tax fraud, etc. .
The world is getting better in many ways. Check out Pinker et al. eg. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCm9Ng0bbEQ&t=770s
While I see what you are saying, it doesn't need to be "locked away functionality". You could like "sell" badges. $10 """buys""" a bronze badge, $30 a silver etc, whose only functionality is to be listed in some irrelevant "thanks for your support" view.
> (1) all employees are trusted and unmeasured, but you have to tap people on the shoulder every once in a while to confirm that they're on track. Naturally, this is easier if everyone is on-site.

I don't get it - shouldn't one-on-ones and regular progress check-ins (be those standups, metrics (This is your #2), whatever) give you that information? None of those are easier when on-site. In fact, given today's move towards open offices, any form of 1:1 collaboration is easier remotely where you don't have to fight for precious meeting room space.

I think the core problem is that you're trying to prove "everyone is working" when we should be interested in "the work is getting done". Seeing that everyone is working doesn't actually mean progress is getting made. If you have to take steps to answer that question anyway, the first question is fairly pointless.
The still are today (unless you live in em-bubbled places like Cali.)
You should ease up on mushrooms. To come up with such an interpretation...

I mean literally, guillotine heals headache 100%, but that's not a sufficient reason to practice it.

The same with psychedelic mushrooms, even if they work against smoking, it's not necceserily a sufficient reason to use them.
I don't disagree.

The opinion I gave pretty much would help you define what is critical.

Every single smart enteprise should be able to build from source, push to a registry and deploy via a pipeline defined in source control. This likely gives you most of the DR you need, and it also helps you work as part of a team.

However, when you take these decisions you should be able to quantify why. You can always spend more money on more 9s and tighter SLAs, but at some point you need to draw a line in the sand and call it good enough.

For a small startup, that might be before running their own registry, for a large ecommerce website it's probably after. Humorously, a tech first startup would likely do it, whilst a sales first established business probably won't, because neither of them are really quantifying their efforts.

Disclaimer: Also do infra and devops. These are concepts from the SRE book, though I don't use the SRE terms because I can't remember them off the top of my head. Interestingly, the book publishes how google add errors into some products, so people don't rely them unsustainable relability attribuites.
SunOS 4 didn't scale to the degree needed for the future, both imagined and real.
Thats a fair point. But does prohibition work in terms of reducing negative outcomes?
Better speakerphone handling. If the device knows how far the speaker is, or speakers are, it might be able to filter noise better.

Or using the chip to try to provide a consistent music playing volume when you do something in a room that involves moving closer and farther from the speakers.

That said, I agree, I can't come up with anything that's truly useful and not just some over-engineered comfort thing.
> ihn 1955 in Deutschland erstmals vorstellte.

So it would be an anachronism in scene set in 1953 Germany?
You should really, really learn about the history of US involvement in the Iranian government before you state that. Like how we helped overthrow the democratically elected Prime Minister in 1953, to ensure we put in place a guy who was friendly to Great Brittan and the US. (Operation AJAX)

Can almost trace a line from that to the 1979 embassy hostage crisis, and the problems we have with Iran today.
>I'd say security is a bigger issue than performance most of the time.

Yes! I mean, isn't the tradeoff exactly what got us Spectre? "Hey, let's aggressively pre-compute and cache for performance. Oh, darn, turns out that leaks information..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectre_(security_vulnerabilit...
Because you just spent time creating a blog post explaining the changes, presumably to an audience who might not be using your application but you want to entice.
Probably an A/B test?
Wrong. You can’t even use Google with giving them a 30% cut since donations are prohibited from Google Payments.
(What you describe is the issue of the Google Play Store network effect.)

Because that way, we can install these applications from F-Droid, by default. That allows us to cope out of the network effect of Google Play Store, allowing the more fair F-Droid (which specifically allows donation-ware) to increase its network effect.
It was basically as that guy described when I was there through 2015, but it really wasn't that bad. I saved enough money in the bank to quit and live off it for 6 months, and after that it was less like an oppressive life and more like a game I was playing.

I'll tell you what was REALLY stressful: Trying to find my first engineering job after graduating from college. It took almost 9 months, and I ended up in a really shitty low-paying internship. The whole time bills I couldn't pay kept piling up, and my best friend in the world (my cat) ended up passing away partly because I couldn't afford to pay for any more surgeries after putting thousands of dollars' worth on my card.

If you can land a job at Amazon, though, congratulations: You've made it. You can get a programming job anywhere in the world and make money in the 95th+ percentile. You've got health benefits, a 401k plan, life insurance, etc. If you ever get so burned out that you're crying at your desk, just quit your job, sell your shit, break your lease, and backpack around the world for a year. (Or go get a laughably easy ~$100k/year job out in the Midwest)
i eventually realized that while some of my co-workers should probably hear things, they don't necessarily have to hear it from me
To clarify, it’s a 30% cut, not just some small payment processing fee.
"Waited" is interpretation and "all" is generalization, both to avoid in basic nvc.

NVC would be more like: "I saw Eleanor study the night before and I did not see her study before then. I interpreted this as procrastination, which makes me anxious because something similar happened at time X, you want her to succeed, fear a pattern will prevent that, and feel powerless to change it."

Maybe Eleanor did study secretly. Or knew the stuff. Or had a death in the family. Or it is unimportant. Maybe she forgot and could use reminders.

ADHD was a great tool for me + team. Basically autopilot and a low bar. One downside is people mistake things like this and blameless.postmortems as you cannot confront people and publicly, or do not bc of the work... While in reality, it provides a baseline framework for it when you have nothing better.
Like Wirth puts it, algorithms + data structures.

Programming paradigms are orthogonal to that.
I'm not a lawyer, but aren't sales and donations quite different? For instance donations tend to have negative taxes...
Yep. Our cognitive deficits and delusions are just normalized in society EG; "Meritocracy" and the American Dream. Theirs are sensationalized and mocked not because it's wrong but because it's not normalized.
Or prevent a show from being screened to more than two people! Imagine how many missed royalties can now be collected! With Google Pay integration, the user can even be charged automatically to avoid the inconvenience of having to apply for a screening license.
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This is good info in this comment but it makes me very sad.

I now hate my standing desk and want a climbing desk.
Shameless plug but if anybody wants to look at Naive Bayes classifiers for continuous and categorical dat, I wrote a library here:

https://github.com/remykarem/mixed-naive-bayes
I had a small application that was going to debut for the higher ups. It pulled in data from multiple sources. Somebody asked me if I was nervous because the head of the organization was going to see it.

I told him "We're all going to be dead in 50 or so years and none of this will have mattered. So, not really."

The response was "Holy shit, that's dark".

But I think I do use nihilism to cope with potentially anxious thoughts. I know that I can't make any meaningful contributions to the universe on any sort of scale that would be noticeable. So making a mistake isn't the worst thing in the world.
And a large Glasgow City Centre apartment about half of the price of a similar apartment in Edinburgh. Making urbanization a lot more affordable. That said, moving 30 minutes out of Glasgow (Kilmarnock), you can get a similar end unit apartment for a third of the cost in Glasgow walking distance to a direct line to Glasgow.

And here I am in the States driving 50 miles a day and paying triple for my house what a nice City Centre flat costs in Edinburgh.
The sensor sucks because it's small. Plus as a radar it's subject to regulatory requirements. Google should have gone with a lidar-based solution, but the concept of putting lidar in a cellphone is probably heavily protected Apple IP.
That is all determined by culture. The ones in charge, the ones not down hill.
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Can you please post a link to the switch?
If I could use unstyled controls and know that most browsers would have reasonable defaults, I would. I think a lot of line-of-business developers would agree. I see an opportunity to eliminate one thing that adds bloat to web applications.
Except maybe actual neuromorphic computers can, some observations hint that synthetic neurology might be a possible that can be scaled:
https://futurism.com/self-assembling-circuits-resemble-brain...

This of course, doesn't necessarily rule out digital emulations of the interconnected correlates given sufficient technologies to emulate it either though? Of course, it doesn't mean the computer science we have now will grant conscious computers, but computer science of the future still may.
I would instead ask if watching videos of women being raped and beaten up (even if fictional) harms children or sets up teenage boys with unreasonable expectations of what sex is like.
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We don't even need to resort to "by definition" here.

They describe the tech as "detect[ing] objects and motion through various materials". We're effectively talking about the equivalent of TSA full-body scanners. How's that for privacy concerns!?

Also, for a bit of pedantry, if this is literally "radar" as they say it is, then the argument that "Soli is not a camera and doesn’t capture any visual images" is arguing semantics at the level of splitting "which EM frequency ranges count as a camera and/or visual imagery" hairs.
Grit by Angela Duckworth (https://www.amazon.com/Grit-Passion-Perseverance-Angela-Duck...) goes into deliberate practice quite a bit.

She talks about how deliberate practice is almost never enjoyable because you're trying to improve specific things, but it is how you attain mastery. The other side is "flow", when that mastery is display, and she mentions how it can look so effortless for top athletes, when it's almost definitely the result of hours and hours of deliberate practice.
Are you... comparing psilocybin to heroin?
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I suspect twitch streamers back catalogs are gone due to something else - YT has a rule against promoting Twitch streams https://twitter.com/LinusTech/status/1008752236027973632
https://www.engadget.com/2018/07/12/youtube-terminates-accou...
Getting consensus can go too far. And your products will suffer for it
> …are allowed on Google Play.

Until some morning when suddenly, they're not!
Naive Bayes Classifier for Categorical and Continuous Data
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHalOdCZO9Q
Fifteen Million Merits is one of their episodes that's not about the future at all, the way I read it. More of an allegory about now (or, now in 2011, anyway).
https://killedbygoogle.com/

I am rather curious about Stradia's longevity.
Is he actually “barred”? Or he just don't go there? I remind him talking[1] about TV and radio, and how it was structurally[2] impossible to hold non-mainstream views there, so he wasn't really interested going.

[1] in On Anarchism.

[2] he said it was because the mandatory conciseness when talking live.
I'm sure that's true, but there are also a lot of "soft" skills that many HN readers wouldn't necessarily recognize as such.

I'm reminded of Poul Anderson's short story The Man Who Counts.

Soft skills needn't be generally beneficial either, of course, any more than hard skills.
Would it be acceptable to Google if the only perk of buying an IAP was a little icon on the screen saying "contributor" or something?

Do they ban all donation verbiage or just IAPs that do nothing?
I can't speak for SF or Seattle, but I suspect a big reason for lack of families with children in many large American cities is that, for the most part, public schools are unacceptable for any family that cares about education.

DC, Philly, Baltimore, Cleveland... all the same story. Even in gentrifying and resurgent neighborhoods, parents with the means to do so leave as soon as their kids get to school age or enroll them in extremely expensive private schools. Some might try charter schools or selective magnet schools, but the local neighborhood school in your typical big city is typically a hard "no go".