skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not only early retirement but any kind of retirement that gets the retiree in a mode that they don't have to try anymore will result in cognitive decline. I am seeing this in my dad who has been retired for ten years now. Throughout his work life he was a sharp hard working banker. Now he uses his age and retirement as an excuse for not trying. Just yesterday he wanted me to order something for him from Amazon. I told him to send me the link to the item. He asked me how to do that. I told him if you can't find the Share link just copy the link and send it to me. He responds by saying that he doesn't know how to do copy-paste. He has been using computers for at least the last fifteen years. I asked him how come he didn't know how to copy-paste. His response was - I am retired now and there's nobody to tell me or teach me. I can see the cognitive decline. Things he used to be able to do, he can't anymore. This type of attitude is also affecting his self respect and confidence.
Thanks for the great feedback! Yes, some of these limitations expressed in the study are true in the case of ClearBrain - namely we are leveraging observational studies at this time as a prioritized ranking algorithm for which behaviors are most important, but the actual effect sizes themselves may be variable. We're working on improvements, as well as incorporating actual experiment data into our algorithm to make it more accurate over time.
A 10-minute mile pace is definitely not walking speed--that's about twice as fast as most people walk.
Yesterday you proclaimed that the status quo of physics is free from "bad science", and today you're engaging in a character assassination against a well-renowned female physicist who is questioning the status quo.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21389029
DJI is selling a heavier battery that does put it over the 250g limit so it's a bit greyer than the vespa version.
Implementations of layout in source code tend to suffer hard-to-diff from a source control point of view.

Everytime you move an existing component into a wrapper, the identation breaks how the diff shows up.

Perhaps we need a XML formatter that instead of pretty formats, sets the indentation to 0, when we commit code changes. However, that makes the source hard to read.

So instead of a diff that reads line

- <panel>
- <textblock>foo</textblock>
- </panel>
+ <vpanel>
+ <panel>
+ <textblock>foo</textblock>
+ </panel>
+ </vpanel>

We get

+ <vpanel>
<panel>
<textblock>foo</textblock>
</panel>
+ </vpanel>

Another problem is with the end tags, it is difficult as in the previous example to tell which opening tag an end tag is
for.

A pretty formatter could solve this problem too.

<vpanel id="vertical-wrapper">
<panel id="heading">
<textblock>foo</textblock>
</panel><!-- heading -->
</vpanel><!-- vertical-wrapper -->

Perhaps the level of indentation could be added visually
too

<vpanel id="vertical-wrapper"> <!-- vertical-wrapper -->
<panel id="heading"> <!-- heading -->
<textblock>foo</textblock> <!-- textblock -->
</panel> <!-- -->
</vpanel> <!-- -->

but then we bring back the problem of the ugly diffs, gah!
I'm curious as to which projects you use it in.

Do you use it in Pushbullet?
Probably for the best
What's really cute is how Jobs expresses contempt for money, for being a millionaire, praising the Sixties idealism (needless to say, the very spirit of the beginning of internet) at the same time he builds up the most closed, proprietary-obsessed company possible.
It’s the law too. Zoning generally prohibits putting stores and houses together. The law also requires that developers build a minimum amount of parking. Even Houston, reputed to be a zoning free for all, has mandatory parking minimums, which guarantee sprawl and car centric streets.

I live in the plateau neighbourhood of Montreal and as far as I can tell it’s one of the few in north america that doesn’t require any parking. Travel is more like the dutch. You walk, bike, or take a short metro ride and it’s not terribly slower than a car for most of your daily trips, if not faster.
> the philosophy and sociology of science are a VERY different thing from "the humanities".

I'm not sure that they are.

But my point is simply that accusing scientists of not being self-reflective is silly, accusing them of ignorance of history is silly, and for this piece to be elevated beyond the level of polemic would require something, anything, in the way of persuasion that its assertions were true.
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Totally agree. Short-ish term unemployment is (beside pensions) the only social program I can think of that pays out depending on what you payed in. Thus I also have a real problem with the sentiment of "you have contribute to get taken care of" in GPs original comment.

Social programs take care of you based on needs, regardless what you payed in. Healthcare (the public program) gives the same service to everyone while having you to pay a % of income. You won't get neither more housing nor child benefit by having payed in more.

Yes, unemployment is a bit of a special case since its goal is to minimize disruption on peoples live in case of sudden job loss. Not just being a basic safety net... those are available to everyone.
Here is Jack Dorsey's commentary thread:

https://twitter.com/jack/status/1189634360472829952
It looks like they are trying to improve things.[1]

[1] https://www.bizjournals.com/jacksonville/news/2018/12/20/new...
Maybe not most, but many. Some teens themselves have educational YouTube channels.
Fallout: New Vegans (if you follow OP's naming convention)
> vfork is perfectly predictable as long as you follow the basic rule: only invoke async-signal-safe functions until you call exec.

Unsurprisingly, that's also true for plain fork in a multithreaded program.
Now the fun part -- defining political ads.
Can't be true. If it were true central/western mass would have a lot less problems. ;)
There's a fair bit of truth in that, but even people who "speak no Finnish" soon learn the names of foods, how to ask for coffee/beer, and their numbers.

There's just a big jump from simple things that will get you by to actual fluency.
Is this when we now start to wonder what will count as a political ad?

Social movements that have a political connection / associated with a particular party or candidate?
I am one of the FreeCAD developper (vejmarie). I believe some good innovations are coming up within the next release. I recently added some Cloud features with storage capabilities directly to s3, opening doors to build a collaborative platform (I am working on a mockup). Waevfront OBJ exporter has been improved allowing some direct export to webGL format and many other things. Regarding the features, an assembly workbench is under work, and some fancy stuff have been designed with FreeCAD (there is some Renault Twizy design files available). The FeM workbench with OpenFoam bridge allows also to initiate some simulation model. FreeCAD has in its backend a lot of capabilities that we can expose to end user. We are lacking from good feedback on the UI other than we are not yet reaching Solidworks, but FreeCAD is today a solution which works on Mac, Windows, Linux, has an open file format (Brep shape and XML representation), and is fully open source. We made tremendous progress since version 0.16 and there is a strong wish to bring in innovation regarding design workflow. Just tell us what might be your best tools and we can try to do it !
We have reached a middle ground in our organisation (not a tech company, so there is less code and a slower pace). We don't require rewrites, but simply recommend that next time the code be written in a more lenient style. The education aspect is a good lens through which to view the issue also, sometimes resistance to an unfamiliar style is due to a fixed mindset around a known set of language functionality. It could be an opportunity to learn something new which is genuinely useful.
Except, you know, fundamental stuff like how many cores does the JRE think it is running on.

The dance over that as we've gone from 8 to 9 to 10 to 11 is mind boggling.
If you read to the second paragraph of my comment, I acknowledge exactly that and agree that increasing non-car transportation options can be a good thing at the same time as cars being a pretty necessary (or at least substantially life-improving) technology.
For anyone interested in this, I'd highly recommend /u/Iphikrates' three-part summary of the Spartan reputational mirage on /r/AskHistorians a couple of years ago.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/6rvusy/is_th...
Nearly every electric bike in the Netherlands is pedal-assist, not pure electric.

When you see Pedelec, it means S-Pedelec, which is more powerful (45km/h), helmet required, basically a moped. Mostly used by older folks and weekend long-distance cycling groups.
Isn't that all electric bikes? What other types are there? It's the only type of electric bike I've seen
This makes sense.. though I'm not sure it will do much in practice to improve political discourse. The combination of politicians having twitter accounts and twitter's content recommendation engine promoting politician's tweets make me think the perceived effect to the end user (twitter showing people messages from politicians or their supporters) will remain more or less the same.

But because twitter isn't taking money directly from those politicians, it perhaps reduces their perceived culpability. It seems like a good move for twitter.
Because Facebook wants those ads. They productize the ability to run them, and it's revenue they want. They lie about or disguise their participation in the market and their policies policing that content. Facebook continues to take steps to get more of that revenue. It's not "hard", it's just just they don't want to do it.
Because towns don't insist on it, it costs money and it's less land that's free to develop.
But if Catalonia secedes, the majority (they're not, but for argument's sake) of independentist catalonians will be bullying the minority of non-independentist catalonians, right?

It's turtles all the way down.
This article is laughably bad. I don't think the author put any effort into understanding the culture. No attempt is made to understand why the Spartans made certain decisions. The perspective seems to be, 'they didn't make decisions like us modern smart people would, so they were dumb and mean.' Lines like "because Sparta produced so little of value" do well to reveal this. So little of value to who?

"...essentially amounts to a strategic objective to be able to continue mistreating the helots and the periokoi. In practice – given Sparta’s desperate shortness of manpower (and economic resources!) and continued unwillingness to revisit the nature of its oppressive class system..."

So much for Hegel.
The current Spanish constitution was drafted by a process heavily dominated by members of the former Francoist regime. The Spanish people were never formally asked "What sort of constitution would you like?" They were asked "Would you like a democratic constitution or not?" And I think a lot of people voted 'yes', whether or not they liked the constitution on offer, but simply because they wanted to ensure the return to democracy and the end to dictatorship was solidified. A fairer process of drafting a constitution would have produced a very different document.

If a dictatorship offers people democracy on its terms, people will accept it. But, was their choice really free? Would they have agreed to the same terms if the threat of dictatorship wasn't there? (1978 was only three years after Franco died, Spanish democracy was very young, and it was entirely believable in 1978 that it might not have lasted.)
To me the solution here would be public rail stretching into the suburbs with lots of car parking
And you're blithely accepting the word of an expert who was paid to investigate the official autopsy, on behalf of Epstein's brother?

Have any sources, etc.?
In La Jolla, I had a bus pass because I had been running errands. I was tired and we had more stuff to do, so I took the bus since I already had a pass good for the whole day. It didn't cost anything.

My sons walked to meet me somewhere midway to where we were going. They arrived about the same time I did.

I would get ahead of them because the bus is faster -- when it's actually moving. Then we would sit at a light or get stuck in traffic, and I would watch my sons pull ahead of the bus.

When we first gave up our car, it took no more time to pick up groceries on foot than by car. The same scenario often took place, where a car would zoom past us, then get stuck trying to turn into the parking lot. We were going into the store while they were looking for a parking space.

Cars on the open highway going long distances are absolutely much faster than someone walking. But for many local trips, they aren't as advantageous as many Americans assume them to be and will vociferously argue they are when presented with such stories.
Jack's last tweet in this thread:

>paying to increase the reach of political speech has significant ramifications that today’s democratic infrastructure may not be prepared to handle

Ignoring the technology aspects of this for a minute: he's basically arguing directly against the Supreme Court's Citizen's United ruling, which I find interesting. If we're going to argue that money is too corrupting in online political advertising then it really doesn't have anything to do with being online.
Yeah. I'm in Canada, I have a couple drones. I've seen someone else flying one... once. While I was out finding somewhere to fly.

I think what we're running into though is the sheer size of North America. Even within the city here, there are a fair number un(der)developed areas with no/few people around. Out of the city, there rest stops or sometimes even just viewpoints. For all of these, with a bit of walking I can avoid annoying anyone.

Somewhere like Switzerland, that might not be possible.
False premise: https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2019/oct...
Congrats on the launch Bilal and team!
One potential risk I see would be that Crispr becomes too easy for anyone to do, and someone starts selling dodgy kits that allow for simple mistakes to turn into complex problems.

An extreme outcome might be like the fictional movie "I Am Legend", which was a horrible title for the movie. Someone gets desperate to cure a late stage cancer in a loved one and ends up creating a pathogen that can manage to spread to other people and wipe out a portion or all of the population.

Or perhaps someone starts selling kits that "make your muscles bigger", but in 0.7% of the population, that kit also makes the persons heart become oversized.

Is it safe to assume that these scenarios are too difficult to accomplish? I am asking because people will do what people can do and we will see online crispr kits before long.
Does the safety of young girls concern you at all, speaking of responsibility.
Here lies the danger of arguing from a position of zero knowledge.

> Even a crazy fitness nut likely wouldn't cycle that many miles every day

Speaking as a crazy fitness nut, I have to tell you no, sorry, 30 miles is my warm up/recovery distance.

> People living in big, dense cities are too quick to forget most people don't live that life

80% of the US population lives within an urban area.

> Out here, a car is pretty necessary

I live in the suburbs. When I have an early meeting, I ride to the train station. I do have a car, but I still don't have to use it.

To sum up: car dependency is a self-fulfilling prophecy based on a combination of wilful ignorance and unwillingness to change.
If only there was a way to communicate more than a couple sentences at the time over the internet. Someone should make that!
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1189634360472829952.html
Is #FreeHongKong considered a political ad?
Assuming US law, to get damages for every car sold I believe that the plaintiff would have to be suing for actual damages. That's the monetary harm the infringement actually caused the plaintiff, and profits the defendant made from the infringement.

Monetary harm would be hard to prove for purely GPL software. For software that is dual licensed under GPL and a non-free license that you have to pay to get, there is a much better chance plaintiff could make a case for monetary harm.

Defendant's profits is more promising, but I believe that it is profits that can reasonably be attributed to the infringing material.

Plaintiff's best bet for getting money out of a copyright suit in a case like this is to elect to ask for statutory damages rather than actual damages. Statutory damages are per infringed work, not per infringing copy. Statutory damages are from $750 to $30000, with the exact amount depending on the seriousness of the infringement and the worth of the infringer. The lower end can be lowered to as low as $200 if the court finds the the infringer was an "innocent infringer" (which would require the infringer to not know or have reason to know the work was copyrighted--a very unlikely possibility), and the higher end can be raised to as much as $150000 if the infringement was "willful".
The real question is how long it will take for Facebook to follow suit.
>The homeowner claims he's out $400k total for various reasons, beyond what insurance covered.

That is not what the homeowner claimed. He claimed his damages were $400k total, and the house was covered.

What wasn't covered were the contents of the home because it was a rental and the renter didn't have renter's insurance.

Also there were some runaway costs to the owner in the rebuild because the owner repoured the foundation (which wasn't damaged) in order to build a bigger home.

>They chose to wreck the house.

And he choose not to rebuild on the existing undamaged foundation and lay a new foundation to build a bigger home, but the damages to make the homeowner whole were otherwise covered by insurance.
This is a great decision, and that's a well reasoned thread. Hopefully this puts pressure on other big players like Facebook.
in 95% of cases it's a trivial decision, in particular if you want to stop the most egregious offenders. It's like the infamous line about porn, you know it when you see it.

On edge cases time will work out standards, that's what these companies ought to employ humans for.
For healthy individuals - I agree 100%.

Beef spikes insulin as much as rice? Well not for me (and I suspect most people). I can eat a steak without raising my blood glucose at all - one bowl of rice and it jumps 100mg/dl.

There's not a lot of good data on glucose spikes. It's a discussion I've had with my endocrinologist a number of times. He suspects it's not bad for occasional incidents as long as A1C isn't affected but again it's not been studied yet.

Sure, eat less. It's that easy - I guess the 90% of people overweight are just stupid.

You last statement is very true however. People and doctors want to do the simple thing. For doctors it's meds and then when they don't work well enough it's insulin and then more and more insulin.

That's a hamster wheel that people need to get off.
What about the externalities of harvesting battery components? And battery replacements? The externalities of manufacturing panels?

Wouldn't it be easier to build several large scale nuclear plants and offset it with a small amount of renewables than try to make all of our power run off of rechargeable batteries?
Twitter to stop accepting political ads
"average Dutch person bikes per day" I took that to mean per capita. Are you telling me they meant per cyclist?
While this is clearly an impressive accomplishment, blizzard has said each season has ~150 thousand 1v1 players.

That puts them around 300th (+/- some unbound error margin), so I assume that means much lower success against pro-level gamers.

I would be interested in seeing a new set of rematches, that don't silently randomize which DM player the human players are up against. In the early rounds the pro gamers were able to play much more effectively whenever they knew which player they were against.
I would say start here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight_Magic_Words and amend as necessary.
I'm not sure that's it. Twitter was going to be sued if they allowed one party to advertise but not the other. This decision allows them to still behave with some partisanship via their moderation policy.

Facebook is taking the safer position in this case, IMO, from a legal/regulatory perspective. It'll be interesting to see what shakes out.
I mean social movements are all political. So I guess grass roots will be okay, just not paid or paid endorsements. So no promoting of the Sierra Club by commercial entities... for example.

This is going to be s can of worms.
The FEC has pretty clear rules about what constitutes a political ad, and presumably Twitter will be using those. But whether that satisfies the (both literal and metaphorical) parties who've been grousing about political ads on Twitter/FB is a different story. Twitter might correctly point out that a given contentious ad doesn't satisfy the FEC's definition and that still won't stop the complaints.

Still, I think they're now in a better spot than Facebook.
In the Netherlands that difference isn't that huge, there are 17 million people, 13.5 million of those own bicycles (there are about 23 million bicycles total).
Will be interesting to see how Facebook plays this out now. Seems as if they are headed in the complete opposite direction.
I suppose we'll find out on 11/15. Could use elections/votes as a proxy for what constitutes a political ad.

If the thing/person being promoted can be voted on/in, it's a political ad.
Can anyone explain what SoftBank's actual investment thesis is these days? As far as I can tell, they now specialize in funding hyped companies with awful unit economics, pumping their valuations, and trying to shove them onto the next greater fool before people figure out what's going on.
A post from the other day:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21380985

A user who works in digital advertising said they do the following:

> You don't take money from clients who are representing/selling anything other than goods or services. You evaluate creative & landing pages for each and every campaign. It's extremely simple.

Seems like a mostly good solution. I guess you could still sell political services and goods though? Not sure how you would draw the line at that point, all goods and services can be argued to be political.
It’s also worth noting that Spain is already one of the most decentralised countries in the OCDE and Catalonia is one of the regions which a higher level of self-government in the country. Including its own police force, which results in the amusing situation that the regional government is at the same time encouraging the masses to revolt and sending the police to repress the revolts.
> We don't let blatantly false ads run on TV.

Did you cut the cable years ago? I think perhaps you've forgotten how bad some political ads on TV are.
Phantom line seems to be killed, DJI doesn't care, so welcome to unstable drones in the future. I still can't understand why did they kill their best drone series a grandpa could fly?
You're totally missing the point of the above comment. The entire article is premised on "by one measure, the Dutch hardly bike at all," but 2.5 km/day/capita is fucking huge.
I went that way. Five years down the line, when I read theoretical physics, I'm glad of what chose.
Twitter will ban all political ads starting in November
Final policy 11/15, enforcement starts 11/22. This seems like a tricky line to walk. For example, could I promote a Tweet about the UBI without mentioning Andrew Yang?
Fails to scrape article previews from https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/
Not yet, probably next month.