skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There is a reason the many eastern religions that were the inspiration for a lot of new age ideas forbid drugs and alcohol.

I'm sure they had reasons. We do studies like this to determine whether or not those reasons are any good. I've seen a lot of evidence that suggests that mediation can have lots of benefits, and I've seen evidence that suggests that psychedellics can have benefits in certain use cases as well.

It's easy on a personal level to dismiss results of a study because of dogma, but it doesn't translate into an effective argument.
Are you being sarcastic? Or are you saying that not having local access to a particular brand of doughnuts is the same hardship and moral travesty as having to pay a crippling medical bill?
It's exactly like not being allowed to share your selfie because you look too much like your mom or sister.
Hi, I'm the author of the article, and I don't assume all online advertising is Google search. I also cite research on display advertising (meta-study of 432 display experiments on Google): https://www.ssrn.com/abstract=2701578 And on Facebook advertising: https://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/faculty/gordon_b/files/...

The problem with all online advertising is that there are huge selection effects, which are hard to correct for using conventional statistical methods. So you need to do experiments. And when economists do experiment, they find that advertising effects are so small that they are hard to measure.
I pay $30k per year in rent for a modest 1 bedroom apartment. :(
I'd like to stop being my own worst critic, self-sabotage, and build something that improves someone else's life (and make money doing it)
> ... advertisers ... can't possibly care what video it's showing ...

I read this as 'advertisers don't care about the particular topic of the ad in general.' They don't care if you're watching a DIY home fixit video, or a coder streaming his working session, as long as you're a target for diapers and they're advertising diapers.
Wow, this might be my favorite web site branding (at getambassador.io) I've ever seen. 10,000,000 Whose Line points for incorporating Tux.
People have been saying this about ARM for more than half a decade. Why would people suddenly start porting stuff to ARM that they weren't before?
I only see this happening if Apple replaces the Intel chip in their Macs with a desktop variant of their mobile chips.
There is no reason to think such cost decline will apply to fusion reactors. Many of the parts in the system are mature (like, all the non nuclear parts like turbines.)
Warren’s wealth tax doubles to 6% at the billionaire level. (France’s and Sweden's highest wealth tax was 1.5% until they got rid of it.)

Warren’s calculations just prove why the whole fixation on billionaires and income inequality is a distraction. You're talking about a wealth tax that is unconstitutional, at levels that are completely unprecedented. You're talking about risking capital flight, and setting political capital on fire, to move the United States far to the left of Europe. (What a great campaign ad for Donald Trump! Warren is proposing to do something that even France realized was a bad idea.) And for what? Is it going to pay for M4A? Or balance the budget? No. Not even theoretically.

I say this all as someone who wants universal healthcare to be implemented (even though I'm pessimistic about it saving any money). I think Warren's proposal with respect to employer-side payments is actually pretty clever. But the wealth tax is a huge political liability, and it could take M4A with it. And when that happens, it won't be the fault of billionaires (the wealth tax wasn't going to raise the necessary revenue anyway). It'll be the fault of people making $200,000 who think they are "middle class" and shouldn't have to pay the same level of taxes their counterparts in Europe pay.
they probably don't want to deal with the supply chain logistics of supplying a single store in the state.
You don't really want to waste your time trying to understand why you made a choice.
If you're like me and like learning through trial and error, then try to think of it this way.
When you are trying to choose between several different methods to learn something, you're probably going to pick the most efficient method that you could understand.
If you've decided to study with "free" study tools or a free textbook, then you're probably going to pick the one that you have the least knowledge about.
From where? Jeff Bezos space mining ventures? Eventually the question about the size of the economy and endless growth must be answered.
It would be irrelevant only if the sole reason to use GraphQL is to minimize network hops and bandwidth. I'd argue that, if that's the only positive you see in GraphQL, then you would be just as well off writing custom API endpoints for each view of your application.

I prefer interacting with GraphQL over RESTful interfaces. From my experience, it's less prone running into bugs inherent to client-side joins of API responses, easier to evolve iteratively, and generally more pleasant to work with thanks to its introspectable declarative schema and flexible query language.
You extrapolated, he did the same. I prefer his post better because at least I got a chuckle from it.
>the tracking history gets wiped

This might be a little too nitpicky but it doesn't get wiped. It's simply no longer associated with that object because it's considered a different object. It's still a huge, glaring issue, obviously, but all the data is still there.

In this particular case, the "object" was identified as one type of object and so all of the data related to that was classified as "car" info, for example, and then, when it's reclassified, that additional data starts recording to the "bike" info bucket. The software should have been keeping track of certain data regardless of that classification but it's only seeing the latest bucket of data. If the tracking history got wiped, we wouldn't have the data to look back on to see how this was all happening.
My perspective on this might be too naive; but it seems wealth inequality (which is the topic of this article) is inevitable since a significant proportion of the population will spend their entire income and therefore never save.

It seems like about 19% of all Americans have zero net worth, and something like 44% of single American retirees are dependent on Social Security for 90% or more of their income, implying they saved very little throughout their entire lifetimes.
It’s OK but not that astonishing. Still prefer to write in the default notepad because it just werks
From the abstract, this is a meta study. It recognizes that potted plants do improve indoor air quality, but the amount is extremely insignificant. The paper notes that it rather see studies focus on other areas that indoor plants might be actually beneficial at like reducing VOCs and providing basic bio-filtration instead of cleaning air in general.
I also recall my parents grabbing these from the local cub foods for us but I guess Cub stopped selling Krispy Kreme at the turn of the decade. Anyway that kid is gonna get easy money if he has a monopoly on the entire state.

Btw just realized I follow you on twitter, always interesting to see your thoughts and tweets.
> Or it may aid in processing traumas that were blockades to meditation,

Or it may aid in giving one even more trauma. The outcome differs from person to person, I'm only offering my anecdotes based on my experience and people I know who dabble in psychedelics and meditation. The risk can be distilled to the simple idea of a crutch. Of course, not everyone will take it as a crutch.

> But FWIW, this research seems to suggest one does not need to keep using psilocybin to have its long-lasting beneficial effects:

And I relate this risk precisely because, in my opinion, most or many people will not deploy the same discipline in using psychedelics as conducted in the study or even use the psychedelics for the same purposes as the study. Once faced with the boredom of the non-psychedelic state of mind, people get agitated. But it's precisely facing this boredom and this agitation which will help them grow -- boredom and agitation are as much apart of reality and the human experience as is excitement and ecstasy.
Just gonna say that you can get some level of federal grants and loans going to foreign schools which cost far less. I’m obviously familiar with the UK which is very open to having US foreign students coming over (with a weak pound it’s worth considering). The application process is also much cheaper and easier in most European countries. Of course this doesn’t solve the problem of US university being so damn expensive, but it can help individuals who want to get a good education for cheaper.
Back in colonial times, a common part of two people getting married was the bride's father paying to have all her teeth pulled and replaced with a set of false teeth -- because the state of dental hygiene was so bad then that it was just assumed that she would lose all her teeth eventually, and that way the husband wouldn't have to bear the expense of dealing with it. It was a kind of dowry.

I look at those photos and wonder if something similar wouldn't be a nice benefit for newly minted pro hockey players...
In this case, its us telling the corporation that we don't think they have liability for a guy reselling their product.

Liability is used as a boogyman in corporate american to squash all sorts of good and bad ideas.
I think it's also possible that the people who do are just much more prone to talking about it. Who talks about how they don't disable javascript unprompted?
Pilot accidentally triggers hijacking alert at Amsterdam airport
I would say, try if it works for you. Everybody's case is really different, there is no one-size-fits-all solution.

In my case, I had been trying meds for years (pretty much all brands). Suddenly, I had an intuition that there must be other ways. I researched the web during days and days.

Result: I reduced the meds over around 10-14 day period down to zero, after I had gotten into daily mindfulness meditation for a couple of weeks (started with 30min, then 1 hour as an advanced practitioner). As soon as got to 0mg, I had the best couple of hours of my life thanks to my 1st trip with LSD (well researched, well prepared, did it outside in nature, playlist carefully selected). It completely ripped me out of my depression, felt 100% connected to the entire universe, felt immense beauty, love, light, peace. Even during 2-3 days after the experience, I was still deeply in love with simple trees, plants, flowers, where everything had been grey and without any interest during years, before. The anti-anxiety effect lasted a couple of months. This was a life-changing event. The best moment of my life. As always, your mileage may vary.
In reasonably dense U.S. cities, people walk into the road outside of crosswalks all the time. Even in suburban areas, it's normal to cross like that in residential areas. But suburban areas are often crisscrossed by 30-50 mph streets where crossing the street outside of crosswalks (or sadly even in crosswalks, really) is dangerous. This is partly because of the speed limit. But also partly because there are few pedestrians (points of interest are far apart so people need to drive everywhere), so drivers are relatively reckless.

I'm not convinced that the pedestrian outside crosswalk omission arose because of U.S. car-centric thinking. I think if any software engineer working on the project was told that their autonomous driving system wasn't watching out for these pedestrians, they'd be horrified. In fact, probably many of them were already horrified at how poorly their system was performing in general, and yet management still deployed the software in actual physical cars.
"modern city", maybe not, but there's a world of difference between, say, a shack in the woods and an apartment with aircon/heating/insulation (as appropriate) and easy access to groceries.

I don't know where the line is, but if you say the basic right is just "house", and that gets enforced, someone's going to try to draw that line as low as they can. Probably a few developers try to argue that if everyone gets a house then zoning laws need to be relaxed so they can afford it, and (hyperbole) we're back to windowless apartments with one room per family and one bathroom per floor.
I would check out template matching or using OpenCV feature extractors such as SIFT, SURF, ORB

Template Matching scans an image with your template, smaller image and finds the location with highest cross correlation:
https://opencv-python-tutroals.readthedocs.io/en/latest/py_t...

Template matching assumes the example image wont deform or take on different orientations.

Popular Feature Extraction finds and derive more robust features that help find objects in the scenarios of distortion, orientation, and scale.

Link for feature detection and matching:
https://opencv-python-tutroals.readthedocs.io/en/latest/py_t...

Pyimagesearch does a cool method where they enable template matching to work at different scales. It ignores color information (by using edge detection), which could be a critical feature if the object has specific color:

https://www.pyimagesearch.com/2015/01/26/multi-scale-templat...
At five seconds from impact it absolutely should have. And if it couldn't tell that it was that close to the "vehicle" that's even more reason it shouldn't be anywhere near the road in this state. The system should be able to behave cautiously in situations where input is erratic. Good human drivers don't go full speed ahead when they can't see.
Times like these I have to remind myself that it's never the right thing to do to punch a Nazi, but boy would it feel good (metaphorically; literally physically punching a Nazi/anyone is probably not something I have in me).

Honest question for the folks of HN: would it be ethical to violate these Nazi's privacy, de-anonymize them, and contact their family/employers based on this leak? I think the easy (and probably correct) answer is no, but I'm curious if anyone has a nuanced view here.
I believe even with C++98 you could have used boost::shared_ptr and boost::scoped_ptr. The addition to the STL effectively didn't change that much. It's just that when you used C++ back then, they probably weren't considered best practice yet.

More important in my opinion are changes to the language, like lambdas or auto.
unrelated to the article but it is really dumb that ny times doesn't have anchor linking right to specific headlines if they're going to put every article on the same page. I was wondering why this linked to an article about Kim Kardashian before I scrolled halfway down the page, past every ad of course...
> Clearly i was referring to just buying donuts from a different shop.

Clearly.

Clearly, the response referred humorously to the fact that the brand and specific preparations of the raw materials can matter to consumers, for various reasons.
I only have one answer and it is the one that worked for me after 30 years of trying. Trying meaning trying to be mindful, advocating for and using meditation spaces in the office and leading meditation groups, product managing a meditation app, studying and using "Mindful Business Practices," rewriting our perf management system to be mindfully based. Etc.

Here's what worked: I quit. I quit and then took time off and regained an absolutely enormous amount of balance in my life. Like 20x more than I would have expected. Working in tech for 30 years had fucked me up way more than I had thought. Me! A man who is a practicing Buddhist, has taken trainings, who meditates, who journals... I had no idea.

I quit and then after a few months I knew I couldn't go back. So I'm not. I'm out of tech. I'm spending my savings to go back to school at age 46 to be a psychotherapist. I have never felt better about anything. So that's my answer.
> most jobs are salary so there's no notion of compensation per unit of time.

Most jobs are wage and it's perfectly normal to be salary and non-exempt. Unless you are a founder or management if an employer is trying to classify you as exempt to avoid paying overtime they are breaking the law.
Yeah that's always the dilemma at the end of the day...
> Now libraries who deaccession to BWB can have even greater social impact, because the Internet Archive will acquire, digitize, lend, store and digitally preserve millions of books from BWB’s inventory over the next few years

Perhaps this is an obvious question with an obvious answer but how will this work in relation to copyrights? I know that many copyrights expire and sometimes the copyrights are forfeited and as a result many creative works from long ago end up in the public domain.

But what is the plan here to achieve this mission while respecting copyrights?
PyCharm and JS (Babel) are only similar in that they turn text source code into AST's

With Python + PyCharm, the default mode is to allow developers to exclude and ignore types and code will still run, no matter how many orange/red markers are in PyCharms gutter. To change that mode, you need to consciously decide to add something to your workflow that will impede you if something is wrong e.g. git hooks to run linters, flake8, black etc.

With TypeScript, the default mode is to stop the developer in their tracks - the TS compiler will fail, and you can't run code (generated JS) that doesn't exist. Types are not optional, unless you make them explicitly so (which is still providing a type).

> I don't see how types can work if no type information is provided.

TS can still import native JS code... given that it has a TypeScript declaration file [0]. Many popular libraries offer one now, but many more do not. The community came together and created DefinitelyTyped [1], where 10k contributors have made 65k commits to provide TS declaration files for over 5,200 libraries spanning countless versions/releases.

This means a TS developer can import JS code that doesn't have 1st-party TS support, but does have 3rd-party through DefinitelyTyped.

[0] https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/declaration-fil...

[1] https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
It's like some crappy AI bot learning to interact with humans.
It's not being pedantic if you are correcting the conclusion.

You mentioned that fueling system issues have been a recurring theme in failures, and I just wanted to point out that it's not really correct. Even though the 2 failures looked somewhat similar from the outside, they actually had basically nothing in common.
The question is prepare more vs take a shot. Rules of thumb advocating one versus the other are abound. Sun Tzu extols the virtue of more preparation to defeat the enemy before engaging, while also recommending the warrior that does not load his supply wagons twice nor wait for a second group of reinforcements. Fools rush in where angels fear to tread, Faint heart never won fair lady etc.

So there is advice advocating both, what to do?

I find that when you have an endeavor with several essential areas, example with a triathlon you need to swim bike and run to complete it. Similarly for a business you need a product-service and you need customers to sell it to etc. Then the best approach is to get your toe wet in each area to get a feel for what is involved. So a mistaken approach is to spend all your time building a product that you think is good enough before starting to talk to customers. You need parallel efforts so that you can determine the right ratio of effort in each area to succeed. In war you would prepare your army but you would also have a few guys harassing the enemy to feel them out...
> Cat 5/5e cable (esp. in the wall), now you've got to replace the cable, even for short runs.

Not always. I have a working 10GBASE-T link over about 50 feet of Cat 5e, going through two couplers too. No frame loss.

Probably depends a lot on the quality of the cabling and the noise environment.
I've never understood techno-optimists on this point.

If Uber has such amazing technology that avoids accidents, they could deploy them as accident-avoidance for regular drivers. They could give normal driving control to the humans, and take over only if there is a potential of accident.

If you argue that these driver assistance technologies already exist, then you better not be comparing your magical AI on supersafe cars with sunny climate on well marked highways to the average driver on the average vehicle under average climate on average roads.
Sounds like there is a business opportunity here. A kind of DevOps-AAS, though to make it scale you'd probably need the customer to probably architect their system in a certain way.

(though this is essentially a single-line comment, it's earnest, not intended to be sarcastic)
Most current entry level AMD and Intel motherboards support 32 or 64 GB RAM (in fact, I couldn't find one that supported less). These are rarely over $100. Boards supporting 128GB of RAM start around $120-150.

Seems reasonable for 2019.
How do you even do this? Is it all remote?
(Like the F-22 and F-35 do) The Shuttle did aerodynamic braking, which is sort of like using the whole vehicle as a parachute, which reduced the speed at which it had to resort to its chute, enabling the chute to be much smaller than it would otherwise have been:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerobraking#Aerodynamic_brakin...

But even if it didn't do that, it would need a much smaller chute than a capsule of the same weight because gliding greatly increases distance traveled through the atmosphere, which enables the vehicle to bleed off a lot more kinetic energy as drag.
DNA profiling technology did exist shortly before the end of the Stasi (the first use in criminal investigation was in 1987 [1]), though presumably they didn't have access to it.

[1] http://aboutforensics.co.uk/colin-pitchfork/
No, they don't ticket everyone who jaywalks, but they certainly can. The arbitrary nature of enforcement (there is plenty of evidence for racial disparities in jaywalking enforcement in some locales, easily Googleable) is in my mind a great argument for getting rid of jaywalking laws - they can still keep traffic obstruction laws.
I'm going to split the difference between you and toomuchtodo. I accept that overtime comes sometimes in this business. I accept it as long as it's rare. There's a crisis for two weeks? OK, I'll be there - maybe not every possible second, but quite a bit more than normal.

There's a crisis for six months? That's not a crisis; that's a management failure. Management should have fixed it by then. That's on them, not on me.

They want overtime every week? FORGET. THAT. NOISE.
Quoting W.C.Fields...
I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it.
For sure. Here are some links:

https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~mkearns/finread/trend.pdf

https://www.bauer.uh.edu/TGeorge/papers/gh4-paper.pdf

https://mebfaber.com/2007/05/30/buying-the-highs-vs-buying-t...

https://allocatesmartly.com/buying-global-stocks-at-all-time...

https://mebfaber.com/2019/11/04/is-buying-stocks-at-an-all-t...
Markets can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.
By 21 years old I think you're no longer a "kid".

In any case it seems like he needed the money to pay for college so he ran a side hustle. The only thing that's remarkable here is, when found out, he used social media to turn it into a PR issue which in turn forced Krispy Kreme to deal with it on PR terms rather than legal ones.
Universal Basic Income to even it out a bit I assume!
If there is a niche somewhere like that fission would be fine. Btw in the inner solar system solar is vastly superior.
This is totally true but the issue was more with the methodology of the detection rather than the detection itself. Regardless of the type of vehicle, the software wasn't good enough for real-world testing.
Reading List: Sunburst and Luminary (The Apollo Guidance Software)
Trolley Dilemmas Shouldn’t Influence Self-Driving Policies, Experts Argue