skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Been doing extreme over-hours in the hope of fixing stuff once and for ever, only to realize your job becomes more and more like shit-shoveling, since management starts to feel invincible (and protected by your contributions), which leads them to make even more errors without accountability.

Legal departments have been dealing with this problem forever too. Such is the plight of being in an assurance function.

Induced demand doesn’t just apply to traffic, it turns out. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_demand
I'd love to see a blinded Dixit competition between humans and AI, judged by humans. Of course, humans and AI could get an advantage by playing lots of Dixit. But if the cards are generated specifically for that competition, things could get quite interesting.
> Imagine a world where no human contribution matters because a different species already thought of it

You are begging the question in in the original sense of the phrase "begging the question."

You start by stating your conclusion as an axiom! You state that "no human contribution matters because a different species already thought of it" as if that is necessarily true.

It isn't.

We choose what matters. I play Bach, badly. Bach already thought of that music, and many thousands, possibly millions of people have played the particular pieces I have worked on (The first suite for unaccompanied cello in Gmaj, the Prelude to the first Fuge in Cmaj from Book One of WTC).

Does my playing not matter?

I say it does. Furthermore, Bach's music can be encoded as a number. All numbers already exist. Bach did not create that number any more than I created the number that encodes this comment.

Does my comment not matter?

You find this general idea depressing, and so do many other people.

But it isn't "depressing" in an absolute sense. That's just a word we made up to describe a feeling many of us happen to have.
Maybe. I honestly wouldn't know for a fact.

I believe Finland is generally consider to have the best education system in Europe, without any real private schools. So is your opinion based on evidence, or just feeling?
Good point. Our algorithm obviously has to make decisions. Sometimes it's right, sometimes absolutely wrong. However the goal is to output a legible and workable front-end code.
I had a very nice Sharp Aquos TV for a long time. One of the first reasonably priced 1080p 65" TVs. It had absolutely no "smart" features, which was perfectly fine with me. I have my TV hooked up to a home theatre system and have my devices (PS4/AppleTV/XB1/Nvidia Shield) hooked up to that.

I recently upgraded to a LG 4K OLED TV. It's an absolutely gorgeous TV, but, I absolutely lament the "smart" features of this TV. I get software update prompts on a regular basis for software I don't use (I'm sure there would be some for the base system anyway, but, an order of magnitude less). The prompts when setting up the TV to accept myriad EULAs are obnoxious. Pop-ups advertising "features" on my TV which I don't want? Ugh.

I really want either a manufacturer who resells these panels with 0 features, or a mode from LG which disables all of this. "Lock to HDMI1 and disable everything but color management features".

More on-topic with the article: I'm a pretty tech and legally-savvy guy, but, even I'm not sure I've toggled the correct order of knobs and declined the correct EULAs to disable that tracking. Moreover, I'm exactly 0% sure that someone else didn't try to watch Netflix (via the TV and not the AppleTV/Shield/PS4/etc) and wasn't prompted to accept EULAs to do that. My point is, if I can't even do this properly, normal people have a near 0% chance of disabling tracking.

That said, it's a fantastically gorgeous panel. I've had a lot of fun re-watching older favorite movies in 4K.
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How much of that is savers and how much the japanese central bank? From what I know they are the ones doing the buying.
How investment analysts became data miners
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> You can run MATE with the Mutiny desktop preset, if performance is an issue.

No. In comparison it is unstable in ways that make Gnome look like NASA software.

It often forgets it is Mutiny and no other of the presets.

Quality wise it is still way below Unity.
First Law of Distributed Object Design: "don't distribute your objects"

--Martin Fowler
OzCode looks impressive, I hadn't come across it before.
Keep in mind Buddhist "mindfulness" is the repackaging of existing "Indic" ideas. This debate has been settled before. Repackage it as you like, as long as it reaches and helps people in need.

Is capitalist mindfulness doing that? I'm not sure. If you don't like capitalist mindfulness, do something about it.
Help me understand what you mean by "worse than naive" here. Richard Barnes isn't going to see a dollar of this money and wouldn't need it anyways. I understand people disagreeing with him, but, despite being automatically disinclined to extend good faith to anything published at CircleID, I don't understand where anyone derives bad faith from this piece.

I thought it was tremendously useful, if only to understand what was in the minds of the people who unanimously voted to sell .ORG.
That doesn't scale. You want a high performance web server in front of a farm of php app servers.
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>The Internet Society is tasked with protecting the interests of the internet names registry, among other things. They have removed price limits on “.org”,

It was ICANN which approved contract removing price limits, not Internet Society. (of course probably all of ICANN/ISOC/PIR/Ethos were involved in the deal, but anyway this statement is incorrect)

I wonder how effective these copy-pasted mass complaints to organizations/politicians/etc. are. It seems to be just waste of time, it's not that receiving same mail X times gives additional information?
It doesn't send any data or have axios integrated. It will output the form (probably in Vue) for a developer on the client side to connect the dots with an API.
I used it several times for making a detailed plan of my home before going shopping for furniture.

One time it even helped me correct "the expert from the shop" and avoid a costly mistake on my soon-to-be kitchen.

Highly recommended.
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What would apple have to do to let us have this on iOs? I would love to have a choice of browser on my phone.
There's a loose correlation between SAT and college grades. There's also a correlation between parents income and college grades. And several other things. The common thread - they're almost all related to socio-economic status - the more educated and wealthy the parents, the more successful the student, on average.
Back in the day you could watch the Soccer World Cup over telnet.

http://www.ascii-wm.net/

Demo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VQQVTS6u_w
that's great, it would definitely reduce the amount of time I have to spent implementing sketch files. Do you have support for slicing sub-sections of a sketch file? As I work on long-lived products in my contracting work, I'm often implementing features that have been added as new UI to existing sketch designs.
Burning the boat Doesn’t always work well ...”in a move much like that of Cortés, he set fire to his ships and forced his men to press on. In his case, this did not end with stunning victory; Julian overextended his front, was killed, and lost the campaign. Julian’s death shows the very real risks involved in this bold strategy.”
There are a lot of VC backed companies that are likely very upside down. You know the types with tons of money raised with very little revenue and little to no profit and an unclear vision on how the entity becomes a real business with a solid profit steam that justifies its valuation. The old model of “it doesn’t matter because we’ll always be able to offload this thing to others and cash out” is dead now.

What we’re seeing unfolding now in the market isn’t a bubble per say but it is the market asserting that revenue matters. Profit matters. Real business plans based on reality matter. Ultimately that’s a very good thing for the innovation industry but things are going to get real ugly for these upside down companies.
If that were case, it would be used everywhere. There is a reason I shell out several $k for Altium.
Ask HN: What is the next safe haven for non-profits (after .org sale)?
After the sale of .org to Ethos Capital, where should non-profits migrate to?
Yeah even when toggling options to stop tracking, I don’t trust it. I will usually find what it calls out to and block it on my home network with Pi-Hole. I
also am moving to projector which may have less “smart” bs crammed in there. But, I haven’t researched that yet to see if that’s true or not.
I agree that in a larger sense, there are often greater problems at work than the internal regulation of attention and stress.

From working with clients however, you might be surprised just how often people come in not realizing that they have what is essentially a giant thorn sticking out of their foot! Usually this looks more like chronic lack of sleep, a bad relationship with their spouse or even a toxic work environment, but shut inside their ball of stress and the narrow anxious attention that accompanies it, they miss the forest of causes for the more immediate trees of anxiety, tension and panic.

You might be surprised how often a person says “oh my god I’m tired and stressed because I haven’t gotten a good nights sleep in 10 years!” after a little awareness training.
> despite a large number of comments against the idea

Despite virtually ALL comments being against the idea.
what prevents the extension from sending that data ?
We're busy prepping to argue about UBI at Thanksgiving dinner.
I'd have to look up the brand, someone else ordered it.

Anyways, my complaints may be related partially to me using the xenial (Ubuntu 16.04) repo on bionic (18.04), because the there is no support for 18.04 LTS, even though it came out more than one and a half years ago. I also had to downgrade the kernel from 5.0 to 4.15 as 5.0 is not supported. I also had to force the installation of several 32-bit libraries on this 64-bit system, which took quite some googling and trial and error, otherwise installation didn't succeed. Little things like that.
I'll focus on my town and country before thinking about things happening 10k kilometres from me and on which I have absolutely no power whatsoever. That's why we're supposed to elect competent politicians btw, to take care of the serious business we citizen know jack shit about.

We can take a current event, hong kong, besides posting memes on reddit and #thoughtsAndPrayers on twitter what are people outside of the region doing ? Nothing. You can be aware and upset about something, if you don't do shit about it you're better off taking care of your local community.
I also doubt we can compare the vast majority of the click bait news spewed by mainstream media and the holocaust. There is a very big difference between a war next door and whatever happens in the other side of the world.

Let's reverse your argument, what about Vietnam, Irak, Afghanistan ? the US managed to (initially) get public support for those through the medias, are they a net good for the average citizen ?
Considering past conspiracies to restrain information workers salaries, this may just be restoring some of the missed natural growth. The FAANG companies aren't having any problems keeping up with the Softbank funded companies.
Maybe they tunnel all network requests through their server to make it work? Afaik you can't just make arbitrary tcp/udp request from a webpage to any host, so they must be tunneling the data via their own server.
One of my favorite stories/theories is that Yoga isn't ancient and Indian at all. It's an originally Scandinavian thing that got exported to India in the 1800s.

https://mereorthodoxy.com/call-danish-gymnastics-yoga-body/
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I have to wonder if rusts safety guarantees and approach to concurrency will allow some performance optimization across those boundaries. They seem like related problems.
“SOAS for instance has one guy who was anointed a Mahant, and he writes books with another guy who says Yoga is a cynical rebranding of Swedish exercises.”

I’m assuming you mean James Mallinson. I met him briefly in Jaipur and had been wondering who the white guy with dreadlocks was that I kept seeing around (here in the US it’s considered racist by people of color to wear dreads if you’re not black). To make a long story short, he doesn’t practice yoga, is largely a rich guy that likes the “sadhu lifestyle” (he’s a Baron in the UK), and studies ancient texts in the way a typical white academic would. But I will say for all my skepticism going into it, I read his “Roots of Yoga” and it was great.

It’s clear that the practice of yoga is syncretic and means many different things to many different people. We definitely should criticize all the white girls in the west that are using Yoga as a brand for their calisthenics, teaching without knowing anything about pranayama or dhyana. Their style of practice is so far from any Hatha practice I’ve done you can’t even consider it the same thing. Most of those standing postures they do I’ve never encountered from my Hatha teachers. What these white western women are doing is for the most part awful and pretty racist.

However, we should be equally skeptical of Hindutva making claims about what Yoga is while ignoring the long, syncretic history and how it grew and exchanged practices with Buddhists, Sufis, Jains, and all sorts of other sects and groups through thousands of years.
APL is a strong drug, I need to regulate my dosage. :)
Being forced to pay taxes and obey laws is not having a hive mind. Nor does the government equals a being that I serve.
Not yet. It's on our backlog though. Totally agree that's an important feature to add.
PIR is abandoning its nonprofit status anyways, to become B corporation instead: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Interest_Registry
I live in an area without a heavily funded private school. All that happened was the richer people started their own town with its own school district that has better funding than the city. I don't think you can solve the problem by trying to take away valuable tools, you have to give access to those without the advantages.
The mass complaints work very well when backed by an organized effort to lobby, press attention, etc. There are people vulnerable to political and social pressure who make decisions based on this stuff, e.g. the CA attorney general (in the case of ICANN)
>Predictions based on about 20000 different genes gave correlation 0.65, in the best paper I can find in 5 minutes. (Which was from 2017, a long time in this game.) This is for differences within a European-descended population.

That's probably the meta-analysis that I was alluding to, which unfortunately gets extrapolated out to humans in general in most discourse. There are two caveats I see.

1) The population described was largely European-descended, and presumably in relatively wealthy, relatively egalitarian environments. Inequality is known to lower a population's average height - not with a general shift downward, but by lowering the floor and increasing the shorter population - so it could be that there is a generally smaller range of heights in that population than in humanity as a whole; and, with environmental variables less variable, the only thing left to determine height is genes. But saying that most of the difference between a 6'2" German and a 6'4" Dane is mostly genetic is very different from saying the same of the difference between a 5'11" African American and a 5'4" El Salvadorian.

2) Even in the population described, it's likely that class mobility is not super high. That means that the relative fortunes of families would not have changed over several generations, even as wealth accrued and the gaps between classes diminished. I'm not a statistician: how likely is it that genes associated with certain families and communities, entrenched in their class as they are, could be flagged as "tall" or "short" genes, respectively, but ultimately have little to do with the physiological processes of growth and development? I realize that those confounding variables are supposed to be controlled for by the analysis, but what if they're so tightly bonded in practice, across a large-enough population, that it's too difficult to separate them until you can actually say what each gene does and how that plays into growth?
I've toyed with the idea of working in fintech, but none of the job descriptions ever caught my idea. Can you describe your work and why you think it's interesting?
Web 2.0 was like 15 years ago now. Web 2.0 was "supposed" to be about separation of style & content and gracefully degrading JavaScript.

I don't know want to call what we have now.
One of the early Meteor developers, Evan You, went on to create Vue.js.
Indeed. After reading the blog entry, I feel like buying a Librem 5 even though I don't want a large phone (am on an old small dumb phone that lasts 3 weeks on a charge).

We've seen so many NIH (on the software side) phones over the years, and then finally this. It bodes well for the future.
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> a lot of these valuations are signed off by well-known accounting firms, valuation firms, and consulting firms

There isn’t a theoretical foundation for valuing lossmaking companies.

The best we can do is project forward to a cash-flow producing state, where there is good theory, and then discount that value to the present. The projection is essentially guesswork, making homework-checking by valuation consultants somewhat useless.

The only real check is other investors participating. That happened with some of Softbank’s investments, but not with others. (Adding fuel to the fire is Softbank’s habit of shutting down the secondary markets around companies it invests in.)
> But it's really exciting to be able to `ls` and `cd` and `ssh` on a phone

Can't you do that on any other Android phone with terminal software installed?
Firefox Preview is open source, https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix
I stopped connecting my TVs to the internet when Samsung started pushing notification ads for GameFly on a (at the time) 3k dollar first gen 4K tv - and they lied and said no they’d never do that. They’ve all lost my trust.
Not at all. You're making this very bad assumption that anyone arguing against those things (or arguing against banning private versions of them) doesn't care about wider society. Not to mention that "good education and medical system" is itself meaningless as the entire issue is what constitutes a "good education and medical system".

Paying for police/courts matters because they protect our rights directly. Public-only schooling doesn't really give anyone anything, it just pulls everyone down. Similarly, public-only fully tax payer funded healthcare only encourages abuse.

For both, a tax payer subsidized system is far more preferable. We can't possibly make things equal for everyone without making everyone equally miserable but we can make it easier by having public schools and hospitals that are partially tax payer funded so people can atleast get the benefit of their existence, while those with better resources can enjoy their private education and healthcare.
Judging by what they’re doing in Yemen, this doesn’t seem like the kind of thing they’re interested in pursuing.
As you said, according to the 2018 tax return revenues from PIR running .org resulted in $48,000,000.00 in cash grants handed over to the Internet Society.

How much is the sale worth? That $48M Grant was worth more than Internet Society's total revenue in 2016 according to wkipedia. ISOC just sold a sustainable $50Million revenue stream.

If LetsEncrypt copped a $0.10 fee per certificate, how much would it cost for Richard to rubber stamp a Symantec acquisition of LetsEncrypt?
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Steve Jobs jumped into my mind as I read your first sentence. Then I see you were thinking of the same person.
Chrome's dev tools are so far beyond the competitions that this joke is a non-starter.

When Chrome does add this capability(strange they haven't added it to date given the prior art from years ago), I can see it being used by actual devs inside Google and thus being actually useful.

Contrast that with Firefox dev tools which seem to fall behind the priority list compared to new shiny flashy tech projects they concoct.
Is it not appearing for anyone else? I downloaded it (for MacOS), and that option does not exist.
In the US, yes. Income mobility is down both over time and relative to other Western nations.
Thankfully I was able to find an old Kindle DX (a discontinued line) on Ebay that has a 9.5 inch screen which is legitimately the perfect size for PDF books & papers. Super happy that I was able to find one for pretty cheap. I'd suggest keeping an eye out online for one of these if you don't want to break the bank for PDF suitable ereader.
Both work for me here in LA!
You're wrongly assuming that your own service will have a better uptime.
> Help me understand what you mean by "worse than naive" here

"Worse than naive" doesn't necessarily mean "bad faith" but possibly causing losses to other people without deriving a gain can still be "worse than naive". It's a quote rephrased for kindness.
I don't think the options are blatantly false, the legal teams at these respective companies would never allow them to be demonstrably false. I do think they are as confusing as possible and designed to be as difficult as possible to place in "max privacy" mode and as easy as possible to place in "max tracking" mode.

> block it on my home network with Pi-Hole

That's a really good idea. I just configured my firewall (Palo Alto) to block the TV, I'm not sure why I didn't think of that.
For some reason I can't figure out how to place breakpoints at all in react/webpack code. I still switch to Chrome to do that.
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Ah the take over by the Maths department - just what we need
Actually this doesn't solve the core API challenges that SPAs have - versioning and compatibility. Clients will simply run outdated frontend code.
Imho this is more trouble than worth as it will bring all the problems that we had with WSDL.

If i'd do a SPA that has 'node' backend, i'd just use typescript to model the API and you can have shared models and compile-time type safety.
Depending on your definition of affordable:

https://www.aimtti.com/product-category/spectrum-analyzers
When you see mindfulness taught and promoted like some sort of relaxation technique or that if you just think mindfully you’re going to cope with stress better, then it’s easy for someone coming from a Buddhist practice to say, that’s not mindfulness—at least not in the same spirit of the word.

I took transmission of the precepts twice and the 2nd time was with Thich Nhat Hanh who called them the “Mindfulness Trainings” instead of the “Precepts”. That’s how I came to know mindfulness. It is intertwined with refuge, the Buddha, the Dharma, and the Sangha. It’s a faith in the precepts. It’s not a practice one can do on their own nor a practice that’s separate from meditation.

If you relate corporate mindfulness with Buddhism, it is a perversion. It’s a different practice and it’s dishonest to promote it otherwise. Call the practice whatever you want, call it mindfulness, call it prayer, call it feel-goodness, but it’s deceptive to call it a Buddhist practice if you ignore its underpinnings.