skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a simple pattern.

1. Offer extra credit for some wacky experiments with students

2. Make it clear to the experimental subjects what results you want to hear in advance

3. Complete the experiment without any rigour (blinding) and hear the results you wanted to hear

It's not at all surprising to me that a group of students sucking up to a professor for extra credit would say just what they thought the professor wanted to hear, whether they believed it or not.
It's very difficult to effectively use some natural remedies at scale for a variety of reasons:

(1) They have a large number of active ingredients that are not cost effective to manufacture synthetically or isolate

(2) They have an active ingredient that is not yet possible to manufacture synthetically or isolate

(3) The active ingredient(s) are not shelf stable once isolated from the parent product

Lastly, and most importantly, natural remedies are not patentable. This means there is not enough money to get them approved for marketing as a cure for disease.
Seems like a smart way to do business. (Or, research, as it were.)

Too many orgs end up resting on their laurels - either getting too focused on research and not executing on technical advantages generated by that research, or too focused on execution and not enough into research.
I wonder if you can monitor energy usage (with an external chip) and compare it to what is expected to catch major changes.

So for the FPGA you could load it with a risc-v arch and then run that arch through some performance load. If the energy usage has changed a lot it may well be doing something nefarious. Bonus points if you can have a (set of) reference fpga's in the cloud you can compare arbitrary work loads on so that it is harder to predict and be stealthy about nefarious activities.

Use side-channel sources of information, where possible, to drive down the scale of changes possible.
I use the Crest "Glide" floss; with regular floss, I'm constantly cutting it in half between some of my teeth which are very close together, but the Glide stuff seems to work much better.

Strangely, I've had one dentist tell me Glide floss is horrible and I should use some other floss that's "fluffy" (sorry, can't remember the brand/type, I think it was a J&J product), while more recent dentists give me Glide samples every time I visit. I tried that other dentist's recommended floss for a little while, but it was the absolute worst I tried in terms of tearing; it was basically unusable because it just kept getting ripped in half due to my tight contacts.
We need more terrestrial fiber cables interconnecting Africa
The ridiculous thing is that the DVD side of Netflix used to be an amazing source for these kinds of films
If you read the Twitter thread [0], ostensibly they don't.

> For creative work, you can't cheat. My believe is that there are 5 creative hours in everyone's day. All I ask of people at Shopify is that 4 of those are channeled into the company.

Obviously Shopify has thousands of employees now, there's very real chance that Tobi's perception does not match the reality of the employees.

[0] https://twitter.com/tobi/status/1210242184341000192
I've seen the IC/manager dichotomy diffuse into my mental model as I've moved through the tech industry. I agree that it seems to be a model that undermines healthy organizations. The attraction to it, in my view, is that it confers the sense that there will be no 'blocking' on decision making: the manager calls the shots. But in a healthy organization, that's not how it works: not only should managers not be calling the shots, but their job should be pushing decisions onto the people they manage. Additionally, the decisions made should be a mixture of consensus and deference to experts within the group on that particular domain. If you fail to get consensus, or you force people to defer to people who are known to be unable to make good judgement calls on a particular area, you're doomed.

So, once it all plays out, in a healthy organization, the IC/manager dichotomy seems somewhat counterproductive. I can't say I have a better alternative for larger organizations, but for small teams and startups, I highly advise disbanding it and staying small for as long as possible to avoid it from being forced upon them due to the surrounding culture.

I agree with the sentiment that a dynamic, role based method for delegating responsibility seems incredibly attractive. If you haven't seen it before, Turtleocracy is really interesting (not just directly, but at a meta level as a way to design social systems for these problems) https://www.notion.so/Turtleocracy-47a6df7692bf4e95a39504a73...
> Also learning to remember to complete a closed book exam is not a useful skill anymore.

The exam is going to cover some well-tread parts of whatever subject you are studying. For most reasonable exam questions, especially at undergraduate level, you can find some answer online without having to do the reasoning yourself as long as you understand the terms. However, I would like to see undergraduates prepared to answer questions which are more obscure or unusual, and being able to reason through these questions with your knowledge of the field is a critical skill to make this possible.

Additionally, you should be spending some of your time memorizing things. This is just necessary to have some kind of fluent conversation with other people studying the same subject.

My personal preference for most subjects is a combination of open-book and closed-book. It’s hard to design the closed-book portion so that it doesn’t come down to a memorization game. The solution I usually prefer is to create a larger test, and allow students to a subset of the test to answer, but this creates a larger burden on the graders and the instructor creating the curriculum.
Note that responsible sites do variations on IP / location fixation to reduce the value of exfiltrated session cookies and, of course, they're only valid for as long as you go between verifications. One really nice thing about FIDO is that it affords a low-pain “tap the button to confirm it's you” verification instead of a full password challenge.
Think of all the regions one would have to target to make a difference. To truly affect the elections, one would have to significantly narrow down the pool. In the case of the 2016 elections, let’s say Democrat strongholds were targeted. That’s still a lot. Virtually every major metropolitan area in the US (almost). Still quite a bit. I suspect that any interference in 2016 was a test. A practice run if you will. The absence of verifiable proof is indicative that it was unsuccessful, but it makes for great political talking points and justification for radical behavior. In order to do this, one has to concentrate on the choke points of information. Surely there are 20 or less in the automated systems? The real answer lies in how you would do it. Model that over and over and we might get some clarity as to what to expect in 2020.
Yeah, but you're gambling that you will survive and that you will survive intact. A life full of PTSD or without legs or arms or eyes isn't worth a million a year, let alone $60 to $125k. Then there's the very real possibility of dying. Not to mention the high risk of suicide afterwards.

Given those risks, I can't see how the military is a good option.
It's not that people want to watch everything, it's that everything they want to watch is different than everything you want to watch.
It appears you would reject the premise of running a co-op in a capitalist society because it does not start from a fundamentally pure starting position, or alternatively such a co-op is really a capitalist entity for the same reason and so pursuring such an entity is not a concern of socalists but rather capitalists.
That 1M employee is generally not “moved” to another group, in my experience. They are often already at a seniority level that is above the group. Also, like most VP’s, their compensation is not typically accounted for in a group/division/etc budget in the same way as their reports.
> that would automatically limit the deployment to a very, very small portion of the public, those tech savvy enough to [resynthesize their CPU from source]

Every time someone opens the Facebook web page, their browser recompiles the Facebook application from JS source, typically using ASLR. Facebook's user interface is vastly more complex than a CPU. Yet Facebook is not limited to a very, very small tech savvy portion of the public.
Is there a self-hosted RSS reader that does feed de-summarization, like BazQux seems to do?
I agree with the first paragraph, not with the second, specially this:

>Biking is for childless yuppies and people in third world countries

In well maintained cities you have metro everywhere. There are many european places where biking is not only the fastest way to work but the most comfortable. Also, lot's of trains allow you to put you bike in. In my dailly commute I see plenty of people doing just that, biking to train and then to work. A monthly pass that costs 30€ usually it's equivalent of 200€ expenses with cars (tolls and parking and fuel), not to mention the stress of dealing with the chaotic traffic that you can avoid with the train.

Children are not a big factor when your area has transport for children.
Why is water wet?

;-)
Hm what company / subfield is this in?

I definitely think tools can have a lot of leverage, and an experienced IC could easily develop a tool that would save time for the whole team. And I've seen it happen.

But IME this is the exception rather than the rule. The experienced engineer usually gets the credit for building the system with the tool (for which it was essential), but not building the tool itself. The tool is considered useless until someone has proved it on a important, shipping project.
I think this trade school obsession is foolish. Everyone cargo-cults it as "pragmatic" without actually analyzing what the jobs entail and what you can actually expect to make.

Statistically, you still earn way more with a degree than without.

You EARN that pay in the trades, and being an electrician is dangerous. The work is hard on your body. A lot of electricians end up on disability.

I wasn't very academic growing up. But then I grew up, and now I am a pretty successful computer programmer making a lot more than that, for way better perks and less dangerous, damaging work.

You can make that kind of money as a manager at Walmart and you do not run the risk of getting your arm fried off or falling off a telephone pole.

And where does a few years as an electrician leave you if you don't end up liking the career? "Sorry son, the internet told me trades were a good idea. Maybe go back to school now that you are an adult with a family?" Part of the reason you go to school as a young person is that you do not have a family to feed or a house to pay off.
How long did it take to make? I been thinking about writing my own emulator in JavaScript for a while now. I know there's a lot of great projects out there, but I like to make one myself.
I can't remember ever having a movie in mind and then finding it on Netflix. If I have two hours to kill, I don't browse Netflix to choose from their selection (though my wife does once every blue moon).

For me, Netflix is just another channel with maybe some interesting shows this season.
Well then I just hope that youngster is also prepared to find some creative ways to make money.
Another important factor with these "our bodies already have a natural mechanism..." arguments is that we don't eat the same foods that prehistoric people did when they evolved, in addition to the fact that we now expect to live to 80-100 while still being highly mobile and having all our original teeth if possible.

Prehistoric people did live to old age if they didn't get killed by disease or wild animals or accidents or murder, but they probably didn't look too good at that age and probably didn't have many teeth left either.
Sure, but you will find out that eng has more desire to rewrite than gradually increase quality.

Meaning... When you choose your debt reduction strategy, you cannot go 0% debt. There will be investments you can do, like increasing deployment velocity, adding monitoring and so on, but refactoring that ugly god object may not be the greatest idea.
I'm quite glad that working more hours isn't productive. It's good we have an inate defense against that race to the bottom. Makes the societal battle (imagine it being illegal to work more hours, deemed being unfair competition) a bit easier to win.
Multics: An Ancestor of Unix
I think we're all rooting for the narrative that it's possible to get ahead working 9-5. But it's hard for me to ignore the survivorship bias at play here. Yes, if your company has a market cap in the billions, you probably don't need to be grinding on the weekends anymore. If you've built a company with amazing programmers and predictable revenue (e.g., dhh/Jason Fried) you probably don't need to grind weekends.

But when you're at the front lines, striving to create something new, you'll be competing against very motivated entrepreneurs. These entrepreneurs will often have more resources than you, and zero aversion to working weekends. In those circumstances, Tobi's lifestyle probably isn't going to cut it. When an entrepreneur is working to create that spark, it pays to be completely obsessed, sometimes for years.

Thankfully, very few of us are on the front lines struggling to launch something momentous. Tobi once was, but he was smart and surrounded by great people, and now he's in scaling mode, which seems like a much different beast. I'm grateful that he and other successful tech leaders don't force their teams to work as hard as they needed to in the early days.
You are wrong, libraries are extremely important and provide access to both books and the internet for many many folks. They are a cultural, social and intellectual nexus. The thinking that libraries are outmoded because we have the web is short sighted.

This is article is outlining the destruction of the libraries in the UK by the conservative government, an educated and engaged population is a cure for the right. This is the same reason we have a war on education in the US, to make more right wing voters.

> Because nobody has worked as doggedly to this end, as unsentimentally, and with a greater commitment to the suppression of literacy, than our own Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.
This is like arguing that a seatbelt is useless because it doesn't help if someone plants a bomb in your car. You have to have a threat model to talk about security: in the case of MFA, it protects against someone getting your password without your knowledge — whether or not the remote site is compromised is outside of that scope. MFA does help in one scenario related to that, however: when someone compromises SiteA and gets your password which you also used on SiteB, they can't use it if SiteB has MFA setup — even if they compromised SiteA's MFA implementation. That's a pretty useful characteristic in an era where breaches are common.
Boo hoo? Sounds like the author was the one mostly in the wrong here. Getting banned from Airbnb is inconsequential.
A major symptom of #1 is that there is no way to 'hide' content you're not interested in or any indication of what you've already watched. So I'm forced to endure giant, autoplaying banner ads for shows I know 100% I will never, ever watch.
A few thoughts to add to the discussion, loosely related:

1) If I know exactly where to spend my time for the best rate of return, its likely that I'll have to spend relatively few hours achieving success.

2) For most people, the success they can achieve through just having a plain old job can be had for a mere 40 hours. Anything they want above what 40 hours can grant them should probably be done elsewhere (second job, side-hustle, etc) since the ROI will be very low for spending those additional hours at work.

3) The 80 hour week lifestyle is probably necessary for people who are still frantically doing what Felix Dennis calls "The Search", trying to build a company without the foggiest notion what people want.
> It's well known that maturity and "grey thinking" go together.

Bunk.

Science builds causal models, which are absolutely black and white. While there can be multiple competing models, nobody seriously goes: "well, it's a little of this, and a little of that, but I don't really want to get into specifics." True progress would be in the creation of a new model formed from elements of both, but it is absolutely certain. The predictive power of science relies solely on the belief that grey areas are a form of ignorance.

Grey areas in the social "sciences" are also a form of ignorance, albeit an inevitable one. If there was a better model with predictive power, it wouldn't be grey. Even if everything were nice and predictable, models in the social sciences are inherently value-laden. In this case, over-acknowledging grey areas is also a way of avoiding taking a stand in polite company.
Also, the author has a TV in their room. Prior to Netflix, unless they watched movies, anything with commercials is also trying to keep you watching (much more so by design). Does anyone else remember how loud Billy Mays would introduce himself late at night?
> Are there any biological corollaries?

Not sure about disconnected neurons, but this made me think about our electronic communication, the ability for any one of us to effortlessly reach thousands or millions of people (like I do by just writing this comment). There is a biological equivalent of that in real brains: epileptic seizures. Perhaps the meta-consciousness of humanity is having an attack right now.
> If you think something changed in the past 10-15, you're falling for GOP propaganda.

You think that Democrats have not moved in the past 10-15 years? You think that the idea that they have is merely Republican propaganda? I think you haven't been paying attention.

Or maybe you were paying too much attention. 15 years ago, AOC wasn't even old enough to vote. Were there Democrats in the House who held the same positions 15 years ago? Perhaps so. They didn't have the press attention that AOC gets, though. So they may have been there, but in the eyes of the public they weren't "the position" of the Democrats. Instead, they were fringe.

Now AOC gets as much press coverage as Nancy Pelosi (maybe more, before impeachment). To the average person, AOC and people like her now represent the Democratic Party. That's a massive shift, at least in perceptions, if not in actual position.

And I think the actual position has shifted, too. There are considerably more of the farther-left people like AOC, both in congress and running for president. The median Democratic officeholder position has shifted left. (Or so I strongly suspect. I assert it without statistical evidence.)
Women are amazing! They’re basically people factories.
Most of those rights to flicks from 1950-2010 are owned by:

(1) Competitors (eg. Disney+)

(2) Studios leasing the rights to competitors (eg. Amazon)

(3) Studios that want to expand into the new streaming market (all the rest).

The remaining few indie or abandoned flicks are not really worth it.
I have a feeling that trades are paying well because a generation of pushing people away from trades has created a shortage. Now that people are rediscovering this career path and just do trades is becoming (and in some circles has become) the new de facto advice, the generation who all go to trades will have the same issues as the generation who all went to college: stagnating wages, insufficient opportunities, increasing difficulty of getting your foot in the door, etc.

Trades aren't easier to get in and better paid because of their inherent characteristics. The supply and demand in the market has made them so. The new generation of advice is going to change the supply side. I am not sure if the advice is going to be valid for the rest of a young person's career should they choose this path. We have already done this once before with just go to college.
I've been building a position in Lattice since $6, it's $19 today. Jim Anderson left AMD to be CEO there. I bought on the chance there's a future merge/acquisition but they're doing great work regardless
I've unrolled the thread for easier reading https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1210242184341000192.html
The weirdest thing about this is that Apple News still hijacks links to Atom/RSS feeds - so if you click on one of those links in Mobile Safari you'll be bounced to the News app, which will then display an error.

Here's a video I recorded of this behaviour: https://twitter.com/simonw/status/1210622908143415297

I think I'd rather they displayed a dump of ugly XML in the browser, just so I could copy and paste the URL into a feed reading app (I quite like Reeder for iOS and OSX these days).
The problem is that it doesn't give people useful advice: everyone who reads it would be better off trimming it down to two paragraphs: instruction to buy a couple of FIDO keys and set them up everywhere, and the last thought about something being better than nothing suggesting that you setup TOTP when FIDO isn't an option and never use SMS.
One of the reasons I first got into programming was due to a fascinations with emulators. Several years later, I'm finally working on a Gameboy emulator of my own. It's a really rewarding experience, I had taken a brief look at GB assembly code before and couldn't make head or tails of it, but after implementing the CPU and memory, a lot of the actions taken within code finally make sense.

I'd like to write my own document on emulator development someday, but I need to finish my own first. I'm nearly at the point where I can display a screen, hopefully sometime within the next week.
Show HN: Apply .cube 3D LUTs to images in the command line
> 30 Rock, Buffy, Sunny in Philly

> It's also why I hate the fragmentation. All 3 of those shows are from different networks - one day they will all be on their own respective subscription based websites.

All 3 of those shows are on Hulu, so you only need to sign up for one additional subscription. So far. I expect that the fragmentation will only get worse from here.

I subscribe to Hulu (Always Sunny, Brooklyn 99, Bob's Burgers, Rick and Morty), Netflix (Black Mirror, Arrested Development, Bojack Horseman, Great British Baking Show), and Disney+ (The Mandalorian). I'm paying $31 a month for these subscriptions. I keep wondering if I'd be better off buying DVDs/Blu-rays and ripping them all to a plex server instead, but that seems like a lot of work, even if it would pay off in the long run.
Articles like this come out once per week. And yes, the authors almost always have very little physics experience. (Or are blatantly misleading for the purpose of clickbait.)

It's also very tiring that people keep needing to be reminded of the fact that no, faster-than-light communication is still not (and never will be) possible.

(Which really does leave us back at this question: if it doesn't get us faster communication, then what advantages do we think quantum teleportation is going to get us?)
Your perception of a typical sysadmin and their sw-dev skills is widely wrong in that case.

Most sysadmins focus on keeping things running. They are usually taxed to the point that they don't have the luxury of sitting around and writing code to be more efficient.
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/51924/proper-cap...
It still is; for those in the USA only.

https://dvd.netflix.com/Queue
Are you ------- kidding? Did you read the explanation? [edit - removed inappropriate language]
Extremely low probability of any of those happening.

Besides, military service changes you. It gives you perspective you will never get anywhere else.