skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In the case of the Alzheimer 'cabal', there was a large minority of researchers that were being locked out of funding by the cabal

I think the most important thing here is to remember that the term 'cabal' is completely improper. The article this thread is about says explicitly that "despite being described as a “cabal,” the amyloid camp was neither organized nor nefarious". So what happened is just the result of an un-organised majority of scientists applying a selective pressure on the type of research that was funded and published, often without even realising it. This effect is always a risk in science. There isn't hotter topic in science, politics and information today of climate change, and I don't need to produce any example of scientists who were "locked out" to be certain that the effect is strong in the field.

This article might give you an idea of the most extreme example (for which the term 'cabal' might even be appropriate):

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2010/feb/02/hacked-c...

But most of the pressure is probably implicit: everyone wants their research to be sexy, and there's nothing sexier than linking the hottest topic of the time and pointing to some coming existential threat. Scientist do it all the time, no nefarious intentions but it's part of the game.

Finally, you seem to have a very restrictive idea of climate change science. There's a pretty much established physical base to it, but the quantification and consequences concern a myriad different disciplines: from statistics to botanic, ecology, ethology, economics, medicine, social sciences, agricultural sciences, engineering, etc. These offer enormous space for speculation about the future, with results that are much less solid than those of the physical foundations.
Beyond what others have mentioned, bulbs give more flexibility. For example floor lamps or ceiling fixtures with multiple lights that can be dimmed/turned off independently.

I also think, in terms of cost, an IKEA Trådfri bulb is a compelling alternative to dimmer pucks in the switch.
My favorite: "What's in there, HD movies?"
Currently NT instances are not joined together but that is a planned feature using the Fediverse and ActivityPub. Probably the best place to find info is the Github if you scroll down to features, or to ask me in the Discord (also linked on Github). The Readme is super incomplete missing a lot of information on a lot of features but I'll probably have a chance to take care of that tomorrow. Thanks for the interest and yeah that's a classic Bill Gates video had to upload it ;)
Personal preference, I perceive Office as much more polished and integrated that Google Apps. Plus, I get the native versions as well
I have smart bulbs because I mostly use lamps and my apartment building doesn’t let me update the switches.
IMHO there is a basic error they're making, which is to do all of this in one product. When they have two internal architectures sharing one interface, the overall scope bloats up, which leads to some miserable UX.

With most game projects, the point is to ship them once and then start anew with the next one - long-term maintenance isn't the primary decision driver, and the games for which that is the case are rather exceptional and sit at the top end of the business - they can afford to keep around the staff dedicated engine work for the long run. The majority of users in contrast are equally as likely to welcome clean breaks as they are to despise them; as long as the previous engine has the proverbial lights kept on, there isn't an issue.
There are costs to renaming the project too.

Imagine we spent all of our energy avoiding already unlikely situations that might marginally harm ~2 out of 7.5 billion people on earth.

And what about the kids whose parents were murdered by people with more common names?
No, professionally minded teachers do no such thing. The pay at private and charter schools is roughly 50% to 70% of publics' pay. Charter schools and privates are also no picnic. I'm not sure what makes you think they don't also have the same problems, but they do. I work in higher ed analytics in a role congruous to teacher education and the charter schools we partner with for teacher's in-classroom training are no better in this respect than the public schools we work with.
Loose in what sense? Deporting someone because their employer lied on a form seems like a misfired punishment.

Deporting the employer would be fairer.
If you have to imagine it then this is concern trolling.
No researcher has confirmed that the digestive process of the mealworm doesn't just degrade the plastic physically to smaller particles - - - rather than true chemical degradation or digestion to actual molecules . . .
Predictions for 2020–2029
From the thread.

'Slow response times for large documents'

https://github.com/graphql/graphql-js/issues/723#issuecommen...

It seems that the graphql library is performing a lot of validation, and that's slowing things down. I expect validation to be a pure-compute task, and this is Javascript, so I suspect this is really a "working with large amounts of data in Javascript is slow" issue - but that's just at a glance.
> but we all have a niece (mine is finance and pension funds)

I'm not familiar with that phrase. What language is spoken in your northern EU country?
Another problem is that the inefficiency of multiple products tends to compound.

- Opening multiple tabs in a browser will kill your battery, and it's not the fault of a single page, but of all of them. Developers tend to blame the end user for opening too many tabs.

- Running a single Electron app is fast enough in a newer machine but if you need multiple instances or multiple apps you're fucked.

- Some of my teammates can't use their laptops without the charger because they have to run 20+ docker containers just to have our main website load. The machines are also noisy because the fan is always on.

- Having complex build pipelines that take minutes or hours to run is something that slows dow developers, which are expensive. It's not the fault of a single software (except maybe of the chosen programming language), but of multiple inefficient libraries and packages.
TPP was horrible and we are better off without it. Economy is doing amazing on almost all fronts. Whats not to like?
So bandwidth from Hetzner to USA isn't any worse than to Europe? In both cases you're getting about 500 Mbps for a 1 Gbps server?

> I should write a blog post about all this and more at some point. Maybe next year?

Please do. I'd be interested to read more about your experiences.
Most peopled affiliated with Wall St. brokers, bankers and MBB/Big 4 consulting believe they are masters of the universe and can commit crimes on a massive scale with impunity. The correct and moral response of the people is rise up and overthrow them by any and every means.
i don't understand what you're getting at? that's the definition of empathy:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/sympathy-empat...

the implication is that even though i haven't had my mother murdered i can simulate the experience and thereby relate (to an extent) to someone that has and make decisions with those insights in mind.

Edit: I just realized that what you probably meant is that if it's never happened to me then I can't genuinely be concerned. I didn't even know that that was something people believed. Interesting. Why would anyone pretend to be concerned for someone else's wellbeing?
> Form I-9 is primarily an employment document

The form is a requirement to be able to immigrate to the US. No form, no imigration.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Form_I-9
Plants in a super habitable planet might look purple and oceans turquoise
I believe they meant niche.
To what extent it is obvious just a simple statement that something is public domain would work depends on jurisdiction, which is why things like CC0 [1] exists.

[1] https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode
> the US immigration policies are some of the loosest in the world.

No they are not. They are absurdly restrictive and even kafkaeske.
Maybe a bit off topic but can we criminalize giving advice encouraging violence towards kid in the disguise of 'parental wisdom'?
As someone who is still a kid and now non functional one at that, I
don't get it why people have so much freedom in raising their kid but not in other places.
Why do we not treat parents as someone with higher authority to abuse?

It's not really fun being abused like a punchbag and emotionally drained by narcissists without a resort.
I haven't bullied anyone in school, I haven't been violent towards other kids even close to just broing, I don't get triggered by whatever people tell me. And not much parenting was done here since I mostly lived in my own chamber. (single mentally ill parent with no care taker or anything).
A lot of the behaviors I have seen that are disruptive in school or in kids are result of their parents outright. They are violent because their parents train them to be or not care. They are dumbed down by parents because they don't want to work they don't want to take the time to patiently explain why if you beat someone else or be disruptive, it will be bad for you not because someone will punish you, not because the rules said so but the society you live in will have worse environment later on when you grow up.
Consumer spending on mobile games grew 8% to $210M on Christmas
If you like my website, you may find my RSS subscriptions of interest: https://www.gwern.net/docs/personal/rss-subscriptions.opml
Lutron Caseta is really good for smart switches.

Also, if you just want motion activated lights, there are switches with IR motion sensors built in.
But the balance sheets encompass more than delivering value to end-users; business can and do trade off that value for some money elsewhere (see e.g. pretty much everything that has anything to do with ads).

Note also the potential deadlock here. Optimizing core calculations at μs level is bad because UI is slow, but optimizing UI to have μs responsiveness is bad, because core calculations are slow. Or the database is slow. This way, every part of the program can use every other part of the program as a justification to not do the necessary work. Reverse tragedy of the commons perhaps?
Elon Musk now most tenured CEO in global auto industry
Some exoplanets might be more habitable than Earth
Because Apple isn’t an advertising company and doesn’t need to. They also at least come out and say they won’t share your data with 3rd parties, except as needed (this has caused some problems with Siri stuff in the past).

Google is an advertising company first. And advertisers will pay a lot more for that data.
From Restoration in 1660 (end of the war), to the fire of London in 1666, there was an incredible vibe in the air in England. Cromwell and the extreme Protestant Taliban were gone; chess, music, plays, dancing were all legal once again. People partied, drank, a sense of freedom, newness, and progress was in the air. It was a heck of a party of 6 years, couldn't last, and the fire was the symbolic end to it.
With the wardrobe light I'd prefer something simple like a relay that closes the circuit when the door is closed. Invert that signal with a transistor and buddabing buddaboom. Seems like more can go wrong once you start adding programming and iPhone apps and all this sort of stuff.
The cryptographically proven history built in rather then attempting to lay on on top
10 years ago, when you saw an those as an investment opportunity, and thought, "Who would be stupid enough to use this thing?" You and most other people (myself included) had a high enough opinion of humanity that we thought that number would be low.

The people who got rich asked themselves the same question but had a lower opinion of humanity.
All that happened is that media companies came to their senses and figured out that renting out the same content over and over again is more lucrative than selling it on physical media. It also was the one chance they had to put the piracy genie back in the box: a single SD card will now hold so much data that you could store all the music and movies you'd want to consume in a lifetime on one or two of them.
I think most of high school is a case study in self selection. If you select yourself into a high performing group early on you’re golden, and the social pressures become such that you want to do well at academics, sports etc. If you don’t you’re basically screwed, and it’s extremely hard to select out of those bad groups because of the same types of social pressure. Policies should be aimed at interrupting and directing these selection mechanisms toward positive ends. I don’t have kids yet but this is something I’m paying a lot of attention to for eventually selecting a school for my kids - and all of this is, again, just an extension of the same selection pressures.
Sorry but you seem to be the one with the strong language calling people cranks. The point was China though and it's ok if you don't feel you are in a position to talk about that but then you don't really have a base for knowing whether they make sense or not.
REST can definitely be faster than GraphQL, because as you mentioned GraphQL is doing much more.

But as you start to re-use REST APIs across multiple pages/apps, you often end up:

- over-fetching: you'll receive some data that you don't actually need, but that it's required by another page

- over-querying: the data you are over-fetching might have required extra queries (or even worse calls to an external system)

- cascading requests: if you are working with nested data you might have to call the server multiple times, often in a sequential manner

Also in my experience the performance of REST APIs tends to get worse over time, because as many developers work over the same APIs it's almost unavoidable to keep these APIs lean. Just before Christmas we had to spend some time figuring out why a fairly simple GraphQL request was taking almost 2 seconds. Turns out a developer had accidentally introduced an n+1 in the underlying REST API. The n+1 was on a field/relationship that we didn't need/use, but with REST you don't usually get to pick what you want to load so...

Solving these problems with REST is possible but not trivial, while GraphQL mostly solves them out of the box. So while REST could be faster than GraphQL, in my experience it usually ends up being slower.
I doubt China has good infrastructure, which is why they build it so fast. Also it helps to absolute control over your workforce.
RakudoFS
I think the best practical solution these days is to buy a Pixel or some Sony Xperia, and install your own AOSP. Then run a F-Droid userland. If you have a Pixel, you also have access to things like https://grapheneos.org/, which is the successor to CopperheadOS, and perfect AOSP support. Sonys tend to loose some features.

A good alternative if you want a cheaper phone is to run LineageOS on a popular device in the Lineage community.

Something that is becoming a really good alternative is to run a device-independent ROM on an unlockable Treble device: https://github.com/phhusson/treble_experimentations

As you said, stock Android is pretty hopeless in terms of privacy.
Speed is the number one feature. SPOs are the antithesis of fast.

https://twitter.com/gravislizard/status/927593460642615296
>Imagine we spent all of our energy avoiding already unlikely situations that might marginally harm ~2 out of 7.5 billion people on earth.

false dichotomy. this isn't a choice between not doing it and doing it absolutely always. i'm not claiming we need to spend all of our energy.

i think today we spend very little of our energy optimizing for any kind of empathy let alone marginal. so any increase is still well within manageable (in terms of cost).
> Except it's not that simple.

The case presented so far is actually quite simple. The prospective immigrant is required to state if he is a citizen, permanent resident, or alien authorized to work. That's the employee's job, not the employer. If the employee forgets he is an alien and claims he is a US citizen then that's a problem.
Reiser is the only filesystem on Linux that I ever lost data to. And they really should drop the name, that's not just a wish but a must, keeping it is completely tone-deaf. I was all for giving Reiser the benefit of the doubt as long as he wasn't convicted but it looked bad from the start and the way he lied about it means that that name can not today or forever be associated with something that requires trust in any form. Funny how that works. Lesson: do not name you OSS project after yourself, just in case one day you are convicted of murder.
I think my favourite fact(oid) to point out here would be that the React model is essentially the same thing as the good ol' Windows GUI model. The good ol' 1980s Windows, though perhaps slightly more convenient for developers. See [0].

I think it's good to keep that in mind as a reference point.

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https://www.bitquabit.com/post/the-more-things-change/
The thing about remakes and sequels is that they're being done by the copyright owners, who are generally trying to play it at least somewhat safe and milk the IP for all it's worth. Once a work falls out of copyright, anyone can do whatever they like with it. Yes, there's likely to be a lot of drivel, but there's also an opportunity for new and creative things, some of which may be considered even better than the original work. (See fan fiction/fan art for examples of this sort of thing happening now, with varying degrees of legality.)
Are consultants/contractors going to increase as a side-effect of the new German working hours laws?
Work life balance can sometimes be a dangerously ill-conceived phrase, as can success.

I would worry you might not know exactly what you are trying to achieve?

What precisely are you worried about sacrificing in order to achieve your goals? Brunch with friends?

I mean this as a serious question, why should a person be able to achieve anything without sacrificing something else?

I think if you know exactly what priorities you are trying to balance/integrate, the problem becomes concrete, and then much more solvable.

If you use nebulous terms it’s a bit like ‘how long is a ball of string’ and often you end up always feeling like you’ve failed to find either balance, or success, no matter what happens in your life.
Incident Alert Routing – getting woken up only by alerts that matter
I'll gladly name names.

Apple have totally forgotten how to test and assure software against what appear to be even stupid bugs. macOS Catalina has been fraught with issues ranging from the minor to the ridiculous. Clearly nobody even bothered to test whether the Touch Bar "Spaces" mode on the MacBook Pro 16" actually works properly before shipping the thing. Software updates sometimes just stop downloading midway through, the Mail.app just appears over the top of whatever I'm doing seemingly at random and Music.app frequently likes to forget that I'm associated with an iTunes account.

Microsoft are really no better - Windows 10 continues to be slow on modest hardware and obvious and ridiculous bugs continue to persist through feature releases, e.g. the search bar often can't find things that are in the Start menu!

My question is who is testing this stuff?
2019 was not a great year for me, too. However, as a side project I launched a micro-social networking app for introverts. It's available for both iOS and Android.

website: getpixelpal.com

To be honest, though, I've fallen out of love with it and I'm considering shutting it down or making a pivot to something else.
A lot of the regulations that "hamper" U.S.-based fiscal markets provide basic protection against financial mismanagement and corruption. The writer's supposition that relatively unhampered Asian crypto-currency markets would be trusted is highly optimistic. They are more likely to turn out to be prone to in-house theft or corrupt insider-dealing, or to external hacking (the 750K BTC lost from Mt Gox are still missing[1]), or to government control and manipulation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mt._Gox#Bankruptcy;_stolen_bit...
The morale of the story: don't sign incomplete forms.

As for the GC case, I believe he can still make it work if he makes enough noise to get noticed by governor-level politicians. As a backup plan, he can immigrate to Canada: about the same culture, with only a few minor differences.

Whether he really needs to make it work is another question. As I get older, from time to time I entertain the idea of eventually retiring to a cheaper country, as the likely alternative is be robbed by the cruel healthcare system in my 50s or 60s.

I agree that America is the best place for ambitious smart single dudes without health problems, but as those dudes get older, they quickly realize that their exceptionally well paying job doesn't buy them a house near their workplace (especially in SF!), that all the family related things are ludicrously expensive and that any moderately severe health issues will empty their nice 500k savings accounts real quick.
The only real way to get something like this fixed is (if you live in SF proper) to contact Rep Nancy Pelosi’s office, or Sen Feinstein or Harris’ offices.

I know someone who had their GC application indefinitely postponed by USCIS until Pelosi’s office started asking questions. Then it was magically approved.
I have `vm.swappiness = 1` for that. Who would want a job to be OOM killed?
I mean UX. Also though I don't think there's a good excuse for OSMAnd~ to be so computationally intensive.
I certainly don’t know.
Was he a woman before he was arrested?
I think large cultural appeal and integration e.g. everyone and their dog having iPhone might be a good indication of value. I’d actually see Facebook as the most likely of the FAANG to not exist in 10 years, unless they find and purchase the next Instagram.

Edit: I’m saying apple is a better long term bet than Facebook because it has a much better cross generational appeal.
No study is necessary to be able to conclude with absolute certainty that UBI is unworkable nonsense.
Browsers are fine. It's the websites that are slow.

It's not the fault of Firefox that Reddit's new UI is pathetically slow. It's the Reddit's implementation of their UI itself which is total garbage.

And given that people do write fast, complex, real-time games in JavaScript for the browser, gamedev absolutely becomes a valid reference point for the possible performance of any individual page.
Tesla’s Decade of Survival
This was recently suggested to me on Twitter, I'll have a look at implementing it tomorrow.

https://twitter.com/arnaud_lb/status/1212512382859251712
Yes. I am an indie iPhone app publisher in the health & fitness space and I earn a healthy 6 figures working ~25 hours a week.

I’m hoping to crack 7 figures in the next couple of years.

I made almost nothing the first 4 years writing apps but eventually learned the craft. I have lost as much as $30,000 on a single dud app and probably had 5 failures before any success.

I highly recommend M.J. DeMarco’s book - Millionaire Fastlane and I’m a big Tim Ferriss/4 Hour Workweek fan.
#9 is hilarious. There will be 50 year old millennials in 2030, making the "prediction" nothing more than an observation about how political power has worked for all of known history.
My favorite was "Google’s keyboard app routinely eats 150 MB. Is an app that draws 30 keys on a screen really five times more complex than the whole Windows 95? "
You have a very peculiar (read: incorrect) definition of "heritability".

http://bactra.org/weblog/520.html
Great, you now just cut the bottom rungs off the ladder of how people turn their hobby into a business. The higher the start up cost the less likely they exist in the first place. This is about harming the poor in favor of the rich and nothing else.

"Let them eat Cake" ring any bells?