skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A "Doomsday Clock" run by an international group called "The Elders"?

When do they pass out the kool-aid?
Historical schools were very much a product of the era where communication was difficult, so it was natural for people to be most influenced by the people around them, particularly when people write mostly in their national languages. Some of these schools had considerable momentum, so that they persisted into the post-war era outside their original milieu (Austrian economics, say, or the Frankfurt School), but it's not something you see much of anymore.
Maintaining two branches shouldn’t be a problem. If you waited this long to port, velocity on the legacy branch can’t be especially high.

Now that I think of it the legacy branch should be eol soon.
The PLB is really a single-use device. When activated it's supposed to be able to continuously transmit for 24 hours.

On my PLB, the batteries are rated to expire after 10 years, after which you buy a new one. Making batteries replaceable carries either a weight or a durability penalty, and I'd rather have a small and light and durable thing that I replace every 10 years. It seems like a good tradeoff.
If I walk into a non-Google business or someone's house, I don't assume that Google is the one monitoring me.
It's no use saying "at least Hitler" if it was going to be used to exterminate your kind from the face of the Earth. In that case it's not "at least"; it's much worse.

Also of course vedic theory could be greater than any given theory, no matter how revolutionary, or it could not. It would obviously depend on perspectives and values on life.
CenturyLink, Frontier took FCC cash, failed to deploy all required broadband
Gov employees who have been there a long time or just at the max pay grade.
I've worked at Apple and other larger tech companies.

They largely work traditional 9-5 hours and whilst people will work longer hours around key deliverable dates it's entirely optional.
I'm the founder of Buxfer (https://www.buxfer.com)

Forecasting is one of the strongest aspects of our product. We also provide alerts ahead of time if we can predict your account balance will fall below zero (or whatever threshold you configure). Forecasting can also be used to preview your expenses/income/cashflow for the upcoming months / years.

We do have an API, but I admit it's not the best around. Other than that, our product does all the 6 things you point out.

Happy to hear more feedback at shashank@buxfer.com
One thing I would add is the data for places outside of Europe looks pretty weak for both Ancestry.com and 23AndMe, at least it was the last time I looked. If you are from European descent they can practically tell you what village your ancestors are from (how accurate that is I don't know) but if you are Asian about the best you get is yep, you're Asian! I married into an Asian family and the reports I've seen from Asian family members are pretty disappointing compared to what I've seen from my family members (white, European descent). I imagine it's similar for some other non-white races too, that's a big demographic that's being missed.
This is somewhat of a misconception. The variants they test for change over time as new biologically significant SNPs and haplotypes are discovered.

One of the things that is a little misleading about how they present results is that a "negative" result means they don't know (i.e. not one of the SNPs they test for) rather than you have a "normal" copy of some particular gene.
> so $700B in defense spending can't match some motivated, talented FLOSS devs? that's rich.

Not in my experience. The problem is not technical talent, it's culture.

That's not to say it's impossible to solve these issues, only that a culture of top-down "get it done" does not tend to mesh well with the rigid discipline needed to make a secure product. Ever had to say "no" to a general?

On any system built in house, there will be management feature requests which force security compromises. For example, "We must archive the data of this comms network - we have a legal requirement to do that!!" or "We need to ability to access user's data for internal/external investigations", etc.

Solving these issues in a secure manner is incredibly hard, and IME it can be incredibly difficult to explain to someone non-technical why "just do X" will harm the security posture. More often than not, a developer (with their salary paid by the boss) will be forced into "just doing X" by someone who does not truly understand how much that compromises the system. Boss will be happy, thinking they "pushed it through" and non-crypto developer will be happy thinking "it has some authentication applied so must be secure" while cryptographer will be largely ignored or misunderstood. (Note: not a cryptographer, but I am an expert in other domains and have worked with enough to see their pain first hand)

Most non-cryptographers on the project start to get confused, typically thinking all of the compromises are OK because they only open doors for the DoD and that is who the product is for, without having the training or knowledge to realize how problematic this thinking can be. IMO - listen to your cryptographer, you hired them for a reason.
It's less of an attention deficit and more of an _intention_ deficit.
Can it aggregate/scrape data from your accounts though if you have 2FA setup on all your various accounts?
New Molecule Harnesses 50 Percent More Solar Spectrum Than Ever Before
I'm really interested in the findings. How can Apple prove any of these claims?
This is what happens when you pay huge amounts of money on Google Ads and traffic. They notice that you must be quite profitable if you afford to pay so much, so they come for your market. It will happen more and more and the more you pay to Google the more you help them take you out of the market.
> A better solution for high traffic flow is the turbo roundabout[0]

See also sub-section in the main EN page:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roundabout#Turbo_roundabouts
Yes, except that studies showed surgical masks are likely as effective, which strongly suggests that precise fit confirmed by a fit-test probably isn't necessary.
I think his point is that he doesn't consider it a violation of privacy and that the people who do usually are better at controlling the data that is leaving their computer anyways.
If you raise a generation that is taught public service, and most importantly, sacrifice, perhaps we'd have medical care.

And the bar for sacrifice nowadays is seriously low. Six weeks of your time for your country, where you do not risk your life, is somehow a big ask.

Look at these divas in the Senate right now, walking out of impeachment proceedings where they are the jurors. You see, it's too much of a sacrifice. They are not vibing with the whole thing, dude.
> It seem like most people have forgotten that before Google Analytics, we all just looked at our server logs.

Yep, and lots of us still do. I wouldn't feel right throwing my users under the bus by subjecting them to GA.
ADHD is your mind violently rebelling against the useless bullshit that you trying to force it to do.
For both parties, because one party may be unheard and the other unanswered.
I'm probably unusual, but I noticed clear benefits within a week. Though, I was meditating while waking up first thing every morning, and the initial benefits was not immediately obvious except that I could lower my ADHD med dosage by a couple of mg and get the same effect.

Instead of trying to magically concentrate perfectly, I focused on identifying when my focus would move to something else. I noticed meditation is a practice of becoming quicker at identifying when I would lose focus, giving me the choice to come back to focus.

After a couple of months of meditating I was able to go off of adhd medication. Then maybe a half a year later I noticed my concentration was above average and had been for a while.

Meditation does work well on ADHD, but you have to be willing to take a break from your day to day worries, giving a mini vacation away from mental work. It's quite enjoyable.
1 more thought on this - Expedia and Booking are next on their menu...
+1... black for Python. I didn't agree with some of the formatting decisions, but it has gotten better with passing versions, and the gains of not thinking about it at all are huge.
If you read the introduction to "Against Method", it's clear that he's trolling. He says that he was writing a wicked book, and that Lakatos was supposed to write an even-more wicked refutation of the book before he passed away.
Poor executive functioning is why I could never make myself start writing a paper prior to the day or two before it was due, despite the rising sense of panic I would get for weeks. (This is key -- it's not laziness, because good lord did I wish I were able to do the work. To me, lazy ~= apathy, and what I felt was just about the polar opposite of apathy.)

That sounds like a good explanation for why I've been avoiding studying for something for weeks but feeling guilty, even sick, the whole time about it.

I don't know though. It's hard for me to not call that lazy, and I don't think lazy denotes apathy. Isn't it possible to be lazy and still care about a thing?

Poor executive functioning is also why, unmedicated, it was sometimes difficult to not let my initial emotional reactions just come flying out. It was like there was an express lane between my limbic system and my action system, totally bypassing my ability to control it. I would find myself snapping out something and as it was coming out of my mouth, I would be kicking myself and thinking "Why in god's name am I saying this right now?"

I still struggle with emotional impulsivity anytime I take a few days off meds. Drug holidays can be surreal. Or sometimes they might not be special at all. But I've taken time off before and noticed everything - birds, wind in the air, music on the radio, and it felt so surreal that I broke down crying.

Why in god's name am I saying this right now...
"...The company had just over 3,800 staff at the end of September.." I am surprised why they need such high number of staff when the functionality of the website is limited to content, reviews, search itineraries. Unless they hire field agents and ask them go inquire and write about a new place.
Thank you to the article's author and to the poster.
Detection of who's at your door/doorbell was one good case I'd heard of that people were concerned would be impacted by this.
Sometimes you benefit from others doing well. Sometimes you are hurt by it. It's not as simple as you make it out to be. Globalization, for example, is zero-sum for many people. Since we're now buying <wheat/metal/electronics> from <x country>, people who did that here lost their jobs. It's absolutely a competition. In capitalism you have to fight for your right to feed yourself, and if you are in the bottom x% of society, you quite literally have to live on the streets.
I was diagnosed with ADHD at 19 after being a C student my entire life. I was prescribed Adderall and immediately became an A student overnight. It's actually weird how well it worked. Unfortunately, like others have said, it isn't a cure-all. It felt like a crutch and as my tolerance went up the less effective it was.

Long story short, I ended up discovering marijuana and quit taking my Adderall. Marijuana also made me an A student. After smoking it, I could actually read books instead of just looking at words.

I doubt it would work for everyone but it has certainly worked for me and anytime I need to study, I smoke some weed now. It surprises me how well I understand the subject after I finish. If I try sober, I don't retain anything and I don't understand anything.

In fact, some newer studies show that marijuana is actually an effective treatment for ADHD [1].

[1] https://www.karger.com/Article/Fulltext/495307
Yep that's it, globe view has the newer image and legacy mode has the older image.
Woah, I'm even more confused now. You said you were confused but you don't appear confused at all when I asked what you were doing. Could you please clarify?
> A message they can send to current employees?

This probably is the main reason. Apple has been constantly losing its best talents on chip design. I believe they're very concerned about his leaving which may accelerate this trend.
Still, it was generous of HP not to sue him afterwards. It sounds like he was using company resources to build it, they would have had a strong case. Even if they were not interested in commercializing at the time.

I think in today's world, he would definitely be sued.
Actually it’s probably concurrency:

> Keep in mind that this is with 10 concurrent requests, so werkzeug-flask probably chokes more on the concurrency than the response time being slow.

I am not sure though. I’d imagine Go can beat Python performance enough to make up for the (clearly not very egregious) CGo penalties.
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> In Italian an egg yolk is called "rosso" (red), whereas in Swedish it's called "gula" (yellow).

In this case, it's possible that the different conventions for what color to call an egg yolk originated from egg yolks that were different colors. Crack an egg in China and you'll get something that is obviously different -- and much redder -- than what you'd get from an egg in the US.

This freaked me out enough that I exclusively purchased high-end eggs from City Shop, which were a reassuring yellow.
Same here. I think what could possibly help us is a to-do list that's explicitly designed for that (e.g., has something like an "emergency mode").

If someone reading this feels the same and would like to hack together something like that, let me know and we could try it together.
All Sonos products will continue to work past May
Writing simple functions which take an A and return B in any context. Then, composing those simple functions together to build up more complex functionality.
Its the same reasoning I support marijuana legalization. More people sitting at home high on their parents couch is less competition for me
https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/12/04/symptom-condition-caus...
I think "15 minutes a day" is an underestimate though. I just looked at Jan 1, and language has drifted enough since the time of Franklin that a casual reading would miss much of what he is talking about.
Is quantum mechanics wrong because it's not called "mechanics"?

Is Minkowski space wrong because it's not called space?
It's worse than that, I talked my parents into doing one of these tests, now I don't ever have to pay for one.
Using Two-Factor Authentication to Stop Procrastinating
> I don't understand how the turbo roundabout is any different than a typical two-lane roundabout.

See:

> These designs require motorists to choose their direction before entering the roundabout, thereby eliminating many conflicting paths and choices on the roundabout itself ...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roundabout#Turbo_roundabouts

Basically you have to pre-choose your lane before entering as you are not allowed to change lanes once you're inside. With regular RAs you can change lanes if you wish.
https://archive.is/ZqeYl
I know what NOAA is but I didn't (from the headline) understand what a weather satellite does for saving people (at least in tangible numbers, I get that a hurricane prediction helps but 421 people is awfully specific).

So I would agree that the headline could use some work. It's also not as if NOAA is the only provider of this service (see Galileo), but I'm not sure if there are stats published for other systems.
Hey, can you pick up some cool bananas for me while you're there?
It really hasn't been covered enough just how much Google has replaced organic search results with their own features.

In some cases it's almost all of the above the fold real estate and for shopping they are starting to take over the checkout experience as well.

It's significantly reducing organic traffic and turning e-commerce sites into Google suppliers.
It is of course sexist, but, much like other stereotypes in this age, it's deemed acceptable as a sort of punishment for what is considered to be the crime of having worked to accumulated opportunity. Eventually logic and reason will disappear and civilization will collapse, resetting all accounts of privilege. Don't try to fight the rising tide, the moon has its phases. Gather that which cannot be taken (knowledge) and do your best to pass it on to your progeny, they will be the ones ready to rise when the waters recede.
Being that the main driver behind this seems to be voter turnout, I have some suggestions:

1) Stop making all these penny ante jobs elected positions. These people are bureaucrats. Let them apply for their jobs like every other bureaucrat. If 99% of voters are saying they de facto don't care, maybe you should take the message.

2) For jobs that do matter, make voting compulsory.

Bonus point: have elections on the weekends when people actually have time to vote. Very few people need two days to drive their buggy in from the farm anymore ffs.
It can also be immensely rewarding to read through the likes of Google’s Material site and Apple’s HIG. These resources not only show you what each system contains, but often some of the rationale and dos/don’ts that you won’t get by, say, looking at Gmail and copying what you see there.
Or it could be a sign of pragmatism, or having the freedom to choose your tools.

Why wish your tool changed instead of focusing on using it, or something better suited, to produce things?
I would argue that they are not powerful stimulants at therapeutic doses and have little risk of dependency. I can take my meds as prescribed for months on end, stop taking them cold turkey and have no withdraw symptoms other than the fog and inability to get started comes back as soon as they are out of my system. I personally take prescribed methamphetamine which would be considered to be the strongest in it's class and honestly it's not fun or buzzy or euphoric at therapeutic doses and not as addictive as people make it out to be. Opiates and nicotine have 100x the addition profile when compared to amphetamines.

As a note to abuse my medicine at recreational doses of meth I would consume my months prescription in about 4 to 5 days. Not enough time to get physically addicted and it would suck for the foggy rest of the month. I think the risk is overblown.
It's not just that a lot of the content is conspiracy twaddle, it's also that a lot of the content - especially the documentaries - are very, very poorly made. Remember that YouTube video you made for your introduction to video course? Worse than that.

Amazon should have a preview option required for all videos that shows just a short random segment from the video prior to purchase. The segment should be randomly selected, as otherwise it could be gamed by the video uploaders.
> Although I find it unfortunate that we have to create a separate community based on gender

Why? Freedom of association is an important human right. According to wikipedia[0] "Freedom of Association is both an individual right and a collective right, guaranteed by all modern and democratic legal systems".

I think it's great that they are just exercising their rights.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_association
No, of course not. But the effort on the right is much more focused and concerted, with a lot more money behind it both domestically (the arms and energy industries) and from foreign actors (notably Russia). And these agents, particularly Russia, are not only producing right-wing memes but also left-wing ones, in order to undermine trust generally. What's happening now is not the usual emergent misinformation that bubbles up from randomly distributed extremists on both sides, but a much more organized effort.
> It would be easy enough to firewall your activities based on location.

...if you work from home?
I believe this is a new talking point on cable news, probably going to receive a negative canned reply
Honestly, I used to be such a computer nerd, to a fault. So over the last quarter century of programming for money, I'd have to say the most transformative has been writing comments like my livelihood depends on it (since it does).

Other development practices that boosted my output significantly: Regular cardio exercise like running, strength training by lifting weights, and regularly reading source code for pleasure.
I can say the opposite. I have the MTHFR mutation and ADHD. Taking vitamins did not alleviate my ADHD symptoms.
Well then.

I am explicitly not shutting you down. I shared my views and why. I encouraged you to do the same.

For instance, one cheap and obvious way to improve uitilityof exit polling would be to implement compulsory voting.

Also, please work on a campaign. To the best of my knowledge, modern campaigns don't rely much on polling. Most effort is put into GOTV (voter identification and balloting chasing).

Edit: Oops. I'm not familiar with Republican campaigns. In my area, their GOTV is less potent and they rely far more on advertising. So they might still be more reliant on polling. It's a good question for me to follow up.

Opinion polls are still useful in other ways. Depending on who's paying. Sanity checks. Push polling. Message crafting. Talking points, a la Voted San Fran's Favorite Pho Restaurant. Feeding corporate media's horserace narrative. Policy groups trying to gather intel on both opponents and allies. Consultants fleecing noob candidates. Arm waving because old school operators expect it.

YMMV.
Nose jobs for all “result in prosocial, bonding-enhancing outcomes,” appear to be connected to reduction in anxiety and stress, and have been shown to have “increased the ratio of positive to negative communication behaviors.”
If they are building a device to such tight design tolerances, it was doomed to failure from the start even with 'proper' parts. The second it hits a factory floor the specs are going to be pushing the absolute limits of quality control testing.