skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Advanced PDF reflow tool useful for reading academics papers on ereaders
I get that occasionally in Chrome 81 as well but refreshing usually fixes.
This is the chart I always use when my friends start getting uppity about radiation.
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Lenovo screens are generally pretty terrible. For example, the T480s has an average screen brightness of 302 cd/m^2 and a miserable contrast ratio of 864:1. In comparison the dell 7390 has an average brightness of 315 cd/m^2 and a contrast ratio of 1316:1. Double the contrast makes a very noticeable improvement in how good the screen looks.
Good point. If there’s a database that rivals Mongo for shady sales tactics, it’s Oracle.
https://github.com/ellisgl/keyboard-schema (or any other of the repos could always use help. Haha)
Interesting! I didn't know that Namecheap was into domain name squatting but I guess the cat's out of the bag now! As for the note, I'll have to figure out how to do that because right now, all I can do is filter out the premium domains - which I suppose are the ones that are being scalped, right?

Also, thank you for your kind words! And wow, I didn't know that people would actually sell lists like this - I was just building something that I knew I would want to use without really expecting anything in return, and I guess a lot of people found it useful too! :D
This was written in part to prompt people on HN to think about gig work platform ideas that actually enhance the lives of the workers:

http://writepay.blogspot.com/2020/03/the-textbroker-solution...

I've also previously talked about the fact that I live without a car in the US and when I was researching what small town to move to and using Google maps to try to figure out how to get there, if it can't give you a full solution from point A to point B, it will not tell you "There's a train that goes to X city, but that's only halfway" and it doesn't cover commuter bus routes between local cities.

I routinely went on Amtrak's site to find out how close I could get by train and then began searching for local transit options of some sort. I eventually found a solution and a city to move to and all this, but I was homeless at the time and spending all day at the library trying to figure out solutions to my problems.

As far as I know, there aren't any good apps for "How do you get there from here without a car?" for the US. Google maps does not have this problem space sorted and they seem to be the overall best solution (that I'm aware of) for finding out how you can get there from here.
Lavish Parties, Greedy Pols and Panic Rooms: How the ‘Apple of Pot’ Collapsed
Bezos has plenty of his own narrative fallacies going.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVVfJVj5z8s
What I’m missing the most in TFA and this discussion (a few hints notwithstanding) is the importance of demographics compared to process.

Programming is very much a process thing, people much less so.

Successful teams in programming (just like in sports and other human endeavours) seem to have the right mix of skills as well as of personalities. What the right mix is, varies by project - even within programming.

In my own experience, even gender mix seemed correlated to team success - roughly 50/50 mixes seemed the best. And a distribution of leaders/followers, nerds/playboys/mothers/flirts/emos/rationals/heroes/pessimists etc. - depending on the project at hand.

And team size matters - a lot (but that seems already better understood in programming circles).
Also tangentially related: the big list of usernames that should be disallowed in any online system: https://github.com/forwardemail/reserved-email-addresses-lis...
I spent about thirty or forty years of my life working with enterprise clients in Pivotal Labs, which i think lasted two and a half calendar years. A year or so of that was leading engagements with one particular enormous and highly dysfunctional retail bank. Every week, we tried to demonstrate that a better world was possible, and every week, they remained resolutely stuck in their world of suffering and not delivering software.

Some time after i left, i asked after that client. Apparently their organisation is agile, the projects shipped successfully, and they're really happy.

I have no idea how that happened.

I'd love to think that i was making a difference and just not seeing it because i was stuck at the coalface, but it's probably just that people much better than me got involved after i left!
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> why not see if you can implement the feature?

honestly I've offered multiple times to implement features/fix bugs. they never respond. that argument doesn't hold weight anymore when dealing with gnome.
>I think when one looks around, narrative fallacy is ever-present

Yes I think the same, it's certainly a comforting story to tell oneself about why people reduce the complex world to simple narratives, thus narrative fallacy if it exists falls prey to narrative fallacy.

However I have to assume that I could be wrong and what I perceive as examples of this narrative fallacy and demonstrating its existence do nothing of the sort.

Finally, the evidence all around us that I perceive does not lead to a proof of a biological inclination. It just leads to my consideration that there might be one.

So if Jeff Bezos or Nassim Taleb tells me it's a biological inclination, I would be inclined to find some polite way to tell him to prove it.
Yep. "biological inclination" doesn't have to mean there's some "fallacy gene". It just means that our brains have evolved to extrapolate as much as possible for the least effort (you try running a computer on this wattage..), we want fast decisions & most people don't want to have to maintain dozens of constraints in their head (only recently have we started learning to write down these constraints, which is much easier to keep track of)

Meanwhile ideas have evolutionary pressure too. It's called memes. Memes work best when they require low effort from their carriers. If a meme requires some existing knowledge, & truth often relies on knowledge, that means it can only be transmitted to those with the knowledge, unless it brings that knowledge as baggage
Unusually nursery rhyme-like for code :)

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> The only extra fee I paid was whatever tip I chose to give the driver which I always assumed got added on top of a reasonable wage.

I would give low odds on this assumption being true :(.
You should read the French article if you can read French. It contains a lot more information.

https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peste_de_Marseille_(1720)
"some fool with low neuroplasticity"

Wow that is an intelligent insult, gonna start using that!
Some HPs (Elitebook) also have (had?) one.
Following World War I the Spanish (lol) Flu killed almost 700,000 in the US.
Why TikTok is so addicting, and what we can learn from it
This sounds super awesome! I can't imagine how interesting those times might have been. I started to play around with a 6502 just because there is the possibility to understand the system to some extend. Modern day software engineering is like sitting in the golden cage. Not because the the systems are inaccessible like mobile devices or Apple Computers – you can still get pretty far on Linux systems – but the main reason is that you just can fit all the stuff in your brain. If you try to understand how your Angular/React/whatever project is getting their pixels to the screen all the way down – its just a project for a lifetime and even that is not enough. Understanding modern x86 processors is almost impossible – yeah to some degree enough to understand some basic concepts to not shoot yourself in the foot with how the cache works etc. but getting your hands dirty with an 8-bit processor and reading the datasheet is just something very different.
Mostly, yes.

The Latitude 7390 is a bit smaller than the T480s (13 vs 14 inches).

If the latitude 7390 had the trackpoint, i would prefer that to a thinkpad.
I have a small, bound notebook and then a tear-away notepad. I jot down initial notes on the tear-away, then move them over to the bound notebook every few days. I do a very, very lite version of bullet journaling whereby I re-go through the bound journal’s latest entires from time to time and re-capture relevant tasks and notes as new entries. This gives me the spaced repetition to remember important things and allows me to drop no-longer relevant things.
Yeah, but you're making an assumption, who said it had to be multi-choice answers?

Why can't someone build a NLP model to test essays of middle schoolers or high schoolers graders on American history? You can look for learning objectives in the essay and grade upon that.

Why not build a tool with D3 or another modeling tool to teach chemistry? You could have them build compounds and then if they make a mistake, insert via a tool tip and tell them why. As they combine things, you read out what it is or test them based on the string they put in for the compound. You have to build it and name it correctly.
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Yea I was thinking that. The back-scatter xrays are all gone, but they were not as safe as this article is trying to make. There were a lot of radiologists who were concerned.

The millimeter wave machines are less dangerous, but they also don't really work well at all and have a high false positive rate. They're pretty much security theater, which we're seeing a lot of again now.
This article and site are so bland that they kind of make the case for the opposite.
Do something you want to do. That' sit. It doesn't need to be something that whose point is to make your skillset stronger. Just have fun, and don't back down from any challenges. Having fun is a huge part of learning, and if we're driven out of interest, it's even better. So, do what you WANT to do, and the rest will follow suit.
And yet it's got more than 200 votes and more than 100 comments (which is extremely good for an Ask HN). The first rule of writing is "know your audience" and he seems to have that part nailed.
This is true conceptually, in practice, not so much. It's true you can express any periodic waveform as a discrete infinite sum of sine waves, but if you wanted to express any non periodic waveforms, you have to integrate real and imaginary extended "sinusoids" (exp(jwt)) over a continuum of frequencies. A little fucky if I do say so myself.
Increased prices :). Consumers are paying more than 30% more for delivery.
Well, there is no request router in asyncio-http, so I have to use async views in django or if I need something lightweight I go with Quart. But if I was given the proper time, I'd probably invent my own routing on top of asyncio-http using google's re2 to parse the REST requests like I did here some years ago. https://github.com/nurettin/pwned/blob/master/server/server....
What assures the trustworthiness of this RK3399 platform?
Yeah, hence my mention of fatality rates.

It shines a light for reason that the magnitude of 100k is massive. It’s easy for us to lose sight of that, as it’s just another statistic to us (I’m guilty of this as well).

My point with the comparison was that the same number of deaths (100k) for the bubonic plague helps out things into comparison.

Make no mistake that the US’s reaction to the virus is objectively awful. I tried to get tested earlier this week and still have no progress.

To assume a political stance on me (in this case, that I’m pro-Obama Democrat) seems like the real “flamebait” at hand.

I hope getting called for writing something that’s clearly the product of partisan propaganda will cause you to reflect on your stances.
I would say losing your job is at the extreme end. There are many ways it could have impacted you without you even knowing. Obvious ones are missing out on promotions, getting a lower raise, bonus, etc. I think it's incredibly naive to think there would be no impact.
I was actually amazed that a big CMS/E-commerce vendor proudly proclaimed in a sales meeting that they were on MongoDB.

I suppose salespeople probably aren't into the nitty-gritty, but their tech people should have warned them about this. Maybe they were just trying to pull our collective leg, but I suppose that why I was at that meeting.

It was obviously an instant 'No'.
The number of likes in a given post in your favorite $social-network-of-the-year.
Smartphone camera enables hyperspectral imaging for skin analysis
> Getting good feedback would become my priority for the week before

It should be your primary job all the time in feedback based organizations.
I think something like 4-5% of car sales in the US are electric-only or hybrid, the remaining 95% being old-fashioned ICE. It's not just Mexico still buying them.
yes. more ports, removable disk and ram. bigger battery. better screen. pretty much the same weight.
See also:

2019 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20814511

2018 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16860646 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16679963

Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9785944

Edit: also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23231701 from a few days ago.
That's actually extremely helpful. Thank you!
> Really awesome Practice A (skipping up-front requirements development, shorter QA cycles) is made possible by really tedious Practice B (pair programming, TDD).

School/district administrators do the same thing. "Hey I just read [popular education book about some system] and got the district to pay for me to go to a conference about it and it seems great! We're doing that now. Oh but not that part. Or that other one. Those make me uncomfortable." [two years pass] "Huh, weird, none of this is working for us, guess the book sucks. Hey, I just read this other book...."
At this point it's clear that the most dangerous aspect of this disease is the risk of overwhelmed healthcare systems, which makes every one of us part of the "vulnerable population" regardless of our current physical conditions.

When (or if) our healthcare systems adjust to this threat enough to be reasonably robust in the face of outbreaks, and to no longer be centers of infection, then lockdowns and strict distancing measures can no longer be justified simply to save lives. Nobody genuinely disagrees with this, and the reason you know this is that nobody is advocating for lockdowns and strict distancing to save lives from other widespread infectious diseases. In other words, lockdowns and strict distancing would undoubtedly save millions of lives every year from the multitude of infectious diseases we already live with, but nobody serious has ever suggested we sacrifice our economy to fight them in this way.
Is Enlightenment Compatible with Sex Scandals? (2019)
MySQL is no joke, nothing is perfect and Postgresql is not 100% reliable. Remember:

Transaction ID wraparound:
https://twitter.com/bcantrill/status/1110647418008133632

Incorrect use of fsync:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19119991
This ‘on boarding’ process - does it have something to do with Compliance?
> But yeah I think the incentive structure helps determine outcomes like the one you describe.

Yes - most of the behavior likely is due to the incentive structure. My point was that such incentive structures seem strongly correlated to teams/orgs with very talented people. At least in my discipline, I attribute it to the incentives in academics/universities, which is where most of such folks come from.
That depends on how you define talent.

Is "talent" some immutable, innate, static thing? If so, no: teams that do well don't have to start with individual talent.

Does "talent" encompass the ability to learn and grow and change what you're best at/what you enjoy? If so, then sure, having members with the ability to do those things is important to a team's success. But that's not what most people think of when you say "talent".

In a good environment, a team of novices can grow and learn to produce great things--even without the presence of talented/experienced/whatever mentors/leaders. In an unhealthy environment, not only are the novices doomed to failure/making things worse, but so are experienced folks. Determining what constitutes a good environment (and how to foster one) is important--that's what I think the article is saying.
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Haha I have this exact same thought, but it feels so petty!
The styling of the site name makes it hard to scan. If it’s so essential, the font should be darker and bigger.
So pure can't-be-arsed by the sounds of it
Go vs. C++ – Which is faster?
Yeah, that's why I think I'll be removing all the hyphens for my next update - do you think that's a good idea?
How Do We Tax Cloud Computing?
would that be considered animal abuse :D
The funny thing about this anecdote is that Taleb's premise is itself a narrative fallacy - specifically, he uses story to imply that all (or most) first approximations are oversimplified and therefore wrong, or at least incomplete.

Taleb's description of the human susceptibility to story is itself told through story. How much of what we know about this idea is itself an oversimplification? How deep does the rabbit hole go?

This is the major challenge of the 21st century, in my opinion - the old information authorities (newspapers, big 3 TV news) haven't just been broken, but completely shattered. We've reverted to our tribal roots - trusting the word of respected members of our tribe - but now that our tribes can extend across the globe and encompass millions, it's like we're all standing in one giant town square shouting at each other about how to deal with things like COVID-19.

I agree that susceptibility to story is a real thing; ad agencies and scriptwriters have been trading on this phenomenon for a century. The problem is that we aren't even trying to train ourselves out of it. Without a practiced ability to recognize when we're being led through a nice-sounding story, anyone who can weave a good tale will capture huge numbers of people through the internet for their own purposes. For examples, see flat-earthers, anti-vaxxers, and the various political disinformation campaigns.

I don't know what the solution is. But I worry a lot about the ability of powerful interests to capture more power when the general populace is in chaos. Early 21st century USA is in a state of intense intellectual chaos, and the increasing pace of capital accumulation at the top of our society is an ill omen.
I did a deep dive into this, but this just seems to be the case about sinusoids. technically any well behaved periodic functions can be the basis function for all fourier-related stuff (there actually is a FT where a square wave is the basis function, but I can't seem to find it) but there seems to be something special about sin(x) and cos(x) that makes it more convenient to analyze our physical world. They seem to be the result (and the only result) for some class of very simple linear differential equations, which because of its simplicity, happens very often in nature. That's why FT uses sin(x) and cos(x).
Zen2 = Ryzen 3rd, not 2nd.
I have been working on EMR and EMAR applications for the past several years. This is a space that interests me.

If you would like to collaborate and need a programmer let me know :)
The nudie-scanners have been gone for over six years and the current scanners are nothing more than (at a high level) low-resolution "difference" detectors.

The only way they'll invade your privacy is if your genitals are made out of metal. And no, genital piercings don't trigger them.

With ATR (automated target recognition) scanners it is literally, definitely, assuredly, irrefutably impossible to reconstruct any image or representation of the human body in any capacity approaching useful or attributable using 2020 scanners.

What are the privacy ramifications of 2020 airport scanners?

Not 2014 scanners. I do not care about something that does not used anymore.

I would assert that a patdown is an infinitely greater "erosion" of privacy than the post-feature and contour extraction comparison of phase history data to a generalized model of the human form.