skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article describes an apparent positive correlation between naturally occurring lithium in drinking water and lower suicide rates.

Nowhere does it say that Li "should be added" to drinking water supplies to achieve these lower rates.
The hand waving answer is The DISC or the distributed idea suppression complex.
Google actually has the reputation of being the hardest FAANG to get fired from for performance reasons. Amazon is the easiest, due to stack ranking. Facebook is sort of a middle-ground where you risk getting fired if you aren't being promoted at the expected rate, but it's not the same as Amazon's stack ranking.
What's your interest? edit: it's an honest question.
> His July post was removed because it violated the company’s 'respectful communication policy'

As usual, the first rule of a "respectful communication policy" is "disagreeing with the policy-makers is disrespectful".
I wonder the same about zoning, can’t still wrap my head around it actually. Your neighbor dictating what you can or can’t do with your property is communism.
Hey, I understand the feeling, but responding like this is also a move in the online shaming game / callout culture, and that's what we're trying to avoid here (https://hn.algolia.com/?query=online%20shaming%20by%3Adang&s...).

The irony is that your and jameshart's motivations are likely similar. You're both reacting to a perceived slight and standing up for someone who you believe deserved to be treated better. That's a positive motivation, but we need to learn to take the shame bit out. Otherwise it just escalates, and where do we end up?
Yeah, you're not really wrong, and I'm only an amateur SCOTUS watcher anyways. I just find the contortions of that sentence, and especially the fact that Scalia, the arch-originalist, wrote it, wryly amusing.
Our roadmap is to release our Flash solution in 2020, and we are in the process of finalizing the pricing of that. We have not yet defined how other uses (like REPLs) will work. If you have an interesting use case for our tech, drop us a line info@leaningtech.com
>Participants who received imperceptible tVNS paired with two Mandarin tones that are typically easier for English speakers to tell apart showed quick improvements in learning to distinguish these tones. By the end of the training, those participants were 13% better on average at classifying tones and reached peak performance twice as quickly as control participants who wore the tVNS device but never received stimulation.

>"There's a general feeling that people can't learn the sound patterns of a new language in adulthood, but our work historically has shown that's not true for everyone," Chandrasekaran said. "In this study, we are seeing that tVNS reduces those individual differences more than any other intervention I've seen."
There is a "favorite" link for this use case, underneath the link to the story on the main comment page.

Also, you'll get downvoted for talking about downvoting or flagging, as you currently see.
This is a really nice visualization. One recommendation I'd have for the author is to use a four-colour deck (usually blue and green for diamonds and clubs). This would make it much easier to see where each card lands after inserting it randomly into the deck.
>> well-loved restaurants could disappear at a moments notice because the owner/chef got tired of making the same type of cuisine and want to experiment with something new

So let's say you're such an owner. Just sell your business, and start something new.

But this could make things really interesting: What if you could order any meal you read about on the web, from anywhere ?

It's not possible for every dish, for the lack of local ingredients. But maybe it's possible for many dishes ?
> Zuckerberg is currently talking at the all-hands meeting right now about leaks.

> "Part of that culture means we need to take a pretty heavy hand when people violate that trust," he says, threatening to fire leakers. He said someone was already fired for leaking this week.

> Zuckerberg just tried to address the question from FB employees on if the company has a plan in place if Trump uses the platform to invalidate election results.

> He said the co has been thinking about it and that they're in an "unprecedented position."

> Zuckerberg says he doesn't think there will be a result by the end of election night because of the volume of votes via vote-by-mail. He says they have a responsibility to maintain election integrity between when votes are cast and when election results are announced.

> He still didn't quite address the question. Employees wanted to specifically know what would happen if Trump declared on Facebook that the election results were invalid. That was not specifically or totally addressed.

https://twitter.com/RMac18/status/1291446110737711105
It could create social upheaval, for sure. But in the end, there is no one single election to dispute.

In each individual state, the presidential electors get together and vote. Those votes get locked up and delivered to Congress. Vice President Pence and the Speaker of the House preside over the counting of the votes, which will be done by two Democrats and two Republicans.

At that point, the votes can be disputed in writing. Both the Senate and the House must vote to reject those votes.

Once done, if no candidate has 270 or more votes, the House of Representatives votes for President and the Senate votes for Vice President.
In San Diego, ‘Smart’ Streetlights Spark Surveillance Reform
On my iphone the problem is solved by restarting the app. My assumption was either the keyboard or the app updated and lost contact with the other, but I find killing the app solves the problem.
Radio Frequency Interference Forecast for the Next Gen. Very Large Array [pdf]
Those are all good points -- I would also imagine that many of the least competitive markets are simply just niche markets. There could be a potential to easily make a 10x product in many of these markets, but the reward is likely not great enough to make that profitable. Although, some people do okay if they're able to make a one-man-shop out of it.
ABSTRACT:

> It is well established that mainstream personality traits are associated with moderate, traditional political attitudes. However, very little is known regarding trait predictors of extreme political attitudes. In the current study(N=511 U.S. residents), we examined the relationships between the Dark Triad traits, Entitlement and three extreme political attitudes that are highly covered in mainstream media: White Identitarianism (‘Alt-Right’),Political Correctness-Authoritarianism, and Political Correctness-Liberalism. We found that Dark Triad traits and Entitlement had incremental validity in the prediction of these 3 attitudes over demographic factors. The Dark Triad traits and Entitlement explained a substantial portion of variance in White Identitarianism and Political Correctness-Authoritarianism, and only a small portion of variance in Political Correctness-Liberalism. Across all attitudes, Psychopathy and Entitlement were the most consistent, strongest predictors. Results indicate that, from a Dark Triad perspective, Authoritarian PC advocates have more in common with extreme right advocates than those holding PC views related to compassion.

Disclaimer: I haven't read the whole research.

It feels like there's a larger underlying pattern here. I don't know if I can synthesize a good summary of it. Seems like it might be at the intersection of belonging/tribalism, identity, and needing to be "right" and imposing that on others (probably where the authoritarianism comes from).
What's the issue? What are you expecting for them to do? It's just a smart phone and they work fine.
> (gzipped size went from 16.6 KB down to 2.7 KB!!)

A couple orders of magnitude are missing from these sizes if my browser dev console is any indication. What are they even talking about.
The roads in a gated community are "communal property" in about the same sense as hallways are in an apartment building. I suppose you could care if someone is driving an oversized load through the community and so wearing down the roads; or if they're parking a car on the road that's leaking oil.

There's also noise and odor/smoke pollution. An HOA is pretty much the only mechanism to ensure that a group of people who don't smoke marijuana can band together to live in marijuana-smoke-free air. (Yes, some people smoke enough potent skunkweed for the stink to carry multiple houses away. No, the police don't care.)

Most of the things HOAs care about are indeed idiotic, though. IMHO, the HOA's right to dictate what I'm doing ends where my property begins. The point of the HOA is to control/constrain the externalities you have on other houses/communal properties. If you put a garden gnome on your lawn, there's no externality.
Perhaps std::unordered_map would have helped slightly.
Couldn't Google bend Qualcomm to their will? Or even just buy them out, it's not like they lack the cash.
I agree with your perspective that the extension signing model is user-hostile, but under no circumstances should a signed extension be loading remote code, even if it's google translate. Maybe if the remote code is also signed and you're asserting that it matches a SHA256 hash... but at that point just bundle it into your extension.

If you allow loading remote code into an extension there's no point in signing or review or any other security measures because the extension is just malware waiting to happen.

If you absolutely must load remote code, load it in the page context where it doesn't have access to dangerous extension-only APIs. This is my PoV as someone who maintained a 100k-weekly-user Chrome extension for 3 years: I hate the Chrome Web Store but the 'no remote code' policy is correct and Mozilla is correct to also enforce it.
Did you leave in plugged into the AC adapter overnight? anecdotally that killed my previous phones and there's also (anecdotal?) evidence that it isn't great for it.

Don’t most people do exactly that with their phones? If that’s something that actually breaks a phone, that’s ridiculous and they should fix it.
> People with dark triad traits tend to more easily deviate from reality based on the stimulus they receive

Maybe I'm a narcissist, but is this a scientific statement? How can you falsify it? You'd run into some pretty angry philosophers.
In your copy of Excel it is January 2nd.
In most other countries, it is February 1st.

But here's Excel's trick: you type in 01/02, Excel interprets that as January 2nd and switches it to the underlying OLE date format (some number in the 40000s). Ship that Excel file across the ocean were they would write Jan 1 as "02/01", and it shows them the date as "02/01." Excel uses your local date format preferences.

This is one reason why it is important for Excel to convert the raw input to another format. I'd probably prefer that it didn't touch it for CSV files, but I get it for .xlsx
Sure they are: hit win+tab for a Mission Control/Expose-like view, and you can get a Spotlight-style search by just hitting Start and beginning to type.

Dashboard was the name for a widgets system in mac OS.
Gotta hand it to the Wachowskis, they've really put dedication into the Matrix mythos. 20 years later and long since it's end they're STILL commited to making it stupider.

If you actually watch the video. It's all about a bunch of general themes and tropes featured in most works of fiction that can be easily twisted to whatever the interpreter desires. In this case, it's their after the fact transition.

"It speaks to trans people because transformation in the sci-fi genre is just about imagination and worldbuilding and seemingly impossible things become possible"

"It was sci-fi and fantasy because we're trans"

"Being trans gave us ideas that hadn't been done before on film"

"We incorporated multiple genres because we're trans"

If you think I'm being unfair, that's literally all the context given. The actual explainations of the supposed themes last for like 30 seconds combined and the the rest of the video is completely unrelated word salad. The most concrete evidence of ANY potential transgender themes is switch and it's glossed over in about 5 seconds. WTF?

We've reached "Rugrats is actually Angelica's coma dream" levels of fan theory at this point. Hats off to them.
"Moreover, it appears that the relationships between the dark side of human personality and right-wing political orientation and extremism, respectively, are relatively independent from each other. That is, that the endorsement of extreme political orientations is associated with the dark side of human personality is not a consequence of voters scoring high in the Dark Tetrad being more politically right-leaning."[0]

[0]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5680983/

This is also one of the references for this study.
If Android wins we have tons of companies working together to bring us the best experience.

If iOS wins, we have a single corporation in charge of our mobile device experience.

If I had to choose the philosophical winner of this competition, it's pretty objectively Android for not existing to create a monopoly over the entire industry, even if Google makes questionable decisions regarding their specific hardware releases.
Game Dev Examines Whether Nostalgia Is a Worthwhile Game Genre
This sounds like Horseshoe Theory in action, with the extremes of either end being similar in their attitudes and methods, and the moderate middle being different from both.
> the fact that people generally could not keep it straight that Frances is a girl's name and Francis is a boy's name.

I literally just looked it up, because I wasn't sure. The simple rule presented is that if it's Frances with an e like in "her", then it's the name historically used for women, and if it's Francis with an i like in "him" then it's the name historically used for men.

It truly is a shame that the farther you go back in computer science, the more likely names whose traditional gendering is somewhat ambiguous are to refer to women, and how now that luminaries of the field are passing away, how much more even the field was between the sexes in the past.

We often talk about how we need to bring more women into the field of Computer Science, but I think it's important to note we're trying to bring them back into the field, because they were here from the beginning and it wouldn't be the same without their contributions.
Only a casual acquaintance with parasitic plants, but the paper says

> All species of Langsdorffia are highly modified parasites comprising just a series of tubers and inflorescences, and lack an ordinary stem structure and all trace of functional apical
meristems. The Balanophoraceae more broadly feature a particularly complicated host-parasite vascular interface, in which the parasitic tuber appears to engulf the host plant's roots the vascular tissues of which infiltrate the parasite tissue extensively. Interestingly, all Balanophoraceae appear to lack stomata entirely, which is highly unusual in the plant kingdom beyond submerged aquatics.

Additionally, they can parasitize a wide range of hosts. Most parasites are very host specific.

Another interesting genus along similar lines is Pholisma, which is also not present in conservation collections and native to a very threatened environment.
I'm exploring ideas in both areas, most are for businesses
Deep Learning on Tap: Nvidia Engineer Turns to AI, GPU to Invent New Brew
pretty sure he was saying she gets the weed & feed by accident because the box has a picture of a lawn.
Huh? Are you saying the restaurant can suck more rent from dinners than the landlord from them?

Absolutely. That's why good restaurants invest in wine stewards, and extra table staff, and coat check facilities, etc... People pay extra for the experience of dining out. Not everyone eats like they're in college for the rest of their lives.
The problem is that the laws in some places will make it hard for you to become the ISP in some of those spots due to the incumbents.

There are folks on the left who aren't on board with net neutrality. I'd say the common ground between left and right is about having viable competition, which we don't have. But we kinda tried that with the 1996 telecom act and that failed.

I'd rather municipalities get in the broadband access game as a utility and be transparent about costs and utilization and provide interconnection to an ISP upstream at standard tariffed rates.
Obvious question: If the ambient temperature affects the outcome of the treatment for mice, then is that also the case for humans?
> Like many volunteer orgs, they're run by those willing to volunteer - which are not usually the most capable at the job.

Sounds like a good use-case for sortition. Require that people "submit to the potential for being drafted for HOA service" as part of the purchase agreement of the houses built in the development. Then at least the HOA will mostly be composed of harried people who don't want to do the job and want to get it over with as quickly as possible; rather than busybodies with idle hands.
> advertising.com

they didn't even put in the effort to obscure their platform even a little bit, huh? not even trying to hide it.
Most naive algorithms for card shuffling that you find people using that aren't Fischer-Yates or Knuth shuffle (as mentioned above) are sometimes "more lazy" than normal people and will give you worse results than the average human shuffling especially when you factor in how bad the average computer PRNG is. (Computers don't have "perfect random", so your assumption above is probably more amusing to me than you intended it to be. Even a bad/lazy human is still likely more "perfectly" random than the average computer.)

(ETA: One perfect naive algorithm example is directly in the article here: the riffle one card at a time algorithm. Select any n riffles less than the mean 236 and it is a guaranteed lazy/bad shuffle. Even selecting above the mean doesn't guarantee a perfect shuffle, again because of the properties of a computer PRNG.)
Yes, and the point that I'm making is that "this isn't bias, this is physics" is missing the point.

Yes, the way in which varying wavelengths of light interact with varying configurations of bulk matter is a physical phenomenon, and not subject to bias.

But that isn't the same as saying, as the comment to which I originally replied seemed to do, that no bias can exist in the way in which that phenomenon is interpreted by humans.
> The ethical argument cuts both ways. Not only did that scenario happen, but it happened fifty times. He was unstoppable by anything but DNA.

The atrocities committed by authoritarian governments by far exceed the emotional force of your argument. From the Holocaust, to the Great Leap Forward, to the Holodomor. We're talking so much suffering that you can't even comprehend it (think of it like a moral neutron star). Millions murdered, raped, and tortured over the course of decades. Given what history has taught us so far, the ethical downsides of authoritarian carte blanche by far exceeds the downsides of erring on the side of protecting individual rights.
What a wonderful meme: "regulatory capture". Words have power! I'll definitely use this.
No offense but I think this is a poor model for both dark triad traits and political authoritarianism.

I recommend you look at it from an anti-sociality perspective - particularly the willingness to act anti-socially in order to achieve some desired end, whether that be "justice", "greatness", "fairness" or "equity".

Moreover equating rationality with good, "non-extremist" behavior is a mistake. Pro-sociality is only sometimes rational, and rationality is only sometimes good.
Google earns more money with the current scheme, so they have no incentive to improve this. Android One is a joke, it should be the baseline for Android, not a "special" version.

They could force the OEM to play ball, like they require Google Play Services to be pre-installed.
The polyfills, not their own code. Effectively all they did was update their browser support baseline, dropping support for very old browsers, with the result that about 14KB of code that made it work on those old browsers can now disappear, because more recent browsers don’t need it.
Yeah, but does it make any difference in day to day usage? I don't think it does. I'm using a 4770K at the moment. A Ryzen 3600 compiles my C++ project 30-40% faster, but that's literally the only time my old CPU is a bottleneck. If I wasn't working with C++, I can't see any reason I would want to upgrade the CPU -- even 7 years later.
Why insist on such a shallow reading?
Signaling Virtuous Victimhood as Indicators of Dark Triad Personalities [pdf]
Unfortunately - like bs, power law is fractal.
This isn't limited to just school personnel. Cops aren't too fond of people knowing their rights either.
The world as a neural network
This so called equilibrium is created in nature by starvation or death by predators. Let's all go back to starvation and killing ourselves, for equilibrium.
After a fraudulent DMCA notice took my extension down, when it came back up it was flagged for manual review for another month or two. The manual review on bug fixes and updates took about a week per upload, and that was before they further scaled back investment in the Web Store. It's neglected in every possible way.
Don't forget that it's nitrogen fixing, too!
The biggest weakness of this study and anything that I've seen discussing the "alt-right" is their arbitrary and capricious use of the term.

Alt-right is a very simple term to understand: it simply means people on the right of the political spectrum who reject the establishment. This includes: libertarians, monarchy restorationists, neo nazis and other groups.

The two tests for alt-right membership that were done were

1. Opposition to progressivism (PCA/PCL)

2. White Identitarianism

Assuming that this paper is actually measuring something (which is a big assumption for social science "research"), it certainly doesn't measure what it purports to measure. At best it measures the attitudes of people best described as "race realists" (their name, not mine) who also self-identify as White.
I just want to take a moment to acknowledge the hilarity of the domain name. For those who don't get it: it's a play on the name of the nyan-cat meme: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyan_Cat
Why is there an assumption that graycat is male? Was there an indication of gender?
Ex-mormon and ex-partner of a (secular) genealogist reporting in.

Every bit of non-archival information the Mormons have should be annotated with [citation needed]. There is an appalling amount of wishful thinking and supposition in their genealogy data. You are in effect looking at research on a par with a high school research paper. It's all sourced from people who have been doing this for a short time and are seeking out indications that they are done, not that they are correct.

Though I do agree that anyone who is willing to build a bomb-proof archival facility is worthy of a degree of respect.

(Those salt dome film archives we have in the great plains are amazing too)
Conway's Game of Life running in a terminal
Why Apple believes it’s an AI leader and why it says critics have it all wrong
Since you sound quite expert -- I would love to learn from you (or others), at a beginner's level:

Is the design + production of a chip an exercise in optimizing the combination of:

-- size of die (and therefore overall cost/yield?)

-- power consumption

-- number / type / purpose of compute and memory subcomponents packed into the area

-- speed

Is that basically the envelope that you're doing an optimization within, and until a technology jump, even Intel/AMD/ARM-based are all simply choosing values between these dimensions? And each different choice of parameters within these basically goes after a certain segment of user?

Thanks!
It sorts out the soil too by fixing nitrogen. https://www.sciencelearn.org.nz/resources/966-the-role-of-cl...