skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A calculation of effectiveness should contain not just an assessment of magnitude but also of scalability.

Most people can't become Bill Gates or Elon Musk. There's not enough births of the computing age, or births of online banking to go around. There's a lot of people seeking to do social good within the confines of capitalism.

So while most (all?) techniques may be less impactful than Gates and Musk, we shouldn't hold back people trying to find other strategies (dare I call them entrepreneurs) by confining them to being ruthless capitalists who later grow benevolent or build Wayne Industrieses.
In French, Ⅷ.ﬁ is pronounced "wifi".
Agree in principle.

Nice article - I like the idea of designing code (or looking at code) with the perspective of how it gets parsed by a human mind.

Great code _looks_ super simple, effortless, until you try to write something similar to it and realise that there is a lot of effort in factoring it to be that simple.

That said - I don't think minimising object members are the main point of attack.

I don't find the number of _members_ to be that taxing to working memory. It seems to be naturally chunked: the members I'm working with and everything else. I don't need to keep all the members in mind.
It's like stuff in a drawer - it's in one file so I can rummage to find the bits I need and keep them "in hand", going a small factor over the working memory limit is fine.

(I'm not saying there isn't a retrieval cost, more members increase retrieval cost, potential confusion, etc. etc.)

What seems to be a lot more taxing is keeping reference to relationships to other objects.
Stuff NOT in the current file.

Having to keep the relationships between a number of other objects/classes in mind is more taxing, because those need to be in working memory - and putting them there either means they are in long term memory (e.g. with a known codebase or library), or parsing it out by navigating through the codebase, tracing the relationships and understanding the intents.

Ironically super-factored code can be a lot of effort to "get" at first, while intermediate quality code reads pretty easily.

I find my mental map of a nicely factored object is more tied to it's intent/purpose or "meaning" rather than just the raw number of its members.

Your PerfEvent example I'd parse it the same way, though.
How is it tedious? Are you always entering duckduckgo.com by hand?
This is definitely true of the "self help" genre. A concept that has a real kernel of wisdom and can be expressed in a few pages often gets blown out of proportion into an entire "framework".
In a legal context, the ruling is often on the basis of how "the average person" would interpret something, and not on the minutiae of what you think the exact semantics are. Given that, it's likely that "the average person" would interpret the CEO's remark as, to all intents and purposes, calling the OP an asshole.

This is why (a) it's a gamble "going legal", because the interpretation the judges make might not be what you expect, and (b) nitpicking like this is unhelpful and unconstructive.
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One idea put forth in Civilized to Death is that this sentiment is a mis-meme stemming from the common knowledge that average life spans have increased in modern times.

That while, sure, the average has gone up, this is primarily due to decreases in infant mortality rates. So there’s a plethora of zeros skewing down the average for “back then”.

That is, if you survived through childhood back then, you’d likely expect to live just about as long as everyone today.
look who is attacking strawmen now.

You had a bad experience, and I am sorry you did, honestly. I had my fair share of "bad dating" but never directly in the workplace so I can only relate to a degree. As I preemptively agreed, yes, power imbalances can lead to problems and abuse, and people need to be mindful of that and prevent or at least stop it.

But still, that doesn't mean you get to run around trivializing the meaningful and loving relationships many many other people have as "wrong". Or get into the personal attack space by implying people who disagree with you such as myself just fantasize about abusing subordinates. wtf
Cheap, frequent Covid tests could be 'akin to vaccine'
I was a little confused about this for a long time especially when AdoptOpenJDK was first created, but I believe this is wrong. Here is an OpenJDK build from Oracle: https://jdk.java.net/14/
I don't believe it is. Windows metadata performance is not just bad, it's so bad it beggars belief. I don't believe the root cause is any specific technical decision, but rather that no-one cares about it. It has always been so bad that no-one can count on it, so no-one depends on it, so it's something that can safely be ignored.

On Linux, and other unices, there have always been important workloads where it really matters, so that itch got scratched.
Hmm, you might be onto something here. Someone created a react layout generator using gpt3 that translates natural language description into actual layout. Maybe some ml models can be developed to render a layout from HTML content. No need to perfectly render it, just 80% approximate would already impressive enough.
I've always been curious one decision pervading various APL: what are the relative merits of right to left evaluation order, vs more conventional left-to-right method chains? The core principles are incredibly elegant, but I must admit hitting "expressions are executed right to left, except if you hit a {} lambda, wherein separate statements are ordered left to right, but are themselves expressions going right to left again" is always kind of jarring.
For starters, it’s a publicly funded university, so an attempt at impartiality and due process might be expected.
> It suggests that if someone is determined to use psychedelics to self-medicate their depression, you should not try to stop them.

That is precisely the bias and weakness of this study. Self-medication is almost always a red flag; why not do it in a context of other people that know their stuff, be it tradition, institution (therapy) or even close friends that are mutually invested in each other's long term well-being? DIY approaches to self-transformation are fragile; no one to hold you out of potential pitfalls, to protect you from re-traumatization, to call you out on your self-deception.

The title of the article that it "reduces depressive symptoms" is also telling of this bias. If symptom reduction was equivocal to enduring transformation, weed, cocaine and alcohol would have already healed the entire world. Without the study measuring if the subjects transformed their lives in a way that they were equally symptom free for the next 6 months, 1 year, 5 years, we can't conclude anything curative really took place.

Don't get me wrong, they make a theoretical link to ACT in which experiencing of chronically difficult emotions are facilitated, which does offer potentially huge benefits, but just like we don't use studies on antidepressants that show symptom reduction to go shop bunch of prozac, we shouldn't readily assume we can use this one to facilitate our own healing in a DIY fashion either.
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Some browsers have (had) user stylesheets, which can do exactly that.

Firefox (barely) still has that option but it's disabled by default, Chrome had removed it many version ago, and Edge never had it from the beginning. IE11 still has the option.
It's very MIT.

It's also an illustration of what went wrong with the "internet of things" concept. Sensors are easy today. Actuators are hard. Most "IoT" things can't do much.

Try to buy a home power window. They exist. They're an exotic luxury home item. Even controllable home HVAC dampers are rare. It makes good sense to have a system where windows, fans, dampers, heaters, and compressors are all coordinated to maximize comfort at minimum cost, automatically. Will NeXT sell you that? No. It takes too much installation.

You might see that at a well run convention hotel. They have to keep customers happy, yet many of their big rooms are empty much of the time. So they'll have CO, CO2, temperature, humidity, and motion sensors tied to a control system that senses what the room needs for the current people load.

There's real IoT, but it's under commercial building automation.
Same, but it seems overkill. I'm in an old office where the only openable window is consumed by a window A/C unit.

I want to put a 120mm fan in a small opening next to it that'll turn on when it's more than 3C cooler outside, and more than 24C inside.

Seems like an Arduino would do it.
> This is one of my gripes with psychology articles/self help books. So so many topics are simple 'revelations' that many of us have figured out by the time we are 20. Can't eat a cookie if you don't have any cookies.

I recall Scott Alexander talking about this on one of the SSC posts -- can't remember which -- about the fact that people miss developmental milestones for reasons. And you can ask the question: What developmental milestones am I missing? Or: which cognitive tools do I need for my toolbox?

It's good to teach things that "you should already know", because maybe you're one of today's lucky 10000.
> Weren't everyone's predictions wrong in 2016?

Actually if you go look at the NYT polls, Trump had a monumental surge in the later half of October that caused the result to look much closer. Probably no small part of this was the additional FBI investigation into Clinton's emails, which was announced Oct 28 (10 days after the NYT article you posted).

If you go look at the polls from right before the actual election it looks significantly closer:

NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/us/elections/polls....

538: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/

It's not completely unthinkable for a 20-30% probability event to occur. Further, it is quite a rare occurrence for a candidate to win the election without winning the popular vote: This was only the fifth time in American history it's happened.
If the topic here is still "not R-wing enough", Nuclear power is something that Republicans generally agree with increasing more so than Democrats [1].

It's still lower than I'd prefer, further nuclear power research seems by far the best way to truly go off fossil fuels long term (even with the improvements in batteries, we are several orders of magnitude away from it actually being realistic to build them for power grid scale energy storing).

New reactor designs can go 72 hours [2] without any human interaction, which avoids much of the natural disaster concerns, such as requiring generators for cooling, which is what caused the major problems in Fukushima.

[1] https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2019/4/23/1850729...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AP1000
"Inventor of the pixel" is a feel good story title.
I don't see the harm. What am I missing? Genuinely not trolling you here.
I have used cloudrun before when I didn't have much technical knowledge.

It is awesome. You might also be interested in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24171800
This problem isn't unique to Medium. Content itself performs optimally in the current web ecosystem when it is click-baity and stretched out. I've seen just as bad stuff from developers who create their own #learntocode[0] blogs.

[0] Referring to the current trend of developers creating YouTube channels and blogs that funnel people into their "crack the Google interview" subscription course that is basically just them solving a bunch of leetcode questions.
IE Tab was an extension, never a native feature. It was one of the many innovations allowed by the open extensions API, allowing anybody to make major features without formal approval.
Non-full time employees often do not receive significant benefits. However, being classified as a contractor means paying the employer side of income taxes (yes, "self-employed" contractors essentially pay double the tax rate of employees). On your taxes your gross income compared to take home after taxes is a much larger margin for contractors as a result, disqualifying people for assistance programs and health insurance subsidies at a much lower take home pay than traditional employees.

What Uber and Lyft have essentially done here is to make their employees pay a substantial portion of what would otherwise be corporate taxes, and pocket that difference as profits while their drivers actually meet the legal criteria to require classification as employees. They shouldn't just be getting ordered to begin complying with the law, this should have resulted in a class action law suite for damages and a felony tax evasion case brought against them.
> We are zeroing in on free energy from renewables...

The right wing tends to believe that if a problem can be solved by an individual then there is no need for a government response.

If the assumptions in your question were true, you, WarOnPrivacy, could become a billionaire by outcompeting fossil fuel plants. Therefore no political action is needed.
This is only going to get worse. Better get used to it. Also, go fix the climate crisis.
Can we do this with all "has died" posts? You know, a brief summary what the person is known for.

90% of the time I have no idea who the person is. So sometimes I look the person up and realize there's no way I would have known who they were. Maybe that's the goal with the "${person-most-people-have-never-heard-of} has died" titles though.
It takes a village. Back in those days, humans lived in tribes and worked together to survive. Parents also had a lot of children, most of which died.
Agreed, but there are many other documented Title IX cases where the victims’ careers are ruined and we should also suspect a long tail of incidents we don’t hear about. It would be equally illogical to hear Susan Fowler’s case of sexual harassment and conclude that because she was on the cover of Time magazine and otherwise widely published that there isn’t an invisible minority whose careers are ruined. Further, TFA documents the Title IX inquiry as a kangaroo court, consistent with every other documented complaint of Title IX excesses; it’s not much of a consolation that it outperformed the Provost’s own kangaroo court.
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I don't know if his Instagram page was public before, but it's private now and I can't see his other ads.
You just mentioned Area 51. You must be a conspiracy individual!
I feel like AMP was a missed opportunity to create something like this. Unfortunately, Google was more focused on profitability...

Maybe we should go back to Gopher? (I almost mean this seriously--it was much more lightweight.)
>Very famously the US supreme court ruled in 2010 that corporations have free speech and money is speech

Not quite. They ruled that that corporations can spend unlimited money because money is is speech, which was an established precedent set by the much earlier Buckley v. Valeo:

>The majority ruled that the Freedom of the Press clause of the First Amendment protects associations of individuals in addition to individual speakers, and further that the First Amendment does not allow prohibitions of speech based on the identity of the speaker. Corporations, as associations of individuals, therefore have free speech rights under the First Amendment. Because spending money is essential to disseminating speech, as established in Buckley v. Valeo, limiting a corporation's ability to spend money is unconstitutional because it limits the ability of its members to associate effectively and to speak on political issues.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC#Opinion...
It’s a huge state with a lot of people with a massive heatwave covering a lot of it.

It’s easy to rag on California lately but it’s still American’s living there and I feel bad for them.
Sorry, I was reading defensiveness into your comment that apparently wasn't there.
FB and GOOG provide more stock and more refreshers. I think its hard to say AMZN engineers have come out ahead consistently.

I only have about ~40 stocks up from about 35 before the refresh cycle (unvested) and that's unlikely to go up if I get promoted (if you have too many they don't give you more). Googler and FB refresher values are significantly higher.
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The amount of this “new puritanism” that the US is displaying is amazing to me.

The idea of a bureaucracy like university administration controlling the love life of the professors is ridiculous IMO.
As for a higher level psychological effect, I'm not aware of any studies (as that is also farther away from my field of study), and I'd also like to know of any.

As for the underlying neurobiology, I think [0] is a decent study for identifying the relevant regions involved in procrastination in particular, and [1] is a good review about PFC plasticity. Of course that individually doesn't indicate a higher level effect, but dismissing it altogether in the same breath as ego depletion also doesn't seem right.

[0]: https://www.nature.com/articles/srep33203

[1]: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2013.06.028
Sorry it seems really vague. I think it's so simple it's confusing. Essentially, the Sedona method is to connect with whatever's bugging you and ask yourself these questions.

1. Could I let it go? (You can say yes, or no or anything. Saying "yes" is typical because it's just asking if it's possible. Saying "I don't know", is to be generally avoided because it doesn't let you "try it out".)

2. Would I let it go? (Same deal as question 1, but it puts you in the driver's seat in terms of would you take action)

3. When would you let it go? (It's an invitation to say, "now!", but answer honestly)

When explaining the Sedona Method they have you hold a pen and when you "let it go" you physically let it go. That's it. People protest and say, "it's not that easy", but if you do it earnestly you find you have a slight release. Then you just keep doing it over and over again and most stuff just tends to go away.

The way I think about it is that our mind can be run as a powerful emotional simulator, but all emotions are actually real. When we watch movies it's all a simulation but we have a genuine emotional reaction when we watch. The Sedona Method is a process that simulates letting go of resistant feelings that we have, but amazingly it does actually go away. It may come back but like regular exercise you keep chipping away at it bit by bit. Over time it does wonders.
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That was very early in the project, but moreover, I would expect that simply means that Servo can allow someone else to own DOM nodes; not that it depends on a JS implementation specifically, no?
This is more specific to California, not the US as a whole.
Inequality is a fake parameter. Economy is not a zero sum game.
But there's no reason for that to happen.

There's nothing stopping anyone from publishing a primarily text-based site if they want, or an "app" site. The web isn't a zero-sum platform, there's room for everything, and no objective definition of what separates "documents" from "apps" to base such a division on to begin with.

No one wants the web to be forked except for people on HN who wish everything done with it since the 1990s could be sent into quarantine where they can't see it, but this isn't something the public wants, or that anyone is working towards.
Build some nuclear power stations and you'll fix both. While you're at it build a breeder reactor and feed it with stored nuclear waste to both produce new fuel for other stations and reduce the amount of radioactive waste which needs to be stored as well as the period for which it needs to be stored.
Funny how this coincides almost point to point with what religions have been doing for centuries or millennia.

Situational strategies: temptation with the opposite sex? Segregate education by sex, make women wear burkas, forbid shorts, etc.

Distraction: "if you feel tempted, pray/read the Bible/think about God" is a very common religious tip.

Reappraisal: reminding yourself of the consequences of sin, confession, atonement.

Not defending any of that (I'm not even religious), but I just find the coincidences interesting. Are psychologies reinventing things that religions have known for centuries?
>Go to private party on private property of a friend

>Someone who also attended takes picture of party and posts in on instagram

>Instagram harvests your face from said picture

No public places involved in that scenario.
It took a village ;-)
The "call by name vs call by value" joke at Niklaus Wirth's expense :-)
They were also exclusive to PG&E, and not statewide.
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Who will make this push?

The problem with adoption of the text only standard would probably be that the generic browser will support that use case just as well as the simple browser. In general it would be hard to choose between one or the other world.

Rather than that, how about offering a very simple CSS on top of RSS? So that feeds could be personalized a bit, should the clients choose to support this?
I would love to read more about this.
That's part of the point. Are we prepared to track those changes across time? What if there's an article written today with (Unicode Hong Kong flag) or (Unicode Crimean flag)? Those articles might mean to express something in a context where HK is a certain independent entity, or Crimea is Ukrainian. What if that article is displayed with a Chinese and Russian flag 10 years from now?
If you don't mind mixing one letter with one number, and then you choose a 2-letter TLD, you obviously can have a a very short and still inexpensive domain.
I've always felt that if a developer can put themselves in to the point of view of a naive person, (ie. a complete non-technical person, OR a developer who may not have all the same experiences, or perhaps one who is self-taught, and has gaps) - then they can shape how they conceive and explain things, and it's super helpful.

In fact, I think I learned this technique in Technical Writing 101.
I just found out about AGNB here. Watched a couple. It's clear from his facial expressions that he's reacting to some of the crazy.
I can highlight the domain and open fine in Firefox on android. It doesn't render as the unicode glyph in the address bar after resolution though
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this is a great crate for doing quick prototypes, testing image processing and graphics ideas, or just to go back to 1990
Acoustic side-channel attacks on mechanical locks, I guess it's possibly more effective than an acoustic side-channel attack on an electronic lock running inside a computer. Side-channel, side-channel everywhere.
It's kind of a garbage filesystem though.

HN gets all bent out of shape about minor differences between btrfs and zfs. Like how zfs supports raid5/6 but btrfs raid5/6 support is immature. Meanwhile NTFS doesn't even support checksumming, multiple block devices, copy on write, the performance on SSDs is garbage, etc etc.
Scribd are a bunch of scammers, I remember subscribing for their free trial and then cancelling just before the trial ended, they never cancelled and this went on for 5 months - they took that long to cancel it. Check out their reviews here https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/www.scribd.com - what would be the case course of action to follow up on something like this? Obviously it's not worth lawyering up for.
That's what I meant by "green bar printer/ teletype/ terminal paper."