skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article, like other things I've read in books like "The Organized Mind", or the class "Learning How to Learn" is that learning for adults is usually difficult not because of reduced learning capacity, but instead individual behaviors, emotional regulation, and culture.

Dr. Levetin suggests that it's mostly around how much frustration you can handle, and how much time you think you have left vs. the amount of value you'll get from what you are learning. Procrastination, a great killer of self-education, is primarily driven by low emotional intelligence/regulation.

This is exactly what I get from this article again: the issue is not brain plasticity in learning, but the willingness to be frustrated, a desire to learn new things (we can't all be Paul Erdos) and the time to learn.
Discriminating which schools you hire from based on racial demographics of said schools just seems like racial discrimination by proxy
One issue with Go's lack of generics is exactly that it can't have such a package (and have it be type safe, fast, and work across all relevant types), except with repeated code.
> Yes, there are rules, and if you learn enough of them you can construct valid sentences by translating words from your native language and adding in the necessary syntactic filler, but you will not actually learn that language

You will learn the language's grammar, which can be very helpful in understanding sentences as well as creating sentences which are grammatically correct.

Once you learn adequate vocabulary as well as correct grammar and correct usage, you can make some pretty respectable sentences.
I agree wholeheartedly of doing something that you believe is valuable.

The process of figuring out what's valuable is different from person to person. Some people know from a young age. Others figure it out in college or post-education. My values have been shaped and refined over the course of high school, college, and work. The high level picture may not be clear, but I believe it's beneficial to hone in on what you find valuable and see where it takes you.
>How can you achieve affirmative action if you can't discriminate on the basis of race?

Interview training to minimize implicit bias in the interview process. Interview training to minimize acts that make certain groups uncomfortable. Removing employees from the interview pool who show a racial bias. Resume review that omits names and other racial indicators. Etc.
JAL 100%. Better mileage program, more perks. ANA is simpler to get lower status, but getting to the top is better on JAL. I can speak highly for the quality of service at JAL. Now to be fair, I have had Diamond for 7 years, so on my normal schedules and airports the staff recognize me. I have not been able to fly at all this year. They have frozen expire dates for status, allowing for an extra year to make up for the lost 2020 year.

The JAL flight JL01 from SFO used to leave near midnight. I screwed up once and booked the flight on the wrong day. When I showed up a day late, they asked if I was okay as I had been booked on the flight the day before. We had a good chuckle at my screwup as they found me a seat on the flight, handing me a ticket, no change fee, etc. without a thought.
I think the idea is that you can achieve the diversity goal while still hiring the most qualified people by broadening the recruiting pool. This way you're not discriminating based on race because you are still hiring the most qualified people. To do this, you might increase recruiting at other colleges that didn't have recruiting before (especially if those colleges have different demographics than the colleges you already recruit from), or similar measures.
Let’s say you have hiring events at colleges with say 10% black population. You start focused on colleges with higher percentages, this you should have more black candidates.

You can change your recruiting strategies to target a more diverse range of candidates without discriminating on the basis of race.
>They just had not the training to deal with freedom.

China is just more open about it, the phenomenon is universal. Nobody, China, West or anywhere else really has something approaching authentic freedom.

Over here we can argue we have freedom, but the freedom we have in our choices is like going to Westworld (relevant Bruno Macaes piece[1] from yesterday). We are encouraged to go backpack to Australia, participate in a protest, and then we are supposed to 'grow up', get a family, and so on. There's no point in that process in which you actually do something that amounts to more than simulating freedom, there's no point where you actually might get hurt.

In that sense if anything a lot of cultures like in China are just more honest, they tell you to sit your ass down and do rote memorization for 10 hours, whereas we get a ping pong table in the office and free smoothies and Disneyland, there's really no difference at the end of the day.

[1]https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/history/articles/what-com...
These functions are designed to be highly generic so can be used as building blocks for many other more specific algorithms while it is not specifically tied to other concepts like container or iterator. Do you have any concise alternatives that reflect these properties?
I thought these looked familiar, I have product that uses them, but a version with dual LEDs. The CFFA3000 hard drive / floppy emulator for the Apple ][ used them in a floppy disc control panel.

https://shop.dreher.net/shop?olsPage=products%2Flimit-3-per-...

http://dreher.net/?s=projects/CFforAppleII&c=projects/CFforA...
All of those activities make them money. None of them are charity.

Hmm, some ways Google has hurt me. They bought Revolv and turned my expensive home automation into a paperweight to try and force me to buy into the Nest ecosystem. That's a good example.
Lower Grip Strength in Millennials?
If we've gotten to the point where we just accept that individual rights are granted by the government and can thus be limited by said government by any means or process, then the idea that private individuals have inalienable rights against the state is de-facto dead.
Yeah I agree the GPL is not relevant to the case at hand, though it does raise the question whether (assuming Oracle wins) the logical conclusion is that the Java APIs are under the GPL/Proprietary dual-license Oracle offers today or that the copyright license itself doesn't apply to the API and a separate license is needed -- in which case I guess it's high time for GPLv4.
Thanks; will have a look. Most of my students are using Chromebooks so will have to investigate if the Android client has support for this.

Would be nicer to just be able to point them to a webpage, but gotta take what you can get :)
It may be, I ride the accelerator so it doesn’t often trigger the brakes unless you let off by a lot then the regenerative braking really kicks in. So if you let off the accelerator enough it triggers the brake lights because the motor is “braking” and charging the battery.
I used to wonder the same, until it hit me that current status quo is actually NOT the meritocracy it pretends to be. There are many individuals with both talent and potential who are currently getting passed over simply because of unacknowledged negative bias.

So it's not about picking someone less talented to make numbers on diversity, it's about revisiting the criteria that make us overlook talented individuals who happen to not fit the stereotype, and broaden our approach to considering candidates.
I think that Tesla's PR department is not a right source for judgement.

https://fastestlaps.com/tests/95pv46ue63rt - Tesla Model 3 Performance does not win big over BMW M3.
So what's your point?

That Romanians should be kicked out of EU because they are stealing "R jerbs"?
Probably a lot of people with their fingers in the air until November.
The relevance is that the President got wall to wall media coverage for being sick. And his is in a demographic (old, overweight, male) that puts him at an extremely elevated risk for serious illness.

Doctors will do their job and scientists will do their job, and in the end decisions will be made based on the results of studies.

That doesn't negate the enormous amount of positive press that this event will give to the treatment.

Either way, it should be a signal that we are getting much better at treating the illness. Back in April, Boris Johnson, who is basically a Trump equivalent, but 20 years younger, spent a week in the hospital in very rough shape.

The news on Cornavirus is in trending significantly in the positive direction, which is really all that matters.
I believe he's already wealthy.

It could also be like that one comedian...

"I had the right to remain silent... I just didn't have the ability" :)
The maps are terrible. I used my phone. I prefer Apple CarPlay over anything that any car manufacturer has. And even that isn’t great but it’s usable.
I love how this was flagged 2x in a day. Anonymous flagging w/o a way to contest the flagging makes this a terrible forum.
It's completely predictable that the expensive drugs that Trump got (the monoclonal antibodies & Remdesivir) dominate the news cycle, while the cheap ones don't. From, the Physician to the President's report on October 2nd [0]:

>Following PCR-confirmation of the President’s diagnosis, as a precautionary measure he received a single 8 gram dose of Regeneron’s polyclonal antibody cocktail. He completed the infusion without incident. In addition to the polyclonal antibodies, the President has been taking zinc, vitamin D, famotidine, melatonin and a daily aspirin.

If there's a game changing drug for COVID-19 in there I'd say it was vitamin D.

We covered the Spanish randomized open label, double-masked clinical trial of vitamin D just over a month ago. [1][2]

>“Of 50 patients treated with calcifediol, one required admission to the ICU (2%), while of 26 untreated patients, 13 required admission (50%) p value X2 Fischer test p < 0.001.”

[0] https://twitter.com/PressSec/status/1312122950133272576

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096007602...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24366006
Weird. Does it have to do with electromagnetism and their getting confused?
American law. Pft. Not everyone in the world is subject to Roman rule...

Not talking about Twitter here - the individual may not be American (America - the new Rome.)
Because these wages are near universally low, so no one needs to compete on that. Also for the same reason they're recruiting international students in the first place: Money.

(Note: this doesn't mean the schools aren't fulfilling their educational missions, it just means that revenue is both necessary in itself and as such a core metric that is pursued.)
Yes, it was definitely an exception.

I dare to disagree again with you regarding envy. Mostly because (and I am being biased here) I felt that I had more fun than the other groups. I was building a radio with my friends, they were pecking at each other at basketball, forever busy at keeping their ranks.
> Interview training to minimize implicit bias in the interview process. Interview training to minimize acts that make certain groups uncomfortable.

I would like to see some evidence that this actually achieves the desired outcome.
No, Microsoft is like the CEO in this scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZy4QXLKHlI
Affirmative action needs to die. As an Asian, I hate that I have to work harder just to get the same opportunities.

Affirmative action is simply racism against minorities that “don’t matter” to the public narrative in favor of minorities that “do matter.”

Imagine telling an Asian child that they have to work way harder because of their race. While their friends get to go out and play, they have to sit down and study because of a condition they were born with. It’s abhorrent.

Now this same racism is carrying into the job market. No thanks.
Some issues after using for a few minutes:

- Registration via Google, even for a non-Google email address. I really don't want any third parties scooping up my address.

- The price should have a currency associated with it. You might not do much with it right now, but you could for example integrate with a third party to convert 1995 Yen to 2020 US dollars, allowing anyone to see the price in their preferred currency at this time. Country of purchase would also be useful in this case, since prices can vary a lot across markets and this would enable at least rough translation based on known ratios between countries for different product categories.

- The weight unit should be an enum, not a string. That way it'll be trivial for you to convert to the user's preferred unit (kg for something like 95% of the world).

- Searching for "backpack" returned no results, which is weird.

- It would be useful to have some help text for the BIFL score, to have a slight chance of people rating using similar criteria. I'm not sure the BIFL score is even going to be very useful; maybe it would be better to generate it based on how long people have had the item and its condition at submission time.

- The front page without any filters applied shows 43 products. After switching to brands it shows 157 results. Are there really more brands than products?

On a more general note, if the data is supposed to be community driven it might make sense to also make meta-reviews community driven, like Wikipedia and Stack Overflow.

All that said, thank you for building this! I desperately want a site like this, focusing on reliability ahead of cost, packaging, and design.
iOS 14 Photo Widget – Memories
Having just watched The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo for the first time a week ago, this scene is now 3x more hilarious.
Dude that's a rabbit hole as deep as American history.
If anyone reading this uses this example in a class, or is thinking of doing so, perhaps it could be set up as an experiment to see how much the phrasing influences the result?
I don't see any responses to your comment, I wonder why! Perhaps you made sense.
> Sure people can retrain and reapply for jobs, do we need unions for that?

Because they could make it easier for those workers. It's not like the business that laid them off is going to do a good job of that, if it's not compelled to, and retraining can be expensive and perhaps unaffordably so for someone who just lost their job.

>>> Last year corridor crew did a video where niko broke down how much money he could save by moving to LED lights and cutting the mandatory crew requirement and run small films at affordable prices.

>> Bosses don't like unions, and if you take the perspective of a boss, you probably won't like them either. What else is new?

> Saying bosses dont like unions therefore dismissal of discussion is missing the point.

No it isn't. I'm sure there prosecutors that have plenty of complaints about defense attorneys. Maybe some guilty people do get off free because of them, but we don't oppose defense attorneys because they make things hard for prosecutors. Unions serve opposing interests to bosses, so bosses' gripes should not be the main focus.

> My view is too much of unionizing is underpinned by coveting other people's success and wanting to feel good after being burned.

My view is that unionization is underpinned by the fundamental imbalance between unorganized workers and organized business.
They give you a good buzz, especially if you are a relatively opiate naive person. If you happen to have an addict friend that wants to sell their methadone or suboxen to buy real stuff, then it ends up being a lose lose for people trying to stop overall use
The article explained it’s thought that the birds were seeking a place to land to avoid a storm and were drawn to the lights
Many people prefer popular first names. For example, there are probably more than 150 million people with the first name Muhammad or some spelling variation thereof.
There are only a handful of companies who need the true power of Kafka. It is a burden on devops and expensive. If you’re too small you definitely will waste money pursuing this aspiration.
Since this seems to be a personal anecdote thread:

I have constant tinnitus, ever since I was a child. I grew up thinking everyone heard that high pitched buzzing.

A recent hearing check showed I have better than average hearing for my age. I have TMJ disorder, but I didn't (I don't think) as a child.

I currently subscribe to the theory that mine may be caused by like, a blood vessel by chance too close to the eardrum or whatever, and that there is nothing I can do about it.

Regardless, the possible causes seem to span a wide range of things totally unrelated so everyone who didn't get it from exposure to loud sounds is on a highly personal journey.
It's impossible to "compete" with countries with far weaker currencies, you can't refute that, there is no competing.

First, you are absolutely taking the side of large companies, there's no refuting that even if you say it a hundred times.

Second, of course the companies say they need it, that's the only way they can get the visas. But it's not true.

Third, let incentives do the work. Banning H1B immediately would open hundreds of thousands high paying jobs in the US. No need to subsidize and add distortion to distortion, the jobs would be filled as demand would increase.

Fourth, very very few H1B are contributing to "state of the art" anything, the vast majority are taking the exact types of jobs that your entry level college graduate could take. And if they contributing to state of the art, then raising the H1B pay to be more fair is exactly the reform needed to pay them properly and ensure we aren't replacing slightly higher paying and equally capable workers.
Same issue with logitec mouse, mbp, usb3 hub dongle, buying an old school 4 port usb2 hub and running the cable away from the dongle, problem solved. Gotta love the future
> I got to warn you, stopping sugar consumption cold turkey is not easy and not nice.

Just for another data point, when I moved to the US I did not like the taste of processed sugars in a lot of the standard supermarket food here and found it pretty trivial to give it up.
Many Americans Get News on YouTube, Where News Orgs and Independents Thrive
But if they did ignore it, then perhaps the government is ignoring it on purpose because it knows and is hiding something.

You can't win with conspiracy theorists.
How much less do you want to bet on? Also how much do you want to bet?
Perhaps one useful outcome of that experiment is that testing alone doesn't prevent a workplace from becoming a super spreader site.
How the Brain Processes Color
New study suggests handwriting engages the brain more than typing
Bose's position is something like Apple. They're not the best perf per cost brand but some people prefer them. (Please exclude iPhone SE)
> You can make it better by trying to restrict your entertainment material to the second language, but this usually involves seeking out kids' shows to try to find something comprehensible at your small vocabulary level, and to me it ends up feeling more like work than entertainment.

I suspect I'm probably not alone in this given how popular Japanese anime/games/manga/lightnovels are among non-native speakers, but outside of 1 year of Japanese class in high school where I was taught some fundamentals (could probably be replicated in a 1-month online course), I managed to acquire, pretty much exclusively through media consumption, enough proficiency to consume most Japanese entertainment I'm interested in today, rarely ever feeling the need to reach for translation (watching untranslated anime, reading untranslated manga/light novels, playing untranslated games, etc). In fact today I actually find translated material extremely frustrating and actively seek out non-localized Japanese versions of games to play so I can enjoy the original text.

Though of course I can't really claim to be a fluent communicator in Japanese because consuming media passively doesn't really exercise the brain and face muscles needed to communicate to others. When I went to Japan last year I was actually able to understand pretty much everything that was said to me, but really struggled to formulate responses (luckily I was able to eventually communicate my ideas for the most part, but I'm pretty sure it was dead obvious that I wasn't a native speaker). Writing in Japanese without some kind of IME is as you might guess a complete non-starter for me as well for similar reasons.
If their designs were "great" then it would be possible to make a quality car based on them. Manufacturability is a key element of design.
That trial has several issues. Everyone is patiently awaiting larger RCTs to further understand if Vitamin D does anything as a prophylactic. It's been shown to not be helpful in severe cases.
Not commenting about the merits of this specific probe, but here is a thought. African Americans are 13% of the US Population. Isn't it reasonable to aspire to have at least 13% of African American staff (proportionally adjusted per state/city populations)? This is a rhetoric question, what causes that to not be the case.

The article doesn't mention the numbers but when a particular race is disproportionately less represented in corporations than its general population equivalent, then clearly there's a broken piece somewhere in the equation.

I'm not even taking a political stance on this one. This is just the mathematical sound interpretation. If every person should have the same opportunities then the corporate populations should be a proxy of the general population proportions.
Sounds to me like a job for a DSL that compiles down to Golang for the final output. That way, the repeated code only exists in the Golang output and not in the code that humans actually write.
I guess the best way to defeat perceived "systemic racism" is to institute actual systemic racism. Moral failure.
Any affirmative action is by definition discriminating on the basis of race. If you want the best candidate for the job, you don't look at race, you look at their abilities to do the job. Period. Any bias towards hiring one race implies bias against hiring from other races. Why is it okay to have almost no Asian players in the NBA while a small percentage of black people in tech is a big fuss? It is all hypocrisy.
Show me 2:1 compression on game assets that are commonly already heavily compressed. Need to see the Weismann score on that! ;)
In response to [1], specifically: “Van Laarhoven optics” and “profunctor optics” are qualifiers for two of the more common constructions.

In response to the naming in general: I’m not overly convinced about the naming thing considering that the Go Programming Language is not often confused with the game of Go, nor is the Rust Programming Language with the fungus or iron oxide.
This is clearly an explicitly discriminatory practice that uses race as a factor. No one should be supporting Microsoft in this endeavor.
Another thought is comparing its durability with just buying more of a cheaper version.

If I have a 500 shoe, does it last the same as 5 similar shoes in a row?