skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What you’re doing here is using the color of somebody’s skin to make very broad assumptions about the experiences of their life. Aside from the fact that these assumptions will often just be flat out wrong, it’s also a very racist way of viewing other people, and an especially arrogant way of treating them.

If you think people who are systemically disadvantaged deserve some additional help, then target it to people who are systemically disadvantaged. You can do that without without creating any racial discrimination, or any of the harm that comes along with it.
Even though I was proficient with Scheme, the parentheses were my least favorite part. I got tired of going crosseyed lining things up.

Doesn’t mean I dislike functional languages either. I just specifically found the parentheses more annoying than clarifying.
Mentally I'm there. But in terms of convenience I'm not. Thankfully my entire workflow has been done with OSS compatible with linux in mind so switching over is little more than an inconvenience for me. It all started because I couldn't use specific software in my workflow with linux...even if I paid for it. So then I started looking for good OSS alternatives and now I've basically become OS agnostic.
Instead of a flying car I want to ride on a small ballistic missile then parachute in to downtown from my nice spacious suburban hone
> Congress proposes amendments but does not ratify them

Right you are. I took a poor shortcut in my writing, but I’ve gone back and fixed the wording.
DJs should be in your list -- downloading tracklists from sets that I like is my #1 method for discovering new music

Find a couple DJs you like, download everything you can from their soundcloud or mixcloud, then give it a listen. Keeping Shazam close by is also helpful
And Ruby!
More likely that's a typo.
I don't think the Founders necessarily expected it to become so difficult to amend things. The most recent Amendment took 202 years to ratify, and that was nearly 30 years ago, and it was a minor tinkering with how Congressional salaries work. You have to go back another 20 years to the next one.
If you can post it on a public repo, I'd love to see it. (same goes for the many others who use VIM as a daily driver)
Videos are your optimal opportunity for product sales this Black Friday
Depends on the job. It’s probably an advantage to look mean if you’re a bouncer or a bodyguard, or work at the DMV.
I really don't understand your analogy whatsoever.
Ownership, control, compensation. You may want it all but typically you can only pick 2.
This is actually better than any photograph.
> That's why a defensive missile shield technology is not a good investment if you want more peace.

That depends on whether you go for a 'weak' shield or a 'strong' shield. A weak shield may defend a dozen or two warheads: something that North Korea would launch. Japan has a 'weak' shield AFAICT:

* https://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1374.html

A strong one would protect against hundreds: another major power. IMHO only the latter would destabilize peace, while the former would help defend agains crazies and potentially rogue operations.

> The existing MAD mantra is what stops nuclear war.

There are a bunch of criticism of MAD:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_assured_destruction#Cri...
It's same for any other OS. There's a reason Ubuntu won't try to update itself to the next LTS until it hits X.1.
Well it's only one person away.
One can imagine that color coding by size may have had good intentions, allowing people to grab the right size of scrubs quickly without having to check the tag. If so it'd be a good example of unintended consequences and not thinking through second order effects.
There is also something of a question if Universe 25 actually collapsed, or what happened in the previous 24 universes. Calhoun never published anything besides popsci summaries of his experiments: https://www.gwern.net/Questions#mouse-utopia
Embracing NewSQL: Why We Chose TiDB over MongoDB and MySQL
Do obese or unattractive radiologists' patients have different outcomes?
Your strawman of LessWrong writers and readers is, well, a strawman.
It is an open secret that Apple is doing all these privacy things for two reasons: PR and for setting themselves up as the only choice for ads for iOS users (which will soon include Mac). How anyone can just look past this (and that they jumped into NSAs arms and shared everything) baffels the mind. Apple is in no way less evil than Facebook or Google.
I created an account and integrated Subscriptions in 2018. At no point was I told that I would later be charged extra for doing so. On the contrary, I was later told that my account was "upgraded" to Billing for free.

> I'm sorry that it feels that way.

It's not just that it feels this way. It is this way. I'm still on the Subscriptions API and haven't seen anything in Billing compelling enough to rewrite my code to implement.

I'm not saying any other payment processor is better. They may not be. It's just that while I deeply respect some of your broader ethical stands, this kind of behavior is dismaying.
Is Norway full of... Nordic skiers?

Indeed!

In seriousness, Nordic (cross country) skiing is an activity enjoyable well into old age. Having done a couple non-competitive “races”, I’m always amazed at the range of ages.

...Adorable old timers with perfect form just slowly gliding across the snow for hours.
US citizens have broad rights to public free speech.

Corporations have broad rights to self-regulate their platforms.

No one is saying Bannon broke the law. It's just interesting how Twitter and FB are making different decisions about the kind of platforms they want to have.
But I suspect that some of the exact same negatives were showing up in Britain during Brexit, for example. (Can't say for sure, since I wasn't there and didn't see what the local conditions were.)

And I note with some amusement that you are now the one unwilling to specify. Sauce for the goose...
Yes, US History was in seventh grade for me.
Funny -- I was just digesting a competing study released recently[0] which showed little-to-no benefit from vitamin D, Omega 3 fatty acids, and exercise (either alone or in combinations). That study used 5X the daily vitamin D as this one. So I guess the jury's still out and I may choose to continue to err on the side of supplementing vitamin D.

[0] https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2020/11/10/Study-Little-bene...
The real question: "What should I short?"
I thought they did this for the Pixar movie, Wall-E.
Containers in FF have made me so much more productive as a consultant. I’ve been considering trying to develop a “containers” extension for Safari, but I suspect that the requisite APIs are not available...
All things are possible with sufficiently large heavy machinery, but that's an interesting comparison because what they had to work with when salvaging that ship was not actively decomposing.

There actually are trash dumpsters large enough to hold this whale. I'm not sure it'd be necessary to tow it out to sea, but maybe that's not as hard as it seems to someone like me who doesn't know the process.
I don't think it's so much of a UI decision vs. a product decision, i.e. they want downvoted comments to be less attractive to read, I suppose. That said, I do agree - it'd be nicer if they weren't. I tend to highlight downvoted comments so I can read them better
Ugh, I don't want to upgrade to Big Sur now. How much more dictator garbage is hidden in the new OS, I wonder?
> I don't think the Founders necessarily expected it to become so difficult to amend things.

It isn't difficult if you have general agreement that a particular amendment is needed. What makes it seem difficult to get passage of particular amendments that particular special interest groups have proposed is that there is not general agreement that they are needed. And in that situation, the amendment should not be passed--and that's exactly how the Founders set things up. That's why they required a two-thirds vote in each house of Congress to send an amendment to the States for ratification, and three-fourths of the States to ratify it in order to have it in force.

> The most recent Amendment took 202 years to ratify

That was an anomaly; no other amendment has taken anything close to that long. And that particular one probably could have been passed sooner, except that once it got left out of the original Bill of Rights, it was forgotten.
Or just get some sunshine! It's likely there are other benefits, besides just the vitamin D.
>> That freedom of Linux comes at a cost that people aren't paid to take care of the level of details other OS have.

>> Paying $100 for Windows seems like a better solution if you just want a working OS without a hassle.

I've been running Fedora for 15 years and haven't had any of those pesky Linux issues for at least 8 of those years. Meanwhile, I was issued a new Windows laptop at work just last week and it Sucks pretty bad. It's smooth and polished, but with all the advertising and "first ones free" preinstalled shit it feels a lot like Facebook rather than a computer. I'm glad its me-at-work being monetized and not me at home...
And why are you using Safari daily?

I only use it to open non work related sites to split distractions because I agree it's not the best browser.
Moreover:

> Participants were all native Chinese speakers aged 65 years and older with Mild Cognitive Impairment

So - these people were re-acquiring previous cognitive function, not improving their lifetime baseline intelligence.

Quite surprised based on my primitive biology that in a 12 month trial they could observe differences in telomere length. That seems a remarkable outcome and if true would suggest prolonged benefits.
Pre-processing for deep learning: from covariance matrix to image whitening
Have you used Linux in the last few years? Seems like all standard use cases work seamlessly, such as web browsing, streaming, videos, text editing, creating artwork, presentations, installing any random Linux binary, programming, ...etc ; only problems I've run into are by doing something stupid or doing something really really off the wall.

And even when I've created a problem or chosen to do something way outside of standard usage, there has been a WEALTH of documentation, stack overflow discussions, and live Linux community support. I've never run into a problem that hasn't already been chewed over by the Linux community, solved, and the solution been posted in a clear, educational, and technically descriptive manner.

I've NEVER has that kind of support from Apple or Microsoft. From them, it's always some half baked, high level / middle management overview type of solution, usually outdated, that discusses why it's a problem, why fixing it is dependent on the system (their system, that I've paid for), and how I should contact my system administrator, who's going to go read through the same page, then spend the afternoon sipping Pepto and dreaming of having a more sane job. Using their OS's is like wading through mud.
Oddly the study didn't seem to state (from the abstract anyway) if the participants were deficient in vitamin D to start with or not.
Fair enough. I suppose that the experience depends heavily on the particular MacBook model and its age.

For example, I have used a 13 inch MacBook Air (Early 2015) for almost 4 years now exclusively with Linux and I have had a very good experience with it so far. WiFi, Bluetooth, webcam, touchpad, card reader and sleep all work well. Battery time is very similar to OS X. The configuration took some time but it is well documented on the Arch Linux wiki.

This model is now quite old and relatively many people use it with Linux. That is probably the reason why there are no major outstanding issues with it. When it was new, the situation might have been different.
You've just reminded me the USA no longer has net neutrality. Bit sad
Ken Shirriff: ARM1 processor compared to Apple's M1 processor
Mandatory OCSP is security theater? That’s a pretty bold claim.
Facebook is already a filter bubble though. It is Facebook itself that can impose opposition.
Why can’t you just instantiate a lens in front of the camera and render rays through it?
I'm sure I've commented something similar on another article, but as a rather unattractive person, can we please give these kind of studies a rest. Quite literally every single fucking study I've read that looks at this always says the exact same thing: being unattractive is correlated with lower salary, or being less likely to get a promotion, or being less likely to have other people think you are "nice", etc. etc. I just feel like being unattractive is correlated with about every negative outcome one can think of, and at this point I just want to scream: I get it! Being ugly sucks. You don't have to tell me twice (or five thousand times).
Disagree with Linux. I make an LVM snapshot before making any attempts to upgrade the graphics driver. It's a disaster. And don't say proprietary code, that's beside the point. Windows runs drivers in a way that one that crashes can be restarted without bringing down the kernel or the whole system.
Was kinda surprised to see https://circleci.com at #37. When I clicked through, turns out it was me repeatedly reminding anyone who'd listen that we existed.
> We aren't talking about "criticism". I am not asking for laws on blasphemy. I am asking for laws on hate speech.

You say this as if these are clearly defined categories. Take the charlie hebdo cartoons: Criticism, blasphemy or hate speech? At any rate, your argument applies even to criticism. Criticism can lead people to infringe on your freedom of religion.
I think the intent of the statement was more:

> Every year Stallman seems more correct.

In the sense that the exact risks he was trying to mitigate are in fact materializing in mainstream computing platforms.
Well, my memory is decades out of date and from a low-population state. Still, I remember spending a lot of time on how smart this was and how well it's worked. "Greatest civic invention since democracy itself" was a bit of hyperbole, but there was definitely a lot of emphasis on how good the compromise was.
Not only that, older adults with mild cognitive impairment. The headline and the paper are quite different.
Sorry, but general sweeping statements about what everyone should do or not do are annoying to no end.

But rest assured I don’t intend to pursue more of the kind of responses like the one I’ve posted above, because it has already brought me joy and made me feel good.
2012 Macbook Pro. Get the highest-spec Magsafe laptop you can find.
Anders Hejlsberg was the chief architect of Delphi and he has been with Microsoft. He also managed to create C# and Typescript.
It's a reference to Google's recaptcha, which in my experience always asks you to try to identify features in tiny blurry low-resolution photos (and I always wonder how users with poor vision can deal with it). And it's not unusual for it to be wrong and insist that a street decoration is a bicycle, or something like that, and not let you proceed unless you agree with its misidentification.
If I am not mistaken, only Startpage and DDG will allow HTTP POST instead of GET.
Until software can be proven to not be malicious, we will be stuck in a trust hierarchy
The Professor and the Politician
I’m more inclined to say that you’re deliberately going back on your words.

Once you tell someone they can continue using it as is forever, you cannot later say ‘actually, we meant just a few years’.
Conformism is requirement in Authoritarian regimes. Now I am sure I will get massive amount of push back calling Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland authoritarian but it seems in many ways human culture is loosing what desire for freedom, replacing it with conformism, safety, and security which they falsely equate with freedom
Just so you know, Ben Shapiro is a man who also says things like "Israelis like to build. Arabs like to bomb crap and live in open sewage".

While I actively seek pundits/academics/scholars I disagree with to avoid existing in a thought-bubble I also try to avoid those whom have espoused racist views in the past. You lose legitimacy in my eyes once you demonstrate that you are a racist.
> If a web cert gets revoked a browser won't accept it when making a connection to a domain/server anymore even if they previously did

The difference is that you can just get a new web cert, install it on the server, and you're good to go for https. On the other hand, getting a new Developer ID cert doesn't help at all to make the app start running again. You can sign new versions of the app with the new cert, but the installed versions of the app signed with the revoked cert are still dead as a doornail, which is no good at all for your existing user base.

> The main and basically almost only reason where I see developer side revocation be used is if their keys or account have been (possibly) compromised and therefore there's a chance of it being used for malware.

It's not clear that this ever happens. I discussed the case of Panic in the blog post. Their private key was possibly compromised, but Apple did not revoke their cert! The old cert is still valid, and so are the old versions of their apps. Apple apparently has a more limited way of disabling apps, based on the secure timestamp of the code signature.
Your Computer Isn't Yours
> And I note with some amusement that you are now the one unwilling to specify

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25077547

Anyway, in short, I'm sure (and I mean this) you're a smart and well-read guy or gal, but from your entirely circular arguments here I don't think you've ever seriously spent time considering what the alternatives to the first amendment are. Everything you've claimed to like about it is just as true in other free, rich countries, and the negatives you repeatedly decline to mention are largely absent. You've brought in libel as an example, which of course is _not_ protected by 1FA. The importance of 1FA at this point is a national religion.
If you just read his writings on the importance of free software, he never was that "crazy" to begin with. He simply saw examples of companies locking down their hardware so that they could control it at the consumer's expense.

Exactly this is happening with Apple now. Although Apple computers were fairly hackable in the past, with users being able to install Linux or Windows, that is changing. Apple is changing the hardware _and_ software to make it more difficult to do things that Apple does not approve of.

Stallman was keenly aware of this type of behaviour, and he was also aware that companies that have the potential to use this behaviour to this advantage, will often do so.

Apple wants to be in a position where they sell computers as appliances, and Apple Silicon is their step towards doing so.

By the way, I'm typing this on a Macbook pro that is no longer supported by Apple, but running Linux. I am not sure this would be possible in the world of Apple Silicon.
Amateur's Subset Product Heuristic
I noticed that the growth of an integer's divisors is logarithmic. Numbers such as 8-quintillion could have ~90-~100 divisors in total.

If I decided to use a pseudo-polynomial solution, I would quickly run out of time if I had to create a truth-table with a length of 8-quintillion.

So, I decided to do something trivial by ignoring non-divisors.

This variant of subset-product does not allow repeated use of divisors.

And, I use random sampling instead of a truth-table.

So far its been some use to me, and I would like some input.

What would be a better way to write the code I have given in the link?

How large would my input have to be before seeing exponential blowup?
I've been using Safari as my browsing browser and Chrome as my development browser for years. Chrome's network tab is way better than Safari and their profiling tools are also very useful.
I have PayPal subscriptions billing, it's 2.9% + $0.30/txn - this might be slightly less than Stripe now?
With respect, I think that’s a narrowly scoped proposition that ignores obvious perils with significant impacts.

Look at COVID-19 impacts on supply chains in the US and China, due to short term disruptions. Any significant nuclear conflict would have huge impacts. Destruction of Long Beach, Chicago and similar hubs would implode the economy in an extreme way.

It’s also a loss of control on the societal level that would unleash other horrors.
I expect it varies by when and where you went to school.
>he would be crazy not to take a look at his algorithm textbook.

Why? what's wrong with going "purely" into interview?
Charging one rate for all payments sounds nice. But not all payments cost the same for Stripe. One rate for all customers means that you are breaking even / losing money on some transactions and making money on others. In other words, you're asking some of your customers to subsidize others, because.... it makes the product simpler to sell. Why would anyone agree to the wrong side of that bargain as a customer?
Yeah, you could use my hairline to tell when I’m working with Python... I still haven’t figured out a good typed framework for it yet.
*by role
You can read it directly into a pandas DataFrame. [1]

https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/reference/api/p...
Yes, sir! Thanks!!!
Indeed. And that seems to be a bar from which we are very far away.
System76 / Dell XPS developer edition
What’s wrong with virtualenv + requirements.txt + pip?
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Snowden: Voting machines are *known* to be insecure (2019)
They both felt like footnotes to me. In fact I feel like my entire education was just "yeah this exited and this is a breif summary of what it was". The only history course I remember having much substance was the madatory "state history" course we had to take in 7th grade. Of course, I may have just not been paying attention.
> The ARM processor started with the Acorn RISC Machine project in 1983. Apple got involved in the late 1980s, using the low-power ARM 610 processor in the ill-fated Newton handheld. In 1990, Acorn, Apple, and VLSI Technology formed Advanced RISC Machines, with Apple owning 43%.

That was news to me, as I didn't realize Apple had such a foundational role in the early stages of ARM.
> We're not looking to the past for guidance. We're looking at what the Constitution says because it is still the supreme law of the land.

When we discuss the Federalist Papers and the Anti-Federalist Papers, we are looking to the past for guidance.
Unfortunately I have to use that driver to support the external monitors on my laptop because the display ports are directly wired to the nvidia GPU and the open source one doesn't work at all for me.
Sure, but the winter climates in many geographical regions don’t provide adequate sunlight during winter.
This sounds like an important study, but unfortunately it is effectively unpublished; neither Google Scholar nor Sci-Hub is able to find the full text. I'm not willing to trust it without reading the methodology section, and I'm not willing to pay $32 to read it.

If any of the study authors happen to read this: pay close attention to how you publish, the journals will destroy all the value of your study in exchange for a few bucks, if you let them.
Same. Do you know a good way to add meta data to songs? I’ve been carrying around a library since I was a teenager and I when I moved it from Google Play to iTunes, a bunch of the meta data was missing.
It did everywhere else, so why not in America?