skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have this same issue. We are a northern US company and one of our programmers is from the deep south. It is so hard to take him seriously with that accent which I automatically associate with uneducated rednecks. I've literally spent years trying to overcome my bias against the southern accent. One bizarre aspect to this is I was on the interview committee and am the one that convinced everyone else to hire him.
What if an interpretable model is worse at telling stop signs from jackets than an uninterpretable model? Should we use the worse model because we value interpretability?
If anyone wants a self-hosted password manager I'd highly recommend BitWarden.

I originally used pass (with some custom scripts to read the current URL from Chrome and copy the password for that domain), but then switched to 1Password when they came out with their cross-platform browser extensions. Having a browser extension to automatically generate and save usernames and passwords, and something that supports syncing out-of-the-box makes password management a whole lot easier.

Earlier this year I switched to BitWarden (with bitwarden-rs as the server) and it is 95% as good as 1Password. I'm happy to have something self-hosted to manage this.
>If you're storing a trillion of those km³ for yourself in water tanks

All the water tanks in the world don't add up to a trillion km³. Not by many orders of magnitude.

> the resulting labor and energy costs of converting the latter back into the former

The sun does that for free, and has done for billions of years.
I remember in the last handful of decades some great mystery/thriller movies with sophisticated characters where they were using Texan and Louisianan accents (think No Country for Old Men). That, to me, is what made it all the more interesting, although these weren't full on accents by comparison to how people from these places can really speak like.
Surely you'd have heard about it from friends or family if it was common for pregnant women to have cravings for nails and bottle caps and that their bodies need the nutrition from them?
I have found rectangle indispensable. In my particular setup my second screen is in a separate room from my main screen -- being able to send and properly place a window to the other screen in the other room is incredibly helpful. The shortcuts to quickly arrange screens without the need for a mouse is fantastic. Love rectangle.
Your exact comment, in full (emphasis mine):

>Planes also promise fast travel times, but if a plane crashes, we heavily investigate the cause and figure out a solution so it doesn’t occur again. The USA experiences the equivalent of over 100 Boeing 747 plane crashes a year(and rising), counting only deaths due to traffic crashes. The number spikes significantly higher when you factor in people with severe injuries who will never fully recover(think: losing arms, legs, brain damage,etc..).

>Assuming speed limits stay the same, but deaths and injuries _continue_ to rise, at what point would you say we have a ‘bad balance’ and should adjust? What is your ‘balance’ based on? Is there some ratio of VMT(vehicle miles traveled) to occurrences of deaths and dismemberment that you keep in mind?
The History of Japanese Economic Development: Origins of Private Dynamism and Policy Competence (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B075FX5X5J/) is the best source I found. As the author wrote it to help government officials from developing countries apply lessons from Japan's historical economic development, it's quite an approachable textbook compared to other more academic works.

The textbook is a refined version of his previous work, "The Economic Development of Japan", which is available for free: https://www.grips.ac.jp/forum/pdf06/EDJ.pdf.
This is great advice. Thanks for sharing.
For those unfamiliar with the power of APL, see this demo of someone livecoding the Game of Life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9xAKttWgP4

Its modern descendent are https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_(programming_language) & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_(programming_language).
Best to email the mods and ask. They’re friendly. Contact link in the footer if you decide to.
Domestic and feral ex-domestic cats kill far more birds than either. If this is a real concern, banning cat ownership is top of the list.
Why would you need custom scripts when both Browserpass and GoPass Bridge have browser extensions for pass?
In the link you provided, I didn’t see any formal validation studies presented justifying the scale/test/instrument they were using here. That’s the sort of practice that leads to a inability to reproduce and validate the results...
The engineering of Leap-The-Dips, the oldest operating roller coaster [video]
I don't agree. I can speak 2 foreign languages (that I learned in adulthood) and read 2 others, but I still have a distinct bias against certain regional accents - though only USA regional accents. I can't distinguish any other countries regional accents (or if I can, they all sound good to me).
There are times when you simply can't avoid it, and in those cases pass is great for doing so because you can revoke keys and rotate the password when someone leaves.
Just tired. A lot more tired than I should be.
I love https://hn.algolia.com. I usually use it to search through my own comment history. I wish reddit.algolia.com existed, as the existing options are not good. I wonder if it would scale to the reddit corpus?

Feature request for HN search: the default should be stories and comments, not stories, and comments should never be sorted by popularity since that has been broken since 2011 when comment scores were made private.
Recounting a tale from a Shipibo curandero (healer) with an unbroken lineage:

It's a relatively new phenomena that the patient drinks the medicine. Traditionally, before Westerners, the curandero would drink alone in the presence of the patient. And earlier still the curandero drank a medicine derived solely from ayahuasca vine (banisteriopsis caapi). That is, the medicine did not contain chacruna (psychotria viririds) as it does today in order to bring about visions. It was not needed for visions and to heal.

Chacruna was added in the 1900s due to the impact of westernization in the region and the negative affect on the curanderos' natural connections.

So it isn't necessarily that a formula of two plants was magically discovered at the very beginning.

EDIT: add to this that when you cut the vine, a rich colored liquid / sap forms on the cut part. It tastes quite sweet. It's not a stretch to imagine the first person simply cut a vine, tasted it and decided to do an extraction in hot water.
Pool does fine reporting, but I'm going to defer to lawyers on this topic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6sVow9l8H4

And I don't know where you get the idea that Powell wasn't part of the President's legal team. Are you calling the President a liar?

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/13278115271231037...
West coast people are extremely biased, bigoted, and hateful against Southerners. The fact that you even have this bias is a tragedy.

Source: Grew up in rural South. Work in west coast tech. :(
> Why would tires contain cadmium or lead?

I guess because of the chemical additives used in the rubber manufacturing process to improve the rubber's material properties. E.g.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S102194981...

(a random article warning about heavy metal contamination of rubber stoppers used in drug manufacturing).

I remember 1493 talking about how natural rubber, while it has many otherwise useful properties, responds poorly to heat and cold. So vulcanization and other chemical transformations helped improve that and make rubber appropriate for a much wider range of applications. It looks like some of the vulcanization processes use metal oxides, including lead oxides, as an additive. The examples on the Wikipedia page using lead oxides are for neoprene (which is unlikely to be in tires, I guess) but it seems that butadiene, which is in tires, is made with "metal oxide catalysts"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butadiene

I wonder if the catalysts contaminate the resulting product or something. (Clearly the butadiene itself isn't supposed to contain metals and the catalyst, being a catalyst, isn't supposed to be absorbed into the reaction.)

Could there be rubber manufacturers who just throw some heavy metal oxides directly into their rubber because they're cheap and they help make the end product more durable, even though there are in principle better and safer ways to achieve the same results? Maybe they're thinking "this particular rubber isn't going to be eaten or come in contact with food, and it's not going to come in contact with skin very much, so it doesn't really matter if it's a bit toxic". I've seen Prop 65 warnings for lead on all sorts of electrical cables -- maybe it was used to manufacture the rubbers and vinyls in the insulators?
Hi there. I didn't really search. My coach was highly regarded in my company, having trained everyone from our SVP of Sales down to front-line employees. I liked the methodical assessment they used to discover your weaknesses (it's called Objective Management Group) and my coach made himself available for unlimited time but for a max period of six months. I liked this setup as it didn't feel like fixed hours but more like I could call/email him anytime and all the time.

I should add that he led me astray at times insofar as not all his advice worked well. But perhaps that was part of the learning too.
Debunked by whom and where. I'd be interested in getting your sources too.

In terms of material supporting the theory, google "pregnant cravings nutrients" and you will get hundreds of results...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5054961/
https://familyandconutrition.com/food_cravings_pregnancy/
https://www.webmd.com/baby/features/pregnancy-food-cravings#...
One feature I like about pass is that it stores each password as a file. This makes syncing a lot more pleasant, rather than having to resync the entire DB each time a new password is added. Additionally, it is git-compatible and when you sync you can see what has been added/removed using standard *nix tools.
It's also been the default for the root filesystem in openSUSE since 2012. It also integrates with the package manager - zypper creates pre- and post- snapshots when installing updates, and the snapper utility makes it easy to roll back if your system is busted after installing an update. It's saved my bacon on multiple occasions.

(btrfs also used to be the default for /home, though that changed at some point. When I made a new install last year the installer suggested xfs by default.)
Swiss Cheese Model
Are you saying that testing is a huge amount of work, and looking at specs is further 1000x harder?

Tech support staff might not have a test bench at hand at all times (and an Arduino unit out of the blue might’ve required a month to approve and purchase), but they don’t need any equipment to pull specs for a part from internal documentation, which support staff must be very adept at scanning by the nature of their job. I believe this is what tech support more or less for, in a better world.

They probably had an answer at their fingertips without any need for testing, but communicating it was against their/company’s interests.
I like the content and execution, great initiative.
Show HN: A GitHub app to easily manage your dependent PRs
Pass already has OTP. It is usually in the pass-otp package, both the Android app and the browser extensions support it as well.
Interesting read. Context-Content-Conclusion.
Specially how it categorizes readers in two categories impatient and patient readers and addresses concerns of both.

> The C-C-C scheme that we advocate
serves a more patient reader, who is willing to spend the time to get oriented with
the context. A consequent disadvantage of C-C-C is that it may not optimally
engage the impatient reader.
Do you know if Psilocybin causes the same or similar neurogenesis? And if it does, how?
> not garbage

> The brightness control keys don't work.

> The screen works at 40 Hz

I think you need to use a laptop (with factory OS) produced within the last 2 decades, because your garbage detector seems to be broken.
Yeah that looks cool, hadn't heard of that one.

I just found an open-source alternative too: https://www.synfig.org/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKVImK7DFFU
Serial founder here.

Actual Points of Failure

1) First Company: When I realized the business couldn't scale on my expertise and hours alone. I would never be able to bootstrap enough money to hire/train my first employee. I saw myself charging hourly for this highly-specific and difficult work, forever. I packed my bags and literally moved out-of-state to get a fresh start after realizing this. The company was very profitable until the day I stopped answering calls.

2) Next Company: I couldn't find product market fit. It was cool tech, but there was no income after 6 months of work, no customers, and no foreseeable way to monetize the idea without a miracle. Running a simple business plan is difficult enough; there's no reason to think some Rube Goldberg type of business plan is going to work.

3) Next Company: I found product market fit after 6 months. There were paying customers, a scaleable business model, but I had to be careful how I operated and the industry was dangerous. I figured out exactly what I had to do to succeed and made a pretty penny finding product-market fit, but then quit cold-turkey once things were crystal clear this was the product/service direction.

Failure is just a step in the learning process. Here are some hard-learned lessons:

a) If you build it; nobody will care. If you market it, nobody will care. If you try to give it away for free, nobody will care. EVERYTHING in this world is this difficult. You basically have to sell a commodity that has current demand if you want to get anywhere. If you don't see other businesses that sell your product or service it's because people won't pay for it.

b) I hate saying this: you NEED a business partner. If you build the product; the other person needs to talk to customers and sell it. You don't have enough time to handle everything when customers start calling. Forget this grand idea of training a handful of employees and letting your startup bootstrap itself. The person or people you work with need to be as invested as yourself.

c) A note on the business partner: This needs to be a very special kind of person. You WILL blow up on each other. You WILL have arguments. You WILL consider walking away from the entire business and them. This kind of person needs to be someone where if this happens; you both understand each other, can call each other an idiot, but you will ALWAYS be able to (eventually) drop the issue or figure out a solution.

d) After years of failure it's a little jarring hitting success. All of the sudden you are doubling-down on the business model instead of brainstorming the next pivot. You begin working out sticky scalability issues and operate in partial-failure mode as things start to accelerate and break, while your attention is on the biggest fire.

Final advice: become a cockroach. Blow past the end of your runway and keep going. You'll still be alive when you run out of cash, so get creative and keep moving forward. What would you expect it to cost to build a successful company? It takes everything you have to give, for decades. Just keep pivoting.
Product portfolio management was a big strategy BCG employed in the 80s and 90s. I think most companies now know how to assess products to invest in, harvest, or cull.

A lot of basic statistical analysis, including regression of sales data, is no longer solely the domain of consultants. Similarly, cost level analysis (unit costs, profitability levers, margin analysis) is often done in-house via Financial Planning & Analysis teams.

The easiest sign of this is that many ex-consultants work in F500 companies so they bring their prior knowledge in-house.
It is possible. You simply drink extract of the vine in small doses. As westerners we are a little obsessed with the hallucinatory effects which comes from the chacruna (leaf). The spirit of the medicine comes almost entirely from the vine. A drop of extract of banisteropsis caapi in water in the morning often provides more gentle results without the hallucinations.
> I have not seen anyone make unqualified predictions of "disaster in 2-3 weeks".

Unqualified predictions of "disaster in 2-3 weeks" was the narrative of the (I guess progressive left-dominated) science and experts, to cement and aid with the "flatten the curve" meme, to help mandate mask wearing. "Why should I wear a mask? Well, because if not, in 2 weeks we will have seen exponential growth and your grandparents could die. Why didn't our grandparents die? Well... just wait 2 more weeks, or its simply proof that mask wearing helped". I feel, partly in response to the politicization of the conservative right complaining about overreactions, strict curfews that made no logical sense, and government mandating their religious services.

Because the conservative right very much started out believing that this was the Apocalypse. Even when contained to China, they were talking of upcoming Pandemics, about buying supplies if you needed to go into the woods, about procuring N95 masks or gas masks for when COVID inevitably arrived in their country.

While the left was still doing photo ops in the China towns of their cities, deriding people who were afraid as racists or unsupportive/anti-social. Opposing drastic measures like banning flights as anti-immigrant. To complain that you were saying "just wait two more weeks" two weeks ago in January. Parroting authorities that masks were only to be used by sick people, and not protective for general public.

This narrative completely flip-flopped around April. In part due to new information (The left is more acceptable to science). In part due to politics. In part because COVID now was mainstream and authority, so new avenues for conspiracy and suspicion turned up (COVID's not so bad as they would like you to believe. Vaccines will be forced and change DNA, Bill Gates wants to give mark of the beast, in form of microchip).

It was interesting to see, and should make finding sources possible, but difficult (for instance, find authoritative websites debunking Vitamin D, before the randomized trial studies came out, you need the internet archive now, but these existed for sure!). Many poor (but qualified/we-should-listen-to-this) predictions and articles, supposedly accepted and common knowledge, were deeply flawed/ill-motivated in short-term hind-sight and this cemented distrust. Especially because the people that made such poor claims, are the arbiters of truth and in charge of managing the "infodemic".
If we value interpretability for the particular model, e.g. as in the loan example or where by law you have to make sure race was not a consideration, I'd say yes. In places where interpretability has no additional value, than of course no.

But it of course depends on the exact value trade-off, which any model designer already has to consider.
> the stability is still there for the people who's skills are in demand

Saying this after 2008 is just empirically false. You do realize that people lost their entire 401(k)s, right? My dad worked at IBM for over a decade and was laid off. More recently, my buddy (late 20s) was laid off by IBM after working there for the past 7 years; I know people in their 40s and 50s (at big companies and startups alike) that were laid off at the drop of a hat once the pandemic hit.

I live in West LA and make a "comfortable" engineer's salary. Guess what, I'll never be able to afford a house here (unless one of my startups takes off or some other equally-unlikely miracle happens). I don't care if you blame this on "macroeconomic conditions," it just happens to be the reality of my generation. To touch on the loneliness/isolation angle, while doing the whole startup thing, particularly in my 20s, I was putting off dating; although I've recently said screw it: even if I die poor†, I'd rather be with someone.

I'm very much a libertarian "pull-yourself-up-by-the-bootstraps" entrepreneur's entrepreneur but let's be real: it's not surprising there's so much cynicism.

† Relatively, of course. I grew up in post-Communist Eastern Europe in actual poverty, so my life is much better than it used to be.
Yeah, my running joke while living in Thailand was that it was a circular pyramid scheme, the yoga teachers are buying life coaching, the life coaches are all learning to become drop shippers, and the drop shippers are all getting training to become yoga teachers. They just buy and sell services from each other in a circle trying to grow their own thing until they give up and go home.
Chemical characterization of a purple pigment from a Faiyum mummy portrait
Your mention of OneDrive made me remember that pass creates a cleartext copy of your password file, while you are editing it.

pass will try to create the file in /dev/shm but if this fails it will use $TMPDIR.

If you're on a platform without /dev/shm you'll want to use some other equivalent such as a small ramdisk, or at the very least be sure your $TMPDIR is not synced into the cloud.
If you have kids probably ignore this advice and just sleep once they are asleep. It depends on the age but from about 2 they are probably sleeping through the night most of the time so should be OK.

WFH for your day nap!
This looks like a very good resource. Thanks for sharing.
Many drugs are a method of escaping oneself. Ayahuasca is the opposite.
October/November in KDE Itinerary
I’m not well-versed enough to know how well it measures up, but Mac switched to ZSH as default shell about a year ago.
Maybe. The thing is, none of these subgroups is isolated the way geographic regions historically were; it used to take weeks to send a letter from one place to another, whereas now people in India and the UK have realtime conversations all the time. Of course the geographic separation has some effect, but maybe the mesh of connections is dense enough that there's just no space for dialects to diverge from each other.
Great to hear about these changes! My observation is that strategy plays out in years and requires customer/industry insights that usually comes only from a lot of experimentation and error. The very nature of consulting, where you flit from case to case (even if in the same industry), seldom seeing what failed and why, makes me think they are unlikely to have this kind of deep customer/industry insight.
General Bikeshare Feed Spec, a data feed for bike share system availability
I can only speak one other (Japanese) and have found the exact opposite. Growing up in the north, I had a strong bias against southern accents, which were almost exclusively treated with disdain by everyone around me. This disappeared after I had to struggle through learning to speak a language quite foreign from my own and where I was helped immensely by people who spoke varying degrees of accented English.

But I think this was also colored by my adult experience of being mocked in academic and professional setting for certain aspects of my speech (most often mispronunciations of foreign, historical or place names that I had only read in books, having had no other exposure to them from my working class family). This kind of mockery always seemed so stupid and low that to hold on to it in anyway myself became repulsive.