skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The reason to conserve a species is because a biodiverse ecology is healthier.

Healthier for who or what or to what end? Whatever changes (because of humans or otherwise), some individuals of a species may evolve to fit better to that... or they'll perish and something else will happen there. Worst case, it will go back to how things were 4 billion years ago.

>There is more competition so any organism (such as a disease-causing bacteria) is less able to cause a pandemic.

And humans are special why? Disease-causing is very human-centered... because of course we are special because God created us in his image. You may deny that because you "believe in evolution"... but I'm arguing is your beliefs make more sense if I go with the assumption that you belive in the Christian dogma and do not believe in evolution AT ALL. You may use your understanding of evolution to justify your Christian beliefs while simultaneously denying that you believe in Christianity... but from the outside, I see right through you.

If you believed that we are not special and that bacteria is running the world as much as we think we are, there is no need to favor humans over disease-causing bacteria.

>How this interplays with evolution is that humans are in the position of unintentionally changing the environment drastically so that many species are now 'unfit.'

>Conservation relies on an understanding of human power over the environment and a desire to maintain an environment that doesn't succumb to the same problems we see with monocultures.

If you believed in evolution, you'd see that humans are just as much part of nauture as anything else. It's your Christian dogma that leads you to believe that the world was created with a certain intent and humans are ruining it (by going against God's will, like Adam did with the fruit).

Again, in absence of Christian dogma, and with knowledge of evolution, you would not see the world as you do now.
Yeah, that seems odd. I wonder if the update doesn't help/involve Weyland people, and if GNOME is an X11 holdout? I haven't been paying enough attention to know.
As a non-vim user, I need a cheat sheet to help me understand this cheat sheet.
Love the downvote for asking a question :/
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> CloudShell is intended to be used from the AWS Management Console and does not currently support programmatic interaction

Which unfortunately means I can only access this from a browser window and can't start up a session from my own terminal. Sure would be nice to be able to launch a secure, remote CLI without all the limitations of a web client.
This project seems like absolute magic to me.
Is the Bay Area really friendly to all immigrants in a way that metropolitan Texas is not? I think the definition of friendly should include being able to afford decent space to live. I could imagine that for a young well off Chinese or Indian engineer many cultural aspects such as food and being around many members of your community would be preferable in the Bay Area certainly. But Houston is of the most foreign born cities in the US and for less skilled immigrants their pay check will go much further in Texas.
Google cloud functions intermittent 500 errors with no logs
Thought I'd share this issue to see if any of you are also having this problem. I work on a fairly low traffic site but have been intermittently getting random 500 errors from our Google cloud functions, with no logs at all. We spent a couple of afternoons trying to refactor / debug our code with hopes that it would solve this issue. We stumbled upon this recent github issue, a bit late. This feels like something we should have gotten a heads up about.
https://github.com/firebase/firebase-functions/issues/816
Article seems to be conflating subjective feelings of loneliness with being alone.
The expectation that the EU can have this much influence over American firms, to the point that they can break them up and change their business models is a pretty shocking development.

We're beginning to see the limitations of globalization. For all the anti-trust rhetoric from the US, it's unlikely it'll accept this level of over-reach without pushing back. Imagine a US company getting approval for a merger from the US and not getting approval from the EU, what happens then? Can China also grant itself this level of influence over American business?

We're definitely in the beginning stages of a new world order that's far less cohesive, with distributed levels of influence.
Google needs it more since Google makes > $12 billion on that traffic, but I can't imagine any company being willing to part with $12+ billion a year.
Gmail, YouTube and other Google services back online after widespread outage
Someone else submitted an earlier piece I wrote (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11058255), this is my sequel to it. Hope you enjoy, would love to hear what you think!
Give me $1 for every time I see a whole python script with loads of dependencies for the simplest sed/awk/jq task with pipes.
Couldn't you give property tax breaks to retirees, or to people temporarily out of work?
This is exciting! I've been asking for this for years. There is only so much you can do by implementing your chaos on instance. Having access to a lower level of infrastructure will be huge! Especially in a world of serverless services where we can't implement on instance nearly as easily.
These days I think living a life without living it through social media is about as subcultural as it gets. Almost in the literal sense.
I don’t have any background to assert whether it’s normal or not - but FWIW I do that regularly.
Time to bring solenoids back into keyboards to mask the keystrokes: https://youtu.be/sGda5YrqJK8?t=50

If your coworkers complain, tell them it's a security feature.
I think that the work culture in Europe is also a factor. Europeans are much less willing to work the way a lot of the startups expect.
>But you're basically talking about all Bay Area people, which is not a representative cross-section of America as a whole in any way shape or form.

What? I live in Arizona, and I grew up in the midwest. I've only ever even been to the bay area like 4 times in my life. Most of my friends are in Arizona, and then some in North Dakota, northern MN, and Iowa.
But from a quick google search result [0], price per square foot is 4 time as expensive in SF versus chicago.

[0]: https://www.propertyshark.com/Real-Estate-Reports/2020/07/07...
Not pop culture, but we were bored one day years ago and came up with a story about our cats being the proprietors of a hash bar on a flying ship of adventurers where they dressed and talked like 1920's mobsters running a speakeasy.
I do this. Sometimes it's in preparation for a conversation I know I'm going to have soon. Sometimes it's just because someone's on my mind and maybe I have things I want to say to them but don't currently have the opportunity to. I don't know if it's bad. But I don't like that I do it. And I wish I did it less.
A neural network learns when it should not be trusted [pdf]
Yes. Interestingly, 80%+ of the world's Ion Implanters for semiconductor fabrication are designed in Greater Boston by Applied Materials (formerly Varian Semiconductor) and Axcelis (formerly Eaton). Implanters are serious science and engineering[0] machines with nearly $2 Billion worth sold in 2020.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doping_(semiconductor)
The concept of "normality" is kind of psychologically illiterate. What's worth asking is whether something's problematic or not, and the not being able to sleep part sounds like it might be problematic.

I talk to myself constantly, which always puts me to sleep, so in that case it's useful.
I was a chronically lonely child/teenager and I spent several adult years where my primary social interaction was at work and online. I never lacked close friends, but I didn't see or interact with real life people that often. This article resonates with me in a very big way.
All the workflows my colleagues and I deal with that would be made more painful by this are ones that are on the list of things that should be migrated to machine management. Often because they involve humans touching production systems where no humans actually need to touch production systems.

Can you help me understand what, precisely, this would do in your work that's so dreadful? Perhaps there's something I just don't know.
I'm concerned because my mother has spotted me doing this several times. Given my social anxiety, a lot of these conversation cause discomfort.
Austin's been on the tech radar for a while, but I've seen a lot of my friends from the DC area head down to Raleigh-Durham, easily 5+, and a couple who headed to Nashville.
I think it goes deeper than that. We often are trying to figure out what the code is supposed to do, trying to crystalize our half-baked understanding into something solid enough to code. While in that state, it's very hard to name things, not just because names are hard (though they can be), but even more because our understanding is fuzzy. We don't really have a solid understanding of what the thing is, and our fumbling attempts at giving it a name are part of the process of trying to figure out what it is.
My relationship with RegExp seems to be against the grain here. They're almost always a quick, simple, clean solution to any text parsing issue I've faced. Perhaps without tools like https://regexr.com/ I would feel different though?
> There are more people on the right and left side of a bell curve than in the center.

That's almost tautology they way you worded it. Statistics has a term to describe "left and right", it is called standard deviation, and one standard deviation covers ~70% of the sample population.

What is true is that half of any population is below average by whatever metric you choose to apply. (EDIT: for normal/Gaussian distributions)
Reading your article

> Because of social stigmas attached, many people denied having African ancestry, and after African descended Caribbean workers arrived in Honduras, an active campaign to denigrate all people of African descent, made persons of mixed race anxious to deny any African ancestry. Hence official statistics quite uniformly under-represent those people who have ancestry in favor of a "two race" solution.

Contrasting your example, Japan and Iceland are near 100% homogeneous.
Kids like to make up stories and play make believe with things. In that sense I wonder why we don't see that as normal for adults to do so? I mean, if you write it down it becomes a book...
Can you explain how? The study "compared the MRI scans of people who said they 'often' feel lonely with the scans of people do not report feeling that way" and didn't seem to make any reference to aloneness.
Ok but do you have any idea how different it would be required to QA for 3rd party runtimes on an integrated OS framework every 12 months?

I'm going to assume you are non technical because iOS supporting Chrome or Flash or Have or anything else would be a nightmare for my mom just trying to open a webpage.
Honestly, I wouldn't care. I think the goal of joining any specific company isn't necessarily the best. I would want to make myself a strong candidate for multiple places by focusing on whatever technology/business acumen interests me. I wouldn't really want to work at a place that I have to game the metrics to get into.
Not sure if it is my browser or the site, but I can't access their privacy policy, so this service would be a hard no from me as I would imagine the information in a will could be monetized three ways from Sunday.

I do need a will and do plan to see a "brick-and-mortar" lawyer where I'm sure I will be giving that firm the same information I would provide to this legal web service.

Am I unwise to believe my information is safer with one than the other?
Snowden's slides show that PRISM is a data integration program with the FBI to ingest data for specific accounts that the FBI collected under court order into the NSA's databases. The FBI Data Intercept Technology Unit is very clearly labeled in the diagram slide. It is not a way for the NSA to get unfettered access to any account's data directly from the Internet companies, as Greenwald notoriously claimed.

The New York Times talked to tech literate people and got the story right the day after Greenwald published his first PRISM story, so it wasn't that hard to figure out. Greenwald continued to foolishly claim the slides said something they did not for months afterwards in his reporting. Meanwhile, the rest of the news media correctly labeled PRISM a nothingburger. https://www.cnet.com/news/no-evidence-of-nsas-direct-access-...
Chrome HTTP – HTTPS redirect (in some cases) resulting in insecure warning
Fraud in the inducement. If you lie to get someone to do something they wouldn't normally do, that's bad. If you give someone a fake name to get a ticket they wouldn't normally give you, that's bad.
When you donate to Mozilla the money doesn’t go to the betterment of the Firefox browser.
> The Atlantic has always been a kind of tabloid for people who fancy themselves intellectuals, especially with its cover stories

Case in point: Ghostbusters has a brief gag on The Atlantic and it's over the top writing in 1984.

Timestamp at 1:55 in this clip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwKR_y93izs
They removed about:config, for one
My oversimplified guess is that cleansing while awake would impair normal function somehow.

I suspect it would feel something like daydreaming or regular dreaming, or experiencing a serious mental disorder.[1][2]

[1]https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/319846#The-seat-of...

[2]https://www.mdlinx.com/article/what-are-lucid-dreams-and-are...
I've had interviews at three of the letters in FAANG (though not Google), and my resume is not exactly awesome either. You could try reaching out directly to recruiters if you haven't already. Applying via their automated online form seems to be an express trip to a black hole (this goes for most companies in my experience, not just FAANG).
The developer of Dash is very receptive to feedback (in fact I think this change was called out as something that he was interested in hearing opinions on).
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why limit to advertisement, it can also be used to manipulate you into voting for certain person or proposition that may not be in your best interest. Emerging technologies like AR, VR, Brain Computer Interface are ready for someone to abuse them.
I have found a solution to sleeping. I put on a familiar tv show on my phone, face the phone down so I'm only listening to it (with comfy soft earphones), and I pass right out.

No more difficulty falling asleep. It has gotten me thru a very stressful time.
>Firefox 84 is the final release to support Adobe Flash.

My newgrounds nostalgia hit me hard after reading this.
Despite any criticism on flash it self, there were some pretty cool stuff made with it all the same.
Makes me wonder if I can install Terraform and Terragrunt on this...

LOL, or run a remote VSCode session on it :D (I know that's not gonna happen, but would be kinda cool nonetheless)
They've completely redesigned it about a year ago, making it much faster, but losing add-on compatibility. So pretty much the same thing that happened to desktops on v57, except a bit worse: only 17 add-ons are currently available in nightly.

Still more than what's available on Chrome and Safari on mobile, so it always remained my browser of choice on a phone.
> Fraud prevention for example will get an order of magnitude harder,

First Ad Fraud != Fraud. It is low grade hacking.

Second. Trading the privacy of every iPhone user so that advertisers can prop up a sketchy/ poor industry is a terrible trade.
Canada, like the US, is pretty diverse compared to places like Japan and Iceland. Am I missing something?
Not exactly this behaviour, but somehow related: The Shallows by Nicholas Carr. Also this video: https://youtu.be/5B1YXRiN784

For search terms maybe: instant gratification, short term rewards, dopamine.
Ask HN: Domain about Bible contradictions turned into porn. What happened?
A friend, teacher in philosopy, found out this morning through her amazed students that she had a link to a porn site in her blog. It had been for years a site visualizing contradictions in The Bible: bibviz.com (WARNING: link shows porn)

The Internet Archive shows records of the previous contents up until March 17th 2020.
https://web.archive.org/web/20200317034343/http://bibviz.com/ (WARNING: link shows The Bible -but not porn)

But since November 14th there are records displaying porn.

Whois shows no signs of changes in the domain:
> Updated Date: 2020-07-16T05:57:02Z
> Creation Date: 2013-08-15T23:59:06Z

Is it possible to find out more information about this change?

PD: some students had really thoughtful explanations about why their philosophy teacher had contradictions in the Bible linking to porn.
> Can I disable port 22 and remove the SSH client altogether and still use AWS CloudShell on an instance?

Yes, provided you whitelist the IP range for Amazon's Instance Connect service. (They don't call it Cloud Shell.) From [0]:

> We recommend that your instance allows inbound SSH traffic from the recommended IP block published for the service.

You have to trawl the giant JSON document that it links to, to find the relevant IP range to permit, where the region matches yours and where you see "service": "EC2_INSTANCE_CONNECT". Then, whitelist the specified IP range (obviously for incoming traffic on TCP port 22).

[0] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ec2-inst...
I have had similar imaginary conversations like yours. But I am concerned because these conversations run in my mind for like several hours, even when I'm writing code.
It's not the core conceit. Black/white IQ differences were discussed in one chapter. The core conceit is that IQ is real, and it really matters for life outcomes.
I installed the desktop app precisely to use this feature. And it didn't work.

When I send a note to self on my phone and it never shows on my desktop.
Is beforeinput enabled yet? – Looking forward to that one.
I was going through the changes introduced in Bash 5.1, and to my surprise, it mentioned[1] that process substitution is now enabled in POSIX mode. I wondered if that means POSIX sh now supports it, but I haven't been able to find evidence for that, neither in the POSIX spec nor in the bug tracker of POSIX mailing list archives.

Similarly, I remember reading about POSIX sh supporting arrays at some point in the future, but for the life of me, I can't find any evidence for this either.

[1]: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bash.git/tree/CHANGES#n538
Firefox has it at least since the last version. Probably it's disabled on your Firefox for some reason?
I'm dying to know more details -- I did a bit of googling and came up empty. Can you point me to where I could learn more?
Thanks for the tip! Will try tonight :)
A large company like that fertilizes the employment landscape - they hire in large numbers, conduct university recruiting, file H1B paperwork, bring Canadian students and accommodate their co-op schedules, pay relocation, etc. Rarely an expense that a small or medium startup is willing to undertake.

I remember seeing a recruiting report for Yahoo! when I worked there a decade and a half ago. Recruiting kept track of employees' previous work history as well as longevity of such employees within Yahoo! Turns out the top feeder company for them (easy to recruit people, and those recruits tend to linger on) was Oracle.
Python has many many ways to be useful, it might just be a script. I have seen people with far less py skills than me use Python for a small Gui app or a simple script and they are very happy as it helped them. Try teaching what you know, it can make a big difference to someone and ... you will get new insights. You tried OpenSource?
Streamlit, Python, PyTorch and Scikit ML code generator – traingenerator
> Also interesting to note that the lead photo for depression in this article makes it seem all sexy and desirable.

Could it be that you personally find the model sexy and desirable?

There is nothing inherently attractive about a person sitting alone in an uncomfortable chair next to an empty couch. The model even has a closed posture and is slouching, which are a nonverbal messages that indicates anxiety. Their half dressed state also indicates a depressed state.
I think explicit instruction is quite ineffective either way. What you need is teaching by immersion, through examples. Science should not be taught as a series of facts and formulas but as riddles, arguments, why do we think this or that, what does this or that experiment tell us. How could one misinterpret it? Let's try and present this information to influence the reader's thinking: half of you to one direction, half of you in the opposite.
Simiarly in history class, can we weave the narrative to make country X look good in this ancient war? What political slogan could country B come up with to counter that narrative? What facts would you emphasize regarding the Black Plague as a communist or as a Catholic?

In math, would you market a more fuel efficient car by telling the percentage difference in miles per gallon or liters per 100 km?

These are obviously just some examples, but the point is that critical thinking is a cross-cutting concern and cannot be segregated into one class. It should be constantly invoked. Instead of listing fact X, explain how people figured it out. Why did people not see it before and what did they think instead? Was it universally accepted immediately or what were the criticisms?

The thing is, though, this is extremely difficult to teach. You'd need extraordinary teachers with lots of background knowledge, since such debates and brainstorming can quickly go astray of the standard curriculum and quite easily end up in difficult and perhaps unknown territory. Perhaps you could do this with an Internet connected laptop and a projector, diving into Wikipedia rabbit holes in real time. But this would be different each year, and you'd have no way of ensuring a standard curriculum. If you don't make things required for the test, many students just won't listen, no matter how engaging the class may be.

Such teachers would demand higher salaries to be competitive with places that can also make great use of the limited supply of critical thinkers. Maybe it's offensive but teachers as a demographic aren't that smart in most countries,since the requirements are pretty low to graduate and the social reputation of the profession is also quite low.

But even if you find great teachers, it's even more difficult to test, as it's open ended, not objective and not standardizable.
That page appears to not show what the data is used for. I wonder if it's shown elsewhere, or why apple asks for that if they don't show it anywhere. As a user, that's certainly information I'd be interested in.

(Documentation lists the following purposes: Third-Party Advertising, Developer’s Advertising or Marketing, Analytics, Product Personalization, App Functionality, Other Purposes)
I can't give you any statistical evidence but at least anecdotal, I do tend to have a fair amount of imaginary conversations and often verbalize my half of them - and this includes hand gestures and head nods.

At one point I tried to cease this behavior because I had a perception it was negative, but I actually found my ability to be prepared for real conversations declined as well, so I've re-engaged the behavior. Visualization and behavioral rehearsal is something I've had several instructors for various things (weightlifting, target shooting, etc) encourage and at least for me it has panned out.
There's a small hobbyist community programming for the 2600 these days. Even releasing new game cartridges!

https://atariage.com/2600/programming/index.html
Losing Money Multiple Times Causes Plastic Changes in the Brain
I read about that and thought it was such a waste. The products themselves I may just develop and create a new one, but it just seemed like such an obvious win to use the Atari brand.