skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having more data isn't always better. For example, there are certain medical diagnosis protocols that basically involve going down a predetermined list of rote checks precisely because studies show that getting extra information ends up leading the doctor to make poorer diagnoses.

Looking at the article, one example of data collection is "I know that I write at about 20-30 WPM" (the implication being that the author feels pressured to write at a minimum level of "efficiency"). Coupled w/ pomodoro, it essentially becomes a pressure to write X words in Y minutes, lest feelings of inadequacy hit later upon reflection. This to me feels borderline unhealthy: "what if I forgot to measure", "what if I under-deliver", etc are all possible psychological sinkholes.

What meditation promotes is asking yourself what exactly happiness means to you personally, and observing how expectations and accomplishments play a role towards your objectives. Sometimes yes you just need to recognize that you need to get off your ass and do the work, but sometimes it's a matter of prioritization, sometimes less is more.
Home cooked cake is less healthy than a microwaved scrambled eggs.
I'm not sure we can say at what point the rule of law was abandoned for aristocracy in the US but this is absolute proof that it has happened. The Sackler family is conclusively and directly responsible for at least 18,000 deaths in the united states and instead of complete seizure of their entire assets and life in prison we let them keep 70% of their fortune and give them a "do better next time pat on the head".

I don't want to hear that the cases weren't strong enough blah blah. In the next room we just extradited a guy from the UK for copying bits. There is no longer rule of law, if there was the will there would be flash bangs and some parallel construction that could easily accomplish whatever level of justice was desired.
The economic consequences of deflation are very destruction. Cash may become more valuable, but a prolonged economic contract will leave you with less to buy with that cash.
I can also blur my eyes deliberately and I sometimes use it to get a better idea of the gestalt aesthetics during drawing or graphics design work.
The Guy Fieri comparison seems like a weird one, since the actual subject of the show (that is, the restaurants) isn't faked. The hot rod and whatever goofy stuff comes with Fieri's persona is just a framing device around the actual establishments.
That's interesting, my buddy got tinnitus from the J&J shot.
> the other option is having the entire thing destroyed and there being nothing left to settle over.

Another option that I’m fond of: send them to jail for a very long time.
If the content were free to use however you wanted, what would stop Netflix from serving Disney's content or vice versa?
> Android's equivalent of Apple Wallet does require you to unlock your phone

There is no single equivalent, you are free to choose yours. PassAndroid is quite happy to show a pass on a locked phone, although you have to start the app first, but it's the best you can do in Android.
> The ship uses rocket power to get into space, but glides back to Earth and lands on a runway, like the space shuttle would do.

Does that mean it can't do a go around?
i have plenty of gaps for short hikes but am yet to leave the house for it. next week ill test this out as recently i have run out of laundry to do during the boring parts of the day. good problem to have, need to be better about capitalizing on my free time
Well I suspect the Sacklers feel pretty justified with all of their reprehensible “business” decisions.
I think it should be assault. Yes its more serious when doing it to someone operating a vehicle, doubly so for aircraft, but that doesn't make it ok to do it to randoms.

I dont particularly think we need new laws though, intentionally hurting someone is already illegal. The mechanism shouldn't matter.
> It's the same with finger prints as biometric - no one considered that you can plead the 5th when asked for a pin code but you can't decline to have your fingerprints taken (including on your own phone sensor). I'm assuming face recognition is same.

Always worth mentioning that you can hold power and either volume button for 3 seconds on an iPhone to disable biometrics until the next unlock. It brings up the power off/SOS controls, but dismissing those will require a passcode to unlock.

Good to know as it's fairly easy to do in a pocket or when under duress.
Having a hard time calling this "exploiting" in a country where having different accounts with different banks is just something you do. Why would you have a single account with a single bank? Unless your account costs you loads of money instead of the banks going "thanks for your money, it's ours to invest how we see fit and profit off of, even if in theory you could withdraw it at any time. Which you won't". The dutch banking system is literally a foreign concept to North America. Imagine free accounts, free transfers to and from other banks, free ATM use, and not needing a credit card because banks actually did all the things that credit card companies put "on top of bank accounts" in the US. It's such a completely different system that analyzing the NL banking model with a pair of US glasses on just makes no sense at all.
Where your path leads depends fully on the people you have around you.

Every org has folk who are hubs in the network. Info flows between groups through them. The closer you are to as many hubs as possible, the greater the chance of you being pulled into things. Getting closer to people usually means spending a whole lot of time working out what others need.

It can be as simple as lightening the mood when people are stressed, being a sounding board, solving some small issue of theirs, giving them info, helping them get connected with people who solve their issues, organizing group activities etc etc etc. The main thing is dont just do it for tech folk. You do it with sales, marketing, finance, HR, legal etc...and sooner or later you will hear about things going on even without asking. People will protect you and prop you up. Thats when you know you are becoming a hub.

Only caveat is know what your values and boundaries are. Signal them in low key way to everyone. Sooner or later either misguided ppl or total douchebags will show up and its very easy to get trapped in the wrong network.
Are those co-mingling issues actually resolved now? I still avoid purchasing anything on Amazon where receiving a counterfeit or slightly not-as-described item would be consequential. I haven't personally had a bad experience, but have read enough anecdotes and reviews about it over the past year or two that it has strongly shaped my Amazon purchasing habits.
> This is simply not true. Seniors at FAANG type companies simply dont do that much. Typically have a narrow specialty and a good grasp on how it fits into the larger Org’s strategy etc.

I don't think this is true. Big techs have surprisingly many moving parts even for minor engineering projects and that complexity is the main motivation of hiring smart people from the globe. Most SWEs in big techs are generalists, not specialists.

Do you want to launch something in Google? Then good luck dealing with all the facets from general engineering to other topics like security, privacy, latency, quality, measurement, logging, scalability, redundancy, monitoring, resource management, access control, data retention, documentation, testing, release, i18n and even inclusion nowadays. Upon all the technical debts accumulated over 20 years. Oh, did I mention organizational dynamics? Usually you need to deal with 5~10 teams for getting anything non-trivial done. And it is a very fun thing to find out the current owner of very specific dependency to avoid accidental breakages.
I don't know about other places, but volume of work does not matter for L5->L6 at Google. The kind of work you do is what matters. So doing 50% more doesn't get you there.

The L6 (and L7) ICs I know got there by implementing really tricky components way down the tech stack that are very difficult to update due to insane implicit dependencies and also enormously impactful in terms of savings across the entire company.
That's my point. Someone with such little attention to detail that they're this sloppy has no business dictating to the world anything really. Either you don't know what you're talking about or you don't proof read before you publish. Either way don't tell me what's dead and what's not.
Correct, they have one chance to land. (But the runway is REALLY long.)
If you want to be really serious about this, you fly some bait planes around. The bait planes contain a very powerful gas laser with a phase conjugate mirror designed so that any incoming laser light that enters is amplified and reversed so it gets sent back where it came from but powerful enough to make it really easy to find the (remains of) whoever fired at the plane.

The neat part about using a phase conjugate mirror for this is that the return strike is essentially an amplified time-reversed version of the incoming beam. Any atmospheric distortion of the original beam that leads to it spreading out on the way to your plane operates in reverse on the return beam, so it gets concentrated on the return path. (This wouldn't work if you were trying to zap someone who was shooting Earth based lasers at your Moon base, say, because the round trip time would be long enough for atmospheric optical conditions to change, but some bozo shooting their laser at planes would be close enough that atmospheric change over the round trip time would be negligible).

I know that at one point the military was looking into phase conjugate mirror laser weapons to shoot down planes. The way those would work is that you'd have the big ass laser on the ground, with a human-aimed small laser beside it. The human hits the plane with the small laser, and some of the reflected light from that comes back to the big laser, which does its amplification and phase conjugation thing, and zaps the plane.

That was quite a while ago and I don't recall reading anything about them being deployed, so I assume they either run into some technical issue with the idea or found something better.
I think anyone who hung out with Epstein after his conviction and continued to gave him money is an absolute fucking villain.

Not to mention his work to enforce vaccine IP to keep poorer countries from manufacturing their own medicine is truly evil.

Given the chance, I'd probably beat his nerd ass
I also don't think people realize how close to the earth these people still were. Take a globe, hold your finger as close as you can to it without touching, and that's about as high as Bezos and Branson went. As you said, orbital is what matters, and a suborbital flight around the Karman line doesn't mean much.
It’s not the second choice though, since the initial state is different, and thus so are the risks and rewards of getting the vaccine.
Mercury Is in Libra. Write Your Own Damned Jokes
This is correct; The customization flow advertises the modules as USB4, which is a superset of Thunderbolt 3's capabilities (which itself was a superset of USB 3).
> People would much rather pay Netflix a small monthly fee for unlimited access to all the TV shows they watch than hunt them down online.

Except Netflix, Now TV and Amazon Prime etc DON'T HAVE any of the shows I actually want to watch. It's farcical.

I want to pay them, I want to watch shows legally but I can't, so I end up watching them on the 'illegal' sites that do have them.
Precursor: What’s the Value of Hackable Hardware, Anyway? (2020)
Hindsight is always 20-20.

What's more common I think is people working for failed startups, or worse, getting screwed out of their equity.
As Johnny Harris so eloquently points out in his "The REAL Reason McDonalds Ice Cream Machines Are Always Broken" video, other big brands like Wendy's use Taylor brand machines without problem or controversy. It's only the McDonalds machines that break because they are, in fact, designed to break, to help McDonalds corporate milk their franchisees. Pun intended.
I think a lot of companies would benefit immensely if they hired a few tech writers. Management always talks about collaboration and knowledge sharing but they refuse to put money behind this desire. Instead it’s up to the workers to create documentation while also having to finish project deadlines. And most developers don’t really enjoy writing or are good at it.
It's no better than https://youtu.be/KSWqx8goqSY (That Awesome Time I Was Sued For Two Billion Dollars) level argument, just with better lawyer-speak.

The US is sheltering a diplomat(spy?) who negligently ran over and killed a British civilian as we speak, but these guys are the real danger.
I was genuinely surprised your comment doesn't end with an "/s", but anyway, I'd be interested to hear the rationale of users who pay for "smart people thoughts".
This is very intriguing. I'm most interested to see over time if super following is used mainly for:

1. Real-time financially valuable tweets from experts (market analysts, crypto experts, breaking news that can move stock markets, etc.), where the tweets are perceived as genuinely worth paying for

2. Supporting creative types -- musicians, comedians, etc. -- not necessarily for the tweets themselves, but just to support them because you like them, and maybe you'll get early access to show tickets too or something

3. Paying for content that's genuinely interesting in itself, e.g. short newsletters in tweet form.

I'm not sure the price is high enough for #1 to be a viable business model. I'm not sure enough people will voluntarily pay #2 to make a dent (or they already use Patreon instead). And #3 seems particularly ill-suited to Twitter's short-form.

But we'll see -- it would be nice if this did wind up supporting people financially.
You'll have to answer to the Coca-Cola company!
Power and Powerlessness
Is there any legal mechanism the public can use to try to kick pro-corporate judges out of power?
same here. i think i get plenty of mentorship with 3 one hour calls with boss weekly. as far as in person networking events, i see no reason i cannot fulfill this with traveling to conferences. a conference will be a time i go all in on networking and connecting with the industry.
I think this approach only works if you're already too hard on yourself. If you live like a slob and tell yourself to continue living like a slob then it's not going to help you much.
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Something like Bunnie Huang's Precursor?

https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/precursor

> customers can present their driver’s license or state ID to the TSA by simply tapping their iPhone or Apple Watch at the identity reader.

That sounds like NFC, which could be a feature request for Precursor v2.
You can't convict someone if you never build a case to begin with. Prosecutors have a very large amount of tools and wide latitude to deploy them; where are the house searches? The wiretaps? The seizures? The hundreds of criminal charges meant to coerce a settlement? The parallel construction?

These are all widely used tools for the lower rungs of the drug trade. Why is everything with these guys some kind of civil lawsuit tit for tat? I'm sure there are other dealers out there with a LLC, but they don't get this treatment.
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If you are aware that your iPhone has been stolen, the first thing you should do is mark it as lost/stolen in iCloud. This will deactivate all functionality behind a newly assigned pin code.
It's basic patronage of the arts. It's a mechanism that long predates anything to do with the internet. Like a creator? Want them to keep creating? Give them money directly (well mostly directly).
Not sure about 400 USD/hour but 250 USD (~200 EUR) for a senior? Yeah.
Give Kids the Right to Vote
So is it just a piano roll based DAW-lite?
Clicked on it to find the following:

Sorry, Web Safe has blocked this site

This site has been blocked by Web Safe. It's listed as
having content that’s inappropriate for children,
involving either pornography, hate, crime, drugs,
violence, hacking, self harm or suicide.

Thank you, Virgin Media. At least they actually tell you they're blocking them now rather than just forcing a DNS failure.
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Yes! Let’s start an underwear company!
You're a legend. I've already lost an hour and a half reading these posts. There are 7 years of them!

"In Pattern Recognition, the only physical environments I can think of that evoke Cornell boxes are the basement arcade off Portobello Road, where Cayce sees the book’s first Michelin Man, and Boone’s ex-girlfriend’s rather too perfect apartment in Hongo, and, possibly, Baranov’s fetid caravan. None of these are felt as sympatico environments for Cayce.

But there may be another sort of Cornell box there, in the form of F:F:F, the website where Cayce and her friends have been discussing the footage, in the months before the book begins. I think that’s an improvement, though, as a website can become a Cornell box full of friends. Having seen that happen elsewhere, and been a part of it myself, my best hope for this site would be that, for some of you at least, that will happen for you here. (If it does, it won’t have much to do with me, and everything to do with you.)"

https://williamgibsonblog.blogspot.com/2003/01/#90148619
These are very cool. I didn't get any of them, but paired with the titles, many could be art. I'd like to understand what the training set was, and what prompts were given. Some, like space jam and willy Wonka, seem like they must be accessing images from those movies that were in the training set.
One of Purdue’s specific misdeeds was lying to doctors about the addictiveness of OxyContin and leading them to believe that it had a very low risk of abuse. Much of the litigation against the company focuses on this.
"Leaked back in July, the activists posted the personal details on a blog, telling followers to 'contact as many [owners] as you can in your area and ask them if they are involved in shooting animals'."

What was the plan after this? Just harass them?
"Good"?
You're worse than him for saying that.
Apparently Edison was much more of a businessman than his legacy suggests - which was intentional on his part. Similar to Bill Gates, they both started as engineers but made their money organizing people.

See https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/10/28/the-real-natur...
In hindsight, we'd all be billionaires :-)
The Bridge trilogy may actually be his best work but is hardly ever discussed. It's a real sleeper and if you haven't read it I highly recommend it.
in reality this isn't the choice; it's typically private enterprise vs. public (government) broadcasters. Even PBS with lots of supporting patrons can't make it without significant government funding.
In the real world contaminants get into medical supplies all the time.

We have a fair idea what matters.

You need to cite something relevant to start. Steel would not be uncommon

There are to many nutters who believe in homeopathy and mico plastics and the precautionary principle to cite for all of them. You need to contribute more than fear to start the conversation.
if a hundred people on a population of 8 billion can do it, on command, at will, immediately, it's an impossible feat.

It's not the act of changing the pupil size that's the impossible feat, it's the "doing it instantly, on command" part that's the impossible feat. Even if lots of people can change their pupil size, virtually no one can with the snap of their fingers.
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> Certain of these distributions and transfers were made with the intent to hinder future creditors and/or were otherwise voidable as fraudulent transfers.

That's an allegation, not a legal fact nor even an admission. The allegations are included in the settlement to clarify the scope in case there's a subsequent dispute. On its face it sounds plausible, but proving it in a court of law is a different matter entirely.
I'm not sure that's really new. International relations has always been a thin veneer over might makes right, and the usa is very mighty.
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What DNS am I going to use now? Certainly not google. I guess my ISP, Comcast.
I actually found out about this software a couple of ways ago, when searching for sequencing software for Android, preferably with midi support. Though it seem quite capable and polished, the Android version was a bit annoying to use.
This entire subthread is about how financial aid for education would be less prone to fraud if there were a national ID card system. That's how the people who didn't have one would be harmed: they would be denied educations.