skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not sure what culture you are referring to, but as someone who has lived in four very different cultures for a long time each, this is very normal, human behavior. Every tech company does this too, not just Apple. And every other company too, not just tech. And artists, and hollywood, and... humans.
Yes, the entropy of revolution could conceivably help society reach a greater maxima. But the statistical likelihood is extremely small. Keep in mind, you aren't starting from scratch in a simulation. You'd have all the baggage from the civil war you triggered and the shocking loss of faith from corrupted revolutionary leadership, etc etc. Plus, this is all in the context of frustration that democratic progress doesn't happen fast enough.

Sensing bullshit doesn't imply that it is rational to start a revolution.
Sounds batshit crazy. But so it says:

Patients who initiated isotonic saline nasal irrigation after a positive COVID-19 PCR test were 19 times less likely to be hospitalized than the national rate.
Photos do not have to all be downloaded to the device. It will manage the storage and mainly keep more recent photos on device. It will download others as needed. That may not be perfect for you but it does help offset the storage situation.

I have an iPad Prod with 256GB of storage and it is currently only using 70GB.
It sounds like you can afford a car, you just don't think it is worth it, which isn't the same thing.

I'm unconvinced you have a lower quality of life than your father if you factor in everything. You're a senior engineer at huge companies, so presumably you're earning something like at least US$150k, plus stock. You're (presumably) living in a Tier 1 city (SF, NYC) or close (Seattle area, Boston), which gives you access to world-class intellect, employment opportunities, arts, music, etc. You apparently do not actually need a car to get around. You have instantly accessible information about any subject you want, at any depth you want from questionably accurate blogs to survey-level Wikipedia to academic papers. You've been able to continue working during a global pandemic, and you could probably work from anywhere in the world. You have access to inexpensive transportation and can be pretty much anywhere in the world in less than 24 hours. You've (presumably) been the beneficiary of a vaccine safely deployed to millions of people for free within a year after discovery of a completely novel virus. There's never been a better time to be a minority in the US' history, and if you're majority, you get to benefit from all kinds of diverse cultures, foods, etc. in your major city that.

I'm guessing your father didn't have his car, house, and family in a Tier 1 city, and there are opportunities for you in affordable locations. Of course, you'd have to have a car in those more affordable locations, which maybe you'd find troublesome. Your location would probably be more of a monoculture. You don't have to research ideas in physical media in a library. You wouldn't have all the medical advances. Etc.

So yes, housing is expensive, but you could make different choices and have your father's lifestyle. In fact, at a senior engineer's income I expect you could do much better if you just limit quality of life to house, car, and family.

I don't see violent revolution likely to improve matters, either. Tier 1 cities have always been expensive and always will be. But you can see a lot of examples where violent revolution makes things worse.
$5m cap? what is this, 2014?

four years later, you've got, in all likelyhood, three dead companies, and one company that has raised another round and you've been diluted, perhaps significantly.

don't use stories to make decisions.

(FYI, I've been angel investing for 15 years over 250+ companies)
Yeah, I get the technical reason that as Pro chips shifted down-market to other iPads they couldn't add support for the new-model Pencil without significant (and unjustifiably expensive) changes, it's just unfortunate.

They had a similar, valid excuse for using Lightning connectors on lower-end phones and iPads for a while, but that time would now be long past if they'd introduced them when they should have, yet even the last round of top-end iPhones still had the damn things. I'm at the point where nearly the only things I can't charge with one laptop USB-C charger, and use with a single set of USB-C dongles, are old iPads (understandable) and new iPhones (which is the real WTF). Current-gen game controllers, the Nintendo Switch itself, my (non-Apple) wireless headphones, my (non-Apple) mechanical wireless keyboard, MacBook Air, 4th-gen iPad Pro, all USB-C for power. My 12-series iPhone I hope to use for at least three more years, and maybe as many as five, barring some must-have tech breakthroughs or my damaging it badly? Goddamn lightning connector.
> If the distributions of bone densities among “people you would visually identify as ‘race X’ ” and “people you would visually identify as ‘race Y’ ” differ, then knowing that an individual would be someone you would visually identify as ‘race X’, gives you some amount of statistical information about their bone density.

Only if they differ substantially. If they look like https://evergreenleadership.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/B..., you can't conclude much from an individual's bone density measurement, even if "people of race X have 3% more bone density than people of race Y".
That would be CCIE. CCNP is your standard Pearson-proctored multiple choice and such.
Ahhhhh they added ML to the iOS keyboard input? No wonder it's behaving weirdly
> The actions are too damn hard to pull off.

Wow, I am surprised by this sentiment. In iOS notifications are an opt-in situation, I just never turn them on for anything but the smallest subset of apps (iMessage, Discord, Slack, Signal currently). For those apps I’m super aggressive about limiting noise, I’ll unsubscribe to things and tweak notification settings literally every time I get spam.
Not a Pyr. They aren't herding dogs, and they're not obedient. They do their job, which is living with and protecting their flock, and you don't tell them how to do it.

I think the dog in the video is a Blue Heeler or similar cattle dog. Also amazing at their jobs, and very, very well-tuned to humans.
He was so well read, but played the "dumb guy" so well: https://youtu.be/ob3yBb2E-uM
Communication platform of Ukraine
It wasn't Stephen Pinker who wrote the headline, it was the NYT editors. And I guess they've decided that Stephen Pinker thinks you're wrong about X gets more of a reaction than Stephen Pinker thinks I'm wrong about X.
no strafe jumping :()
Summer Fishing
Flat earth beliefs doesn't cause harm, but flat earth believers have largely upgraded to believing more dangerous nonsense.
As a queer in several senses of the word, Instagram is not a place to find a supportive queer community. Instagram is the most one-way of all social networks — i.e. it's almost all plebs following celebrities.
His book has an even longer, more beautiful version of that joke. I highly recommend checking it out, he spends something like a chapter on the joke. It's executed like serious Russian literature, and makes how much he was butchering it on Conan even better when rewatching.
Do you have a source on the Khan Academy layoffs? My impression was that they've grown a lot since the pandemic started.
This is so cool! I think this is going to be very useful for me. How did you find the magic env variable?
Even disregarding albinism, it's possible for people of northern european descent with fair skin to have darker skinned children. For example, in a case where the parents have germ line mutations that they pass on to their child, there could be (improbably) a collection of mutations that greatly increased the quantity of melanin. However, skin color is a complex trait with many small differences coming from a large number of different genes, so large changes in skin color are very unlikely. Nothing of what I am describing is albinism, and would have been part of the process of natural selection for fair-skinned people in northern climates with less solar exposure.
Hi Jared, that issue was an exciting read. Thanks for the link. I get why you started a fork. The thumbs-up in your last comment tells a story (https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll/issues/8085#issuecomment-60...) :) (spoiler: the thumbs-up is from DirtyF).
Aw, I expected that "Being an asshole" would be a selectable value. Seems like there are no negative options there.
There hasn't been a single blood pressure gadget that's been able to get even remotely accurate data with that.

It's about as trustworthy as rolling a dice and multiplying the eyes

I'd definitely buy it if it were possible though... But it's not, you can only get pulse/heartbeat through that.
Yeah, they have good pattern recognition. They're just dazzlingly unintuitive.
Just the fact that we're arguing and using terms like 'tolerate' just shows how wildly off base parent comment is to the reality of queerness and discrimination.

what about workplaces or spaces that simply 'tolerate' people of color? it puts that word in that context into a different light that more here might understand.

that language & context is so tinged it reveals real problems that still exist despite the mainstreaming of queer culture and appropriation that exists now - good or bad.
I find it confusing that people fail to to see the obvious switcharoo. It used to be unacceptable to be queer, non-white, non-Christian, non-male and it was OK to mock people for those traits. Now, it's all backwards, and it's OK to be queer, non-white, non-Christian etc. What is no longer OK is mocking people for these traits.

So, now the people who are getting the pointy end of the stick are the people who used to do the poking. I for one prefer the new paradigm to the old.

The anti-cancel-culture people make it sound like they are being horribly oppressed. But for what? The color of their skin? Their gender or sexuality? No, simply for the dumb words they insist on uttering. Say what you what, when you want, to whomever you want, but don't tell me you realistically expect there to be no consequences.
Stopped using my calculator after it broke and bought an abacus.

- Always on

- Infinite battery life

- No accidental resets

- Looks pretty on my desk

I look at my abacus with joy everyday.
600 * (1 - 0.20) = 480
If it's a non-release build that seems fine, but do you have a way to disable this in release builds? Even if the object doesn't show, since QML may be loaded dynamically, having these scattered around could slow your app.
Always great on Conan.

https://youtu.be/L7K-kaelQEs
Xiaomi MiBands are surprisingly good at what they do, especially for the money. Not a premium product by any stretch but still nice. I like it especially because it looks more and more like a simple bracelet with each iteration, instead of trying to be watch, huge watch or mini-ipad like the others.

The bands also last way longer than any fitbit I had.

Of course, you health data is probably going straight to CCP but then you already have Android.
"Rotate the diagram in spacetime" would make for some top-tier technobabble (not expressing doubt that it is a real thing, just wow, it sounds so cool).
I should have clarified one unfortunate part of this is enterprise diktat. So I stand no chance when a snake oil salesman from VMWare tells CIO on which framework they provide support for.
I would characterize any revolution as a bet.

You and your fellow revolutionaries take your chances at finding out whether you are actually more competent at running a society than your predecessors. The table stakes are anywhere between a peaceful legislative change and a few million lives.

I think that there's more people out there that think they can execute a competent revolution than there actually are.
That’s so sad. Trying to picture a grown man/woman dictate an email to a watch looking at that tiny screen with an iPhone in his/her pocket. The lengths of denial people go through to avoid the realization they’ve been had.
Wow. Well, I didn’t know, that sucks…
Plain Text Journaling System
No it would not. The average productivity of a US worker might have increased by a certain amount, but not the productivity of the minimum wage earners. If their productivity had gone up that much, there would be no need for a minimum wage law, the employers would simply be glad to pay them based on their productivity.
I think the web of today fits my thesis as well. So much of it is built on spying and surveillance and is filled with dark patterns and abusive practices.

The web of 20-25 years ago was pretty interesting though.
Comparing prices for anything (courses, software, services, etc) to a marketplace (Udemy, app stores, Upwork, etc) isn't a good comparison. A single source will never be able to compete with the efficiencies of scale, and often the quality in marketplaces is a race to the bottom.
Maven is the idiot proof one. Gradle doesn't have XML, but it's extremely easy to make your build scripts unmaintainable.
This looks very interesting, checking it out now (download links were broken, but I found releases on github). For people new to this type of software, definitely also check out VCV Rack for a more skeuomorphic take on open source software modular.
Fully vaccinated nurse fears losing his job over getting the wrong vaccine
That sucks. Loved him on SNL... don't remember anyone else who's resulting laughs seemed so inadvertent or by chance, like he was ill-prepared or crazy, or both. :-D

I really enjoyed his Netflix talk show a few years ago as well, especially because it was (seemed to be?) such a mess. Also introduced me to a great country artist in the last show, and I don't even like country:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Joe_Shaver
i think the days of people expecting to upgrade their phones is long gone. While some do, the numbers I’ve seen suggest that most people keep their phones for around 3 years. At that point, a new phone has enough new features to be worth an upgrade.
Not a good choice imo
The problem with comparing 1/3 to 1/4 is that it’s not immediately apparent how much more. I have to do fraction math to figure out how much more and really 1/12th more isn’t exactly meaningful. All of that has to happen in the consciousness brain so it’s not effective marketing
I mentioned this elsewhere but I really like hybrid smart watches for this - battery on my withings scanwatch goes 20 days, does notifications OK, activity longing, sleep tracking, HR monitoring.

Features I'm missing from galaxy watch are find my phone and answering phone on the watch, but it's so much lighter I don't need to take it off (the bulky strap on my galaxy watch would bother me when resting my hands on laptop edge), and it's very low key - I can wear it in any setting. Smart watches look like toys to me TBH.
Do we actually believe that "big pharma" (in the form of 3 companies that make US approved vaccines) have greater influence than all of the collective industries that would benefit from a looser mandate (so long as the public trusted it)? Pharma is more influential than the entire service sector, plus most manufacturing, and anything else that functionally requires people to be in the same room?

If you believe they are, then I accept that we have different starting points but your reasoning is compelling under your starting point. If you believe they're not, then I think it makes sense to look for another explanation.
I have several jackets with pockets that can hold a mini. Pants or shirts would be a different story.
He was the best: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNsXU2myCI8
That seems like such an excuse. A year and a half is plenty of time to get creative. Pull people out of retirement. Let nursing students do more. Pay truckloads of money to all of them. I dunno. Figure it out. These folks are supposed to be the “experts”… what have they been doing this whole time?

Saying “no it cannot be done” is just not a valid excuse.
It's super-handy, but I don't own a car (and try to rent cars with CarPlay when I do drive), so I only ever use it when walking. And there it's really nice to be able to pull up my watch, double-check the street name - because Siri will have butchered it - and so on, without having to take my phone out of my pocket.
The problem is that it’s really hard to get good data, ethically, in medical sciences. Something that improves outcomes by 5-10% can be really important, but trying to get a study big enough to prove it can be super expensive already.
Sorry, I thought the sarcasm would be obvious.

I’m not irritated by my straight colleagues talking about their families.

You, however, seem to have a problem with your gay colleagues talking about theirs.

As a side note, quite a lot of straight people are irritated by the fact that straight sex can mean more than just erotic pleasure (hence the popularity of contraception).
> So some market segmentation has to exist. If Intel threw away every chip that had one of the four cores come out broken, they’d lose a lot of money and have to raise prices to compensate.

Except in the case with the Pentium special edition 2 cores and i3 parts, Intel actually designed a separate two core part that wouldn't have the benefit of re-enabling cores among hobbyists.

And then there's the artificial segmentation by disabling Xeon support among consumer boards... even though the Xeon branded parts were identical to i7s (with the GPU disabled) and adding (or removing) a pin on a socket between generations even though the chipset supports the CPU itself (and the CPU runs on the socket fine with an adapter.)

Intel definitely did everything they could to make it as confusing as possible.
I wouldn't have bought a single one of them, this is obviously my personal opinion, but they are all ugly. Maybe I'm not rich enough to appreciate them. I'm a classic digital Casio person myself.
>AMD recently dicked b350/x370 chipset owners by sending motherboard manufacturers a memo telling them not to support Zen 3 (5000 series) Ryzen CPUs on their older chipsets.[1] This was after AsRock sent out a beta BIOS which proved that 5000 series CPUs worked fine on b350 chipsets. Today, AsRock's beta BIOS still isn't on their website and it's nearly a year after they put it out.

And they stated their reasoning:
The average AMD 400 Series motherboard has key technical advantages over the average AMD 300 Series motherboard, including: VRM configuration, memory trace topology, and PCB layers

Which is entirely reasonable, and accurate if you look at the quality of the average X370 motherboard compared to 400+.

And no, AMD does not do everything I described. Which Ryzen model doesn't have SMT? I see it on the 3, the 5, the 7, and the 9. Which model doesn't have turbo boost? I see it on the 3, the 5, the 7, and the 9.

As for ECC: I don't believe I said they're perfect, but it's a heck of a lot better than what Intel has to offer...
I just want to point out that people moved without any money back in the day.

Now we play it safe. We save money. We find an apartment, a job and then we move. We live comfortably now and we don't want to lose that when moving. You can even see it today with people from certain parts of the world. They leave with nothing else than maybe a 20 dollar phone hoping they'll be able to call their family once they get somewhere.
Streaming video doesn't seem like the most effective way to reach your Amish customers...
Bit unrelated, but I really like that domain name. Looks like "mad"
What my daughters went through:

1) at age of 4 all the parents were gathered to meet kindergarten personnel. They explained that kids will play games all year. Parents were separated to groups and given logical puzzles to solve. Results were noted.

For the next two years children were playing games with changing rules to negate natural ability for specific game and to select for ability to find the best strategy within current constraints.

At the same time each parent is given a day to present his/her profession. Results are noted.

Results were passed to school class selection committee.

2) According to results in kindergarten kids are grouped in schools. Some are given opportunity to participate in electrical engineering or robotic activities (my daughter was Top 5 in Israeli competition for 6-9 years old with reduced team).

3) By the end of the second year some of the parents are notified that there will be an examination. Test is analogous to IQ (math, language, general knowledge). Graded on the curve for municipality. Top 8% are invited for one day a week for additional activities. Top 2% are invited to special schools with much more intensive program. My daughter made it to top 8%. Activities are: decision making, finding solutions within constraints, leading groups of people to solve bigger problems.

4) By the end of elementary, depending on previous results, kids get access to full math program (as opposed to reduced arithmetic). Additional activities include software and electrical engineering, robotics, chemistry, physics and so on. Parents and kids, that didn't made it to Top 8% at previous years, are not aware of these activities (invitations are sent personally).

5) At age of 15 kids pass initial evaluation by IDF. Good grades at high school will guarantee initial evaluation will be upheld. Bad grades will negatively impact the chances.

6) By the end of high school whole history and psychological profile are passed to IDF for final evaluation.

> What does this have to do with the military?

In Israel everything has everything to do with military.
"But Varaka said he was told by his employer that immediate revaccination was his only option, and he won't be able to get an extension."

This is scary, we don't know what mixing shots and so soon will do to a person. At this point this is hardly about public health anymore, to not even be able to grant exemptions like this.
Source for the enjoyment part?
Did they actually make the battery a lot bigger to support always on? I have one from before they added always on, and its battery life is also naff.
That's an excellent point and a reason I may never get a smartwatch. For me, I would not really want to leave the house for long periods of time without a camera. Beyond seeing something share-worthy, I use it as an instant note taking, scanning and memory device. My camera roll is filled with maps, posters, receipts, street signs, scans, shop windows, product labels, and other various things I needed a record of.
Yeah but he didn't OD on anything.
This is essentially the premise of Peter Turchin's Ages of Discord, specifically measured in "The Double Spiral of Well-Being and Elite Overproduction".[1]

[1]https://peterturchin.com/age-of-discord/
While I agree with your general sentiment, I don't agree that you should expect Intel to hand out features for free. That's what competition is for.
In general, I don't think people are okay with it. Didn't Apple recently reveal that their massive game revenue comes from a pretty small set of whales?
His sports posting was great, wish he was a commentator.

RIP
One of my all time favorite comedians. A pretty sucky part about getting older is losing the people who provided you a bunch of joy.
https://archive.is/a03Bc
I love this mindset and it sounds like you've lived quite the life so far. It sounds like you have a lot of stories to tell, and I think story-maximization is another good life strategy.

Your thoughts on failure remind me of a twitter thread I read yesterday by a new parent watching their baby try and learn to walk. I haven't had that experience yet myself, but it sounds like you might have. Babies are extremely determined and have absolutely no fear of failure during that phase. It's too bad so many people forget that attitude later in life.