skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> “these colors are based on character traits and questions being answered, not on the position of celestial bodies”

When the questions aren’t based on any research, the results are not much sounder than using planetary positions as the input data.

One could devise a personality test where all the questions are long divisions with a short time limit. This would certainly be some kind of test of mental ability, but there wouldn’t be any basis to jump to conclusions:
“This person failed all tests where the divider is larger than ten, which suggests that they’re afraid of tackling large problems.”

The color test is fundamentally based on this kind of “science” even if the proposed categories are well-meaning.

Re: damage done by the color test, the article did mention some anecdotes from Sweden like people being asked to switch teams at work “because we have too many green people”, etc.
takes a look at facebook no moderation at all could happen
If you're already iOS/Mac users and using iCloud for anything, then worth looking at iCloud+ which now supports custom domains. I've been using this since day one and had no issues so far and the killer feature for me the default iOS and Mac mail clients work 100% offline fine. I'm using Gandi.net as a registrar and DNS host, pointing MX/DKIM/SPF stuff at Apple, A records at a $5 Linode box running nginx.

Importantly this just works which is more than I can say for anything else I've tried ... anecdotes below...

I was using Fastmail before which is a good cross platform solution but the whole solution goes down the toilet if you want to use their official apps and offline support. Third party mail clients are almost universally complete garbage due to disparity over IMAP mailbox naming, sync issues and corruption. I haven't found one that works properly.

I fell out with Google and GSuite before this because something fucked up my domain provisioning and they couldn't fix it via support. Also I found out rather rapidly that the moment I converted my account to a paid GSuite account that my YouTube account required a $30 payment to be made before I could post videos to my own channel suddenly. They held my YT account to ransom and couldn't fix a provisioning issue. No chance. I will never deal with them again.

On Office 365 I deal with this at work every day and it's horrible. It started off reasonable but the feature load is weighing the whole solution down and now it's a crapfest of pain. Even the authentication processes are utterly painful every day requiring a half arsed authenticator app that works 50% of the time. I still maintain an office 365 family account so the kids can use the desktop apps for school work.

As for privacy, I think it is well oversold in the email space. The communication protocols don't guarantee privacy and no legal jurisdiction is particularly friendly. I think it's better to focus on deliverability and using another technology for secure or private communications. I myself use email only as the usual e-commerce and event receipt handling system. Out of the 100 or so people I have in my contacts, only my mother still actually communicates via email.
Their first episodes are a bit unorganized but this podcast became one of my favorite podcasts of all time.

Two very knowledgeable historians with extremely interesting episodes. And very very funny. I learned a lot and i found my self laughing many times while listening to them.
A few thoughts here:

- That's a pretty small number compared against Google, but that's not the point. I'm a little impressed and a little skeptical. More on that later.

- OT: The whole "every sentence is a paragraph thing" increases that skepticism, but I realize it just feels like I'm reading something my tweenage son wrote and I need to get over it.

On the skepticism, the number I'm more interested in is how many searches resulted in a link being clicked. If it were possible to get, how many of those searches were not repeated on Google.

The reason I ask is that I have the DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials extension installed[0]. I don't like Google being my default search engine, I prefer search suggestions coming from a search engine that is more respectful of my privacy and have long ago set a shortcut so that starting an address with "g " will perform a Google search.

I often forget the "g " and end up sending that search to DuckDuckGo. For a while, the results returned were nowhere near as helpful as Google and I'd simply repeat the process, inserting the "g "[1].

Lately, however, I think there's combination of "Google's results seem to be getting worse" and "DDG results are getting better" at play -- more recently, I had a horrible problem with Azure AD B2C, performed a search on Google, got pages of relevant-seeming results but all obvious things I had checked/ruled out. DDG had several of those, too, but the top result was a curious article that mentioned another Azure service we used -- KeyStore -- and otherwise seemed totally irrelevant. Mostly due to 2 hours already wasted, I clicked it just to see... well, it turned out that my solution was under Link #1 on DDG.

Since then, I've actually started looking at the results, and most of the time I don't need to redo the search. So I do believe the product is improving, a lot, and they deserve credit for knocking any whole integer percent off of Google.

[0] Like many of you, I am "IT Support" for my extended family. So everyone has Firefox as default and a few extensions, DDG is among them.

[1] I do not use any of the "slash" or special features of DDG. I don't care to learn search syntax and the little bit that I played with that wasn't as helpful as just putting the query into Google. I'm sure it's great and that's on me, but these are 1:1 searches between the engines.
I don't think email is the issue here but it is DNS. Email relies on DNS and unfortunately government and ISPs have too much control to take your domain or have it blocked.
These are early symptoms of a Truth-Market-Fit approach[1] where "fact-checking" is defined by the financial benefits in keeping a following or customer base.
The "Fact checkers" have become Trust Providers. Different groups of people will choose to 'believe' different Trust Providers according to their own views.

[1] https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/truth-market-fit-unbundling-t...
Another vote for Fastmail - family of four here and it’s been rock solid for several years now. A bit pricy but we consider it good value for money.
This is my biggest problem with the response to Covid in the USA.. the very "loose" information provided/parroted by officials that are designed to manipulate public perception without simply providing the facts for people to make their own judgments. One of the current ones is how you keep hearing how hospitals are "overwhelmed" and we are running out of beds.. they neglect to tell you the impact of all health care providers that had quit because they refused to take the vaccine. So in affect it was the hospitals own policies that caused this issue. This is why Minnesota has called on the National Guard to help replace all the nurses that quit. There are plenty of beds/ICUs just not enough employees to cover them.
I'm not saying you can't do it, I'm saying it won't help you because nobody will want to "play" with you. Open protocols mean nothing if the playing field is not level and the big guys can just bully around smaller players in whichever way they wont. That's not a problem that can be solved by technology (IMHO).
As an engineer (product creator) - it behooves one to continually be involved in experiencing how the product is used. Not just how we believe it, or think it.

Use cases, flows, and product paths seem logical on a whiteboard. However, the real world often introduces nuances that significantly alter use in micro ways.

The objection to interact with customers from engineers I believe is more due to a social aversion, introversion, etc rather than a defiance of not doing the delivery. Engineers can often be afraid of unknown social situations - which is fair.

If I were the CEO, I'd have engineers go in packs of 3 engineers at first for 3-4 months. Then pair to group of 2 with one as a "ride along, no interaction" for moral support.
I wonder how society would change in general if we were all forced to step out of our comfort zones once a month? Make me become a garbage man for the day, or a barista or a gas station attendant.

Perhaps it would engender some empathy between different areas of society and reduce the overall sense of entitlement some folks seem to have.
And has excellent support for custom domains. I like that I can switch providers without changing my email addresses.
YMMV. What I learned from experience that I already knew from education is that absolute power corrupts absolutely. There is a real tension when picking a graduate school. Do you go with the topic of interest and a tyrant? Or do you pick an amenable advisor that's in a different research field? I guess one can get lucky and find both but that wasn't an option the year I applied. The thing about graduate schools and research domains is that there a typically only a handful of choices if one is lucky. The other thing I learned is graduate schools never admit absolute power corrupts absolutely and when one points that out one is immediately ostracized. Go along to get along should be a sign over ever graduate schools doorway. Or dog eat dog.
Apple ditched Intel, and it paid off
>Sorry but there was enormous international pushback against it

Sure, there was domestic pushback too, but the "trusted" news sources actually countered that pushback by not questioning the government line and bolstered the whole WMD fear mongering. The NYT actually apologized for it after the fact to try to save their reputation.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2004/may/26/pressandpublis...

The NYT, et al also refused to publish the Snowden revelations until they absolutely had to (after the guardian pushed it). Same with the Clinton/Lewinsky thing. They refused to report on the Hunter Biden laptop either, which, like it or not, is "fit to print." There were also quite a few anti-Assange articles if I recall.
Japan did not go to war with the U.S. because of army/navy rivalry. This was not a consideration for the perceived necessity of going to war with America. It all had to do with supply constraints and the military gambled and initially succeeded in that gamble.

To your overall point I very much agree. There are lots of examples of short term thinking clouding the long term goals of a nation. Indeed, doesn’t this almost always happen?

In a book about the Silk Road that I read the author claims that China’s way of defeating the Xiongnu was to sell luxury goods to them for a cheap price and to get the Xiongnu along their border hooked on Chinese goods. Eventually the Xiongnu split into northern and southern factions. That was a long term strategy to defeat an opponent. Off the top of my head I can’t think of another long term cohesive strategy to defeating an enemy.
I think of pigenonholing as a cognitive heuristic that spares you to involve your "system two" [1] when dealing with or talking about other people. It is a heuristic insofar as peoples' behaviour is more like a continuous spectrum than a discrete set of categories.

The other cognitive heuristic that applies here is that of projecting n independent dimensions onto one or two, at best. Like in this case, the latter often comes with exactly two elements in each dimension yielding a 2⨯2 matrix.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking,_Fast_and_Slow#Two_sy... (admittedly a pigeonholing of mental processes by itself)
>there's no permission to do anything whatsoever

What happens if you do?
Florida accepted that everyone will eventually get covid, and the statistics for death / hospitalization rates for the non-immuno-compromised and non-elderly are very low, so they just did the "Keep Calm and Carry On" ethos and it became endemic much sooner. However they did have strict requirements for nursing homes.

Basically, let everyone choose their own risk tolerance, and accept that we can't control this. Very slowly, after years of trying to fight the inevitable, liberal states are understanding this. But they are still pretending that a force-field surrounds you the moment you start eating food or drinking which makes masks not required at that moment, which is obviously absurd.
For most people in my program and others like it (molecular biology, US) the decision point tended to be at the end of the second year, after the qualifying exam(s). This is because the first year tends to be full of lab rotations and some classes, and you don't really start doing research until nine months in.
US single family homes are, by a large margin, primarily heated via the central air system (the same ductwork that supplies cold air in summer).

My experience with both is that I prefer central air heat. That said, they will perform worse in a drafty house- air is a very poor carrier and storage medium for heat compared to water, so if you have a room with a draft away from your thermostat, it'll get colder faster; a radiator in the room would essentially act as a heat bank.
> no subsidies on French nuclear

The most obvious French subsidy for nuclear is who pays for possible 500+ billion Euro nuclear accident. The Paris Convention and the Brussels Convention both require insurance for nuclear accidents, but cap liability to operators with the difference being made up by taxpayers.

That’s an easy to verify subsidy, as was the recent bailout for Areva S.A., I could go on but subsidies get convoluted. Pressure from the French government for people to use electric heating, well it’s in support of the nuclear industry but not really a “subsidy” or is it? Let’s say no.

What about low interest government loans? Sure that’s an obvious subsidy.
It's only necessary for extraordinary claims. Most books by "experts" make extraordinary claims. We have centuries of data that shows it's best to ignore them completely.
Fact checking has been laughable from the beginning. It is inherently biased. The heavy political leanings of those in direct control of the organizations' verdicts are brought up time and time again, and even memes are being made about sites like Snopes. My favorite meme goes something like:

Did x member of y political organization get arrested for hitting some in the head with a baseball bat?

FALSE.

[big block of text]

X member of y political organization was arrested for hitting someone in the head with a cricket bat.

[big block of text]
I do think home automation is valuable but it also seems like a band-aid over the unnecessary complexity of some building systems.
Discussed here yesterday with 520 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29709369
> Just deliver one pizza

> Just work a bit more one day

> Just take a paycut

Nothing good comes out of mindset like this.
One problem I see right off the bat is: how does the author know that this is "the study" that convinced the CDC?

He doesn't. That's made-up BS. The CDC is a large scientific organization that has built up a lot of credibility over decades. I trust it far more than any single off-the-cuff writer like this guy. And unless there is very strong evidence, I don't accept the claim at face value that CDC acted, or generally acts, on the basis of a single study.
that story is permeable, in the realm of Depth Psychology .. (teaching of strict capital-T truth are more likely among low-literacy people, but not always).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depth_psychology
Are these aluminum or some fiber-reinforced composite?
You mean countability as a term in set theory. How is axiomatic set theory useful in computer science?

Axiomatic set theory is a non-constructive theory. Many results in set theory depend on the existence of functions which cannot be computed. Or assert that something exists without providing any means of finding it. Even the Cantor-Schroeder-Bernstein theorem asserts the existence of something that cannot be explicitly constructed.

I fail to see how any of it has any connection to computing.

More broadly, I think many computing people are too uncritical about the relevance of mathematics like AST to their discipline. They are very likely to find themselves disappointed.
When I first heard about this plan to "face check" articles on Facebook, I was actually floored because it's just such an obviously bad idea. There is always going to be a point where reasonable people disagree about what is correct and what isn't or what should be fact-checked and what shouldn't.

And you're not even dealing with reasonable people.

Even if you limit it to the most egregious cases that just shifts the problem. What's egregious and what isn't?

I actually believe it was well-intentioned. Just... completely misguided. You know what they say: the road to Hell is paved with good intentions.

Second thought: it's weird to me how many conservatives and conspiracy theorists (it's interesting that there's so much crossover between these two groups) are so keen to dismantle Section 230 when they benefit the most. In an effort for platforms to remain neutral, this nonsense is allowed to exist. If platforms were responsible for this "content", it'd be shut down so fast.

But here's a good thing to keep in mind: from a narcissist an accusation is actually a confession. Trump is a textbook narcissist. Go back and look at his accusations through that filter.
> Because there is no universe in which China's actions the past 10 years cannot be viewed as serious threat to the sovereignty of its neighbors and US interests abroad and at home. Not that China's rise should (or can be) stopped, rather that a counterbalance is a must - and only a US led alliance can achieve this.

And who helped create the China that it is today? NAFTA and entry to WTO set the stage while endless pandering to CCP to cater to cheap Chinese sweat labor and market by US companies to maximize the shareholders return in return of endless IP theft on the back of US working class was ubiquitous.
Hell even when the former president was trying a trade tarriff with China, many politicians across the board opposed not because it was wrong but because the corporations that wrote them cheques were not happy. Oh but we are told China will soon turn into democracy by policy day dreamers, except it hasn’t happened in 30yrs and in all likelihood won’t happen.

You could argue the same thing with war on terror - rise of Bin Laden, rise of ISIS out of vacuums from Iraq war and Libya.
It was US foreign policy that helped create these monsters. You give wrong guys weapons and training expecting them to not to turn their back on? How many times do we have to learn this?
Here is one question: name one US foreign policy that has served us well in last 20yrs. Answer is none.
Looks like it takes inspiration from Clojure but isn't (transitively) based on it: https://github.com/vito/bass#kernels-influence
I mean philosophically speaking our entire species is a concern. What drives us can also destroy us. Paradox.
I fail to see how is this responsibility of Alexa.

It's parent's fault for letting children use devices like Alexa. Stupid chatbots will always give stupid answers.
This kind of grinding is probably the part I enjoy most about games. It's almost meditative. I usually play games to kill time anyways. I guess that's why I enjoyed games like FF8, WoW, and Maple Story.
> You are the one coming with the extraordinary claim, that meditation does something fundamentally different.

From your perspective, given you seem convinced that meditation is the same as a nap, sure. That itself seems to me like an absurd proposition.

At the end of the day, if you want to think that then that's fine. I think it's silly, like claiming that weightlifting and stretching are the same - and I doubt there are many studies comparing the two.

> Right, meditation isn't even a defined concept

It's many concepts under one umbrella. Meditation is just maintaining focus on one thing, to the exclusion of all else. It can be your breath, your internal emotional state, or even nothing (as per zazen meditation).

As the old saying goes, you can't reason somebody out of a position they didn't reason themselves into, so unless you have an actual logical argument or evidence for them being the same thing, then there's little point debating it.
Censorship is not inherently bad. The USA has never extended the general principle of freedom of speech to the subject of medical information, for good reason. Medical speech must be censored or else the snake oil salesmen will take over. Organized medical societies must retain a monopoly on medical speech.

In the pandemic, speech about public health was censored less than treatment advice or drug facts would have been. Tens of thousands died as a result. A disastrous experiment in granting a freedom that no one responsible needs or wants.
The original sin here is generating the dependencies from the source files in the same step that was used to generate the object files. The only way to ensure that Make observes structural changes in the dependency DAG is if the graph is rebuilt.
Can you explain to me how someone who spends their entire day in k8s and helm charts would benefit by exploring the UX of an application through the lens of the user? Beyond a normal study, that is?
astrology is very fashionable though
Yeah. Maybe enclosing a particular type of hole could give more points or something like that. Also, one could put wooden pegs with numbers or other tokens in the holes to specify points that can be gained, or those tokens that can be collected. Such modifications can make the game more replayable. (One could also use this game as a sort of fortune-telling device, since solving a game requires randomization, and a player may end up in one or the other configuration at the end of the game.)
I think it promotes false certainty.

Also note that the fact checker errors are not random uncorrelated errors. Fact checks are performed through a political lens. The subconscious question is asked, how will this affect <policy agenda>? If something is factually correct but could lead to <bad outcome> then the fact checkers will consider that when choosing how to check the claim.

For instance, in the article that was censored was about faults in the study that convinced the CDC to support mask mandates in schools. The fact checkers read that as a claim that masking does not help limit transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in schools, which is not what the article was about.
The [Nautilus] icon view is dead, long live the icon view
My team did a workshop where we identified our colors. The result of that was very awkward communications and people making excuses for not stepping up or contributing in meetings because their needs, as described by these colors, were not met. Total disaster.
My team also went through this at Microsoft, back around 2008-09. My team was firmly in the "this is bullshit" camp, but there were others who took it quite a bit more seriously. And then there were the "reds", which more often than not used it as defense/justification for their normal aggressive behaviors.

Everyone received little foam color blocks; we were supposed to put our primary and secondary on our desks so that whenever people dropped by they would know what kind of person you are. We received binders with dozens of pages telling us who we were, how we think, what we cared about, what our barriers are, and so on.

It reminded me a bit of market segmentation studies -- a passing fad used to describe in a moment the nature of a population, but something that loses value and relevance over time.
UK health chiefs expected ‘imminent’ pandemic in 1997
I think you are conflating censorship with errors