skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Enabling the high metabolic flux required to fly. As the only flying mammals, bats have the highest metabolism among mammals while also being more biologically compatible with us compared to e.g. birds.
I’m nearly 40 and am a huge follower of celebrity culture and have been since I was in high school. I listen to a few really good pop culture podcasts and it’s a part of my life I get a kick out of.

Celebrities are just interesting to me and I like learning about them, the clothes they wear, where they live, what their lives are like, etc. Maybe it’s daydreaming about what it’s like to have a different life? Who knows? But it’s a fun way to spend my time.

And to be honest, all of my time is just frittered away so it doesn’t really matter what I do with it.

But to be fair, I’m also quite dumb (check my comment history for confirmation).
To sound perhaps a bit weird now I guess but: isn't empathizing with another team normal? I would not want to be in a company that was OK with some team taking the short end of the stick continuously... It says a lot about people and well I would/do feel bad. The response of the CEO of course might be one of avoidance or narcissism... (Of course nobody can't psychoanalyze people from a distance.)
Lost me at California as center of universe. And again with the musk name drop. So much for off the beaten path.
I'd spend some time browsing through the ticket system and understand how colleagues handle tickets (duration, discussion section, difficulty of ticket). Also I'd check the code with a linter. So you can confidently say how you compare. Next time someone complains you can prove the opposite. Also I recommend sticking to process, commenting tickets as needed, marking them as blocked timely and generally making sure you're aligned with the PO/PM during each sprint.
Well, I think it's unlikely I passed the test, and I worked there long enough to get promoted twice. I believe that they didn't care about the results and just had to go through the motions.
> Knock off Coke that tastes just as good would surely hit at it’s dominance

Coke is all about marketing not the taste.
The original reason for the embargo was because when the lands were expropiated the americans forbid to basically trade with cubans to not trade with stolen property due to the revolution.

I tell you if you are not aware of the original reason. The original reason makes sense.

I understand that normal people is who suffer. That is true and sad.
> You are incorrect, but I understand your skepticism.

I'm no expert in this area. I'm just a mathematically literate college-educated person of at least average intelligence that enjoys reading. In some ways, I imagine that makes me harder to convince, or more skeptical if you like. I also have a bit of a contrarian streak. However, I'm genuinely fascinated by the subject and quite curious. So much for my inadequacies.

> You can check out by finding more about Dawkins-Wilson debates and all graduate level evolutionary biology textbooks. Wilson group selection theory does not add anything to inclusive fitness.

My understanding is that inclusive fitness was shown to be mathematically unsound[1]. I can follow the mathematical arguments in that paper and I find them convincing. I am, I hope understandably, disinterested in spending the mental energy to achieve a layman's understanding of a theory that's been mathematically debunked. I trust math more than I do debates for judging the merits of a theory. The latter is a species of rhetoric, which is a wonderful tool for persuasion and sometimes entertainment, but not so helpful for achieving understanding. The former is dialectic, and has a pretty good track record for, if not finding truth, at least ruling out some species of falsehood.

> Wilson was an intellectual giant but wrong in some cases.

Indeed. Much scientific progress has been achieved by standing on the shoulders of past giants and proving them wrong. The domain of evolutionary biology is dizzyingly complex and I'm in no way disparaging those working in the field. Quite the opposite, I'm grateful for their work and the opportunity to learn from it.

[1] https://www.pnas.org/content/110/50/20135
I just saw GitHub Projects for the first time as a result of this link. It looks like it has several of the key features of Asana, which is the project management tool that my very small web publishing consulting firm uses.

I noticed that Project Boards (https://docs.github.com/en/issues/organizing-your-work-with-...) visually look a lot like the Board view in Asana when I'm working in a project based on the IT Project Plan template.

In terms of whether companies that are inclined to use web-based project management tools would drop what they are using and adopt GitHub Projects, I think the most likely candidates to do that would be companies where a great deal of the creative work already flows through GitHub and a huge percentage of the staff is in GitHub for some reason every day.

I don't think we would adopt this for work with clients. To the extent that our clients have GitHub as part of their toolset, the only people using it are software developers and engineers on the system administration - devops continuum. Our use of Asana is for things like project communications and high level time management, i.e. when will we hit a milestone.
Yes, and that's why your previous comment made no sense...

> you are compelled to answer any question an employer asks

Nobody is "compelling" anyone in this situation.
Based on the methodology this should not be used to draw conclusions, this study is at best an indicator to conduct further research on the topic. The title of this post is too strong for the conclusions:

> These findings *suggest* that there is a direct association between celebrity worship and poorer performance on the cognitive tests that cannot be accounted for by demographic and socioeconomic factors.
Agreed. Only one word a day makes me take my time and use the fewest guesses possible instead of brute forcing it by reusing dead letters. It feels more like a puzzle than a game, and the novelty lasts longer. I don’t think it would be getting the traction it has if it allowed endless play. It’s a throwback to the daily rebus/crossword/quiz newspaper page.
I recommend reading on history of the bank of the United States. The FED was the 2nd iteration.

Also, Hamilton (who wanted a monarchy) had a lot of very authoritarian ideas and his ideas (and him generally) we’re not well liked by people supporting democracy or the formation of the republic.
This article makes me anxious that I just might not have any interesting ideas to share with the world, that I might be stuck in my own perspective and that others will see right through all the fancy words I come up with to masquerade it.

I think I might not be able to refrain from smiling when being called an intellectual. Only positive outlook: At least I do not think I will ever go as far as calling myself an intellectual in my own essay.
I'm not expert on your situation and commend you for posting here. Not sure how useful any of this will be (or any of any of the comments will be) because basically nobody knows you or your team and everyone brings their own perspective and experience--and you'll have to figure this all out on your own--I mean, it is your career, right? This may sound an obvious caveat but I think it's important--because there's always gonna be people eager to give you advice, simply as a way to validate their own experience--even when it doesn't apply to you. But I'm sure you know that already.

I'll just try to offer some general meta comments that got prompted for me while reading your post.

- Your manager may feel she doesn't know how to have a difficult conversation with you (for whatever reason) and may have deliberately slyly ducked out of the meeting under the pretext of fighting a fire to let her boss do the heavy lifting of that conversation. Lest this despair you, it's not a bad reflection on you that your manager may find it hard to be critical--it's just about her, but if that's the case, you could always help her out by giving her lots of opportunities to share where she's up to with your performance.

- Maybe you are seen as a rising star and are being 'groomed' eventually for some sort of leadership (hey, sometimes in tech companies things move fast). So the boss is giving you some pressure and criticism to see how you're going to handle it. It's not the content in that case that's important, it's the fact of its existence, and what you do about it. Maybe you're seen as someone who could report higher, so you're being given a meeting that mocks that up.

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Catnip smells like cat urine to cats and they love it
Most are #6, I believe. Be careful when swapping - some of the pen's caps are not long enough to accommodate 3rd party #6 nibs. You have to Google to see if yours can.
Combination of things, if I'm cold (literally and figuratively) or I'm still warming up, if I'm really pushing hard, or when I've been going too long and the fatigue sets in. I don't really know how common it is among other typists though, I've found I've gotten sloppier over the years due to auto-correct and google search 'guessing' being pretty damn fantastic.

Another story, when I was middle school, I took what I thought was a computer programming class that turned out to be a god awful typing class. Of maybe 30 kids, over half would completely fail to complete the assignment during the hour. The students that got through it were almost all my video game/computer geek friends. I personally hated the class as I thought it was a complete waste of time as I could already type fairly well. The carrot on the stick was that you could surf the internet, play games, whatever, if you completed the the assignment. Considering that the internet was wildly faster than my dial up line at home, I would burn through the class as fast as I could, literally always finishing before everyone else, spending 15 minutes tops on it.

Well, one day midway through the semester I overheard another student asking the teacher how I was always done so fast. This guy was a completely smug hard ass and was apparently a 'computer guy' prior to his teaching career. He had the gual to say it was only because I would make so many mistakes and that I was such a sloppy typists that I wouldn't be worth much to anyone later on. During the next class I made a point to hit 100% accuracy, declaring loudly to him so that the entire class would hear. I did that the entire rest of the semester, I loved it, he never showed his smugness towards me after that. Still really bugged me though, I realized even back then that computers were getting _good_ and handling typos, and that highly accurate typing was mainly for suckers.

As an aside, this was all during the era of the 'Ask Jeves's' of the world, I switched to google simply because it was so damn good at understanding the intent behind my typos. Incredibly, they're _still_ the only auto-correct I've used that understands and corrects the drifts!
Apparently this is how they judged how "into celebrities" a person was. I mean these questions seem geared toward the "creepy obsession with a celebrity" approach, which is hardly the same as thing as "public figures I follow online, respect, or who's work I enjoy" and also completely different from the "I read the tabloids and follow celebrity gossip" types. So not sure that's really what most people think of based on the title:

https://www.scribd.com/document/356931328/Celebrity-Attitude...
The discussion here seems to be going well, but on other places on the Internet I have only seen this study referenced to reinforce some kind of group superiority complex. It's kind of gross to think that other people are stupid for caring about people you don't care about.
> Preventing hair loss is pretty easy

For some people its not.
This calculates the NNE which is similar to NNT: The Number Needed to Treat (NNT) is the number of patients you need to treat to prevent one additional bad outcome (death, stroke, etc.). For example, if a drug has an NNT of 5, it means you have to treat 5 people with the drug to prevent one additional bad outcome.

As a general rule of thumb, an NNT of 5 or under for treating a symptomatic condition is usually considered to be acceptable and in some cases even NNTs below 10.

https://www.uws.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Number_Needed...
But that excludes tech celebrities, right? right?
"Great minds discuss ideas" This is what I tell myself when I don't who people are talking about.
I have never heard this particular juxtaposition (YouTube link?!? Why!!!).

But I'll note that I have extremely effective-at-reading-and-synthesizing friends who enjoy watching/listening to YouTube, so it may not be a complete explanation for the nefarious spread of horribly inefficient videos that should've been text.
Yes, but since I have never been to London, I am curious about this western consumerist lifestyle.

You're being coy, in not describing the things you find so tiresome.

Before Brexit, I worked for a company that opened a branch near London, in order to access the European market. I didn't make it my overriding goal to go there, but I probably could've, and a co-worker went there and subsequently got married and stayed.
Sorry forgot the last reference and missed the edit window:

[5] https://www.npr.org/2020/11/30/940196997/amazon-reportedly-h...
Because in the world I live in, there's a strong correlation between a previous price and a future one. While it's not always the case and all kinds of factors apply, previous price is a quite relevant signal. In the absence of any additional specific information, if I know that ticket to city A was cheaper than a ticket to city B, then it's reasonable to assume that a future ticket to city A is a bit more likely to be cheaper than a future ticket to city B.
Also note: the background section mentioned that this topic has been studied for some time (20 years), with largely mixed outcomes. I would guess that the conclusion is quite sensitive to the adopted methodology.
They should update the Turing test with a test where you talk to a chat bot instead of a 13 year old
BSoD to Watson: The Reliability Journey
It does. Just start calling federated and decentralized services web 3. This stuff is actually useful so it'll out live the block chain pyramid schemes.
Lenovo still refuses to fix their trackpoint issue, where trackpoint randomly stops working on many of their newer model ThinkPads. The issue was reported 12 month ago.

They have their priorities mixed up.

https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/ThinkPad-T400-T500-and-newer-T-...
> Hairloss is even more of a head scratcher.

I remember Bill Gates in some video said that pharma companies spend lots of money on research to prevent hair loss, grow hair compared compared to research on diseases like malaria etc.
I'm not sure how many people will step over the line you've drawn. Offensive as it is to certain sensibilities, there's a reason so many people and products keep using "the same suite of icons".

And really, it's usually all just user-generated content. Has GitHub even done any "lazy development" here, or are they just entering emoji in regular text fields?
The market is the will of people. Any alternative thing is going to be more incorrectly adapted to the demand from people.
I interviewed for a “AI” company and asked them about their tech that could take phone calls and extract orders! Wow really cool and impressive! How do you solve X? Oh we have a call center in Mexico that takes all the calls. So you have no usable AI tech at all? Nope. Ok nice talking to you.

They had signed with a major retail company. They were actually making software for the call center. And the “CTO” was “working on” the “AI” in parallel. The company name had AI in it too
> You can be fascinated by something in healthy bounds

The same could be said of worship, whether "celebrity worship" or otherwise. But in any event the paper is merely exploring aggregate correlations, not positing a mutually exclusive relationship.
Life uh, finds a way.
Systemic changes take decades, and that's if you have the power, which in most of those cases people don't. But they have to keep on living in the meantime.
This is simply brilliant. I've never seen anyone produce PDFs for small size (or large fonts). I just tried it on iPad mini and it is fantastic. I don't have my eReader handy but I can only imagine it would work well. I think you nailed the problem with PDFs and eReaders - its the choppy panning/zooming that's fatiguing to be able to read fonts at a legible size. This solves it.

I hope this idea catches on. ePub/Mobi files are no good IMO.
Is this the setup for a new genre of joke, the punchline being The Capitalists!” instead of “The Aristocrats!” ?
> If you were a Cuban that supported the Cuban regime and were happy, why would you leave, taking on so much risk and expense?

I met a Cuban like that. Simply put, to make more money. He knew the nuances of their system and was thankful for the good parts and the opportunities he had, but at the end of the day knew that for him individually it was more convenient to leave when he had the chance. It's just something that doesn't work for everybody by necessity.

I think he had a relative abroad that sponsored some sort of student visa, and he just never went back.
So why “just update” the highways to operate like a train network, instead of just building a train network? What benefits will autonomous highways bring which normal traditional (or even automated) trains don’t?

If you are suggesting we update all but minor streets, it is actually not that simple, since we have to think about pedestrian crossings, bike lanes, parked delivery vans, emergency vehicles etc. Accommodating dumb self driving cars will have to be at the cost of access for all other modes, and that will never happen outside of highways. And if we are going to be spending a bunch of money on intercity travel infrastructure, a well served train line is always a better choice.
Hahaha. I love this comment.

No one ever things their "that guy", but being self-aware probably puts you ahead of a ton of people and I bet you're not dumb.
I'm fascinated with my turds. I wonder what that makes me?
None of what you said is a valid reason for "banning" crypto.
I read some time ago that a rabies infection can be dormant for years.

I'm not sure of the reliability of this source.

"But studies have shown it lying dormant for five days to several years before the symptoms kicked in. So not only won't you know you have the disease, it might not come to bite you in the ass for a couple of years, long after the animal that caused it has laughed itself to death."

https://www.cracked.com/blog/quarantined-6-things-you-learn-...

Maybe this is more reliable.

"In rare cases, it can vary from 10 days to 2 years."

https://www.ccohs.ca/oshanswers/diseases/rabies.html
This is not a valid comparison. You're comparing bare metal virtual machines wherein you are responsible for all of the software running on the VM, with a bundled set of tarballs containing binaries you probably cannot reproduce.

Many, many vendors provide docker images but no Dockerfile. And even if you had the Dockerfile you might not have access to the environment in which it needs to be run.

Docker is successful in part because it punts library versioning and security patches and distro maintenance to a third party. Not only do you not have to worry about these things (but you should!) now you might not be able to even do anything if you wanted to.
I heard about this years ago and hate to see the phrase anywhere now. I just avoid it entirely myself. I don't want to be knowingly wrong or create awkward situations explaining it to everyone.
There's a general premise in the First World that laws are, on the whole, just and rational, and thus anything that helps people break them is bad.

(One exception seems to be workarounds for censorship. Although, the way things are going lately, I suspect that it'll change.)
Wait. Was there ever a doubt? The outbreak originated in a city with a laboratory containing it. I mean, seriously.
My theory about celebrity culture is that it is deliberately attempting to replace normal human interactions ('normal' being something like pre-industrial village society, where most people knew the same ~100 people or so for much of their lives) with a media-constructed social circle of 'celebrity influencers' of similar size.

For this to work, one has to consume a lot of entertainment media, which likely uses a limited vocabulary and very little if any symbolic logic (the intelligence tests in this study used these two characteristics).

For maximum dystopian creepiness, imagine a 'personalized celebrity-based AI chatbot community' for such people... programmed with the correct opinions on all matters.
>Predictive tweaks aren't good in a keyboard, you want everything to be intentional, or you'll lose time and patience correcting things. Spellcheck should be post hoc imho.

Just depends on what kind of keyboard you're using and why. This is a very specialized keyboard for specialized tasks. I could see lots of different kinds of activities and roles it could be extremely useful for.

For programming, you probably wouldn't want it... though maybe some percentage of programmers who feel their brain moves a lot faster than their fingers might like it. Combined with stuff like Tabnine and Copilot, you hypothetically might eventually be able to "predictive-program" at an incredibly high speed. You'd inevitably have to spend some time revising bad predictions afterwards, but the total amount of time spent developing could decrease by a lot.

I don't even care if this is an ad. If it is, it worked and is the first and only ad I've appreciated. I've never impulse bought anything, but I'm buying this thing right now* after spending 10 seconds looking at it. (I used to spend a lot of time on online typing competition sites, so I'm closer to the target demographic.) My only concern is how much it might affect my normal typing muscle memory.

*As soon as it becomes available. Seems to be sold out, unsurprisingly.
> Ten+ years into the DL revolution and we are still getting shallow hit piece articles like this from IEEE.

I think the latest IEEE articles have been a little intellectually lightweight, perhaps we're just simply not their audience. Still, in the style of IEEE papers, I would like to see references for the claims made.

> But all the people throwing rocks at Deep Learning have failed to propose anything that actually works better

I was thinking something similar. DL for sure has problems, but I am yet to see something better. ART doesn't just need to be better, it needs to be better in _at least_ one of: accuracy, training time, recall time, amount of training data, quality of training data.
Marines perform boarding exercises with jetpacks and land on a high-speed ship
No, you're inferring about WHO this is. I am saying, literally everyone on this planet has experiences which are specific to their skills, their reach and societal perceptions about them.
They wrote a blog post about the state of their supply chain a few months ago:
https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/supply-chain-shortages-and-...
Singaporean subways/trains are also excellent IME. However the Singaporean people seem to think it's inadequate - I thought it was fantastic compared to the public transport systems we have in Australia.
"I don't wanna" is a perfectly good reason for a lot of things. And for me, this is one of them.
It's not necessary to pull economics into the picture - the general definition is that a rational choice is making the choice that best furthers your goals. If you make suboptimal choices (with respect to your own goals - sacrificing "socially desirable" goals in order to achieve some desire of your own isn't irrational), that's an irrational choice, and people often do that for various reasons. We're not horribly bad at achieving our goals, but we're also nowhere near perfect. Some types of suboptimal choices are systematic, predictable deviations which we can study as biases.