skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did you see the references on Veritasium video description? If not, I'll list it out here:

References:

Pashler, H., McDaniel, M., Rohrer, D., & Bjork, R. (2008). Learning styles: Concepts and evidence. Psychological science in the public interest, 9(3), 105-119. — https://ve42.co/Pashler2008

Willingham, D. T., Hughes, E. M., & Dobolyi, D. G. (2015). The scientific status of learning styles theories. Teaching of Psychology, 42(3), 266-271. — https://ve42.co/Willingham

Massa, L. J., & Mayer, R. E. (2006). Testing the ATI hypothesis: Should multimedia instruction accommodate verbalizer-visualizer cognitive style?. Learning and Individual Differences, 16(4), 321-335. — https://ve42.co/Massa2006

Riener, C., & Willingham, D. (2010). The myth of learning styles. Change: The magazine of higher learning, 42(5), 32-35.— https://ve42.co/Riener2010

Husmann, P. R., & O'Loughlin, V. D. (2019). Another nail in the coffin for learning styles? Disparities among undergraduate anatomy students’ study strategies, class performance, and reported VARK learning styles. Anatomical sciences education, 12(1), 6-19. — https://ve42.co/Husmann2019

Snider, V. E., & Roehl, R. (2007). Teachers’ beliefs about pedagogy and related issues. Psychology in the Schools, 44, 873–886. doi:10.1002/pits.20272 — https://ve42.co/Snider2007

Fleming, N., & Baume, D. (2006). Learning Styles Again: VARKing up the right tree!. Educational developments, 7(4), 4. — https://ve42.co/Fleming2006

Rogowsky, B. A., Calhoun, B. M., & Tallal, P. (2015). Matching learning style to instructional method: Effects on comprehension. Journal of educational psychology, 107(1), 64. — https://ve42.co/Rogowskyetal

Coffield, Frank; Moseley, David; Hall, Elaine; Ecclestone, Kathryn (2004). — https://ve42.co/Coffield2004

Furey, W. (2020). THE STUBBORN MYTH OF LEARNING STYLES. Education Next, 20(3), 8-13. — https://ve42.co/Furey2020

Dunn, R., Beaudry, J. S., & Klavas, A. (2002). Survey of research on learning styles. California Journal of Science Education II (2). — https://ve42.co/Dunn2002
Putin calls pro-Western Russians 'traitors,' threatens 'self-cleansing'
SGI shirts, pens, and the the coveted ski jacket, all circa 1998 all with the squashed bug logo. At one time I had a Spyderco tactical folder with the Abovenet logo, given to me by Paul Vixie. Alas, that is long gone. All swag since then is mostly cheap useless junk and a waste of good landfill space.
That doesn't work for new designs when the parts are simply not available.
I Never met an Auto-Generated Doc I liked
Zotero has saved webpage snapshots as single HTML files since November 2020. We're using SingleFile under the hood.

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On paper Intel is still a very solid company in a dominant market position (albeit that market is not necessarily a growing one). It still has great margins and 6-7x higher net income compared to AMD. And has arguably caught up with AMDs CPUs this year. Despite that it’s market cap is almost the same as AMD’s. So if you believe Intel can successfully reform itself (maybe not an easy sell, but not totally inconceivable they have all the tools they need for that) it’s a great stock which is criminally undervalued.
I don't know of any essential tool coded in Rust. Literally every single thing I rely on is coded in other some other language, and works. There is exactly one in Haskell: pandoc. No Java or C# (although I guess some people feel they need Minecraft or Kerbal Space Program). No Lisp, except Emacs. No Erlang, Clojure, Scala, OCaml, Dart, or Ada. Does TeX still count as Pascal?

The only case I know of where I would need a Rust program is to check a blake3 hash. That won't last.
The issue with statistical testing is that you need to have the patience to roll die many times for useful results, at least for d20s (which are the dice where bias is both most likely and often most impactful).
this is just standard boilerplate at X which really means "the team and/or the executive sponsoring the project got bored and/or realized things required more professional work, and/or the idea wasn't really that great in the first place and the exterior world realized that"
I remember a securities market-fixing scam was discovered years ago because the numbers were not random but (in hindsight) obviously human-created.
This guy has done several busting videos on similar devices

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EGTRX6pZSns
I've heard of it, we just don't do it.
Yes, as long as HotDogL doesn't leak the OS variant via the User-Agent string, JavaScript fingerprinting, or TCP fingerprinting. I believe CloudFlare has already developed and explored all of these paths, obviously to great effect. This means replication of what CF has done is only a matter of pouring resources into it, surely many others have also completed bits and pieces or maybe even superior top-secret proprietary technology.

What's that Ultra-privacy oriented Linux distro which is TOR-centric, with a locked-down-by-default browser config? That beast might be your best bet.
I recently found my mendeley app doesn't work anymore (they've discontinued it) so I decided to try Zotero. To my surprise they have 3 Android apps.. none of which work and a bookmarklet which also doesn't work. Has anyone found a way to easily save papers on Android?
Russian-Ukrainian war and why you can't rely on cloud services
I see a lot of haters here, but I tip my hat to Netflix.

Imagine if you were building a service and had trouble getting customers to pay their fair share. Netflix are making it easy for people to use it the right way. Its a gentle nudge in the right direction. They arent just blocking or banning the users. Its not everyone who has to pay more, just people who are already in the wrong. And for a discount of $3, thats less than a cup of coffee!

Is it that people are worried that they will unfairly be charged more or something?

Anyway, I think this is an interesting space. I wonder how many users are account sharing this way and how many are account sharing on other services.
So, first off, I appreciate the link - it's a good article. But it seems to suggest that there is no firm right or wrong in it's usage, but rather the context of the usage is what's important. Would you not agree that the usage in this context makes it clear that 5ESS is referring to "if it was [United Statesian's] cameras being hacked"?
Well, there's the attempt to be "friendly" that some systems use where they want to greet you by your given name like "Hi, Bob! How can I help you today?". But this can be problematic because while in the West we are familiar with strangers being this informal, in other cultures it is insulting because only children are addressed that way by strangers.
Tumblr offers $4.99/mo ad-free plan
Guess you have no idea with what apps you can make money :)
If you have a decent app and good pricing you can convert something between 1-5% of downloads to paying customers. With his audience and reach he can easily make real money. Probably not life changing, but still a few hundred bucks each month.
> Walter, I don't recall comic book companies hiring legions of psychologists, behavioral economists, and data scientists in order to optimize engagement metrics by exploiting evolutionary bugs built into our brains

They had to do it the old-fashion way and put explosions and women with cleavage on the cover instead.
Mounting Russian Casualties in Ukraine – Questions about Its Military Readiness
no, we the people via our governmental apparatus should essentially force bankruptcy early enough (like the FDIC does for failing banks) and sell the assets in a widely-held auction (for fair price discovery), so that a competitor can keep customers from facing undue externalized risk, and creditors and employees can be made whole, while owners take a bath on their equity. the fundamental downside of taking risk has to exist for economies to keep moving towards efficiency (which our economy is frustratingly not because of said financializations and the like).
Biotech investors are slashing exposure to IPOs
You can find old logo, obscure internal project or team name t-shirts of Google and Facebook with little to no effort if you can visit thrift stores in Bay Area or Seattle.

Every single time I stop by a Goodwill or Savers to drop off things, I go inside to check if I can find some vintage tech books. Every single time, in almost every store, on my way to the the bookshelves, I caught glimpses of t-shirts or fancier puff jackets clad with FB, Google, Twitter, Netflix, Dropbox logos.
I'm no expert on cooking octopus, I'm saying that the recent hubbub about being humane to octopi gave them the same treatment we currently give pigs, things like a humane slaughter. Your statement seemed to imply we should give pigs the same treatment as octopi.

Pigs have always received better treatment, even though they often receive terrible treatment. Octopi are served live in some places still.
DB and infra folks are often tasked with shoveling shit uphill, and aren't in total control over how data or schemas get organized.
20m may be an overestimate, but 15m looks quite reasonable. Look at figure 1 in https://arxiv.org/pdf/1409.3540.pdf
Chrome has the X-Client-Data header: https://github.com/bromite/bromite/issues/480
I am both the hosting server and the one who used one of my yahoo accounts to send a test message to the domain I host while watching port 25.

I could of course have used a gmail or other account but the yahoo mail page was open at that time.
Wait, there was really a "won't somebody think about the Nazis" movement? I'm curious to read more if you have a link, especially if this was more than a fringe group.
I think part of the problem is actually the shift away from shirts. Swag is advertising but at least a shirt served a purpose and if you didn’t want it you could donate it. Many company shirts ended up at Goodwill or shipped off the 3rd world countries.

But shirts are expensive so no one gives them anymore. They’ve shifted to the cheapest items they can find.

I usually turn down swag now and when I’m in charge of swag I always opt for t-shirts with some sort of “use the product quickly” treasure hunt task to earn one.
I have found free content on Youtube in general to be more entertaining than the mass produced garbage on Netflix.
Double-vaccinated (Moderna) with a booster - got Covid two weeks after the booster.

Covid itself was very mild, but few weeks after the skin got super sensitive and itchy. I can literally draw on it with a finger (not nail) and the drawing stays for a while. Apparently, it's something called "dermatographic urticaria" [1]. Been like this for weeks now and it just comes and goes.

Also has a week of heart palpitations after the second vac shot, that too was fun.

Anyone else had the itchy part?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dermatographic_urticaria
https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/exposing_metadata

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My engineering teacher showed us last year how to use dowsing rods, it was very odd watching the rods cross over a puddle. The article focuses heavily on the historical "witching" use case for these, which is of course nonsense, but it makes sense that dowsing rods work for decomposing bodies, considering that there's not that much difference between a dead body and a puddle of water.

We don't know how or why dowsing rods work over bodies of water, but they're good enough for our water companies to use. If it was completely luck, then they (hopefully) wouldn't do it.
That's because it's a fundamentally dumb idea and the promises made by proponents violate the laws of thermodynamics.
UK Online Safety Bill will censor some “legal but harmful” content
I like these divisions!

To boil down the 50/50 one: Imagine your torn between those 2 houses, and your realtor—who also does magic as a hobby—offers you a coin to flip. You ask, "wait, is this a trick coin?"

"Yup!" he replies, "Always lands one way."

"How is that going to help me then!?"

"I got no idea if this is an always-heads coin or an always-tails coin. You see, when they're being minted, each coin randomly plops onto the conveyor before it enters the CBU—"

"—The 'CBU'? What's that?"

"—oh, the Coin Biasing Unit. It's the machine that takes a normal coin and does the proprietary thing that biases it. The coin's orientation as it enters the CBU is the way it'll be biased from then on. As I was saying, the coins enter the CBU randomly, and I've never used this particular one before, so I don't know if it's a Heads coin or a Tails coin."

"... Ok then! Heads I offer on 284 Bayes St, Tails I go with 938 Bernoulli Blvd."
... It must be said, too, that nobody has identified any way for the antimatter to have become so far separated from the regular matter. All the processes we know of that make matter like to make both (exactly) equally.
It's a "kids these days" problem in that the same "XYZ thing in the past was better" trend has happened time and time again over history. Music production and distribution isn't even close to being as new as tech, so any changes there feel more unique even though it's already happened in the past times before.
Check out Thunderf00t's videos cricising solar water collectors, e.g.:

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc7WqVMCABg - Zero Mass Water: BUSTED! "Honestly, it drives me crazy how many people have reinvented the dehumidifier, put a solar panel on it, and the media has danced around like theyve just saved the world!"

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPvXnmBIO7o - Self-filling water bottle: BUSTED! "The fact that its thermodynamically impossible seem to stop 'science communicators' from promoting this. The fact that its a really dumb, and not particularly inventive idea didnt stop the 'science communicators' from promoting this. Kinda depressing really."

Problems include:

- it's much cheaper to bring in a tanker of water from somewhere else, than for the electricity to do this.

- It's a dehumidifier; in places where the air is wet, it rains, and you don't need it. In places where you need it, you need it because there's not much water, so it doesn't work well.

- It's going to be prone to growing bacteria; warm and moist.

- It needs a vast volume of air; when water becomes steam it expands 1000x. Which means to go the other way you need at least 1000 litres of steam dragged through for a litre of water. Air can be around 4% water says Britannica.com, so 20,000 litres of humid air for a litre of water if it's perfectly efficient. Thunderf00t's estimate is 50,000 litres of air for 1 litre of water; And the air needs to be cooled. That needs big fans and lots of power (air is heavy to move).
Cool! Will it emulate/recreate any of the other engines (neato, etc.)?
Nothing strange about people talking about what they know about ... not shutting up about stuff they are clueless in.
Seems like we haven't learned from the downfall of General Electric.
I don't see how anyone could ha e thought this war would take anything less than 1 year. I think that's fair to say even in hindsight
And he didn't even cover the Ancient Roman praenomen, nomen, and cognomenm naming scheme or the Culture's naming scheme of star name, plate name, given name, chosen name, family name, house name.

Why is he so focused on present-day Earth?
Ugh, wish I'd found this a couple of years ago; after hand-writing a Unity asset parser in node.js for a hobby project (big/little-endian mixes, byte alignment, versioned header format, different compression algos, etc.).
For anyone reading these comments with growing anxiety who gets occasional, short duration stabbing pains when breathing in (lasting only a couple minutes at most), allow me to put your mind at ease by directing you to the Wikipedia page for precordial catch syndrome:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precordial_catch_syndrome

Very similar symptoms, totally harmless, to the point where the recommended treatment is "reassurance". As long as the pain lasts for less than 3ish minutes, you have no reason to panic.

(I used to get very anxious every time I had these symptoms, after a friend of mine in high school described the same experience as the others in this thread, trying to sleep off the pain and ending up hospitalized for a collapsed lung. Learning about PCS really put my mind at ease)
Investors can take Intel dividends now and invest them in AMD stocks for future profit and be better off in the end. The only people losing are those who expect a secure job until retirement at Intel.
The OSI definition of open source matches what almost everyone thinks of open source. It's the most useful definition. The Stallman gang have wasted over a decade trying to redefine open source to weaker terms making it useless and insisting that everyone use "Free software" instead which is insane since the world does and always will think of free as in money.
In the 'fog of war' who knows what is true?

Is this real, or do the Russians think their campaign is going as expected? Its just hard to say, despite what this bastion of truth (cnn) has to say.
> lack of manual formatting controls

What do you mean? You can always specify the exact coordinates of some vertices:

3 [pos="20,30"]

This line of code, anywhere within your graph specification, forces vertex 3 to be placed at position (20,30). It doesn't get more manual than that.
Free trade, free speech, free markets… but we’re free to change the rules when it suits us, too.
Well, 1950 was before civil rights era and during lynchyngs era, so quite a few Americans are in fact much better off. All of that had huge economic consequences.

Women were not allowed to make contracts or wills, which included ability to open bank accounts. They were not allowed in top universities either.

Internationally, it gets even more interesting. It was 5 years after WWII and people were still dealing with destruction and consequences.
My dream series is Make it so the gate, and galactic travel, and all alien high technology goes public. public disclosure fallowed by the immediate political ramification of all the governments of the world knowing about alien life and going to war with it in secret. weak governments would be toppled stronger ones would have regime changes. afterword the expansion and colonization of space and how that works out for different countries doing so differently along with how to the other inhabitant of the galaxy react when it goes from the 'those brave earth warriors that overthrew the oppressive false god of the goa'uld and saved us from forced conversion at gun point by the Ori" to "those bastard are now trying to colonized my planet." Plus the goa'uld never went away just are no longer the galaxy spanning power they were before. couldn't you see the likes of Baal taking over corporations in charge of colony projects. then there is Atlantis were things were it just kind of ended without any resolution to the goings on in Pegasus galaxy or what happens to the ori galaxy after their gods were all killed their priest lost power and the entire power structure that held their society together disappeared overnight leaving the most powerful space navy in the show with no one left in charge (might want to check up on them). then there is the asgaurd home galaxy (triangulum) that now is left without the asgaurd or replicator but what else was their they were in the habit of nurturing lesser species and they just handed earth the keys and told us to take of everything before they mass suicided again we might want to check on that. Oh and their are the Vanir (asgaurd splinter group form millennias ago ) we me in the last season of atlantis
I think the guideline should be that if you're not willing to spend enough to give away a durable good that people would actually use (e.g. a good quality t-shirt), we should normalize giving away useful, common _consumable_ goods. This can avoid increasing waste if it just replaces/delays consumption the recipient was already going to do anyway. It's shorter-lived, so they don't act as a walking ad for you (but no one was gonna wear that bandana anyway) but this way you might create some positive sentiment.

E.g. branded small sanitizer bottles, sunscreen bottles (X Corp cares about your health and well-being!), snacks (we're all occasionally hangry at conferences right?), etc.
> Why do companies continue to waste money on useless swag?

They want your attention. Both at the event/when you interact with them first (probably more important), and then later. Swag is a way to get that attention. Useless swag is, as other comments have noted, cheaper than useful swag, but still gets some attention.

> What can be done to have companies think about the waste they are producing from swag?

Oh, most are aware. I think the easiest thing to do is:

* Don't take it if offered.

* If delivered, complain about it to customer service.

If enough folks do this, the value for swag will decrease, and fewer will do it. Or if they do, they'll do it well.

Swag can be a differentiator in the latter case. I can't tell you how many hours my current company, FusionAuth, has spent evaluating our swag t-shirts, but it is a big number. And we hear folks at conferences say "ooh, that's nice" (unsolicited).
Canada is already experiencing a constant brain drain to the US - there just not enough Canadian success stories to stay around for. And finally this Bombardier success comes along and the US kills it. Why aren't Canadians more mad?
We might think about putting names in a technological context here. Theoretically they are identifiers.
I would argue that in some modern contexts they are spectacularly bad at identifying people. The very strong cultural variation is one aspect of that.

Anyway, when I lived in Mexico and signed up for internet they seemed to want to combine my first and middle name in a way. Either that or the guy at the internet store just decided to do that.

But also if I remember Rappi kind of did that too. My (made-up) explanation was that it just came from a Spanish tradition or something where there are just so many people in close proximity with similar first names (Juan etc.) that you really need another name to differentiate.

In my case it also made sense because both my middle and first name, though more 'Anglo' than a lot of Mexican names, are also extremely common.
> But to assume that all societal issues involving industries can be blamed solely on the companies and people working in those industries is naïve.

I never suggested this at all. I am just saying that there are externalities that our work generates and we should be critical of that instead of pretending that it doesn't matter.

As for the examples you gave, I think it's pretty obvious that there is a major qualitative difference between manufacturing rope and designing weapons that are regularly used to kill people. One provides general utility and the other is specifically designed to mame and kill.

> Does that mean it's unethical to work for a paint thinner company?

Yeah why not? Shouldn't we be trying to manufacture non-toxic chemicals that don't poison people and the planet. People working at those companies arent solely responsible by any means but that doesn't mean that their actions don't have serious negative affects on society and the planet.

Also cars are bad for many more reasons that just accident. Cars are loud, they pollute, they take up valuable space. Building roads and parking lots to support them destroyed entire neighborhoods, historic buildings and public space. They also isolate people, encourage wasteful sprawling urban design, and make it more difficult for disabled people to get around. The list goes on and on
Maybe they just kind of forgot how to make good software and now desperately try to recreate that magic using loads of metrics and social experiments leading to loads of competing interpretations and infighting.
>For example have a <login> element , browsers will style it the same for all websites and prevent developer to misled the user.

more importantly, display to the user in such a way that no website can spoof it. For instance, it can dim the entire window (eg. like UAC on windows).