skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> tl;dr. Actually no, the results will probably not surprise you. After analyzing data from 2,074 testers, we found no evidence that Bionic Reading has any positive effect on reading speed.

I've seen a lot of viral social media posts about bionic reading recently and this is the very first time I've ever seen anyone mention reading speed. Everything I've seen is selling bionic reading for greater reading comprehension and focus. Never mentions speed.

Granted the article measures reading comprehension too (though I'd have some doubts about the methodology of 3 MCQs on a PG article - this part of the test didn't seem high on the author's priority list).

Did the authors just waste a lot of their time because they didn't pay attention to the claims or are we just in very different bubbles?
> "a car must get at least 40 MPG".

This is basically how CAFE works, and it's part of the problem. Trucks are necessary for commerce and utility, and we allow people to drive them on the road. So we now have a road filled with vehicles that are technically "trucks" carrying families instead of "cars".
yes, if I got crap sleep the night before or feel sluggish.

usually I'm fine
The dissonant intervals that were introduced by modern composers in the late 1800s and early 1900 by composers such as Rachmaninov, Revel, Debussy, and Varèse were hardly "pure".

The most amazing feelings often wash over me, in fact, while listening to these incredible composers...after a while the "atonal" notes will suddenly "snap" into place while my brain is somehow making sense of the music without my help.

It is truly a sublime moment when this magic occurs, and I'll often laugh out loud as the sudden transition from melodic confusion to understanding occurs.
Communication, probably.
Counterpoint: I use a VPN for anonymity and/or for safety on public wifi. One of the key features of the VPN is they don't keep logs. I'm not personally doing anything illegal or immoral, but the last thing I would want is a VPN company having a log of all my internet activity.

Glassdoor's entire value proposition is anonymity. The best way to respond to a subpoena, IMO, is to make it very clear that they have no way to know. Of course that might mean more legal action directed directly against them, but to me that's a cost of doing business as there is no business if people stop trusting Glassdoor to protect their identity.
The US isn't rounding thousands (millions actually?) of civil, political, religious, and other kinds of dissenters and imprisoning, reeducating, or killing them.

That's kind of a big difference here.

The CCP has mandatory seats on the bytedance board and wants a copy of all the data so they can target people.

Spying is bad, murder is next-level bad.

Stop it all, but start with the bigger issues first.
The Glamorous Lives of TechTok
We crafted wooden swords and then fought with them. Worst we ever got was some stinging fingers or a bruise.
I doubt it's a once every few decades event anymore. It got to 38 in several places in the country a few years ago. It seems to get up to the mid 30s every year now.
Atom and Core/Xeon don't share microcode? e.g. vulnerabilities in one would never work on the other?
I'm pretty sure if Trump supported universal healthcare, people would get on board.

The problem is 1) very few of his actual policies were good on the face of them and 2) even some of the milquetoast stuff he did had unsavory motivation.

Realistically, any theoretical universal healthcare proposed by Trump would probably have strings attached that further eroded the functioning of the federal government (which is a common theme between pretty much all R legislation).
I'm pretty psyched about the "Buzz", an electric reboot of the famous T1 bus [1]. Not sure how I would actually use this but it seems they're finally getting to grips with what made people love VW's in the past, and translating that to electric vehicles. I've also driven their electric ID.3 and it's just not nearly as exciting.

1: https://www.vw.com/en/models/id-buzz.html
Knowing the difference between a project that will provide value and one that won't. This is a very hard skill to learn, but delivers massive payoff. Almost everything else can be learned from books. Build the wrong thing and it won't matter how well you did it.
It was a pretty nonsensical joke anyway.

Something obvious that I missed which sort of spoils the joke is that if you take a binary tree, look at it as a directed graph, and then take the adjacency matrix of the graph, it is obviously not invertible. Do'h!
I've been at Phoenix airport on a hot, but not crazy hot, day where the parking lot asphalt was tacky and stuck to your shoes.
Could definitely have missed one but skimming this list it seems like Alabama is the only one.

https://www.cardosystems.com/blog/how-to-get-a-motorcycle-li...

Looks like others that allow skipping the skills test seem to only allow it if you've completely a separate safety course (no idea how comprehensive those safety courses or skill tests are).
I personally don’t see any problems with that. I decided to be an engineer to solve problems.

Being in a team where people are black or have vaginas is devoid of any value to me. And I tend to leave any companies that seek to optimize these criteria because I find the idea of hiring based on gender, sexual organs or racial consideration to be intellectually insulting.
Yeah, why not D? It's such a good, mature alternative to C++, albeit not widely adopted.
Try to limit it and tax people who buy monstrous passenger vehicles, they will turn to utility vehicles. Tax all large rides and give tax breaks to businesses to compensate, people will grow businesses just for the kick of a giant ride, or ride some rv. It will end when people realize real life impacts of their ways, probably when the day they die. Find a gentle way around that and save the world!
Does the US have dissidents?
> The problem is these temperatures are quite a bit higher than ever previously recorded, and go beyond the reasonable scenarios for which they were built.

Exactly. I remember talk in the press about the default asphalt composition for the roads where I am (Romania) being changed to handle higher temperatures like 15 years ago. We're a lot more to the south and got warmer faster than the UK.

It's just the UK's turn now.
Well said. Between "voluntarily install garden-variety malware on your devices" and "force the CCP to spend massive amounts of time and money on exploits that they could otherwise use against their more important targets", I'll take the latter.
> and I'm curious why they weren't sampling using the standard method of towed plankton nets

Because the GOES Foundation use volunteer yachts to collect the data:

https://www.goesfoundation.com/citizen-science-project/

>Twice a day, (if possible) we want you to take a 0.5 litre of sea water, put it through a GOES filter (developed by Dr.Jesus Ramon Barriuso Diez), count plankton, microplastics (fibres and beads) and any other particles which are over 20 microns.

I believe they went with this method because it's easier for non-scientists to contribute to their study.

They mention nets, but you're right in being suspicious in the method of collection. It does not seem like it uses best practices.
> Of course, plans were to use it only in special circumstances *on return to Earth*. But in space, on occasion, well-laid plans have a way of turning out very differently. In my publicity campaign, I suggested the presence of the gun, especially in light of recent space team psychological problems, might be an invitation to a future disaster.

There is something about it just so frustrating in his writing, he's so proud to have been a pest about it; the author is an American and NASA doesn't want images of cosmonauts with guns, cool. That's as far as that should have ever gone.

But don't impose your qualms on your Russian colleagues. Seriously? They were reunited with the earth with the intent to survive in less than ideal conditions, after being in SPACE of all places. Come on.
Because in almost all other situations of life you are required to obey the law even if you aren't aware of it. For a different example - cyclists aren't legally required to pass a driving test, yet are required to be familiar with, and obey all rules of the road. You couldn't argue in court that as a cyclist you don't have to stop on red because the law doesn't require you to pass a theory test before cycling. I find the situation similar - you should make sure not to go over the speed limit, even if the law doesn't require you to carry a speed measuring device with you.
No. You dont. That's the point.
Been criticizing Tesla for years. But once Elon openly confronted cancel culture's twitterized grip on democracy all of a sudden those criticisms became newsworthy and a concern for regulators.

Same with crypto: The scammy-ness and un-pleasentness (ie of funding terrorists and organized crime) was always there, but news-worthy it got only once Canadian Truckers made use of it.
> people have preferences with their views and overcoming them takes time.

Isn't that equally true of nuclear energy? In fact more so, as renewables account for a growing share of global electricity production, while the share from nuclear has been decreasing for decades.[0]

Or do you literally mean "views" as in "sight lines" / "landscapes"? That's true, but people also have preferences about whether they're within a potential nuclear exclusion zone or not.

> We have a choice: nuclear or climate crisis.

That seems like a false dichotomy, or you're begging the question and not really explaining why renewables aren't an option. It's like saying, "We have a choice: clean, fuelless renewables or toxic nuclear catastrophes". Thinking that nothing can go wrong with nuclear is itself an ideology, and it's one that insurance companies don't share.

[0] https://www.powermag.com/report-nuclear-share-of-global-ener...
Calcium sodium phosphosilicate had some benefit on dentine hypersensitivity
I personally wouldn't consider Gab far right but I certainly respect your opinion there. What are some sources you'd want in a tool like this? Next iteration i want to add Hacker News but also make it extensible so you can add sites you like manually.
Ha, thanks. I couldn't think of any particular idiom I liked so I just threw one together -- glad it stuck!
Because it's a lazy boring way to try to detail a thread. You're arguing something that the other people aren't even saying . Anyone with a half working brain who's gone outside in the last 20 years understands colloquial use of words.
I'm not surprised at all.

Maybe I'm just older, have seen more, and have a better tuned BS meter.
Can't believe I didn't think of this. They could have been for rental stores what UberEats is for restaurants. Instead, they killed off the video rental stores.
You either suck it up and pay inside, or you chug 5 shots of vodka in the parking lot before entering. You'll still probably pay for beer inside, but you won't mind as much.
With a mouse, I use it in class
Wait, I've never heard of 418 -- I'm a teapot. I'm getting mixed results on Googling, is that a real status? :mindblown:

Also, pizza as a teaching tool is something I never knew I needed in my life. Thanks OP!
Instead of MLB/NFL, check out summer or arena leagues.

Yeah. Just because some activities have migrated from being "everyman" activities that 75% of the population can afford to things that 75% of the population can't afford, doesn't mean that reflects the overall reality of the average person's lived experience.

Things like MLB/NFL games have greatly outpaced inflation. One reason people keep paying for them (aside from other obvious factors, like love of the game) is because we have been conditioned to believe that they are things "average" people can afford them when in fact that hasn't been true for a long time.

Even if sports ticket prices didn't outpace inflation, the fact is that 50 years ago being at the stadium was the best way to see the game. Your other alternative was a tiny, balky TV or radio. These days you can see them at home in HD on a giant screen that would have seemed like science fiction 25 years ago and in fact, because of cable bundling, you may already be paying for this privilege even if you don't want to.

(edit: There are still things that are special about the live experience, but the home experience has become massively better than it used to be)

So like collecting physical music, or attending movies in movie theaters as opposed to Netflixing them it makes some level of sense for live sports attendance to migrate from "everyman activity" to "premium niche thing for diehard fans with disposable income."

This is unfortunate in many ways, and it is a loss, but it does not necessarily equate to a degradation of average quality of life. That would only be the case if average people no longer had any affordable leisure options ...if there were no new affordable to replace those which migrated upscale.

(FWIW, I say all of this as a sports fan who does enjoy attending some games each year)
Legal protection versus social comfort. I, too, would take issue if the site were only for LGBT landlords or tenants. But it’s not. It’s for those comfortable broadcasting their comfort. Given the distance between the letter of the law and reality when it comes to LGBT rights and safety, this is a practical concern for e.g. gay youth kicked out of their homes who won’t be fighting anyone in court.

For historical analogy, consider American hotels in the 60s advertising they’re Black friendly. They’re not only for Black Americans. But they’re welcoming towards them in a way others, following the letter but perhaps not spirit of the law, are not.
Yes, your explanation is essentially correct. There is work done in the areas you’re talking about - essentially forcing models to more explicitly learn “concepts” - and in very large language models that seems to be emerging naturally. But current vision models would almost certainly break when trying to identify a vehicle from the bottom shot if it had never seen a vehicles undercarriage during training. Current vision models are capable of identifying vehicles from arbitrary angles (when viewed from the side/head on) and in arbitrary shades/colors/models/etc, and that’s about the amount of extrapolation we’d be talking about.
Do people want to have friend requests in Google? If I wanted to share a file to your Google account, would you like to trust the future shares automatically as well? It doesn't seem like the superior alternative to just using 3rd party cookies—other than that it works if 3rd party cookies are disabled.

It also provides a new attack vector (your friends) if such people are able to create more credible documents (e.g. due to an attack, not due to a deliberate intent to mislead you).
No; the site does not reject people on the basis of sexuality, but it does advertise places which are not homophobic. It's very clearly different.
It might not be pronounced out loud, but in deep taiga you could meet with people that you would rather not want to meet with. Which could end with bad outcome. I don't think that chances of being eaten by bear are much higher. Bears don't really hunt people with very rare exceptions. And guns could definitely help there as well.
How often do you hear about US citizens being disappeared for making a critical comment about their leader?
Spoken like someone that's never had a partner with impulse control or anger issues. Keeping PII private is, IMO, like freedom of speech or privacy: it may seem trivial and unimportant when you don't need it, but it sure as hell matters to some people, and can keep them safe.
Gemini has second round of layoffs less than two months after first round
Yes! Lots of good memories grabbing Paseo and then eating it on the Gasworks hill overlooking Lake Union. It gets pretty crowded on nice days, but so do most city parks.
Should have patented in and went on shark tank or something then sell it off and retire
Good thing we have the A-10 to prop up the friendly fire statistics.
Even with summer weather like it is this year I still not convinced that A/C at home is essential in England. Nights are still cold - today's early morning temp was about 23°C and tomorrow 17°C is expected. If you live in a brick house you can vent it throughout the night and it would keep more or less livable temperature at daytime (31°C was the daily maximum inside my dwelling while outside was 38°C). Also while England on average is a humid place during heat waves humidity is low which make it easier to endure them.

I suffer much more during winter - more than tree months at about 18° (and heating bill is high even with the temperature way below my comfort zone).
It's a big deal because people don't have A/C.
I've switched from Obsidian to Joplin, which is a nicer looking FOSS alternative.
How Impulse saves a week a year for me as a PM
Wanted to explore your site: https://opsindev.news/, but it's giving SSL error to me.
Fintechs question CFPB’s faith in innovation over ‘safe harbors’
Luckily, I can move to a state where they don't do that.
Maybe 127 bytes, should do.
I think I've used at least one of your guides before... maybe the one for having mastodon toots? Not sure, would have to double check.

Good starter guide!
Exploring text to image models – Replicate
Internet ban = imprisonment and a human rights violation according to certain HNers lmaooo
I think the definition of intelligence differs then for me. Intelligence is the capacity to comprehend , understand not just mechanically able to solve a equation. As the periphery of that understanding increases it starts to include others and by extension have the capacity to understand others pain or that what can be called as empathy. Again all these are just words , so I completely will empathize with you if your understanding of the same word differs than mine.
Also a bit less exciting to travel a small distance because of places getting more similar over time. It used to be you could travel a short distance and hit a new accent, and slightly different food.
Also the media don’t generally need much of an excuse to freak out.
The US version will apparently be the long wheelbase expensive version, which imo is disappointing but the variants being offered in EU are pretty exciting.
Batter than immediately and zealously trying to prosecute people I guess.
There are many kinds of developers.

For instance, those who can sit themselves down and work and work and work until there is passing code. And there are those who do as little work as necessary to accomplish a task in the most efficient or effective way possible.

Other valuable sub-skills include troubleshooting, good code convention, organized methodical approach, to name a few.
>plus it puts a geopolitical adversary in control of the data, countless devices, and a media channel central to the current cultural zeitgeist.

You should interrogate your assumption that the government inside the state lines is less "adversarial" to everyone's interests than the one outside state lines, even at a level of geopolitics.
Google is pushing this story -- it's appeared on other sites as well.

Obviously, Google would love to add more nodes to its information-gathering network.
Indeed, syntax only a mother could love. (Swift, I am looking at you, too.)
A malicious actor can do a lot of things in UEFI, but they can't decrypt my disk, they can't boot into my OS, and they can't mess with my userland environment. If Johnny Blackhat fancies a game of Doom over TTY on my desktop's UEFI environment, he can be my guest.
Am I mis-reading it? the article claims Microsoft had an internal policy of "embrace, extend, extinguish". As proof it links to Wikipedia. Wikipedia does not corroborate this. Instead it says some journalist made up that phrase. Microsoft themselves had "embrace, extend, innovate" which is a fully reasonable position
Ask HN: How to get a company to remove my email from an account
Hi HN, I have a sticky issue that I haven't been able to solve and am looking for ideas. My primary email is MyName@gmail.com. I've occasionally gotten email intended for others with my name, until now it has never been an issue.

Then someone that shares my name created an account and used my email address as the primary email. At the time I didn't think anything of it, they wouldn't be able to validate the address and would correct that. That correction never happened and now I'm receiving email with all of their account activity. Failed login attempts, receipts, updated credit card info, iCal invitations for upcoming events that they've joined. Some of this is quite personal, I shouldn't be seeing this.

I don't know anything about the person that shares my name so I don't have a way of contacting them directly. There is no unsubscribe because this isn't opt-in email. I tried marking the email as spam, but somehow it started showing in my account again.

A month ago I contacted their support and asked that my email be removed. They couldn't help me. Their support team sent instructions for how to change an email address or how to recover an account, but neither of these solutions apply in my case.

Now I seem to be stuck, once their team realized that I'm not their customer they stopped replying. I tried logging into the account to take it over and change the address myself, but they have 2FA enabled so this wasn't possible. Meanwhile my phone has started automatically adding their iCal invites to my calendar so I just got a notification to appear at the other person's hotel.

How can I get my email address removed from an account that belongs to someone else?
The primary alternative at the time was CDs. MiniDiscs were like cool CDs that wouldn't scratch if you threw them on the desk or in the glove compartment. Also the aesthetics of the players were great...

Too bad the accompanying software was so terrible.
You know that feeling you get when you read a newspaper or see someone report on something you know intimately, which gets the most basic elements of the story very wrong or worse gives out full falsehoods? And then you read about something you know less about but trust that its somehow a fair shake?

This is what the HN community is like when talking about LGBT issues. Theoretical acceptance may have come a long way at least in the west, but empathy really does seem to have a long way to go.

For your humanity, please develop a basic understanding of discrimination that certain groups suffer from, who tends to discriminate against them, and why. It will help you to understand more people, and enrich your life by being able to interact and share with people with wider ranges of experience.
Some great deals on .ru these days! Interestingly, .eu, .de and .uk also very cheap, however if you prefer to avoid implying your microsites relate to a specific geography, I guess .top, .cc, .one, .xyz may be better.