jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> We arguably gave up that freedom when governments started forcing people to bake cakes with specific messages.

Who won that case again?
Like I said it is a sporting agency. Not some TV network or something. Sports aren't forced to cooperate with USADA but they do it for the good of the sport. That doesn't apply with Twitch at all.
Suggests is a bit weak. We've known since decision support systems and expert systems started that its possible to codify bias, unconsciously. There was a notorious case in the UK, relating to medical school entry acceptance, which was in the 1980s and then repeated in more recent times I believe in Japan, and in the US for racial bias to ivy-league.

Why would model training be any different? If the goal seeking drives to mimic what it sees, and what it sees systematically biases the selection e.g. since the ratio of men to women in a job is 70/30 the model selection mimics this. Isn't that what is going to happen, if you don't actively define the parameters you're tuning for?
Lacking some direct statements and or evidence?

Yeah.

You've done that in the exchange above, not actually speaking directly to intent. The result, when that information is needed, is it will be obtained indirectly, and if it cannot be determined at all, some other decision will be made.

Physically, in the way humans work, we are that authority. Should we undermine ourselves, yeah that's an issue.

Conflating that state of affairs with what we require courts to do as some proof we do not own our intent isn't helpful.
This particular treatment does not affect the germ line. i.e. it corrects the defect in the patient, but they can still pass it on to their children, who would be (malaria-protected) carriers.
Totally. Kind of reminds me of http://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html
By definition, if the streets feel too small, then the car you're driving is too big.

The Juke, while smaller in length than those cars, is wider than both the Prius (by a longshot) and the Golf. And ultimately it's width that matters for the feeling of street size.

Also, by European standards the Golf or the Prius isn't a tiny car, it's more or less average (though that's changing). Small would be a Polo, a Citroen C1, a Mercedes B-Class, etc...
There should be more awareness about what is going on in hospitals all year round. Media hype can make everything extreme.

And there are many theories to explain, for example NY morgues may have been overflowing because morgue owners were afraid to accept people who died from Covid.

Is there actual evidence that people died because they couldn't receive care? Even in Italy I have not seen the evidence, just YouTube videos of some alleged doctors making such claims.

Serious question. I would love to see evidence of people dying because they couldn't receive care (in the Western world).
So no freedom of speech for some us citizens?

This reads as a Slippery slope argument
Neat idea! Just tested that in an OS X 10.8 virtual machine; while it works nicely against "rm -rf *", sadly it does not help stop an accidental sudo rm -rf / or ~/. Also, "touch ~-@" created a file in the home directory called "~-@"; in order to set the correct filename, I cd'd into ~ and then ran "touch ./-@".
Trump can call a press conference and be on every TV network in the United States that same day, perhaps even the same hour
We certainly thought about rebranding. But since Riot 2.0 continues the minimalistic approach and "only" changes the way how views are assebled we thought the name can stay.
My comment was intended to point out that the time spent before escalating was reasonable, even despite the 3 day sickness.

As for the consequences of trying to escalate, it is true that it tends to upset the person you escalated in front of. However it is also true that it can motivate them to actually return to your case. I've seen organizations where it was a guaranteed disaster to use that strategy, and others where it was an effective way to get things done.

If I've seen that much variation between organizations within one country, how much more variation could there be between organizations across multiple countries with multiple cultures?
I've heard of IB before so its a name I'll probably look into.

I'm mostly interested in machine learning because I feel like a lot of the algorithms I'm applying to recommendation systems could be applied to stocks. If you think of the stock market as a giant system where someone wants to recommend stocks that will go up, it appears these ML techniques may be applicable. At this point however I don't have a way to model the stock market as an acceptable input to the most promising algo I have, which is one that I developed myself and has and extremely low RMSE for certain types of data.
There are plugins both in Chrome and FF where any PDF links automatically opens it up using google docs. Much more faster smoother than native PDF loading. I just tried out this new integrated PDF on Chrome Dev channel (6.0437.1), and as mentioned it doesn't have all the PDF features, it loads PDFs on the left hand corner, instead of center. Much much faster though.
"Last night there were at least 400 people eating dinner at 8:00PM" means that there were at least 400 people who either don't have families or for whatever reason felt it was better to stay at the office than to be at home w/ their families.

Welcome to Silicon Valley.
https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/nnbmlagghjjcbdhg...
Language mutates, often in unfortunate ways. "Login" is not actually a verb if you follow the "rules" of English. You log in. "Log" is the verb. As much as it bugs me, though, I've learned to accept misuses becoming the norm; this is hardly the first time a word has evolved from butchery. There used to be a billboard in SF on which a gym advertised that you could "workout in your pajamas!" I've learned to grimace inwardly about that, "alot", "alright", and other "violations". Because -- as in the case of "alright", we already have ... "already".
Oh sweetness. I was using this https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/nnbmlagghjjcbdhg... but the plugin seems better.

Only problem is that now .doc/.ppt via extension is gone because I had to disable it to get plugin support. Need a rev of that extension to remove pdf support, and then we're saved!

Update: hmm, miss regular context menu too.
You can post to WP via email.
And, besides the dick in their hands part, what Graham didn't mention in his warm christmas tale of meritocracy, they also make deals to not competete against others on talent, to fix (i.e. ruin further) what is already an extremely dysfunctional market (when did you last ask your coworker what she made?).
I wonder if her neck started getting tired from all that movement.

It seems that it's mostly people who grip their mouse really tightly/type with tense fingers that experience the most problems - I remember when I first started typing, my fingers tired too easily because the keys were heavy, and I was exerting a lot of force trying to get the fingers to exactly where I wanted them to go. Later, when I got a "looser" keyboard and discovered that I didn't really need to hit the keys exactly in the middle but whatever could actuate them worked, my speed more than doubled and I could type for hours without feeling tired at all. The relaxation really helps. Same with mousing - if you find that you have to grip your mouse tightly to make precise movements, turn down the DPI and try lubricating it so it requires as little effort as possible to move. Personally, I don't really like using trackpads because of that friction.
Hacker News is indeed being overrun by a too large amount of irrational bitcoin FUD.

The energy 'argument' is easily debunked. But that's not what this comment is about, so I won't rehash it here.

Trying to change people's minds on here doesn't work. But you know what? That's okay!

It signals us bitcoin holders how incredibly early we are in this life changing monetary revolution, that we are seeing unfold before our very eyes.

Bitcoin was meant to be attacked from all angles, non stop. It's what makes it so resilient.

If it can fail, it must fail.

But it's not failing, is it?

Quite the opposite...

Every bitcoin newcomer who reads this FUD, is going to remember it years from now, when bitcoin is still around and at higher prices than ever.

And they'll think to themselves... "Well, if after all these years, bitcoin is still around, despite supposedly being a bad thing, then it might not be such a bad thing after all!".

So I say:

Let they naysayers attempt to take bitcoin down. It will only result in new all time highs for my portfolio. And for that, I am grateful.

The early bird gets the worm. The late ones convince themselves the worms are poisonous, leaving more worms for the early birds.

Nature takes its course.
Those can’t-loopers are interviewing for many scores of jobs before they wiggle slightly higher on one interview and get hired.

The ones who can code interview at a couple places and pick from among their offers.

I don’t think you can extrapolate from how many terrible coders you see in interview pipelines that the industry is overall terrible.

The interview selection processes working is what you’re seeing.
Sales is morally bad: this idea that in order to sell, you must manipulate. Eg: “Used car salesmen” (said with disgust)

Money is evil

A bit to the side of the OP, but I feel like these two narratives have been particularly damaging to our planet’s long-term growth. To your point @amatic: If the author had let go of pride and at least explored the idea of effective communication with people as a way to spread ideas (aka sales), he may be far more objective in his self-appraisal and certainly gain perspective on how his ideas can be applied by others.
This is for all the tattoo enthusiasts out there!

Hope everyone has a great week ahead.
I remember when it was faster to walk to the police station that to connect to 911 from a cell. (I lived close) It's a chronic problem and not just a function of the car but the cell network too.
Do you have advice on how one can get more into reading interesting research papers in Computer Science and Software Engineering? I've previously tried subscribing to ACM but found that too many of their articles weren't of much interest or relevance to me. I definitely do feel like I've gotten lazy and that I don't challenge myself enough, but it's hard to break out of these patterns so I'd welcome any suggestions or recommendations which could help me grow.

I usually start reaching for research papers when I'm aware of a specific problem and I'm looking for the different approaches that have been taken to try and solve said problems.

Every few months I visit the NIST website and I browse through their catalogue to pick out interesting articles and publications to add to my queue.
It's almost as if luxury vehicles and life-saving vaccines are different, and should be treated differently.
As long as there is a hidden "benefits tax" that varies wildly from company to company, it doesn't matter. It's crazy to try to compare offers in the US.
One part of the immigration problem that is keeping wages is high is the fact that spouses/dependents cannot work. Want to bring in an ace programmer? You'll have to pay double (or just "more") because her husband cannot work in the "land of the free" ... If they're from a country with free healthcare, education or any other benefit, you'll have to pay for that because it was part of their "compensation" before .

I've posted before about the cost of coming to the bay area: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8533781
Only one mention of a doctor, once in the whole page, and he says to give it a rest and she'll be ok. Then she says she spends 50% of the time using her hands normally? No mention of further deterioration, or further attempts to figure out the problem? It seems like it's more important to her to say "look I am clever" than actually solve the problem here.
Yes, obviously there is some nuance that I left out.

There's a severity spectrum (without meds I'm guaranteed to be late and/or distracted by the most random things), and the ability to concentrate is very hard to predict or control - not something that can be relied on for most.
Blast sulfur into the stratosphere. No, I’m not joking.
Yep. I wanted a job writing haskell. Got a job writing haskell. It was one of the worst jobs I ever hard (for non-haskell reasons). Team dynamics, culture, how good is a manager, how overengineered is a code base, how easy it is to feel valued and given responsibility. There's so many more important things than the language that now I actively don't care at all. Plus, I think these elitist programming languages attract more jerks so I'd rather avoid anything too niche and go for a Go job or something.
Also, the baby boomers have much more than millennials because they've had more time to have income.
I never understood using phone # as a permanent ID. phone numbers change (heck, I effectively have 2 whatsapps, because I have a US phone # and an international phone # because of this).

ID shouldn't matter to most users (it can be hidden behind the scenes). Phone # is great for looking up the ID, but users should be able to remap it at will.

Example:

register with your phone #. This generates a new ID (you don't know or care about it). If you have to login from a new device, that doesn't have the ID stored, can you login with your phone #, but all this does is look up the ID and uses that ID to try and then authenticate you.

If someone wants to find you, they use the phone number to look up your ID. Once its looked up and mapped, the phone number never needs to be used again.

If I change my phone #, all I have to do is update the mapping of phone # -> id (i.e. add a new entry, remove the old entry). Anyone contacts who have me already, will not be bothered by this (they only care about the ID, which they already have). new "contacts" will also behave correctly, as I no longer have that phone #, so it shouldn't be able to be used to find me (it might be someone else's # now).

Users would be able to move phone #s and their existing contacts would be able to follow them. New telephone users would be able to get recycled old phone #s without getting messages from the old owner of number's contacts (assuming they had previously contacted).

the only places I see people think this might fall down (but I think are wrong) is

1) if the same user creates a new id with the old phone #. However, the solution seems pretty simple, you just need a way to invalidate the old ID (i.e. never to be used again) and force the contact to get the new id for the phone number.

2) what happens when a user moves devices. i.e. they might have to redo the mapping of phone # -> id. However. at its worst, this is no worse than the current system (which effectively does that update on every single message). In practice, there are ways to move data between devices which would just move the mappings with it (examples being a cloud cache backup, the ability migrate data from device to device, or probably other ways as well).
the ecosystem is there, I think you're confused... the libraries work, this is the best runtime environment for a Ruby on Rails app.. which is Ruby's killer app..
If these effects are strong enough to undermine Piketty's hypothesis then it is incumbent upon Rognlie to run the numbers and show that they do otherwise it's just more fud.
It is simply inaccurate to say SEC "approved" crowdfunding. It is outright wrong. Saying that "anyone interested" would know the truth doesn't change that.

"With rules things can move forward. "

The SEC is legally REQUIRED to issue rules.
Unravel relative to what? The 1990s representated the tail of an unprecedented 30-year expansion in civil rights. We're in the middle of a conservative retrenching as of late, but the Overton window has shifted and it's not in the direction people on HN assume. The kind of abuse that routinely happened in the legal system in the 60's and 70's would be unthinkable today.
A biography of Nikola Tesla. He clashed with his professors, became addicted to gambling, had a nervous breakdown, got exploited by Edison, became a prolific inventor, died alone in deep debt. There are a lot of lessons to be taken from Tesla's successes and even more from his failures.
A lot of people make excuses based on generations, but it's more about what management is willing to tolerate.
I thought "lvml" sounded like a markup language, but it turns out that emotionml already exists and should fit our needs. http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/emotion/XGR-emotionml-20081...

Therefore, to fight back against the vagueness and possible misinterpretation of Internet slang, I propose that in the future "lol" be replaced by something like the following:

<emotionml xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2008/11/emotionml">
<emotion>
<modality mode="face"/>
<category set="everydayEmotions" name="amusement" confidence="0.8"/>
<link role="experiencedBy" uri="file:john.vcard"/>
<link role="expressedBy" uri="file:johnsParty.avi" start="10s" end="15s"/>
<link role="triggeredBy" uri="file:guestList.xml#numberOfGuests"/>
</emotion>
</emotionml>
Felleisen's How to Design Programs has an entirety different set of goals than SICP. HtDP teaches programming practices. SICP teaches 'computer science.'

HtDP is a great book, but no substitute for SICP in terms of content.
here are some in a speedboat: https://twitter.com/kgorchinskaya/statuses/43735984982826188...

There's at least one photo from the sauna somewhere online, but I can't remember where
The fact that the people are the same doesn't mean the reporting is the same. Al Jazeera seems to have very different reporting standards than the BBC. It's hardly outside the realm of possibility that the former-BBC types wanted to engage in biased reporting at the BBC, but were not permitted to.
And Pat Robertson can leg press 2000 pounds, as he says while trying to sell you his protein shakes.

http://www.cbn.com/communitypublic/shake.aspx

http://www.slate.com/id/2142567/
Spyware what?

I like it for the single point where all my games are, so I don't have to remember where I downloaded to, or where the keys are in my inbox, or even where I put install media. I just download the client, sign in, and all my games are right there.

It makes the DRM quite tolerable, and it supports indie developers, and it's ultimately the most convenient option for me.
In-house IT is also a single party.
problem here is we choose to not depend on Brazilian sugar cane ethanol. we instead impose huge import tariffs to protect our possibly net-energy-negative corn ethanol lobby.
Brazil has been the country of the future for at least 37 years.
I personally dont like universal logins not because I'm averse to them but because of how difficult they are to use at the moment. Everytime I tried to use open ID its the worst experience in the world.

Also, I hate fb so I deactivated my account. So that clearly means that I wont be using fb for anything. So, universal logins need a lot of work.
Funny - same here, but 18 and 30.
http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/governmentrequests/
I'm enjoying a two days a week interpretation of Starting Strength. It also focuses on progressive loading and low rep, high weight sets.

http://startingstrength.wikia.com
For those that don't know, an HP MSA2000 is a baby SAN - a small business storage array.

There's not a lot of info in that post, and I don't see any other posts in the thread. This is an issue if it can be accessed remotely, but not a big deal if it requires a console cable.

Even if it CAN be accessed remotely, it shouldn't be as big an issue as you'd think. SANs are usually not connected to the Internet and the management ports should be set on separate management VLANs. The number of SAN installs I've seen where the SAN engineer installing it left the passwords at the default and the customer never changed them is mind-boggling, anyway.

Not to take away from the importance of something like this, but it's not as severe as say, a remote-root exploit in Linux.
Hah, I did this with a 16" MBP when rumours came out that they were building ARM CPUs. Now writing this on the MBA 13" M1.
Do you have any hands on experience with 13" MBA vs 14" or 16" MBP? I will be working from AirBnbs and coffee shops for the most part this year (digital nomad) and I am deciding which Macbook to take for fullstack web development.

I am afraid 13" or 14" won't be big enough. I'm currently on 2015 15" MBP which is mostly fine and theoretically I am prepared to sacrificate some screen size for better mobility (smaller and lighter laptop).
Yes but can we download more RAM?
How or why is that? Why would it be easy to cash in or sale 4 billion dollar worth of crypto in Russia? Russia probably doesn't extradite a person to Americans (not sure about non citizens) but there are plenty of sharks who would want to get their hands on these coins if that came to public anyway.
I don’t understand the magic at work in an 8gb M1 macbook air.

If i run android emulator (consuming 4-6Gb) + iPhone simulator (1-2Gb) + react native hot reload toolchain (1-4gb) + vscode (1-2gb) + firefox (1-3gb) all concurrently, then my memory pressure is around 65%, i have about 3gb swapped but very little paging activity.

Everything feels snappy.

What is this magic? I was convinced it would be the speedy SSD masking the page faults but there’s very little swapping going on.

Quite taken with it tbh. Still think MacOS is crap overall though. Soon as linux is viable on M1 as a daily driver, i am checking out of macos.
I've had this happen in 2018/2019 in a Central American country.
You just described nearly every clone.
I'm not sure I should disclose which startups have approached me for this. But, trust me, this happens rather often.
Looks awesome......great job.
The problem with a lot of Mac apps is that:

1. They have glossy websites that talk about how awesome they are.
2. They have copy that claims they have awesome UI.
3. You download them, try them, and realize they do almost nothing except look pretty.

It's pretty hard to find exceptions to this.
> After that, beyond basic bar soap, you’re on your own. You have to order supplies through the commissary system, a sort of monopoly drugstore run by the Keefe Group out of Missouri. This is where you purchase everything from hygiene supplies and chips to a Styrofoam cup. You place orders once a week, and the following week a delivery guy shows up with a cart piled high with plastic bags of stuff. If nobody on the outside puts money on your “books” (inmate account), you can order a second indigent kit. But as soon as someone sends you money, Keefe deducts that cost. And with a 20-cent pack of ramen costing $1.18, just like most monopolies throughout history, goods are sold at an inflated rate.

This is one of the parts of prisons I find particularly distressing. I'm trying to find (but can't recall the name of the company) an article, perhaps posted here a few months ago, about a company that handles inmate "bank accounts". The percentage they took was absurd. Between what the financial company took and the prisons, $100 sent to a prisoner might end up only being $50 by the time they could spend it. Paired with the high prices in the commissary they can barely afford "essentials".

EDIT:
JPay. Here's an article, but not the one I was looking for:

http://www.publicintegrity.org/2014/09/30/15761/prison-banke...
> if you registered via email

My concern is all the people that may have involuntarily signed up via whatsapp, with no email included but only a phone number.