jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I've got one reply left in me before I bow out of this discussion.

> Please enlighten us with the solution that will produce an equal ratio of men and women when 80% of CS graduates are men.

It's very simple. Exceedingly simple. So simple you'll wish you'd have thought of it, and if you think hard about it after I explain it you'll see your own sexism in why you didn't.

Here it is. The solution is to drop the ridiculous credentialism that's infected the field. You do not need a CS degree to contribute usefully and advance a career in this field. You can have a CS degree and still be largely useless compared to someone without. I do not have a CS degree. I do not have ANY degree. Yet I make more money than many of my peers in my job market. Guess which race and gender I am, no prizes for getting it right the first time.

Systemized racism and sexism are why companies won't usefully invest in the careers of minorities, and why they invested in mine even without the proper 'stuff'. It's elitism, pure and simple. Go ahead and come up with all your reasons. Those reasons support and continue elitism. They're excuses.

And that's my last reply on this topic, I hope more HNers start picking up the torch. Because talking about this shit to people who aren't really interested in the topic more than they just want it to go away makes me unreasonably mad and that's no way to contribute usefully to the discussion.
> Either way, I now feel that the most sane and practical thing to advocate for is that there should be less institutional power available to be captured by extremists.

I agree with this too! Which is why I think it's important the article calls out the institutional power of YC and the risk of it being captured by extremists!

Frankly, leave the question of connection to white supremacy (under whatever definition) aside - as someone who was a regular Less Wrong reader, seeing Y Combinator and the other agents of Silicon Valley power go "All right, we will invest heavily in building a friendly AI under our definition of friendly," just by itself, is kind of a worst-case scenario. I don't think the interests of Valley investors are quite fully aligned the interests of humanity at large, but it's Valley investors that have the most ability to make AGI happen, and they've decided to start work. The only reason I don't find it terrifying is that I don't really agree with the Rationalists' arguments about it. But they do, and they're smart people.
All I see is what amazing RoI that old man got for his $10k. I'm sure he's thrilled about reaching the top of HN multiple times in a week!
Does this viewpoint help explain anything in a useful way? I do not understand why you would think of wealth this way.
Not sure about Hertz, but everytime I go to Home Depot I see the F250s for rent in the parking lot.

https://www.homedepot.com/tool-truck-rental/load-n-go-truck-...
Google Cloud Print was a disaster. I could get it to work properly maybe 20% of the time, even with Android devices using the app and Chromebooks. A favorite bug involved a simple print job from one of my kid's Chromebook causing a Brother printer to "print" a blank piece of paper for every sheet remaining in the main tray.

By comparison, AirPrint just worked, quickly recognizing new printers from new devices and running jobs pretty much flawlessly.
This makes sense but it's more like general advice for why typical packages should not be import-dotted. I was talking about a very specific kind of low-pollution package that will export essentially nothing bar a single type (maybe a NewFoo constructor too). The package isn't a bucket, it's a barrier.

(I hope people move beyond ctrl-f/grepping, to tooling that has semantic understanding of definitions/references. Go go gopls & GoLand!)
I'm honestly impressed that they thought so in depth about these things. That said, I'm of the opinion that a clipboard manager should be a standard part of an OS and would arguably solve this problem.
Nextdoor is bad because your neighbors are bad people, and it only takes a few to wreck it. Somewhere on your block lives a life-long racist, a chemtrail crackpot, and an insufferable busybody. Normally these people hide but for some reason they think Nextdoor is their safe space.
There was a discussion about this yesterday, I've got a pretty long rant posted on the other thread[0] that participants here might want to read

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21598815

Edit: apparently pointing to a previous comment on a related thread is ... bad? For ... some reason?
"Interconnectedness" is also a measure of resistence to hierarchical decomposition (or factoring ax+bx -> (a+b)x); irreducable complexity.

One technique is redefining the problem, to smaller or bigger:

Work on only part of a problem, a subset, leaving something out. e.g. git's data model does not represent renames as first class constucts, enabling it to be disproportionately simpler.

Expand the problem, a superset, to integrate lower or higher level or associated parts that aren't usually included. Previously scattered commonalities may then appear, enabling decomposition.
Right, that was unnecessary and I edited it out.

What I meant is that 'not' is in principal an easy keyword to implement 'conservatively'. But yes, having this in a language model has proven to be very hard.

Edit: Can I ask, what do you find impressive about the language model?
Supersede is maybe not the right word but there are numerous ideas and languages that could benefit Clojure if integrated back

- https://www.unisonweb.org/

- Programming database as a first class citizen

- https://darklang.com/

- Live introspection

Both harken back to image based languages like small talk in a certain sense

There's also React Server Components which ClojureScript will benefit from adopting when it's finished baking in the React world
I'm sorry if you thought if I came across saying that we wrote that JS. We didn't!

I just thought that I found it very interesting effect and we featured on our login page (which for an A/B testing product is usually boring)
Your list corrects for cost of living, but does not correct for population. On your list, Liechtenstein ranks as 159. Lichtenstein has a GDP per capita of $91k/year (PPP adjusted), but $91k/year x 36k people doesn't amount to much.

Does that make them poor?

By contrast, Thailand's GDP per capita is just under $4k/year (PPP adjusted), about 1/20 that of Liechtenstein.
How does one generate random data in a computer?
Put a new cs student in front of a vim screen.

(Not my joke, but can't find the original one at the moment, I guess I read it on twitter recently.)
...and so you post this, which is hypocritical on the face of it.

Since you seems to have missed the rules referenced in the article, here they are:

http://changizi.wordpress.com/2011/04/20/plastic-animal-ches...
Like this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8802746
what a terrible headline. a subset of mice have a predisposition towards obesity, so america's exploding obesity epidemic may not be the individuals fault despite:
#1 genetic ratios couldn't possibly be changing that much
#2 most people who do go on diets and exercise DO lose weight.
#3 as the article points out, the gene in study is rare in humans.
s/solution/workaround

Text reflow was/is a killer feature of the original Android browser (which cyanogenmod still uses, fortunately).

Reading the HN front page is a PITA without it.
For the people asking questions about the experiment details, here is the full paper in Science (registration required): http://www.sciencemag.org/content/341/6143/275.full .

Based on the paper, it appears that they performed targeted mutations to manipulate the Mrap2 gene and fed the mice equal quantities of chow, and then they did the tests described in the parent article. At least to me, this is strong evidence that this gene affects obesity in mice.
Disclaimer: I am not a doctor, just someone who is curious about how the body works on a high level.

To better understand cause and effect, a question that Peter Attia asks is that, do children eat more and grow (gaining weight as they age), or is it because they are growing that they eat more? Nutrition turns out to be a lot more complex than just calories in and calories out. It looks like that is a manifestation of something deeper, like growth hormones triggering a different type of metabolism.

He asks the same question about obesity. Do people get fat (elevated number of triglycerides stored in the fat cells) because they are eating more than expending energy? Or, are they eating more because of hormonal imbalances? He (along with many other doctors) suggest that it is actually the effect of insulin that causes the body to be conservative with the expending of energy. Insulin resistance also leads to diabetes, which is strongly correlated with obesity. So the hypothesis is that it is out of control insulin (due to sugar intake, HFCS, simple carbs, prevelant in american diet) that is the cause for the obesity epidemic, and not just less exercise (although exercise can be used to eliminate the excess glucose in the body which triggers the insulin response).

Here are some of his talks:

TED: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMhLBPPtlrY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAWdHYSrh7M

And his blog

http://eatingacademy.com/
Junior web development positions outside of London can easily pay 15,000 - 17,000 GBP. This is really low.

Wages for developers on the whole in the UK are far lower than the US.
Their approach to the product seems to be novel too! They decided to go against common grain of familiarity and immediate perceived ease of use, but didn't just add a billion fields to configure everything with a dense manual - they try to offer just-in-time help pages that offer analogies and examples for the stuff you are configuring.

I wish them all the best! Hope people find it worthwhile to invest some time in learning the product (it will definitely be somewhat necessary)
For some people (e.g. me) it works to let them fail first by trying to achieve a goal without the requisite knowledge. This motivates them to learn. Unfortunately you can't really do this in a traditional educational setting or in the workplace (in both cases failure stains your "reputation"), so I can only do it on my own.
"Inspired by investors" (as opposed to "Inspired by inventors") got me good.
I've read that street lsd-25 is vanishingly rare. it doesn't keep (degrades under UV), and it's hard to make (why make lsd when you can make meth instead?). I'm told much street lsd is other stuff. Dunno if true.
I had no idea which parts of this website were real.
Not just desktop, desktop via an Electron app!
That's pretty absurd considering the average american has a screen in front of their face 8-10 hours a day. You're basically saying what people do for 8-10 hours a day, every day, for their entire lives isnt useful information to AI.
I hope not. I see far too many business applications that waste I can't imagine how many person-hours on terrible mobile apps/sites. In some segments, the people who want to use your app on mobile just aren't the people that your business can add value to (not because of their choice of device, but because of what their choice of device indicates about how they plan to use and value your product). Don't spend your time ticking boxes of competitors' features. Specialize.
My parents' house had a guest room addition with a bathroom which wasn't used for long periods of time, and it became apparent that if the water wasn't run enough it would start to let odors back through the pipes.

Anyway, everything uses PVC, right?
The newest I immediately remember is this: https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol40/2/

Here is a blog post of the author in case the above is not readable for you: https://www.niussp.org/article/gender-equality-and-fertility...

This study is in the context of previous assumptions of a U-curved relationship: low equality == high birth rates, medium equality == low birth rates, high equality == high birth rates. That study shows that the last part doesn't seem to be true.
Yes, similar to space centre. But as mentioned in the post, they are for some reason or the other not scaled after they are operational in one area. I want to change that.
Any chance of having this uploaded to lulu or similar for print on demand copies?
> Bitcoin’s raise in value is proof of this utility and human desire for all time spent to be equal and honored as such in the future.

One hour's wages spent on Bitcoin a decade ago is worth how many hours' wages now?

How would Bitcoin make all time spent be equal?
> As far as I can tell, 7-zip is more widely recommended amongst Windows users, but what do they know? PeaZip has a very clean UI, and nice green icons, so it’s very obviously the better choice.

I appreciated the pithy joke, but I was curious about an actual comparison since I always use 7-Zip. This short article seems like a useful rundown of the (very minor) differences if anyone else is interested: https://en.softonic.com/articles/head-to-head-peazip-vs-7-zi...
> You can get around it by using async instead of blocking, using fibers which don't block, or using a thread pool so other threads can keep serving.

The typical approach for Ruby, Python, and similar languages is just to run more processes.
>I would hazard a guess you find crypto overall to be useless.

No, I quite like cryptography.
I agree. It is clear that Google has paused app releases due to this but this graphic obscures how abnormal this is for any individual app. There are 13 apps in that graph and it appears that there are usually a handful a week. So on average they are only updating monthly anyways.

So a 2 month break is just skipping a release (or two) for most apps which isn't a huge break in bugfixes.
I teach college. I did an assignment where I had students do a little tutorial and submit a screenshot as proof. After so many submitted pics of their screen they took with their phone, I told them about the built in snipping tool in windows (and there's one in macos, too). It blew the minds of many of them.
Maybe Github can reject commits by default that contain phrases of magic keys/known strings and file combinations that contain passphrases.
They gave notice years ago that they were phasing it out. You haven't been able to upload anything in years. Frankly, I'm surprised it took them this long.
Hardcover is $13.98, Kindle Edition is $16.77
I really doubt the true goal is to raise the value of bitcoins already held. I don't think "forex" speculators take a serious interest in bitcoin yet, but rather, those using it would like to see wider adoption so that they can actually buy things with it.

A current problem is that it is highly volatile and fairly illiquid. Most adopters have a genuine interest in the success of an alternative currency rather than trying to profit from the situation.

I downloaded the client and checked out the forums. Although I don't have any BTC myself, I would like to see something like this succeed.

However, I have low hopes that it will not get tagged with propaganda about drug dealers, terrists, and child pornography (I can't believe the article implied that already!), and probably made illegal like online poker. Visa/Mastercard will refuse to process payments for exchangers, who will later be indicted as money launderers.
More like, metafilter outed as tedious cesspool of uninformed opinion and snark.
Absolutely and completely wrong. You just make an "@media screen and (max-device-width: #px) {}" declaration in your regular CSS file.
Sounds like you are confident that this is REALLY what he wants to pursue for the foreseeable future, so applause for finding a way to keep good talent.

But maybe it boils down to this, was it an honest mistake?

It happens to all of us, we start a new gig it doesn't turn out the way we want, we change what we want or move on. The sooner this comes out in a relationship the better. What you have done is create a new burden for yourself - managing a transitional employee.

Now it's on you to make the "transitional role" work which always proves difficult. Many an employee has been brought in under the guise of temporarily filling a need and then moving towards their true desire only to find the organization can't pull it off.

a side note:

I've always had a hard time believing that talented people only want to do one thing. To limit them to it is likely to bight you in the long term if not sooner. You just don't want to end up in a "Bo knows ..." situation where the desire is constantly changing.

Of course, if come two weeks priorities change again...
This is inaccurate. The things you list (car, computer, other consumer purchases) are not personal deductions under the US tax system.

Relatively few personal purchases are deductible. The most heavily used personal deduction is mortgage interest (interest, not principal). Otherwise most personal deductions are things like tuition, major healthcare expenses, tax paid elsewhere (sales, property), and alimony payments.

And for a majority of Americans, none of these things actually appear on their tax return. Only 41% of American taxpayers file a return listing the deductions above ("itemize"), usually because they carry a mortgage.

The other 59% just take a single deduction ("standard deduction") of about $5800 per adult (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_deduction).

Finally, if someone found legitimate ways to deduct the things you listed (for example, they were unreimbursed business expenses), they would run into the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT). AMT is a floor on the percent of income which must be paid as tax. In calculating AMT, most deductions get ignored (and it ignores one's effective tax rate in other years).
Looks like it was published in 1951 and so should[1] be out of copyright, but I also only found one Amazon seller at $25 and a finished eBay auction.

[1] http://www.unc.edu/~unclng/public-d.htm
I wouldnt say they are my definition :-), it is the standard one. Re-defining same terminology as something else or making them open to interpretation, is detrimental. More so when the point of view could be contentious.

Ideally definitions shouldnt only be essentially the same (for some values of essence), but obviously/unraguably the same. Or else we discuss definitions :-)

The point I was trying to make is simple. By conventional terminology: Concurrency deals with semantics,
parallelism deals with execution. I dont see how

parallelism as splitting a computation into many independent tasks which interact very little,
and concurrency as modifying things from different threads/processes/tasklets/whatever without
incurring in hairy bugs.

translates into the standard definition. What the author describes as parallelism could easily be concurrency if the split happens at the semantic level.

BTW concurrency needn't have any explicit synchronization primitives at all and needn't have anything to do with synchronized clocks. Semantics does not care about execution or clocks it cares only about meaning. Since parallelism deals with execution, there clocks could become relevant.

Consider list comprehension in Python. Its a concurrency primitive. But whether the elements of the list are computed simultaneously, depends on how the Python code is executed and hence an issue of parallelism.

"Concurrent code" and "parallel code" terminology can also be confusing. If a piece of code describes/defines things you want to compute, then it can only be concurrent and not parallel. But if the code also describes how it is going to be executed in the hardware then it could be called parallel. So I am not confident of the view

threads are meant for concurrency and not parallelism

I have no difficulty in accepting that threads are not always the right abstraction. Shared mutable state is a significant problem.

But forwarding that argument by conflating conventional terminology as was done in the article hardly helps.
How about New York City stop worrying about trying to become a tech center every day?

Even Boston grads seem to catch the next flight out West even though Boston has a nice concentration of top schools. The bay area has VCs, schools, concentration of talent and.. momentum.
curl https://{your username}:{your password}@api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/all > bookmarks.xml
Is our fear of rejection part of common sense?
It's good to have your pockets picked by invisible hands!
The article doesn't really explain... their current temporary license (they have been on a temp one since last year) expires at 11.59 tonight, TFL won't give them a new permanent one. This will be in the courts today and they will probably be granted another temporary one before the day is out.
"Only in the last few months it has been established that 14,000 Uber journeys have involved fraudulent drivers uploading their photos to other driver accounts - with passengers' safety potentially put at risk getting into cars with unlicensed and suspended drivers."

This seems, from a technical perspective, an easy problem to solve with the resources of a public company.

Is it the desperation of people who need the money so badly they will constantly cheat the system? Can you design for that?
Can you cite the SCOTUS decision that said encryption keys were equivalent to physical keys?
What's your opinion on ENS? (https://ens.domains/)
It's probably so cheap because no-one wants to use a chain that is so susceptible to a 51% attack.
> The second problem I have is with the industry and its employees, I can't recall any ex-porn worker having anything good to say about their previous profession, instead what I've seen described comes across as a really shitty situation, where many turn to drugs in order to make it through 'shoots' and then again to forget.

This can be said about the "mainstream" showbiz industry as well. Remember all the child stars with ugly adulthoods?

As for spawning fetishes and promoting unrealistic expectations, again, you can say this about a lot of mainstream media too.

Critics of porn seem to ignore other industries with the same problems when singling out porn for these criticisms, because !!sex!!
No. There are only statistics originating from the police force.
Thats a cool article.

On the other hand, WTF is up with that blog?!?
How about an app for rooted Android phones?

'Click here to transmit 802.11* broadcasts with randomized MAC'
I was not aware of Newpipe, I will look into that. Thank you.

Your advice is eminently practical. I already have a PLEX server, I could just youtube-dl the videos/channels she likes.
Why is it unacceptable to say "racial group x sucks", but it is acceptable to say "the human race sucks"?
I have no experience with law enforcement in the US, my comment was related to my experience where I live, Brazil.

My dad taught me early on that talking to cops would likely get me into trouble, as they want to make an arrest, and it does not matter if you are guilty or not, as long as they get you to confess. Later experiences taught me that my dad, a well known and liked cop in our town, was not someone to be trusted either.
I would love to see this in action. Do you know of any repos that are doing this?
Do you have a source for this? I linked below the best I could find, which makes no mention of any issues with them wiping it out.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/18/health/asian-tiger-mosquitoes...