jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Humans tended to hunt animals to exhaustion. The sprinting predators you're talking about stalk in close then sprint to take down their prey; groups of hunter-gatherer humans have instead tended to chase animals a long distance at moderate speed until the animals drop from exhaustion. It makes it easier to take them down, when you consider that humans are not really going to be jumping on the back of a buffalo and biting its neck to kill it.

So you don't tend to see animals running for hours because that's a human speciality (among predators), and it's part of why we've been so successful as a species, despite our physical weakness compared to other predators.
You are aware that ADD is, at the current state of science, considered a difference within the brain chemistry and no "reaction" to something? You don't "develop" ADD. One requirement to diagnose ADD in high age is to prove that it was there from the beginning on, in your very first years.

And that cavalier attitude that you describe is actually very harmful to people that _do_ have ADD, especially those that continue to have it after a certain age.

Also note that "disease" is the wrong word for this. It is a condition: you have it, it won't go away, but you can work on it and build your life around it. It's not that you necessarily _suffer_. People speaking with half-knowledge about it are a popular nuisance, though.

Also, describing those things as fads is _also_ very insulting to those that do struggle with these issues.
Hope they post a bug report, that doesn't look like an acceptable artefact to me
I use the web app on Linux - still better than Evernote for basic tables (which is what I find myself creating often).
The muddle type is called a comedy of manners - where misunderstandings arise because the characters are too shy/ polite/ embarrassed/ intimidated to say what they really mean. There are many good books on this subject, but you could do worse than dig up Aristotle's Poetics.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poetics_%28Aristotle%29 hasa helpful list of translations, including links to multiple public domain versions. Also, while it doesn't have breakdowns for individual shows, the TVTropes.com website is enormously useful for figiuring out story structures. The only downside is that like wikipedia every variation on something eventually gets its own entry and it can be hard to get a good view of the forest for the trees.
Why? I once found (for purely personal use) a unique picture which was exactly what I needed this way and that played a valuable role in my life. And the preview I could get without having to actually sign-in to Pinterest was sufficient for my purpose.
Honestly, the numbers quotes in the article were better than I expected. There’s a reasonable number of people who seem to be making large amounts of money, and even in the bottom 99% the average isn’t essentially zero. I’m curious what the median App Store publisher makes, though.
> Is there a way that you can see that we might achieve that?

Actually, yes. I think something like the "Core Transformation Process" could do the trick: https://www.coretransformation.org/

I can vouch from personal experience that it works and is pretty profound. I suspect that it could be adapted to work with pairs and groups.

> I ask because it seems to me that would require dramatic changes in government and society that are extraordinarily unlikely. I'm not even sure if such a system could be maintained without changes to basic human nature.

Ultimately, I think it all boils down to human nature. Technology is just an accelerator or amplifier. Then again, maybe this is the moment where our evolution transcends our baser human nature, eh?

"Interesting times."

Ciao.
However, the vitriolic response that people have to the very idea that we could possibly be doing the same things is worthy of some introspection today.
We like `dehydrated` for ACME
Quora is only one of many garbage domains that clutter google results. Pinterest is another big one.

Google needs a "block this domain from my search results"-- they even had it, for a brief period of a few months a number of years ago. (maybe only for some users?)
google needs some competition. I think , instead of breaking up google, they should break up Bing away from MS.
Tip: close the page that opens and click again on the link in digest emails
I use it as a white noise machine, I find the particular noise it gives out to be calming. The heat is also nice, not biting. It could be after the fact rationalization for blowing 250$ on a 25$ equipment.
Reminds me of the cartoon in The Singularity Is Near https://www.kurzweilai.net/images/only-humans-cartoon.jpg

But I guess they won't write good novels till they have human level understanding of the world and people which may be a while. Twenty years maybe?
Salesforce not big enough?
I found your response very interesting. It actually makes me think this is doable because "hundreds of questions" doesn't sound too bad. Many projects answer hundreds of questions.
The second link says:

"each utility is required to lower the demand on its system based on its percentage of the historic ERCOT peak demand.

"each utility is responsible for determining how to implement the required demand reduction, most utilities use rotating outages for this purpose."

There's about 25 different utilities, so who knows what each does.

I'm surprised voltage reduction isn't used. It's very effective at reducing resistive loads (ie: heaters and incandescent lights).
Maybe helpful when browsing extra-anglosphere sites: translate.yandex both has much more liberal length limits than GOOG translate and makes it easy to look up alternative translations for individual words.
Human reviewers? I'm not so up on novels but in music, good music is really that which people think is good.
> But the Valley has never been particularly fertile for the salaried professionals and “engineers” hired by these companies, who even now generally make less than their counterparts on Wall Street or in Big Law. Kindergarten playroom office spaces and other exag­gerated perks often serve to distract employees from this harsh reali­ty.

lol
>> Screenshots of some of their calendars, including their names and details, subsequently made their way outside the company.

To extend your analogy, the screenshots would be someone taking photos of you in the shower or sleeping, and distributing them. While they might not have been able to avoid glacing in your open door, they could certainly have avoided taking a photo of the room and sending it to someone else.
If you can infer information from encrypted data then it's not properly encrypted. Generally you would use a salt that would render this type of analyses useless.
It is not about the exit, it's about making the exit pay more than Sarbanes-Oxley and other laws cost. The sad fact is that, with present regulations, a $1M/year American company has a net present value of zero. In a sane economy, the VC could flip that in a heartbeat, but instead they are forced to blow up profitable companies so as to realize a tax deduction.

In fact, I suspect that VCs would prefer to take sub-Sarbox exits and ignore the 20x exits if they had the choice: 10 exits of $2M each has vastly lower risk than a single $20M exit.
>"Well, your arguments seem equally non-sequiter to me."

Fair enough.

>"I spend a lot of time in the world of correlations, in biology."

I left that field. One reason was because I realized so much of my time was wasted after I attempted to attach numbers to things like "# of receptors required to fit the narrative".

Sure "A causes B", but it must be for some reason totally different from what is usually proposed (and could probably be considered a boring experimental artifact). I just don't care if "A causes B". I want to know for "f(A) ~ B", what is f?

>"It's much better to get a causation: a knob that when you turn it you get a response, rather than no response."

Reminds me of this paper:

"Biologists summarize their
results with the help of all-too-well recognizable diagrams,
in which a favorite protein is placed in the middle
and connected to everything else with two-way arrows.
Even if a diagram makes overall sense (Fig. 3a), it is usually
useless for a quantitative analysis, which limits its
predictive or investigative value to a very narrow range.
The language used by biologists for verbal communications
is not better and is not unlike that used by stock
market analysts. Both are vague (e.g., “a balance between
pro- and anti-apoptotic bcl-2 proteins appears to control
the cell viability, and seems to correlate in long-term with
the ability to form tumors”) and avoid clear predictions."

https://bml.bioe.uic.edu/BML/Stuff/Stuff_files/biologist%20f...
The recent New Yorker article indicates that Mark put in a lot more than 1000 hours of programming before his freshman year.

Search for ZuckNet:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/09/20/100920fa_fact_...
You should move to Europe.
Freedom of speech is a means, not an end. It's a tool that we can use to shape society as we see fit.
Very much so, it took a long time for this to become obvious as a security problem.

My memory wuftpd was the first big program to suffer from this class of attacks.
That's the underlying truth - we don't have direct democracy, we have representative democracy.
Thai food and often involve palm sugar in what you’d consider savory dishes. And depending on the brand of coconut milk that’s used you could be nabbing extra carbs there too. So even without noodles and rice you may be sneakily pushing up against your daily carb limit and not realize it.
The only reason for anyone to be bigoted is because they were mislead.
I am using whatsapp since 2012 (or even earlier) if I remember correctly. I paid $2 a year for 5 years to use WhatsApp. The reason being I have friends and family all over the world including different parts of USA, canada, Dubai, Singapore, Australia, India, UK etc. Whatsapp was the best tool for communication. And as you suggest stories and statuses are a part of whatsapp, it's just a second thought at the best. Out of hundreds of my contacts, I can count people who post stories and statuses on one hand.

Those features are not standing in the way of user's migration to signal app as far as I can tell.
Dupe? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25691631
>I'll prognosticate that the close compatriots of the violent insurrectionists who are currently enjoying three hots and a cot courtesy of the US Government will almost certainly engage in more violent acts. Probably fairly soon.

I hear most people on the left support reforming criminals, and finding underlying root-causes. Do you?
I have to admit it's a shame there's no dark mode.

Browsing HN in the bed at night feels like staring at the sun (yes I use Night Shift and lowest brightness).
Hmm. I would think the entrepreneurs on this board would not care what others think. Since they would appear to others to be losers who haven't had a steady income for 3 years and borrow money from parents and relatives to code the next game that would get people addicted on clicking on buttons.
A Software Architecture Primer
Others have already listed good books. That's great, except I'd suggest spending time looking at data structures and algorithms books as well as software engineering and design books: a right data structure or algorithm can mean less code. However, I'll suggest something others only touched upon.

You already know more programming paradigms than most working programmers including those that have contributed to software you use daily. That's great and invaluable. Each of these paradigms told you something new about managing complexity (message passing in Squeak, reflection in Java, metalinguistic abstraction in Lisp). You can now apply them outside of those languages (that's what Design Patterns are about): multiple dispatch via Visitor Pattern in Java, message passing OO in Lisp[1], interfaces and implementations in C and so on.

[1] http://okmij.org/ftp/Scheme/oop-in-fp.txt

What you don't have is practice applying these lessons iteratively: put in effort, ship something (even with inadvertent mistakes), receive constructive criticism, find bugs and missing features, put in effort to improve design as needed to add features and fix bugs, ship an improved version and so on.

You're afraid of shipping something you're embarrassed of, or of failing to ship something that delivers on its promises. Every programmer feels that, it's perfectly natural and fine: its what motivates us to improve. Acknowledge this fear, but don't let it paralyze you.

There's a Russian proverb: eyes fear, hands do. Apply it.
As a highering manager (who uses Hadoop) it easy for me to request more head count at a 200k cost to the company. It is not even the same order of magnitude amount of effort to request hardware at 1/4 the price. What I could get done with more hardware...
I suspect we are more likely to see splinter DNS networks get set up and people will just learn how to add these servers to their configs for name resolution...

Can also see a future where the public Internet is deemed completely untrustworthy and everyone just connects with trusted parties over VPNs....

EDIT: I'd forgotten about these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_DNS_root
Try to read good code like TeX, Plan9, Arc, Lua or Tcl.
Don't forget though, Russ Roberts has an ideological dog in this hunt, and he'd like to recruit more anti-regulation followers, so he'll bend the argument to suit his biases. There is a sorities paradox element to it, but that doesn't mean "pile" is undefined; Ford has a government-granted monopoly - a trademark - on Taurus.

That substitutability is defined in a distributed way isn't a well-formed argument against tying it down in any particular case. Legal courts make these determinations every day concerning the meanings of texts, whose intent can be similarly hard to divine.
I teach my kids that the systems they are programming should be considered onions of abstraction layers. They need to understand how to choose from among the options available at each level and to realize that those options are constantly changing.

This onion is the only way we can deal with the ever-widening diversification and combinatorial explosion of hardware platforms, communications channels, types of users, geographic dispersion, data sources, problems to solve, etc.

Improvements at one layer demand adaptations at another; accumulate enough options at one layer and you need to encapsulate them in another. And the bigger these onions get, the more leverage they provide to anyone who uses them, meaning any improvement you make to some part of the onion is contributing to solving a thousand, or a million "actual problems" simultaneously.

If solving end-user problems is "why we're all doing this in the first place," a toolmaker who can solve 50% of each of a million different problems simultaneously is contributing more than those of us who solve the remaining 50% of just one.
Maybe his argument is that by buying the film he owns the rights?

As we learned in the SCOX vs. Novell trial, copyright can never be transferred without a full description of the items and rights being transferred in writing.
George Orwell's 1984 should be a required reading for high school students. Not just in the U.S., but world wide. It really highlights just what dangers come from the idea that you have nothing to fear if you have nothing to hide, and the sheer amount of power and influence a global, instantaneous, and always on intelligence network can have over the population.
It feels like they're just reclassifying heuristics as AI and then saying AI is everywhere. Also there is not a single solid example of what the author refers to as soft-AI. The author says things like

"... developing highly complex socio-technical systems in areas like health care, education, government and cities."

Like what? Give us a solid example. What code? Who is writing it? What does it do?
Unless we establish some artificial restrictions, that'll be inevitable.

The majority of People will want to defend themselves from threats --but people are also less willing than before to expend lives. Anti-war protesters against Iraqi and Afghan wars didn't assail their own soldiers any more --as in Vietnam, but rather couched it as 'we don't want American soldiers' lives put in harm's way' We are for the lives of soldiers so we are against war.... so with that the armed forces used more drones to make it more pallatable (fewer of our own lose lives). So, yes, I don't see why the Army etc, would not go in that direction, eventually.

Of course, antiwar protesters will have to find a new antiwar narrative --which may necessarily have some anti-self (anti-American) component which I think they have trying to avoid since it's a harder 'sell'.

Given that we will have foes, for whatever reason, and that some of those will irrationally engage with us, I would certainly prefer we use drones to people to fight those enemies. On ht other hand, since it will not incur the same amount of moral penalty from our side, we should reconsider when and how we'd said robotic fighters --in other words to try to ensure we don't run roughshod over perceived enemies rather than actual enemies who would bring destruction to us.
Anyone have resources to learn this sort of science (Morphemes, Feelings associated with sounds, etc)? I find it quite interesting.
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To be fair here, the NSA should very well be doing these things, for the purpose of attacking other states. The reason is very clear as the Russian attacks on Estonia ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_cyberattacks_on_Estonia ) demonstrate a clear need for defensive capability in this area, and where you have defence you end up needing offence.

This persistent confusion between legitimate NSA operations such as preparing to intercept communications of foreign governments and illegitimate such as mass slurping of everyone's email merely serves to discredit the entire privacy defending position, and in the long run will just play into the hands of those that want to read everyone's email for nefarious purposes.
Discussion of what?
re: cognitive vs physical development, I think at the level of star athlete most of the difference in performance is, for lack of a better word, mental

If you look at Michael Jordan, Tom Brady, Jeremy Lin, Tiger Woods ... they're very physically gifted, moreso than a typical pro player ... but it's not like they win by being drastically more physically gifted than their competition.

The thing that helps them to win may not be exactly conscious thought, but I think it's effectively a mental/behavioral advantage — certainly to me it seems like a better fit than attributing their success to their physical build (compared to competitors). Michael Phelps on the other hand ... well, some people are just born with the bodies to play certain sports :)
No, other people have pointed this out, this should have been very easy to recognize as inefficient in the source code. More likely the code was written hastily and only tested against very small inputs, and then nobody ever actually tried to improve the famously long load times.
Agreed. I think people see little video clips and think "oh, a GIF" without realizing that imgur, giphy, etc. don't actually use GIFs.
I have absolute respect for people who are able to do that kind of things. A few years back I've tried to play with reverse engineering but I never managed to get the skills.
For sure! There even is an everything-old-is-new-again iteration of that called Grapevine.haus
Why do they "need" 3 proofs of residency?!
They do. The best criticism I see on the Mayers Briggs is the one that attacks the whole notion of personality tests (including Mayers Briggs and the Big 5).

Big 5 is not an established scientific theory, it has never been. In fact in the field of psychology, personality is as useful as a concept as your astrological sign is. There is no evidence that personality trades exists outside of factor analyzing pen and paper tests, let alone that they can be measured and classified.

For personality to be a useful psychological concept it would need to be predictive of behavior. So far we have more evidence that religion has a bigger role then personality traits. E.g. studies find that the more religious people are the less they obey in the Milgram experiment, however there is no evidence that people that score highly on the agreeableness factor do.
I don’t see ECS going anywhere. AWS still maintains old services like SimpleDB and ECS development seems to be speeding up if anything.
Here are the industries I considered to be "finance":

- Hedge funds and other money management

- Private equity

- Investment banking

- Leveraged buyouts

- Proprietary trading

- Traditional (retail) banking and credit cards

I did not consider heirs with investments to have gotten their money in finance, unless they increased their original sum ten-fold or more (in real dollars). I also did not consider real estate investment/speculation to be finance.
Thanks. That sounds exactly right. For my purposes, this would be for future employers (I basically took a year off to work on this project). But I imagine a memo would be all I needed on a new job.
Well there's your problem, you're supposed to lift up the training wheels over time. At the beginning they may be used all the time but by the end they should only be there to catch a bike that's falling over.
And a net neutrality violation. Maybe CA customers won't be subject to the cap anymore? Or maybe they'll force Comcast to include their own traffic in the cap?
Is the project a fail for Lockheed Martin?

Didn't they get paid a bunch of money for it?

Don't they get paid again each time there's a rev?
I think if you make a fighter jet expend its missiles putting it in Winchester mode, and block its path to safety, thus expending its fuel... it drops from the sky. IMHO that would be a disable/defeat.
It's hard not to throw your hands up in the air and say "Well, if it turns out there's a black ball then I guess humanity just wasn't meant to make it" when the only realistic defense against the apocalyptic risidual is a as-yet hypothetical totally effective panopticon surveillance. Moreover, as the essay says; collective action problems have thusfar been total shitshows, even though the stakes are crazy high.

Yeah, the article says that so far humanity's approach has just been "hope there isn't a black ball" and we know that hoping isn't a tactic; but the alternative (global collaboration and perfect adherence) seems impossible even in the ideal.

So, yeah. My personal tactic has been "live a good life while you can, pitching in where you can". Humanity really needs an "Arrival" scenario to get our shit together before a black ball annihilates us.
A friend of mine is creating this app in NodeJS. You are encouraged to find bugs or give feature requests.

The github is: https://github.com/OutThisLife/horcrux
I love Ron Paul, and the headline is wrong, but his strategy is crazy.

Rational libertarians invest in what they think will, in risk adjusted terms, make them money. I don't think a pure gold (or bitcoin, or whatever) is the way to go.
> A "portfolio" does not have to, and should not, consist of side projects.

I agree with this

> If you have absolutely nothing that you can share (code, screenshots, a URL, a "case study") with a prospective employer, it's not the prospective employer that has a problem.

I disagree with this. If you require this to be true, you've instantly excluded everyone's experience in either government (particularly defense), or industry when you work on internal services. There's a huge number of enterprise developers at my current company who will never be able to show you their work because they're all internal applications. Maybe a "case study" would work, but you have to be real careful of not to cover anything that doesn't fall into the trade secret category.