jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
In this case, though, I would object to this idea of bullying being a bad strategy. I think the general consensus of literature on adolescent bullying in US and US-like countries, including some not, like Japan and China, is that bullies are among the most popular people in the school context.

There are also studies showing that bullies experience protective effects against some psychological issues, such as social anxiety and loneliness.

Also, both bystanders rate bullies as the most popular people, and they also list them as the most desirable people (victims do too, which is very unintuitive).

Also very interesting: bullying behaves like a social position, with people moving in and out as bully one year, but not the next, whereas victimhood is more stable, like an identity, and may persist from school to school and to online social contexts.

Here's what I'd like to know. Since I haven't read a shred of literature on adult workplace bullying, I'm curious to see if bystanders still behave the same way. Because if they do, that means backstabbing, mudslinging, and office politicking are still vibrant strategies, because it's bystanders who bring the rewards of bullying. The people emote to the tyrant emperor their whims regarding an office gladiator.
Ha! this is great! Congratulations on your award ;)
> A future where there are a lot more of 'them' than 'us'? Fine with me. Is that fine with you?

Not in the slightest, no. I prefer the average IQ of the world to not drop by a standard deviation - you think we'll get out of climate trouble when most people are functionally illiterate?

Well, we might, in the sense that we might lose the ability to manufacture things that produce significant carbon.....
Also recommend their daily news snack at https://www.economist.com/espresso
Funny you should mention GM, they had:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MagneRide

Bosch had electromagnetic car suspensions figured out 20 years ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KPYIaks1UY

The car industry is a perfect example of "worst is better".

The point about the cheap golf-kart car from China is about how little in terms of material costs actually goes into it. It is $5,000 shipped. In actuality it is about $2000 in parts.

The skateboard platform I linked to is already developed, they are supposedly going public this year, not just a concept.

If they can get them to pack flat (or flat-ish), they can ship quite a lot of them around the world for peanuts. Add whatever cab, wheels and branding you want to finish it off.

All of this stuff is about to become a commodity. The most, and basically only, expensive part is the battery.
The word on the street is that is primarily protected by patents, which explicitly protect against from scratch competing implementations, unlike copyright protection which only protects against verbatim copying of the original work.

On the plus side though, they only get 20 years of protection. x86-64 in it's original form should be up for grabs pretty soon here.
It does benefits bigger organizations that have more of an ability to absorb higher costs than small businesses and startups, just like any other regulatory burden.
The awards were separate, one for damages and another for services rendered by her legal team. She could have won the damages and received nothing for the rest, in which case she would be net negative 500k or so.

It doesn't look like an ambulance chaser case where the she agreed to give the lawyers 2/3 of the damages. Does go to show you how crazy expensive real litigation is.

From the document her team posted:

> She is awarded the relief requested in her Post-Hearing Brief, including her damages in the amount of $324,000 plus attorney fees, litigation expenses, and costs in the amount of $805,313.45 which, though high, reflects the high quality of legal work done in this case.
There are also plenty of natural geographies with dangerous levels of some compounds.

The question really is "what is the optimal level of this compound" followed by "how far are we happy to deviate from the optimal amount in either direction to make water production cheaper while having minimal health downsides?"
I'm in a similar boat, though I used caffeine mints to gently ease down that slope, reducing by one mint a day. Worked great. In terms of creativity, taking time off from tech helps a lot, and the occasional cup of coffee does as well, with a much larger mind-boost because it's no longer regular for my body.
My favorite easy yet powerful enough web framework to start with is probably Sinatra. http://sinatrarb.com On top of that, Ruby in itself is one of the easiest language to learn.

This is for the backend. The only thing that is semi-difficult with Ruby web projects is that a lot of cheap hosting places do not make it possible for you to use it. Ask around if you need a place to host your projects.

For the front-end (the presentation), learn to write HTML properly by focusing on what the data you want to present "is" and using the appropriate markup. This is in a nutshell what we call "semantic markup". CSS comes AFTER your document looks right in its plain, unadorned html format.

Look at examples from your favorite websites ( Use "view source" in your browser ). Use Firefox + Firebug to get an idea of how the document is constructed.

Use google a lot.
Surprisingly, significant parts of the code is not open source. According to this page, http://bazel.io/docs/governance.html,

Is Bazel developed fully in the open?

Unfortunately not. We have a significant amount of code
that is not open source; in terms of rules, only ~10% of
the rules are open source at this point. We did an
experiment where we marked all changes that crossed the
internal and external code bases over the course of a few
weeks, only to discover that a lot of our changes still
cross both code bases.
It would appear so - https://developer.uber.com/v1/endpoints/#user-activity-v1-1

It doesn't seem to give the pickup / dropoff locations, however.
What I find interesting & frustrating with ansible is that it is idempotent, but not everything is reversible (or is it? I am a noob with ansible.)

So how do people test their ansible playbooks if they can't easily reverse their state?
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You seem to have a model of the human brain as a machine with a moral selector. If it is set to "good", then the morally-correct neural programs are automatically activated, producing a moral outcome, or at least a valiant attempt interrupted by bad luck.

"If you think that going to the bank, doing your laundry, and answering emails in a timely manner is some sort of accomplishment or difficult, ..."

In reality, the actions of the human brain appear to be directed by a complicated network of multiple pattern matchers that search for salient input. When one of them recognizes a pattern with sufficient intensity, it produces an output that directs attention and activity toward it. These pattern matchers vary across the population. Some people are entranced by music, some by tidiness, some by praise, some by chasing tail, some by financial work that they have been told needs to be done, etc. etc. etc.

There appear to be pattern matchers that work on thought itself, sustaining attention to an idea so that it spontaneously stays somewhere near the focus of attention with little perceived effort. This facility appears to vary a lot between people. Some people get stuck (obsessive-compulsive disorder), most folks remember the more important things most of the time, and for some people holding onto a thought is like trying to catch smoke. Studies of twins separated at birth show that this facility is about as heritable as adult height.

"Going to the bank is hard?!?!?"

Going is easy, but for some people it simply does not spontaneously float into the focus of attention. If the police aren't about the come asking awkward questions, if the person has enough folding money for food, and so forth, then it readily slips out their conscious mind. They'd rather it did not, but a weak meta-mind cannot readily fix itself with meta-thinking.

I fall on the easily-distracted-by-shiny-objects end of the spectrum. Somewhere around here I have a $50 refund check that I've had for ages. The cops don't care, nothing gets turned off if I ignore it, so it keeps falling off the radar. It will probably continue to be forgotten until it has more value as a collectible. One of my descendants will euphorically sell it for Federation credits and then promptly misplace their credit chip. They will feel really guilty, but this will not help them find their credit chip.

"I choose to be responsible because my kids can't do their own laundry or buy their own groceries."

Try choosing to be irresponsible for three straight weeks. Your kids will not be harmed by a few weeks of nachos and slightly-dirty clothes. I bet you couldn't do it. The salience detector in your brain would scream and you would be compelled to obsessively fix it, regardless of your previous "choice" to prove you could, and your brain's storyteller would then cook up a story about how you really meant to do laundry all along.
Granted, detailed requirements are good. But many - if not most - clients are unable to write a requirements document on their own. So it becomes part of the contractor's job to help them develop the requirements.

I've seen a number of cases where the client spends a lot of time writing detailed requirements that are technically infeasible. They may not realize that in their simple "if x then y" statement, x is actually the result of a fifty step process involving a unicorn and a carebear making sweet love.
"The clinical literature on antidepressant drugs is massive, since large-scale, rigorous studies are required for market approval from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)."

It's actually not that massive it all. Drug makers are only required to show that the drug is effective for six weeks, and the FDA lets them wash out placebo responders. Also, the drug companies lie their asses off about the safety and efficacy of the drugs in order to get them approved, and they bury the studies that don't support their position. The number of independent, scientifically rigorous studies on the long term safety and efficacy of these drugs is tiny.
Lambda the Ultimate is a good programming-languages-blog aggregator, with some very good discussion in the comments, though it does tilt a bit academic: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/
Maybe drop the term criticism? While I understand it's meaning I don't think anyone ever said, "please criticise me".

That being said how teachable your colleague is an unknown. So you may need to manage the situation rather than fix it.
It’s not segregation because the school doesn’t place students in these classes based on their skin color.

Oftentimes these disparities arise from communities being economically mixed along racial lines. It’s not even the case that these economic disparities arise from what’s called “systemic racism.” In urban school districts many kids are immigrants or children of immigrants, and have lesser economic circumstances because of recent migration. Treating them differently based on skin color doesn’t help erase some historical injustice. For example, Bangladeshi Americans, a group I belong to, have a household income in New York City much lower than whites. Indian Americans, by contrast, have incomes much higher than whites. These disparities aren’t due to differing effects of “racism” but recency of immigration and characteristics of the immigrants. This is true for Latinos as well. They have lower incomes now because a large number are recent economic migrants. But their incomes are converging with those of white people over time: https://academic.oup.com/qje/article/135/2/711/5687353. (In fact, after three generations, half of Latinos don’t even identify as such.)

The data shows that, apart from Black and Native American people, other ethnic groups in the US are similarly situated to how Polish people, Italians, etc., were during the early 20th century. Or how Cubans or Vietnamese were in the later 20th century. They’re in the process of economic integration. It’s not a situation where government discrimination is required now to erase the effects of past government discrimination.

For similar reasons, it makes no sense to discriminate between kids based on race to address present (rather than systemic) economic disparities. For purposes of dismantling gifted programs and test-based admissions, whites and Asians are typically lumped together. But in NYC, for example, most Asian kids in the gifted programs are actually fairly poor, because they’re the children of recent immigrants. It’s irrational to lump them together with whites in the “advantaged” group.
Paty was French, where did you get Danish or Norwegian from?
Helpful is subjective. I don't feel like sharing something personal here though.

Do you take the time to understand everyone you meet, their motivations, their goals, and their challenges? Even the ones who don't want you to?
It may be because cryptocurrencies in their present state represent little other than a electricity-hungry 'store of value' rather than its considerably loftier original goals.
"The absence of official builds means that" [incomplete sentence]
Isn't that true of every open source project?
Each link you posted points to two separate digital objects both for the "enjoyment of a piece", not the "ownership of the piece". Think of ownership of a piece as the certificate of authenticity.

The first link is on superrare. The superrare image can also be enjoyed by anyone. However, the (very small) link (https://etherscan.io/tx/0xd9e4971bef6d37807605e0eb635eb4b6d9...) to the transaction on the page, tells me the owner of the art piece is 0x053e84e80cfb38d672d53394de3dade1fbbacd25.

The second link is on your own homepage. You can claim ownership on the image (since it's on your homepage), which gives you the enjoyment of the piece. But you don't claim ownership of the art piece.

Now, who determines which one is the real one? Depends on the counter-party you're transacting with, and what they're willing to honor.

If I as the counter-party, am being sold ownership of the art piece from both you and 0x053e84e, I'd take it from 0x053e84e, for the same reason you tried to make: digital images are exact copies. He own the non-duplicable NFT and provably so, and can transfer that NFT to me.

If I as the counter-party is the creator of the piece, I can give certificate owners extra VIP features for the art piece, like a chance to meet me, or a one time delivery of a look-book of the making-of of the piece, I can do that, and be sure that it's not fake owners. The pleasure of ownership is different than the pleasure of enjoyment of the piece.

So what links the NFT (the certificate) to that particular image? Well, right now, it's conferred by Superrare. If this is turns out to be an issue, I can see ways around it.

One option is to use procedurally generated art, where the parameters are stored in the NFT. I think there may be others.
> Remember a few years back when used mining cards flooded the market and you could get a decent GPU dirt cheap?

No, not at all. Any references?
Here is a Wired article (2014) on the TMRC with photos of the actual layout: https://www.wired.com/2014/11/the-tech-model-railroad-club/
ah nevermind - I read some more and it looks more like an app store. Actually I'm not quite sure, but sounds like it's not aimed at me anyway lol. Good luck with it and nice design.
Apenwarr. https://apenwarr.ca/log/

I know him a little IRL and, although he hasn't done anything that has made him famous, I believe he's in the same league.
> entitlement of randoms

This is a very HN-specific view of the world.

In the rest of the world, when someone contacts you with good intentions, you respond. Has nothing to do with entitlement. It's common courtesy.
On this website, we pretend that the entire world can be reduced to a good-faith discussion between two sides with equal merit. Anything that is incompatible with this is distasteful.
I'll take a look on my end.
So when discussing the nutritional benefits of a legume. Should we be more focused on it in its raw form or the form that people eat it in (almost certainly cooked). Cooking is absolutely part of the point. Which is why any article you read about lectin in grains and legumes should discuss the effect of cooking on lectins.
One time I got fired twice in a year.

The first was because I fought for a better way to do things since the company didn't seem to go anywhere with launching their first product (startup). I had to make a stance: fight or sink with the company. Fired because they thought I was unhappy working there.

I was happy to be let go. I didn't enjoy working there anymore. The company is neither alive nor dead.

The second was because my role was considered a "luxurious" to have during the hard time of the company (they downsized 2.5 weeks before they decided to let me go). 1.5 weeks before I was let go, my supervisor informed me that my work was "in the line of being successful". I didn't know that their situation was really that bad. When I joined, I thought they were in a very good financial position.

The second time was tough, cause I just lost my job a few months before. Having said that, I was planning to quit 2 more months before it happened cause the job was really boring and have no concrete goal.

Every time after I got fired, my mind was clouded by the possibility of doing my own startup, learning different programming languages, learning new frameworks, blogging or something else. Should I make a web-app? should I make an iPhone app? should I sell something online? What should I do (copied from LeBron's Nike ad hehe)?

As someone mentioned in this thread: one thing about being fired is that you get a chance to collect unemployment.

Within that year, I took some time off to step back and think hard. Afterward, I managed to make a few key decisions. One of them was a tough one: decided not to pursue programming as a career. Instead, I chose Sys-Admin. Worked my ass off to get certified.

These days, things are more stable for me. I enjoy my life better than before.

No more indecision which programming language I should learn, fear that there will be another complicated framework to be released soon, overwhelmed by the job requirements as a developer (ranging from XML, to agile, to various RDBMS, to testing/algorithms/design patterns), fighting with your colleagues which solution is better (we're not even talking about building a gold standard code, just a simple should you use singleton or not, especially when you want your code to be unit-testable).

The money is good. The career is quite stable. My mind is clear now. I also joined the iPhone/iPad movement recently. But instead of coding the app, I outsource everything. I might run my own web-startup one day cause I'm still curious and feel unrest if I haven't done it. But, again, I will outsource everything to someone else.
The way to stop the sexual assaults is not to target the sexual assaults, but to target flying. Don't opt out of the scanners, the opt out won't be available forever anyway. Just don't fly. Not on a particular day. Just don't fly.

Currently, there are two major kinds of travelers, business and vacation. It will be difficult to curb vacation travel, since you want to go somewhere and you only have a week to do it.

Business travel would be possible to cut drastically. And it would be good for business too. "All" it would need (and I realize "all" encompasses a lot), would be much more excellent process and data integration and sharing. I don't mean adding the word "solution" to a Lotus notes sale. I mean systems that make it all but irrelevant whether your employee or vendor is on site or on the moon.

I'm not an enterprisy guy, so I know I've stated that in a clumsy and probably mistargeted way. But it does seem that if anyone, or any industry, could cut the need for travel and increase the value of services and products sold, the world would beat a path.

Maybe the cost/benefit lines didn't cross. Maybe we'll look back and have the TSA to thank for that crossing, and a better way to do global business.
I've read that many employees retire early with full benefits and then get their buddies to hire them back as contractors for even higher pay while getting benefits. Your delivery person may be making over $100k with full benefits.

Their executives are even more corrupt:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09...

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/feb/17/in-hard-time...

Maybe they need an "auto-industry" style reset.

(and bulk rate definitely needs a 50% increase)
This is an on-going battle, but I think that it is somewhat skewed. When enough people agree that "This story shouldn't be here" no one that complains gets quoted the rules. When few people agree that "this shouldn't be here" all of the people in disagreement trot out the rulebook.

It really seems like a 'selectively enforced' rule, even though there aren't any 'official' HN enforcers.
Eh, maybe, although I kinda doubt it, there's an assumption to think that because we didn't have a collapse, there was no danger of one. Vanishing 1/3 of the banking industry overnight without an organized wind-down would likely have led to disaster even in retrospect.

In the moment? Anyone who voted against that bill was either posturing or a madman. I mean, we got the money back anyways, most of it. Why play chicken?
excellent point. there was also a revolt against the TSA back in 2004/2005 and i think this one is shaping up even louder. airlines, pilots, flight attendants, passengers, parents, and seniors are all on the same side here. and politically, beating up on the TSA is going to be popular on both sides of the aisle.
Okay, a few thoughts:

1) Two 10kg dumbbells will be insufficient in even the short term. The idea is to make progress over time; ie being able to lift more weight for the same number of reps.

2) You need an exercise program built around the compound lifts. That is:

* Deadlifts

* Squats

* Bench Press

* Overhead Press

* Chinups/Pullups

There's quite a few of these around; Stronglifts and Starting Strength are two that come to mind. Find one of them on the internet and stick to it religiously for a few months. Don't try to tweak it yourself.

3) To perform these properly you'll either need to join a gym or get access to the following:

* A 20 kg olympic barbell and plates

* A power rack

* A bench

You'll use the power rack to do the pullups/chinups and protect you while squatting and benching (it's much more vital when you don't have a spotter to help you if you try lifting something too heavy for you).

4) Form is vital. You can do quite a bit of damage to your body with shitty form.

5) Get plenty of rest and healthy food. Diet is probably harder to stick to than working out simply because it takes up so much time.

6) Three full body workouts each week is plenty.

7) Track your progress. It's much easier to stick to something if you can see that you're putting on muscle/losing fat/whatever. Use spreadsheets with weight/weights lifted, photos of your physique over time, the works.