jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Confidence is really just the ability to be comfortable with the person you are. I would suspect this is why you are confident with your friends but not with other people. When you are with your friends, you are comfortable with what you say, how you act, what they are thinking but with other people, you are probably second guessing some aspect of your nature.

If you want to be confident with a wider group of people, you need to understand what part of you are you not comfortable showing to other people. For some people, it is physical. They do not believe they are attractive enough and so it holds them back. For some, it is intellectual, "what if I say something dumb or unimpressive". There are a myriad of possibilities and it is probably a good use of your time to understand what your issues are (and why you have those hangups).

There are a number ways to deal with your hang ups. One way that works is to apply brute force. Just act inspite of your anxiety. I suspect that a majority of people that appear really confident just take this approach. They're scared but just do it anyway.

Another approach is to try and remove the root of the fear altogether. Some people do that by actually courting failure. You think people are judging your intellect, then say the dumbest thing you can think of and see what happens. Scared people don't think you're good looking, approach people completely out of your league. The idea is to actively cause the situation you are afraid of so that you can experience it (instead of imagining it) and realize it isn't so bad.

Whichever approach you decide to take, I would suggest you ensure you do take action to deal with it. Anxiety has a way of making you feel like crap, which leads to further inaction, leading to more anxiety and then a spiral of regret and wasted time. The truth is there is not much that can happen to you that will crush you completely. Time and the love of a few heals all wounds.

Good luck!
Is there any chance it still works at all? Probably not but I'm just curious. They said the problem was that the antenna was blocked under the solar panel.
I quite like Camelia.
I agree that his evidence is sound. But like any other constructed data set, Piketty makes choices about measurement indicators and categories that are open to challenge. The way that he composes his measures of wealth and capital could be more nuanced, if those nuances make a significant difference in the results produced by the models built on top of them. This MIT student seems to be doing just that—arguing that the composition of land and capital in measures of wealth need to be treated with more nuance, and that measures of capital need to take account of depreciation in a different way than Piketty does.

I make similar arguments in my dissertation about one of the longest-running, most widely used data sets in my field. Sometimes the categorization of data is misleading in certain ways that elides phenomena that are actually very significant.

Piketty's construction of the data set is fantastic work. But it doesn't mean that all the choices he made in constructing and categorizing the data are the best choices that could have been made.
Neat, but something tells me this won't be catching on.
A UI-free YouTube link: https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/ymaWq5yZIYM
Right, they can say it applies... but if a company does no business in Europe, how can a judgement be enforced?
How are bad SEO practices fundamentally about lying? What are bad SEO practices?
It looks like two cars on top of eachother and if it's a face then it reminds me of this unsettling face illusion:

https://i.imgur.com/5lslbsJ.jpg
Agreed. It’s disappointing to see multiple comments here with ad hominem attacks on Cohen instead of discussing what he said.
> 2019-22-11: Fixed the examples in the "Faux Predicate" section after several keen eyed readers noticed it was backwards.

What abomination of a date format is this? I can only assume this is a bug, a typo, or an easter egg for those paying attention. Please let it be one of those. The last thing the world needs is people pushing yet another crazy date format into use.
It is a good replacement for C like programs, that is all.
European countries are much more compact, which makes public transportation much easier to justify. By contrast, the US is extremely spread out and public transportation yields much less ROI even in many urban areas.

Vehicle ownership in the US is practically a requirement because you have to drive to get anywhere. Therefor, having a versitile vehicle like a truck is more apealing.

Trucks also tend to be more durable than cars so they're more common in the used market, especially in the midwest.

...but for many, a truck is just an aesthetic/lifestyle symbol. The "country" lifestyle is generally associated with independence and work ethic - traits which are highly valued in the US. Trucks are a classic symbol of that lifestyle. That's why country songs stereotypically mention trucks.
From a professional perspective, if you think ML is a fad you are completely missing the train.
>This is inflammatory.

Sometimes the truth is inflammatory.

I think it's hard to argue at this point that Facebook is not a force for evil in the world. Engineers spending their productive years to further this evil company should feel some shame.
I'd say travel now, and do a startup later. You need a kind of focus if you do a startup that you just can't achieve when travelling.
Infected terran programmer:
While they can still write code that works, the tools/processes required by the company slow them down. (someone higher up has to bless the project with creep before it can be started)

Before being infected, they completed many projects one after another without being exhausted. However, after being infected, the programmers mysteriously disappear after completing a project for the first time...
I liked the idea of categorizing things using Starcraft, but
this didn't particularly resonate for me. In particular:

a) Shiny math and shiny languages are negatively correlated; the mathier a grad student is, the more likely he is to use Matlab and the less likely he is to actually know how to program. When mathier people write non-Matlab code, it is often (but obviously not always) very shitty. Now, there are ML people, but they're a small subset of mathy programmers.

b) The "Terran" description is closest to what you would think of as a normal hacker, but hackers generally care that what they make is good, and people who care about code being good are not usually characterized as "just getting shit done," since for example they rewrite code that works just because it's ugly.

c) Terrans, by which I mean hackers, can and do learn math and then become unstoppable. I imagine there's some Starcraft parallel here, but I haven't played it recently enough.
Exactly, that's what I'm going to do starting end of february for 5 months. 2 months in jakarta where my girlfriend finishes a job, and then 3 months in southeast asia, planning to stay a couple of weeks in the same place, working on software projects and doing a bit of exploring. Would really like to hear more about people who did that, as I have a couple of questions that remain unanswered for now.

- Do you create a company before leaving, or after coming back home? (That would allow you to charge for early versions of your product, thus verifying people are interested to buy)

- How do you tap in the local developer/designer community to outsource part of your project?

- How do you decide whether to rent an apartment/stay in hotels? I would prefer to stay in an apartment, however I imagine you stay first in a hotel in a couple of days before deciding to rent an apartment.

- What kind of place did you find more energizing to work at? A busy metropolis, or a remote village with fantastic views but no like-minded people?
http://yfrog.com/h4ok4ep
I'm coming to Berlin for a vacation, I'll pop by on Wednesday if there are one day tickets available for that day.
The breathtaking technology innovation they have produced is

all the Valley insiders they've gotten to use it.
I'd say neither: there are 10000 centrifuges and only 1000 were replaced, it's not certain that that has anything to do with the virus, the virus gained a lot of press early on which prevented it from staying put and silently disrupting for any longer period of time (which was the supposed mode of operation). Not to mention that it was so "overdesigned" that it was too obvious that it's a too well funded operation etc.
You have to work extremely hard (think 100+ hours per week) for several years

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2009/10/04/work-smarter-not-harder/
Huh? What does hate have to do with anything? Use it to recognize the privileges you have, and then use those privileges to help others share those privileges.

It's not easy, of course. "Sharing the privilege" of being part of the dominant Christian culture in the US doesn't means helping others become Christian. But neither doesn't mean hating oneself for being Christian.
"However, society may find itself sorely tested if, as seems possible, growth and innovation deliver handsome gains to the skilled, while the rest cling to dwindling employment opportunities at stagnant wages."

As insurmountable as it may seem, people living in and affected by these innovative societies just need to adapt accordingly. It is in our innate nature to do so rather than remain stagnant and perpetuate mediocre jobs that were created as a result of the industrial revolution. People can acquire new skills and leverage themselves to appropriate some of the "handsome gains". Also, globalization would only exacerbate the issue of "dwindling employment opportunities". Nowadays, more and more corporations seek to outsource jobs to other countries due to cheap labor costs.
For most people, it'll be a paradigmatic shift in thinking and seeking ways to contribute to society. Machine learning and artificial intelligence will only serve those who can transcend the repressive jobs which are inherently repetitive and meant for a machine to accomplish as they are the jobs most susceptible to computerization.
The growth rate is falling though.
Aren't humans hunter-gathers and not having food for some periods of time has become part of who we are?

To me vasting makes total sense, whether it's religious, spiritual or otherwise.
Not sure, I can eat quite a lot, I do a lot of exercise and I'm pretty lean. I just eat until I'm full, might have a few snacks later.
It might be easier with copyright, since it wont rely on the local prosecutor to do anything, the artist can sue
Sure, “PC” was (is?) synonymous with Windows, but as @ricketycricket said, Apple wasn’t calling out a single thing, but all computers that are labeled “PC”.
Keep up the experiment, California. Middle America is excited to see the results in 20 years.
I think that’s fair. So all you have to do is make it fair for everyone. We should allow the teenager to arrest the policeman.
>> The growth of the Internet will slow drastically, as the flaw in “Metcalfe’s law” — which states that the number of potential connections in a network is proportional to the square of the number of participants — becomes apparent: most people have nothing to say to each other

I don't quite get this. My understanding is that Metcalfe's law groups 2 people out of n ie nC2 which means every person is talking to every other person.
When I see nominations based solely on race, this makes me doubts the qualifications of everyone on a board.

Same thing with schools/companies with diversity quotas. If the person is "diverse" you can never really know if he/she is there on merit or if someone had to lower the bar to fill the quota. But if they aren't "diverse" you know they are there on merit.

Am-I the only one?
We never test, in the rare situations we test, we first test it on production.

:)
I'm not even sure what you're going off about.

But yes, I hold the police to higher standards of professional conduct than I do common criminals.
I should add to lihaoyi's reply that in addition to the target environment's libraries, many Scala libraries cross-compile for Scala JVM, Scala.js, and (to a lesser extent due to its relative novelty) Scala Native.

For example I am now cross-compiling JVM/JS a fairly large project which uses, directly or indirectly, Circe, Cats, ScalaTest, Enumeratum, Shapeless, and Parboiled2, and all of that works flawlessly.
Very cool, Idris looks like a really interesting language.

F#'s standard printf-family functions are all type-safe in exactly the same way. This requires special support by the compiler, though, as F#'s type system is not as powerful. Most of the plumbing is standard, but the conversion from string literal to PrintfFormat at compile time is only possible due to hardcoded magic. You can't get exactly the same effect from plain user code, though you could certainly get something very close using a Type Provider (the syntax would just be a bit clunkier).
Not paying for your kid's college doesn't mean they don't go to college. I went to a very respectable state university with loans that I paid off within 3 years after graduating. I've worked at some of the top companies in the world. It's very attainable and not unreasonable.
Isn't April Fools on the 1st?
Transacting the coin itself rarely has any energy footprint. It's the security of the network that requires the mining and that is very separate to signal using it.

Unless the idea is that by using another coin, they don't add to the security requirements. That's a dubious line of thinking.
I almost always default to git add -p when staging (and git reset -p when needed). Git rebase -i also feels very quick to me as well.

When isolating just one line from many changes the gui is nice, but in the majority of cases the CLI is much faster (no need to scroll in long files to find the next hunk)
would they know which car I drive from looking at me?
Depends on where you live. Note the currency used.
Or more likely they don't like low quality reddit jokes showing up here.
not my underwear colour, type, size. What they see is what I offer to show
I don't think Ray Dalio has ever given much investment advice beyond "diversify into everything". I think his next book is supposed to cover some of that though.
I think in the case of crypto the cost is the volatility of the coins against the dollar . So that if you wanted to do something with those 64 usd you may end up with 1 million less by the time you exchange it due to volatility and slippage.
> potentially because they think it's poor form to ask about LPs.

It is, but I'm not sure it's for the reasons you are implying. First and foremost, Saudi money and oil money is an enormous part of global wealth /full stop/. That deep degree of intermixing happened decades ago; there's no putting that cat back in the bag. Asking a question like this to VCs who you are ostensibly trying to make a good first impression upon is akin to telling someone that you don't have sex on the first date. Perhaps you don't, but phrasing it that way is a seriously tonedeaf way to signal it.

If your primary motivation as a founder is to raise "untainted" money rather than money on good terms and from partners who can help you, I wonder whether you should be fundraising for a VC funded startup at all. This isn't meant as a dig at you -- I just think that the VC funded startup path is often considered a default path, and there are a lot of founders with amazing things to offer the world that might benefit from alternate financing more than VC. If you're concerned about LP fund sources for VC, then alternate funding may be something worth considering.
They know I visited the page by their servers serving me the page. Why the hell does Google need to be involved for that?

And why should a random page I visit get to know my demography, interests and where I come from? How can you portray avoiding that as taking privacy too far??

I don't care if that makes it harder to optimize your business. Find another way or perish.
In many US locations we use gas heat instead of electric. It’s far more efficient to burn fuel for heat instead of burning fuel for electricity and then converting that electricity to heat.

US building codes are also increasingly strict about insulation and energy efficiency. Premium home builders go even further with insulation. In some locations, new houses are so well insulated and sealed that extra fresh air heat recovery units are necessary to exchange the indoor air.
Same here. Even though I was satisfied with Delicious, I wanted my bookmarks somewhere safe. Now the question arises: will Delicious write importers for all these other services so that I can move back?
I know a lot of people who work/have worked there, and it seems to be a very love it or hate it company. They work people hard, but the people who like that kind of environment thrive. They seem to be pretty ruthless about improving in certain areas and are very metric-focused. I'm not sure it's a great place to program, but it's certainly a great place to learn about programming.
It seems criminal to me that Universities are allowed to have teaching assistants teach classes. Aren't they supposed to be the assistants, not the teachers?

It seems OK to have them help with grading or tutoring, but teaching the entire class? Why do we allow Universities that do this to remain accredited? Why do students put up with it? In more expensive places, you are paying a TA's entire yearly pay for 4 classes.
> Is MS forcing PC OEMs to bundle Windows Phones with their PCs?

AFAIK (everything under NDAs) HTC's deal to make WP7 phones along their Android ones reduced the cost of their settlement. Dell selling WP7 phones has, probably, some impact on their OEM license costs.
QR Code for the link:

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Just reading his run up regarding their distributed server technology it read to me like a brief ad for AppEngine.

I'm thinking about all of the hardcore neuron work that went in to their infrastructure and how I'm getting a competing product for a song.
Nicanor Parra
Also interesting is the apparent fact that map and set (the tree-based ones) grow at faster than logarithmic time---if they were true O(lg n) then (given the log scale on the x axis) they should appear linear on these graphs.

It would be nice to see the specific code used to run the benchmarks, though.
In the spirit of (and referenced by) the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry mentioned in the article, here's a lovely little philosophical (and not substantially mathematical) dialogue about holes: http://www.philosophy.org.vt.edu/files/9013/4455/4412/Lewis_... .

(I think the philosophers should be listening to the mathematicians, though. Part of the answer to the question "what is a hole", and part of the explanation for, e.g., the fact that counting the number of holes in a thing is problematic, is that what holed-ness really is is nontrivial homology, and the right question for holes is not "how many?" but "what homology groups?", etc.)
Maybe if employees of big tech would whisteblow to Congress on being forced into the unethical abuse of property rights that would help?
Eh. I just cast both to a bigger integer type where possible, which in practice, is almost always. So if I'm averaging two uint32_ts, I just cast them to uint64_t beforehand. Or in Rust, with its lovely native support for 128-bit integers, I cast a 64-bit integer to 128-bit.
> but you still can't use a second phone as a linked/secondary device. As a result, it is literally impossible to have the same signal account on two iPhones.

I use my google voice number on multiple phones.
You pick AOC and Bernie as examples of people fighting for the middle class. AOC's Green New Deal would've destroyed the middle class. She probably means well, but she really is just a useful idiot.
I originally liked Simple but hit some rather unsavory bugs like getting a notification there was an error with a transfer that later went through (around 30-40 minutes later when their job queue apparently caught up) and bugs where a transaction would show as pending and cleared at the same time (there was this weird 4 hour window when I got paid)

Either way... I ended up splitting between Ally and Discover. Paychecks go into Discover and a scheduled transfer (the sum of all budgets) goes to Ally along with a separate savings transfer. The end result is Discover is "safe to spend" but there's less granularity in the buckets/envelopes
This is pretty cool. An Apple car could be amazing, and something like a small electric town car probably wouldn't be too expensive as a joint pilot product between companies like Apple and Hyundai.

But, here are the big questions. Will it work with my Android phone and my relatives' Fire tablets? And will it continue to work well in 20 years when it stops getting updates?

If the answer to both of those is "yes", then I'm excited.
It's a hard problem to work around which is rooted in the data available. I published this paper while I was at Google:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-019-0447-x

The only data we were able to get at the time was mostly white patients. We talked to many hospitals but many were/are reluctant to share anonymized data for research. I'm not at Google so I'm not sure the status of the project now, but there was a real attempt to try and gather more diverse data. Unfortunately there were a lot of obstacles put up by those who have the data (hospital systems).

Fundamentally, it seems to me like there just aren't as many lung cancer screening scans out there for non-white patients as there are for white patients. How do we get around this? How do we improve on the situation? I fundamentally believe that machine learning in the long term can make medicine more accessible to more diverse groups, but not if we shoot it down out of fearmongering right away.

I agree that bias is a problem, but part of what needs to happen to get more diverse data is simply having more data available. There is real promise in this technology and if we have a one dimensional view of it ("is it or is it not dangerous because of bias/privacy") then we will fail to get past the initial humps related to fear and distrust.
> Given that bink has been around for ages, it almost always finds a niche of decoding stuff fast for video games.

Well, that's exactly the point. It's been around for dark ages. Today things are different.

For new codecs like AV1 there are new and efficient decoders too and they are only getting better. It's not all limited to ffmpeg which is using external decoders anyway, it doesn't decode things itself.
> I can hardly imagine that. They would hate me for wasting their time they could use to learn something practical. To me Vim seems a crazy alien technology of particularly questionable usefulness (even for a keyboard-centric user)

I know tons of developers and system administrators that use vim on a daily basis (that includes me). While I agree that I would not necessarily recommend it for a beginning student, it is entirely unfair to describe it as having "particularly questionable usefulness", and "only suitable for fun and for looking cool". I and many others use vim for real work, not for "looking cool".

Yes, the learning curve is high, and it requires investing some time to learn. My experience is that the time I spent learning it was well worth the investment. It's not for everyone, but that doesn't mean that it not for anyone.
Seems off-brand for Apple. 'Premium' isn't the first thing I think of when it comes to Hyundai. I get that they've been trying to change that with Genesis line but seems like a ways to go.
There is automatic software used in court rooms to determine sentencing in some places. It is a bit of a controversy because this was something only a Judge was empowered to do.
> feels like it might spiral into one of the major new stories this year with it’s likely legs.

many can only hope.
FWIW, it's rare these days that I need to go "beyond R" for anything. If there were a Python IDE that worked as well as RStudio, I might explore it.