skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll echo the sentiment of "useless interview", most of it was ungrounded rambling. I wrote a bit on the parts that actually seemed to have ideas going on.

While I can't comment on the bill being discussed (not Canadian and it looks boring), the claims this guy is making about it consist of sweeping generalizations about feminist academics and activists, and a weird obsession with Marxism, something that he also describes using sweeping generalizations, but it's weird because I can't put a finger on what exactly he believes is common among and unique to Soviet nationalist and contemporary social justice discourse.

Of course, the most credibly leftist of the academics he blames for future human rights violations tend to be skeptical of or outright oppose the weird pronouns he hates, typically citing Foucault's theories about language and "medicalization". But rather than engage with something real, he talks about "revolutionary language", a concept that doesn't exist.

The interviewer does make one attempt to reference a real person, Alinsky, but what Peterson responds with makes no sense to me.

I think his point about academia is well represented by this quote, which is presented as an explanation of why all fields but STEM are stupid:

>If you interfere with the mechanism by which people formulate problems, solve them, and negotiate their implementation, then problems accrue and multiply. That’s what a hydra is – cut off one head, seven grow back.

The obvious problem with this line of thinking is that he never clearly specifies the source of interference, whether it's a toxic idea or a group of people. Maybe the bill is one, but it isn't retroactively turning everyone into authoritarian leftists (if we add time travel to the mix, a corrupt academia creating laws that ruin academia does make some sense)

>They have a term – patriarchy. It’s all-encompassing. It means that everything our society is, is corrupt. There’s no line, they mean everything. Go online, go look at ten women’s studies websites. Pick them at random. Read them. They say ‘western civilization is a corrupt patriarchy right down to the goddamned core. We have to overthrow it.’

This is one of the sweeping generalizations mentioned. I think it's sufficient to rattle off the names of some oft-cited feminist writers who believe nothing close to this: Firestone, Butler, Baumgardner.

Speaking of strawman he then proceeds to strawman one of his own arguments by claiming that gender discrimination NEVER existed in the West, and everything done to women was perfectly rational based on economic conditions. It sounds like I'm the one doing the strawman, but he was directly asked the question. That didn't put me in the mood to read the wall of text about intelligence and work ethic and success, guess I don't have the work ethic.
I am not sure how I feel about this.

On the one hand, this would theoretically guarantee a minimum user experience. Which is nice. And a lot of those changes sound stupid and dangerous.

On the other hand, many of these changes may be with the intent of providing a better user experience as the goal of the provider is a sandbox or a temporary resource where security and updates are less of a concern.

But mostly, this fills me with concern over what this means for Ubuntu. It is clear that this is about ensuring a strong brand, and I am not sure why they would need that now. Is it just concern over other distros (like Mint) accomplishing what they spent decades trying (being a desktop Linux worth using for sane people)? Are they losing out on the server-space too now? Or are we looking at something else?
I had tried once building something like this mesh - a router with several wifi range extenders sold separately. In my case it was a setup in the apartment with lots of metal in concrete panels, so wireless reception is awful (50-100% signal loss after a single wall). Well it didn't work at all - REs started and worked ok and I did see high WiFi signal, but throughput was horrible - very low speed and regular pauses when no traffic at all was passing through REs. Settings, RE positioning, channels or bands didn't matter.

In the end I just used wired network with access points, more expensive but at least it works. I suggest that all these mesh kits should be bought only when return option is available because they may not work in some cases.
> And 20 years ago it didn’t even exist. When Tony Blair became prime minister, it wasn’t possible to Google him: the search engine had yet to be invented. The company was only founded in 1998 and Facebook didn’t appear until 2004. Google’s founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page are still only 43. Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook is 32. Everything they’ve done, the world they’ve remade, has been done in the blink of an eye.

Facepalm.jpg

Yeah, google's flawed and its results are an interesting sociological resource.

The fact "are Jews evil" is a top auto complete makes sense. I know large portions of the population that think that way. And Google returning an echo chamber result makes sense from a "these links may be of interest to your query" since they are. Google isn't there to police society - it's use for fake news and product pandering is bad enough - making it police ethics will only hide the ugly bits of humanity - which will then go unfixed.
This is a nice video review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40w_BrPiImM
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If you see religion as an alternative to science instead of a philosophy that teaches great values (in its current form, not in the literal reading of the text), as americans often mistakenly (I think this is your point) do, it may seem that way. However men need values and it's hard to argue against the basic concepts of kindness and sharing that christianity teaches. You just have to not take it in a dogmatic way in order to understand mr. Peterson's point of view, I think.
Could I in theory host my own pouchdb instance to keep using applications that are no longer supported by their vendors? Imagine an IoT vendor uses pouchdb shuts down. My devices don't work anymore but I can host my own pouchdb instance. A javascript based database is a bit heavy but it's an acceptable tradeoff to me.
The concept of Jupyer Notebooks is absolute fantastic. The product, unfortunately, fails at the basics of being a text editor.

I'd wish the VSCode team could somehow integrate the concept. They seem to be excellent at execution.

(Or, if they finish their work on "html zones" (block decorators in atom), I'll start doing it myself)
Re #3: i think it's a very astute observation that parenting should be much more proactive than reactive. If you play the long game and model your kids' behavior in situations when they aren't struggling or you're having a fight, you both seem to learn much easier.

Heck, I would say that parenting ultimately starts when we're kids ourselves with the values and experiences we are taught. For instance, most of us don't care for kids until we're in our 30s, which makes parenting that much harder. Imagine how different it must have been historically when older kids care for the younger ones, giving everyone involved experience with parenting. On a personal level I'm fortunate to have three great nieces in various ages and try to learn what I can from them and of course parent them in myriads tiny ways (it's impossible to avoid, I've realized. You either make conscience efforts or not but you can't avoid parenting if you interact with kids).
From the response to "What do you hope to achieve coming out of this?":

> There’s even an anti-psychology program at OISE [Ontario Institute for Studies in Education]. It started when they got rid of [Ken] Zucker, and you don’t stop with one person. Zucker was a more than credible psychologist. He ran a very good program for people who had gender dysphoria, and he was conservative. Zucker’s attitude was that if you’ve got a kid who is complaining about their gender, you follow them up, and you see what happens, and you derive your conclusions from the research. Eighty percent of them declare themselves as homosexual, ninety percent settle into their biological identity as adults. His logical conclusion is to keep the goddamned surgical knife sheathed, and don’t bring out the hormones too soon. Well that’s all gone – it’s illegal now for doctors to question the decision of a three-year old child that he is a she. And if the parents want to start biological transformation, it is illegal for the doctor to reject that.
That would be the Berkeley DeepDrive project. http://deepdrive.io/ and http://bdd.berkeley.edu/.
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As far as atomic 'types' are concerned, they rely on CPU hardware for atomicity. I wouldn't be surprised if generated code for non-supported width is done using lock. http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/atomic/atomic
Instability in Europe: Italian Center-Left Prime Minister Resigns
If they weren't publishing bullshit why are they rededicating themselves to journalism?

Shouldn't they instead be saying, 'We got everything right, we reported all the facts, like the polls sampling Dems and women @ 60%, and Hillary lost surprising absolutely no one with a rudimentary understanding that the population of the US is 50/50 male / female'

The context always was that this wasn't a normal election year and for some reason what they'd normally do wasn't an option (because the enemy is Hitler.) The reason why they got everything wrong is because they think that people care about things like 'well, so and so didn't exactly say this or that' rather than figure out what the overall gist of the message is. Alt-media is believed because it resonates with the overall feeling people get from the news, which is why the times had to do a mea culpa on the election because they lied so much that after Clinton lost even their base knew that they were just making shit up with no regard to reality which is why Trump won because proper defenses couldn't be put in place because the NYT was blatantly lying to everyone about Trump's chances in hopes that people would just believe Hillary was going to win and stay home.
I don't think there'll be elections soon.
Yeah. I believe Espressif may be considering 802.11s mesh support for the newer and better-specced ESP32, but I expect that's probably going to be intended for low-bandwidth applications if it happen.
Rabidly anticommunist idiot rails against treating people with respect, or at least not subjecting them to systemic disrespect and delegitimization, with handwavery and appeals to "cultural Marxism".
AMA: what about the super runny pound of goop poo that leaks through both nappies.
Pretty much.

Our firm is actively not in Silicon Valley (or CA at all). And as such, we don't offer six figure starting salaries. And that does hurt us when it comes to getting new grads as they say "I can go work for Google and get paid X. Or I can work for you and get a fraction of that"

But the smart ones realize that cost of living is a LOT cheaper out here and that fraction goes a lot farther. I have colleagues who went the SV-industry route and one weekend over beers we realized I had saved more per year AND had far more "dicking around" money than they did. And I live by myself (no SO not by choice, but no flatmates is) rather than having three flatmates. Their salaries are still a fair amount higher than mine, but my cost of living is a tiny fraction of theirs.
Good example, though aren't Show HN posts usually non-YCs?
As much as I hate parenting advice, this. Trying to hold everything together and simultaneously shape the habits of humans with free will and their own ideas without resorting to violence doth a crazy person make.

So sometimes we eat burned dinner cuz someone was acting like an asshole. Sometimes play dates "fall through" because someone thought they'd obligate a parent to do something they hadn't even discussed. Good God nothing teaches like bad experiences, and my wife and I can maintain some shred of sanity. Actually that's not fair, our children are a joy ( and exhausting).

It's one thing for your teenager to sob because she didn't have any spending money for the surprise trip somewhere with great shopping because she blew all her money instead of saving it for a great opportunity. It's a completely other thing to have to learn that lesson as an adult.
Go to the comments, click 'web' on top, open the first link in the resultant google search.

For some reason, they don't paywall access through google, only direct links.
In the situation where a website stores your fingerprint.
"Face it, states are completely arbitrary lines on a map."

And, what remains of state control ends up being a unwanted complexity to a lot of us.
Awesome to see F# supported, based on OSS F# for Jupyter Notebooks (https://github.com/fsprojects/IfSharp) work.

It's really lovely when a tool written in another tech (Python there) can be used/extended with others stack/tech, because was written as language agnostic. That should be a rule for good design in oss tooling. Not starting using language specific communication, but extensibile from day0 in design (obv default language can be bundled)
Different people have different metabolisms too, turning food into energy to be spent, or locking it away instantly as fat -- makes a huge difference

This is not true - at least the "huge" part.

https://examine.com/nutrition/does-metabolism-vary-between-t...

"Metabolic rate does vary, and technically there could be large variance. However, statistically speaking it is unlikely the variance would apply to you. The majority of the population exists in a range of 200-300kcal from each other and do not possess hugely different metabolic rates."

Calories-In-Calories-Out is a rather limited view of the situation.

https://examine.com/nutrition/what-should-i-eat-for-weight-l...

"In conclusion, losing weight requires a negative energy balance, which can be obtained by eating less, as we have seen, but also by exercising more."
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Webflow: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5407499
Gitlab: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4428278
I haven't seen a single payments API made as clean or simple as Stripe's. The magic is in what you _can't_ do with it imo.

The solutions from old style banks adopting nicer looking APIs still force you to mess around with setting up your own acquiring bank account, etc.
"No" actually means going back to the 1980s status quo - because the current electoral law has been deemed unconstitutional. That would be some variation of pure proportional, that will make it even harder for the populists to take power, as only Große Koalitions can realistically work.

It would have been in their interest to campaign for Yes, but their mission is to capture the anger of the average voter so they found themselves having to campaign for No to push Renzi out instead.
Our government has no incentive to retain them. Their main source of money is not small / medium / innovative business taxation - it's oil and other natural resources. And you don't need higher education and talent to extract oil. Actually, you don't need any population at all.

As I see it, their real incentive would be to shut down the higher education system, because it a) costs money, b) sends a good part of produced talent to other countries, and c) produces educated citizens which are harder to manipulate.

Sadly, I hear quite a few confirmations of this from friends who work in education.

BTW, here's a great video, Rules for Rulers, which is basically a video TL;DR of "The Dictator's Handbook" that explains incentives of democratic and autocratic rulers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs
> Why do so many of these child psychologists not have children of their own?

They know what they'd be letting themselves in for
I think you're right about adjusting the method according to the child but Kazdin is a director of the Yale Parenting Center, and they seem quite experienced in dealing with "problematic" children. But also, giving an exhaustive method to complex social issues, e.g. parenting, isn't really possible because of all the edge cases you may have, which is why we have "free form" methods like therapy, I guess?
All of my UK Amex cards have it.
>Born of human error, continually generating copious heat, the Elephant’s Foot is still melting into the base of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant

I don't think that's true. The corium had cooled down when they discovered the elephant's foot. It's still extremely radioactive, but not melting hot.
This has NOTHING whatsoever to do with the EU, despite what Le Pen, Farage and the media, for different reasons, would have us believe.
No, it'll be MANDATORY from next year September, not LIVE from next year September...
They use sawdust to clean liquidy messes at the subway so...
With GLIntercept we created an early Augmented Reality prototype with Macromedia Director. We just replaced a certain background texture with the camera stream.
A few, but it's a very small percentage, and the monetary loss of not requiring 3DS in these cases far outweighs the lost sales.
> By comparing the hash values for a real and test warhead, one can confirm if the test warhead is a match or not.

But if only the weapon owner knows what is in the "real" warhead, couldn't he simply submit a dummy as his "real" one, and then offer up a load of dummy warheads for test?
> "The idea that women were an oppressed minority under those conditions is insane."

I'll grant him the fact that the conditions for workers in the 19th century and earlier were generally terrible, but it's pretty galling to argue that "workers were treated badly, so gender discrimination is a lie" when the right to own property seperately from their husbands, enter into contracts, or even vote were all denied women before the 20th century. It really gives the impression that he is being intellectually dishonest with his arguments.
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indeed, ESP8266 & ESP32 would work well for Mesh IoT applications.
This looks really nice. I've always hated how buggy the free hosted Jupyter notebook services are, and setting up a remote server yourself is definitely not a one-click experience. Surprised to see how unrestricted this is (for now anyway). They'll probably see some abuse of the resources soon and add more restrictions. The "etc" from the restrictions section of the faq is pretty broad.

"Usage should be limited to learning, research, general computing, etc."
Shitty title. Should be: "With [new] funding, Stripe founders are youngest Irish billionaires."
Why would you believe that it would happen more frequently than it does now? All of those things would still be controlled by the residents, via government. The people it would affect the most would be those on the outskirts. But, those people are already affected by changing demographics via increasing population and urban expansion.
To me a person who stubbornly presents two choices when there is in fact a reasonable third is an asshole.

Maybe don't create contrived situations where a toddler can crush your logic and it becomes a battle of wills.
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it's a fair point, they use some rare stuff, anyone worked out if we can all have one based on current population growth / phone use growth ?
Not really. I'm sure the riots in front the Capitol in Philadelphia led to thoughts of needing control for safety reasons (Pennsylvania didn't intervene).

Originally DC residents would vote in Virginia or Maryland Congressional elections depending on where the territory was taken from (note: all DC land that came from VA has been returned to VA).

I think the idea originally is few would live in DC; it was tiny for a long, long time. But that's no longer true, hence why we gave DC the right to vote for President. Congress would be trickier given the balance of power, but none of the original motivating factors apply.
It's also easier to enforce rules on kids that you don't have a deep, visceral attachment to.
Zuckerberg announces plans to counter fake news on Facebook
thanks for the reply @Tiktaalik, I couldn't work out if this is a top down or bottom up response. So it's Provincial (State in my country). Interesting.
Yeah sure :)
His punishment could get him arrested here (Norway) as well. They have pretty strict limits on violence towards children: They put it as none, including but not limited to spanking.
I agree about the editor part, it's quite bad compared to anything people actually use when developing software.

...but perhaps software developers aren't the target audience in the first place. I tried to use Jupyter a few times, first when it was still only IPython, and it never seemed to fit in my code-execute-fix workflow that you have when developing scripts. In particular having to always reset the kernel to reexecute everything from scratch drove me crazy.
If you have a search engine, you need to rank results. The autocomplete feature uses those rankings to determine what is more likely for you to type next. That's all.
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If you actually go through and read that long article, it's worth a read and I stumbled on to this guy last month and very happy that I did. He goes into detail about why academia especially in humanities and social sciences is wrong. And my feeling at this point is that academia is simply an extension of prevailing ideology that is pushed by the elite. Social science in academia does not really have a basis in truth or fact finding, and Chomsky came out against this decades ago. But it's just a mechanism for educating the masses with the prevailing dogma that the elite want to push. And it seems that this sort of approach is starting to fail... because the masses are no longer listening and becoming skeptical of everything that is being taught because it does not work as advertised.
Yes. Natural consequences and contrived consequences are two very different things.
Although to be fair, having older or younger siblings probably changes your boys a lot too.
I believe the post was prior to Dropbox doing YC.
Still Paywalled for me.
I don't know about you, but I love playing unreal tournament by moving rocks around on the ground similar to https://xkcd.com/505/
We urbanites call it gentrification. And, it's unavoidable under a market system.
Least fun GTA player ever.
"document could reveal informants"

Lets not forget this is the same talking point that has been pushed by the US government from the beginning. For some reason I expected Germany to be more honest, but clearly I'm just naive.
They are a populist party lead by a secretive internet marketing firm. They started off by copying a lot of ideas from the Pirates like online voting etc without the egalitarian spirit, and with an ecologist slant. As the economic crisis hit, they started repositioning themselves as the party of popular anger at the establishment. In the EU parliament they sit with UKIP and far right parties. They are everything to everyone - anti immigration when they talk to the right wing electorate, ecologists when they talk to the left. They make a big song and dance about removing politicians' privileges, even though they just campaigned to NOT reduce the number of Senators!

Think Donald Trump meets the Pirate party.

The Spectator has a good article about them
http://www.spectator.co.uk/2016/06/beppe-grillos-m5s-is-a-sc...

Don't make the mistake of thinking the referendum was a victory by them though; there were a LOT of people against Renzi, including half of his own party (who openly campaigned against him)