skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can call it stupidity and it keeps growing since many years. I guess TV started it. Main reasons for it are a mixture of loss of introspection and completely unrealistic expectations due to constant medial input and constant communication with peers.

You want better people? Make parents sit down and talk to their children every single day:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/diet-is-4-letter-word/2...

Of course it will take at least one generation to undo the damaged that has been done.
Don't keep searching for simpler reasons or solutions. I don't believe there are any.

The rest of this post is a repost from me https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12724851:

We live in the age of fear because the hose of information that floods us is constantly opened further: Letters → Telegram → Telephone → Radio → TV → Internet → Mobile Internet.

Human beings need time to manage their emotions. Time spent waiting. Time being bored. Time when NO new information, not even positive, is arriving.

We are constantly distracted and thus increasingly unable to sort out our feelings. That is the reason.

And distracted parents that can't give their children at least 15 minutes of absolutely undivided attention per day worsen their offspring's ability to manage emotions even further.

That is why Zuckerberg/Facebook's idea "just flood everyone with everything and it will get better" is dead-wrong.

What Facebook could do to really help the world is turning off it's platform for one day each week.
'the grugq' has left us with a complete cliff-hanger:

"Good travel advice to follow in a later post…"
It's hard for me to interpret this outside the 2017 pressure chamber of headlines/advertising. It's remarkable similar to a top of mind recall of "what last 10 news articles have you seen published recently?"

There are many good and important issues that didn't make the list, and I wonder if prompting or discussion would increase the breadth.

This seems to be the list of issues that many articles have been talking about for the last month. Things we're supposed to care about, because, social proof.

One can either believe news articles are crafted to deliver what we want to hear (appeal to our beliefs) or that we are remarkably adept consumers, champions and descerners of (unbiased!) truth.

9 out of 10 doctors agree!
This is great. Since we speak the language every day (even though I'm not a native speaker), we do not see the minute details of it.

I could think of one more. 308 - Lot of people pronounce it as 3-naught-8.

When we see a score, 1-0, we say 1 - NIL.

0 is complicated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_for_the_number_0_in_Engl...
Experienced in Python? This will take you less than one minute.
And how can your inspection points verify that data isn't being exfiltrated? Arbitrary pipes can be made over SSH, over DNS, and I don't really consider these advanced. How do you handle techniques like chaffing and winnowing, steganography, or someone who knows how to transmit an arbitrary number of bits using only two bits?
There's a startup working on cost-effective panel-scale multi-layer cpv.

http://www.zmescience.com/science/twice-efficient-residentia...

And instead of doubling of efficiencies(22% to 44%) , I've seen some thoerticak work talking about 60%+ .
> Everyone is more than their worst moments.

I'm sure Goebbels loved his kids. Hitler liked dogs. Stalin enjoyed Shostakovich. Obviously they all needed second chances.
Client server. I'm being extra paranoid about cheating/security, so it's a naive client-server, authoritative server architecture. The client isn't much more than a dumb server, but for 2D sprites, not text.
Nice one, bookmarked :) I'm trying it out now and one thing is a bit annoying - the track for the number is played immediately as I press the "guess" button for the previous one.
Please stop saying explody
Corruption. It's always been one of the greatest problems facing humanity, and seemingly impossible to effectively combat.
spotted the english lackey!

try starting a real business and see how it goes.
You're making a lot of assumptions. You assume that the interaction where he was discriminatory took place with my teammate. That's not the case, it was a comment made to me and only me. I recorded and documented it's something that was followed up on.

I understand you're outraged at people for their discriminatory behavior but you need to recognize you don't know the facts.
Folks, look.. I'd love to hop on the Uber hate wagon, but they didn't take liberties with my personal info in a malicious way, change the level of their service or drastically change the terms of the agreement. That and they provided a service that I still find useful and commensurate for what I pay. I could not care less what social struggles take place internally, and my once a month fare doesn't do much to further any ill wills being schemed in a dark room somewhere at Uber HQ. Don't construe this as me endorsing any bad actors; I'm simply wondering how much of this outrage among HN posters is really translating to Lyft and Taxi conversions, and how much of it is just internet outrage and virtue signaling puffery.
Hack LinkedIn to find who visits your website.
Go to your website and add the following code within the <body> and </body> tags of the page(s) you wish to track visitors on:

<img src="https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?authToken=zRgB&authType=name&id=XXXXX" />

You will just need to replace the XXXXX with your LinkedIn user ID. You can find this by logging into LinkedIn, clicking the Profile button and then taking the numerical code from the page URL that directly follows the text 'profile/view?id='.

Check your LinkedIn profile views a few days later to get a list of your website visitos.
> VS Code is the only Electron app that I've ever seen used in the wild. Am I just hanging in the wrong crowds?

Just to note: Atom is the original Electron app. I assume you've seen more people use that than Code.
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What is racism? Would you consider a shy person's attitude towards others racism? Would you consider a cat's attitude to a dog racism? Would you consider people from a remote village who never saw any other people in their life staring at new person racism? Would you consider a tribe in amazon shooting darts to intruders racism? People are naturally insecure, and these insecurity will lead them to behave un-socially in many ways. We are all born racists, that's how our instincts keep us alive. We feel safe towards "familiar" faces.
I wonder if spaceX is going to send a permanent colony of bots on moon to make a base there. The latency is a lot lower than Mars and would make a good start.

Sending a couple of humans around moon for tourism is a waste of resources.
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> It seems like some of these people are repeat offenders

The people mentioned in the allegations have not been named and have not had their identities revealed, and also have not had any evidence presented, except for two unsubstantiated accounts. It's probably not even the same people in Fowler's article and this most recent anonymous one.

Instead, somebody got information leaked (information that Google refuses to confirm) about something that happened in the past, at another company, gets fired because any appearance of impropriety must be squashed, and his name and career gets dragged through the mud for real evidence at all. Isn't that a witch hunt?
Yup. I was listening to someone talk about the anti-vaccine movement as coming from a mistrust in big-pharma. They were also talking about how are brain plays these association games that have bad wiring. They gave the example, "A warehouse burned down that was improperly storing flammable materials." Your brain implies there was a fire started from flammable materials. Even after later facts revealed that there wasn't any flammable material the brain still implies that it was started by flammable materials.

That means you can convince them things they knew were incorrect, but they'll still believe incorrectly about certain aspects. ./flush_cache.sh
Probably you have already (mis)clicked (down)vote button on this comment before. It's easy to do accidentally, especially on touchscreen.
I found an interesting distinction between the two candidates was this is a disaster needing fixing versus things are pretty good and let's do better. That seemed to be the gist of their messages.

I'd be interested to see the change from 2013-2016 for example.
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no, 0.02% = 0.0002 = 2 parts per ten thousand, so another two zeros on that. 0.0002% I make it
It's great to hear that Susan's experience is not the case on every team.

Uber clearly does a lot of things very well, and although I posted in a different comment that perhaps Travis should go I think that the best outcome would be that the company can learn from these events and become better as a result.
Could you explain more the point of your post? Because to me it seems like you're saying that Ubers behaviour is acceptable as long as they make money. Did I misunderstand?
Isn't Earth closer to Mars half a (lunar) month ?
Are we just trading anecdotes now? A medium size SV unicorn I worked at had at least two similar incidents shared with me by female employees whom I highly trust. Just because you personally haven't witnessed this kind of behavior first-hand doesn't mean it never happens. I think you've gone too far in denouncing this story instead of at least considering that it might merit a debate.
It's built on Electron, which was created as the heart of Atom.
Sending a couple of humans around the moon for tourism is a great R&D opportunity, paid for by someone else's money.

See: Apollo 8 mission.
This is great - Now I just need to somehow remember this program when I next have a need for it...
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I hope it helps to speed up competition. We all expect VR as the next big revolution but the thing is going too slow..
Has some overlap with the architecture that FlipKart used for FlipKart Lite, at least from my understanding of the article:

https://medium.com/@boopathi/flipkart-lite-the-how-f6eb311dc...

http://tech-blog.flipkart.net/2015/11/progressive-web-app/
The first line tipped me off :p

def foo(a, methods=[]): # methods defaults to [] if not specified
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We've banned this account for trolling.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13748377 and marked it off-topic.
It's like 1h/y. You can handle that sitting on the toilet. You can literally filter out to solid leads while pooping. Why the derision?
>but I do know that if we treat allegations as a guilty verdict

Your comment is extremely off base. In additions to an allegation we have:

1) An investigation that found the allegations "credible."

2) A resignation that appears to be because of these allegations, in an attempt to avoid the allegations and investigation coming to light.

3) A failure to disclose these circumstances to a new employer. While that might be fine for somebody not in a leadership position, for somebody at the SVP level, come on.
How about dysgenic fertility?

> Meisenberg (2010) found that intelligence in the US was negatively related to the number of children, with age-controlled correlations of −.156, −.069, −.235 and −.028 for White females, White males, Black females and Black males. This effect was related mainly to the general intelligence factor and was caused in part by education and income, and to a lesser extent by the more "liberal" gender attitudes of those with higher intelligence. Without migration the average IQ of the US population will decline by about 0.8 points per generation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fertility_and_intelligence
Server side state in http is a wonderful thing to abuse.

One adserving system I worked on had a very expensive correlation process where it joined auction stats with impression stats. Essentially a big Hadoop job, except run in a stream.

Another system I later worked on solved the problem by tying impression requests back to the same server that ran the auction. That server kept the auction data in memory until it either received the impression or until a set amount of time had passed.

Hearing how it worked made me feel a bit dirty, then I realized how much money it saved them to do it that way and I was impressed with the simplicity of it.
(I'm an SRE at Google. My opinions are my own.)

> core subjects, like container management (this happens...everywhere nowadays) or cluster management

Curiously, these are subjects which most Google SREs won't know much about. One team deals with all that stuff as a service so the rest of us can get on with something else.

What would I pick out as our core skill sets? Ignoring technology-specific details that won't apply anywhere else: troubleshooting a system that you don't understand (reverse-engineering it as you go), and non-abstract large system design.
not really. Translation doesn't work that way. I think you can translate that into "foreign foxy man". Probably from the time westerns did business in China. I don't know for sure. But translation doesn't work that way. Sometimes you just cannot translate a word from one language to another. Especially names. It is a culture thing.
Sorry, but what's your age on the internet? Anonymous account is more than enough for a witch hunt.
Perhaps I just missed it (it's late), but I couldn't find anything in the article backing up the author's claims about how those strategies would play out.

Was this just a record of his thought experiments?
CTRL-F "debt": 0 of 0 (on these HN comments)

That's a problem in and of itself.

And the only reference to "environment" was someone asking why environment hadn't been mentioned, as of the time I started writing this.
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We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13748411 and marked it off-topic.
We are getting to a point where "trust" is the biggest issue. Can you trust govt, big corporations, universities?

It's like everyone is optimizing for their gain and deceiving the other side with what they need to hear.

We are in the era of information overload without a good way of filtering fact from dogma.

I hope there is some development of good AI that helps the average Joe hunt this facts down for him/her.

Google's fact verification algorithm is in the right direction. Can we trust it? I hope Facebook implements something similar but that's unlikely since they're in the entertainment and ads business.

I really hope orgs like openai are able to create something like this for the world.
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I'll add my two cents: when driving motorcycle with GPS assistance, I can't concentrate on the driving and get fun from the driving motorcycle. When I'm driving my bike, I prefer to clear my head of all things and concentrate on the road and feelings in my body. This way I get maximum pleasure from riding. When I use GPS, it immediately breaks this state of bliss you can experience while driving bike. Driving with GPS feels like tedious work instead of pleasure.
The closest would be the JSON licence.

"The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil"
http://www.json.org/license.html
Every single morning one could see how it changes the states. For proper experimental evidences visit any hospital.
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But I do hear that self driving car has no idea to look for the traffic light if it was not informed beforehand it is here. That does not bring any confidence.

Also, I still don't know what problem is IoT supposed to solve.
If I was writing megacorp scifi I'd have them grow via military contracts and eventually merge with Palantir (and maybe some innocent litte AI startup that gets gobbled up, where the hero works) to be one of the megacorps that essentially becomes a government entity (DynamicPalantir). Some sort of Bio/Chem merger (maybe Johnson & Johnson+Bayer/Monsato as a base) would be the counterpart battling it out with DynamicPalantir because they're betting on clones not robots.
Toss in Saudi Aramco++ for some good measure.
> Wow, that's an ingenious hack that makes a lot of sense in hindsight. What was your thought process and how did it lead to that? Was it solving a similar problem in another domain?

I've read your comment thrice and have not been able to understand it! It's starts out mildly reasonable, then drifts out into bot-territory
5) According to another source, he did not say that he knew any of them, but rather that the two passengers knew each other.

Source: http://spaceflightnow.com/2017/02/27/spacex-to-send-two-priv...
meh, that's probably swamped by the effects of reducing lead poisoning in children. The younger generations today are probably the smartest in human history with the added benefit of being the best educated and having access to the best information.
AFAIK, Mozilla has the structure they do because the IRS frowns upon charities (which is shorthand for "tax-exempt corporation") engaging in business-like activities but is fine with charities owning for-profit companies as a source of income (and like any shareholder can do, direct the for-profit company to benefit its owner).

Regional differences may be relevant here: in Canada, you can incorporate a nonprofit corporation and later apply for charity status (which restricts the company's possible activities in exchange for a 0% income tax rate) but it's completely optional.

In the US, on the other hand, to the best of my knowledge, one has to establish a for-profit entity first and then apply to the IRS to recognize it as a charity (which is a lengthy process). The words "charity" and "nonprofit" are interchangeable in the US for that reason.

If the concept of a non-charitable nonprofit exists in your jurisdiction, you can get the benefits of a nonprofit structure (ie. no owners) without restricting the company's activities, minus tax exemption and being able to issue tax receipts.

For context: I founded a non-charitable nonprofit in Canada; I'm not super familiar with the US side of things so I'm happy to be corrected.
I know it's not popular to say but I blame the Internet. When people start getting their news from social media and the so often heard "I go straight to the comments because that's where the article is always corrected" then authority flies out of the window. It has caused a distrust in science and the media and the government.

The last generation had news pundits and we have social media stars. Journalism used to have a self-regulated code of ethics but that's gone now. I don't know what the solution is other than to regulate news on the Internet.
> You says chinese is one race. You mean Hans. If not we are not of one race. You cannot have your culture hans and fighting Mongolian, tibetian, manuchuain ... all your thousand of years literally. Then suddenly they are chinese because in the last 100 years someone decided to occupy these people's land then they are chinese.

That's pretty close to what happened in most European countries too. French, Italian and German only became unified cultures 100-200 years ago, based on the dominant culture of the rulers, I wouldn't expect China to be any different.
Did you try googling that?
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Well, the more politicised something is, the less "knowable" it is without serious research.

For example if we were to talk about unemployment rate (e.g. discouraged workers vs total labour force participation vs e.g. push towards counting long term unemployed as disability, statistical corrections for season, definition of temporary versus permanent) it's possible to pick a metric which will satisfy almost any narrative.

Taking into account changes in definition, policy changes and then segregating by demographic to create factoids at will and yeah, I do think that's a real problem.

Just out of interest, do you believe unemployment is up or down compared to this time last year?
Didn't Sundar and Laszlo confirm? Or did details of their internal confirmation leak?
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I was pretty sure that wasn't it. I noticed it as soon as I first saw the comment.

That's the simplest explanation, though, so that's probably what happened. Oh well.
The filters are lacking seriously and the amount of component that are listed is quite poor. The recommendation is nice, but without better filtering and more component availability I don't see myself using this.
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It's still good enough for me :)
As we all know, Amit's real friends called him Mike #2.
do any of these work for you?
The message of the Chinese government to third world governments is "we're not going to try to change your government". They get along with the Islamic world and various oppressive regimes in Africa that way. The US is always nagging about human rights and corruption.

Meanwhile, China is building railroads from China to Europe.[1]

[1] http://www.xinhuanet.com/world/newsilkway/index.htm
I would add to the start of this:

prerequisite: Mac computer

I've recently self-published using Windows / Linux and didn't have these tools available.

I will say that Createspace is an awesome company. I just think its brilliant I can upload a PDF, and in a few days I can buy 100 copies of it on Amazon, and have it shipped same day.
The flaw in this whole analysis is that we are looking at the problems in relation to one another instead of in an absolute measure. I don't even think the question is that relevant in this administration. Why? Because there a lot of really big problems right now of really high magnitude. Race inequality, income inequality, healthcare, global warming, etc these are all huge problems and it is likely they will grow worse in magnitude, it's less relevant what the most important problem is, the real observation is that there are big problems and they ain't going away anytime soon.

What I mean to say is the boxes under the trump administration should be really huge in certain areas compared to other administrations
Probably... the Falcon Heavy rocket has been "only a year from its first launch" for about 6 years. That said, I think they're probably correct about it now
Using "virtue signaling" is in vogue, and I don't like it. Yes, the idea is real, but it has become an easy way of dismissing the legitimacy of the person it is invoked against, without doing any work to actually support the accusation.

It is also telling that it is used exclusively to undercut progressive stances -- things like feminism, liberal immigration policies, fair pay, etc. It is never used to undermine the position of someone who who has made a typically conservative stance. Let me demonstrate.

Statement 1: "I wouldn't want to work there because they have a reputation as having a sexist work environment."

Rejoinder 1: "Your obvious virtue signaling is a joke. I don't care what you think."

Statement 2: "I believe in the constitution and believe guns are a significant foundation to the freedoms we enjoy."

Rejoinder 2: "You are just virtue signaling. Ooh, look at me, I'm such a patriot. Ha ha."

Why is it we only see type 1 rejoinders and not type 2?
I think "home price appreciation" is one of the more interesting factors here. If home prices grow at 4% and wages don't keep up, it seems like that's not likely to be a sustainable over the long term.
came here to say this! also a huge fan of /r/buildapcsales