skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's one thing to hang out with friends at a coffee shop and beat yourself up over life not turning out the way you wanted it to.

It's quite another thing not to have any friends.

Most of the people in the coffee shops around here have their noses buried in their laptops or books, and when they talk to people they mostly talk to friends who they went to the coffee shop with. Very few people are actually meeting new people and making new friends with random people at coffee shops.

Bars are geared towards hanging out with people you already know, or hitting on strangers. I'm not sure how many people are making new friends there, unless they're relatively extroverted.

Therapy these days is kind of weird. Because insurance companies don't want to pay much, it's geared towards short-term, behavior-oriented therapy. That might help with certain conditions like phobias, but I'm not sure how much it can help with deeper issues. There are other types of therapies, but because insurance mostly doesn't cover them, they're not really practical for most people (not to mention that they're out of fashion these days, as most therapists want to practice CBT because that's what the insurance covers and that's what they're taught in school as being "scientific", "modern", and "evidence-based" -- even when there's evidence it doesn't actually help).

I do think the modern world, especially for people who spend a lot of time online or consuming a lot of media like TV, movies, and games, can be pretty lonely, or at least devoid of deep human contact. I'm not sure what the solution is, apart from unplugging and spending a lot of time and effort in making connections. But being psychologically ready to do that in the first place is an achievement in itself.
Wouldn't a lookup table be much faster here? That multiply on every screen access can't help the speed.
> You are saying what the guy posted wasn't offensive and also that everyone is finding it offensive.

This is exactly what's been going through my mind following the threads on this issue today.

> That makes no sense unless everyone is stupid.

I think this is a false dichotomy. The offended comments seem to be offended by arguments similar to those in the manifesto rather than those in the manifesto. E.g. offense is rightly taken at the argument "biological differences explain job preferences" while the manifesto argues "biological differences explain job preferences [in part]".

So rather than [A] being being offended by something that is not offensive (i.e. stupid) or [B] the manifesto being offensive I think we're left with [C] people being rightly offended by something that's not in the manifesto.

With this the argument becomes:
That makes no sense unless people have bad reading comprehension

Which I happily accept :)
Comes out as 167820976/41955243 in lowest terms, which isn't quite 4.
That doesn't equal 4 it equals 4.00000009534. So, there is a precision issue, probably using floats to keep division results.
Personally I believe it's culture. A high trust and low corruption society will probably succeed whatever system it uses. It's very very difficult to quantify this or tease out cause and effect. But I really feel like Europeans are more likely to "Do The Right Thing", than Americans or Indians. Like less likely to take a bribe or exploit the system for personal gain. More likely to be outraged when someone is caught doing that. Not perfect, just better.

Compare to third world countries which have very low trust and high corruption. Bribes are common in every area of life and no one trusts authorities. It's very difficult for any system to function in a culture like that. Just replacing the government or changing to democracy doesn't seem to help that much, because the underlying culture is the same.
For anyone who wants to learn more about checklists, I highly recommend "Checklist Manifesto" by Atul Gawande.
Land is not the only kind of investment property anymore, and can be bought by companies that trade on the stock market.
In my experience, Tcl was the go-to for DSLs and application integration in the 90s. Perl was the best standalone interpreter.

Python was a killer of both... it wasn't as hostile and freaky as Tcl and arcane as Perl.
Well, there's also a lot of supply of sprinters. Anyone can be a sprinter. There are far more sprinters than the world needs. Yet, nonetheless, there is value found in the Olympic sprinter. Or the NCAA sprinter. Why? Well, because a high skill in sprinting is valued as opposed to a lower skill in sprinting. It's something you can train at, get better at, and get recognized for. Something that would set you apart from all the other sprinters. Well, where are the Olympic nannies earning millions of dollars, then?

If you're going to talk about supply and demand, you may want to think about why there's demand for something. Why is there demand for Olympic sprinters? Why is there no demand for Olympic teachers? That's really the question.
>If you believe that, in the aggregate, "white" people are intellectually superior to any other race of people, you're a white supremacist. That's not a value judgement; it's literally what it means to be a white supremacist.

Is this 'any' as in 'a single group' or 'all other groups'?

Either way it's not true. You can think a race has better average X without thinking it's superior. A dedicated white supremacist will take a list of advantages that are supposedly inherent to non-white people and make a just-so argument about how that actually makes them inferior.

Edit: If you downvoted, please tell me where you disagree, I'm very curious.
> I'm pretty sure a government internet service would beat Comcast, and likely force all ISPs to up their game quickly.

the point is that if it were only a gov't service, that ISP would be just as bad as comcast. The problem is not due to it being gov't or not, but due to lack of competition!
> It seems like every other week there's a new study that proves something everyone intuitively knew.

Beware of hindsight bias!! http://lesswrong.com/lw/im/hindsight_devalues_science/
There is a long history of seeking pseudo-scientific explanations for racist beliefs. See for example, phrenology and eugenics.

I am actually glad that you concede that "cultures" can affect learning, not merely evolution. While most people usually use that term to blame minorities for their disadvantages (i.e. culture means "their" culture), it also means that you implicitly accept that living in a (shared) culture with systematic racism and discrimination over several centuries can perhaps negatively affect skill acquisition as well.
Finally some meat to the discussion. This thread is one of the few to actually dig into the matter. Kudos.
@dang, can you swap out the links? The link OP submitted is pretty spammy.
You can teach and firefight anywhere on the planet.

You can only work for the GAFA in a couple of cities, that happen to be the most expensive in the world.
That is pretty much the crux of it - EVERYTHING is broken down into a step by step approach to make a decision path easier. For instance, (as you yourself would have been taught), one of the first things I remember my instructor hammering home to me in the case of an engine failure (in our single engine trainer) was:

1. DO NOT be tempted to do a 180 and turn back to the runway, as it will result in almost guaranteed death.
2. Immediately push the nose down to maintain airspeed.
3. Look for a road/field/clearing 30 degrees to each side of the nose to put the aircraft down in

Just remembering those 3 critical things as soon as you hear the engine cut out just eliminates those crucial seconds of wavering and indecision which could mean the difference between life and death. Just starting the process off by doing these 3 things kick starts your brain into 'problem solving' mode, instead of flailing around in panic mode.

There are a LOT more steps afterwards, including ascertaining WHY the engine failed, communicating with the tower etc., but they are all moot unless you maximise your time in the air by doing especially (2) and (3).
> The best definition of money I use

i bet many other people use a different definition : "money is the measure of value i extract from other people's production"
This study was conducted by HAES activists, wasn't it?
On United 232, they followed the checklist, but the situation on their hands was not one the checklist was able to help. If you've never read Captain Al Haynes' talk, it is well worth it:

Anyone who has seen this video seems to have this one question
in their mind, and that is: how did anyone survive an accident of that
magnitude? I think there are five factors that contribute to the
degree of success that we had at Sioux City: that is, luck,
communications, preparation, execution, and cooperation. And I would
like to talk about those five things today.

http://www.clear-prop.org/aviation/haynes.html
Mutable lambdas in C++
> We're all on the same team.

I don't think this will go over well for as long as we're in a highly competitive society.
And for a rich company, I suppose keeping them around stops their competitors from hiring them a while.
There was a study I read some time ago that essentially said the inflation of CEO salaries is because the boards who control the compensation of CEOs is just one big Old Boy Network. They all know each other, are wannabe or ex CEOs, so they end up "taking care" of each other.

I don't remember the exact details or whether the study was scientifically solid or just someone spitballing stuff, so who knows.

Personally I find the golden handshake deals completely reprehensible, and more or less a criminal misuse of shareholders' money, especially if the CEO leaves/gets fired because the company is going down the drain.
Most people can strap on a helmet and pay $20. Figuring how to wipe out is a entire different level that isn't that scaleable to an entire populace.

Not to mention its not very enjoyable to learn unless you are in some large padded room.
What if you're using a program that fsyncs? And the filesystem isn't just keeping writes cached and flushing only when full. So if I'm writing GB of temp files, I'm causing tons of disk load which may impact other programs. Can't seek to read while writing all my temp data...
SSD or spinning platter?
Yes, this is true but it depends how you approach the problem.

There are a lot of medium to large retail companies looking to front the cash for startups willing to "move fast and break things". The catch is that they will disown you when you break something.
Clippy – CSS clip-path generator
It's the obvious implication from stating that women are biologically prone to being inferior engineers, and that they should end diversity hiring programs.
Spinning platter. ZFS with compression is probably helping that.
Show HN: Re-Creating the Stranger Things Main Titles with D3/SVG
> For health care, basic housing and food, police protection, and basic communication (the Internet), those are not acceptable outcomes.

just only 20 years ago, basic communication (the Internet) wasn't on that list. What amounts to minimum requirements seems to be growing, and can't possibily be supplied indefinitely to people ala basic income.
I corrected this for you: "did they have to go over the top to make sure the diversity VP was a human...?"
Neither markets nor government alone are the solution. They both are problems and solution at the same time. That's life and that's democracy.

Someone has already supplied counter examples from Sweden. I will give you one from India. ISRO is a government organization, it operates on shoe string budget as compared to its competitors and still does wonders. Why here isn't a wealthy Indian group(Ambani, TATA etc) spending money on fundamental research.

Counter example is Indian IT sector. Do you see any company investing in anything fundamental. I think this behaviors is a classic example of rent seeking. They are perfectly happy playing the middleman seeking a commission.

In reality most of the private organizations are the real rent seekers. They shy away from anything where making money in short term is not possible. I will encourage you to watch this talk[1]. Private companies just polish and market the fundamental research done at Government organization once its utility is proven beyond the point. IMHO this should be called rent seeking. its akin to building a hotel in an area once Government have build the basic infrastructure.

Take the example of deep learning as it is the hot topic nowadays. Private funding started flowing only when Geoffrey Hinton working for University of Toronto proved the viability of it beyond question.
Google anti-diversity memo
Half? That seems kind of excessive. Are you sure that’s right?
Link to Gizmodo article purporting to have full memo.

http://gizmodo.com/exclusive-heres-the-full-10-page-anti-div...
Lots of problems connecting IQ with race and heritability, well researched. See for example:

the "heritability" of IQ - the degree to which IQ variations can be explained by genes - varies dramatically by socioeconomic class. Heritability among high-SES (socioeconomic status) kids was 0.72; in other words, genetic factors accounted for 72 percent of the variations in IQ, while shared environment accounted for only 15 percent. For low-SES kids, on the other hand, the relative influence of genes and environment was inverted: Estimated heritability was only 0.10, while shared environment explained 58 percent of IQ variations.[1]

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/05/why-peo...
Even staff probably isn't 1m...maybe 800 total
Your OS is probably caching the file at the virtual memory layer, so it doesn't even have to hit the filesystem at all.
"What are the best cities with affordable housing that are big enough to have a good variety of food and no (or a very mild) winter that have enough of a tech community for some meetups, etc?"

https://nomadlist.com/cheap-mild-cities-to-visit-in-january-...

The answer would be Tucson, AZ and San Antonio, TX.

If budget isn't important you have more options:

https://nomadlist.com/mild-cities-to-visit-in-january-and-de...

- Gainesville, FL

- Tampa, FL

- Los Angeles, CA

- San Diego, CA

- Jacksonville, FL

- Austin, TX

- Santa Monica, CA

- Phoenix, AZ

- Houston, TX

- Orlando, FL

If you're okay with outside United States, you have countless more options:

https://nomadlist.com/mild-cities-to-visit-in-january-and-de...

From Portugal to Taiwan, Israel to Ecuador, Colombia to Thailand.

P.S. this is based on "mild" temperatures as you said. If you're fine with warm/hot climates, there's even more options.

P.S.2. the cost of living data on Nomad List is now 90%+ accurate.
GAs are in this weird place where much of their lunch (by which I mean tasks such as classification and regression), has been eaten by more principled methods from Machine Learning.

They've also been pushed out of most combinational optimisation problems by Constraint Programming methods and by other more principled meta-heuristics such as Large Neighbourhood Search.

In my opinion part of the problem is that so much of the literature around GAs involves what I like to think of as voodoo optimisation. You take a simple to implement randomised algorithm, apply it to some poorly studied but high-dimensional problem and then poke things as appropriate until you eventually find some feasible solution. Maybe.

If I'm being honest, the only time I'd consider GAs is if I had very little insight into the problem at hand and even then only after I've run out of other things to try.
Honestly it's the opposite. The way you get noticed and promoted at Google is by building something new, even if Google is already doing something else in that space. That's part of the reason there's so much duplication at Google.

The VIPs (Vest In Peacers) are more inclined to do the easier thing of adopting and building on what's already there, which is of course the better thing: virtue of laziness and so forth.

(source: xoogler)
They'd probably be less apt at directing the company to commit crimes, but I digress.

A large part of a CEO's job at such a big company is maintaining relationships especially with various regulatory agencies. There's no way a recent graduate could manage that.
Are you putting suffering from autism and being extroverted on the same footing? Being 'an extrovert' isn't a disease, and it doesn't negatively impact your life. Nothing to do with "society".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZYHMMMeHic would appear to be a recording of that same lecture, with all the slides and everything.
Can I Use Data to Beat Christie's Auction Estimates?
> if Microsoft had used their de-facto monopoly in early '00 to push abetter language

For all that JS may suck, I somehow think anything early 2000s MS would have pushed would have been worse. VBscript, perhaps?
Obviously assholes would find other assholes 'cool'. It's self defining.
Haha yeah I agree too, but there are a lot of ways to clean yourself adequately and safely without specifically using toilet paper.

Some ways that come to mind include pressurized water, sanitary wipes, other ways that could result in a physical and bacterial clean etc

Western toilet paper is just but one way to achieve hygiene and could therefore be considered replaceable by something else
>But without massive a public investment in psychological health, personalized treatment will remain a luxury solution for those who can afford it.

Hopefully with greater automation, we can free up more people to become therapists.
Judging Things by Their Side Effects
+screen-width+ is 64, which means SBCL can convert the multiply to a left shift if we care about speed and declare types:

(defun foo (chip y)
(declare (optimize speed)
(type chip chip)
(type int16 y))
(vref chip 0 y))

(disassemble 'foo)

; disassembly for FOO
; Size: 48 bytes. Origin: #x100EF5E39D
; 9D: 488B423D MOV RAX, [RDX+61] ; no-arg-parsing entry point
;; ---------------------- Look ma, no multiplication!
;; vvvvvvvvvvv
; A1: 48C1E706 SHL RDI, 6
; A5: B900100000 MOV ECX, 4096
; AA: 40F6C701 TEST DIL, 1
; AE: 7513 JNE L0
; B0: 4839F9 CMP RCX, RDI
; B3: 760E JBE L0
; B5: 488B54B801 MOV RDX, [RAX+RDI*4+1]
; BA: 488BE5 MOV RSP, RBP
; BD: F8 CLC
; BE: 5D POP RBP
; BF: C3 RET
; C0: 0F0B10 BREAK 16 ; Invalid argument count trap
; C3: L0: 0F0B0A BREAK 10 ; error trap
; C6: 06 BYTE #X06
; C7: 0C BYTE #X0C ; INVALID-ARRAY-INDEX-ERROR
; C8: 1B BYTE #X1B ; RAX
; C9: 9A BYTE #X9A ; RCX
; CA: FE9A03 BYTE #XFE, #X9A, #X03 ; RDI
We have Earth on Amazon Web Services .
And on Amazon Web Services they allow you to observe all of earth with this tool .
Is there anything for observing the data crawled by common crawl ?
Looking at some of these comments, it'd be great if more of them were contextualised with the particular line of business.
I see it as the following, he views breadth first as just skimming over each book, seeing the books that are related to it when sitting side by side (perhaps when in another users cart), as opposed to depth, which goes into each item, and then goes deeper picking out books from within that book.
Take downtown SF ($463). If you pay for your own health insurance starting at age 26 and stopping at 76, you will have paid:

$450 * 12 * 50 = $270,000

No wonder pharma companies in the US make a killing.
I think you both have an excellent point about training kicking in. Many years ago I had done the professional CPR training, and I think even that has made me think about emergency situations that may happen around me differently. Also training for hazardous workplaces, etc. I still know it's down in there somewhere if necessary.
That's actually a good point.
Agreed. Besides HN, and Reddit for occasionally indulging my darker political side, Quora is the only social content I regularly consume. Besides math, there's also some excellent writers on machine learning and computer science.
For those who don't know him, Bragg is an especially smart, witty songwriter and performer. I've heard few more persuasive spokespeople for the radical left (though I don't necessarily agree), and I've seen few more witty performers.

Some examples of political songs; I encourage you to find them online performed live (he's much less impressive in the studio):

http://www.billybragg.co.uk/music/album.php?albumID=4&songID...

http://www.billybragg.co.uk/music/album.php?albumID=17&songI...

http://www.billybragg.co.uk/music/album.php?albumID=20&songI...

http://www.billybragg.co.uk/music/album.php?albumID=24&songI...
I agree. I've worked with people who actually put in 8 hours of work a day on a regular basis, and it had a huge impact on my desire to get things done. Also, working with Germans.
This made me smile. Great to read something nice like this for once. We pretty much grew up on his books in the school system here.
to all of the lottery winners out there- Fuck You

> sincerely-
> the wage slaves
But... your team just enforces a style. No debate. Two spaces for Ruby I've seen almost everywhere. Two for Elixir, same. Go has go fmt. This hypothetical of different spaces is killed before it happens.
Wait could there really be two nerdy dudes interested in complicated stuff who never saw themselves as possibly working with computers? Like how could they have avoided the countless examples of famous male computer-related millionaires? Do you think, if there are such dudes, there are as many of them as there are women who never thought of themselves as "technical" or whatever? That seems really daft.
Language nitpick (because maths):

I realize when you say "isn't quite 4" you mean the solution is not quite equal to 4, but it could also be incorrectly interpreted as a solution that is slightly less than 4.

167820976/41955243 = 4 + 4/41955243
The other fears are mostly irrational, though. This one doesn't appear to be: it seems to be a cultural thing that US bikers are OK with riding next to cars, while to me it just seems... not prudent.

How does that protect me from a car just ramming into me from behind? There just doesn't seem to be anything I can do about that. I'm always relying on the hope that the driver behind me is paying attention and I'm not big on hope.

Riding on the street to me is usually very rattling because of how many cars repeatedly pass me, it doesn't really reduce my fear.
I mean, that's a possibility, but could it also be possible that women, for whatever reason, just aren't interested in IT/tech/whatever in general in the first place? By this I mean to say, it could be simply that there are fewer women who want to go into tech. So to try and encourage more to come in, who perhaps don't want to, could be counter-productive. And if your goal is not to stop until there are more women in tech, what are you going to do then?
My admiration is unbound. I have one reservation -- I wish it would handle history correctly. I wish each click e.g. github produced a new URL I could email to a friend so they could view the same scene. And then I wish I could hit "back" to recover the landing page. None of this diminishes how beautiful this is, and I'm sure it just wasn't part of what you were trying to explore.
Agree, good article. Thanks to it I think I understand more why cryptography based on elliptic curves (like Curve25519) is considered pretty safe for now.
Your gut bacteria determine a lot of your behaviour.
That sounds pretty nice, at least I'd be able to see if there's a giant Hummer going at me at the speed of light.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pullman,_Chicago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebration,_Florida

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_company_towns_in_the_U...

It usually doesn't work out very well. People don't like the idea of a company getting involved with their lives when they're off the clock
Family+Survival+First+Aid+Kit+(Part+2)
> that in general, in current society life is additionally harder for Xs - and this is due to for historical reasons.

In general, yes it is. But you aren't hiring people in general, you are hiring individuals. If you are trying to combat *ism than applying generalizations to individuals is exactly what you should be avoiding.