skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've seen a similar usage of the expression "social creatures" ("social animals") before, and it bothers me. Firstly, because I've known several loners who would take issue with what's being suggested.

But secondly, because the expression originally implied nothing of the sort, and still doesn't in biological jargon (which I believe is where it is/was most commonly used).

It was Aristotle who first used the expression "ζῷον πολιτικόν", and he used it to mean that humans exist in large ordered agglomerations as a matter of fact [0]. He also included bees and ants among the "political animals", but I don't think he ever said anything about any of them wanting company for it's own sake. And, at least in the beginning of his Politics, neither does he suggest that humans want it for it's own sake, either. Biologists, on the other hand, still use that expression with a meaning similar to that of Aristotle (animals who happen to live together), while including other groups [1].

Now, this wouldn't be a problem if in common language these expressions merely meant something else than what they do in biology, or what they mean in Aristotelian exegesis. That would be fine. But instead it seems as if the usage in common language relies on the usage in learned contexts to do a little bit of semantic sleight-of-hand, and suggest something else than what was originally meant e.g. "Humans have an inherent need for company: Biologists say we're 'social animals'".

Otherwise, the statement would have no authority behind it in common language. Instead, it would be just an unfounded assertion. In fact, that there are people who disagree with it already suggests that it is, at least, ill-founded. These are the people saying "No, we don't". But instead, readers are nudged by the usage in learned contexts to take it for granted, without further justification.

Either way, it's a bit like when someone conflates term "observer", as it is used in physics, with the term as it is used in common language to suggest that people can walk through walls if they wish hard enough.

[0] http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_animal
> Most people like themselves

[Citation Needed]
That's true. But the numbers I cited above came from actual collisions, not from CPSC testing. The actual fatality rate when cars are involved is considerably lower with a helmet, verified many times over across many studies.
Or, you can write a science fiction short story and make it true in a fictional world you invent.
We desperately need women to design AI
Perhaps rather than legalizing hacking, we should inject a common middleman into the vulnerability reporting process. In the US, it could be the Consumer Product Safety Commission. It would ensure that those accepting reports are knowledgeable and treat the report as important and also protect companies from having to deal with random white hats. Serious enough vulnerabilities could result in fines that are partially paid to the reporter as a bounty. It would also protect white hats from threats or retribution since they could remain anonymous if they choose.

We already have a process in place to deal with flaws in products produced by unlicensed entrepreneurs. We just need to extend it to apply to software products and services.
Thank you.

I see now looking through that lense it makes sense. After re-reading my comment he was replying to I think I understand exactly what the OP was trying to convey.

"If you have to consciously figure out if comments are malevolent or not, you should find a new workplace."

And that "that's why professional environments are effective and make a pleasant place to work for all," implies more real work is done when you're not playing office politics, and everyone comes out happier because of it.

In retrospect, it seems like a silly thing to try and figure out.
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It might be a right decision, might be not, only you can decide. Having a low paying job is definitely not fun, but having a job which you don't like or which doesn't fit your traits is also not good.

I would start in the following way:

* Learn basics of programming and learn whether it's for you. You can use any of the introductory MOOCs available there or Swift playgrounds which are very good: https://www.apple.com/swift/playgrounds/

* Try finding an option to get a degree. There're plenty of places where you can get it part time (you can get into Harvard Extension School which doesn't require admission to just take courses, and having completed courses as validation, you can get an admission to an undergrad degree: https://www.extension.harvard.edu/academics/undergraduate-de...). As the industry matures, it's harder and harder to get into it without some validation in the form of education, especially for best paying positions.
JS is the only one of those that has dynamic typing, at least by the conventional meaning of the term.
I don't mean that ads will completely go away as the bubble burst. There are several kinds of online ads, and I am particularly talking about third-party tracking ads for example.
I heard there was some lawsuit between companies over AmigaOS. The AROS is based on AmigaOS 3.1 API calls and some version of AmigaOS 3.x or 4.x used source code from AROS etc. I am not 100% certain of that, the websites that reported it are down.

The guy who wrote the AmigaOS 3.x API calls got upset that someone scanned his book into a PDF file and pirated it. So he didn't make an AmigaOS 4.x API calls and without knowing them it is hard to make Amiga 4.x apps.

AROS made their own Kickstart ROM for Classic Amigas to run AROS on Classic Amigas. Since AROS supports networking it is possible to rig up some sort of Internet connection and port a web browser to it.

Amiga Forever is worth it for the ROM images and Kickstart disks to run Workbench and other things.
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Absolutely fantastic. Visual coding four the win.
YMMV of course, but it has helped me to have a rear view mirror on my bike. I do not use it as a substitute for turning my head and looking when I'm going to change lanes or make a turn.

But it lets me comfortably maintain a sort of "inventory" of what's behind me at any given moment. I'm much less likely to get taken by surprise.

I tend to be conspicuously and gratuitously polite. For instance I will wave if I see that someone is stuck behind me, and will pull aside when possible. One thing I realize is that i'm often in someone's neighborhood, so they'll probably see me again.
> "Every time you buy something from Amazon, drink tap water, or live in a dwelling that you didn't build yourself, you are being a social creature."

I'd say that's stretching the definition of social beyond the breaking point. Technically those interactions involve other humans, but none that you engage with directly. It's direct human interaction that is the key to whether something is 'social' or not IMO.
Ah, sky lobbies are a neat solution to get more efficient use out of the two elevators, I've never encountered one of those!
So basically you're saying, having a million dollars is better than not having a million dollars :P
It's like that point in school where you're quite good at algebra but haven't been introduced to calculus yet, and for the last time ever, you're fully confident that you understand all of mathematics.
I've been mountain biking for years. I've broken 2 helmets in crashes, due to hitting the ground hard. One did result in a concussion, but I was fine the other time. If it weren't for the helmet I imagine things could have been a lot worse.
it's hard to say what "designing" means - is a box-packing algorithm "designing" the packing pattern when it runs? Or is it just following a series of algorithmic steps "blindly" and yet, being able to reach an outcome that has certain properties (like being very densely packed)?
I agree with you there. If someone unintentionally offends another, an apology, followed up with extras (e.g clarification) where needed, is the correct course of action.

My only gripe was with semantics, which have the potential to do more harm than good.
Agreed. They might fix it at some point, but if there's a performance advantage to making the filesystem non-portable between machines with different numbers of CPUs, many people might happily take that performance advantage, at the cost of having to do file-level backups/transfers rather than image-level.
And what do you get when you have lots of triangles packed together?
Who’s at the trigger when the president calls a nuclear strike
I guess, in their eyes, it doesn't have to be universally near-perfect. But near-perfect in a context that... given their limits of knowledge, skill, and the time span, this is the best they could have done.
I don't think nurses have an easy job. I don't think I could do it. I am saying people have different skills, for some of them is easier to be a nurse for others to be a CS engineer. I wouldn't enjoy to be a nurse the same way another person wouldn't enjoy to be an engineer. What I am saying that there could be biological reason why some people suits more for one job or another. And gender is only one expression of the ADN and can be linked with those biological reasons.

We should respect all the jobs and understand that all of them required different skills and also that different people have different skills. And we should try not to force people into jobs or discrimine (either negative or positive) because of the gender or height or race or whatever. We should evaluate the skills and give them something they will enjoy doing and will do great.
When regular people, who normally talk to you about recent movies, are telling you how much money they made on XYZ stock recently, that tends to be a sign that the market is starting to get inundated by novice investors who are essentially fueling an irrational rise. This is of course purely anecdotal but I do believe once the mainstream media latches onto a story and you start hearing the regular folks investing their money into that particular story there is a problem.
Sadly this file system will never catch on in South America and Spain.
#290 6 hours later. This must have been down-modded. Before we ascribe political intent, however, consider that they may downmod controversial posts regardless of political leaning.
The Google example is none of those.
I am a Mexican citizen. You don’t need an SSN to get an EIN. However it does take a bit longer. However, my lawyer just used his and apparently this is a common practice.
What if you upgrade the machine with a new CPU that has more cores?
Its so true in physics at least.
I didn't say the system was closed. Why would you think I did? All I meant was that energy is free to flow around the atmosphere if it wants to; any macroscopic flow that wanted to occur would have occurred already.

In other words, caves like the GP mentioned (presumably) connect two systems between which energy is not otherwise free to move. That is not the case for a tube connecting two different sections of the atmosphere. Make sense?

> In particular, the upper atmosphere would not be colder than the lower if it was at equilibrium. Think about it.

Temperature varies inversely with pressure for a volume of gas. If low- and high-atmosphere gas had the same temperature, despite being at different pressures, that would be an imbalance.
Same here.

If a sidewalk is available I use it for biking. And I am 40 years old and have driven a car less than ten times in my life. I bike/bus/skateboard everywhere.

I have only had one accident and that was bad because the driver was looking out the side window when she hit me. And it was a gentle hit and I just rolled up on the hood. The problem was she had headphones on and keep accelerating into the road taking a left turn. I was on her windshield staring at her when she finally looked forward and noticed me. I had enough time to think, "she is going to slam on the brakes and I am going to be so fucked". Which happened and I was flung off the hood of her car into incoming traffic.

Luckily I was alright except for a few scrapes and bent rim.

The sidewalks aren't really busy enough where I live for biking on them to a issue. And if I go downtown I just walk my bike.
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I recommend this documentary which goes into that question

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hjernevask
Changing the number of cores given to a VM is not so uncommon.
Can I ask what company you work for? Sounds like it's interesting work that's actually augmenting people's workflow to be both faster and easier. Seems like it's satisfying work.
For every anecdote you have for cyclists acting badly I can guarantee everyone in this thread has 5 for cars. So what's your point?

The big difference is cars kill people, bikes usually don't. If a driver is careless around a cyclist, the cyclist dies. If a cyclist is careless around a car, the cyclist dies.
I often ask people who talk about this two simple questions:

- Is the extreme sex disparity in the prison population in the United States a result of a massive system of anti-male oppression or a result of population level sex differences between men and women.

- How do you interpret the experiences of trans people on hormones who experience their personalities change after taking hormones.

I'll admit it is a bit of a cheap shot, those are carefully chosen to cause cognitive dissonance, but that's an effective tool for getting people to clarify their opinions.
My impression when reading this was that the author intended it to be taken seriously. It is written with a decidedly "academic" tone. However, it is very light on actual research and evidence. Author says "Humans are inherently cooperative" is a bias on the Left. Where does this come from? More unsourced claims that strike me as suspect: "Respect for the strong/authority" is a bias on the Right. Women have more "Extraversion expressed as gregariousness rather than assertiveness. Also, higher agreeableness."
He said "the trading volumes." Could have been either, but BTC trading volume is even more meaningless than USD trading volume. An inflation-adjusted aggregate volume is probably the best metric, which is closer to the USD trade volume than BTC.
>Whatever happened before the past 10 years of insane growth we have seen is completely relevant.

A delightfully accurate inadvertency!
Holy shit! This is amazing. Great job
I'll try being explicit with my first question.

What is a hash function?

Edited to omit needless words.
It probably didn't hurt to seed the userbase at Harvard et al. either.
Thing about said rules are that they are not fixed, they are fluid based on the ongoing exchange within the peer group.

Thus all rules come with a ton of exceptions.
> "Or are you saying it has been proven that there are no neurological differences?"

Beware of confirmation bias. If you've convinced yourself something exists, and discover some patterns in data that line up with previous beliefs, that will be classed as evidence even without understanding what those patterns truly represent.
I think I've read somewhere that once newspapers report some piece of financial news, it's no longer news.

Anyway, it seems like sound advice.
They weren't giving the left a pass on it, they said the offended-right was using the same language.
You asked for an example after already seeing that one, clearly giving it to you again would just lead to pointless debate so it makes sense to give you a new one.
It doesn't sound like that much of the mystery at the end of the day, as the article concludes that it's probably a USAF/JSOC/CIA training mission.
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Yes. I was replying to this comment:

> But if one elevator shaft can have multiple independent cars, suddenly you've got a huge capacity multiplier without the space costs.

> The horizontal motion part is cute, but I don't think it will matter nearly as much.

My point is:
1. Stacked cars are not independent.
2. Horizontal motion matters a lot.
If the APIs are different, they are differently typed. You still don't need dynamic types, you need to correctly account for both APIs.

Doing it gracefully requires that you say what 'graceful' means in this context. It may or may not mean doing it correctly.
Let's see when (and if) those materialize. Flying cars have been 15 years away for about 50 years now. And self-driving cars have already missed their initial target.
Do you mean it's the only one without static types? All three are dynamically typed to some degree. For example, in ObjC, messages dispatch on the dynamic type of the object.
How to harness company’s resource?
For anyone looking to be in Puerto Rico, the massive tax incentives help as well.

http://puertoricotaxincentives.com/
Lots of studies have shown that girls that happen to have received prenatal male hormones show strong preferences for more typically boy's toys and play behavior in spite of any degree of social pressure.

There are lots more but here are a few:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12760514

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15693771

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12414881
After Jobs was fired or quit Apple in 1985 because the Mac was a flop and the Commodore Amiga and Atari ST came out for a lower price with color. Apple had to redesign the Mac and came up with Nubus slots for the Mac II and Mac SE line. They used the 68020 CPU and expandable video cards with up to 16 million colors to rival the Amigas 4086 colors.

IBM countered with VGA and the Adlib and Soundblaster cards came out to have better sound and Windows 3.x sold a lot and Windows 95 basically put competitors to near bankrupt or almost bankrupt status.

Jobs came back and saved Apple using a BSD Unix solution that used the Mac GUI aka OSX.
> What happened?

I sent resume copies, formatted beautifully with TeX, simply as just text in e-mail, with lots of detail, medium detail, very little detail, etc. with backspin, topspin,
overhand, side arm, etc., and nearly never heard back. I got a few phone screen calls, and never heard back. I got a few interviews, but they never led to anything.

At Morgan Stanley, I showed some research I'd done in high end, multi-variate, distribution-free, adaptive ("Look, Ma, no tuning!"), real time anomaly detection (for problems never seen before), and a Unix system administrator, responsible for 5000 systems, had just come from a meeting about how the heck to do that. Hearing a little about my work, he exclaimed "We can use that right away!". Didn't lead to a job offer. I explained my work to another guy there, and he was just convinced that my work just had to be cluster analysis, and I explained that maybe there would be clusters and maybe not, but my work had nothing to do with clusters. My work was original. An expert in statistical monitoring exclaimed "radical, provocative". But it's also correct, passed peer-review, and got published. I was suggesting that the work might be of
value in automatic trading where are looking for events or anomalies as triggers to exploit. The reaction that might write some code to automate trading fell flat with that guy.

My Ph.D. dissertation was in stochastic optimal control, but that cut no ice on Wall Street.

I have an excellent background in probability and stochastic processes from a star student of E. Cinlar, long the main guy at Princeton for
math for automating trading on Wall Street -- still, zip, zilch, and zero interest.

They just weren't interested.

It appears that for a short time, Wall Street had some interest in Brownian motion, stochastic differential equations, etc. mostly just to better understand the Black-Scholes formula but maybe also to do more on designing or pricing exotic options, but my guess is that those days were few and now long past.

I've got a solid background to dig into Karatzas and Shreve, H. McKean, E. Wong, etc., but I'm not going to set up a hedge fund and just didn't want to spend some months with that material, I like very much, without some hints that Wall Street would care. I didn't know about James Simons at the time (although he was recruiting heavily from the IBM Watson lab I was in) and still don't know enough about his approach, maybe mostly triggers, to know if he would be interested in Karatzas and Shreve etc.

Bottom line: No interest.

I don't know why.

On knowing a bunch of people, apparently I don't know enough of the right people!

At this point it is much easier and much more promising just to do a startup.

Here is my guess: Organizations really don't like to hire anyone in computing over 35. By age 50, no way. What they want is a lot of people under 35 and, then,
promote maybe 1 in 50 of those to management and fire the rest by age 35-40 or so. They just don't want experienced worker bees.
How is it "responsible" to give in to government regulations designed to invade everyone's financial privacy? All banks will do it - ignoring KYC laws is a good way to get shut down - but it's a disgusting thing.
"Truth values are in fact a binary difference, fuzzy logic is a tiny portion of mathematics."

Metastable states[0] are a tiny portion of all logic values. They exist and are inherently unavoidable, but somehow massively complicated systems that fundamentally rely on the assumption that values are either 0 or 1 still work.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metastability_in_electronics
"Beyond the two harmless use cases given previously, a headless browser can also be used to automate malicious tasks. The most common cases are web scraping, increase advertisement impressions or look for vulnerabilities on a website."

Cheating an advertiser I'll grant you, but the other two are 100% legitimate.
Have you seen the charts and hyperlinks? I was quite puzzled that they would be left out.
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FWIW, it's not clear if the original writeup includes links to sources backing his claims.

FTA: The text of the post is reproduced in full below, with some minor formatting modifications. Two charts and several hyperlinks are also omitted.
There are several different criteria you might want to optimize for that result in hexagons, not just close-packing of circles. (Obviously they are somewhat related, but if you step up to 3 dimensions then you start getting different shapes/structures for different criteria, such as a diamond lattice, an FCC lattice (voronoi cells make a tiling by rhombic dodecahedra), a tiling by truncated octahedra, ....)

In particular, bees probably make hexagons because that minimizes the amount of wall you need per area, for a given cell size. If bees were really just making something like a voronoi diagram from somewhat spread out points, you wouldn’t get quite so regular a hexagonal tiling.

I imagine there’s some research about the precise method by which bees build their honeycombs, if anyone wants to go dive into the literature.
10 years later, here's what I feel:

- Some websites have changed for the better, for e.g. youtube.com

- Some have changed but maintained the same feel, for e.g. amazon.com and news.ycombinator.com

- Some have changed little, but I wish they had not changed, because they used to be better, for e.g. reddit.com and nytimes.com
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Also ridiculously racist. Really!

Amidst his rambling "evolutionary psychology" argument concerning the gender gap he also protests racial diversity programs.[1] And his explanation for that? Are black people also bad at programming because of evolution? It's buried here:

"Left tends to deny science concerning biological differences between people (e.g., IQ and sex differences)." (emphasis mine)

So non-whites are doing worse in engineering because they're dumber, according to science. Seriously, does dressing these views up in pseudo-academic prose make them any less racist?

[1] "Stretch, BOLD, CSSI, Engineering Practicum (to an extent), and several other Google funded internal and external programs are for people with a certain gender or race"
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