skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The man advocated buying houses for the homeless. How economically illiterate can you get beyond that?

Homelessness in the UK is not a problem of lack of housing, but of lack of suitable council controlled housing with facilities suitable for caring for homeless people - the vast majority of homeless people are not homeless because they couldn't find a house, but because they have been unable to deal with a life situation that often include mental illness.

But to your concern over changing outcomes: To bring people back out of homelessness on an ongoing basis, then yes, putting a roof over their head is on one hand treating symptoms, on the other hand it is also typically an essential first step:

Getting people back into work and getting people mentally back on track is generally far easier once they have a stable living situation and a fixed address - a lot of homeless people get into a cycle where they become homeless and as a result of becoming homeless find it hard to hold down jobs and near impossible to get new ones, because finding a job without having a fixed address and without having somewhere to clean yourself and clean your clothes and so on is far harder.

So my impression from the way you raised that question is that you don't understand the problem. Having a housing provision to offer is essential.

> Primarily because he has not attacked any pro-Brexit policies and he is not opposing the main political goal of the opposition. The country effectively doesn't have an opposition.

The Labour manifesto makes it clear carrying out Brexit is official policy. If he were to go against the manifesto, he'd be violating his duties. He's not a dictator, and his job is to push for the policies set by the party conference and the national policy forum., not to be a loose cannon pushing his own agenda. It's beyond ironic how many people want Corbyn to act like a dictator, especially after how much effort he spent on arguing for increasing party democracy.

It sucks that it's official policy, but the political reality is that both the Tories and Labour would be guaranteed a loss if pushing Remain at this point given the number of marginals that are Leave heavy.
Usually when you apply, they ask if you do or plan to do any of these things. If so, they may decline to offer a policy, or offer one with a rider that excludes those activities. I’m a low-time pilot and my life insurance won’t cover me for plane crashes either.
Holder, in testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, after, well, not doing his job prosecuting banks: “I am concerned that the size of some of these institutions becomes so large that it does become difficult for us to prosecute them when we are hit with indications that if you do prosecute, if you do bring a criminal charge, it will have a negative impact on the national economy, perhaps even the world economy.”

Soon after he was done with his effective regulation, according to you, he returned to his job...defending large financial institutions...at Covington & Burling LLP, D.C. law firm.
But isn't that what they are doing right now? The only difference in terms of your argument seems to be that it's not other race car drivers and spectators at risk but other drivers and pedestrians. Then again they are not racing, but testing autonomous vehicles with drivers as a backup.
Dr. Phil?
"People in Africa are starving, so you're having a great day!"

Bullshit argument, I'm sorry.
If something bad happens, it will be the will of the 51%, not the .01%.
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Considering that today the press can label any piece of software AI, one could say it happened in 1990s.
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To be honest, it’s not any different as a prime member. It just takes a shorter time once it’s sent.

I don’t know why I stick around.
"Like a Warhol, you mean? “Exactly, yeah.”"
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I really like how this socializes the aspect of creation with software and I know that it would drive about 90% of the software engineers that I currently work with absolutely insane
If you remember your password, you can still log into it at https://web.icq.com/
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>Not to mention that AI vision systems are susceptible to adversarial attacks ... The situation is dire.

That's like saying a human driver can be blinded with a bright light so the situation is dire.

New world, old rules. You'll still go to jail for manslaughter (or whatever the charge would be).
Your example also is related to my experience briefly working in P&G chemicals R & D lab; the ChemE's around me routinely used google to look up reaction kinetics of different compounds (as well as other similar queries) rather than rely on their memory of such. I was attending a local university at the time (mostly for calculus and mathematical modeling using mathematica, and french), but I'd say this experience is largely one that started my questioning the value attending university in general (I dropped out an ivy about two years later, for this reason among others).

I suspect that the concept of 'extended cognition' as it is realized with the use of computers and how people use it day to day to get work done is in conflict with how we all are mostly taught via rote memorization, and then application of information; therefore it should naturally follow that those who are heavily invested/exposed in 'non extended' cognition services have relatively more to lose, as well as any currently realistic answer to this:

>The question becomes something like: how do we expose people to enough information that they are aware of how much they can learn if they need to, without drowning them in trivia that they will never be interested in?

will bring cognitive dissonance to those who need the answer most (those with heavy exposure to relatively 'non extended' cognition services).
Or just give a save button because that’s what people expect and want?
Vegetarianism is murder
xyzzy + shift + enter made me look quite smart back in the day.
If I remember correctly, the man said that he eventually went to another "realm" or "dimension" that was beyond words, but that he needed a sort of transition between the two level of consciousness. It's probably similar to how deep sea divers cannot go to the surface too rapidly.
Dale Carnegie, How to win friends and influence people. The book had opened my mind on how people react to criticism.

Human Relationships, Steve Duck. Relationships are so important in life, and not at all obvious for everyone, yet we are all left to ourselves on them.
Where is your argument? Perhaps you should rethink your beliefs if you can't actually counter the post.
This is the comic you're thinking of.
http://www.commitstrip.com/en/2015/02/19/when-i-install-a-so...
This was one of the comics that convinced me to add them to my RSS feed. I have not been disappointed since.
I don't see "not benefiting from ignoring your doctor's advice" as a problem that needs to be "solved." If you are concerned about doctors recommending unnecessary procedures I'd recommend a move away from the fee-for-service model. Patients aren't the party equipped to make the distinction.
Right off the bat, here you go:

1. The 7 habits of highly successful people (Stephen Covey)

2. The Miracle Morning (Hal Elrod)

3. Business Model Generation (Aelxander Osterwalder)

4. The Art Of War (Sun Tzu)

5. The E-myth, why most businesses don't work and what to do about it (Michel Gerber)

6. Made In Japan (Founder of Sony, Akio Morita)

7. How to win friends and influence people (Dale Carnegie)

Probably I missed a few more, but I think these ones are a good start.
Facebook doesn't just have a Whatsapp and Instagram "problem". They have a core Facebook problem.

The Facebook app and websites have barely innovated in years and the changes they HAVE made have slowly but steadily eroded the core user experience.
What was once a SOCIAL NETWORK - a place where friends could come together or new friendships were made - has become a disjointed "news" feed full of gossip, fake news, Russian propaganda or US politics division. All this interspersed with cat pics and buzzfeed top ups.

It's hard to find and enjoy the 'social' aspect of this social network if it's full of oddly unedited "news" footage.
SQL is highly underrated by engineers.
The silence here is stunning. Most of the support I've found is on slack or Google groups related to Mac administration (google macadmins) / munki packing tools. Not quite macos development, but a good place to learn how to package things.
^ this. I read Paul Graham's, What You'll Wish You'd Known when I was in high school and it was like "okay great I get it" and only now after reading it again recently has it become "wow, now I feel it."

And for me it seems to boil down to feeling the message rather than knowing it. Someone can tell you to work out and stay in shape, but sometimes it takes hitting a personal low to make a permanent change.
The Qubes high-security operating system gains traction in the enterprise
Some notes:

- Windows 10 PCs don't update or restart arbitrarily if they're managed with Group Policy. In some cases, you might even want them to, and have a hard time convincing them to reboot themselves when they say they are going to! They've added a massive set of new options for configuring this in the current ADMX templates.

- Having all of your data leaked online by a malicious actor or losing it all to ransomware are both far worse than the worst thing a botched patch has ever done. Losing some productivity sucks; getting pwned can end your business.

- The actual contents of the basic level telemetry aren't that bad. I'm personally irritated that they collect the amount of time each application on a computer is in use, but as long as you have the nightmare that is "inking and typing" disabled, there shouldn't be significant leakage of private information.

- Those same countermeasures you speak of can help with Windows 10's telemetry problem too. You can block said telemetry from ever leaving your network.

- The next major release of Windows 10 is going to include a diagnostics viewer so you can check this content out yourself.

I certainly wouldn't blame someone for having held off so far while Microsoft shuffles through the rocky early issues they have with every OS (they had them with Windows 7 as well). But that's because we still have two years of security updates left. ...If you're still planning on being there in two years, then I'd have serious questions.
You're some kind of mind-reader, and can read the minds of all 1.5 million (or whatever the number is) people who initiate chargebacks each year on their credit cards?

I have actual experience as a credit card merchant for 10+ years. You have shown yourself to have no real-world knowledge of the situation.
> A secure means of sharing information and value across devices is a building block for the internet of things. How would such a standard exist and how would the value distribution become agreed upon?

Using centralized systems. Why would a more expensive distributed not-quite-trustless system be better than a far simpler and cheaper system built on centralized trusted authorities?
I feel like there were great communities a decade ago, but these days I’ve been out of the Mac indie dev/customization scene for so long I wouldn’t know where to turn.
Font rendering on Linux doesn't suck.
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Trust Me, I'm Lying by Ryan Holliday

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion

I read both a couple years ago and was fascinated (and annoyed) by how many of the little tricks and tactics I recognized in sales, in the news, and really in every day life. Reading them didn't make me immune to any of it but now I'm aware and try to think more critically about what I see and hear.
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I feel like the answer is "Twitter". Find a bunch of prominent macOS devs and talk to them. There might be a Slack or Discord or something you can get them to invite you to.
Great insights. Can anyone point me related HN links related tech to leadership transitioning?
Did you mean Verifiable Random Functions (VRFs)?
What problem are you trying to solve through this approach?

There is neither any concept of element selectors nor any such ready implementation I've come across.

However, some things in a produced structured PDF (as opposed to a PDF from a scanned page) can be searched. For example, if you want all text objects, you can look for sequences like "BT..Tf..Tj..ET" which are operands for Begin Text, set Text font, show text, end text.

But not all objects are easily queryable. For example, I've seen tables that don't show any indication that they are tables. Instead, in the PDF, they are encoded as a series of move, stroke operations, and text operands. You'd have to know such a pattern represents a table and look for the table by searching the pattern.

I don't know what you are trying to solve, but assuming selectors are the right solution, the approach I'd choose is:
1. Use a good framework like PDFBox and its COSObject object model to reverse engineer simple PDFs while keeping the PDF spec [1] close at hand. This way you can understand what the operands and patterns are.

2. Use a framework like JXPath to build arbitrary XPath like query interface over PDFBox's object model.

It's easier if all the PDFs are produced by the same program, and far harder if you want to process any PDF in the wild.

Alternately, perhaps you can convert PDF to HTML, and then run the selector on that HTML.

[1]: https://www.adobe.com/content/dam/acom/en/devnet/pdf/pdfs/PD...
Also worth checking out Jen's new, twice-weekly YouTube Channel, Layout Land: https://www.youtube.com/layoutland
Isn't it only non-linear on the first load? Whenever I open the app for the first time in a while it shows me "top content while I was gone", and after refreshing it appears to be linear again.
In a similar vein, there's this website:

http://haspvsnpbeensolved.com/

Although; in this case; I'd hesitate to call this a strict example of 'benevolent deception'. ;)
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From a quick glance, this product is competing on price.

It lists historical user and session level data at very cheap prices. If you’re using GA, you’d need premium to get that functionally. Premium starts around $150,000 per year.

The other incumbents for this product are companies that provide historical user level and session level data. Mixpanel, Amplitude, Heap, Keen, Kissmetrics are the big ones.
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As is the case every time I see an article like this... I agree with the points - but I want to know how one gets the position, not what to do when you get there.

The fact that it's just sort of taken as granted is a frustrating thing for those of us who have wanted, but never been offered, such a position.
Lot of people have jumped ship
A Short History of Nearly Everything

I read it at ~18 and can easily draw a direct line between it and going into research, but I wish I had read it a few years earlier and became interested in science sooner. Maybe I would've actually done my homework in high school.
I had prime for a couple of years specifically for the video. I probably didn't get hooked on the shipping for a good two years after I first signed up. I don't have cable and I find Netflix gets stale if it's all one uses. There have been precious few competitors to Netflix and I'll be damned if I'm going to pay Hulu and watch their commercials. Network TV pretty much sucks anyway (imo) so I don't really see any use for Hulu.
> newly-registered probable-sockpuppet account any day.

Thanks for your response but my tenure on hn is probably the least relevant part of the discussion.
Yes, you do, because the discharge rate is proportional to the size of the battery. Halve the battery, slow the car.
Software can be shipped at any level of completion.

Initially, software could only be distributed over physical media like disks. And because of this, it had to be stable enough.

Today, software is distributed over the internet, and you can amend mistakes.

This has enabled the release broken of software, that over time becomes better.

This doctrine is seen as efficient, but is not good faith and not the best interest of the user in some cases (e.g: Equifax).
Ticket to Ride has randomness in the train card deck. You can effectively gamble by drawing off the deck rather than choosing one of the face up cards.
I live in the Bay Area and I use both WhatsApp and WeChat and I would say WeChat is a significantly better product, with more features and better video/audio quality. When I visit China, WeChat is another order of magnitude more indispensable due to its great integration with all the other services (eg, mobile payment penetration through WeChat effectively 100%).
Most people have not had any such training with regards to lifting the lid on the toilet seat before they take a piss. Yet somehow they figure it out.

You don’t need training to know to not get next to a rattlesnake to take a selfie. They come with their own built in warning—- a loud rattle!
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress Free Productivity by David Allen. Whether as a recent graduate toiling with life decisions or as a recent graduate student juggling life, work, and school, I read this book about 2 to 5 years too late.
#macdev on irc.freenode.net is still the prominent place specifically for macOS developers that I can think of.

Not able to think of anything else off hand. Twitter or stackoverflow could be supplements. There’s other communities for Swift or other specific projects.
Quite an optimistic take on the situation, especially considering (from the article): the racing engineers are having trouble with the car's battery management software. Because the Model S doesn't know that it's a race car ... it starts to shut the battery down when it detects excess heat in the pack.

Right now a Tesla on a track should be good in a 1/4 mile drag race, but is pretty much a joke for any serious number of laps. Here's a Car and Driver effort that found "by the exit of Snake, about 40 seconds into the lap, the 5010-pound P85D entered a reduced power mode (roughly half of the max)"[1]. The Tesla wound up finishing the lap with the same time as a Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8.

[1]https://www.caranddriver.com/features/tesla-model-s-p85d-at-...
It's funny how western (probably American) HNers are mentioning the "how to succeed everywhere" books all over this thread. This is silly, methinks. I would mildly suggest those people to take a bit wider look at where they live and why they consider those books important to be read as early as possible.

For me, I don't regret about not having read anything, I'd rather regret about having read too much and nothing substantial at all at the same time. But regardless of the fact that I've read a ton of bulls*t books and virtually nothing fundamental, I don't see a need to catch up. No haste = no waste. We can live very productive, moral and full lives without reading anything.
Hmm...
I don't know, but my app is less heavyweight on said WhatsApp than a bloated WeChat. But that's my opinion.

When I send a message, why does it need to be so bloated. I just wanna send a message. Does being lightweight a feature too?
Thanks for the correction on part 135 vs 131. I see your point but a perfect safety record doesn't preclude overreacting to fairly minor infractions.

I would be interested to know exactly what model of plane they we're flying with a student pilot in the right seat.
TLDR: Some companies have toxic culture, pay attention to red flags, read contracts carefully, speak out so things can change.

(Worth a full read if you've got the time. Some scary places out there.)
That seems more like a definition for intelligence or learning.

My favourite definition for consciousness is the following:

If it is something to be like a particular thing, then that thing is conscious.

If it is something to be like a bat, then a bat is conscious. If it isn’t something to be like a bat - the “lights are off” so to speak - then it’s not conscious.

Edit: clarity
Make one! I put a Slack together for remote workers (https://helloremote.life) and it’s been really fulfilling to see the group and the level of conversation grow over time. Also a good way to network, both for you as the organizer, and for people in the group (a hiring or jobs channel in particular)
"The Logic of Failure" by Dietrich Dorner. Sort of an applied "Heuristics and Biases".

"The Moral Animal" by Robert Wright. It unlocked the reasons why my impulses and aspirations were at such odds.

"The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin". Very practical advice for how to better oneself.

Caveat: Reading them earlier is one thing. Appreciating them is another.
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The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt

It changed the way I think and most of my existing ideas.
I too have had that uneasy feeling you are talking about. Letting go of total control over how things are being done as I went from just me hacking away, to leading a small team has been interesting. I tell myself (sometimes to my team directly) that we can just redo any choice that we make if it doesn't work out or we will work together to make the choice work. I want them to own problems and decisions. I want to empower them to as best I can.

As a result, I have never had to totally redo any technical choice that my team has made. We have had to fix a few things together, and that has only brought us closer.
From my experience you have to exhibit signs of leadership yourself before leadership position finds you. If you are already working in a company and when there is a problem, offer solutions, speak up, communicate your ideas. If your manager doesn’t listen because they think they have a better solution and you disagree speak up, challenge their idea. Being a leader isn’t easy it means sticking your neck out in the name of finding the best solution for the team.

It also means when you offer solutions and it’s accepted you will become the go to guy / girl for everyone, that’s how people around you will see you as a leader. You took that risk to stick your neck out for them.

You will also then have to learn to work with people learn how to motivate people because now they are coming to you. You can’t just shun them away you have to offer a solution to their problem. If you don’t have an answer empower your people to find a solution.

Leadership is an art form in itself, it can be learned, like any other skill. It takes a shift in mindset from being a worker to a leader.

Another key thing to remember you don’t have to have the “label” before you become a leader. If you act like one the label will come on its own.

I suggest you read / watch “Great Leaders Eat Last” by Simon Sinek. Was an eye opener for me.
Could it be that maybe some things were lost in translation? Maybe a “chariot” isn’t exactly the way we think of a chariot now. Maybe it was just a saddle?
1) being effective
2) politics
3) early hire/founder
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