skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing that comes to mind is when muslims raised concerns about Switzerland's flag.[0]

This is a different sort of case than described in the article, but pushback here is inevitable.

[0]: https://www.aargauerzeitung.ch/schweiz/weg-mit-dem-kreuz-sec...
Yes, it can, and then it is called 'genocide'.
I've been practicing deep work since reading Cal's book just after it was released. Like any of the good habits it's a tough one to form and keep but the outcome can be tremendous. Deep work has allowed me crank on https://nanagram.co solo. I do one thing at a time. While I'm doing that task I'm basically disconnected from the world - No email, no messaging, no phone, nothing. I've got 2 kitchen timers on my desk: One set to 60min, the other 15min. I spend the whole day offline alternating between focused tasks for 60min and 15min breaks. I'm constantly surprised by how much I can accomplish with 40min still left on the timer. During the 15min breaks I stay offline. Using this approach of doing one thing at a time I find it's relatively easy to flow from one thing to the next. Unless I crack and get pulled into a network tool :)

For longer, 2-3 day tasks, I completely log off and don't connect to the world until it's done. This means avoiding any network tool through the evenings and mornings until the stretch is over. Easier said than done. Some of my family and friends think I'm weird or get frustrated by my inaccessibility. But they get over it.

After a 2-3 day deep binge like the OP I also face challenges moving from one discipline (say programming) to another (a marketing video). One tool I use is yoga. For a while I had a daily meditation habit going but it's been replaced with 2-3x / week hot yoga. I find it has a way of cleansing my mind and energizing me for the next thing. I also go on fat bike rides to unlock the power nature's constant stimuli has on your mind as Cal talks about in the book.
I'm sorry to be seeming to make a straw man, but do you actually in sober thought think that economics is as well-understood as physics?
70% of the US population must be body-builders.
http://www.fisica.net/mecanicaclassica/struture_and_interpre...
This advertisement article is on the front page because a voting ring promoted it.
Mostly geared to middle school and absolute beginners but worth mentioning:

Scratch is a visual environment that will teach the basic of algorithms, loops, decisions, variables etc. using just drag and drop. It has sprites, sounds and everything you need to create rich flash games that can be exported to the web, so coding it's very rewarding, here is what a 12 y/o can create:
https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/203422373/
I personally disagree. I found it quite well structured and not that long for what it aimed to convey. I actually believe this long format helped cement the main points in reader's mind.
>> What an overlong and rambling article

Not acquainted with NNT's writings, I see. :)
A very revealing statement that Buffet views the current market condition as overpriced:

>"In our search for new stand-alone businesses, the key qualities we seek are durable competitive strengths; able and high-grade management; good returns on the net tangible assets required to operate the business; opportunities for internal growth at attractive returns; and, finally, _a sensible purchase price_.

>"That last requirement proved a barrier to virtually all deals we reviewed in 2017, as prices for decent, but far
from spectacular, businesses hit an all-time high. Indeed, price seemed almost irrelevant to an army of optimistic
purchasers.

>"Why the purchasing frenzy? In part, it’s because the CEO job self-selects for “can-do” types. If Wall Street
analysts or board members urge that brand of CEO to consider possible acquisitions, it’s a bit like telling your ripening
teenager to be sure to have a normal sex life."
> Charlie and I view the marketable common stocks that Berkshire owns as interests in businesses, not as ticker symbols to be bought or sold based on their “chart” patterns, the “target” prices of analysts or the opinions of media pundits. Instead, we simply believe that if the businesses of the investees are successful (as we believe most will be) our investments will be successful as well.

That's the problem I have with a lot of the culture in crypto investments. A lot of the newer investors are investing in crypto as a ticker symbol, just hoping its fiat price will increase. They couldn't care less about actually using crypto.
There are some Frida scripts running around for this purpose. However I don't have any personal experience with them, so I have no idea how reliable they work.
It's SICP for Classical Mechanics, all the way up to Hamiltonian/phase-space formalism, including perturbation theory and canonical transformations.
I keep a stack of blank todo lists and use one per work day. I separate each large item into actions that I rank by difficulty. After finishing a particularly demanding action I'll do several lower hanging fruit before attempting another action that I know will be more draining. Also, I once or twice daily leave my office with my laptop and go to a coffee shop and log off Slack and e-mail and let my coworkers know that I'm gone (I just post an Oasis music video at this point on a Slack channel) and bang out whatever thing is frustrating over a small coffee.

Another thing that I've found particularly helpful is beginning work around 7 am so I have about 2 hours before I need to deal with any human interaction that will pull me away from my actual work.
My personal opinion on this topic has to do with the skill and requirements of the job, given the time and stage the company is at.

Sure, I'm fine with executives that come much later to be paid more than many that come before him/her. Should a number as high as $34m justify the kind of value he/she puts into the company? I dunno if I can agree with that, and in an early employee's perspective, I'd like to be proven otherwise. Then again, I don't work for Dropbox and do not know the scale of the problem in which this exec has been brought in to solve.

Ultimately, my core principles/values have to do with loyalty and being nice. As founder(s), you must not forget those who brought the company this far. They did unglamorous work and put in crazy hours to help the company achieve product market fit. Founder(s) risk breaking the trust of their employees < no.100 when they see people coming after them being compensated / valued 100x more than they do, not because they are just paid higher. That scale is the root cause for frustration.

The counterpoint to this is when the company scales, all other numbers will scale with it too (revenue numbers, employee headcount etc.), and sometimes hiring a key person who can, in the long term, cut costs by $100m might justify his/her salary. Capitalism works like that.

UPDATE: Curious to hear what thoughts founder(s) active in the HN community have about this though. Open to hear decisions on your end. I struggle to come up with a good answer myself.
Yes, there are animal abuse issues with it

Also some of it finances religious bodies, which I'm completely against. I refuse to finance religious extremism
"Learning Styles" wasn't debunk, oversimplifying extremist claims were debunked. There are different ways to learn, but they are effective for different people to different extents at different times.
I have bad news: lots of foods are kosher.
It's one of few bugs in HN's algorithm. I have numerous examples of these.
Again?

Seriously, why do games keep becoming a scapegoat for stuff like this?

Not only is there zero evidence that video games cause violence at all (indeed, the data would point to it being negative, given the decrease in violent crime at the same time as the increase in video game violence), but there are literally hundreds of factors and media forms that are far more connected to violence. Why do these people still not focus on the real issues relating to guns and mental health issues and law enforcement failures and inequality and political/religious extremism? Why don't they seem to target music/TV shows/films/books/sports with as much as disdain, given hardcore fans of those have actually hurt or killed people in the past? And why does it seem that (somewhat sadly) both political sides in certain countries seem to show disdain towards the artform?

What more do these people need to move on and blame something else? Or actually address the real issues here?
Iceland is exploiting the hell out of it's geothermal energy, attracting energy intensive industries like aluminium smelters and bitcoin mining.

Doesn't the Big Island have similar levels of available geothermal resources?

Is the difference that Iceland is an independent nation while Hawaii's decisions are made in Washington DC?
I don't get it, if you're 100% on stocks, won't your portfolio rise with the market? Or are you worried specifically about your (lack of) exposure to the US market?
Honestly, the best place to do so is an astrophysics undergrad followed by an astrophysics grad program with a good PI. It'll get you there faster and better than any library or self-taught schedule. If you need to choose the self-taught route, look at a course catalog and then research the books they use.

For Example: http://astro.cornell.edu/undergraduate-studies.html
I think that is an effect of there being few big companies, not a cause of it. Historically industrialization has pulled people off farms. So a high proportion of agricultural workers usually = insufficient industrialization.
I guess we're all just Reactionaries right now.
That is one way of looking at it. In India businesses are a family affair. Every subsequent generation of those families also get into business. As family tree grows people tend to branch out into running other businesses. So, the average size of business remains small. And those don't lend them formal, salaried jobs. On an average the business size tends to be 1 or 2 employees ie the owners.
This blog has some good ideas about teaching Python to high school students:
http://blog.jrheard.com/
> The clear passwords present in jmxremote.password file will now be over-written by their SHA3-512 hash by the JMX agent

I must be misreading this. As far as I can tell the ability to read the new format was added in the same version. Did someone forget about forwards compatibility in the jvm?
You write as if you've never heard of Nassim Nicholas Taleb or realize, this is an exert from a book. That has editors. And publishers. And have sold many copies.
That would be one positive thing that could come out of this criticism.
Black soot emissions from fireplaces significant factor in arctic warming
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Ugh. Images like this are why no one should ever pay attention to fluff magazine articles about quantum anything:

https://media.nature.com/w800/magazine-assets/d41586-018-018...

The person who created that picture had no clue what the diagram is supposed to represent. They obviously created the infographic based on a conversation with someone who probably also doesn’t completely understand what their talking about.

Why articles like this must be written at all is what gets me. Someone out there wants this topic to have an article published, and they just don’t really care if the information it presents lacks accuracy.
Any idea that comes out of a brain-storming session is de-facto obvious.

Non-obvious ideas take time to think about and develop.
Agreed. The problem I see with similar comments here about noise and the character of these (fair to say overly obnoxious) riders, and how it affects your life, is that the same can be said of All of other loud vehicles. It's like complaining about the character of people with too loud of music blaring. They like it loud. They're different than you. This is America, where it's loud, and youre free to be loud too. This coming from someone who is especially sensitive and irritated by noises Im not making myself.
Didn't the same happen last year, with arctic polar region being warmer than sub-arctic latitudes? Maybe it's the new normal climate or at least semi-persistent like El Niño?
"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment is one that teaches us something."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Very enlightening, but I think the points about non-GMO/organic food are a bad example. The non-GMO/organic movement is a rejection of technologies which improve yields. Distribution costs might have lowered, but supply forces will almost always keep these foods substantially higher in price because yields are lower.
It's Taleb.

He has a compulsion to ramble in order to display his erudition.
It's setup in slightly different ways for different niches in the market, but on the mobile side it's a holdover from original FCC regulations on how ownership of spectrum worked. The FCC wanted to encourage competition, so they heavily emphasized partnerships with little mom and pops for each local region of spectrum. After the FCC removed those regulation requirements, those partnerships were still useful as sort of bellows of profit so that the C level can manage their growth curve.

This is all not really private information, is how pretty much all of the telecoms are structured, and isn't illegal.
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I feel like articles are just stumbling onto the reason why many sciences have coursework and labwork as part of the curriculum.
That's why when you argue with someone about one of these topics and you try to prove a certain point that does not fit ther line of thinking, you are effectively thwarting their identity. In their exes you make them less of a person. You take away a part of their identity. Nobody wants that.
An interesting bit:

Clearly can democracy –by definition the majority — tolerate enemies? The question is as follows: “ Would you agree to deny the freedom of speech to every political party that has in its charter the banning the freedom of speech?” Let’s go one step further, “Should a society that has elected to be tolerant be intolerant about intolerance?”

To which he later concludes:

We can answer these points using the minority rule. Yes, an intolerant minority can control and destroy democracy. Actually, as we saw, it will eventually destroy our world.

So, we need to be more than intolerant with some intolerant minorities. It is not permissible to use “American values” or “Western principles” in treating intolerant Salafism (which denies other peoples’ right to have their own religion). The West is currently in the process of committing suicide.
Using events like this to illustrate that global warming is happening is about as scientifically significant as when Trump used the recent US cold snap to imply that global warming isn't happening. I'm not saying climate change doesn't exist--it certainly does--but outlying events like this aren't by themselves particularly unusual. "Normal", after all, is at the top of a bell curve, and deviations from normal should be expected.
Yes, or possibly shifting some cash or bonds to stocks. But definitely letting existing stocks ride out the downturn.
New AI can create movies from just a few snippets of text
I'm glad I'm not the only one that thought so.

> How Europe will eat Halal — Why you don’t have to smoke in the smoking section — Your food choices on the fall of the Saudi king –How to prevent a friend from working too hard –Omar Sharif ‘s conversion — How to make a market collapse

Each of these would make a great article, but mixing in all these stories and discussions together made this borderline incoherent.

I work as an editor for an online technical publication. If an author ever forwarded a draft like this, I'd have either told them to split it into different articles or cut it down to a fraction of the size.
Single leg work with heavy weights puts a massive torque on your body that I would view as very dangerous.
Noticed vs. missed
My parents are lifelong Democrats of the "Bernie Sanders is too far right" variety but they're also very anti abortion. They hate the pro choice part of the Democratic party platform but agree on so much else that they're still straight party voters. Wouldn't be surprised if Trump gamers are similar.
Not sure why people are shocked by this, it's just the basic principle of diffusion.

As long as america continue to allow free trade our wealth and jobs will flow out of the country as countries seek cheaper labor and sell it right back to America with no restrictions. The standard of living is raising in other countries while lowering in the US. Labor is already getting too expensive in China for cheap goods so companies are beginning to look at other countries for cheap labor, or bring manufacturing back to the US and us automation to make up the difference.

The US really has no incentive to allow this to happen. We have the largest market in the world and could very easily do what China does if other countries want access to it. The US allows anybody into our markets while China bends them over the bargaining table requiring them to give up IP and form joint ventures with Chinese companies. What incentive does the US have to do "fair" trade? We have all the leverage in any negotiation but for years haven't used that leverage. At some point we're going to have to or the citizens are going to either rebel or accept lower standard of living, lower income, and lower life expectancy.

I'm starting to believe that the reason Washington DC does nothing about the opioid crisis is because it benefits them. If thousands of unemployed, heavily armed rust belt men were not strung out and dying from addiction they probably would have organized and marched on DC a long time ago and got payback on the politicians who have sold them out for personal gain.
There's a new piper in town SV. You're still paying the old one, and so is NPR.
How much statistical significance can have an anomaly that lasts only 24 hours?
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His examples are mainly western but his theory applies everywhere. It's important to understand conditions when 'minority rule' applies. It's only applicable to situations when minority choice is preferable/acceptable to majority if given as the only choice. But minority choice that is not acceptable to majority will quickly get eliminated as you have heard in your case.
The complaints in this article appear to be regarding OS-controlled lut adjustments, i.e. via special X11 features. I've used color calibrated monitors on linux in color-sensitive industries with hundreds or even thousands of artist seats (including film, animation, vfx, real-time, etc.) and the monitor has always been calibrated via the physical menus/buttons on the bezel and not a software/OS monitor-specific lut adjustment.

I'm not judging which is better or worse as it would indeed be nice if the calibration could be controlled by the OS. I'm just saying that adjusting the monitor hardware directly is what's being done in the pro linux content creation world. Also, I imagine that certain brightness and color gamut controls could only happen from the bezel controls. Dreamcolors can switch between srgb & P3 for example.
I am really very interested in reading about a typical hardware and software setup for a Linux colorist workstation with a special focus on which graphics card and which drivers to use! Nvidia?
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> “Should a society that has elected to be tolerant be intolerant about intolerance?”

This is something philosophy has actually done well to detail. It's the paradox of tolerance, and I think the answer absolutely has to be yes. For those looking for easy surface level gotcha's, that seems like a problem. Dig deeper, and it's logically consistent with the belief of tolerance, for if one allows intolerance, their tolerance loses all value.
I don't know global warming is happening because of this news article. This news article worries me because I know global warming is happening.
It’s not a bug it’s stated policy that items can be reposted even in rather quick succession.
To Apple's non-credit, it's still tying iMessage backups to iCloud backups despite years of criticism over this. That means everyone who uses iCloud backups (enabled by default on iPhones) don't actually benefit from iMessage's "end-to-end encryption" (which isn't that safe against sophisticated hackers or oppressive authorities to begin with).

I'd say people may as well forget about Apple's "privacy stance". It's nothing but smokescreen at this point (yes, even in the U.S.).
This a great and concise writeup, thanks.

But I was left wondering what the actual problem was. Why is glBufferMap slow? Is it just the impedance mismatch between D3D and GL that don't have the same synchronization guarantees for that specific call? Why does Wine have it's own command handling thread when very likely, the underlying OpenGL driver has one, too?
This is a PG classic, and a perennial HN favorite.

It left an impression on me the first time I read it 10 years ago; but since then, I've actually found it to be more useful as a piece to introduce people (designers, teachers, writers, musicians, nurses, pharmacists, etc.) to how "computer people" think - in extremely hierarchical, rule based systems that they see as impervious to everything else and that leave no room for nuance - and how to work with them.

There are many cases where any of the layers mentioned can be perfectly fine on its own. If a medical doctor dismisses someone by saying they're a "homeopath", that's really all you need to know - going in a 2 hour lecture about why homeopathy is quackery would only waste the doctor's time (and it is well know that the amount of effort needed to refute bullshit is orders of magnitude more than the effort needed to produce bullshit). The fact that, in PG's framework, it falls as "DH0 - Namecalling" really doesn't matter. You're a homeopath, go away, stop trying to get my money.

Within the definitions established by PG, the best possible form of disagreement comes from a perfectly refuted central point, nothing less. But that presumes that there is such a thing to refute in the first place - that the person you're arguing against isn't moving the goalposts every other sentence, appealing to emotion, etc. If you were to debate Donald Trump, how much would following PG's framework help you?

Schopenhauer's "Die Kunst, Recht zu behalten" ("The Art of Always Being Right") is the perfect manual to defeating this in the field.

The corollary of all of that is that it's extremely easy to persuade nerds - you effectively just have to make them believe you're operating at "DH 6", to borrow PG's terms, rather than a well disguised DH 1 or 2.
"Lisp is a programmable programming language." — John Foderaro, CACM, September 1991.
greater yields

Are they? What's the average yield across the whole cryptocurrency market vs the US stock market?
>What an overlong and rambling article.

It's not an "article". It's a book chapter.
If you've not come across Lee Smolin's (speculative) writing on the Fecund Universes theory, you'll probably also love it. Don't have any links as I've only read about it in one of his books, but it's a fascinating idea.
A studio in a luxury high-rise downtown runs more like $3300. $4000 is a damn nice 1-bedroom.
What’s your hypothesis that this is not happening elsewhere then? Let’s say in Germany. Free trade there as well...
In a “patent brain storming camp” people are going to (at least sometimes) bring in ideas they have been ruminating for years.

In many cases (according to the grandparent poster) ones unrelated to their direct jobs, which arguably their employer has no reason to claim rights over, but which might well still be novel advances to the state of the art.