skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think I agree, and then I couldn't help myself from writing the following.

If almost everyone think they are 75th percentile, the reason for you being closer to the average is barely affected by the aforementioned fact, but because for most statistics over large populations, you are always more likely to be close to the average. It's the average.

It does however inform you that if you feel like answering the 75th percentile, your answer will be quite certain to be incorrect, except obviously for the 25% of the people that's in that percentile.

If you however does that inference, and realise you actually need to calculate the relative odds of the various answers given what we know of other people's answers to have a chance of a better than average answer, you are almost certainly in the 75th percentile. At least when it comes to understanding how tricky statistics can be, as that is an extremely rare skill to encounter.

People almost always seem to assume I'm in the 99th percentile or above, with the notable exceptions of being 'really stupid' from time to time. I don't really know what stupid has as a numerical equivalent, but lets assume 1% for symmetry.

Personally, I'm ambivalent between agreeing with the majority, and believing I'm quite a bit less gifted, maybe outright stupid.

I'd say I believe that I'm in or above the 75th percentile about 25% of the time, which would seem like par for the course, on average.
So it turns out that "customer service" is actually a good in and of itself that has a price and needs customers willing to pay that price. A Walmart shopper is typically not willing or able to trade some of their disposable income for a more knowledgable/helpful employee. There is a reason that Trader Joes, Whole Foods, and Walmart pick the inventory mix they have, where they locate, and who they hire. They are all different business models with different customer groups.

People with less disposable income have increasingly prioritized physical products over paying for any meaningful interaction with employees which is fine. It is their choice to do so. If people actually value having meaningful interactions on main street in small town America they will still have them. But I suspect that most people don't value that, which one could argue I suppose is bad, but it should ultimately be left up to the individuals that live in small town Vermont, not me.

I rely on a couple of small businesses near me, one of which is my butcher. One might say well the butcher is an unskilled job, but he is selling me two things. First is better meat than Whole Foods. Secondly he is quite a good cook so he can recommend cooking techniques or I can say "I want to do the brisket sous vide" and he will trim it so just the right amount of fat is on it. Obviously this works better with organic products rather than something made of plastic where everything in the same box is a perfect substitute.
Yeah, but I'm sure there was a case of someone flagged in this exact way for possession of child pornography, and obviously the guy was branded a pedophile by local news, fired from his job, spent months in jail....and in that time, literally no one thought to look at those pictures and make a common sense decision. When he finally managed to get them in front of the judge, it was obvious the only pictures found were of his own kids playing in the kiddie pool outside in the summer.

I think what I want to say is that I have no trust in the process, it's incredibly easy to ruin someone's life permanently.
Historically, the ability to spend time alone with one's thoughts has always been a luxury, available only to those with the means to own or rent their own living space. Everyone else in the world dealt with highly-communal living spaces where you didn't have any choice but to socialize with virtually 100% of your non-sleeping time.

You simply didn't have an option to develop introversion unless you were extremely lucky.
It seems obvious that how I see myself is completely different from how person A sees me, which in turn is different from how person B in a different context sees me. But as an individualist, I bristle at the premise that self knowledge is a matter of other people’s perspectives. I’ve had other people say all kinds of whacky things about me, such as “I always assumed you were a pretty religious Christian,” while I think of myself as agnostic atheist.

I consider others view of me very important, for certain limited purposes. I guess I’m not sure what “more accurate” would even mean here. I wouldn’t necessarily privilege other’s view of me all that much, especially in the context of what “self knowledge” means to me.
It's like putting people in jail who committed no crime and giving them no explanation as to why they have been deprived of freedom.

That would make an awful lot of people suicidal.
I wish we'd see a reduction of male circumcision in the US, like it's been falling in other western countries. I agree it's a totally unnecessary procedure.

People are annoyed when they equivocate it with female circumcision today, but there will come a time in the future when we'll look back at both forms and say to ourselves, "How did we ever think mutilating kids genitalia for non-medical reasons was ever okay?"
Close, but no dice. 100 EUR worth of weed (street value) is only worth 100 EUR if the person wants to keep it (ie. is a regular smoker) or wants to sell it (ie. is an aspirant dealer). Assuming an employee of Geek Squad is either is a rough stretch. For people who are neither (such as myself), weed can be worth 0 EUR (to me, weed is completely worthless as I don't want to put effort into selling it, and don't want to smoke it). An irregular smoker wouldn't smoke enough to finish 100 EUR of weed. They might rather prefer say 90 EUR cash instead. And even a regular smoker could possibly be able to know cheaper sources than street value.
6 Successful Women Share How They Defeated 'Impostor Syndrome'
That doesn't sound right. IIRC, the US and the rest of the world view the South China sea as international waters, while China makes that claim that it's its sovereign territory (against all international custom).

> the US holding the first island chain

Come on, the US doesn't hold Japan. They're allies.

> Without a foothold in the South China Sea

China already has a foothold in the South China Sea: it's coast, Hainan, etc.
My mom has a box of cards with recipes on them. These are preprinted cards to handwrite on, but they have blanks for the name of the recipe, who you got it from, and how many it serves. One of them is the Toll House chocolate chip cookie recipe, but it says it's from my aunt.

(My aunt is not known for her cooking.)
The brilliant thing about the web is you can just link to other writing, rather than just spread unsubstantiated FUD.
Your criticism would sting more if I hadn't labeled it as such.

If you'd like another example of an "absorbing barrier", an HN comment has a limit on how long it is permitted to be. Therefore, all comments that would be longer than that are comments that can not be made. It is probably not unreasonable to state that even a slightly adequate summary of an entire philosophy would not fit within that limit. Therefore, no Hacker News comment can contain a true summary of an entire philosophy. Therefore it is not reasonable to expect a Hacker News comment to contain an accurate summary of an entire philosophy.

Besides, there's another "absorbing barrier" in that I'm not interested in writing that long of a summary anyhow, when they already exist.

Finally, postmodernism's very nature allows it to be a bit of a moving target, where any time someone makes any criticism of it a postmodernist can say with a straight face that that is not what postmodernism is, and no matter what you point at, nope, that's not where postmodernism is. I reject that. What I said may not be the totality of postmodernism, but it is accurate, in that there are definitely postmodernists who operate under the beliefs I described, and the existence of even a branch of postmodernism that believes what I said is sufficient for the point to be an interesting and valid criticism of those beliefs. Personally it is my considered opinion that this is a foundational belief of the entire philosophy and it falls apart entirely if it is destroyed, and there's just varying levels of how obfuscated they manage to make the fact that this is a foundational belief of theirs, but your mileage may vary.
For me, the most important part of the "secret family recipe" is the element of curation. There's surely hundreds of recipes for almond kringler out there, but I know that the one my mom uses at Christmas is extremely delicious. If your family has decided they really like the sugar cookie recipe in the 1985 edition of the Better Homes and Gardens cookbook, perfect! The "family" part of "secret family recipe" means that it's the recipe your family likes best, and the fact it came from such-and-such a cookbook can be the secret.

When I go online and search for a recipe, I'm taking a chance that it may be awful. That's why when I find an online recipe I enjoy, I write it down in a special notebook. This also has the advantage of letting me cut out all the prefacing garbage ("my husband and my 3 beautiful children LOVE coming home on a crisp winter afternoon to a delicious bowl of this yummy soup blah blah blah") and trim down the directions to the sort of terse and informative stuff you'd find in a real cookbook. Then if I ever want to make it again, I don't have to deal with the absolute garbage of modern recipe sites popping up notifications about how butter is on sale 2 miles away, and how I can sign up for the email newsletter, etc.
In Defense of Static Typing
>there is an incentive and real opportunity here to make crime in order to cash in.

Well witnesses and victims are generally compensated by the courts and/or victims-witness advocate programs (which go by different names in different states). I don’t think many people argue those programs or payments incentive crime in order to cash in.

And in this case I’m not so sure it’s an opportunity to “cash in” as what the article references are one time payments of $500-$1,000, and while maybe comparatively a lot of money for these individuals, it’s a hell of a lot of risk to plant evidence only to turn it over to the FBI for inspection by their experts, with a very real possibility of implicating yourself, for a comparably small amount of money. And if one of these employees identifies more than one suspect, better believe that employee is going to come under FBI scrutiny.

I have seen witnesses in federal cases paid 6 figures, and even then knowing the facts and the risks, I don’t think anyone would suggest it’s an opportunity to cash in.
Remember that power stations do not generate the same single phase signal that you tap into in your house. They generate three phase AC current. They also don't link up directly: there are transmission substations in between.
I recently got to take a look around a small (~ 4MW) hydro station. Despite this being a tiny contributor to the overall grid, it is apparently a grid/regulatory requirement for them to be able to perform a black start.

For that reason, all the equipment in the generator building ran on 48V DC, supported by a large bank of batteries.
I don't really use the reviews on Amazon any more for making decisions. Typically if I'm buying something on Amazon it's a book, and I already know I want it because someone I trust recommended it, or it's some random thing I want like speakers or a bike tool or something and I just research what to buy online before I go to Amazon.
Absolutely not. Cryptocurrency may be.
From when qc was still readable http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1679
Ahhh.... stop bringing relevant context to everything.

I wanted to just use this article (without reading it) to explain to my wife and kids why I need a few hours of alone time on Saturday.
Sure, it's called "Powerline networking", you can find cheap modems that you connect to your internet connection and then you can use other modems as clients.
The worst thing about having a very late sleep cycle is that a lot of people with early or in-between cycles often can't fathom the possibility that some other people's sleep cycles can be so different, no matter how hard you try. You get all sorts of things like "you just need to be more disciplined", or "you just need better sleep hygiene" etc... As if I hadn't tried that over the last couple of decades!

If you have these kinds of sleep problems, really that sort of "friendly advice" you get is about as useful as telling a depressed person to "just be happier" or "just stop feeling sorry for yourself." (That is, absolutely useless).
> It's weird how long it takes to realize how many of the assumptions you inherit from your family aren't shared by everyone else.

So true. But not weird, predictable. You need a lot of interactions with the world to understand how differently people might think and evaluate a given situation. You don’t know what you don’t know.
This resonates with me, being a bit of an introvert. There is something rather lovely about encasing yourself in your own thoughts without the pressure or prejudice of other opinions. I do enjoy company as well, but I really feel alive and free when I can think clearly, which happens most often when I'm alone - it actually gives me a profound sense wellbeing.
> This is more akin to an electrician being called in to rewire the kitchen, seeing a locked basement door, picking the lock, and rifling through the boxes in the basement to find illicit materials.

Which still produces admissible evidence. Government agents are bound by the constitution when it comes to searches, private individuals are not. There can be other clauses in a state's constitution that enshrine an expectation of privacy that may be usable to dismiss such evidence, but as far as federal law and the US constitution is concerned a private individual can break a window into your house, find illicit materials, report them to the police and some time later you are sitting in court defending yourself.

> This was the FBI trying to skirt around the 4th amendment by having someone unrelated to the FBI do the seizure and search bit of investigating, so it could be done without a warrant.

Yup, and now that there's evidence such reports are being rewarded they screwed that up. If a government employee requests or incentivizes you to perform a search on their behalf you become an agent of the government for the purposes of that search, 4th amendment applies and if such activity is discovered the evidence is inadmissible. Incredibly stupid move of the FBI.
Whether or not you think they are really women/men is not relevant to any form of health insurance.

What matters is whether or not gender dysphoria is a real disorder and whether or not sex change operations are an effective treatment for that disorder. The objective evidence, I believe though I am not an expert in that area, points to yes for both of those questions.
Vanguard doesn't miss the benchmark. They're good at execution.
You are crazy —- the good kind of crazy tho —- for moving away from MacOS on your work machine.

I’m just a dabbler in all things Linux/sysadmin/IT who tried going from Windows to Linux as my desktop and did well until it came to dealing with X and graphics drivers for my aging nvidia 660. Sure I got everything up and running just fine with hardly any effort but just basic things like hardware acceleration in browsers and screen recording software were a giant pain in the ass that took entire weekends for me to only half way solve. Still, it taught me a lot more of how Linux has evolved since the dark days of floppy based Slackware and redhat installations. Give the people responsible for Quartz on OS X and the Windows GUI a kiss for me, bless their hearts. The year of Linux on the desktop will come when we can move away from the ancient parts of X and flatpaks are perfected.
Ah - no - I wouldn't think someone like Vanguard would forget. I was just highlighting that the "headline cost" number isn't the only cost you should consider.

Guys like Vanguard actually make money on their rebalances because they are so big. And they keep it in-house - avoiding the costs (both explicit and implicit) of outsourcing their flows to other firms. So being large brings economies of scale as well.

EDIT: By "make money" I mean they use their cost-savings to make or beat the benchmark
I don't understand what it is.
We published some research on one approach:

http://lstm.seas.harvard.edu/latex/

Here's how to do it with OpenNMT/PyTorch:

http://opennmt.net/OpenNMT-py/im2text.html
Oculus Rift is now the most popular VR headset on Steam
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IBM’s PAIRS Geoscope helps developers wrangle geospatial data
Oy. I appreciate that the grandparent commenter expresses an idiotic and reckless sentiment, but as a reasonable retail investor myself (primarily in sane index funds like VTI and VXUS), I don't exactly want to cede control of my investments to either a private pension manager nor the government.
I have wondered my whole life how we would all speak and behave, if we hadn't seen examples of so many interpersonal situations in TV and movies.
Getting first freelancing clients in a highly competitive niche
Interesting that it passes/returns structs by value quite a lot which is not usual in C (in my experience.) I assume there's a reason for this?
e.g.

static Hero spin(Hero hero, const uint8_t* key)

https://github.com/glouw/littlewolf/blob/339cb5624462d4f2301...
I think most commenters are over-analyzing. Deliberately looking for evidence of crime is high effort with low probability of being rewarded. Planting evidence of a crime is very high risk relative to the reward.

People with access to someone else's computer snoop for their own entertainment, because they can. The reward is low but the probability of finding something entertaining is high and the risk is practically non-existent.
http://www.bbc.com/news/health-21517864 - Looking for this?
Regulators need to step up their game to stop tech-based discrimination
Crypto white-papers in four minutes
So I guess I can expect to see more low quality mathematical typesetting. The technology is great, but I don't see how it will help with high quality typesetting.

I can type an equation into LaTeX more quickly that I can photograph it and then go in and manually correct all the spacing issues. And there are spacing issues. The examples PDF has things that just look horrible. No small spacing or negative spacing to space out things like matrices and integrals etc. If I'm going to manually tweak it anyway I might as well do it manually from the start. Typing it up is something that gets quicker with practice like everything else.

But what I can actually see happening is people not tweaking the output manually. Either train yourself to use TeX properly, or let someone do it for you.
Identifying art through machine learning with the MoMA and Google
Unless, of course, one were to go for a walk, or go outside.
Four good investments!
I don't use Facebook but yes, from the url I think that's exactly the sort of thing I want. I think Google lets you tailor their ads too, but these giants are more like the exception.

Some websites use different ad networks, so ideally I'd like something like that but as a browser setting. For example some predefined list of topics (the same way there's a list of TLDs), and making the browser send a header like "Advertising: 1,20,6,78,9481" and then ad networks would adhere to those categories.

Of course that's way too idealistic and there's no way something like that will ever happen, but if people want me to disable my ad blocker, that's the only way I'd agree to it. Otherwise is an instant "no".
> I thought that would get punished promptly before this day

International laws are closer to guidelines than the laws of a nation-state. Enforcement is fuzzy. When China lost its UNCLOS case to the Philippines, for example, the former simply ignored the tribunal's ruling [1].

The point of The Economist article [2] is that the WTO et al were unusually lenient with China. The hope was this leniency would result in a market economy that would, in turn, produce strong institutions and lay the path towards liberal democracy. That was the bet. That didn't happen. Hence the withdrawal of leniency.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippines_v._China

[2] https://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21737517-it-bet-china...
One solution would be qr scanner...
"...The idea that the US gains economic advantage by telling other countries to be open and remaining closed is just false...."

Well, we do gain economic advantage when nations remain open, because the US is only open in theory. That said, this "only open in theory" thing affects us, the citizens of the US, just as much as it affects other nations.

For instance, in THEORY if we in the US don't like the fact that Facebook and Twitter have the power to shape what we see and hear, we're free to form startups that offer competing social networks. As a pragmatic matter though, we really aren't. Such startups are almost guaranteed to fail in the US.

On an international scale we can see this same effect in action by comparing the vibrancy of the Chinese internet startup market, against that of other, more open, nations. The vast majority of users in nations with more open markets use Facebook, Twitter, and other mostly US properties. Don't misunderstand me, the citizens of those nations can attempt to form internet startups if they wish, but the reality is that in the face of the giant, well funded, US competitors also operating in their nations, I, personally, wouldn't be sanguine about their prospects. The Chinese cleverly avoided that fate by effectively closing their market.
Ruby 2.6.0 with JIT now 6x faster than Ruby 2.0.0
To me, they were suggesting that Spotify could replace labels if they had 'enough users'. Currently, band to record label relationships are exclusive (i.e. I can't release an album with both Label X and Label Y). Also, labels do a lot more than just getting your music on platforms. If Spotify wanted to replace the label, they would need to provide those services instead.
Mt. Gox CEO described what it was like when he discovered he had been hacked
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Working as a Prison Guard Convinced Me That Bosses Should Never Date Subordinate
I am convinced that there is always a "inertia" of values and goals, and as a result people fool themselves thinking they are getting towards the local/global maximum.

Many times, experience or external fomo/fud from the environment point towards something that is no longer as optimized as while this experience or viewpoint has been coagulating. Parents should be aware of that.
Multi-Class Text Classification with Scikit-Learn
what do you mean by "passing a yank test"? i assume "yank test" refers to unplugging the network cable abruptly from the server under test, but what exactly are you looking for when you do that?
They are prohibited from doing exactly that. https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/special-topics/g... Life insurers can.
There's an important distinction between being lonely and being a loner.

Key point: A loner wouldn't get lonely, they'd be perfectly content to be alone.
recently, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15712377
In some sense, I feel like the big frontend frameworks are very useful for large apps but they became the default for even the most basic interactions. Now some developers are realizing that for their basic needs it is simpler to go back to the basics. For ambitious SPAs I still think something like React or Vue is the way to go.
I don't see the expensive part, just some rumors, but never happened to me. But I agree it's not that easy to use.