skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And isn't Pinker's larger point that people have been preaching the upcoming "CATASTROPHE" for the past three hundred years and yet largely things keep getting better?

That is such a terrible argument because, for one, it ignores all the catastrophes that did happen in the last 300 years to various peoples.
You'll get a much nicer page that renders just fine w/o javascript if you chop "/amp/?__twitter_impression=true" off the end of the URL:

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2010/06/16/the-failure-state-of-...
That's nice, but completely irrelevant.
Great idea.

Perhaps this is useful: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/396739/how-do-you-determ...
Spot on!

This is one of the problems we see on the left from time to time.. for example someone suggesting that men can't have an opinion on gender equality, or what not..

(note. the problems on the right in American politics does however seem objectively worse by a few orders of magnitude)
I recommend to you the book The Romantic Economist by Richard Bronk
How do you know there are even kids behind the flop accounts, as opposed to adult trolls or whatever?
It would depend on the relationship. Ideally, you as parent would read the situation and don't put your daughter into a defensive position, but lift her up. Unfortunately, some parents are just egomaniacs.
Sometimes Youtube throws an error. Just play the next Song.
How do you know they're actually kids and not working for RT?
I wonder, is there a proof somewhere that one CAN'T get to the right answer without some imagination?
Exporting democracy with bombs has not worked well so far, I guess (or hope) governments learnt that.
Terrible mistakes has been made, justifying war at all cost to satisfy people for election, or other wrong motivations.

You can't just destroy a regime, replace that with another democratic one and expect that a State of peace will grow. This just doesn't work. People from different areas of the world are used to different way of dealing with power, for cultural and religion issues. This is especially true with stabilizing an extremist Muslim regime. You need to cut their extreme belief, destroy their motivation, give them other chances. Examples: Gaza, Paris and its suburbs, etc.

Most of the time, in those contexts, war doesn't resolve anything.
I guess that question gets answered when the last email was sent and all communication happens through WhatsApp or similar.
Work life balance isn't a choice for people who get lower salaries in America. The choice is do what the boss says or go hungry/homeless
Here are some quick thoughts

It feels anecdotally to everyone I have worked with that the law of diminishing returns applies. For this reason, there rarely seems any reason to send more than 2 (maybe 3) people to a conference. So with that in mind...

Regardless if booking is undertaken by your team or by HR, there is opportunity for wheeling and dealing. Whoever makes the booking can try to organise discounts through the conference organisers. Can also try to organise a joint trip with a supplier / partner, funded by the partner

Secondally, I tend to encourage notes and debriefs - The team and culture have the expectation that whoever goes to the conference will knowledge-share with the team. With this expectation ingrained, all attendees return with a page of notes to jog their memory and run through with us all (semi-informally). This reinforces the value from only one or two attendees.

2-3 pax (dependent on conference) seems the sweet spot at which it is still worthwhile, people don't get too homesick or lonely, the guys bounce ideas off each other or fill gaps the others have, etc.

There are a) Often unsold tickets and b) always many many no-shows. Therefore it is always worth trying to get last minute cheap tickets for conferences. Usually if you see '$495 per ticket' for a conference, somewhere there are still people getting in without paying a cent. And the more corporate the event (i.e. if held by a single vendor), the easier it is to get discounts (as compared with governmental, non-profit events etc.)
z/TPF [1], is basically a database system OS that runs almost all VISA, AMEX, Citibank (authorizations); Holiday Inn, Amtrak, Mariott, Air Canada, Delta, Japan Airlines, Travelport, Trenitalia (reservations). But it's IBM proprietary and runs only on IBM licensed hardware.

It's always in my programming dreams to be involved in building a database OS with I/O capabilities since I worked with TPF and MUMPS.

[1] https://www.ibm.com/it-infrastructure/z/transaction-processi...
This is an example of dismissing someone else's perspective.

Have you considered that someone might choose not to have children because they understand how difficult it is?
I can travel in my mind by reading and meditating.

Actual traveling is mostly just an excuse to distract oneself from exploring one's own inner unknown territory.

I never gained anything by visiting a new place b/c at the end of the day everything is pretty much the same. Of course it is exciting and I also totally enjoy it - but real growth is not dependent on that at all.
I wondered about that, longer blades, lower RPM means very slow RPM which means massive magnetics. But gears are problematic as well. Low speed means high torque which also mean large heavy gears. ($$$)
Not if you send your mail through a smart host (an outgoing SMTP proxy) which is in good standing. Most sane ISPs/IAPs require this anyway. I've hosted my own mail server since about 1996, moving from Sendmail on a 66MHz Pentium hanging off a cable internet connection to the current Exim on an Intel SS4200 on gigabit fiber - none of it high-powered hardware as such is not needed for the purpose. Mail sent from here arrives just fine, no problems there.
Did teens debate the news before this? Maybe this is driving the debate youger and therefore is a good thing.
Here’s a crazy idea. Every time a city in California permits construction to add a job, the city has to permit construction for a home.

Mountain View spent a decade adding Google jobs while adding zero new places for the workers live. Now everyone scratches their heads about why the traffic on 101 is absurd. There’s a vacant lot smack in the middle of Google campus zoned for hotel. Permit a residential high rise in that lot and see what happens.
> The other thing I find unusual is the number of people who think that optimists are saying "We have no problems whatsoever"

That happens in two instances.

In the first case, few people are capable of properly using logic, reasoning through any sort of discussion. Richard Dawkins has some great talks on this subject (and he runs into it constantly on Twitter). And I'm not speaking of advanced logic use, rather, extremely simplistic logic use. They can't control their emotions properly and can't control for their own bias at all. It's merely my opinion, however I'd say it's a single digit minority that doesn't fall into this irrational/emotionalism camp in common discussion. You see it universally even among the supposed most intelligent forums online. It makes routine discussion and debate extremely obnoxious, as you have to constantly pre-emptively point out that just because you say X you're not also proclaiming or supporting Y (eg if I say I dislike Hillary, that doesn't mean I support Trump; it's impossible to get away from this basic logic failure). If you don't pre-empt in that manner, you'll spend vast amounts of your time trying to correct people who can't use logic properly.

The second case, is where it's intentional. That's also very common. In this scenario the sole debasing option critics have left to attack something they don't like that is factually supported, is to ignore what was actually said. That requires inventing a means to bury the thing they don't like by trying to change what was said and redirect the conversation to a favorable position.
I'm not saying he's wrong by the measures he uses. I'm saying he has the privilege of being able to look at things from a perspective which people who are not so well off do not.
same inquiry could be made to ask you if you thought there were real people behind the boards/chans u were on as a kid as opposed to adult scammers or whatever. kids grow up on the internet like how we did but now the tables turned and they either figure it out or not its up to them
As was I: gotoAndPlay is still my favourite function :)
> if you don't have sympathy for an adult who eats homemade pills and suffers from it, then you're pretty much arguing that this whole plan is irresponsible from the start.

I have plenty of sympathy for an adult who is forced to take homemade pills to save their life. An adult who swallows random pills a stranger threw at them, not so much.
> What's good business is very much opinion, many people would work for less money to keep their dignity.

I write JavaScript for living and I have mostly worked large monolithic Java shops, so I know this is a lie, at least in software. Most software developers are simply happy to press buttons against a framework while continuously achieving a paycheck. The thought continuous refactoring or doing it free, as in open source contributions on your personal time, is still a complete mystery to many corporate developers.

Dignity is certainly not immediately present in much of the code I have seen in my career. If dignity were the principle aspiration people would not be selective in its application. I suspect the motivation is something more immediately socially conforming. Contrarily, dignity is often expressed by rejection to conforming social pressures.

> But if they wanted to protest, would anyone hear them?

The bay area has never had a problem with this and in the past didn't need social media to prove it. More traditional media channels were sufficient. The area is substantially more sensitive and less diverse now though.
Years ago, I felt like I could trust that the prices, selection, and quality of items I found on Amazon were relatively predictable. Now that it's a bazaar rather than a store, I can't trust anything and unless I want to get ripped off I have to apply an exhausting level of scrutiny to each item purchased. As a result, I don't shop there nearly as much as I once did.

How is Amazon thriving? I don't get it. Don't other people have the same experience?
I'm just gonna trot this out one more time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaneless_ion_wind_generator

very simple design (it's basically one half of a Lord Kelvin's Thunderstorm turn on it's side and powered by wind instead of gravity.)
I live in a four bedroom home with a huge yard. The secret is to clean as you go about your life. If you leave a room, look around, see if there is something you should take with you. Do dishes while you are waiting for something to cook. Buy a cordless vacuum for quick access. When the weekend comes around your house is already clean.
Communist China mostly utilizes the great number of mainlanders in the US who are there on non-immigrant visas. You can do quite a lot without engaging in reprehensible racial actions.

Other nations can't pull it off. They don't have 1.4B people (India is friendly and won't be an able oppressive centrally-run state anytime soon). Russia could never send that many students to the US. There is no historical comparison to make. This is a new phenomenon.
“You seem to think voting is about electing people you like, as opposed to correctly predicting a candidate that will cause the policy changes you favor.”

Where do you get that idea? I certainly don’t think that and I can’t see anything in my comment that would even remotely hint at it.
I don't follow this reasoning at all.

Will the projects not need doing if you go away? Is the flight/resort cheaper than the activities you'd do at home? Can you not eat/drink/sleep when you want when you're home?
> If a stunt, then why throw away and waste potentially useful medicine like that?

It reinforces the point that this stuff is, in fact, extremely cheap and easy to make. The idea that prescription pills are expensive and precious is the scam that he's fighting.
I would guess it's about some aspiring author type who tried to impress Scalzi (a published author) in email and failed badly.

It probably wasn't bad enough for Scalzi to want to embarrass the emailer by identifying them by name.

This may not be the first time Scalzi received an email like this from someone, leading to the post as a kind of "public service message".
Maintainability is not the most important part of writing code. It becomes the most important thing to try to improve once you get to the point that your code is correct, well tested, and has acceptable performance.
Hey whatever works. Pokemon go was great for that as well.
To get this, you need to uncheck "Native Full-screen" in preferences
Using integrated fzf is so much better than cycling through one by one.
Or zplug which allows you to load oh-my-zsh scripts as well.
There is a fun documentary called "808" (available on Amazon Prime) about the history and impact of the TR-808. It's mostly interviews with musicians and only a little technical information.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/808_(film)

https://amzn.com/B06XT8M3TV
> Like in a video game, the world moves at the same rate regardless of the frame rate

If only this were true. There are plenty of games where the frame rate is capped at 60hz because the physics engine is coupled to it. If you force a framerate increase via .ini tweaks or something, you get really weird physics. I think Skyrim had this problem. Also, there are examples of where changing the network tick rate [1] can affect the physics engines.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sB5u96Vgyks
Very well done, Jake.
I remember this from the SBCL docs:

"Important: It is highly recommended that you run the make.sh script in either a very fast terminal such as xterm (the GNOME terminal and the OS X terminal are too slow) or that you run it in a detached GNU screen session (use C-a d to detach the session and screen -r to resume it). The SBCL compile produces lots of output and your system's terminal program will likely slow down the compile in a drastic manner."

http://www.sbcl.org/getting.html
Just run it with bash then. The syntax is too different to run bash script on fish.
Is there a way to know if you're actually using the GPU renderer? Because it seems like there are several reasons why it might not be used...
Would you take the advice of a childless pediatrician?
I love the HCI field (and have my degree in it)... but its academic practitioners are usually evaluative with surprisingly little generative design skill—which makes them good at finding problems in others’ work but poor at making their own :(
Thanks!

I think distinguishing between statistical and absolute statements is important. It’s common for people to point to exceptions or outliers as a demonstration that a given statement is false, when the statement in question is statistical in nature, rather than an absolute.

It often leads to misrepresentation and people talking past each other. For instance, it plays a pretty strong role in ongoing disagreements about gender roles, gender identity, etc.
Lawyers' salaries have actually gone bimodal and there is a glut.

One ref: https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2014/05/09/the-lawyer-bu...
Family vacations are mainly for the benefit of the kids - for the parents, they can often be tenser than staying at home. If you really want to relax, you might consider taking a few days off with your partner, leaving the kids with their grandparents (if that is an option).
You could say they correctly assume it’s hard, but to really understand it, they’d need to experience it, no?
You should try non terrestrial software dev where time dilation has to be accounted for.
I read the article. I can usually follow statistics in things like social science papers etc. I had no idea what it was trying to convey. You seem to be using an unusual visualization and don't label the axes or explain what it is saying, except in very general terms.

This is a pity because we're currently experimenting with using automated assessment as part of our hiring process and understanding pitfalls would be very useful.
Because if you've had any exposure to how conditions were even two generations ago, even people in Flint have it reasonably good - it's the water issue that's obviously a problem.

> My grandparents grew up without electricity or plumbing, not even a telephone.

> Infant mortality when they were born was 10% for children under the age of 1.

> There was no healthcare.

> There was no retirement/social assistance.

> There was no welfare.

> Many of grandads peers died in brutal wars.

> Epidemic diseases (aka spanish flu etc.) were still common and would wipe out a lot of people.

> There was no right to vote for women. There was no transparency in governance.

> There was no concept of 'worker safety' - people did unbelievably dangerous things. My grandfather worked in a lumber camp in dead winter, cutting down and hauling trees surrounded by others doing the same.

> There was no higher education for regular folk.

> They were white as can be yet faced intense racism as 'dirty Germans' (i.e. two world wars).

> Heck there wasn't even anything made of plastic ... can you imagine!

... I could go on and on ...

Life is incredibly better (materially, maybe not socially) for almost everyone, most of us wouldn't survive two weeks in Victorian-era conditions.
World's first complete design of a silicon quantum computer chip
I see like 6 commits to oh-my-zsh in the past week. Why do you say its not maintained?
Key chain bottle opener
It's not so much that you need 60 FPS, but in my use GPU rendering makes editing in vim much more responsive.

It basically brings terminal vim on a par with MacVim in rendering speed.
Also, the less stuff you own, the less stuff you have to organize/dust/hide.
FWIW, most of the improvements he talks about disproportionately benefit underprivileged people.
People should realize terminal and scripting don't need to be done using same shell.

I use fish for scripting but run zsh for terminal. (fish had couple weirdness in day to day terminal use and zsh could do pretty much all fish could do with zplug.)
Unrelated to the topic: are you the same guy who does the smash videos?
Your case in point is not in fact on point. Lewinsky described what happened to her as a "gross abuse of power", just a few months back. Moreover, what happened to Lewinsky served to corroborate the stories of several other women, most of whom have stories about WJC far darker than hers.
It's crazy to now see open source projects on Gitlab after the whole Microsoft purchase of Github.
Is that real? Which phones are doing this to their consumers? That is fucking awful.
http://archive.is/5fBTb
They never planned to export democracy after all.
The vast majority of people still think it's the old days. Until all of seller fraud at Amazon hits the mainstream news, they will still believe that Amazon is a land of legitimate abundance and good deals.
> I guess that question gets answered when the last email was sent and all communication happens through WhatsApp or similar.

Not so easy: There are lots of other factors than cost which decide what wins in a market, such as

- trends/hypes

- convenience

- being available at the right time (in the right place)

- ...
I’ve been thinking about what it is about vacations that’s so relaxing since it’s clearly not the lack of work. I quit my job a year ago but my day is still full of stuff to do. What’s nice about a vacation is the lack of physical possessions. You live without a crap load of clothes that need to be washed. You have maids to clean your room. The kitchen staff washes the dishes. You don’t read you email and worry about having to reply to people. You ignore bills and the leaky faucet and the million other things you need to do.

It made me think that maybe my life is just full of too many complications.
I'd say probably yes. Changes are suitable for 1.x if they are not generally breaking for user code. This change probably wouldn't be considered breaking, but we'd have to look at it at the time.
It's about the stress of delegating time and money.

With an all inclusive resort the questions "do I really need this?" or "maybe I should be doing something else" don't come up.
Plus ... when it comes to "better" information sources. There we simply know for sure they're adult trolls and propagandists. People will need to learn to deal with them, protecting them is not possible. As if that's not bad enough, any attempts to protect them simply creates better tools for people to feed bad information to more people, and might result in outright censorship (if it hasn't already)

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

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSNBC_controversies
I bet it's just one big echo chamber of people copy/pasting each other, just like every trend on social media (memes, etc).

Because VPNs to American servers are dirt cheap.
Same here. Apparently the job market for philosophers, especially in academia, is terrible because there is a glut of philosophy PhDs and tenured philosophy professors stick around for decades. So most philosophy professors are associate professors who get paid a couple of thousand per semester. Can't imagine living on that in NY. Imagine having a doctorate and making $6K per year.

So I double majored in computer science and philosophy like a lot of my class mates.
Background on Pinker/Taleb: https://www.quora.com/Is-Nassim-Talebs-criticism-of-Steven-P...
> iirc Windows does take the focus into account, and you can scroll while the cursor is elsewhere.

Which is damn annoying, since it ignores what a mouse pointer does 1st before anything else: it points at what you're interested in, and when results aren't what you wanted, you move the mouse (if that's what you're using).
I'm not quite sure what you mean by that, sorry- the issues are crawled based on a preconfigured list of beginner-friendly tags (see https://github.com/MattAlp/IssueHaven/blob/master/config.py#...).

They're currently sorted based on repository popularity (in stars), issue age, and total comments (I'm working on implementing a better ranking system).

How would you propose that I gauge difficulty/effort across board for the aggregated issues?
Sadly just a copy of the paywalled summary.
I am surprised that Roland would use such an unconventional method for generating noise.

Sourcing and testing those bad transistors had to be more expensive than just buying good parts, and surely they must’ve known that their supply of bad parts wouldn’t last forever?
>The Amazon spokeswoman said it determined that fewer than 1% of hundreds of millions of reviews were fake last month...

Oh, good. So there are only millions of fake reviews on Amazon. That's just fine, then. Not a problem.
Beating someone you don’t like to death with a jawbone is normal human behavior, but fortunately we’ve gotten better at deterring and controlling it with laws. If your standard for the value of a law is total 100% then yes, they fail. Rape, murder, and arson haven’t gone away, but I somehow doubt you’re arguing for laws against them to be repealed.

I hope.

Laws aren’t perfect, but they do tend to improve matters when society at large has decided that a behavior is harmful to others. Sometimes laws get it wrong, and then come under pressure to be repealed or changed. Laws against drug use for example, or laws against homosexuality not only tended to fail, but failed to target people for sound reasons.

There’s more nuance here than just “laws regulating ‘natural’ human behavior don’t work.”
2013 Macbook eGPU Redux: Sticking a GTX 1080 in an AKiTiO Thunder2
I mean the readline bindings in the shell, but I just launched terminal to see which ones don't work, and they all appear to work now. So maybe that's been fixed. That's great it if works. I don't use any of iTerm's bells and whistles.
I liked Sam's rubric of how to evaluate a startup to work at. Same one that investors use. You invest time for equity, they $ for equity, so makes sense.