skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well... It's easier to nudge people into doing something than asking or demanding. They then think it was their own decision.

e.g. "It's important that you act naturally at all times and only within the limits of what you are comfortable with. For the purposes of the experiment you should also carefully consider your role as guard and what those duties might entail. Sometimes you may need to speak confidently in your role for people to listen to you."

Or some such thing. I am by no means a master of nudging but you get the point. You can ask a thing with out actually asking.

I think many people do this without even realising.
Oxytocin fosters empathy towards people in the same in-group and reduces empathy for those outside the in-group. Oxytocin is the reason that a mob can be moved to avenge an injustice which requires both empathy and callousness towards another persons suffering at the same time.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-love-hate-relat...

Even feeling empathy for someone in pain doesn’t naturally lead to compassion. Empathy is just the ability to mirror someone else’s emotions and is a neurotypical response. If your happy, I’m happy. If you hurt, I hurt.

If I’m hurting because you hurt my natural response is to stop my pain. In some cases that mirrored pain can result in acts of compassion but can also result in lashing out, victim blaming or fleeing. These are all normal responses for someone feeling pain.

Empathy is a “normal” response but compassion is a choice. Few people have the emotional regulation skills and patience to see someone in pain, feel their pain and sit with them in their pain.
Perhaps if passing as pedestrian prose, a pair of prefix-sharing words might prompt praise. But at full force, falling short of four forecloses on a fulsome flight of fancy.

In other words, two in a row is barely trying. :)
NPR $ 350 MILLION DEFAMATION LAWSUIT BY MUSICIAN / ACTIVIST
I believe it’s a controversial topic seeing regular discussion. It’s in vogue to discuss it. I mean, name a freshman psych lecture that doesn’t mention it.

New information has surfaced, so people are going to have new material to add to the conversation.
I think it's still a great deal. A series or a couple good movies/month makes it worth it. And it's easy to find at least that (granted I don't consume a lot and have a huge watchlist backlog that never seems to shrink).

How much content are people expecting for $10?
One of the things I've always liked about XP (and is almost never discussed) is that it isn't a process. It's a meta-process. The idea of XP was to come up with the smallest number of "practices", which when executed with attention would generate a successful process. That's one of the reasons why XP signed on to the Agile Manifesto -- people over processes and all that rot. Unfortunately I can't find a link where he describes this which isn't behind a paywall. A lot of people probably don't realise that the idea of using generative patterns in programming originated from Beck and Cunningham [1] -- I often avoid mentioning it as it sometimes fuels the hate fires :-P Kent Beck was quite interested in using this kind of generative pattern language to describe things that would otherwise require ridiculous amounts of text to describe. Instead of describing the actual solution you need, you describe a series of patterns which help you generate the solution. As an aside, you can see how people have taken the "pattern" ball, run with it and ended up going in the opposite direction ;-)

And as you say, XP (and especially Scrum!) were built to help you solve very specific problems. In the case of XP, how to spread out requirements and design discovery across development so as to reduce risk. In the case of Scrum, how to decrease communication overhead on teams that were otherwise operating well (Originally Scrum had no development practices -- it was assumed that you already had development practices that were working well for you).

As I get older it's easy to see a pattern: the inception of a good idea, the successful adoption by a small number of teams, the spread of fame, the religious adoption of a version of the idea championed by the most charismatic bloggers, the loss of the original idea as the masses cargo cult their implementations based on religious doctrine.

[1] - http://c2.com/doc/oopsla87.html
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Something not often considered is playing on an awkward silence between the tit-for-tat. If you let things stick in the air a bit longer sometimes signaling from the other party can help you find that sweet spot.
“If you can only e good at one thing, be good at lying. Because if you’re good at lying, you’re good at everything.”
-gselevator

I respectfully disagree with the “it’s OK to lie” approach. I have integrity so the option of lying isn’t a tool that is available to me but even if it was, I think the market rewards trustworthy actors over the long term.
I'm not making any judgements on you, but in my experience "not out-of-the-world pay, and move them up fast if they prove their worth" usually turns into "cannot afford significant/any increases/bonuses due to market conditions/losing major clients/my new boat".

Unless it's in writing, promises of large future adjustments are not really worth relying on. At best you might actually get what was promised, or you will end up feeling ripped off and mislead.
'Coerced into tipping'? How apps are changing the culture of tipping in SF
The upside of the Unix way is greater parallelizability, which allows for greater speed on newer multi-processor machines

Why is this true? Because parallel/shared memory access is hard to get right?
Yeah, I've paid nothing for x-rays and fillings. Haven't needed a night guard yet.

I suspect that the chicanery in the U.S. is more severe in the non-dental sectors of healthcare as there's more volume/value there (from a provider/stakeholder POV).
The key problem with this article is, that Norvig cherry-picked features of Lisp that are present with the languages that he contrasts it with. So, what happens then is that it will give the impression that Lisp somehow lost its uniqueness, or whatever makes it stand out among the others. The premises were at best, loaded.

If we’re going to talk about CL, here are some of the features that still make it unique:

- live update of a running program, including (re)definitions of classes, condition handlers, etc.
- object system which has multimethods, multiclasses, multidispatch.
- it has a debugger and stepper which has complete access to the stack, with unwind protection
- it has a very strong, unhygienic macro system.

The average programmer does not need a lot of these things because:

- the tasks do not demand those features
- the programmer doesn’t know them
- the programmer doesn’t want to or can’t invest time in them
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What do you do if they say you have to fill it out? I realize it hasn't happened in your case, but it very well can to someone else.
In a lighter note, sea salt coffee from 85° degrees bakery
and maple brick toast are delicious :)
Your examples are very detailed, I appreciate that. But I don't get it, it just serves to help my argument - at each of those individual companies, you can ask for more money and probably get it, even if it puts you above market value. So why wouldn't you?

As for 401k, my friend's company was recently purchased, and in the deal the 401ks were wiped out, instead of transferred. It's probably not legal but a bunch of employees have to get together to form a lawsuit to sort it now. Basically, I feel it's important to remember that laws don't actually create boundaries for companies, companies have far more "legal worth" (money) so therefore they have more power.
Obligatory: The guy who did it did an AMA and says you should absolutely not do it ever and it was a bad idea.

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1o5ndh/iama_guy_who_w...

He does agree with you though, says he stopped feeling hungry after a few weeks.
True - but I still don't think it's reasonable to assume that a hash function behaves that way.
https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/... is the current benchmark site.

The article links to http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=all... (which is a dead link).

The earliest wayback machine for the link is https://web.archive.org/web/20060522132352/http://shootout.a... which puts Java at 1.7x C's speed and Lisp at 3.3. It does the same toy programs in the current implementation (rather than the 'hash access', 'reverse lines', 'array access' and 'list processing' benchmarks cited in the article)

The last 2018 crawl of the link is a 301 to https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/ (the current site).

Note that the current site argues against the benchmarks cited on norvig. In https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

> The best choice of benchmarks to measure performance is real applications… Attempts at running programs that are much simpler than a real application have led to performance pitfalls. Examples include:

> Kernels, which are small, key pieces of real applications

> Toy programs, which are 100-line programs from beginning programming assignments…

> Synthetic benchmarks, which are small, fake programs invented to try to match the profile and behavior of real applications…

> All three are discredited today, usually because the compiler writer and architect can conspire to make the computer appear faster on these stand-in programs than on real applications.
I am deeply moved by the heroism of these scientists. This goes way beyond ethics to one's profession.
10 Powerful Beliefs of People Who Are Destined for Success
Ditto. I always ask for the higher cash position. This is guaranteed to carry forward (and in most cases can be used to help negotiate future salaries at new companies if this one fails). I've always ended up with opportunity for large equity positions at some point anyway.
So living in NYC for almost 8 years now I've become pretty anti-cyclist. Here's a short list of beefs that spring to mind:

- Cyclists riding on sidewalks. Apart from delivery people, a cyclist should never ride on the sidewalk in Manhattan. Ever. If you find yourself riding on the sidewalk, just don't take the bike out. Bikes are for roads. The article even mentions how sidewalks are narrow.

- Bike lanes (IMHO) have made traffic significantly worse because they're thoroughly underutilized and basically kill a lane of traffic (on the avenues at least).

- The article also mentions how pedestrians spill over to the streets and bike lanes. Yep, that'll happen. Particularly if the city fills the sidewalk with more newsstands and allows businesses to spill out onto the sidewalk. There should be a rule that there can be no obstruction on an avenue of major street (think 14th, 23rd, 34th, 42nd, 57th, 59th, etc) that reduces the clear space to anything less than ten feet. On other streets? 6-8 feet.

- I generally find the delivery cyclists are fine. It's the commuters and tourists who need to be removed from the road. Why? Well tourists are just oblivious and will ride down a bike lane 3 abreast at 6 miles an hour. But the commuters are just plain assholes, as a whole group.

Go see this for yourself on the Brooklyn Bridge. This is a place that at any reasonable time is going to be packed with tourists. And just count (it won't take long) how often you see a cyclist knock a pedestrian who has "dared" to spill over into the bike lane. Honestly, bikes should just be banned completely from the Brooklyn Bridge.

- Cyclists will ride down bike lanes and streets the wrong way (yes bike lanes have directions) and run red lights and give you attitude if you're in the way as a pedestrian even though you have right of way.

So am I excited about the prospect of scooters? Hell, no. I've been to SF and seen these littered all over the place. The sidewalks in Manhattan (in particular) are congested enough that we don't need scooters littered on them.

At least Citibikes have to go into bays.

But above all of this the biggest problems in NYC are the continued subsidization of car ownership. If it were up to me I would:

- Eliminate all street parking

- Loading zones only

- Tax private car ownership for anyone living below 125th street.

- Have congestion pricing (the article mentions this too).

- Get rid of the stupid turn lanes (where pedestrians have to take turns with cars turning crossing the street so as a pedestrian you only get to cross 1/4 of the time instead of 1/2).

But please just say no to scooters.
You could solve this super easily with salary transparency.

No more advantage for the slicksters, just a knowledge of where you fall in a range.
Big Shifts in Tech Conferences
The main problem I had when learning CL was its standard library that at felt both enormous and strangely deficient in utilities for day-to-day work. CLHS is fine but the definitions can be obtuse, navigation isn't all that easy, and it's just a generally daunting approach to learning a language. There's a big gap between the code you learn in Practical Common Lisp and what you see if you open the source for any popular CL library.

It's like Haskell, without the hype. The underlying paradigms aren't that terribly different, but the actual terminology for expressing ideas idiomatically is wildly different, and represents an unusual obstacle.
"People with the 'oh, you just...' mentality never understand why it takes a long time to do things." - http://wiki.c2.com/?JustIsaDangerousWord
If you want a real answer, it's because people are trying to discredit "mind control" studies. The cat is about to be let out of the bag that the media is a mind control factory.
I wanted to mention https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Nabokov (a Russian writer who became famous for his incredibly creative mastery of English), but Wikipedia says that he spoke English with his family as a child so maybe it can't be considered a foreign language for him.
>and it has never been replicated

Sure but to be clear it's the experiment that's never been replicated (because there's no ethics board on the planet that would green-light nowadays), not the conclusions.

This doesn't in any way invalidate the conclusions, and while criticism of the method is entirely valid we have to acknowledge that this is a data set of one.

Often conversations around this progress from "never been replicated" to "must be the opposite of what true" although I realize that is not what you're saying. Seems like people want to be able to dismiss the experiment or, even better, use it to prove the opposite, because it's conclusions are uncomfortable to contemplate.

The two closest further studies (as in the wikipedia article, BBC and Third Wave) produced conclusions one largely correlating, one mostly in disagreement.
Unfortunately, in academia the only correct answer to the question, ‘what is the right tool for the job?’ is the question, ‘what does your adviser use?’ Excel is not the optimal tool—I agree. But, it’s the tool (many) geneticists use, and it’s important to find a way to make it work /better/ for the purposes it is /being used for/, rather than taking up space complaining that it’s /not the right tool/.
It uses native APIs for drawing, text layout, media playback, and HTTP. I don't know how much more native you want...
People will list a lot of good and legit reasons (investors are there and want to keep tabs, talent, etc), but I think bias "sometimes" plays a part.

A while back I worked for a company that was in the networking business. We had an office in the Twin Cities supporting some but not all products. The company was at the "need warm bodies" stage as they looked for people to fill some tech support roles in the valley and just couldn't get anyone. They reluctantly recruited a few of us from the Twin Cities (they were told they had to). It was all "oh man I hope you can handle this" / "This job usually requires a Master of Computer Science and 8 years experience..." and so on.

Then we started doing the job. After all that build up we were shocked, by how easy it was.
It was still just tech support, and no more complex than we had done in the past with other products. You never once would think of computer science and that job. Just know the product, be able to communicate (funny enough customers didn't like the guys in the valley...), and work your way logically through problems. They were doing in the valley for +2x per person costs (and they were less productive) absolutely convinced the jobs had to be there....
Health pricing is a weird fixed pricing with all sides in insurance companies, medical suppliers and doctors holding the cards to get the highest prices within the gamed rules with the consumer left out in the cold and each bill a random output that is rarely known beforehand.

Part of the problem is healthcare provided through work that skews pricing for large companies over individuals/small/medium businesses and entrepreneurs.

If we can't get healthcare removed from employers and have both a private and public option based on Medicare for all. We AT LEAST need legislation to bring in CLEAR pricing for insurance cost and non-insurance rates, similar to the CFPB mortgage Loan Estimate and Closing Disclosure that show all pricing clearly in one sheet of paper both the estimate and the final mortgage.

What other product do we buy that the price is not known until after the product/service is rendered? At least some idea of an estimate is even hard to get as each part of the medical pricing matrix scam (insurance companies, medical services/suppliers, doctors, pharmaceuticals) try to keep pricing shrouded to stick it to people wherever they can.

The consumer healthcare experience is horrible in the US healthcare system and employers being the insurance companies main customers is a major part of this problem but pricing can be helped with clear regulations and needs to be now.
The problem with this is that jaywalkers aren't the only things that could be in the road. There are animals, things falling it of other vehicles, construction debris and so on...
Yeah it would be cool if people didn't walk in front of a car. It would be even cooler if the car could not hit things. Like that is the whole point of self driving cars, to drive better than humans can.
edit: never mind/fuck this thread/not wading into a holy war
There are lots of Pharmacies. I always use paper and cash.

I always use smaller, non chain pharmacists too. Msny will compound, they know me and mine, and that relationship is worth a lot.

The cheapest is not too important most of the time. Things being right, and an active pharmacist helping with cost, special programs, and accuracy matters more.
Holy shit. I got shivers the moment I realized Sinclair actually finds and fixes a bug from the very first program written in 1843.

In her “diagram of development,” Lovelace gives the
fourth operation as v5 / v4. But the correct ordering
here is v4 / v5.

1843!

I was recently at the Musee des arts et metiers in Paris, and they have several original Pascalines on display. So many marvels packed into a very tight space, it is one of my favorite in Paris and I would highly recommend it. I'm not sure what they have on Lovelace, I'll admit I was pretty overwhelmed with the collection. Their computer collection alone is a museums worth, and they cover much, much more than just computer history (a lot of mechanical engineering for starters). If they don't have this algorithm on display, they absolutely should.

A leather-bound first edition Lovelace including this algorithm recently sold for about $120,000. That actually seems like a bargain when you think about the level of the accomplishment. [1]

I agree with OP that most likely the bug is in the transcription and not present in the original manuscript.

[1] - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jul/24/ada-lovelace-f...
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Truth.

Source: awesome family pharmacist.
Why was the evidence covered up for so long? What changed to have it come to the light? It's reasonable to reevaluate with new information, it's also worth questioning why there's new information
How I'm managing a side project with a full-time job
The UNIX way doesn't involve shared memory in that sense, unless multiple processes are modifying the same files at the same time (known to be a bad idea). Instead it's more akin to go's channels and go procs. Use text between unix processes.
This is really a very gripping piece, and I'm not actually a programmer. It's also interesting mathematically and just as general history, for lack of a better term.
I think you really hit on the crux of the problem here. The training needed to even put together a genetics paper, much less published and read by others in the field, is /easily/ 7 years of graduate work—NONE of which is spent learning to code! There ARE better tools, but the incentives aren’t aligned for genomics researchers to learn them.

Which is why bioinformatics is such a great field! Biologists are aware of the problem, and better late than never...if you’re interested in being part of the solution to this problem, there has never been a better time to get started!
>God forbid we actually come out and say we, as a country, want to support each other. A large portion of our fellow citizens would rather play this game of hot potato, but don’t have the balls to turn poor people away from the emergency room and tell them to die.

This.

If we can't actually commit to taking care of our own, just who are we as a nation?
he's also working on his own cryptocurrency, so there's that...
> Is it hard to get a car inspected in the US?

That depends on the definition of "inspected".

> recent inspection certificate

What information is provided? Are there any details, or just that it passed inspection successfully?

Details that are important to me are generally proxies for abuse or poor maintenance habits (e.g. cheap aftermarket parts), though sometimes they're merely an indication of what maintenance has or hasn't been done, in the absence of records (e.g. signs of age/crack on rubber parts).

> Go to any inspection center

This, already, makes it useless for me. I prefer a certain subset of car manufacturers, and I need an expert in the repair of that make of vehicle to adequately reduce my risk to tolerable levels. At the very least, as the buyer, I need to be able to choose the inspector, to avoid the obvious conflict of interest.

> easily for a fixed fee

This sounds remarkably like California's requirement for a recent "smog" certificate prior to a used car sale. It's a easy enough, but some sellers still don't do it. Other than avoiding a minor hassle and cost, it offers almost no benefit to the buyer.

> only offer inspections, no repair of any sort, to avoid the obvious conflict of interest.

This conflict would seem to exist only because it's chosen and paid for by the seller. As a buyer, I very much want the inspection to be done by a mechanic who is experienced in actually maintaining and repairing that particular vehicle.
West Wing fans know his name. There are more than a few of us.
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I actually agree, I just meant that the bringing back zombie strategy is a pretty risk free and effective one that can work in some cases.

Maybe not zombies, but premature deaths because they catered to niches that were too small successfully.

And get the artists to make new works.
Nice, but don't you depend on the API they will close in December?
Agreed, but that wasn't what OP asked. It just seemed like an odd question given the headline explains that the reason this is being discussed is because there is new evidence available.
Yeah, that's completely different than what you were trying to imply. Still a cool service, though.