skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You should, and the reason is this.

When you're evaluating a decision, you have partial information about the extremes. If you've been with someone for a year, you know how bad your worst fight was. Chances are though, whatever it was is a sampling from a distribution that you've only sampled a small amount of.

Your eventual worst fight will be worse, because when you have more samples chances are the extremes will be more extreme. (BTW if you're evaluating algorithmic trading strategies you need to think about this.)

If you're already thinking things are bad enough to consider leaving, you can look forward to them getting worse even if the underlying dynamics are no different.

Note the asymmetry and the importance of the extremes. Everyone who has a breakup story also had good moments and may have mostly enjoyed their average day. But you choose to leave because of the lows, not the average or the highs.
Transfer Function in Sensors
In The Netherlands we had a Packaging Tax for supermarkets for a while (it has been repealed after a short time, because of resistance and lobbying).

I liked the idea, except there was a problem (IMHO) in how it was implemented, because there was no requirement to show the tax amount that was charged to the consumer on their receipt.

If your receipt would say e.g. 'Groceries $30.00, Plastic tax: $2.05' then a consumer would have a real incentive to lower the amount of tax by choosing better packaging with less plastic.
I've been using tutanota now for over a couple of years, I communicate with my friends with an encrypted message.
I love Elm. Discovered it last year and loved the language so much that I went on a conference later in the year on my own budget.

I love how low the cognitive load of adding features is. Having a small baby, it helps a lot.

That being said, some things really confuse me, and especially the way the governance model is accepted and cherished. We have a `almighty god` deciding what will and not be done, the accepted reason being that it's not 1.0 yet.

I mean, with 0.19 coming out, all IDE support went out the window and the answer from the author of the language is basically : 'changes are known since last May, things should have been done already. I don't even know what the status is'. Communication is at the minimum lacking tact. Others could say straight offensive for not-core users.

I understand PR is hard and not fun. But then find someone to do it for you, or act as to minimize it.

At the moment, the advantages of elm far outweight the issues for my personal use. But I really wonder about the long run, but I'm really afraid someone gets really pissed and forks the language in the long run, fragmenting and ending up destroying this great community. That would really be a waste.
Confirmation Bias – Why nobody is allowed to be successful on the internet
Self-Motivation: The 5 Things I Do to Motivate Myself to Keep Writing Every Day
> It's funny how everybody and their dogs are now experts and think they know better than Musk how he should be doing things.

This was exactly my thought!

There is not a single person in the world who can advise Musk on how to enter the established car industry with a new company.

But hey, if people think they can advice Elon Musk, go right ahead.

I, on the other hand, would prefer to be advised by Elon Musk. Since that's now going to happen soon, I keep my eyes open and try to learn.
> lobbying from oil and coal companies (especially in the United States)

Ooooh, blame those evil, all-powerful, unstoppable, puppet-master "lobbyists." How about reality: China uses 4x the coal as the USA.

https://www.theatlas.com/charts/Nya6gW4s
OK - I think we can all agree that it is hard - but still we need to do something about it. The question is who is in the best position to improve it. Customers will not put any meaningful pressure because they are too ignorant about what is responsible - it is only the programmers who have any knowledge about the source of the problems and they need to be incentivized.
Video speed browser extensions make it less bad. I use https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/videospeed/ and https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/video-speed-contro...
It's the wrong year to pick winners and losers. There's a huge amount of stress in the system right now. The coming quakes will drastically reshape the landscape.

Let's check in around 2030 and see if centralized is still winning.
Man had integrity. And I respect that about him. Even though I didn’t agree with everything he stood for. Rest In Peace, sir.
McCain was an honorable man. But not the only one. Guess who said these words:

> It will be a stirring sight to watch President Obama, his wife, Michelle, and their beautiful girls step through the doors of the White House. I know millions of Americans will be overcome with pride at this inspiring moment that so many have awaited so long.
You miss the mark completely. Humanities have traditionally been studied by the leisure classes who didn't need to work for a living.
> Plastic, well plastic would make sense if we could ever figure out how to sort all the different types automatically.

Hopeful news.. see: https://materialdistrict.com/article/innovations-plastic-rec...
> As for Python, time series isn't as good in python

Time series isn't as good

Linear regression isn't as good

Mixed models are awful

Good luck fitting a spline without diving into scipy and doing it as an interpolation

R packages are almost always accompanied with a rigorous paper and a great vignette, whereas in Python, there are almost no talks of the implementation and just documentation about how you can use the library.

Every model we develop has assumptions and shortcomings, R offers the tools to diagnose and examine that, whereas in Python, I get the feeling that it's more like "some smart guys figured out this formula, here's an implementation of it".
I think it is not about your attention span degrading. It is a matter of adaptation to too many things competing for our attention, and the desire to consume all this information. (It is an interesting question as such as to actually why one has to consume all this)

There are advertorials, advertisements, tweets, news entries, status updates, articles, books, mailing lists, and everything in between.

Since there are too many things, one needs to prioritize. But to prioritize one has to understand the value: Is there anything new for me? Will it be entertaining? Will it be factual? Will it support my point of views? Will it challenge my point of views? Is it trustworthy? Is it plausible? Is there a hidden agenda? Is it propaganda? Whose points does it support? And so on.

And how to find out at least some of these without reading the entire text? Skim it!

Now, skimming usually gives enough information about the value. But when done deliberately, one can not only assess the value, but often get the main point(s) quickly too. (Call it "speed reading")

I've had (and still have) this same "problem", but I don't consider it a problem anymore. Skimming is good, but one has to be able to turn it off.

This is what I do: skim, for quick screening and early out to avoid wasting time. Then, if there's not much time available, speed read, do a 2nd and maybe 3rd pass of skimming.

If there's plenty of time and information seems worthwhile, then sit down and start reading as if there's nothing else you can do. Like you were stuck on a cottage without your phone/tablet and it rains outside -- reading is the only thing you can do without getting bored or going to sleep. (I don't know if you can relate to this idea, you can find your own memory with a similar idea)

Since I already know there is some value, it motivates me to go on.

Now, when it comes to fact books, I try not to read from cover to cover, but chapter to chapter and then re-evaluate. Fiction books are different, since it's usually for entertainment (and of course sometimes for interesting ideas).

So, I am optimistic that people will learn new strategies and not all hope is lost.
You don't know the counterfactual. You're making conclusions based on only having one branch of history. The interesting thing about studies in the article is they give us a probabilistic view of the counterfactual.

Maybe you would have been even happier on the other path. Who knows?

(I find it interesting that proposal is worth over -5 happiness points after six months, in the table in the article.)
Anything you wouldn't read-out loud if you were presenting the article verbally to an audience.

My wife occasionally reasds BBC news stories to me and it's remarkable how much 'blah blah hang on a moment til I find the story' even those contain.
Universities aren't the only avenues for the generation, preservation and transmission of knowledge. Especially the humanities stuff can mostly be done from your armchair as a hobby.
If you're into small "hole in the wall" / foodstand type stuff:

- Sushi places around Tsukiji market in the morning (much better than the market visit itself, these days)

- Yurakucho Yakitori Alley

- Eateries around Takadanobaba eki

- The whole of Kabukicho (area in-between Shinjuku station and Shin-Okubo)

- Seafood street south of Ueno eki

- Akasaka area (N/E of Roppongi)

The list is long ...
The concept of BDP is completely unnecessary in any form of shape.

It exists only because of statist central planning so prevalent around the world.
Absolutely agreed.
I think you can easily bet on CTO or Head of Development positions with such a great set of skills. I think these positions are very good to move to tech companies: amount of $ is still very good, you are not only developing and you can apply your business skills to the tech problems.
> Maybe a way to do this would be to separate teaching from testing. Have testing be established by some external body, and make it so both the university and the student receive a payout when the student succeeds on the test.

This is basically what standardized testing is all about, and it's a significant contributor to the inadequacy of education in the United States. We haven't figured out a scalable way to measure classroom outcomes.
That's just misguided prescriptivism, and has not much to do with English, the language.

(Compare the related http://fine.me.uk/emonds)
COTS = Commercial Off The Shelf software.
I recommend Steven Pinker's “Enlightenment Now” as an antidote to pessimistic views of the future with regards to climate change: We have to act, but the outlook is not as grim as many environmentalists paint it. We are acting, and we still have enough time and the ingenuity to reduce the causes and effects of global warming.
> You know how to tell when the economy is in the last 25% of an economic expansion? When everywhere you turn is another white collar professional under the age of 30 in the middle of an existential crisis.

Can you elaborate on that? I feel like you’re talking about something quite important but I can’t really grasp what it is.
How would you design a training scenario with a virtual agent(s)?
I actually noticed (and then embraced) a recalcitrant inclination in myself, to explicitly skim-read the article to see whether it was worth it. So now that I did, here's a tl;dr: we've changed the way we read to more often do skim-reading, and the effect might be that we less fully understand the text we're reading and are hence less able to be critical of it.

So, is my tl;dr somewhat accurate?
do … while(0) is a well-know method of writing multi-statement macros:

http://c-faq.com/cpp/multistmt.html

while … while(0) looks like a mistake?
At least two presidents in the last 20 years (Obama and Clinton) were likely elected partly because of their good looks.

When has politics ever been about logic?
Settlements are a problem, though. This would probably be better than what the US has now.
A lot of the failures I experience at born from trying to solve business process problems with digitization, or digitization without ever asking if it’s the right thing/way to do stuff. Another common problem is focusing too much on a particular set of business processes and forgetting that every IT system is part of a package of numerous IT systems that work together.

I live in one of the most digitized countries in the world. So we’ve naturally digitized payment for public transportation. When we did it, nobody questioned the taxation system, even though it was made in the 70ies and build around a public structure called “amter” that hadn’t actually existed for many years when then system was build. We had also gone from 271 municipalities to 98 and their borders were part of the taxation too. So the taxation rules frankly didn’t make any sense and they were needlessly complicated, yet they were digitized, as is. Naturally it was a disaster, it was even predicted by the technical team and the project leads, but nobody wanted to touch the taxation politically. It got fixed eventually, but it could have been several hundreds of million danish kroner cheaper if they had simply redone the taxation models for ticket prices before the digitization.

So that’s one mistake, and a common one, both in the public and private sectors. The other common disaster is building systems for specific processes without looking at the bigger picture. Like a case working system that handles the welfare process for people who are sick. Except you forget that those citizens sometimes don’t go through official communication channels, and maybe send a letter or an email to the wrong department, so you need to be able to add those documents to their digital case file. But that’s not possible and neither is sending a notice to other systems in other departments which also deal with the same citizen. I’m guessing this last issue is bigger in the public sector than in private, because we often buy our software from companies that have very little actual domain knowledge outside of what their direct customers tell them, and the case workers they use for knowledge very often lack insights in the greater architecture of running 350+ IT systems together because they work with maybe 5 of them.

I mean, these things aren’t deadly as the x-ray machine, but they’ve been happening for the better part of 25 years and nobody seem to have really learnt anything.
Cool. I'm going to disregard any memory of having read this comment, or any of the ideas it attempts to present as facts. My memory is terrible, and if I did remember it, that would likely disprove everything you just said.

You helped me realize that I should only believe what I tell myself is true, rather than what I might mistakenly remember.

Good thing I won't remember writing this. It would be weird remembering a moment when I was right, but having to disregard it as wrong, because I tell myself I'm wrong, plainly, and in the face of my own memories.
Without really addressing the substance of the article here:

It feels like everytime President Trump does something positively statistically significant, there is an effort by the left wing media to downplay its actual significance, and everytime there is an insignificant detail, gaffe or incident from decades past, there is an effort to turn it into a nationwide crisis.

Fox News did this with great success for 8 years. Disappointing to see others (whom I had regarded as worthy of more respect than an partisan hacks), to sink to this same level.

This narrative about GDP not really being a great indicator of anything coincides very conveniently with the reported GDP numbers that were previously touted as impossible by "experts".

I am quite confident that record (low) unemployment and GDP numbers like this under a Democratic President would not be framed in this manner.
Records and protocols meet your definition of OOP exactly.
You are correct. At least the do... while statement is a common c macro trick to make sure a macro has its own scope. The idea is that a compiler will optimize the do....while statement away, so it does not have any runtime overhead.

The wile...while(0) statement is new for me (didn't know this is actually legal syntax), but I suspect it's done for similar reasons.
Moreover, that payment would translate to a 35-year loan term, and lengthier terms tend to mean higher interest rates, as well (even on secured loans like mortgages or car loans).
George W. Bush for those googling.
The politicization of the humanities means there is one right answer and the humanities are just figuring out how to work backwards through the material selectively to create a matching narrative.
There's also a book on the subject called "Div, Grad, Curl and all that"

https://www.amazon.com/Div-Grad-Curl-All-That/dp/0393925161

which I would highly recommend to physics-minded folks, but would not recommend at all to maths-minded folks.
I suspect you did not mean it this way, but to me your statement sounds extremely belittling to the humanities.
He's saying the luxury of an existential crisis is a symptom of a bloated economy. In 2008, you'd be lucky to have a job at all, and very grateful if you did. As that memory fades, people feel more and more entitled to a comfortable existence. When they reach the level of "if i'm the least bit unhappy with my job, fuck it, I should quit and do something else"...we've jumped the shark. At least, that's my read of what he's saying.
Any man or woman that signs up to give up their life for their country is a hero. Period. Soldiers don’t start wars. Soldiers, however, many a times, do give ultimate sacrifices in them.
Hadley Wickham probably.
Except that, the way education works in USA, has little to do with the "free market". The free market is vastly distorted by the government guaranteeing student loans. I can assure you the picture would be very different if lenders had to actually assess every single loan candidate and applicants had to put up some collateral for the loan. The endless stream of free money to the universities would then stop and the students will get more careful with choosing a college and a degree.
I'm not saying free market is the best way to go about education but it's certainly better than what USA has now.
We still burn tens of millions of tonnes of essentially recyclable material that isn't recycled thanks to market prices.

The burning isn't relevant (it's better than landfill in a lot of circumstances), it's that introducing virgin materials to the waste pool is cheaper than reuse, for many materials.
We could be global leaders committed to reducing green house gas emissions ASAP.

No we could not single handily turn the ship around, nobody ever said we could.

But we could be leaders and work hard for the greater good. Many many people have said we should do that.
So, people with "a solid plan for the money" (and who is the wise sage that makes THAT decision?) is just your company's replacement for directly using profiling information. You really think you've changed anything?
They can't default because of government interference. I don't think anyone was talking about protections.
Where did you get these claims from?
But that doesn't apply to this case, because Verizon was previously being neutral. Verizon didn't cut off the fire department because of the type of data the fire department was using. Verizon shut off the fire department because the fire department hit the cap in the internet plan they signed up for.

Verizon is now treating the fire department different from everyone else, so now that Verizon removed the fire department's cap, Verizon could be argued to be no longer neutral.
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I don't think criminals care about things being illegal.
You do realize you’re commenting in a comment section, right? :-)
But innovations in the field of recycling would over time alleviate these issues. Stopping the recycling efforts altogether would also halt these innovations.

And by charging a (relatively) large amount of money for getting rid of trash - like they do in Switzerland - is a great tool of both raising awareness with consumers, improving habits, and making recycling economically viable in the meantime.
A lot of British people would disagree that the heritage of the British Empire is alive and well.

And there's not just "worry" about imminent anthropogenic ecological collapse, but growing empirical evidence for it - something that has never happened before.
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This, and very well written! A lot of the complaints from the article are really all easily solvable issues. I mean, really? I need to click an app for an hour to get the block? Just run a lottery. And what do you mean I have to catch people around? Change the rules so that I need to make best effort (and document it), and that's it. And give customers your own numbers so you can forward calls just during the working hours (though that makes it look even more like the workers are your employees). I won't even comment on trouble with scanning codes.

Note that while this would make job a lot more enjoyable for workers, I still think everyone should enjoy the same basic benefits, no matter what kind of employment relationship they are in. But that could also be solved in other ways (basic income for example).
> which may be that black people are systematically opressed, more likely to come from a poorer background, discriminated upon so as to reduce their options in life

Also know as a cofounding effect. All of these problems have been encountered by statisticians decades ago.
Agreed. GDP is an imperfect measure, but 2018 Q2 GDP growth figure (4.1%) is nothing short of amazing.
Humanities major here. I studied in both India and the US.

There was a strong socialist strain across all my professors, more so in India than in the US. There was almost a disdain for regular employment. There was zero talk of how to actually go about finding work, or how the education could be applied to a regular job.

I was pretty entrepreneurial and managed to build a small business. But most of my classmates are still struggling, either eking out a living in poorly paid writing gigs, or working in academia in the hopes of landing a tenured position someday.

Humanities education is vital, but it really needs a long hard look at itself if it wants to remain viable.

Edit: As an aside, the positive part about my humanities education in India was that it was effectively free (tuition was $100/year). And my professors mostly had PhDs from top colleges like Oxbridge, Berkeley, etc.

The fact that I graduated debt free is one reason why I would still recommend people to go through with it if they have an interest in the humanities
And that's when Steven realized what had been causing the illness in tens of thousands of people for over a decade...

- - -

Two poplar trees stood in the backyard of the house where Steven was born in 1958. Not so much a "back yard" as a "back lawn", one of the trees, nearly 200 years old...
I agree with you, but--

> Not to mention that often, when you do give notice, they'll fire you simply to avoid paying you the final two weeks

This makes no sense. Companies will make your life hell and do anything to get you to quit so they don't have to fire you. If they fire you without cause, you can make an unemployment claim against them-- but if you quit on your own, that's on you.

In my experience, it's more common that they'll enact your resignation immediately yet continue paying you as though you were working the next two weeks, to mitigate any final acts of sabotage or exfiltration.