skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
500 times this. They have no clue how to evaluate talent and build culture. If they organize this similar to the BSI, they‘ll take PhDs fresh from Uni, take them on a career path that starts nicely above entry level market salary — but ends there pretty much already (never remotely reaching industry levels). Hackers with some psychological/social issues but great potentials like often found in top Infosec won‘t have a fighting chance, same goes for industry veterans without a degree like me.
Nowadays geek and nerd are in every language it seems, and they even become cool (I think so, but I'm too old now to be sure).

But I've been at school in Poland in 1990, before most English influences started, and there were insults for people, not because they are smart, but because they focus too much on good grades. It was cool to be smart, it was uncool to show the effort and to care too much. Basically you didn't wanted to be a kujon (literally - a hammerer = someone who mindlessly hammers in every lesson to memory to get best grades).

We also had bookworm (mól książkowy) and "inteligencik" (mostly political label given by communists and their supporters to intellectual workers who weren't on board with the whole communist thing). Outside of politics it was mildly negative label, and wasn't used too much.

Also, there are a few new ones associated with political issues - "wykształciuchy" and "łże-elity" is a degrading way to call people who graduated some university and think they are better than you but actually know nothing. It's a word borrowed from political marketing of the current government, which includes anti-intellectualism (because most experts disagree with them on 99% of their policies, and their target demographics is less educated compared to other parties).

TL; DR: I don't think anti-intellectualism is inherently American, it's a common theme in populism. American schools are just weird (we haven't had words for bully, cheerleader, jock either).
Are there any other accidentally light sensitive devices?
very often a "remark" or a non compiling comment is included in the source code snippet.
e.g.

rem "this code does nothing"

let i=1

for i=0

beep

else end

alternate functionalities may written as a "remark" and copypasted or edited to make it a compiling line of code so that you can quickly edit the source code and not have to type so much, or go looking through a codesnippit database to find the tool you need...
the actual source code script , depends of course on what language you are using, i chose a pseudo BASIC bcz , well its basic...
These insults seem to be targeted at unintelligent people who try to brute force their way to success.

That's "insults for hard work" perhaps, but not "insults for smart people".
SurveyGizmo's pricing is hard to find but I eventually found this page https://forms.surveygizmo.com/plans-pricing/
Sorry, but America is a society that enshrines and holds intelligence so, so high. If you are "smart", you are afforded all sorts of privileges that everyone else misses out on. The intelligent don't need a sob story or a defense in America, they are scoring a close second to those that already have and control the wealth and resources here.
The problem is that there's no floor when it comes to the "market value" of low-skill work. Without a reasonable minimum wage, you'd have people living in terrible conditions because their choices of work are either no work at all, or a low-skill job that pays 50 cents per hour. People with no skills have zero leverage and the wages become a race to the bottom as people get more and more desperate.

> Hypothetically speaking, if Google automated away 50M tedious and repetitive "white collar" jobs and those 50M workers are now competing for warehouse jobs, why must warehouse operators' pay a living wage while Google pays nothing for putting 50M workers out on the street? [...] The burden of caring for society's poor must fall on society.

Society should assist the unemployed. I am in favor of UBI.

But if a job pays so little that you still need assistance to pay rent and eat, then why work?

In other words, if I had no skills, and "society" was giving me $25k/year to live off of, and some company is only willing to pay me $20k/year to do a job, I'd have zero incentive to take that job.
I am currently a data scientist at BuzzFeed, analyzing performance across BuzzFeed's distribution channels, among many other things.

I did not work on Follow This, although I do appear in a B-roll shot. https://twitter.com/minimaxir/status/1034109759295647745
i will rather take my chances with violent crimes in west than with pollution affecting everyone, accidents affecting everyone, subpar ingredients in restaurants affecting everyone etc
in America you have the reverse: anti-"intellectual" genius cults. Eg: Gates and Zuckerberg. I've seen many people, even in CS, justify leaving college because those folks did.
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I very much disagree. If you look at most politicians in a high enough positions in a lot of European countries, you won't find any movie stars (Reagan, Eastwood, Schwarzenegger) nor reality TV stars like Trump.

The Prime minister of my country would never qualify for the terminator[1].

[1] https://www.government.nl/government/members-of-cabinet/mark...
I think almost every culture has a term for people who are on the asperger spectrum and have high IQ but low EQ. In Chinese, "理工男" translates to roughly "Science Guy" and refers to people who are like Sheldon on the Big Bang Theory. "书呆子" means bookworm and refers to people with a lot of book smarts but not much street smarts.
Oh God. I want to believe this is "best practice" and everyone is sane, but when I hear things like this (or am a part of such project), I can't help but think that it's driven by a devops guy who wants the learning experience (the same way programmers want to do projects in languages they want to know better, instead of the ones they know well).
Chips can be, if their case isn't opaque enough. Famous example would be the "camera shy" Raspberry Pi 2, which crashed when exposed to strong light like a camera flash: https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/xenon-death-flash-a-free-ph...

Other semi-conductors can be too, e.g. classical diodes in glas casing.
Complying with the law by paying taxes is less wrong than making a conscious choice to work for a company that provides services to ICE. You've been 'coerced' in to paying for ICE. LinkedIn haven't been coerced in to working with them.
I like what Zulip tries to be in theory (the "topics" feature is really great), but there are two knocks against it, in my opinion:

1. They do not support self-hosting the code on a system with anything else hosted on it. You are strongly recommended to dedicate a server (VPS, Docker, whatever) to your Zulip installation. You can try to install it on an existing server, but it is far from trivial, and doing so is unsupported.

2. As part of the installation script(s), they blindly wget code and execute it with bash. https://github.com/zulip/zulip/blob/eb676e8e508df0349662addd...
I don’t know what country you are talking about, but in many places there was a huge decline in real estate prices one decade ago. That would seem a big risk...
Anti-intellectualism is pretty strong in the UK too. For example in one of the defining moments of the Brexit campaign, Michael Gove was confronted by an open letter from a large number of leading economists saying how damaging Brexit would be to the economy and said “people in this country have had enough of experts”.
There were so many MUDs back in the 90s. I was an avid ShadowLands player myself. My interest in programming grew tremendously when I downloaded the source for DikuMUD and CircleMUD and started tweaking things. It didn't take long to turn into an outright passion.
I agree that it's not convincing. But I think over the phone it makes it close to indiscernible.
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Millions per MONTH is just ridiculous. Stay with what works, revisiting this slow Python tool will be a cost and time sink. A mistake companies let engineers with millennial complex do all too often.
Yeah, I assumed that was a goal for the future, rather than a description of the current situation.
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This is why you shouldn't use non-free software.

Also reverse engineering for the purposes of compatibility is nominally legal in the USA, but like every other so-called right it's pay to play.
You are being unnecessarily abrasive.

I ride the streets that I'm speaking about. San Francisco has a team of engineers who redesign road infrastructure, markings, and signage to promote safe cycling. I think they do good work and I benefit directly from their work. I think the infrastructure is better suited to cycling than your dismissive comment implies.

I disagree with your characterization that the risks to motor vehicle-bicycle interactions are fairly small risks as long as motorists are diligent. But I don't suggest that you accept my risk assessment. My equivalence is grounded in California law[0]. Cyclists have equal responsibility with other drivers. Both groups of vehicles need to be operated diligently.

[0] http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection....
Yup. It's like this huge bureaucracy we've created for ourselves. You can't just run code on a target platform, you have to learn about all the thousands new forms to fill, and then fill them all in triplicate.
If Norway wouldn't sell the oil, someone else would do so. Currently, we need the oil to keep the economy and society working. But Norway uses the oil revenue to build a better future. Which everyone will benefit from. Like solar and wind are now available for everyone at economic prices, as an industrial scale market which allows for those low prices was created by many years of subsidies, when it didn't exist yet.
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You should visit South Korea (or Japan), where people running big business are considered leaders by everyone in the country. Not just SV people who browse HN.

I'm not from the US, but I'm pretty sure that the average person in most states has never heard of either of the people you mentioned.
Lol 30 year old midlife crisis. Wait till you are 50 and you look back and think of what you didn’t do. The flip side is you can look back at what you did with some satisfaction.

My point is that 30 is not old by any measure. Barring bad luck, you still have another 40 to 50 years to do something different.
> I too keep travel pictures with stuff like tickets, flyers etc. The purpose is not to build a brand or show off but to better remember the experience later.

That is my point. In the past, people did the same things, if that does not make them superficial we are neither. We should not judge our contemporaneous travellers so lightly.
How to get a content piece to go viral?
These types of highly-specific, broad scale, psycho-social analyses can be interesting and insightful, but should always be taken with a large grain of salt.

After all, the fields of psychology and sociology are still searching for fundamental paradigms, so it shouldn't be surprising how difficult it is to make strong, specific claims of this sort.
That is the same approach of Chrome as webview on Android actually. when Google started turning on security knobs.

Exposure to Internet and continuous use of unsafe languages has proven that in-process plugins was a very bad idea.
Akonia/Apple: 60° FOV (targeted)

Hololens: 35° FOV (currently)

Magic Leap: 40° FOV horizontal / 30° vertical (currently)
While I have no love of Gove, this is a very unfair and context-free quote. The full quote is as follows:

> I think that the people of this country have had enough of experts with organisations from acronyms saying - from organisations with acronyms - saying that they know what is best and getting it consistently wrong, because these people - these people - are the same ones who got consistently wrong.
I struggle with the fact that I'm going to have to quit academia and get a data science job (probably). I love academia. But I am too slow, and personal life means I am geographically constrained. My plan is to choose a topic and work at that as an academic side project, with the aim to still publish either alone or with seated academic friends.
> This blog post is just a succession of these easily falsiable generalizations that try to use pseudo-linguistic reasoning to demonstrate a blanket sweeping subjective statement (“Americans hate smart people”).

Much like psychologists, linguists suffer a constant barrage of comments and articles by people who think they understand the field but don't. It's quite easy to not know the sheer scope of our ignorance in these fields, unlike STEM where people at least tend to realize they know close to nothing.
> I am not sure how much of this is true.

Not much of it is true. It's a very old derogatory attack, that goes back to the foundations of the US and the earlier colonies. The 'cultured' Western European elites mocked the region back then as uncivilized, filled with barbarians and simpletons, and so on. This was of course a time when people like Adams, Madison, Jefferson, Paine and Benjamin Franklin were actually arguing and then implementing enlightenment policies in political fact, while nearly all of Europe would proceed to be ruled by despots for another 100-200 years. To say nothing of the flight of people from Europe to American shores over the coming century plus, desperate to escape extreme poverty in Western Europe. And yet the snobbish attacks continued just the same.

Take for example the song, Yankee Doodle, one of the more amusing cases of this in action -

"Traditions place its origin in a pre-Revolutionary War song originally sung by British military officers to mock the disheveled, disorganized colonial "Yankees" with whom they served in the French and Indian War" ... "The British troops sang it to make fun of their stereotype of the American soldier as a Yankee simpleton who thought that he was stylish if he simply stuck a feather in his cap."

"It was also popular among the Americans as a song of defiance."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yankee_Doodle
I can't find the name for it right now, but for me that has been a common way to think about why some "news" items stick around, even when they're total BS.

People read an item within their own field and go "what a load of crap, they can't even get the basics right rage" then they turn the page, read something from a different field and go "my, that's so interesting, these people really know their stuff!"
Has anyone considered making more nice places?

Almost all the examples of “nice places” I’ve seen on this post have been artificial.
As an (European) outsider who visited the US a number of times: In academic circles you are right, but college and university are so expensive that your experience only applies to the elite (who are called all the bad words from the article by the majority of the country).
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There are already 3rd party Slack clients ( https://github.com/wee-slack/wee-slack https://github.com/bkanber/Slackadaisical https://github.com/evanyeung/terminal-slack ). Using the same approach as them would let you have more control.

OTOH, like someone else said, please contribute to improving riot/matrix instead.
Can anyone who's lived in more than one culture share whether American is more anti-intellectual than other cultures?
Try to use the Pomodoro Technique[1]... believe me, it helps.

It organizes your tasks in rounds of deep focus with intervals and the results are very good, specially if you are dealing with multiple things at once.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique?wprov=sfti1
Open innovation through crowd source is a great way to acess the idea.
Cheap and safe to recover oil (like Saudi, Norway, etc) is way better for the environment than expensive (tar sands) or dangerous (badly run deep water operations.). Also, I would sure rather have the government and people of Norway get money than a lot of the other places selling oil...
Or is is that such crimes are under-reported by the state-controlled media? Or that statistics for such crimes cannot be easily located, or at all? Someone else has posted on this thread stating they couldn't find relevant statistics easily. What you are saying may well be correct, it just seems that it's hard to verify with hard information.
From my understanding, its about putting people down if you perceive them as better than you.
America, and most western countries, hold wealth in high esteem. Intelligent people tend to make more money, so they get in to positions that afford them privilege more easily. But there are plenty of counter-examples to that. Stupid people get to the top through other means and win those privileges, and clever people who choose to work in less well paid jobs aren't given any privilege at all.

Intelligence itself rarely commands much respect at all.
I don't think there is formula to do it. But yes if you keep trying the best practices then the chances are there that it go viral.
It might be similar to having someone from today work on an Apple Newton. Touchscreen and buttons are pretty familiar but the cursive recognition and things like the modem interface would be really weird.
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If the policy has AssumeRole with principal "AWS:*" then yes, anyone can assume it and get temporary credentials to resources. Normally you would put an account number there but what if you want all your accounts to be able to assume the role and want a quick solution? I think a lot of people didn't realize that anyone on AWS can assume the role if they do this.

I think it's quite common for people to just put something in the policy that works on order to quickly proceed with whatever they are doing. Article says they found about 50 policies like this.
I’ll bite. Teach us some.
You're looking for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect
Still better than facebook, I guess.
Personally speaking, the main reason I wouldn’t want to live in any of those places is because of the lack of people — cities and buildings can be designed around the terrain… but if no one else is there, what’s the point?
Interesting, yes.

But there's more to "geek". In circuses and carnivals, a geek would capture chickens, bite their heads off, and eat them. Now you gotta remember that most of the audiences lived on farms, or had family who did, so chasing chickens and cutting their heads off was pretty normal. But still ...

So anyway, "geek" is very different from "bookworm" or "egghead". It's more like unconventional, daring and uninhibited.
I have a utilities library that I constantly expand and reference it in all projects.
This just in! They reverted the license change. Go back to work.
> This comment falls directly into the "things never change" fallacy.

That sounds interesting. I looked for it, and I just found references to the "tradition fallacy" that only deals with resistance to change.

Can you provide a link?

> Picking one sample piece of anecdotal data from another period that can roughly be lined up with some other vague impressions of today does not refute the claim.

I provided an anecdote example as a means to be more pedagogic. It is easier to understand concepts from the concrete to the abstract. So you are completely right, my anecdote does not refute the claim.
The title is completely misleading.
Are you referring to the Gell-Mann amnesia effect?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect
Well, I am been doing Windows stuff since 3.0. Not that I have been always happy with how MS has been at it. :)

Yes, NeXT/OS X was/is the only UNIX that doesn't suck as desktop developer experience.

And I had the pleasure to get to know the NeXT Cube, when doing my final assignment, rescuing my supervisors graphics work from NeXT into Windows 95, before the acquisition came to be.

However many here don't know Objective-C + Cocoa, as they use it as pretty Linux instead, running Electron apps.
Indeed I found the premise about romantic languages quite ridiculous as I could readily think of a few pejoratives in French from the top of my head, and pretty sure I forget or miss some of them, so when TFA reaches to French I was flabbergasted.

"Intello", "être une tête" (can be used both positively and negatively), "grosse tête", "quatre-yeux" (typical image of nerds with thick glasses), "tête d'ampoule" (probably the closest to nerd together with "intello"), "avoir une tête de premier de la classe", "binoclard", "coincé", "pingouin", "rat de bibliothèque", "taupe"...
Here's the revert btw: https://github.com/lerna/lerna/pull/1633
What do you mean by intellectual fads? I think some examples would help.
> On the other hand, languages like French are extremely rich in insults for stupid people

No you cannot use "on the other hand." Languages like English have at least as many if not more insults for stupid people: dumbass, shit-for-brains, dipshit, blockhead, imbecile, dullard, doofus, slack-jawed yocal, and the famous one from Mark Twain, "an idiot of the 33rd degree."

> After food and wine, the French worship the life of the mind.

And apparently the films of Jerry Lewis[1]. So let's say those end up canceling each other out[2].

> The United States, on the other hand, elected Donald “Celebrity Apprentice” Trump over Hillary “I Have a 12-Point Plan” Clinton.

I certainly cannot defend Trump's ban on Muslim face coverings in public schools[3]. There is no denying that is due to virulent strain of anti-intellectualism that has grown to dangerous-- one might say fascistic-- levels as of late.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Lewis#French_critical_ac...

[2] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082501/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_20

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_ban_on_face_covering
We still teach kids to talk... By talking at them all the time.

This includes mute and deaf people who will talk at kids using signs. These kids which are not mute or deaf will learn to speak much later since most others will still talk at them.

The hardwired part is the sign, grammar, logic and meaning. These essentially happen over development with no intervention. We do not teach kids logic - they already have it and we teach them formal reasoning and that was not invented but discovered.
Some people want the road less travelled; other people want load balancing to avoid overcrowding. There’s enough room in this world for both.
And now everyone gets crazy doing Electron apps.
If Lerna has a contributor license agreement, then it isn't a problem. A CLA usually has a clause that you give up your copyright.
It's not heavy at all. I was running it on a dual core 0.9 Ghz CPU for a long time and it reacts instantly to anything you do.

CPU usage for deepin was like 3% when idle on that slow machine.
It's more like "insults for lying about your abilities" not for hard work.
I'm particularly curious about why you prefer Reinhart over Krugman, specifically because of the disagreement over the famously erroneous Reinhart-Rogoff results (Krugman comment here: https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/16/reinhart-rogoff.... As far as I know, Reinhart-Rogoff never republished or responded further than what Krugman discussed in the linked post). Specific examples supporting/disproving the case of either would be helpful.

I tend to ignore Krugman when he's talking politics (eg. his prediction of a Trump recession). However, when he goes through the process of laying out the assumptions of an economic model (happens in many of his blog posts labeled 'wonkish'), his discussion of economic consequences of various policies seems to map very well with reality.