skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a very comfortable bus ride from Krakow to Warsaw for 7 euros a few years back. Each seat was able to lean back really far and still you weren't bother your rear neighbor. Each seat also had their own iPad-like-device with games, movies, music and internet.

Now Poland does not have many highways that are of good quality. But the ones we drove were good enough to sleep on. Also the toll for cars is really low (I believe 3 euros).

I'm willing to pay an extra to be able to lay down flat down but I really do wonder what surplus is added due to the stabilizing tech. I believe it's only applicable in a country such as the USA, where the roads are poor and the wages are relatively high. Still a large enough market to make it work though.
My understanding is you can get the HOA to change its rules through assembling a large enough voting block to do so. It's not like the HOA rules are designed to benefit anyone other than the homeowners which comprise the association or anything.

My sister used to live in a HOA neighborhood and has some stories to tell about power grabs, corruption and lies almost on a Game of Thrones level involving the neighbors vying for control of their own little fiefdom.
Fair point, demand is too strong a term. He specifically attacked funding for programs for minorities or women, and any hiring practises with emphasis on diversity, as being "based on false assumptions generated by our biases" (supposedly the creeping "leftist" ideology that's taking over Google) and that they "can actually increase race and gender tensions" without backing this up.

I'm not going to argue against that in this post, but I think imo he went beyond simply highlighting biological differences.
Thank you, I'm watching one right now and it's beautiful. It has a very Zawinul Syndicate feel to it, although Medeski's playing is a lot more intense. Thanks for sharing.
Why do you feel qualified to evaluate the paper? This is the risk. It is difficult for laypeople to properly evaluate a paper, so any nonsense when presented well can convince people.
I haven’t found them, but it’s not a reason not to look or, even better, ask. I believe that if people asked for roles like these, they would start to be offered.

We are just too stuck in the 40hr work week tradition right now. We should really be looking at our goals and output, not the number of hours per day we’ll commit to working. But that’s a tall order to change. And a lot of people would fail inder this setup because they are not goal-oriented, they just show up, take directions, and go home.

The alternative is as others are suggesting, have no employer, set an income goal or quality of life goal, and adjust your output to meet it. Unfortunately you cant just make money appear by writing code, so part of your goal/output config will involve finding a market for your output.

If this is too much work I would just do what you’re doing until people wont hire you any longer. I expect there will still be someone who will hire you ;)

Really what you’re feeling seems really normal and I suspect most people feel it. Working forty hours for the vast majority of employers is a poor way to experience “life”. You have a skill set that lets you stop and start as you wish to; most people in the world don’t have that luxury.

If I were you I would look into becoming financially independent as quickly as possible, so you can leave this grind and explore life on your own terms. The market is so strong right now that you should take advantage of it. It might not last! If your motivations for working changed, you might also find you can stick around a little longer.
It's like those "prevalence of X" maps that roughly correspond with population density maps.
Yet he also declared that criticism would prove him correct and decried "cultural marxism" in his article. Not exactly calling for open discussion.
I'd say as much as having a nice/interesting personality can be taught.

Because most of what constitutes good teaching is in fact the teacher being passionate about the subject and having an approach that reflects it. I don't think it can be replaced by someone that just goes through the same motions.

That said, better teaching (that what teachers in average do) can surely be taught.
Yeah but there’s money to be had from people who will buy into that idea. People don’t like complex answers.
It depends on what you mean by "good".

In the US nuclear navy, instructors are taught many things that make them better instructors: peppering the crowd with questions, active listening, elimination of crutch words (um, uh, like, etc), changing volume levels when speaking, practicing in front of peers who's purpose is to immunize the speaker against bad crowds (pen clicking, sleeping, tapping, talking, etc).

They are better. Does this make them good?

Pull learning is better than push learning in basically every case. Most people recall teachers that _inspired_ them to learn, not the ones with good oration skills. Objectively, what results in "better" learning?
I forgot to mention.

Many “VPN apps” for iOS don’t do anything special except for automatically configuring VPN settings. As the article above stated, you can do the same thing manually by going to settings.

The VPN providers can sell services off the App Store and document the manual setup process.
Who is this response addressed to? Where did I say something to that effect?
> Just as a curiosity. Where in Spain?

My two top picks would be Barcelona and Madrid. Barcelona has real estate prices on par with Stockholm but from what I’ve read a lot of other stuff is cheaper.

A city where being carless would be no biggie would be a welcome change, too. Swedes really love their cars even though fuel taxes and other car related stuff is crazy expensive here. I think people mainly choose the car because public transportation still sucks at a lot of places. The Madrid metro really impressed me.
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Lol downvoters don't even know the Copenhagen interpretation is deeply flawed and never learned to use their words
Ditto. My thanks as well.
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I am not trying to dispute the paper's (implied) greater point: Larger variability of reproductive success favors larger variability of phenotype (in so far as phenotype is related to reproductive success); this can obviously apply to different sexes of the same species [1]; and it is trivial to cook up a toy model for this.

I am just saying that (1) this paper does not belong into a mathematical journal, and (2) the point looks almost too trivial to state.

I am a mathematician; I cannot say whether the paper belongs into a bio journal and whether its points are common knowledge in the bio community. I can only say that, had the arxiv-paper landed on my desk for peer review, I'd have recommended to reject it.

[1] By the conservation law that each offspring has one male and one female parent, differing "effective selectivity" and differing variability of reproductive success are kinda equivalent in the model; casting it in terms of "desirability" looks like a weird choice to me.
Amazon is staffing up in these HQ2 finalist cities as decision nears
Amazon has patented a system that would put workers in a cage, on top of a robot
Of course it is. It’s the only useful thing you can do when advertising.
So, if I don't give it my location, how does it give me the weather at my location?
Yes, and at times where they measured it properly, not like now (which hides a lot of unemployment and forced temporary work under the carpet).
Could I summarise that with this alternative phrasing?:

Instead of “five ways my team is awesome and five ways your team sucks”, you’re saying the average person is more like “Five ways your team sucks and no that guy is not my team true Scotsman true Scotsman”?

I could buy that.
It's a symptom of the fact that people on the whole do not want to pay for news.

It's a failure of capitalism that the positive externalities of local news are not captured by the people who generate it (just like a failure of capitalism that the negative externalities of so many things aren't borne by those that generate it)
Nice list!

Requests/Suggestions:

1. I can only see two books on my screen at any one time. That is A LOT of scrolling just to look through the first page. Can there be a more "condensed" view?

2. Can the classes be grouped/tagged? That way I don't have to scroll through 10 pages just to find out which books are being used for introductory programming courses, or for computer graphics, etc. For that matter, if I am trying to see if there is some hidden gem that someone is using for Linear Algebra, I must scroll through every page, and that is impractical/useless.

3. Are you going to going to make your dataset publically available? At this point we don't even know which universities are involved! But it might make for some interesting analysis if we could see the underlying data.
And if you need to set a fraud alert with them you have to do by mail. FML.
Because there is no simple shortcut to send a line of code to the terminal for execution in the running REPL.

But yes, it would be much better, as the terminal can better handle printing thousands of lines of output.
How about thermal imaging of oil tanks at Cushing Oklahoma!
The key word in your message is "I". Some people are willing to bet that there are enough people with different priorities/preferences
The previous encryption methods didn't rely on asymmetric encryption, and VPN software nowadays often provides an option to use an additional symmetric-only key to protect the handshake. (This makes it quantum-resistant against attackers that don't have the symmetric key, while allowing to use DH to get forward secrecy against non-quantum attackers that later gain access to the key).

Does WPA3 maintain this protection, or is it now open to quantum attacks?

Also, is there a mode to allow connecting to open networks with authentication based on TLS certificates and domain names? For example, the SSID of the network could be a domain name, and the network would present a certificate for that domain (or some well-defined subdomain) to prove that it's indeed that network. This way, if you know the domain of the entity you're connecting to (e.g. a hotel), and see a WiFi with that name (and have a client that doesn't allow unicode for this mode), you could connect securely.
Not the way a physical technique, programming, cooking, etc., can.

There's an intangible aspect what cannot even define, much less teach. We can just mimic some external trappings.

That said, you can try and influence towards a certain personality/passion/etc. But it's not like "follow this X,Y and you'll get the Z result" guaranteed like teaching regular stuff. It requires innate drive.
Sorry, but it is for everybody to decide. Reviewers don't have a sacred sanction and exclusive right to judge. Many a time in cases of plagiarism I worked through I've met with this argument from the accused authors. It boils down to that I have no right to question basic decency because only reviewers are entitled to pass judgement on that and they already did.

Also from the description, which is not impartial being by the author, it is admitted it was snuck into an online journal by one of its editors. We don't know anything about the nature of peer review in this case other than when the wider board of editors got a know of that, majority of them allegedly threatened to resign.

It is however a very bad form by the managing editor to publish another article in the place of the other, even if that one was decided to be published erroneously. NYJM journal page says he's on leave and ceded his duties to an interim replacement.
> "we need more at the policy level,” said Napoli, who believes public funding could alleviate the local news crisis

Sounds like a conflict of interest, to get money from the government. Also, artificially propping up old ways of doing business is a rickety foundation. Newspapers as we know them occupy a narrow slice in world history. It's not like we have always had newspapers from the beginning of time up until now.

Let's investigate natural ways to accomplish the same goal of newspapers, but with our current technology. The internet has obliterated costs to publish. Compare a building full of typesetters, Linotypes, and printing presses, to WordPress and server rental. Now that doesn't address all of a newspaper's old expenses. There is still the staff: reporters spending days and weeks investigating a story, editors organizing and refining. But what does the Press, invented from scratch with our current technology, look like? I think you have to consider the different sections of an old newspaper one at a time:

1. Product reviews. Seems that there is still plenty of that, between the various specialized websites and bloggers and vloggers.

2. Lifestyle. Again, we are drowning in such coverage, like on Youtube.

3. Sports. I don't know, I don't keep up with sports. How is sports news faring?

4. Business news. Again I don't know and don't care. Someone else comment.

and finally, biggest of all:

5. The main example and, to many, the raison d'etre for news: keeping government and businesses honest, by sniffing out corruption.

Maybe the new way is without the middleman. Instead of government insider speaking anonymously to a reporter, the insider anonymously posts the leak himself.
Right. The point of the article—and many of the comments here—is that YT is always pushing people toward extreme version of X, whatever X may be.
Nothing is going to happen to them in the future as well.
Can't agree more.

Open Source is beneficial for so many reasons. Just a few:

- Use of the software, of course
- Your programmers become better at their craft
- Access to cutting edge innovations
- You have the power to fix something, you aren't reliant on someone else
- You get some pride in your contributions. You helped build that.

Get on board! Open Source is truly a great thing.
This is digest encryption. While it's a great alternative to sending passwords in cleartext, it does have some major disadvantages.

> It prevents the use of a strong password hash (such as bcrypt) when storing passwords (since either the password, or the digested username, realm and password must be recoverable) [1]

Much better to have bcrypt'ed passwords stored on the server and your private SSL keys. If your compromised, revoke the SSL keys, and force users to change their passwords. With strong bcrypt'ed passwords, you can be reasonably sure passwords can't be recovered, but best to enforce resets anyways. With digested passwords, those will be recovered and end up in Troy Hunt's Pwned Passwords database.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digest_access_authentication...
The extreme progressive axiom of today is "women good, men bad"
Elon Musk and Nick Bostrom were mocked for warning about the dangers of powerful future AI. I've said this here before, the primary use cases of machine learning right now, today, are hostile. That does not bode well for our future. We have very manipulative advertising, mass surveillance used to put ethnic and religious minorities in concentration camps in China, and in YouTube's case, recommending a lot of totally junk science to people who just want to learn new things. I'm afraid these four things probably impact way more people than translation systems and self driving vehicles right now.

I am completely in favor of the internet as an uncensored communications platform. However, in a war of ideas, there is a giant chasm between making a propaganda video of any sort available to watch in an archive and showing the stickiest propaganda video to those who are most likely to be retained watching it.

When I was at NIPS last year, the only person I heard get really angry about something, from an ethical standpoint, was relating to deep fakes. If you are a researcher or a project developer, you need to think really hard about what you are building, because soon you won't be the one building it.

edit: I don't think YouTube should solely be singled out for bad recommendations. Netflix has a lot of junk science on their platform and my assumption is their algorithms are bumping it to the top. In their case they have to proactively go out and pay for licensing for those videos, which is really inexcusable.
Activism 2.0
Social desirability bias
>what does it say about us humans that we fall for progressively more extreme stuff? Perhaps that few people actually hold balanced views and nowadays a compromise is looked down upon and a mark of a weak character?

It says we are the way that we are. The human brain is full of little quirks and cognitive biases that unavoidably shape our behavior, at least on the large scale. Anyone who builds a system or an organization or a movement ignores them at their peril. This happens to be one of them.
Supporting news with government money is horrible idea. Paying the fox to guard your henhouse and all that.

Better move would be there force more government transparcy. So it doesn't require reporters digging around to find truth. Record sessions post all votes, actions, studies, proceeding etc. On line in easy to machine parse format. There are plenty of people who would analyse and report on that data for fun or out of sense of Civic duty. It happens now.

It's not perfect but a big step.
My 2013 MacBook Air screen recently died.

I just bought a new one off eBay from the same year.

Teenage me would not understand. But I think personal computers peaked years ago.

The reason this is possible is I have opted out of “modern” development tools and I write all my own code with a minimum of dependencies. If I was using webpack and Docker I would have to buy a 2018 machine.
Yeah, I was mostly in Andalusia and I thought it was gorgeous so it certainly has that going for it, but I think I would like bigger cities. Especially thinking career wise.

(Was very surprised that some Spaniards I met didn’t think Andalusia was something special but that the spruce filled forests of Sweden was a paradise. Grass is greener and all that.)
> not produce a global "now"

I thought that was just already accepted as part of relativity that there is no global now (I feel like you are saying there is no global interial reference frame?).

I really mean that there is this more general concept of time which looks like what humans perceive as "time" locally. The ordinary human perception of time is obviously not quite the whole picture. Our lives are just slow enough that we don't notice relativistic effects. We are just fooled into thinking its ordered linearly, but there is a more general picture.

But saying that there is no "time" because it doesn't quite match our intuitions is wrong. Its just that we have to expand our thinking.

Further, I think relativity still has an "arrow of time". Thermodynamic quantities can transform under reps of Poincare group - "Relativistic Thermodynamics" is certainly a thing. Landau and Lifshitz has a few chapters on it I believe. So the idea of time "passing" (entropy increasing at least carries over.
I particularly like the lineups with brahim fribgane playing oud. Those sets are very gnawa influenced.
Seems about right to me. Have you turned on a television in the last few years? People are out for blood these days.
I think this has been true in my case, for years I wanted to make a significant contribution to an open source project but I did not have the skills to do so in a timely manor, I had to focus on billable work. Now ~ 8 years after I started programming I feel more confident that I can jump into a new library and fix or add what I need without the risk of spending more time modifying library feature than was required to add the business logic to my app. This seems like it would be a critical realization in the path of a dev from junior to senior.
Mock me if you want but I found this survey confusing to take. The titles/subject areas are disjointed from the questions, then the first question is just the word "Reason." No explanation, just one word, "Reason." Took me longer than it should have to realize what was going on.
Nope, definitely not surprised.
> I think the NSF would be justified in quashing this paper early instead of letting it play out in the marketplace of ideas, because of the risks to the marketplace of ideas itself if the paper is put to the debate it otherwise deserves

What about the risk to the marketplace of ideas if certain ideas can be quashed by authorities for being distasteful? Galileo being the canonical example of this.

> it is not inherently unscientific for the NSF to ever object to a paper that is at odds with its values.

Science investigates empirical facts about the world. How can a fact be at odds with a value?

Facts describe the world as it is. Values describe what we think is important, and how we ought to act. Discovering a fact about the natural world does not inherently say anything about what is right, moral, or good.
This is a bit of code archaeology for me :) Compiling it is easy, running it is hard, especially without MQL. I think I still remember enough to write up a walkthrough if folks would find that interesting...
> beneficial.

For certain people, in the short term, until their inherent stupidity allows them to commit further mistakes that actually impact others...
This is helpful, thank you.

> If B2 ever got to reproduce, it would have B2 offspring, while B12 would produce B11 or B12.

Okay, this is clear regarding the paper’s assumption of heritability of variability. Assuming that variability is a completely static characteristic innate to a population and perfectly heritable seems to me such a simplistic assumption as render most of the conclusions ineffective or correct only within a narrow set of assumptions.

After all, every GA would never work if this was the case.
Well that's a fine indication of how corrupt our scientific institutions are these days. Damn shame.
The EFThedron looks interesting, I have to check that out.
It's also compatible with her being smarter than all men.
Not sure if you're joking but with the state of housing in the Bay Area, moving for a reason such as "Slow/expensive internet" isn't really an option.

I'm having an issue with second hand smoke from an apartment getting into my unit and I have to put up with this disgusting problem since moving involves other compromises I'm not willing to make at the moment.
Thanks! I didn't notice that they would send you a report.

It's nice that they provide it. I understand why they use such misleading statistics, it just hard to trust people that do.
If you want to be a good teacher, first, you have to manage the classroom. This is important if you are coming to teaching from a non-teaching background like software development.

Having had experiences dabbling in teaching in actual classrooms, the most difficult part for me was my weak classroom management skills. I am always in awe at my teacher friends who command the classroom, sometimes without saying a word or very little.
Odd how ClojureScript is in the survey, but Clojure is not listed in the possible “other languages” section. Oh, well. We Clojurians are used to being overlooked.
Oops, I typed NIMBY when I meant YIMBY
Teaching is also a talent. Much like in singing or dancing there are people who excel in teaching, because they not only use the correct methods, but also manage to improve them, or adapt to circumstances when necessary. Very few people are capable of that, and you cannot train that.

The problem is that there are teachers who do not want to teach at all. And those who want to teach are rare, and those excelling at teaching are as rare as people like Richard Feynman.
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Can you explain this? I’ve always been of the opinion that some solutions proposed over the years have tried
to do this but fail because the trusted entity is unknown a priori. I don’t see how you can invent a trust model that is basically “trust me the user and whatever choices I have made.”