skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article never clearly states what they consider the fallacy to be. So it's maybe not surprising that they seem to actually not understand it. They say:

QUOTE: After you’ve invested £10 million ($13m) in a project, which hasn’t delivered, the case for throwing in a further £5 million is far easier to justify if you only consider returns on £5 million – rather than £15 million. But in reality, of course, you also don’t want to look stupid by abandoning it.

But it is CORRECT to consider only the 5 million additional investment when deciding whether to continue the project. Of course, it's not correct (from the organization's point of view) to consider whether you (the employee) will look stupid if it's abandoned. That would be some sort of fallacy. But what is usually in my experience called the "sunk cost fallacy" is the opposite - insisting that to justify continuing the project, it's necessary for it to pay back the whole 15 million, even though 10 million of that is a sunk cost.
Domain knowledge is always useful. But can also introduce biases in one's analysis.

For these types of professional roles you generally see specialized teams in three broad groups: data engineers, modelers/analysts, domain experts. Unicorns sometimes exist, but usually you see T-type experience with depth in one of the three.
I can see their point though.

If you ignore cost, SpaceX still has a lot to prove. They are doing amazing things and I personally wouldn't bet against them, but the people they are fighting against have a lot higher success rate at this point, and a LOT more experience.

SpaceX is changing the game, and reducing the cost of getting to space might be what causes the next great age in humanity, but at the same time I have to say that I'm relieved that the James Webb telescope is going up on Ariane 5.

And if you worked at NASA and really want the absolute best, I can see why you'd want to avoid the "cheap" option, even if you agree that they might one day be better.
Yep. & Aside from having cash to overcome unexpected expenses, making changes to reduce your cost of living or improve your financial situation often (not always) takes time, money, resources. E.g. moving house, finding a place to live with a kitchen to reduce food expenses, finding a better job...

Everybody knows that the dice are loaded
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Everybody knows the war is over
Everybody knows the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight was fixed
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
That's how it goes
Everybody knows

- Leonard Cohen
It's interesting blatant stereotypes about Asian and Asian Americans are thrown around like it's acceptable. Would you ever make statements like "it's cultural acceptable for black community to condone thefts and petty crimes, and politicians won't do anythign because it's inconvenient?"

Just because statistics reveal a uptick for one group, does not make it acceptable for you to generalize. It's a racist remark, just so you understand the unconscious bias
I don't follow space news closely but I was well aware of this one. Japan has made a few widely spread headlines regarding its work with this asteroid.

Wikipedia is also a great way to keep up to date with these big space projects:

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Timeline_of_Solar_System_explora...

NASA's Insight rover is landing on Mars on Nov 26 2018 https://www.wikiwand.com/en/InSight

OSIRIS-REx will reach a different asteroid in December 2018:
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/OSIRIS-REx
you can recurse in excel. its disabled by default but you can set the max depth on circular references in some menu. I haven't used it since the 2007 version
"dumbest people with connections end up as managers while the smartest get put into lower positions"
That's the case everywhere, but the other side of the argument is that the managers are smart to use those connections for their careers.
> Universities ... are just squeezing out the last juices from the dying industry.

I agreed up to this point. Can you say more what you mean? University education is a dying industry? What about the massive and growing legislative requirements for degrees in all kinds of occupations?
Australia does not need more migrants. Our entire economy is a Ponzi scheme based around immigration driving ever higher house prices. The more the major parties ignore this issue the more power it gives to those on the political extremes.

The issue with the boats is it would not be a few hundred people for very long as the Europeans have found out over the last few years.
Living space for a hundred people? Where are you getting that? Space for a 100 people on one of their planned 1hour trips to anywhere on the globe, sure, but that’s decidedly not living space. Again, putting side the hype so many of you are desperate for, the use case is to bring the launch costs even further down below the Falcon Heavy, by bundling multiple payloads. Skimming some money with what would be astronomically expensive commuter flights that the private jet set will be thrilled to pay? Sure. A trip to Mars?

Well, thst requires a lot more than big rockets, and all of the downvotes and petulance in the world can’t change that. On the bright side, time will tell, and I’ll be sure to save this thread for future enjoyment. BFR, if it’s ever completed (it very well may be, it might not be) will be used almost exclusively for LEO; satellite launches, cargo runs, and ferrying people. The technology for people on Mars simply doesn’t exist yet, and trillions of R&D SpaceX has declared zero interest in, and no one else is doing is on the road to Mars.

For a group of supposed empiricists, rationality and skepticism seems to die where this topic is concerned. It’s frankly annoying.
You absolutely correct, it's indeed inspired by Keyj`s minimp3. Float-point used because it's hard do with 4-byte fixed-point type and achieve ISO conformance. We must to use different dynamic ranges for different parts of decoder (i.e. emulate own floating point) or more than 4-byte fixed-point type. Only float-point support is needed, SSE/NEON intrinsics is not required and can be fully disabled by MINIMP3_NO_SIMD.
Thanks for confirming that I don’t want to have a conversation with you.
Presumably they wouldn't be employed there if they couldn't pass the interview though?
99% of people would tremble just from hearing Global Government
The classes serve to close some functions over variables for convenience; the attr_readers serve as destructuring functions for convenience; the += replaces a recursive function for convenience and familiarity. The function with the += doesn't mutate any value and it remains pure from all callers' perspectives.

You're complaining about syntax, but this screencast is about semantics.
All models are broken. But if you model most organizations with perpetual boards, as universities do, as partnerships run for the benefit of senior administrators and in the case of universities a handful of powerful faculty you’ll find it’s a pretty good fit.
It is a triple negative if you count "nobody".
Coding Error Forces 2019 Subaru Ascents to be Scrapped
Researchers discover a pattern to the seemingly-random distribution of primes
I'm glad I checked HN today because this sounds like a fantastic read. I went ahead and picked up a copy of it for myself!
Its not just statistics. Its painfully obvious to anyone currently in uni. Every single person I have seen cheating has been Asian. And the teachers do nothing. Had one guy in my class get caught cheating for the 3rd time and still nothing has happened.
It depends on how wealthy you want to be. If you want a few billion, no doubt. I’d you want Bezos money... much harder. If you want to be the first trillionaire, the equivalent of temple railroad barons for space? No, this is pretty much it. He already hit the first mark, and I think he’s aiming for the third with the second along the way. I also think he likes rocketry and being seen as a visionary and a hero, and PayPal money wasn’t going to get him any of that. He’s clearly very into risky endeavors and relentless self-promotion; his cult of personality didn’t build itself. He also clearly likes to make money, and win against the odds.

I think if you look for the intersection of all of his more obvious needs and desires SpaceX makes sense in the commercial sense.
Giant Artificial Wall Under Antarctica Could Stop Catastrophic Sea Level Rise
Well, shit. My bad.
I usually assume ML refers to machine learning and ML-like, ML-family, ML-derived, etc. refers to the FP languages.
I loved this post. The writing was entertaining, thanks for a good Saturday read. ️
Also meaning you need to manage two piles of bookmarks, on new devices, add the second profile, go through 2factor login processes twice during setup etc. There doesn’t seem to be a central, personal identity any longer, separate from google services, which they didn’t really think through.

The thought of switching between two windows just to copy a bookmark or a note from another browser add on, seems crazy in 2018. You can’t have tabs from different chrome profiles in one window, which is understandable, but wasn’t really a concern before this change.
Thanks for confirming that I don’t want to have a conversation with you.

At no point have you been conversing in good faith to begin with, let’s not pretend that this is a new development. You clearly want to combine making outlandish claims (living space for 100 people? Yikes) with the freedom to be snarky and not have to support your claims in any way. It’s low effort, borderline Reddit behavior that someone with 7 years here should know better than to engage in.
I just spent about half an hour reading from the preview on Amazon, and I've got to say I was super impressed with the style—very clear and focused on the most interesting things.
Can't wait to see more follow suit. The more cities with good tech jobs the better, since that gives all us software engineers options besides Silicon Valley.
Yeah, I checked your package.json and checked OLED out slothking-online/diagram. The dependence on React is a stopper for me.
It it's not uncommon to habitually listen to podcasts at that speed, and after a while you get used to it and everything else just sounds slow. Not exactly intentional, rather a side effect of something that made sense by itself.
It should be supported in Firefox now. In general you should be fine using Firefox (note: not Tor Browser) if security is important to you.
Some people get really hostile online and try to start witch hunts. I've seen it happen even here on hacker news.
Computers can solve your problem. you may not like the answer
Chrome can run in Docker, I have tried it with Browserless which is the headless version -- but I see no reason why you can't run it with an X11 connection just the same.
Maybe some form of gradual typing like TypeScript is somehow possible? And also like TypeScript, a repository for declarations for popular libraries.
Somewhat related, the early PlayStation 2 fighting gamegame, The Bouncer, used pressure sensitive buttons for "heavy" vs "light" attacks. It was cool but I don't think I've seen any similar games since.
"the trend is your friend until the end when it bends"
It's not a failure if it's purpose is to cost a lot of money.
Hey, thanks for that!

I used to have a book about ayahusca-like formulations, using plants from various continents. But I've forgotten the name. Basically, many plants contain DMT, and many others contain MAO inhibitors. Also, I believe that one can combine some MAO inhibiting antidepressants, such as selegiline, with DMT.
There's some potential for the new WebRender stack to improve battery life a lot - part of the reason why Edge is so good at saving battery is that it makes good use of modern GPUs to save power, and Firefox's new graphics stack is another modern one that attempts to avoid wasting CPU/GPU to do old-style rendering of web pages
I understand the sentiment, but the format of this reply is dangerous. It leads to a spiral of negativity and personal attacks. "Two wrongs don't make a right" and all that.

If possible, I'd like to request the assumption of good faith. Hey, at the end of the day, maybe they do know what they're talking about, no? :) Could be an ex Japanese astronaut!
For me, it depends on what I'm building. If there is a GUI, then I usually write basic HTML and CSS using Bootstrap as my foundation. I prefer that over Balsamiq because I can work out flow as well as layout. If it is an API then I design the list of functions and parameters first in a text editor. Or the list of commands and arguments for a command-line tool.

If you notice I start with the high-level design first rather than the code. I find I build a better tool/product doing that first and I often save time. Personally I find myself doing a lot of code churn if I start with the code.
The way I would approach this is to write what essentially amounts to a declarative specification of what computation needs to be run, and then define an interpreter that handles the caching of intermediate values.

The "Embedded DSL + Interpreter" pattern is incredibly powerful, and it's nice to see it catching on more.
I think it's better as a pseudononymous user. That's for the same reason I think the internet in general is better when people use pseudonyms rather than tying their 'real' identity to everything:

1. It means we can say what we really think about something rather than purely what's acceptable to the court of social media/public opinion. Having your 'real' identity public online now seems like a ticking time bomb waiting to go off at the worst possible moment.

2. And it forces people to judge you based on your words rather than your personal characteristics/backstory/appearance. That's a huge benefit that people seem to take for granted now, and one that'd probably make the offline world better if it was the norm there.

Of course, I'm also personally rather paranoid and try to avoid posting personal information online in general (eh, I took the whole 'don't give out too much information online' thing from the 80s/90s pretty seriously), so take it as you will.
Have you looked at the exchange rate to euros? That's 1M NOK. I think maybe you meant $, which would be 800K NOK, which sounds correct for Oslo.
I think you mean n < n * n rather than n > n * n here.
My favorite example of this sort is from the same blog: https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2016/05/06/shelves-and-... . It's a sequence generated by completely normal integers, but to prove that it diverges (after an astronomically large number of items) you have to assume the existence of a specific large transfinite cardinal.
One climatologist I spoke with during grad school days said something that stuck with me: we are past the point of abatement, and beginning the cycle of adaptation. While cynical, it seems more on point than articles like this proposing huge geoengineering projects in the age of distrustful authoritarianism.
and then you do both, indents and braces,
indents that it looks nice and braces to satisfy the machine. Then you can just omit the braces... If i would just got a penny for each time i've counted braces...
I think mammals have pretty much the same set of emotions that we do. Insects, probably not.
Interesting. I never thought you could get this much information from EMG, which is just basically muscle activation amplitudes?
Your stated inequality fails for all n > 1
I tend to see the popularity of tiny houses, off-grid living, and minimal lifestyles as a sort of preliminary trend that must spread through society before something like colonizing Mars is possible.

Since there is not currently any economic incentive to establish a base on Mars - it is going to be a very expensive endeavor. Thus, the employees involved must learn to start thinking conservatively to suppress these costs.

As for this article - I always welcome a devil's advocate. Colonizing Mars sounds interesting to me, but it should involve more than just my hope and dreaming. Financing these sorts of expeditions is going to come at a cost, but so will fixing outdated or broken systems that threaten our origin planet.

Demonizing humanity for its relentless expansion seems to reject survival of the fittest. But I understand where the author is coming from - parasites can rapidly expand in population, but only until they kill their host. On that same token, digestive bacteria inside of humans form more of a symbiotic relationship. The author is suggesting our assessment of current resources and for humanity to exercise some restraint.

The common denominator with these two scenarios (spend resources on Mars, or fixing Earth) is that I want my money to go into something bigger than myself. Something that strengthens a future society.

Perhaps something like a Mars colony investment has less of a risk of being mismanaged.
Available in Homebrew Cask as "eloston-chromium"

(Though frankly, if you're using a Mac, Safari should be your browser of choice, if only for privacy reasons.)
This is great! :) Add it to https://archives.ipfs.io and we'll make sure to get this pinned on an ipfs-cluster setup.
Great advice, thank you
How did they get in the first place? You mean they managed to cheat their GRE as well?
The Analect of Confucius: Scroll Two 論語: 第二卷 (為政)
I find it interesting that everyone here has provided answers on to how to hire a technical person if you are non-technical, but nobody answered the question asked (how to hire non-technical people when you are technical person).

With graphic design it is easier as you can judge the person's portfolio and even give them a small project to do as part of the interview process. Choose the person who's work you like the best.

Sales is harder as bad sales people are very, very good at selling themselves. Good sales people don't want to work for a small startup, they want to work for a organisation where all the sales processes have been worked out and all they have to do is churn out the KPI's. On top of this you can't rely on sales people's past as people who are good at sales at one company can totally fail at another (and vice versa).

With sales roles you have two choices:

1. Hire and fire until you find those that can sell your product. You have to be ruthless with this approach - sell now or you are out the door.

2. Hire for aptitude and train. A person with charm and motivation can be turned into an effective sales person with training.

Having used both approaches I prefer the second approach, but it depends a bit on the technical complexity of your product.
Because we derive analysis from the counting numbers and fill in the gaps to get to the reals. These are philosophical and logical constructs. Whether I work with 1+2 or n^n^n^n^... doesn't matter, as the number still obeys the logical laws we created them with.
So how is it that there's such a large variation in the price of produce at different supermarkets?
I think 19% really understates the scale of the problem. If you removed all the subsidies and the housing subsidies and enormous programs, I would imagine, that number would be even higher.

I really wish they would go into the root causes of what's causing all this hardship. Too often, these articles don't cover the real causes and just cause knee-jerk emotional reactions. Without knowing the true cause, we can never address the real problem: An imbalance between the number of jobs and the housing availability. Either housing supply has to increase or all those FB/Google employers bringing in employees from out of the state and outside the US, need to stop doing that in areas that don't want to grow.

The hardships we face here in CA are all self imposed. Voters and their politicians enacted each and every single regulation that's prevented housing from being built over the last 50 years. It doesn't have to be this way. There are other places that grow just as quickly and don't have these problems: Houston, Dallas, Austin. Austin's already getting worse due to all the anti-housing folks moving there (ironically whilst escaping CA housing problems). Chicago has over 2 million residents, with great housing and very little government intervention/regulations. CA can learn a lot from those states and cities.
I would say the advent of the internet has really changed how information is valued in society. Prior to this universities were places where critical thought and an discussion of new ideas could be formed.

The current situation is that it is more like institutions whoring out their brand names instead of fostering minds (Harvard lol)

In the past, the universities did well by mere fact of self selection since most people didn’t need college degrees to do well. Only the intellectually curious ventured in.

What I imagine happening later is that things will turn more into a guild model. Where you must have a certain level of competence / reputation to join.
Well, the youtube video clearly"occurred under human-manipulated circumstances".
Ah, that’s the trick. It prompts for the ECG if it thinks something is wrong based on the regularity of the heartbeat sensor.

Thanks!
You can run multiple Firefox profiles at the same time, each with multiple containers.

For multiple profiles (for different combinations of browser extensions), I use this:

alias ff='firefox -ProfileManager -no-remote &'
thank you. this made my internet today.
U8g2: embedded monochrome graphics library
I know a few large apps that use jsPlumb.
To paraphrase Morty, “That sounds like getting subsidies with extra steps.”
How are these other salts better for you than table salt?
Deposits are a relatively cheap way of attracting reserves. When you added £5000 from say an account at Santander, Santander lost a liability (the deposit) and simultaneously transferred some reserves to your current bank.

Banks can also attract reserves by borrowing in money markets (cheap but short term) or issuing long term debt (stable but expensive), or by persuading customers to open accounts and keep them in positive balance. In practice it will use a mix of all three, attempting to match the maturity profile of its liabilities.

The central bank will also create reserves and lend them to your bank if your bank can't raise them elsewhere for some reason. But borrowing from the central bank can spook investors, and it's also expensive.

A bank that doesn't have reserves can't settle its debts to other banks (like the debt you incurred by moving your £5000) and so can't function in the banking system. It has to get reserves from somewhere, and persuading consumers to park deposits in an account is one useful way to do so.
It is the number 1 feature for me when writing text. I move between letters with accuracy and I don’t have to move my finger over the letters. Which often covers the letter I want to find.

I can’t believe it’s not in the XR.
That's because we don't have equality. If everyone were living in a singular utopia then we'd all be pretty cool with each other. But we're not. We're always looking at what the other guy's got. And we want it.