skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I’m sorry but it’s fundamentally irrational. Everything is chemicals. Chemophobia is by definition irrational.

You might disagree, but it's not irrational at all. To follow your argument, if everything is chemicals - is it rational to presume everything is safe? Of course not, there are plenty of dangerous things in the world. Of course the -phobia demarks a fear as irrational, but this isn't "chemophobia".

> ~~~It’s not.~~~ Glyphosate is a herbicide: if you spray it on plants, those plants die. That is in fact its purpose.

It's also worth noting that while it's a herbicide, of course it's only effective as a herbicide at a certain concentration. Consider that <agricultural conglomerate X> intends to spray the weeds right next to the lettuce, not the lettuce itself, so they can make $$$ from that still-alive lettuce at market. It's still going to be exposed to a small amount of herbicide, just not in a "lethal" dose. Is it absorbed into the lettuce/does it make it to the consumer? I don't know. If it did, would it be harmful at that dose? Probably not, but I don't know. Does it accumulate in the body over time, to an eventual harmful dose? Don't know. But those questions all demonstrate that it's not simply an irrational fear; there is a good number of questions to answer to go from "this could be unsafe" to "this is definitely safe".

I don't have any views on Glyphosate at all, I know next to nothing about it. Just objecting to your first two points.
> It's like a 6 week community college course to become an EMT. There's a test drive for you. There are 2 year programs that will get you a nursing license.

EMT and nurse aren’t “mini doctors,” any more than doing video game QA is “mini programming.” It gets you near the profession, it doesn’t put you into the shoes.

I don’t know how to articulate this. The job that requires about eight years of post-grad training, including four of them as heavily supervised on-the-job training with slowly increasing responsibilities for 80-100 hrs/week, is wildly different than the job that you can start doing in six weeks. Working in the same setting as a physician is no more “test driving” what it’s like to be a doc than being a secretary at a hedge fund is test driving what it’s like to be a hedge fund manager.
Paul Krugman provides a contrary perspective here:

https://www.pairault.fr/documents/lecture3s2009.pdf
Interesting topic but not much to chew on here, unfortunately.
Definitely worth noting, but I think they felt pressured to respond because the election meddling made enough waves with
the gen pop to warrant a message, I don’t see it having a lasting impact.

The MAUs and DAUs are more interesting, especially since younger people seem to be avoiding it entirely (although many are flocking to IG, so again, no loss for FB).
Paris is Burning: a classic that explores the "ball culture" of New York in the 80s, and the impact it had on the city's gay, transgender, black and Latino communities. It's great for how it follows the various characters as they prepare for balls, while explaining the subculture and its slang/practices along the way. Very entertaining and historically important too.

In the same vein, does anyone have any other recommendations for docs that dive deep into a subculture?
In this case, what's wrong with being a high-functioning psychopath?
I hang out on Reddit, and I sometimes come across surprisingly insightful commentary on technical subjects that I don't see on StackOverflow or Quora or even HN.

The experts are there. That said, Reddit does skew heavily to mediocre "bros", so the signal-to-noise ratio is low [1].

But for discussions on cities, neighborhoods and even certain technical topics, Reddit seems to be where knowledgeable people congregate.

[1] Some subreddits like r/bigdata are complete garbage filled with spammers and Dunning-Krugers.
Which is a bit of a mug's game, as most investors are explicitly about profits. Externalities be damned.

I would much rather see industries self-regulate. But I have big concerns about industries where people are mainly the product, not the customer. I think it breaks the key feedback loop that makes most self-regulation work: irritable users/customers.

For me America's best backup to irritable customers has always been class action suits. It allows aggrieved customers to band together and force accountability where otherwise individual harm would be too small to justify the costs of a lawsuit. But mandatory arbitration is breaking that too, and anyway doesn't work as well when users aren't customers.

So if we don't have user-fueled self-regulation, and we don't have class action, then I'm not sure what we can do short of government regulation. It's a last resort for me, but nothing else seems to have worked on Facebook.
Anecdata: I searched for "embedded" and found this guy who writes a lot of really great content that seems to go unnoticed: https://www.reddit.com/user/pinealservo
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+1 on this for "real projects" that actually do use different styles.
Our enterprise e-commerce platform uses an internally maintained design system with utility classes only, very similar to tailwindcss.
We have 15 different "brands", so simply reference a different "brand" to get it's unique styling, while the utility classes all remain the same.
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But in this case there are clear actual statements by Marx. E.g. from The German Ideology:

> And, on the other hand, this development of productive forces (which itself implies the actual empirical existence of men in their world-historical, instead of local, being) is an absolutely necessary practical premise because without it want is merely made general, and with destitution the struggle for necessities and all the old filthy business would necessarily be reproduced

The point being that, contrary to what people tend to think, Marx saw people as generally driven by self-interest, rather than altruism, and if a group seeking to improve their lives organise, take control of government, but the country is so poor that redistribution just makes everyone poor, there is no reason to assume that some people will not start trying to take advantage of power and cause a return to class struggle. The foundation of Marxism is the idea that capitalism will bring the productive forces of society to previously never before seen heights, where redistribution eventually becomes viable - this is why you e.g. find Marx and Engels spending the first chapter of the Communist Manifesto largely praising capitalism into the skies.

This theme from The German Ideology is one he returned to time and time again, such as e.g. when warning in prefaces to the Communist Manifesto that Russia could only successfully go through a socialist revolution if a revolution was to happen in the most well developed countries in Europe around the same time, to compensate for the underdevelopment of Russia itself.

Whether or not he was right, this is one of the most central distinctions between Marxism and Leninism.
Doesn't your credit score take a huge hit for 7 years after bankruptcy?
sigh

It should be pretty obvious that this thread is going nowhere good. Can we please stop wasting our time shouting past each other? If we're not receptive to learning something new we should just go elsewhere because that's what this site is for.
> can we just get over this idea of rational economies, by the way

This is key and undermines a lot of rational arguments. People buying ads aren't reading HN and then making a buying decision based on the general vibe they get there. They'll buy based on budget. Budget is based on decisions made in a meeting a year or two before. Those decisions will be based on a strategy. For many that strategy is to the tune of 'I keep hearing about this social media thing that's supposed to be the future. I notice we aren't spending anything in digital. We need to buy more digital'.

If public opinion sours on Facebook it may be a while before we see a significant drop in revenues.
In my case there were 0 warnings, trading successfully then woke up the next morning to a completely terminated account with no response from the dispute process despite the initial party reporting the claim realising they were wrong and providing written evidence to Google that the ban should be recended
But trademark infringement doesn't trigger merely from copying.

The infuriating thing about dealing with lawyers on IP is they'll write a C&D that "your work infringes on the IP of my client." There is never any mention of what infringes, except the broadest possible, and there is no responsibility for a false claim.
The only thing a credit score is, is a judge on your likelyhood to pay your bills.

The social credit score, on the other hand, is a measure of society/government approval. And it effects your ability to get on trains.

It seems fair that if you stop paying your bills, then people might not want to loan you money anymore.

It does not seem fair that if you criticise the government, or are friends with people who criticize the government, that you won't be allowed to travel anymore.
Are you open to Juniors?
The only justification I could come up is that Facebook has grown so big that "one hand does not know what the other hand is doing." The security and privacy folks at Facebook agreed to this kind of abuse is somewhat hard to believe and the most likely explanation is that these features never got fully reviewed and vetted. Either way its a big failure.
Along the same lines. Without as much production/support behind them.

Sibirsky Extreme Trail( To map an offroad trail route all the way from the edge of the European Union, across Eurasia to the Pacific Ocean at Magadan)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_ZC2WPnkfc

Races to Places(Rider traveling the world while competing in some Rallies) Fairly laid back fellow, and 9 seasons so far.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utXZKuo8iws
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Old iPhones:

1) Make excellent phones.

2) Make great music players.

3) Make great backup phones to use when hiking, biking, running, etc.

4) Make great GPS devices for older cars (Some maps apps let you download maps to be used offline).
I read through the responses. It appears all disagree with Stuart Reges. The first few responses disagree, a couple toward the end go farther and discuss the harm that occurs when someone expresses this opinion. One essay does insinuate that perhaps he should lose his leadership position for expressing this opinion.

I read all these responses with interest. The only strong opinion I hold is that we should accurately represent the thesis that we are discussing, even if it means we need to use more words to describe it. Mr. Regis didn't argue that women don't pursue computer science. He didn't say that it surprises him when some of the top computer scientists are women, he didn't say it surprises him when a woman has great interest in computer science. He made a ratio argument - that he believes that about 20% of the top computer science students and scholars will be women.

The sad thing is, I believe there's plenty to discuss, argue, even rightly object to in that thesis. But we must not claim that he said women can't be, or won't be computer scientists. He said the opposite - that some of the top computer scientists will and should be women. If someone believes that 20% of the elite computer scientists will be women, does that mean a woman in a class should worry that this professor doubts her competence or commitment?

This isn't a purely rhetorical question. If you deeply believe the main reason that women are less represented in computer science is because women ace powerful social deterrents, and that in the absence of these deterrents the percentage of women in CS would rise dramatically (far above 20%), then it could follow that a professor who openly states that 20%/80% represents the natural equilibrium must only be a professor who fails to see the issues that women face - and that this disqualifies him from a leadership position in a top computer science department.
So sexual attraction is sexist. Who whould have thought. This is a race to the bottom.
I wonder too if there is a boiling point with the mechanisms at play. Google was a "do no evil" company, and yet there was maybe a small earthquake within the company regarding the news coming to light they're making a censorship-friendly version of their search.

I take everything Facebook has done that caused any level of public outcry as a guide book to design a better platform, likewise with Google. And I won't dive into the history or foundation of Facebook, however it's not surprising their path would lead to problems - and at indirect cost to society.
Your character is not in question.
Probably because Hayek is used here as a stand-in for "capitalist thinker." I suppose the author could have just swapped in Rand or von Mises just the same.
Then you could update all your buttons
at once by making changes to that component class

Oh my god, that's genius!

I'm looking forward using this right away.

First of all for the wonderful experience to add a class to my buttons. I think I will call the class "button". But I'm open for other suggestions at well.

Second for learning your DSL. Curious what other clever tricks you invented.

And most of all I am sure I will love implementing a compilation step into my workflow to turn your DSL into actual html and css. It always felt a bit too lean to just change a style and reload the page.
As someone who doesn't give a damn about other people so I treat everyone (except family and the few friends I have) with the same curtness, here's hoping what Linus said here is just an "extra mile" thing (but even that sets a not necessarily good example). I never insult anyone, but I'm also never friendly to anyone, beyond a perfunctory smile when buying something from a cashier for example.

I'm similarly short on text. Linus saying that he could be more polite tells me that even that is not "PC" enough and, if so, that's a problem. Nobody is owed any friendliness or niceness, just acknowledgement, and even that only if the other person needs us.

In short, I thought he just needed to stop insulting people, but that that aside, there was no problem with his communication, apparently that's not the general consensus. Or I'm hoping I'm reading the situation wrong.
That’s the only way it can be done. Otherwise, how do you enforce it?
Correctly identifying poor emotional intelligence as such is not necessarily nice, no. Fortunately I never-not-once said a word about "how important it is to be nice".

It's important to not be a toxic asshole.

There is a real and obvious difference between the assertion I made and the assertion you are attempting to say that I made.
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Muscle Shoals. About all the music recorded in muscle shoals Alabama. From Percy Sledge and Areatha to the Rolling Stones and many many more.
I'm white. I decided long ago that everyone needs to treat everyone fairly. Part of that is basing promotions/etc on merit, but part of that is understanding that people are different and have different strengths and weaknesses, some of which are because of the culture they come from.

This applies equally to whites and people of color, rich and poor, nationalities, and more. I have yet to find a culture that didn't have both problems and benefits when you generalize about them.

I've also yet to have that generalization be actually useful when evaluating an individual.

But I have to ask: If I stop someone from discriminating against you, with or without your knowledge, is that really "destroying your culture"? If I'm in a meeting and stop someone from ruling out a potential candidate because of skin color, did I harm their culture?

I can't see how that's possible.

I could see how "culture" changes over generations as economic status changes. But I'm certainly not going to refrain from helping someone because I think there's a chance it'll change the culture of their grandchildren.

That said, I've been in situations where I could "help" someone avoid some racial prejudice and was asked not to by that person. As they wished, I did nothing. I didn't like it, and I still wish I could have helped them, but I felt I had to honor their wishes first. (The person I'm thinking about eventually quit from stress and moved out of state.)
Translation: If you're going to redistribute wealth, it helps a lot if you have the wealth in the first place.

Marx argued already in The German Ideology (1845) that he saw an advanced capitalist economy with sufficient wealth that redistribution would eliminated poverty, rather than just spread it around, to be an essential precondition for a socialist revolution to succeed without devolving into renewed class struggle.

Systems that create wealth are subject to Pareto distributions. However, relative inequality is the primary driver of social unrest. So a stable solution for societal organization needs to take both into account.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3XYHPAwBzE
Donate them.
Thank you for this live demonstration of how to dismiss the opinions of women in CS. I assume you were doing this ironically.
Hello, TPU in Colab
I'm not entirely sure that's motion blur. The images shown in the article make it look like it's just lens distortion. It's probably a fairly wide angle lens, and that's why things look stretched out the further from the center of the image they are. (I think.)
Semantic analysis belongs to the third category in "lies, damn lies, and statistics."

I'm sure it's slightly better for Metacortex's real use case - which is an employee surveillance system - because people won't use strong language, hyperbole, share their real opinions, or talk about certain topics as much in professional communication. But I still find the whole domain to be a fraud with just enough signal in the noise to trick people.
How little are you paying your dev that it can be 1/8th of a contractor?

Even the cheapest dev I have ever met in London wasn't as low as 1/5th of the most expensive contractor I have met.
So you don't see a difference between:

* This code is idiotic.

* You are an idiot.

* You should be dead.
I haven't read the article, but from your comment it doesn't seem dnautics misunderstood anything.

> The women are responding to an essay about why women don't want to code. As women who do want to code they're exactly the right people to ask.

How are they "exactly the right people to ask"? They're the exact opposite! Can you see the backwards logic in your comment? If you want to know why someone's doing or not doing something, ask them, not the people who chose opposite.
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C2 called this a Hero Culture and labeled it as an organizational anti pattern.

http://wiki.c2.com/?HeroCulture
I think it's a pity he has been made to kowtow, I hope it doesn't diminish his productivity, some of his behaviour was bad but I'm always willing to give rockstars a pass up until a point. Things are in a different phase for OSS and Linus and maybe it won't affect him.
Oh, darn! I was on vacation and a reboot seems to have horked the cron job that runs certbot on the website that fronts my basically-spun-down consulting business and a side project of mine. I probably should have gone through my emails a bit closer when I got back from my trip! And, of course, that totally invalidates an argument.

I want to dig, though: is this what you think an argument is, from you? Do you think you're saying something meaningful? I can guarantee you've fucked up something quite a lot bigger and quite a lot more expensive in your career--or you haven't done anything, anything, of note. (Hell, I have. And I talk about it regularly! That's how you learn things.)

And yet that doesn't diminish your argument. Your argument falls on its face on its merits.
Any permanent damage? Or did you make a full recovery?
A Map for Saturday, definitely opened my eyes to spending a gap year traveling the world. Maybe some day.

Link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00R07DF6C/ref=cm_sw_su_dp
Comments on what types of articles?
I agree. I am disappointed with the headline, though.

The headline reads: "A UW professor argued that women don’t want to code. What do women computer scientists have to say?"

The sub headline reads: "Six women computer scientists from the University of Washington respond to an essay about why women don’t pursue computer science as often as men."

In some ways, I think that misrepresenting these headlines can be harmful. A young woman considering CS who reads the headline might conclude that a professor at UW things that women, across the board, are uninterested in the CS major. If she reads the sub-headline, she might conclude that he believes that fewer of the top students will be women, but that certainly some of them will be.

I can't say that the second is welcoming, but it's a very, very different statement from the first.
Once or if it impacts them enough personally then they'll be sorry, however that's the problem with rewarding people relatively blindly.
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Now it just needs to become the official JavaScript's strong mode. :)
Lessons from people who don’t use smartphones or social media
Ask HN: How to profit from predicting stock price movements?
My startup is in 'stealth mode' so no URL yet.

Recently I invented a prediction algorithm which works very well. It predicts binary outcomes, where all the input data is binary. So you put in 10011100 and it outputs a 1 or a 0.

It works with different domains: Sports and stocks.

Leaving sports for now, it predicts stock prices will rise or fall tomorrow - to an accuracy of 30% every few stocks (30% just means 50% + 30% which is correct 8 times out of 10. For example, a coin toss is an accuracy of 0%, added to 50% to get it right 5 times out of 10). The question is, how to profit from this.

If I buy shares to sell tomorrow, the problem is the price might move down a lot, then I've lost money.

I'm looking then, for a banking trade which will pay off a fixed amount for it rising or falling tomorrow.

The only thing I've found is a binary bet, but 2 problems there. First, according to Wikipedia, it's a scam in that payouts aren't guaranteed and odds are dubious. Plus one binary option vendor fixed the net worth required to trade, to more than $2 million!

So does anyone on Hacker News know of any way to make a gain from knowing the direction of a stock price tomorrow with an accuracy of 30%?
> The low emotional intelligence on display throughout this thread is both disappointing and unsurprising.

You're pretty close to behaving a certain way mentioned in this comment yourself. Could you please, like we've asked before, try not to be so mean to other users?
Hugo is a single executable with no dependencies
It is, absolutely.

If you view software development as entertainment.

If you view it asa profession, maybe not.
There was a documentary on the City of God DVD that was better than the film (and I thought it was an amazing film).

A few from Netflix that I could find that I rated:

Endless Summer

Death in Gaza

The Filth and the Fury

Jiro Dreams of Sushi

Baseball

March of the Penguins

The Art of the Steal

Born Into Brothels

The Aristocrats

God Grew Tired of Us

The Fog of War

The Lost Wave

The Last Waltz

Festival Express
When I was younger, I was deciding between a career as a programmer or an artist. I went with the logical conclusion that the former would be more financially stable than the latter. I don't regret this decision, as I do find programming work compelling. There are always many new things to learn and new challenges to overcome.
"I've got the money and I don't care."

Quite a lot of people are indifferent to the externalities or the sustainability of their investment, as long as it outperforms the market is not too volatile.
Senior is ten years +/- a year depending on what they accomplished in my opinion.