skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a deep resonance to the way this game encourages lying to protect an alliance that is already being betrayed. This inspires paranoia along those who have successfully been defeated.
I've been told that uber hides some of the information (either the price or the distance the driver has to go or both) which makes that not quite true.
Throw away account. I get one every 5 years for my clearances. After having several, I view it as just another BS hoop to jump.

Obviously it does not work as a lie detector, but it’s an excellent tool for interrogation. At least that’s my conclusion.

Just answer yes and no. They’ll say you are almost done, but have an issue with one question, and want you to explain more. Don’t explain anything; just say “I don’t know“ and you are answering truthfully. Just stay relaxed, calm, and bored.
You know, I heard this claim about "architects" and "high level engineers" before, but I've never seen much evidence for it in real life.

How many of these detached astronaut "architects" actually exist?

The only real-life example I ever became personally familiar with: academics who were parachuted to some quasi engineering leadership positions thanks to their impressive publication credentials.

I wouldn't call these folks "engineers" of any level. They are scientists who head teams that employ engineers.
Can the list not be sorted on other columns or are my mobile browsers failing me? (Firefox and Chrome on Android)
Pump efficiencies can be from 70-90%. So far from half.
Zim is awesome for note taking. Highly recommended.
Update to Ask HN: What to do if I’m about to lose my job to mental health issues
It can be both.

Landscaping can be both a hobby and a cost-saving mechanism ("chore") for the same person.
Modding tools (supposedly based on real SDK) for Homeworld (don't recall if 1 or 2, I think 2 since I recall switching some crucial values to make game easier for last mission) used Excel with extensions.
I mean this:

https://fivethirtyeight.datasettes.com/fivethirtyeight-c9e67...
> Somehow Westerners going to China seem to think that they matter a whole lot to the Chinese government. The ego-bruising truth is that you don't matter in the slightest.

Although I believe this is the truth, you'll forgive me for taking precautions when traveling to a country that has imprisoned people with similar views to my own.

I'm not worried about that happening, per se, moreso afraid of being rude and knowing what to avoid.

> To get in trouble you really have to go out of your way to do so by actively organizing unrest.

This is comforting, and good to hear from someone with more experience than I.

> Chinese people do talk openly about sensitive topics, they just probably won't be too interested in doing so with someone who doesn't speak Chinese well, although it did happen to me a few times (in a university setting, mind you).

I'm going on a program between universities, so I hope this happens! I love a good philosophical/political discussion, which is why I made this HN post, because I was afraid that my tendencies could land me in hot water.

Thanks for the reality check though, and for the rest of the advice.
> Would nationalists deport all the people of European ancestry and give the land back to it's original inhabitants?

You are obviously trolling, but I'll answer you anyway. Nationalism (especially in the US where the two overlap much less than in other places) refers to citizenship rather than ethnicity. Nobody is suggesting deporting US-born ethnic Africans.

So why have borders? It's so you can have programs that help the local poor. Any kind of welfare/medicine/UBI type program has to have some kind of filter on it or the poor of six continents would sign up and bankrupt the programs, so that filter is citizenship. The same applies to local wages. Allow local companies to hire foreign workers and wages equalize, which for US workers means they go down. And the culture of the US depends on having a middle class.

> What is the national culture of America?

Are you honestly asserting that it doesn't have one? The culture in Silicon Valley is exactly the same as the one in Beijing? The one in Alabama is identical to Russia?
A number of ways:

I trust the interface much less. Just this week I had to send back two things that were mistakenly ordered. One was clothing. I set the size I wanted, then clicked on the color I wanted. The size I wanted wasn't available, so it switched the size without telling me. The other was a tool. I was searching for Dremel sanding accessories. Mixed in with Dremel-specific stuff were things that weren't compatible, but I didn't notice the switch.

It is now packed with ads of various forms. I want them to be on my side, showing me the best stuff. But instead, they are getting paid to show me stuff without regard to quality or usefulness.

The mixing in of stuff from others stores is another area where my trust has declined. If it were a separate site, that would be fine. But when I want to just buy something from Amazon, I now have to evaluate a bunch of possibly-dubious vendors on the basis of too-little information.

The reports of counterfeit products and comingled inventory has left me much more skeptical when buying things there.

The reports of terrible warehouse work conditions mean that I trust them less to take care of the people doing the work.

The way many people are now making bank doing store arbitrage, where they buy things at Target, Walmart, Trader Joes, etc, and sell it at high markups means I trust the pricing much less. I also suspect Amazon of marking things up more now than they used to.

And finally, their experiments with various shipping options means less reliable delivery. If something comes via UPS or Fedex, I know when it will arrive and trust the drivers will put it in the right place. But their various other shippers provide a different and usually worse experience.

When they started, it was magic. They took all the confusion and stress out of mail order. Now they've slowly been putting it back in. I'm sure it has increased the revenue metrics of various sub-sub-teams. But they've taken me from being a loyal customer to one ready to switch.
It's been a while now, but a group of seven of us would very occasionally set aside an entire Saturday to play Diplomacy. While online and play by mail have their own flavors, the tension and negotiation strategies while face to face have a character unlike any other board game I've played.

Between sets of moves, groups of people would scatter to different corners of the house for hushed discussions, and unlike online play, you could make a decision based on who you saw talking to whom. With a large board on a dining room table, it felt like being in a war room with all of Europe at stake.

All in all, it is an extremely compelling game with strategy in both moves and alliances leaking from all seams.

[0] http://www.diplomacy-archive.com/resources/strategy.htm
The difference (or perhaps not) in this case is that it's phenomenally inefficent, requires (and in the process of creation, destroys) unique geography, and isn't viable in many places due to fresh water shortage.

Pumped Hydro is actually pretty awful. Compressed air might work for home needs but will never service industrial needs. Let's hope that a better chemical battery based on sodium and carbon is a reality soon (https://phys.org/news/2018-09-high-capacity-sodium-ion-lithi...).
so weird... it must be where one lives too, people where i live would love this phone
>Wikipedia is one of the few web information sources that are globally accepted as more or less correct.

This is totally wrong. Wikipedia has always been received with skepticism because it's "the site where anyone can write anything", and it's never managed to shake that reputation.
Hey! This is Shannon here from Volcano Veggies in Bend, Oregon. We have one of the world's only commercial indoor, vertical, organic aquaponic farms. We grow mostly lettuce & basil. And yes- it is profitable. :)

Be careful believing anything online about aquaponics, lol. It is extremely complicated to be successful on a commercial scale. I'm happy to answer any questions!

http://www.volcanoveggies.com
But here we're talking about personal projects. That's how a lot of people learn exactly what production systems take.
Wow. This is incredibly disingenuous.

You don't need a yacht to compete with others.

You do need education though.
Required reading for any discussion on median household income. Note in particular compositional effects - household size and mix have changed over time.

https://www.minneapolisfed.org/publications/the-region/where...
Because it scales poorly, is not easy to deploy, and has miserable energy density.
Yes I got that part.

The problem is that the electric grid doesn’t come from lightbulbs. They both come from people wanting to do stuff in the dark. Airplanes and airports come from people wanting to get places faster.

The whole concept of the article is still backwards, it’s still trying to rationalize why there have to be blockchain apps and infrastructure. There doesn’t.
I don't disagree with the overall thrust of the article, but the author doesn't know what venture capital is:

"Assuming oBike were gunning for a deposit from a user base one-tenth the population of Sydney and Melbourne – that’s still just under one million users. If each of them paid $69.99, you just amassed nearly $70 million in venture capital, from an operation where your fleet cost perhaps $120,000, at most."

Money your users pay you is revenue, not venture capital. This mistake repeats several times throughout the article. The author seems to think that the point of a startup is to get "venture capital" in the form of revenue from customers, when it really exists to get venture capital in the form of investments from VCs.
hydroponic, not aquaponic. Not organic.
You should try with Library Genesis first. Both projects cooperate (so if LG doesn't have something, it gets added when downloaded from SH, and SH gives you a link from LG when it's already on their DB), but I find the LibGen search engine to be far more powerful, throwing me the article I need when SH can't.
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I took them for about 15 years (with a couple of little breaks), and they helped significantly the whole time. I went off them when I got pregnant (did CBT), and am still off 3 years later. I would love to go back on because the anxiety has come back (though not the panic) and I know I don't have to feel like this. However, the stigma keeps me off. Kinda sad.
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I just googled the data[1], removed the duplicate entry for 2013 from the Excel spreadsheet when the methodology changed (shoddy on my part, I know) and made a graph from it that was readable in the five minutes before I posted my comment.

Feel free to post a better presentation of the data.

[1] https://www.census.gov/data/tables/2018/demo/income-poverty/...
Man, all of my comments end up on the bottom of the discussions I try to take part in.

This one for example. It raises a question that I truely find interesting. Does nobody else think so? It ranks as the last comment of all. Even below a single line comment "depression is not fun".

Depressing.
> What is the actual use of grabbing an element that has an ID that matches the URL hash?

Ha! Browsers do that by default. On page load, they scroll to an anchor tag with the id of the URL fragment.

I could imagine some JS-driven dynamic loading/scrolling using the same convention.
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The 'gig' economy is new in the west because a pool of desperate labor has reappeared (after a hiatus of many many decades). It never really went away in countries like India.

People, on the whole, would prefer to have more meaningful jobs rather than delivering burgers to office workers.
This is a problem that is very well suited to Haskell, but it is a subset of general software development. Here it is worth the substantial overhead of making robust types as independent teams are making rules for this spam filter and typing can enforce order on it as they are probably easily categorized by type of filter. There are also quant developers that enjoy writing in OCaml, and AI devs too. But besides major companies using statically typed languages for some special teams, we don't see companies switching wholesale. Like I am still waiting for the day where $bigCompany says "we have hit so many type problems in our code that we have decided switching to staticaly typed languages will save us tons of money and are now requiring it".
I'm finding that it really depends heavily on the domain I'm working in. Roughly speaking, if I'm dealing with "business problems" type stuff - grab data, report on it, keep a paper trail, etc. - I want a very loose and flexible programming environment with a REPL and dynamic typing and all that. Python, for example, treats me very well when I'm wearing my "data scientist" hat.

OTOH, when I'm doing more "building infrastructure" type work - implementing a data store, writing a compiler or interpreter, stuff like that - I start getting more interested in rigidity and formality. Static languages treat me well in these situations. The more rigid, the better - I'll prefer Scala to Java, for example, specifically because it gives me more tools in the type safety department.
- What does support/cap tell us? I see that it's a "gamble vs investment" metric but I don't understand the logic behind that statement.

- Is buy support at any level? As in, there's hug buy support for bitcoin, but is this counting people who have buy orders at the $6500 range all the way down to the $1 range?
The problem is that just like you're able to quickly run up a VPN on a cloud provider, I can do the same. There are plenty of drop in containers for this now and the barrier for entry is low. I think you're just opening yourself up for a world of legal pain and costs given what most people will use VPN services for.
I’m really disappointed at the responses in this thread. I’m finding as I go into industry more and more that there’s this philistinism amongst programmers.

“Quality code can’t be achieved because look...”

“Accurately estimating software is impossible because look...”

It’s so easy to claim these things. It’s way harder to earn the associated skill sets.

We’re taking “programmers should be lazy” to a whole new level where laziness means not practicing, not growing, but instead using “hard to learn” as an excuse and equating “hard to learn” with “generally impossible”.
> I use it for linking to comments on my site. Users can copy a link to a particular comment, and the link directs people to the appropriate topic and location on the page.

That works out of the box, it's a native HTML/browser feature.

Why do you pass location.hash to jQuery?
I handed in my bus pass and bought a bike pass (for a savings of a few hundred pounds) within the first week.

Why didn't you just buy a bike with the savings? It's probably much better quality, a much nicer riding experience and -as you describe your transit needs - would pay for itself in no time.
You're going into a heavily saturated market. Not to mention anyone technically savvy can set up their own VPN in 10 minutes on a cheap DO host or other provider.
It’s fascinating to me how much of our discourse is based on “facts” that simply aren’t true.
> People have a need for a way to send money for illegal stuff, and a need/desire for a medium of gambling. Crypto has risen to meet those needs.

> Unless there are other demonstrated needs that blockchain solves there aren’t going to be more apps, or more anything.

I agree with you that apps are driven by "needs". However, we should also keep in mind all needs aren't driven by rational cost analysis.

If a new technology potentially allows for a major shift of the centers of power and trust, then the needs are difficult to appreciate at first hand. Your needs may be different than someone else needs, a group's needs may be different that another group's needs, etc. Needs may conflicts, or it may happen that you don't understand some people's needs. We should take into account the interests of the actors of the system too.

We can imagine two currency systems, or two internets, coexisting together. What's matter is that everyone's needs are fulfilled, without one specific camp exploiting the others.

Diversity is a force, there is no reason to not let people claim or experiment with new ideas, as long as it's fair to everyone.

But I also think everyone is getting a bit tired of the marketing around crypto and blockchains. Yes it's probably useful, but no, it won't solve everyone's problems.
Not just packers. Airport/airline employees also can live in RVs nearby.

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106970...

It seems like in both cases, they profile divorced old men who have economic woes as a result.
Nationalism does not directly lead into those things. My understanding is that's primarily about national sovereignity. Nativism is about discrimination of people based on origin or ethnicity. Obviously there are overlaps in the supporters of these ideologies. I am neither a nationalist nor a nativist myself.
That's a common complaint, but in practice people generally accept Wikipedia as a source of factual information. It's the 9th-most viewed site in the world [1], and it's not like people go there for the rich multimedia experience. Surveys show a relatively high level of general-audience trust. [2] And for good reason; one of the best places to find criticism of Wikipedia is Wikipedia. [3]

[1] https://moz.com/top500

[2] https://yougov.co.uk/news/2014/08/09/more-british-people-tru...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliability_of_Wikipedia
I'm a college professor and I tell students they shouldn't cite wikipedia because they shouldn't be citing any encyclopedias (except something like a legal encyclopedia or something like that) because they should look for primary sources. However, I tell them to go read wikipedia and look at the sources cited in a wikipedia article.
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Your saying that if you use a VPN you are up to something nefarious?
link has the 2008 opinion of a federal reserve vice president, on why the middle class is doing just grand. why on earth would I even bother to read it?!
This is misunderstood. The Polygraph is not scientific, and can't reliably detect dishonesty. However, lots of people will admit to things under interrogation and bullying. What the polygraph is actually doing for the interrogators is simply to provide a formal way to read body language. And of course, to provide what is effectively a robot-bad cop. "Gee, I dunno, the test says you're lying. Are you sure there's not anything you want to tell me?"
Try it and report back, I'm curious
a pretty clear statement that there are
biological processes at play in mental illness

It's a statement that biological processes can cause mental illness. That does not mean that mental illness has to be caused by biological processes.
> This as I'm getting ready to leave on my 12th deployment

Unfortunately, people with far better credentials have been traitors and spies. Kim Philby, Aldrich Ames, and Robert Hanssen come to mind. IIRC, at least one was even given a pass on his polygraph test because of his credentials. Recently, Michael Flynn was a Lt General, head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, and National Security Advisor (to be clear, he is convicted only of lying to the FBI, AFAIK).

EDIT: Added to Flynn's credentials
Coming soon :)
Confusing times I suppose, I hope facebook on-boarding explains all this when they bring new people on?
Throwaway as well.

FWIW I would estimate that 85% of my colleagues that discuss their poly experience view it as the same.

It is an interrogation prop masquerading as science. The poly is subjective, as evident by the few times I have failed, re-tested, and passed. If I were lying the first time and did not change any answers, how can I pass the second time?

The author alluded to it in her writing, but all of the test administrators have read up on methods of defeating the polygraph exam. Often, the "I've never heard of it" line is a lie.
It seems that if people were allowed to do whatever they wanted with housing, with no possibility of it being forced to change, then the predictive entrenchment would strongly incentivize the creation of new areas and developments. Right now nearly all of the US is relatively undeveloped. A quick ddg search puts the figure at 3% of the US as being urbanized. And I think in times past it's very likely that this entrenchment did play a major role. There was a time when we had some rather modern and well developed cities with great standards of living, and then a whole chunk of land that was completely inhospitable and filled with often hostile native inhabitants. Yet instead of the United States becoming an extension of Philadelpha, New Amsterdam/New York City, and Boston, a figuratively and literally rich nation expanded outward independent of these hubs.
There are issues with the simple Serotonin model:

With SSRIs it takes weeks to see an effect, but Serotonin levels are elevated within days why the delay? (There are theories, but all point to Serotonin as a secondary effect)

Also, antidepressants work in a minority of people (20%-25%), but Serotonin levels are effected in almost all users.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0087089/
I've also toyed with the idea of doing something like this, and would like to know more about this as well. Like you said, the technical side seems easy. I imagine handling legal issues is going to be the bulk of the work. How are you going to handle abuse reports? How are you going to handle requests from authorities asking to turn over user data? And most importantly: how much information about your users are you going to collect to make handling the legal issues easier?
Sounds like they are doing their job. Their job is to fuck with you. Just stay calm, relaxed, and board. It’s all a bunch of BS.
> perhaps social media companies should piggyback on Wikipedia's reputation and flag articles from sources like InfoWars and Breitbart with a banner that reads: "Wikipedia doesn't accept this site as a valid source."

I'm already tired of the media treating me as an idiot. But when a channel of communication (like a social media site) starts to insert its own comments into the information, well, that's really many steps beyond treating me like an idiot. Completely unacceptable.
" if it suffers structural failure the death toll makes nuclear accidents look like almost nothing"

You compare a hypothetical dam disaster, with nuclears record so far - its clearly worth reconsidering that comparison.
Nuclear plants also consume large amounts of water, and other resources so could not be considered carbon neutral by your own measure.

Reservoirs are large lakes, creating them entails ecological disruption but not consumption or degradation in the long term.
Maybe some day Adobe will free up the shockwave player again. So much excellent creative work is starting to become inaccessible without VMs.
Yes I do. And also foreign news to get a non-usa-centric view.
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I’m guessing that population density has a negative effect on social interactions, plus having to drive everywhere reduces physical exertion, plus larger distances are more likely to cut one off from their extended family, plus industrially-made produce is less nutritious, plus non-universal healthcare is non-universal.
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