skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds like he could have saved a whole lot of hassle just by removing some slack bots and using threads.
They are everywhere, but when there is so much free desert, and all the good confrence halls are booked...
And the dead vote Democrat.
Ah yes then, sorry I misunderstood -- restoring flexibility is huge.

It's just I hear so often that the problem with someone's posture is a weak <insert whatever muscle here> contrasted with a normal <opposing muscle> and that the solution is just to go to the gym to strengthen that muscle so they'll be balanced, which will fix the posture... and that's virtually never the case.
Getting a PhD is mostly about doing research. So, it's directly relevant.
Good question, but I think the pay-per-click model should solve it?
Taxes already do focus on the wealthy with progressive taxes (in many countries), though. From an American perspective, the top federal income tax bracket is 37%. The top state income tax rate can be anywhere from 0% to 12.3% (California), so in total you can pay up to 49.3% of a potion of your income in taxes.

In America, the top 1% paid 45.7% of total income tax in 2015 [1] (earning 17% of "expanded cash income"), so you're already talking about a rate over proportionally double.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2015/04/13/top-1-pay-nearly-half-of-fed...
Are you speaking from personal experience or is this just what you've heard elsewhere?

I've still not reached the point where more money hasn't increased my happiness, however I'm definitely making far more than an above-average wage in London.

I think a great number of people could be happier with more money assuming they have good ideas on how they can spend their money to improve their lives.
Yes, I agree it can be helpful (although I do not use any of the services you listed). Although I would have want the server to be defined in such a way, e.g.

curl 'https://zzo38:Example@example.org/access_token'

Since it isn't, making a program for this purpose can be helpful.
I don't understand why folks want less information by eliminating Slack. I've adopted Slack and 2 companies so far and find it a tremendous performance optimizer. It's a tool for passively receiving info by choice about many things, and for efficient conversations - especially with folks not sitting next to me - about specific things that are important to me.

FWIW my impressions is hatred of Slack is more a hatred of "I can't control by impulse to read everything so it's a tremendous time waster." Slack's not the problem, it's the person's self-control that's the problem in these situations.
No one is forcing me out, and I still pay a subscription (kudos to GitHub for not raising the price over the years even if the exchange from my currency to USD has made it slightly more expensive)

My original comment was an argument that the reorientation towards business clients was not an inevitability as the parent comment said it was. this mindset says products for rational, aware individuals (here, developers) are not worth building anymore since the margins aren’t high enough. If these individuals aren’t worthwhile clients anymore than they are only data to be traded.
I am of the opinion that the plot doesn't matter as much as the context into which the story is being told: who are you telling the story to and why ? Which view of the world are you conveying at that moment ? Why tell that particular story now and to which audience ?

Moreover, the receiver's personal ties to the story and its elements (characters, settings and then the meta:translation, origin, etc.) before, during and after getting story matters as much, if not more.
What about .NET Core?
Because of previous crap mayor letting Chinese investors laundering its money in the real estate market. The city is inequalities between the rich and the poor. More and more homeless people are in the street. Good luck to their new mayor to fix this problem.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/oct/18/texas-democ...

Rasmussen Poll shows 54% of Democrats support giving illegals right to vote. I don't know why you are going against what the majority of your party openly wants?
Author here. I agree about forums and "hobbyiest communities". I had a paragraph on this in the post, and how I manage them by muting most of the channels and reading up later. Removed the paragraph for simplicity :-)

Meetings are also bad productivity killer and if you are co-located in an office you must be careful not to summon ad-hoc meetings that interrupt one participant from their deep work.
When a DDG search has results that seem unsatisfactory then just do a follow up Google bang with !g

Often with technical searches the DDG results seem better.
> Is it the ability to conduct research - methods, process, analysis, discipline?

I think this is largely the reason, that a PhD is seen as a semi-reliable guide to general research ability, though of course it's neither necessary nor sufficient, but there is a rough correlation.
Highly recommend reading this to any folks that are just sitting the discussions.

The simulations were worth the article on their own. The real world analysis was a great bonus.

Anecdotally, i was expecting confirmation bias to be the main culprit. Pleasantly surprised to seei was wrong.
Money can't buy happiness, the lack of money is a source of "unhappiness", totally different.
I stopped using it because the Uber drivers never get out of their car and come to your door (even if you mark this in the app).

I also had a driver drive close to my place and then steal the food - there was no ability for me to rate them and support was some call center that didn’t understand the issue.

DoorDash is a lot better.
Nice article. It reminds me of my year living in London, and taking the bus everyday to Imperial College from West End Lane in West Hampstead. There was a stop on both sides of the road - one for the outbound bus, and one for the inbound (the bus went from central London to a terminus and then returned mostly on the same route). Now we did not use schedules - way too inaccurate at rush hour, and the busses there were pretty frequent anyway. But we did expect an even chance of the inbound bus arriving before an outbound one did. My daughter and I became convinced after a while that this was not happening, so we invented a game (which we called "The Game of Life".) When our bus (inbound) arrived first, we added 1 to our score. We subtracted 1 for every outbound bus that passed before ours arrived (there were often more than 1). We realized that the result would be slightly skewed to the negative, but we expected the outcome to be close to 0 over time. Of course it was not. Anyway we extended the game to many statistical situations. For example, you go to the checkout line at the supermarket, and there are N people in front of you. When you get to the front of the line, you count the people behind you - call that M. If M is bigger than N, you scored life points. If it is smaller, you lost some. So you add M-N to your running score, and you get an idea of how lucky you are in life. However, I never followed up with any real analysis, so I enjoyed this article.
What's wrong with the phone as a real-time communication tool?
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Yes, but all we can observe for now is that we constantly send the same data to DDG as we did send to Google and for some reason we are supposed to trust DDG.

It isn't a too wide far-fetched that DDG could be collecting all data in silence and once they have enough of it (or are big enough to survive losing a part of their user base) start capitalising off of it.

I don't trust DDG any more than I do trust Google. In fact I trust Google with their boatloads of great engineers (of which we have learned that they do have some sense of moral and ethics) more than a small company that could easily be forced to capitalise on their user-data because of their shallow pockets.
> read his popular GR book (it's excellent)

No it's not, "and that, my friend, you will surely believe me".
Conway’s Game of Life in R: Or on the Importance of Vectorizing Your R Code
Had never thought about this, but it's pretty smart idea. Wondering if this will become more and more the norm, especially catering singles. Is there a way to search for these online only restaurants exclusively?
This isnt addiction. There is no disease here. This is money laundering. This is conspiracy to hide criminal activity. If we harm-reduce we should harm-reduce the underlying crime, not the conspiracy to launder its profits.

This isnt about homeless drug addicts with few choices in life, people that need protection. Money laundering, by definition, is done by people with money, by people with every choise in the world.
The decentralization of the United States is, in my opinion, a feature, not a bug.

The upside inherent in fifty parallel and bespoke experiments in government is worth the extra complexity and cost. Ideas are tried out, and can bubble outward and upward if they work. Bad ideas directly impact only ~2% of the country.

Furthermore, having state and local control over elections has a direct impact on legitimacy. I don't have to believe that someone in Washington DC is doing things right. Instead, I can interact directly with our state's secretary of state and our local county elections office.

Decentralization with heterogeneous procedures makes election compromise a much greater logistical challenge for any nefarious actor. It is probably a lot easier to spend money on lobbying.

Edit: Finally -- if you want your local/state elections infrastructure to have more resources, your voice and your vote are your tools.
Individuals weren't allowed to run unlicensed hotels or operate unlicensed taxis.

I've never gotten sick from home cooking but have from restaurants. I always hear horror stories about the conditions of restaurants.

Does anyone know why the risk rate of food production in a home kitchen thought to be higher? Can that be mitigated somehow?
I'd argue that it's not oversampling at all, but, rather, that the measure of "average bus arrival time" is what's invalid or misleading.

After all, the point of the bus arrivals isn't in service of the bus (or driver) but of the passengers. Observed average wait time at each bus stop is a better measure. The even better measure would be average wait time weighted by number of passengers [1].

[1] which is tougher to measure empirically, or even model, than just average wait time for that one person, since it requires counting passengers boarding, not just bus arrival times.
For the same reason there's an arbitrary blockade against awarding a phD to someone with no formal training from a university.
What happens when your sample is contaminated with a criminal's (or future criminal)? What if a clean sample generates a false positive match to something undesirable? What do you do when your erroneous genetic records close off doors or sends you through the criminal justice system? You will be powerless to fix it.

You are at the complete mercy of lab techs not screwing anything up. It's safer not to put personally identifying information into a database.
Turning into? That's assuming Google didn't intend it to be that by design.
Your DNA and fingerprints can also be extracted from your trash.
I’d like to do research but it’s impossible to get into these labs because having a PhD is an absolute non-negotiable requirement.
> Things are going to get missed

Hit the nail on the head here. Things will get missed. The nice thing about Slack is that you can at least catch up with some conversations you missed at the end of day or in your free time. When you miss an IRL meeting, it's much harder to catch up. FOMO will be an even bigger problem when people start setting up meetings, especially ones where you aren't invited to or you can't attend because you're in another meeting.
Author here. You might be right, we could be using Slack wrong. But have you read the book "Hooked"? The author writes about Slack here: https://www.nirandfar.com/2014/11/slack.html - Slack is built to addict people to use it. I don't want to fight against that, I want to have tools that support my workflow.
Well Slack might have not worked for you. It doesn't work for everyone! Probably it works the worst for devs? Here is a story. I was working with a team of couple people located in different corners of the city. Everyone is remote except two who share an office. Up until a month ago everything was done over email. Sometimes you would send an email and get a reply in minutes, other times after hours. This was highly inefficient, to the point where I would call people to ask them to open emails... Guess what happened since we installed Slack and a couple of general open channels?
New driverless car could make traffic lights and speeding tickets obsolete
"Money laundering paradise" is a bit much. There's problem with reporting about this topic where the narrative is more important than the facts. The text on the page reads: "That money may be fuelling the city's housing crisis and opiate epidemic." I don't believe that tightening up money laundering at the casinos is going to solve the real estate problem or the opioid epidemic but that's what the reporters want you to believe or they believe it themselves.
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Where is our National Security Agency in all of this? Isn't their express goal the monitoring of foreign signals and the protection of US signals?
> in 100% of the cases in my experience do not engage in anything related to their thesis

This is missing the point of a PhD, which is to develop a capacity for doing science (or more generally hard thinking in relevant domain). Most of my colleagues in neuroscience are physicists
No they don't. The Oxford Cycling Club claims an average of 17mph -19mph or 27-30kph: https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/club/profile/7892/oxford-c...

"The average speed can vary according to weather conditions and ability, but expect an overall average of around 17mph -19mph for a ride of 60 miles"

Furthermore, an average speed will have significantly faster and slower portions along the ride. The OCC will drop to far slower speeds uphill and will ride far faster on the downhill.
As a kid I played duck-duck-goose. I don't think I originally made the connection to that either when I saw the slightly shorter name duck-duck-go.
Here, the only tokens are rise and fall and they must alternate. So you can enumerate plots by picking a starting token and a number of alternations. Thus there are Aleph_0 plots.

If you tracked multiple hero/protagonists then their interleavings could be uncountable.
I've always thought that things ought to be thread based, much like forums today are. I'm not sure how I feel yet about how twist does their interface. I'd like to see things more like traditional forums, but incorporate Slack-like features.
The activity cited in your link is not fraudulent. How many fraudulent votes were cast as a result?

What makes you think the Democrats are "my" party?
This feels pretty reductive. They chose one variable to measure stories on, fortune, and then of course all of these stories follow a short list of possible patterns.

This counts as research?
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Because 30% tax off a $1,500 a month salary is a lot worse for your chances of survival/living a decent life vs if you had a salary/income of $15,000+ a month.
It is not "absolute" as you say, you can get in most research lab with a MS if you are an exceptional candidate. My advice, if you really, really want to be a scientist in a major research lab, is to just bite the bullet and do a PhD.
Because having a PhD is proof that you can do research, and there are so many PhDs available that Intel has absolutely no motivation to increase their hiring risk one iota by extending their net past that market. Even if a BA was only 0.000001% less likely to pan out than a PhD it would not be worth it. The only way this could change would be if the number of PhDs available to Intel was drastically reduced, which might happen if the president gets his way with immigration, or if the now commonly repeated message "getting a PhD will not be worth ten years when measured by career progress" sinks in to US students.
Yeah. But threads in Slack are secondary and are mostly meant for having conversations that people don't care about.
Zulip has a much superior threading model. Each and every conversation is a new thread and has a topic. This model makes it extremely easier to catch up and participate in conversations.

https://zulipchat.com/why-zulip/
I'm not sure I'm buying the theory laid out in this article, for at least two reasons.

First, I'm not even sure every good story can be shoehorned in the framework.

For example, how does the archetypal "vengeance story" fit in that framework?

In that type of story, many a time, the seeker of vengeance, once he's reached his goal after much struggling, finds he's destroyed himself in so doing.

Trying to apply the framework leads to the main character essentially never getting out of the hole ... you could argue that reaching the vengeance goal is a super short "high" of the story, but I find the argument specious.

Second, even if we assume that every story can somehow be shoehorned into a simple curve of highs and lows ... what does that actually teach you about the story?

More importantly, what kind of creative help does that buy you? I'm pretty sure I coud "reverse-engineer" any highs-an-lows type curve into a story rather easily ... will that make the story any kind of interesting? I doubt it.
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I guess there too many variables. But most important is. Depends on the cleanliness of the home and willingness of the chef to properly handle food
You don’t just “do research” (nowadays) without having had training, which is precisely the point of a PhDd
I've assumed one can pay to pin answers to the top, but according to https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-business-model-of-Quora-Ho... that is falsified.
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Will work too, and now it's in the logical order.
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It's a joke, just like the volume control going to 11. Fun is okay. Whimsy is okay. I've never understand why so many people disapprove of little bits of joy scattered throughout the world. Little moments of fun make life a more tolerable experience.
I have a few automotive service manuals with similar warnings --- with the exception of parts which are press-fit, brute force is not necessary to assemble components.

It seems more like another instance of "build an idiot-proof system and the world builds a better idiot."
wish this stuff would take off, but I'm sceptical if it will ever happen. Somehow I feel something is missing in the general concepts of these decentral projects. You don't want to emphasize the latter, people want to come together to the same spot. Don't want to make them feel they meet at the wrong place.
Hah great analysis. One factor with bus' is the schedule is likely planned to minimize early arrivals at the risk of being late more often. Usually when a bus is early it has to sit and wait until its departure time. A late running bus can be more efficient, and if kept until departure time might not ever get a chance to average down the bursts of lateness.
I wonder if this could be taught as a 6 month course instead of having to grind through 4+ years of your life researching something obscure impractical and largely driven by funding incentives.

I feel like teaching research methods would be way more efficient - just without the experience. But we hire BS/MS engineers all the time without industry experience, so why would’nt having a research focus Masters not be sufficient?
He started that narrative because he wanted to be a Fox News pundit after losing the election, selling the idea of a rigged election to bask in the attention and fuel his Hillary bashing. Winning ruined that plan.
Your argument doesn't make sense to me. When do two bikes pass each other? That literally never happened to me, if it did I would yell the other biker saying they're going the wrong direction. When are there stationary objects on the bike lane? When a car is stopping, and that annoys the hell outta me and by no means ok or the norm. If there is a >10kph differential between me and a bike I immediately try to let them pass me. Why are they going so fast, threatening all bikers' lives?

> It's really a nonissue

Well, it may be for you. I've been biking for 15 years and it really is an issue for me. I don't want pedestrians, cars or fast objects on bike lane. If there are a lot of bikes on the bike lane and convoy goes at 30 kph that's perfectly fine, I go 30 too. But if people go 25 and some asshole is trying to go at 35, then we have a problem.
That's silly.

OpenJDK has been around for years.

There's also Kotlin.
So it was a real hustle all along. Hmm.
In the early-90's I saw Vonnegut give a presentation in which he talked about his story graph idea.

However, the video linked to in the article appears to end before the most interesting part.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-84vuR1f90

Hamlet. It's never clear whether what's happening belongs more toward the good or bad side of the vertical axis.

The curve you get is a flat horizontal line. That's art. Never clearly good or bad but profound ambiguity.

Also, for those interested in the systematic (graphical) formulation of stories, check out StoryGrid:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25455700-the-story-grid
DNA is vastly different from your name and address, which many would consider public information. DNA is much more identifying and private.
Aristotle came to the same conclusions somewhat earlier, using only natural intelligence and manual learning techniques.
I think the article title here is a little wanting... I was expecting something a little different.
From personal experience.

The step change for me was financial independence.

It's not about income, but wealth.

A basic example - the difference between a 50K a year job and a 200K a year job is enormous if you have no wealth.

If you are FI, then other factors like the nature of the work, the hours, the location and so on are far more important.

Because once you're there, it becomes clear that money has far less value than time - you only need enough of it to do the things you want to do (of course, if the things you want to do require a lot of money, that's a possible case...)
It doesn't, of course. But the "point" of the GP is Hero Worship: to mark someone as so brilliant, so beyond the common man, in one singular dimension that all other dimensions are rendered absolutely irrelevant.

"This person is a hero! This person can do no wrong!" is the common cry of those who'd rather live in fantasy than reality.
> I've never gotten sick from home cooking

Well then you and your family and friends happen to follow good hygiene standards... but plenty of people don't, and are even more incentivized not to if there's a buck or two in it. ("I think I can still use this meat..." "I'll just wash off this mold...")

I don't know why you'd trust random strangers cooking out of their homes with zero food safety training whom you haven't personally vetted at all. It's not to say commercial kitchens are perfect, but there are verifiable processes in place to try to hold them to certain standards and ultimately shut them down if they don't, which simply aren't scalable to apply to home kitchens.
DHH hits this pretty well, I don't have the exact link off hand but the difference for him from tons of net worth was not nearly what he was expecting. Once your basic needs are met community + fufilling work are generally what has an outsized impact.
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Would you be able to distinguish all three of black, blue and brown?
What they should research next: "every story falls into one of these basic length categories!"