skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 3. All data seems to suggest showing kids complex problems leads to more learning. "Too hard, too soon" isn't really a rational argument. At MIT it didn't really weed out students either; kids did okay.

Sure it is. When you teach swimming, you don't throw beginning swimmers in the deep end of the pool and tell them, "A challenge is good for you." And in the example I gave of quantum mechanics, even MIT requires previous physics prerequisites.

> 4. Nope, nope, and nope. Of those languages, only Python has high productivity. C/C++ is obsolete for anything other than systems programming. The selling point of Java are cheap, interchangeable programmers with a standardized skill set.

May I refer you to the TIOBE index of programming language usage? [1] The answer is Java, C, C++, and Python in that order, and by a large margin.

[1] https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/
STAR does NOT make that mistake. I mean, it literally doesn't. It uses the SUM of scores, NOT the mean or the median. But sum is effectively the same result as taking the median.
> Having said that, I do tend to think “slap a market on it” can often lead to perverse outcome.

Yeah. Just look at where we are today. But calling it "perverse outcome" is sugar coating it.

If it wasn't for profit being the king of all (and being the current common sense). Then we would've put more time into making software more secure.
Why do you think you need to be "okay" with life being unfair?

People who thought slavery wasn't fair found a way to end it, people who weren't okay with dying of smallpox found a way to cure it, and made life a little fairer. And there were a bunch of people who weren't okay with things but couldn't do anything about it, so they didn't.

Some things are unfair for no reason and there's nothing we can do about them, and it's not okay.

You don't have to warp your mind with convoluted philosophy to become okay with things and "accept" life as it is. Life can be awesome and beautiful, life can be shitty and painful. These things don't cancel each other out. You can enjoy awesome things, you can hate and be angry at bad things. You and me and everyone we love will die some day - there's nothing that can make it okay. And yet sunsets are still beautiful and ice cream still tastes good.

You don't have be okay with bad things, you can hate/resent/fear them and still enjoy the good things at the same time. These two are not mutually exclusive. Fix what you can fix, endure and persevere through things that you can't(because you have no choice), find as much joy as you can in the good things.

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Also read "Obstacle is the Way" by Ryan Holiday - extremely well writen summary of stoic philosophy, I'm sure you will find it very useful and interesting.
That’s correct. I never buy the top of the line because I know it doesn’t have a good cost:benefit ratio.

BUT there are people that want the absolute best available and have the money to afford it ... /shrug

> There are some games that are very poorly optimized, but I see them as edge cases which you can skip if it becomes an issue.

There are a lot of games that aren’t well threaded.

Well multithreaded games are primarily by rich AAA developers - and not even all of them do it; some just don’t have the programming talent for it and some have games that have ran for decades that are too old to multithread without rewriting the whole game.

PS: Sorry for late reply. Apparently people disagreed with me and I had negative Karma for a while. Which slows down posting?
Interestingly, in the beginning they talk about "internet", and later switch to "the web".
Better a hundred Chernobyls than what will happen to the earth if we continue using fossil fuels at the current rate.
To add to that: https://remote.co/
I would love to hear more than rumor about it, but what I've heard suggested a lot of "tyranny of structurelessness" [1] problems. If the former power structures go away, then people fall back on informal tools, including charm, popularity, favor-trading, and abusive behavior, and a de facto power structure emerges. Since this doesn't really include mechanisms for accountability, it can devolve into lord-of-the-flies scenarios.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tyranny_of_Structurelessne... and https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm
It's really easy to cause humans to misclassify all kinds of images as containing faces ;). Humans also regularly misclassify random noise as words. You can even suggest which words we hear by telling us what the noise is supposed to be.
I think Angular is the lest productive thing that's ever entered and left our store, but it's thrown at so many things enterprise these years, that it'll be a long while before we're rid of it.

I think SPAs are misused in general, but Angular is certainly the worst of the bunch. In the time it takes to configure and setup the right modules and make sure everything is updated and works together, even with a cli tool that really ought to make most of that redundant, you could've build and deployed a full Django app, DB migrations and all.

Ok, maybe that's a little much, but we did benchmarks and a basic web-app that takes 1 week to build in Django, took 3 weeks with Angular and Node. It takes 2-3 weeks with Vue and graphql Apollo, but you do get some advantages from the SPA frameworks and graphql that you don't do with old school mvc.

Over all though, web development hasn't really improved that much, and neither has the user experience. Just look at HN, it's one of the most efficient sites I use, and it's very old web.
Keen to hear the long story. Any articles you recommend as someone in the know?
Here you go, one karma point for you sir for this post.;)
I don't understand why this follows my comment. I agree with you about that weighing challenge, about the humanity…

But I don't know what you mean about "picking one element" or understanding or believing. Both STAR and 3-2-1 are quite understandable, believable, and don't require weighing full sets of pairings. That weighing you describe sounds like how Ranked Pairs version of ranked-ballots is done.
Yeah the funny thing is I was actually idly talking to myself while the person was busy typing something - 'Does FOI work with private organisations? Oh no of course not' then all hell broke loose on the other end.
I'm not suggesting that you support "contempt", but the person behind the writings, and only if you enjoy the writing style.

Also, Xah also has all sorts of other documents were he carefully tries to avoid the mistakes he criticizes in other documents, and were contempt is not the main driver. I'm sure he spent countless hours writing those materials and he's made those documents available for absolutely free! [1]

The best intellectual and artistic endeavors are deeply flavored by the emotions of their authors, which gives the works a measure of authenticity. I personally can appreciate that, the same way I can also appreciate a lot of forms of dark humor.

Also, I'm OK with others not sharing that appreciation.

1: http://xahlee.info/comp/comp_lang_tutorials_index.html
For what definition of "work" ?
Anecdotal data point from one who's old, by chronological criteria.

I can't say I feel wiser than I was at 25 or 50. Different, definitely. I'm still unclear what constitutes "wise".

But as I age, I increasingly see the degree to which phenomena are interconnected, and the knock-on implications regarding complexity and unanticipated consequences. It biases me to err in the direction of generosity and empathy.

Still, it would feel good to know what "wise" is. Not sure I'd recognize it if it bit me in the butt.

That said, go read Staudinger's paper (SciHub is your friend). Set a reminder to rethink these issues everytime your age doubles. You'll be interested in your results.
Did you mean to reply to me? The comment you replied to simply says that IRV is much more complex than STAR. How is that underestimating anything?
That is a really cool research/art project!
That could probably also wipe out half a continent if you mis-aim it...

Then again, it would look spectacular in the sky!
But if you do an error analysis on even ShotgunWSD (Betnaru 2017), you get errors that humans would not produce - archaic favors, missing recent terms, confusing opposing meanings, ... When the average researcher can easily select the correct sense. And that's a DETERMINISTIC algorithm! Swapping ELMO for pure WordNet gives us slightly better results in that sense but introduces literal random chance errors. And the older, Bayesian models are worse!

While we'll probably solve WSD to a high degree of accuracy (such that engineering bugs cause more failures than the model), our current approach is still fundamentally flawed. We need a better method of imbuing causal relationships than
correlation+chance.
D has string, wstring, and dstring types, corresponding to UTF-8, UTF-16, and UCS-32 encodings. But people normally just stick with string.

It's been a huge win for D.
> not all the work that needs to be done is senior-level work

Personally, I'm very suspicious of this theory. Whenever I've worked with a team that's all pretty senior, we work to automate away the boring stuff.
You can try out this technique at https://github.com/google/unrestricted-adversarial-examples My guess is it would have the same result as adding noise to the normal images too (resulting in a slightly worse performance overall).
For the informal organizing part

Alternatively they do have explorers scouts as a coed part, and those are often attached to a regular troop, so they already have this for older scouts.
For Consideration on US Election Day: The Tyranny of the Majority
It took NYC one hundred years to finish the Second Avenue subway. The MTA is crumbling and can barely maintain the already existing service. The L train shutting down will be a huge blow to the functioning of NYC and if they could bring it back any faster, they would. I wouldn't count on a G extension anytime soon, or on the L repairs magically being expedited.

It's almost impossible to overstate how important the L train is. It is the main artery into the city for absolutely enormous swaths of Brooklyn.
To me, "in charge" is a dominance relationship. It imposes artificial scarcity. Leadership and responsibility, on the other hand, aren't zero-sum quantities. I think one of the best things you can do with junior people is to find things for them to lead on as early as possible.
https://rakudo.org/files
> I treat people differently based on gender, age, education...

I really try not to until their behavior tells you to. Where practical, I think we should strive to treat people the same regardless of these attributes.
I’m just saying the mentality of dismissing primarily mental anguish lends itself extremely well to dismissing worker complaints and sending them back to work.

Whether or not that is actually the case, as you say, is hard to prove.
It’s scary to consider it making it to some of the large slums in Nairobi, India, or Pakistan.
The factor of 1000 difference is what you get when you accidentally forget to convert between kg and tonnes.

5000 it is.
Oh, yep! It's super simple to induce systemic errors like that. Take https://github.com/kevin28520/My-TensorFlow-tutorials/tree/m... . Lighten every dog by 20%. Darken every cat by 20%. Train. Take image of cat, lighten 20%, watch as it's transformed into a dog!

For large corpora, it's impossible to know what features got selected. They probably aren't any feature a human would consider.
I never met a SPARQL endpoint I couldn't crash with a trivial query.
Sum is effectively equivalent to mean, not median.
Medtech is annoying because of the primary focus being documentation. I spend much of my day writing stuff that noone cares about for people who will never read it. Doing this on paper is slow. Doing it on a computer is even slower. Finding a terminal and filling in structured forms is a pain in the ass when I want to be seeing patients, doing procedures etc. Using things like google glass and offsite scribes is a good way to do this.
The saying is perfectly standard and meaning has been granted equivalence to your alternative, through common usage. It’s really not a point worth making, or arguing.

Alternatively you could read it as “I wouldn’t have bothered doing this if rust wasn’t there.”
Gates does wonderful things with his philanthropy. I notice that he doesn't invest in any social issues or in politics, even when the politics is directly related (e.g., does he lobby the politicians or try to move the public regarding education funding?). Why not? Is it a policy?

Prior generations of philanthropists invested heavily in peace and justice, for example, including the Ford Foundation and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Certainly our society today has major problems in those areas - arguably we have great success with tech, which he does invest in, and have been terrible and social and political issues. Also, those problems in some ways directly harm Gates' goals (for example, U.S. political and racial issues greatly affect U.S. education), in other ways they lead to policies, such as nationalist economics, that will reduce economic activity and thus investment in these issues, and in yet in other ways the problems impose costs on people that dwarf the benefits Gates' programs provide - the oppression of Western-backed dictators and the cost of potential warfare being among them.

I realize I've assumed it's a policy of Gates', but does anyone have real knowledge about why he avoids those issues?
Has anyone tried to make an SV startup-style company sell Japanese-type toilets in America? I think a lot of people would like them
> What's wrong with do nothing?

Sometimes doing nothing is the best response. I didn't say it never was. I just said you don't want that or nuclear war to be your only options.

> What business is of the US what happens in the rest of the world?

Do you use anything not made in the US? If you do, then you care what happens in the rest of the world. Even if you personally don't, enough other people in the US do that you need to care what happens in the rest of the world, because you depend on those other people in the US and they use things from the rest of the world. The world is highly interconnected.
Current and Former Employees Sue Riot Games for Gender Discrimination
Yeah, Bert's great, but it has the Google Paper problem in that nobody else can reproduce the results because nobody else has the compute to train the dang thing. It also doesn't solve the fundamental issues - it scores a few percent higher on some standardized sets, but it gets wrong answers that are just as explainable as any other system - shrug-emoji. ‍️‍️
Socialized healthcare doesn't really apply here. Regardless of whether or not the healthcare is free, people still go see a doctor anyway.
I think your points are reasonable and thoughtful, thanks for the constructive engagement.

You are right in noticing that it's not exclusively an unforced ranking (which I agree is vastly superior to forced rankings!). So, in STAR, there's a different between 3 candidates scored as 5,1,0 versus 5,4,0. They count identically in the runoff stage (which is effectively the rank part of the system). But they count different in the score.

I'm not convinced that difference is necessary, valuable, or intuitive to people, but I'm not convinced it isn't. I think these things need more real-world case studies. I definitely think the distinction isn't fatal or anything. I see how it could have a positive impact on outcomes.

I don't agree that multi-round eliminations are simpler than STAR per se.

I'm certainly inclined to see 3-2-1 voting as a competitor with STAR for best overall system.
nope. iss soon deorbits. shelving money spent on putting humans in space and investing putting better mire intelligent robots in space will speed up the eventual scaleable efforts to put man in space.as opposed to short run waste of money that has only proven orbital space is totally hostile to humans.
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Sure but I use GraphQL as middleware when fetching from elasticsearch, or redis, or flat files. It is not something you hook up directly to your database, it's a way to help define an api for your application.

Most of the time, in my app, resource names do not even correspond to single tables or backend data structures but are simply presented that way for ease of use for external consumers.

Subjectively, Implementing it feels more like old school COBRA than REST or SQL.
Evolution of JavaScript
that sentence means something to those who would want to use this service.

ELI5 what would one accomplish with this.
As a counterpoint, I've actually been kind of annoyed with the local boy scouts for getting somewhat active trying to recruit my girls to their scouts.

I get that they likely mean well, but my kids are already quite happy in the girl scouts. No need to try and confuse things by trying to "turn a new leaf."

I confess I assumed you were both the same organization years ago. Found out you weren't, and largely didn't care. That it largely seems to be an image saving move by the boy scouts, though, does give a bad taste.
I don't think it is just a matter of computational power: I have been quite surprised by how effective word embedding, for example, has been in abetting language translation (note that I am not claiming that it has solved the problem; I am too familiar with the problems of idiomatic Vietnamese-English translation.) Of course, if you had different intuitions (or more knowledge) than me, you might not be so impressed.

Having said that, I agree that the projections seem highly optimistic, but maybe I will be surprised again.
Lotteries were tried, they are the worst system possible.
I guess I can't comprehend how someone doesn't view non-montonicity as a fatalflaw in a voting system.

If I can hurt my preferred candidates chances of winning by ranking them higher on my ballot then the voting system is broken.
I don't want to pay my insurance deductible... Many people "worse off" than me pay nothing and get to go to the hospital no problem... I'd be much more interested in everyone paying a reasonable amount like it was decades ago
I'm pretty ignorant on Unikernels so maybe there's another solution, but not being able to `fork()` is a significant problem for many applications.
A combination of a culture focused around retribution rather than rehabilitation, voter suppression and overt racism.

Felon disenfranchisement tends to hurt the black population more because they're often more egregiously made felons through minor offenses (for example, possession of marijuana). This goes as far back as the Black Codes in the mid-1800s.
the japanese have an absolutely horrible track record of investing in overpriced risky foreign investments in the west.

the chinese are not repeating the japanese mistake in the same way, bit in a different one...
Everything OP says is correct.

And let's not forget that even in the absence of adversarial attacks, even with flawless associative mapping and incredible generalization, even hypothetically solving the problem of higher level ontological 'meaning', there's STILL absolutely no known way for AI to even begin to address the matter of the qualia - how to build something that's actually has a conscious perception (of pain, for example). We're groping in the dark without matches, and there will be many more seasons/winters to come.
This seems to largely be a win "on paper." With multiple girls, we already have to deal with the same organization multiple times for little reason. Adding another organization doesn't sound like it will actually cost much.
Okay, but what if it just made stuff up by trying everything until something came out true? We have theorum provers on this model today. Does such a system "understand" mathematics? It's probably more explainable than anything else, but the strength of the current generation of learning is application to cases with ambiguity present, and our current approaches here are completely unexplainable.
> Gates does wonderful things with his philanthropy. I notice that he doesn't invest in any social issues or in politics, even when the politics is directly related (e.g., does he lobby the politicians or try to move the public regarding education funding?). Why not? Is it a policy?

I believe that is on purpose. He doesn't want his work to become politicized in the way that others have (e.g. George Soros, Kochs). From a purely philanthropic point of view, I think this is the right move. He probably takes the view that if you make people's lives better and give them good education, the rest will follow, in the long run.
Plus ça change, the better it has been said before:

In philosophy, anamnesis is a concept in Plato's epistemological and psychological theory that humans possess innate knowledge (perhaps acquired before birth) and that learning consists of rediscovering that knowledge within us.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anamnesis_(philosophy)
I like the idea that when an old and powerful Galaxy ranging alien race discovers a planet that has life, they place that solar system off limits to any settlement and only observations are allowed. It does not seem that unlikely, unless life is just not rare at all. If 1 in 1000 or 1 in 100 or even 1 in 10 systems were set aside in this way, that would leave plenty of solar systems to continue to expand into.

In the US, we got rich and powerful enough around the 1880's that nature was basically conquered and we wanted to start preserving places for their natural beauty. By the 1970's we had set aside huge amounts of land for National Parks, State Parks and wilderness areas. Wilderness areas alone in the lower 48 is about 64.4 million acres, or about the same as cities and towns (urban areas are 69.4 million acres)[1].

[1]https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-us-land-use/
Possible doesn't mean realistic. As stated, 99.99% of companies are not going to come close to understanding, forking, and running their own build of a database.

It's better to practice proper vendor management and weigh all the risks and realities instead. If you're not more capitalized and viable then your vendor, then you have more important things to worry about then your vendor disappearing overnight.
Donut math: how donut.c works (2011)
Summary: multitasking is not really multitasking, increases cortisol, cortisol is bad.
>I've observed that in pursuing the 1% unicorn candidate, many people step in unicorn shit and hire smart people who are bad employees.

What's fun is that this isn't just a possibility, its likely! Despite the following being a clearly artificial argument, the general shape of it is true.

Let's say that you can rate employees 1-10 on each of technical skill and employability/soft-skills, and that both are equally sought by the market. Given how attractive your company is to work for and what you pay, its quite often true that you can allocate around 12 total points between the two categories. 13 point candidates have better offers from Google; 11 point candidates fail your interview process.

If you only hire people that strongly pass a strong technical interview, ensuring that their technical skill is at least an 8/10, then your employees will have at most 4/10 soft skills.
Every big website uses some kind of machine learning to prevent fraud. Banks do the same. Data mining is used everywhere to improve customer experience. Data mining is used in industrial applications for preventative maintenance.
> before it became common knowledge that the company was a sham