skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read it to see what all the fuss was about, and I can see why it would get controversial reviews.

I don’t think it comes off as sexist or right-wing in the big picture, in fact it seems like an extremely old fashioned self-help book founded on liberal (as in enlightenment) and Christian (mainly protestant) values. Considering the controversy already surrounding Peterson the author really does himself no favours. Of course it’s entirely possibly that it’s intentional.

Especially the first two chapters would easily be perceived as sexist if you were inclined to feminism. Every positive story Peterson tells in those two chapters is about order (and he uses masculinity to portray it), and every negative story is about chaos (which he uses femininity to portray). It’s so deeply rooted that every positive example story is even about a man while every negative example story is about a woman. Then at the end of chapter two or three he makes turns that upside down by displaying the negative sides of order along with the positive sides of chaos, and makes it clear that too much of either is bad. The path to a “good” life lies within the balance, showing how he’s not actually sexist at all, but I personally suspect most readers who would be offended, have long quit in anger by then.

Throughout the book he remains critical of left-leaning ideologies, and presents rhetorically sound but also provocative argumentation against them. I’m not sure why right-leaning ideologs see him as their hero though, as it seems very evident that he doesn’t like them either, but I think it is easy to see why the provocative tone will turn a lot of left-leaning readers off.

Then there is the branching into areas where the author clearly isn’t an expert. Like how our ability to think forward is attributed to hunter-gathered society, when it’s commonly accepted that it happened with our transitioning into farming, where planning for the next season was vital. A minor error that ultimately has nothing to do with the point the author is trying to make, but it does make you wonder what else he’s wrong about. Which is generally something that doesn’t go over well with reviewers of non-fiction. Because they’ll find and expose those other holes.

I personally think it was an enjoyable book and I think there’s some genuinely good advice in there, and it’s advice you aren’t likely to find anywhere else. I also think the book could have easily been half the length.
makes me wonder how HN manages to maintain sanity in such a world
https://pimbook.org/ for those who didn't see the announcement post here.
I started an online interactive port of the original in Observable https://beta.observablehq.com/@tomlarkworthy/wave-function-c...
Reminds me more of a Gopher (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol)) kind of web in this case, given the stricter structuring.
makes me wonder how HN manages to maintain sanity
My point was that I don't want to work with markdown at all. Ideally, I'd like to work with a .py file in the same way that I can execute parts of a .R file in RStudio.
I came across [2] as well, yesterday, and particularly liked the conclusion:

Slightly improved Google translation:

„One does not write about arguments, ideas and concerns, but about the people who supposedly have them and about how they are, how they look and how they live, where one has met them, how dangerous, or at least exotic it was to meet them at all, and that the wind lashed against the quay wall, when splendor and misery came together at night in the room no. such-and-such. But as long as one writes in such a way, because one thinks in such a way, the case of Relotius will only lead to appeals to conscience and to the condemnation of those without conscience. The underlying issue, the storytelling kitsch, will not change.“
That only works if there's a reasonable alternative. If you want to make a mobile app and the content gets you kicked from the Apple and Google stores, you're SoL.
Server Side Rendering with React
CommonQues
The Bloomberg article you linked in reply to another comment about the mis-measurement of CPI was very interesting, but even the alternative measurements discussed in that article estimated inflation to be below 3%.

The Investopedia article discusses how the Fed will reduce their balance sheet, which is actually more or less the opposite of printing money. During the Great Recession, the Fed bought a lot of financial assets (i.e other people's debt) in order to restore faith in the economy and prevent a complete meltdown. Now, they have to decide whether to sell these assets or hold them to their maturity. Regardless of what they choose, they will be receiving cash either in the form of the sale price or dividends.

The Federal Reserve has a mandate to keep inflation rates low, and they generally do a very good job at that. That doesn't mean we shouldn't worry about our national debt, but I wouldn't be too worried about hyperinflation now or in the near future.
Yeah, it's a web browser in essence. But the UI, scrolling behavior, etc. are all handled by the app rather than the website. The result is often a much cleaner experience, especially compared to the average website's mobile web experience. There's also often extended functionality, like saving entire galleries of images, saving threads, etc.

What I'd imagine Artstation doing is releasing a "generic art showcase app" (or exposing APIs to let 3rd parties do so themselves), where users can manually specify www.artstation.com. The app would provide all the features that the Artstation app did.
I don't see how it improves productivity and maintainability

I find that quite hard to believe for someone with admittedly a lot of experience. I mean, just look at the most basic example:

func(vec.begin(), vec.end())

becomes

func(vec)

Do you really not see that can have advantages when it comes to productivity and maintainability?
I’ve also heard that smokers cost society less because they die earlier.
I think what they would say is that the statue was not created nor are photos provided with an aim to ‘appeal to a prurient interest’.
Dr Panetta, Williams: Count Girls In [1]

The field guide for anyone who refuses to accept girls and women are less likely to succeed as engineers, scientists, or in any technology profession. This accessible yet science-grounded book was effortless to read and is packed with chapter after chapter of practical age specific advice. I’m a father of two young girls (and a boy) and I will no doubt keep it at my side for many years to come.

My key take away: It seems too often we assume the way things are is they way they will always be, so we fix the symptoms and stop looking for better answers. “Education is education and the same for both genders, so the dispartity between genders in the tech field must be girls aren’t as good at it or boys keep them out of the club.” Well the authors present a wealth of scientific evidence to strongly suggest our approach to STEM education (starting in the home) is geared more towards the way boys brains are biologically wired to learn, and simple intuitive adjustments to the way the same concepts are taught to girls net amazing results. After trying a few of the tips on my 2 and 6 year olds there’s no doubt.. anyone who wants a girl or a women in their life to succeed should read this book. It’ll change lives.

+1 for Why We Sleep, alarming, insightful and ultimately likely to add years the lives of those who read it.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/1613739397
This approach is taken by https://github.com/dlang-community/drepl and https://docs.scala-lang.org/overviews/repl/overview.html. While it works surprisingly well, you need to parse and transform the REPL input to emulate some language constructs in the right scope.
I went back to the basics this year. Re-read my favorites from Jerry Weinberg ( August 7, 2018)

- The Secrets of Consulting: A Guide to Giving and Getting Advice Successfully

- An Introduction to General Systems Thinking

- Becoming a Technical Leader: An Organic Problem-Solving Approach

- Are your lights on?

based on his references I went back to Virginia Satir, her Books are kinda hard to order:

- The new Peoplemaking

- The Satir Model: Family Therapy and Beyond

- Your Many Faces.

And as always once a year:

- Thinking in Systems: A Primer - Donella H. Meadows

Just writting this list makes me realize that this was a kinda classic year for me. Still read a lot of coding books i.e.: about JS, CloujourScript but nothing stood out.

- Understanding ECMAScript6: The Definitive Guide for JavaScript Developers - Nicholas C. Zakas

was good. Some points I did not know and a good read.

- Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It - Chris Voss

was great as it gave me new insights how to structure my speech and thoughts behind it.

But well, my favorite book this year was and is mine

- "Understanding SEO - A Systematic Approach to Search Engine Optimization" - Franz Enzenhofer

Taking what i learned from Weinberg and Meadows (with some E. Bono) and apply it to the system that is search(-behaviour and the marketplace Google). https://www.fullstackoptimization.com/b/understanding-seo
Not only is nudity not automatically sexual, sex is not automatically (or even remotely) evil. It's good and wholesome.
Memes, Everyday Fascism and the Male Techno-Subconscious
I haven't read it, but it's also famous in the German version for being pretty unreadable.

Many people opine that forcing Neonazis to read it may be a way to get them disillusioned.

Hitler's strength was speaking to the masses, not writing.
>And if there is something useful to be returned, then you’re dealing with a product type anyway.

And how do I know if I'm dealing with the product or sum type if the former is absent and emulated by the latter?

>I don’t know why they’re hard to understand, but they are notorious.

Citation needed.

>more abstract than is helpful in the majority of programs

They are neither more abstract nor less useful than the iterator pattern. I.e. you don't need either if your programs are trivial or your language has baked in constructs for the semantics they ought to provide, though both are unavoidable when you need to implement iteration or operational semantics in general for the case not foreseen by the language creators.

It's a shame that both are neglected in Go, and Go programmers would write these `if (err != nil)` snippets all the way making dozens of errors due to lack of DRY or iterate over a tree using loops.

>only that in general they cost more than they contribute when the objective is shipping a product.

Citation needed. Need an evidence of clear, generic, literate and domain-driven code being more expensive that a typical Go spaghetti of loops and if (err!=nil). I could believe that its cheaper because of Go developers being cheaper,but the technical debt couldn't be smaller due to verbosity, code repeat and lack of expressiveness to separate the domain logic from the low level programming stuff like iteration and error checking.
Dear corporations,

As an european adult, I'm ok with adult and explicit content.

Leave art alone.
I can't imagine how harsh it is to take down the entire app because of this. Adsense will also sometimes find sexually suggestive CGI stuff in our website (they re good with virtual nipples!), but they will allow you to appeal and fix it. Tying your entire livelihood in their walled garden has gotten dangerous.
We absolutely do not know the dangers of vaping... what dangers exactly are there? Apart from increasing your heart rate it doesn't seem to be responsible for much harm at all.
So, mysql is a frontend to InnoDB?

I would put it the other way around: InnoDB is a backend for MySQL. But an SQL database is far more complicated than a key-value store, and has a lot of "middle end" between the "talk to the client" front end and the "store stuff on disk" back end.

I'm not saying that RedixDB isn't interesting -- having a network front-end to Badger seems like it would extremely useful for most people who want to use Badger. It's just that I spent a while digging through the code trying to figure out where the back end was and what data structures you were using, only to discover that you didn't have a backend (or rather, you're using a pre-existing one).
How to Celebrate the Small Wins in a Startup
And it is not true. There is no proof of that.
Startpage: Private search engine
When people talk about US debt, they're not talking about something like your credit card bill. When the US needs to take on debt, they do it by issuing Treasury bonds.

These bonds are a contract saying that in exchange for your money today, the US government will pay you a fixed interest rate every month until the bond expires. In order to raise the money to pay off these fixed interest rates, the US government can either tax its citizens or issue more bonds.

For the past hundreds of years, our government has fulfilled its contracts and paid off the interest on all of its bonds. If we ever neglected to do so (AKA defaulted), it would be MUCH harder for our country to raise money in the future. Also, much of our government's debt is owned by American citizens, so we would be shooting ourselves in the foot, hurting domestic investors, and possibly causing a global economic crash.

That's what's making us pay, not some loan shark knocking on the White House door
Yes he is. There is no proof that the Jesus existed.

We have more effidence on thousand real existing people. Less fames perhaps but propper people.
Why _of course_? In all the western cities I know the “gayer” districts usually had their share of gentrification around a decade in the past.

Of course artists and creative people in cities tend to be more liberal (because cities in general tend to be more liberal). But in my experience it is rare that the lgbt epicenter and the art epicenter are colocated. Of course art people might hang a rainbow flag out, but that doesn’t mean there are more gays/lesbians/queers living there.
Ok, we belatedly replaced the title with representative language from the article.

It would have been helpful if someone had let us know at hn@ycombinator.com that this was needed. We don't come close to seeing all the problems here, or the comments pointing them out.
The intent and delivery of my interpretation is to take a familiar person that is particularly sought out this time of year and bring up issues I've been noticing in the region I am currently exploring.
The suppression of the viewing of the human body in its natural form, especially in art, is one of the deepest perversions of society. It seems so intrinsically tied to the suppression and control of pleasure by institutions seeking dominance over human life. When you control access to the natural pleasures of life, you have control over the motivations and operations of that life. In prior times, when religions were the most powerful rulers of society, taboo ensured obedience to a system that enabled the powerful to rule, while as we so frequently see- violating the taboos beyond reason in far more perverse ways than unrestrained impulse motivates. Now that corporations have so strongly supplanted religion in the ruling of society, the suppression has moved from a place of religious principle, to one of purely pragmatic continuance of the dogma that maintains the status quo. Because why should Google have any philosophical position about the progression of society at all? It has under the conditions of the status quo become dominant, and so perhaps believes that its best interest lies in passively supporting the current system, no matter how fundamentally perverse it may be. But, this is a mistake. I know that Larry Page and Sergey Brin, as well as half of Google, run around naked in the Nevada desert every year, enjoying the beauty and freedom of the human body. So, to command the most powerful corporation in the world, and to know that our natural liberty is better than upholding millennia of repression, yet maintain it for a convenient profit without controversy, is if not evil, at least extraordinarily cowardly. If we want to transition from a society of repression and suffering to one of liberation and bliss, there are fewer more fundamental places to start than in the acceptance of our own natural bodies and the pleasurable practices in which they engage.
After skimming the great recommendations in the comments one I didn't see mentioned is: "Dream Teams" [1]. Just recently finished the audio book, narrated by the author Shane Snow. Was a very engaging book overall.

One I read last year that was one of my favorites is "What Doesn't Kill Us" [2] by Scott Carney. I went and did a week long Wim Hof class after reading it and the book was a great preread that gave me perspective and context for the trip.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37703548-dream-teams

[2] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30039048-what-doesn-t-ki...
I found that true of t-sne (and umap + tda) in general. Huge sensitivity to feature encoding and parameter tuning, and libraries in practice fail to help there, which seems a barrier for the huge pool of potential users. Most of all, I've struggled with categorical dimensions (people, computers, things, and all sorts of things you see in most non-scientific settings). That comes back again to the encoding problem.

Would be genuinely interested to solutions there. I play every 3-6mo with these for finding something usable to add to Graphistry. While library devs talk about efforts here, seems to be an on-going challenge. In a sense, Quid has shown it is solvable in specific domains with focused effort. But I'm still looking for intuition to make them predictable & reliable techniques for the common case of structured data..
It would be hard to defend that claim as to the creation of the statue.

It's easier as to the provision of photos today, but opinions still vary.
The point being that is art, not pornography.

Re the people who voted me down, I’m curious if you’ve done so because you consider that statue porn or because you don’t consider it art? Are you able to elaborate please :)
Supposedly, they bought the bonds on their balance sheet before selling them because 1mdb wanted the money fast, giving them an order of magnitude more risk, hence the higher fees.

Also, the average fees for a bond issuance might be $1m because most bond issuances are small. It's usually higher on a percentage basis.
Please don't call names in arguments, regardless of how wrong another comment is. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

Your comment would be fine without the first sentence.
The reputation is about fact-checking, i.e. dates and numbers.
The same reasoning behind taking some time off once in a while for those doing weight training applies here too.

You'll come back to it with renewed enthusiasm and new ideas to try out.
None of these backends currently fsync() correctly on MacOS, due to a Go bug fixed in 1.12.
While you can certainly keep increasing the monetary supply, I wouldn't say debt is irrelevant - the costs of servicing that debt will start getting high for the US. Debasing your currency is one way to erode that debt but it will come with its own problems
I totally agree. And we're the ones paying the price of their actions.
American Universities are hardly "best in the world". American education is universally scorned, apart from a small handful of institutions.

The draw for US universities is as a gateway to possible citizenship in the future.
If you have 1Password it supports OTP and thus can be used across devices.
It worked so well because it rhymed perfectly with widespread stereotypes about America. It looks like he did this in almost all of his articles. He always wrote a compelling story that just happened to perfectly fit into the worldview of the urban upper middle class in Germany.
Not only. Haven’t you noticed how most people nowadays have opinions on subjects on which they’re (at best) poorly informed? It’s a form of “cognitive hubris”, and Ortega’s claim was that people weren’t neccessarily always like that. I imagine that, before mass media and education, people were a lot more focused on spiritual/religious things, and were leading heated debates in those areas. These were far less dangerous that ill-informed debates on real, important subjects.
Haven't actually read through all of it yet, but I started reading Radical Markets by E. Glen Weyl and Eric A Posner: http://radicalmarkets.com/

Interesting take at economic policy and market idelogy.

Here's a talk by one of the authors presenting the idea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMSAA_nMv_E
Surprised I don't see this listed here.

Habeas Data, by Cyrus Farivar: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/565026/habeas-data-...

Book did an incredibly job outlining the history, twists, and turns privacy and technology have slowly taken over the past few decades. Was very hard to put down.
So why are you against making this kind of crap illegal? Why are we doing everything we can to protect society from terrorism, but not so with thousands of car deaths due to alcohol consumption?
There is no reason to assume Jesus was not real. This issue was closed by historians over a hundred years ago and never has there been thrown any new light that puts it into doubt. It’s only fringe people with specific agendas, who always seem to lack the skills and knowledge to work with the sources, who claim otherwise.

For a good overview of why historians know Jesus existed you should read John P. Meier -
A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus, Volume I: The Roots of the Problem and the Person.
You're right. This isn't new. It started way back with advertising. The problem is the scope it's getting right now--we no longer have an active role on this process.
Actually, at the time, I would've been perfectly happy to have just imported the passwords into Firefox!

But I don't think it is able to import them, at least not on my machine. I'm using the latest Chromium/Firefox on the latest Ubuntu, and I just had another look. When I select the option to import data from another browser, I get a dialog that says:

Import Preferences, Bookmarks, History, Passwords and other data from:
Chromium

When I select Chromium, I see a list of things I can import:

Select which items to import:
[x] Cookies
[x] Browsing History

For some reason, "Passwords" does not appear in the list, and when I browse to a site in Firefox, it doesn't use the password that Chromium had stored.

Maybe this is an OS-dependent thing?
I have learned, painfully, over the years that no matter if you are aware or not, atrocities continue and that there is very little you can do about them.

Theoretically you may be able to do more, if you are able to vote in US elections, but in practice those seem to be won by the candidate most voters would prefer a beer with, or who looks best on television, etc.
Some good basic suggestions that should be followed when doing softwaare engineering. But they forgot one aspect:

Don't be too smart for your own sake when packaging your software. As an HPC administrator I stopped counting how many hours I spent installing scientific software with broken Makefiles, interactive installers, simple github dumps, unresolvable dependencies.
Sadly this is quite prevelant in life sciences (I am looking at you bioconductor)
Am I being a pedant if I think this algorithm has been misnamed for the purposes of PR? It just looks like constraint satisfaction. What's quantum about this? There's no constructive/destructive interference, which to my mind is the crucial distinction between quantum and classical systems.
PG has maintained from the beginning that HN comments need not be upvoted for civility alone. “I disagree therefore I downvote” is valid etiquette on HN. I’m not going to stop doing that.
There's a downloadable demo here: https://levien.com/spiro/