skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So... This is just like, his own intuition, isn't it? I mean, maybe there are savants out there who know things with great accuracy without familiarity, practice, or feedback. As a general claim it seems weak.

I'll go further and say the vast majority of human knowledge is produced by intuition. For example, the scientific method relies on inductive leaps made based on drawing on repeated observations. This method cannot yield knowledge without intuition; Einstein sits in a room and ponders the Michaelson-Morley experiment, then comes up with his model of relativity. What brings him to that point? How does the previous knowledge yield a new supposition? It emerges ex nihilo from his stupendous brain.

Of course the nice thing about intuition is we can later validate it in other ways and shore it up. We dont just have to skate along believing our raw hunches. But without the ability to just dream it up we would be left with very little real knowledge to work with.
I think the problem is that people would rather their bookmarking service be more concerned with operating as a bookmarking service than tweeting about politics. As a paying customer, I am in this very non-partisan boat. I mean the guy can do what he wants, but so can I and I’m looking for alternatives after being a paying pinboard customer for 4 years now. The service seems more and more like abandonedware.
How is it Rust project if it's installed via Node?
situation: cop is super friendly and gives a normal traffic ticket, wishes a nice day

description: I was just threatened by a cop to get pulled out of my car in the middle of nowhere, I could have been the next victim, etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAJvNpFVAz0

Mind blowing. She doesn't call him white supremacist, but I'd say this a very fine example anyway. Not depictured in the video is the reactions to her claim, before the bodycam video showed it to be a lie, I can only imagine.

That's using actual victims and actual fear to be a reckless driver and a pseudo-victim at worst, the most charitable interpretation I can come up with, is that this women was so addicted to Facebook and saw so much stuff about cops killing black people, that she didn't even see or hear the actual cop, and honestly believed in her completely deformed version of the situation.

I honestly don't know what would be worse, but it points to one of two wider issues either way.

edit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbqqefsfC14&t=4m41s

> "Oh, you're from South Carolina! You are a little whitey, you supremacist"

as I said: too many cruel, heartless people with double standards, smelling pathetically small amounts of power and using it for pathetically petty things.

Same video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbqqefsfC14&t=6m23s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbqqefsfC14&t=8m32s

Incredible. And this goes hand in hand with "deplatforming"? The US is breeding itself a whole lot of brownshirts in spe, how can you not see that? The weaker an individual is, the more cruel they will be in a mob, this explains what we see more than anything. I for one won't give the noobs trying to import that into Germany even one inch, no pasaran, and God help the US.
I must have missed something in the article. the main cons I gleaned are

- some items are not as cheap as walmat/costco like Fluor

- they dont create as much jobs as traditional grocery stoes ( 9 vs 14)

I assume the folks who are struggling are not stupid .. and have looked at every conceivable way of stretching their dollar and judging by the demand it (Dollar store) is providing a valuable service.

I take another exception to the approach this article takes .. instead of complaining about dollar stores moving into poor/urban areas why are they giving a pass to the established grocery chains for moving out ? it seems like providing 9 employment positions is better than the 0 being offered by the other stores.
That’s not how businesses work. It’s not how businesses should work. It’s why this business will/has stopped working.
Of course. Why not? Who benefits? The day we have to rely on centralized social media outside user control for meaningful engagement with our social spheres is a sad day indeed. Folks just call or email if they need to reach me. Better yet a hand written card. i think the key is to take social media with a grain of salt, another superficial publishing channel subject to null privacy. Folks have invested too much trust with their data and it has been naturally exploited for corporate profit. Y'all move fast with stable infra, now. y'ere. Ugh. I gotta write my friends back with my fountain pen.
That makes sense, if there is any measurable effect on children who's fathers but not mothers have suffered trauma such as starvation, that would be a compelling result.
Could you list some of the truths of being human? Also give some examples of psychological realities of the human brain?

The only ones I know of are biological in nature, as we are living, breathing, conscious, sentient organisms. I used to think us humans were all skeletons, but in reality we're just brains. And our brains, like all matter, are made out of atoms. The body parts are just the physical layer. Think about that next time you talk to someone face to face, you're two brains communicating with each other.

See, the above statements are what I mean when I talk about seeking objective reality. I analyzed us as creatures and stripped it down to the bare bones characteristics, no metaphors involved.

When you speak of fulfillment and having an aim, it's an attempt to rationalize a meaning to life. But the premise may be false, that people assume there is a meaning to be found in life in the first place. And supposedly the answer to what our aims should be are found in a book known as the Bible, which we should interpret as deep, grand metaphors.

Religion and the Bible give people an easy way out of asking the tough questions about the nature of our reality, preventing critical thinking and logical thoughts. It provides comfort for the aimless, lest they have to confront existential dread.

Laws, ethics, and morality are human/social constructs that are characteristics of our society. There are no divine, absolute, or deep truths to be found there. It just defines basic human behavior so society remains civil.
Who said that money can’t clear your consciousness...

Evilcorp
A slow taper off of caffeine is much more comfortable, even if it does take longer. Can't really speak to the nicotine side.
Health Canada and Public Health England would beg to differ.
This doesn't really make sense to me on several levels - including the fact it is possible to eat perfectly healthy frozen and canned fruits and vegetables - a bit more additives in the case of canned but frozen if anything is likely better nutritionally due to being frozen at peak freshness. They just might taste a bit worse.

I wonder how much of the issue is cultural and institutional knowledge as opposed to economic. Poverty alone doesn't ensure lack of healthy cooking, the skills involve and time aren't free or universally possessed. One can't just handwave away the labor costs of auto repair for everyone because they know how to fix their own car.

Cynically the 'backlash' it seems more like a 'keep the poor out' move than anything else.
When i removed it from my phone they started sending push notifications through the browser. It was kinda pathetic.
I saw this paper at nips and I thought it was an awesome application of continuation passing style. Typically in CPS one of the advantages is that you really only need a single stack frame (since the remainder of the program is encoded in the callback), but in this paper they allow the CPS’d program to use multiple stack frames and store the intermediate results from backprop in the callstack. It never would’ve occurred to me to remove one of the advantages of CPS in order to store values on the callstack. Cool idea!
No, I just uninstalled the FB and Messenger apps from my phone when I read that the app was getting phone call data. And because they've been censoring non-leftist voices. I only use FB on browsers on desktop until I finally migrate to something better. I've started cross-posting on Gab.
I think music streaming has taken out the bulk of music piracy but there is still a lively power user music piracy scene. The motivations for these users seem to be about having access to really obscure content that isn't available on many services and only in low quality on YouTube. Another motervation is being able to preserve your collection. If you spend decades building playlists and collections you don't want all of that wiped out if your account gets banned or the company goes out of business. Another value add from these music sharing sites is discovery via community recommendations rather than an algorithm telling you what to listen to.

I don't think music piracy will ever die without lowering prices. This month I spent $70 on music and I torrented about $1000 worth. If I stopped torrenting there would be no extra money going to content owners because I already spend as much as I can afford on music.
Honestly that doesn’t sound like that great of a deal. I’d rather have continuous work life balance than kill myself for 5 years so someone can buy me a 5 week vacation.
As a child of two union parents and married to a union worker, it is clear to me that the only contact the author has had with unions is in his dreams.

Unions constantly have to deal with internal corruption (and often don't...). The seniority system is much more arbitrary than anything approximating meritocracy. Better hope that you've saved enough if/when the union decides to strike because you are going to have to suck it up even if you don't think it's worth it. You better buy in to all the politics your union supports because your dues go to it. Enjoy watching the union protect the most incompetent worker who will go on to put lives at risk with his drinking problem. Just don't count on the union going to bat for you against the company, if they don't like you they'll hang to out to dry.

The author is out of his depth.
> Planning doesn't always need to happen in the long term, it can also be very short term. Take this scene from Super Mario, for instance [...] the player needs to make a plan in a split second. The important thing to notice here is that the player doesn't simply react blindly. Even in a stressful situation, if the game works as it should, the player quickly formulates a plan and then tries to carry out that plan.

If we're going to call split-second decisions a type of "planning", than I'm not sure what isn't planning. The article mentions Dear Esther, but that has very little gameplay at all.

Personally, I generally prefer games that prioritize quick decisions and reactions over careful plans. I do enough of the latter in my daily life.
Shunning was almost certainly also a matter of not wanting to be tainted by association, which also can find parallels here.
People should be free to live their lives.
But they might just burn oil and coal to save jobs.
People with sleep problems are often advised to quit caffeine. Many women who are or who expect to become pregnant also quit over concerns it may harm the fetus.
The sun damages DNA, as does background radiation. Basically living is the number one cause of damaging DNA.

But the thing is the cells can usually repair the damage on their own.

While being skeptical of the claim that vaping is healthy is a tenable position, your arguments lack honesty.
I agree with what you've said, but I dont think it contradicts the article. The article is about when to trust your intuition, e.g. when buying stocks. I don't think Einstein had to have the same level of faith in his own ideas to whiteboard them out a little to see if it was tennable.
Seems pretty simple. My own experience with my circle of friends, coworkers, and family has mirrored the parent post quite closely. This view is further backed by instances where people have actually attempted to measure activity on platforms like Tinder [1][2].

I would want to see actual statistics on median number of dating partners by gender prior to marriage from age 18-35 broken out by age year. Ideally that data would also be broken out by location as well since I have a very strong feeling the parent post posited situation is most common in large cities and less common in smaller ones.

[1] http://worst-online-dater.tumblr.com/post/99441021279/tinder...

[2] https://medium.com/@worstonlinedater/tinder-experiments-ii-g...
Small amounts of expensive food is still cheap.
When I was living in Berkeley as a poor student, dollar tree was the only thing I could afford. I must say I never missed them, their products were the lowest of the lowest quality and now every morning and thank God that I make enough money to not worry about groceries.
Trying to make Larry Ellison blow a fuse?
Well you can lower your own consumption as much as practical, vote for politicians who care about climate change, and show up for local council meetings to make your area more walkable. You can also try to convince other people to do the same.
If you think having some guys write, let's say it again

"DEATH TO ALL JEWS"

on a banner for 5 bux is some sort of capitalism critique and not a spectacle to get views, I don't know what to tell you.

I guess I can leave you with this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjNILjFters
Pessimistic = realistic here. Companies manage knowledge workers like they're fred winslow taylor and it's 1930. Managers & ed policy wonks are both trying to make programming blue collar (though for different reasons).

Nobody knows how the next recession will affect programmers. If adtech collapses will compensation follow? Why aren't more companies using offshore tech labor?

Can't comment on the union stuff but we should be wary of thinking devs are exceptional. Expensive labor isn't always valuable labor; as detroit learned in the 80s.
Does anybody know a public source of

net worth + annual earnings+ board positions

of US Senator/congressman spouses+children ?
that you shouldn't use the downvote button to mean "disagree"

That's not how HN works - it's perfectly fine to downvote things one disagrees with.
> If we're considering split-second decision-making "planning", than I'm not sure what isn't planning.

Things that don't involve decisions, for example.

If you think planning quickly isn't planning anymore, what do you think it is instead?
> Sure, close friends and family will invite you to their social events, but more distant acquaintances will not; you know, the bloke you met at the pub last week and had a 20 minute chat with, or that cute girl you talked to but then she suddenly she was dragged off to a birthday party by her friends. By missing out on the social opportunities you lose the chance to upgrade these people from acquaintances to friends (or even lovers), as well as meet new people.

Man, missing those events is the BEST part about not being on facebook. I have way more than enough stuff to do, I don't need more things with random people. I have enough time for my wife, my kids, and a few outings a month with friends. I can fill that time easily, the thought of having to politely accept invitations from some bloke you met at the pub sounds horrible.
The role of "confidence man" used to be relegated to a small few with enough brains to pull it off and not enough morality to stop them.

Now, those select few con men have been using the internet to teach masses of wannabes that are too dumb to come up with the con, and too deluded to realize the immorality of what they are doing.
European experts seek ethics guidelines for trustworthy artificial intelligence
It's Dart Lang!
You consider the existing compensation high compared to other non-engineer roles. I agree, but that is not my argument nor the reason I advocate for collective bargaining.

I consider SWE compensation low compared to the value delivered (we don’t need to argue that, right? That’s pretty clear IMO), and therefore desire more of the value be shared with the labor generating it versus it being captured by shareholders.
Lol I’ve been advocating for people to delete that shit since 2009
So in other words Death squads - that level of escalation certainly won't end well at all for anyone quarter-decent. It will certainly lead to a self fulfilling prophecy - everyone with a rifle will be out to kill them, a rich opportunity for organized crime to go plata o pluma, and provoke counterattacks - including on softer targets like families.
Since any company is depending on hooking their clients to something - chemical or social there are too few good companies.

I think we should evaluate the things on fun/harm scale.
"I could quit any time" and "I don't need to quit because it's not unhealthy" are very different statements.

Though how much evidence would you need for someone being able to quit caffeine? If they abstain for a month, is that enough?
Learnt about redis and building an event delivery service.
We Iowans usually drive on country roads pretty fast -- also, we're used to 15-30 minute commutes for basic things.
It does when you aren't stuck in traffic at the start and end of your trip.
Full article: https://outline.com/SztunV
Good luck. I would love to buy it if you get the rights. I really enjoyed Asimov on Numbers.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18570797
Some Hong Kong companies change their name every couple of months
IME flagging on HN is not what you think of as flagging on other sites. Flagging is often used for off-topic or "inappropriate" and is subjective based on the flagger. I don't believe you can apply general understanding of downvotes from other sites or assume allowed reasons for flags based on other sites.

People flag for all sorts of reasons. Sometimes they just get tired-head on a topic, feel a site adds nothing new to the discussion, think it doesn't belong, etc. The only real hardfast rule about flagging is that you don't talk about why.
What type of gameplay doesn't involve some type of decision-making?

I suppose a pure reaction time test, but of course that's boring. And some rhythm games, maybe, but those are actually a lot fun despite the lack of "planning".
There is a way that it does not. It is flexibly typed so you can insert a string into an integer column. This is by design.

This also means you’ll run into trouble when you try to move it to most SQL databases which are strongly typed.
The Lazy Susan Is Neither Classic nor Chinese (2014)
The best analogy I can give is to salt in food. Nobody would eat a teaspoon full of salt, but it makes everything else taste better. Nicotine is subtly but profoundly pleasurable; when inhaled, it delivers an instant and substantial hit of dopamine that noticeably enhances the context it is experienced in. Nicotine relieves fatigue, it lifts the mood, it suppresses hunger, it paradoxically induces both stimulation and relaxation. It's your morning cup of coffee, only infinitely more so.

Even the addiction is, in a strange sense, pleasurable. A nicotine craving is a purely objectified need that can be satisfied in a very direct and immediate way; that is a powerful experience if you have other important needs that cannot be satisfied. I might be miserable at work, I might be depressed and anxious in ways that do not respond to drugs or psychotherapy, I might be poor and lonely and justifiably hopeless about the future, but this one specific need of mine can always be satisfied with a pack of smokes or a Juul and a five minute break.

When you have very limited control over your circumstances, cigarettes give you some modicum of control over your mood. If you have never felt completely trapped by your circumstances, it is difficult to express how significantly that sliver of control can affect your sense of self.

The sociability of smoking simply cannot be emulated in any other way, because the act of smoking itself provides a profound sense of communality. Non-smokers do not and cannot understand why the smokers choose to huddle outside, which is precisely why we feel able to start conversations with complete strangers. We are bound together by a bewitching, maddening and frequently lifelong relationship with a very peculiar alkaloid.

I believe that nicotine has, for entirely respectable reasons, been demonized by the anti-smoking lobby; it has been characterised as a completely pointless drug that persists only because of the aggressive marketing of tobacco companies and its highly addictive nature.

I would argue that the potent addictive potential of nicotine is a product of its potent psychoactive effect and the complex role it plays in the life of smokers. E-cigarette users see e-cigarettes as a potentially lifesaving technology that satisfies a profound psychological need. I do not wish to endorse e-cigarettes, I certainly would not encourage anyone to take up nicotine use, but I would beg for some modicum of empathy on the part of non-smokers towards their nicotine-dependent peers.
AI: Transforming the Mobile App Development Industry in 2019
If a system is working for you as you expect it to, you understandably have no real motivation to change it. That is the only point of that statement.

If you're concerned that your coworkers in the same company or in other companies are not being treated fairly by the system and want to help in changing it, sure, you can do that. But that's usually not the strongest force for change in these things.

In fact, the better compensated and happy workers would want to ensure the continuity of this system that treats them so well.
While these communities are snubbing Dollar General and Family Dollar -- most of rural America welcomes them with open arms, because they stock roughly the same sorts of things as a CVS or Walgreens, but actually build out in a county of a few thousand, and the one next over.

A few decades prior, Walmart built up a retail empire through its willingness to build on the outskirts of rural, far-from-everything-else towns that only had gas stations, ailing downtowns, and maybe a small grocery store, but definitely not a supermarket. But even Walmart's best-in-class coverage leaves large tracts out, and these gaps are filled in by the sorts of Dollar General, for when you don't need to go to the Walmart another twenty, or forty minutes away.

In more populated, more urban areas, grocery stores have shed locations in neighborhoods that were faltering, further contributing to these locales' decline. These are interrelated. It's easy to claim that variety stores don't do enough about food deserts or that they even contribute to the problem (by not stocking enough fresh, perishable foods), but at least they're trying, while other national chain stores have pursued a pragmatic strategy that has largely removed them from this issue.

I once expressed, in a comment on a Strong Towns post [1], that when you consider settlement patterns, urban form, structural poverty, and food insecurity, perhaps you'll find that it's more sensible to subsidize fresh food delivery to people who could least afford it, but such a solution might find itself at odds with the solutions that (new) urbanists would prefer. It might not alter the structural status quo, but it could improve real outcomes in real people's lives.

And as for nonperishables and non-food, bulk packaging is a discount accessible to those with access (e.g. warehouse club), transportation, storage, and able to cover a higher upfront cost for a lower per-unit cost. These are all harder on low or unpredictable incomes, which is one of the many ways poverty is quite expensive. But is this the fault of variety stores? Of course not. The real fix is much harder.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17525029#17531109
As far as I understand, formal verification does not certify the implementation even though the algorithms used are sound.
A person telling off a blind man with a guide dog is not going to stop being a jerk. They are just inconsiderate and do not care.