skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I was China I would put him in an underground lab and make him work day and night

I can't find the article but there was a geneticist who said the difference between Einstein and the average human was 50-200 base pairs.

Which ever country figures that out first will rule the world. Instead of getting an Einstein or Newton or Da Vinci every several hundred years, they could have an assembly line of them.

China already collected the DNA of 2,200 geniuses to try and find correlations. The West's value of "human rights" and subjective ethics will be our doom. We are completely ignoring avenues of research because people don't like the implications of intelligence being genetic

https://singularityhub.com/2013/03/19/chinas-bgi-to-sequence...
want to become familiar with robotics.

Want to finish a book and have initial users on my website.
> Do you think smart people would bother to spend a fortune on education (either directly via private schooling or indirectly by housing) if the school didn't matter?

Yes, because smart and well informed are not the same thing, and even smart people who have access to systematic information are not immune to dismissing that information due to cognitive biases, particularly confirmation bias.

Quality of school district is also a well worn socially acceptable cover for avoiding proximity to those disliked for reasons of race or class, and smart people can still be racist and/or classist, and are more, not less, likely to seek socially acceptable cover for that.
Have you tried doing serverless? I have and my experience with it was quite bad. Here are other people sharing the same opinion https://arxiv.org/pdf/1812.03651.pdf
Agreed. This city is a commuter city: everyone drives into downtown at 8 am and migrates out into detroit metro at 5 pm. It's a nightmare commute.

I really enjoyed working by Campus Martius but the commute was brutal. I also did not enjoy the insanely high parking prices.

I totally agree about the Quicken vibe. Dan Gilbert owns a significant portion of the real estate downtown.
Why didn’t you buy a vacation home in a place that’s better wired? We stayed at an AirBnB is Putnam County, NY recently that had very solid 100 Mbps cable. You can get 100 Mbps cable throughout Maryland’s Eastern Shore, and Easton, a town of 15,000, is upgrading its municipal cable system to gigabit.

What does it say about the importance of high-speed broadband access as a differentiating factor that even someone in the tech industry will move somewhere without it? Is that a compelling fact for towns like Easton who believe that investing in municipal broadband will attract more residents?
There are probably a lot of other reasons that it would not be socially acceptable to admit to.

Being an obvious foreigner can signal you have money and power without you having to say a word about it. In contrast, relocating to a small town in the US wouldn't bring such perks of establishing that the poverty stricken locals should defer to you and cater to you. Instead, you would be an outsider trying to "prove" yourself and get an in socially.

Going to a less developed foreign country allows some people to impose whatever mental models they desire on the landscape without having to try to understand local culture or respect it. To their mind, a less developed country is a social clean slate and folks their should just be grateful a rich Westerner has showed up with money to spend.

If you do run into problems, you can blame it on cultural misunderstanding and try to get a free "out" that no one would give you in a small town in your own country because you are expected to know better than that, even though the laws vary to some degree from state to state within the US.

For example, articles about Westerners drinking alcohol in a Middle Eastern country and being arrested for it are generally viewed sympathetically in the west. Readers are generally on the side of the person who drank alcohol and are critical of the "backwards" country forbidding alcohol. In contrast, if you smoke marijuana someplace where it isn't legal in the US, you get vastly less sympathy from most folks because you are supposed to know better than that.

The idea of moving to some other country that is super cheap and where the living is expected to be easy if you are a Westerner is rooted in historical colonialism. It's really rooted in an expectation of taking advantage of the locals and of their country while telling yourself you are doing only good things for these uneducated heathens -- so viewed because they are not educated in the same things you are educated in, a point of view that stands in part because of your own unquestioned ignorance of their culture and history that you probably think isn't worth studying.

I have considered relocating to another, cheaper country, both because I come from a multi-cultural household and haven't been out of the US in a long time and because I currently have a limited income and the idea of magically solving my financial problems by moving someplace vastly cheaper sounds like a wonderful easy answer. So I understand the appeal.

But I think a lot of people make it work for reasons I find problematic and can't mentally replicate, in part because my mother is an immigrant, so I can't manage to see the local economy as some kind of clean slate that I can impose myself upon and that appears to be a large part of the appeal for some people.
Some of those are definitely achieveable. Hopefully the person who wrote that is setting S.M.A.R.T. goals as those won't happen overnight without work and planning to get there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMART_criteria
I remember there was a case where an American academic headed a scientific organization in Germany but was told he couldn’t call himself Dr. because his doctorate was from America.

Found a link about it: http://m.spiegel.de/international/germany/title-fight-us-aca...
This advice works in other scenarios where companies string you along hoping you will give up and disappear.

Once my car was badly damaged by someone who ran a stop sign. It was clearly the other driver's fault. Her insurance was Allstate. They strung me along for more than a month "investigating" this obvious situation.

My car was an older one that was worth about the cost of the repairs, and they probably thought I would just give it up. But it was my only transportation and I needed it for work.

I did some research on California's insurance regulations and discovered their requirement that claims be settled within 40 days. After 40 days passed, I wrote a email similar to the letter examples in this article, giving then five days before I reported them to California's insurance department.

It was astonishing to see the immediate change in their behavior. The adjustor who had been playing telephone tag for weeks called me within an hour and arranged for a body shop near my home to start work immediately.

They laugh at angry bluster, but will move mountains to appease a focused person who can bring a regulatory agency down on them.
Ask HN: Readings on migration and xenophobia?
The rise of xenophobia as a retreat from decades of migration liberal policies in the West -- Brexit, the U.S. Border Wall "situation", rejection of the UN migration pact -- seems to have become a persistent crisis.

Are there any narratives or compelling books that you've read in 2018 that give a thoughtful analysis of how we got here?

Who are the innovative thinkers and doers here?
oh yeah... that’s good too
Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2019)
Edit: Sorry everybody! This should have gone out tomorrow, since Jan 1 is such a standard holiday. I'm going to kill this thread now and we'll have the real one tomorrow. We will also modify the code to get this right for next year. -- dang
Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2019)
Edit: Sorry everybody! This should have gone out tomorrow, since Jan 1 is such a standard holiday. I'm going to kill this thread now and we'll have the real one tomorrow. We will also modify the code to get this right for next year. -- dang
Maybe clearly false to you, but certainly not to everyone.
There's a few options in between, namely the "industry professor" and the "industrial researcher". Many universities will hire someone with suitable industry experience who has previously adjuncted to teach classes and occasionally do research as a "Visiting professor" (but you have to be good at both sides, think https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bjarne_Stroustrup).

There are also numerous roles in industry which do research (even Oracle has a research lab!). This is probably the easier route, especially if you're not as keen on teaching, and more and more companies are open to people doing speculative work and publishing papers (note that i'm making the assumption we're generally talking about software development, ML, hardware development, etc).
That happened to a Go repo of mine once as well (except it was a python script causing the misidentification). I fixed it by adding a gitattributes file to the repo. Here it is:

https://github.com/w8rbt/netscan/blob/master/.gitattributes
I tried to register for unfold and it just 500's for me.
This is nice and useful to me. I’m trying to build a blog platform like that, but I tend to use web assembly to support different languages
I have to say, this articulated a lot about what I felt as well. This is what I mentioned in the article that I don't agree with all the policies Sweden is taking, especially when it comes to immigration. You explained it much better.
> Does it really hurt so much?

Potentially yes. The manufacturer may attempt to prevent publication through legal threats or action, which can be annoying and expensive even if you ultimately win. The incentive to be annoying goes down significantly once the disclosure cannot be prevented (because it's already public) and the public is watching (i.e. any action against the researcher has a higher likelihood of public backlash).

It also allows the manufacturer, who is likely more experienced and has more resources, to start PR to downplay the attack.

I generally default to responsible/coordinated disclosure, but I also do my research first. If the company has previously shown undesirable behavior (like the stuff I've described), or I've reported to them previously and didn't like the experience, they'll learn about the disclosure from the news.
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I negotiated extended vacation days and a leased company car over pay. Makes both parties happy in this case.

Free lunches as in the company pays for the food but the lunch breaks are not paid.
I'm pretty sure it's about the ethics of altering humans and a fear or a resurgence of eugenics.

That aside, I'm also pretty sure someone reviewed his work and found out that his HIV-immune mutation was not done correctly, it's a bit late for me to find a link, will update later if you're interested.

Edit: Nvm, someone else posted a better answer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18798764
Good article but I gotta ask why it says "indy" in the title and then "indie" in the article itself? Using "indy" is so obviously wrong.
Well, I strike more of a middle-ground. I don't personally expect to benefit from the technology. But I'm glad there are "early adopters" who will advance the science.

I figure, big picture -- The earth has had numerous great extinction events[1], if another happens, the ability to modify our genes may be the thing that keeps the race alive.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction_event
Author here: Let's join our forces
Where/how did you check that? I am in my mid-30s and know several people who are my age and a bit older who like Stranger Things.

I don't think real data on Netflix viewership is public, is it? My presumption is Netflix guards that data way too much to share it.
A book that might help make the big ideas more accessible to the layman is The Simple Path to Wealth by JL Collins.

https://www.amazon.com/Simple-Path-Wealth-financial-independ...

One beef I have with the finance industry is that very few people, especially professionals, will give you the above info in an actionable manner to do it yourself. And given the way they are compensated, it's not a big surprise. I would like to see it more open and approachable like programming. But I do believe that the average person can understand the basic concepts of buckets, index funds, risk allocation, and reducing risk over time.

I do think that the weird high-fee niche investment case is unfortunately quite common. Perhaps one more big idea for most people to understand is that even most financial professionals can't beat the market, though it almost goes against their own compensation incentives to admit that.
I agree. I meant a calculations for building a bridge, and having responsibility for it.
Still worse, ignoring that philosophy has _always_ proceeded as a statement of theories to be questioned and improved upon.

The scholarship is just bad. The whole argument is full of mis-statements of critiqued positions.

Anyone interested in the article is better served to start reading Plato, Locke, Hume, Smith . . . .
You can replace the ! with a %21 and the parser will handle it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jackson%27s_Sorcery%21

Inkle studios did an interesting adaptation for the Sorcery series for mobile. Their games feel a little closer to CYOA than traditional interactive fiction: https://inklestudios.com/sorcery/

They've also open-sourced a markdown format for CYOA games along with a compiler to json and an engine to execute it: https://github.com/inkle/ink
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this is the regular URL:
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The coolest bus shelters are in Dubai - they have air conditioning. They look cool too.

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RPN calculator implementations in 61 languages
I'll just mention that having a moral philosophy that implies that the ideal society doesn't have something analogous to our country borders does not necessarily require open borders in a society that is not otherwise ideal.
How many of these fit in the Mac App Store with its sandbox restrictions?
> It scares me off for the same reason that hundreds of thousands of people use dynamic languages, and I still believe that this is far from being a good idea.

> The same way that hundreds of millions of people believe in god, and I still think this is absurd.

Well, that takes the idea of a 'programming language holy war' to a very literal place.
It's just a prank.
We aren't actually talking about someone literally stepping over a body on the street. We are talking about Facebook deciding to fuck with people by calling the cops on them.

But let's go with your theory.

I was homeless for several years. I also struggle with being suicidal due to my intractable personal problems that were the root cause of my homelessness.

While homeless, I spent time successfully developing an online income. It was an uphill battle because of the shitty way I was treated by people online who do know how to make money on the internet.

Such people, no, were absolutely not willing to give me useful constructive feedback to help me develop my projects. Some of them only ever spoke to me to be openly contemptuous while pretending that speaking to me at all was their good deed of the day because they are that monstrously classist.

If someone is homeless and dying on the street, a helluva lot has already gone wrong and the lack of positive, constructive social connections combined with a preponderance of negative social connections will be a large part of the problem there.

When I was homeless, people sometimes felt compelled to try to say they didn't want me to die when I was feeling suicidal while they were incapable of not shitting all over me. I didn't need some asshole trying to use me as their imagined good deed of the day.

My experience of such moments was that I was being held hostage and compelled to continue to suffer by people who were going to continue to treat me abusively and not do fuck all to help me, or even fuck all to try to figure out how to shit on me less.
I feel like there is a giant gaping hole of information, which is that visual novel games in Japan are cyoa style stories, and are very popular. The article here has a lot of words, but nothing much to say.
Google has played a J++ on Java developers, with Google wanabee employees always arguing for such action.

However, Java 9 support is already ongoing on AOSP, so we might still get some good news by Google IO 2019.

In any case, even if Kotlin turns out to be the future of Android, it is much more worthwhile language than Dart, in features, backends and CV value.
2FA: Fitness, Finance and Autonomy. Didn't realize till my friend pointed out the acronym/initialism.
Why are there NMN supplements, when it is essentially vitamin-b / niacin? Honest question, what am I missing?

Asking because I already get too much vitamin b3, 6 and 12 from energy drinks.
It's not the fact that Mozilla sanitizes or does not sanitize the ads to prevent user tracking. It's the fact that there was never any explicit knowledge that ads like this would even show up on the browser homepage, which violates further trust in Firefox and Mozilla.
Even on shorter timescales, there are 100+ ton milled monoliths all over the world, which are seemingly 4000+ years years old. Yet the civilizations of 4000 years ago don’t seem to have known how to mill such stones. It probably wasn’t until the 19th century at the earliest that we “re-learned” the basic skills required.

My default assumption is that history has only picked up, at best, the latter cycles on big time scales.
Why does the elevation prompt have only the wallpaper as its background?
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> Writing MISRA C and using verification tools like Astree, or SPARK + verification tools are not as elegant, but their weakest point is stronger than Haskell's.

That's why we need more Haskell-hosted system programming DSLs - with fancy sound types, proofs, extraction and stuff.
>I wonder if Anderson supports an open-borders immigration policy. By her argument, a free society should be equally obligated to someone unlucky enough to be born in Congo, and should afford her all the same freedoms to live, work and participate in a well functioning free society.

One could rationally want the best for their country/society, but not for everybody outside of it (e.g. if giving that free-pass-for-all access can decline the prospects of one's society more than the free-pass-for-those-already-in can help it, because of the population increase, different backgrounds that would need to overcome, different religious and political preferences that a mass of outsiders could impose, etc).
He was not engaging in professional practice, it was civic practice. You don't need an economics degree to comment on a tax measure.
> This advice is so shockingly bad that I'm wondering if this is a deliberate spoof.
This is the kind of management behaviour that erodes trust.

Then what is the behaviour you are talking about here? I must be missing something.
> I was completely clueless about many of my team members' very personal emotional baggage (everyone had different stories, but the key point is that everyone often made very negative assumptions and interpretations).

Serious question, how did your team have that many people with these issues. I presume that presuming a standard distribution, every team would have certain number of people with certain mental health related issues, but if your team has more than others, then there must be some hiring heuristic which skewed things that way. Am I correct?
I really like those games, I got all of them and they feel very immersive to play. I would recommend them wholeheartedly.
Exactly this point! They should charge more on the lines of affiliate fee or transaction fees. 5% is what they should get in an ideal world.
And netbus!