skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're correct, but in the same way that you'd be correct in saying you can derive most of modern mathematics from the axioms of Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory. Textbooks still go through the individual results rather than just stopping at an enumeration of the axioms.

I think the first three points get to the main body of the actual errors many people make in the exact way they make them: overconfidence in their understanding and in their ability to be neutral.
Sounds more like a SJWs idea of economics.
While I wouldn't be surprised that having two wage earners, and introducing a glut of new workers into the pool would certainly increase job competition, I really think that blaming feminism is pretty simplistic - it could be that culturally our desire for more required that we needed the spending power of two adults (not knowing that would hamstring our later earning potential), or it could be that due to a drop in birth rate due to modernization and standard of living increases women simply had less reason to stay home and more time for out of home activities.
But these lists aren't just a list of axioms, from which the corollaries are left as an exercise to the reader.
I would say the main thing that basic had going for it is that everyone seemed to have it on their desktop.

In that sense, Javascript is a worth heir because it is right there in everyone's browser.

I think BASIC felt simple because you got used to it but, when it came down to it, was it really that much "simpler" than Pascal or C?
I already pay a subscription service to be on an ad-free internet; I pay it to my service provider. I've given up on news on the internet its mostly crap, and the rest of it has no impact on my daily life, feel way better without it.
Items are just about as cheap as they've been. Instead of saving the extra money, most people simply buy more crap.

I get that that other costs (healthcare, education, housing) have risen so much that the cheap goods can't offset them. But, it seems that every little bit would still help, even if things were net-worse.
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I've seen this episode and can confirm it's excellent (as well as the rest of the series that will resume in March 2019).
Which is totally not possible with judges, right ?

I feel like a lot of arguments being made here fail the A vs B test. Any argument that purports to provide help with choosing Judges vs Algorithms needs to apply differently to Judges, and differently to Algorithms.

How about: with Judges we simply won't know (for sure) what influences them. Are they racist ? Who knows. Do they prefere to let people with jobs out (realistically: yes, but we don't know for sure). Do they ...

With algorithm we can literally test, by presenting them with artificial cases, lots of them, and see how they judge. With a judge, you can't.
I would say those things that gave most Americans a sense of identity like community, religion or whatever are completely eroding. People move away to colleges, move away for jobs, i think we live in an era where the world looks so vast and chaotic, so people look for meaning in things they feel that are in their control, their work.
While what you say specifically is true, using arrest rates to determine criminal activity by race (and the subsequent conviction rate, etc.) has been shown to have strong relationship to race; at least in the United States. There are entire books on the subject. You can't tie racial arrest rates to the underlying crime rate, as POC get arrested far more often for the same crimes.
Critical Review: How Well Do House Plants Perform as Indoor Air Cleaners?

https://www.buildingecology.com/download/critical-review-how...

This might be of interest to you.
Another factor: The Immigration Act of 1965 significantly increased the amount of labor immigrating to the country

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_and_Nationality_Ac...
I think "irreducible to simple rules" is really the heart of that. A program is a finite set of rules which are followed consistently and deterministically[1]. Programs are also almost infinitely malleable. Find a bug, fix a bug, it's gone forever[2]. People, societies, and markets have none of these properties. Everyone has their own rules, which they don't even follow consistently, and change is very difficult. People who are drawn toward one kind of reasoning are often literally incapable of the other. How many economists really understand programming[3]? The appeal of Asimov's "psychohistory" to programmers is obvious, but it's fiction. Unfortunately it's fiction that many programmers believe when they try their hand at economics or political science.

[1] Mostly. I could write a whole "falsehoods programmers believe about programming" about the cases where that model doesn't apply.

[2] Again, mostly. Updates take time, old versions persist, etc.

[3] A few, I'm sure, but that doesn't affect the point.
I disagree with the implied notion here that Internet art is any more ephemeral than physical art. Physical art, whether it be a statue or a painting, will eventually need to be preserved and maintained to ensure it is available for future generations. Transferring a digital art file to a different media or changing the storage protocol or making backups in case of data loss is just another form of art preservation.
>Perhaps consider that the problem is not as simple as it appears to you.

I dont think its a simple problem. It is one without an optimal solution. I just think the downsides of having the stuff around are preferable to having people ruining their mental health out of financial desperation.

I also believe that the reliability would go up with time, people are able to learn quite a lot.
UTC isn't a European timezone, it's "universal coordinated time".
The less number of days people are expected to work, the more advantage motivated and ambitious employees have. If everyone has to work everyday, the only thing a person can do is to work longer hours, which have a decreasing marginal gains every extra hour worked. But with a weekend, an employee now can use 2 extra days to get ahead, theoretically doing 40% more work.

With a 3 day weekend, this goes up to an eye popping 75% more work, or even just a 25% increase for one extra day.

Because of this, I contend that a 4-day work week is highly unstable and that employees are going to naturally fall into a 5 or 6 day pattern to get ahead.

For a long time, people have been talking about leveling off work hours since productivity has/will go up. But the reality is that no one doesn’t want to work. No one wants to just work 4 hours a day and be done with it. We want to word harder and do more and make more money and be more successful. That’s who we (humans) are and it’s foolish to think we can change that.
> Google Sheets with Google Forms (or whatever it may be called) for some users.

That was my reaction too. I have a google sheet for bread that allows for different batch sizes and displays out baking instructions in english. This is what a cell looks like: ="mix "&D3*B$1&" grams of "&C3

I can look at the sheet on my phone when making bread. Sheets also now caches off line.
Intel High-Performance Python Extends to Machine Learning and Data Analytics
Depends on how you define "user friendly". IMHO emscripten does what a gcc-compatible C/C++ toolchain is supposed to do:

> emcc hello.c -o hello.html

...which gives you a complete WebAssembly application runnable in the browser.

With VSCode as IDE it's possible to build a fairly nice edit-compile-test workflow with Intellisense and error squiggles.

BUT:

What's really missing is proper debugging support (can mostly be worked around by debugging a platform-native executable compiled from the same source, but working source-level debugging for WASM blobs would be nice).
No disrespect, but I think the thought process of your comment is exactly what this post is trying to address.

While falsehood lists that cover emails, phone numbers or CSV files are basically just a much better specification than the one you were following initially, this falsehood list works on a different level. You can't simply go through all the items and make sure your code covers each one. You're supposed to read it and come to a conclusion that economics is less similar to mathematics and more similar to sociology. That it's not a set of rational rules but something inherently more complex and chaotic.

It can still have a huge effect on your code - not in the form of additional corner cases you need to cover, but as questions you may ask yourself about the purpose and morality of your work. At least that's how I understand it.
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> When white people talk about those taking handouts or getting something for free they mostly are talking about poor brown people.

This is not my experience as a lifelong American with many white friends, family, etc.

> Blacks on average are poorer and are more likely to be charged with committing a crime but in terms of numbers most crimes are committed by whites and most poor people are white.

Of course, whites are a larger part of the population—60ish percent in the USA, but they undercommit crimes. For whatever reason (legacy of historical racism, poor socioeconomic status, etc), black Americans overcommit crimes both according to police data and victim reports.

Many are tempted to deny these facts as “supportive of racism”, but these facts don’t support racism because the variance within a race is huge and the overwhelming majority of any race are decent, productive, law-abiding people.

> I’ve felt that if poor whites in the U.S. stopped thinking of themselves as better than brown people, if they would stop believing the myths and media narratives about race then we’d have universal health care and free higher education.

In America, the media narratives about race are entirely sympathetic toward minorities. I would also appreciate a citation for the implication that poor white Americans are somehow more racist than other Americans (esp other poor Americans).
Agreed. It would be nice if the author first explained what they meant by economics being "morally neutral" or "racially neutral" before declaring them falsehoods. For about half of these I can follow along with what the author's saying is false (though still, there's no justitication...). But the rest seem very weaselly or subjective.
I’m an economist by training. I understand where the author is coming from but most of these points are arguable (and much argued upon) but merely stating these points of contention without explaining why these things are considered true and instead might not be isn't very useful. To a certain extent this text paradoxically reduces economics to sub-Econ101 levels by making a simple list of Apparent Truths That Are Implied To Be Actually False (whose complements therefore are implied to be True, but logically might not be).

There wouldn't be a whole field of well-meaning professionals looking into these matters if it were this simple.
The Value Chain Constraint
Try nmcli to get rid of your nm-applet dependency. ;)
Didn't Facebook already make a similar feature for their Ocular series? Sorry, big fan of the idea, just wondering what makes your specific product novel.

But still, awesome work!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2U9lXEnHns
Oh man ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cottingley_Fairies_1.jpg

What is wrong with her hands: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cottingley_Fairies#/media/File...

Clearly motion blur, but none in the supposedly flying fairy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CottingleyFairies3.jpg

Looks exactly like roger-rabbit style splicing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CottingleyFairies4.jpg
If you truly understand a system you should be able to navigate it successfully. I certainly wouldn't take advice from someone who can't quantifiably show that they know what they're talking about.

That this person can't compile a convincing list with evidence just further shows that they aren't worth listening to.
I think you have to wait for people who encountered meaningful art right around the time they hit puberty (say 12-14) to grow into rich adults for whom it held special value (say 40s). So I would say 30 years.
Title lacks; Didn't read. How poor? How many too few? Is there anything we can learn from this study? I have my doubts...
How do you know the lake is real?
This makes me think that something like Stack Overflow could be used to train a model that generates code to answer a question—and that software specifications that are decomposed into a series of requirements or "questions" could be fed into this model to produce code that's equivalent to a team of remote contractors.

Your model would be based on NLP/votes of the questions, NLP/votes of the answers, and separating the text from the code in both.

The fact that many markdown/code formatting tools have you select the language for syntax highlighting is useful for classifying code as well.
For nm-applet you can use nmtui as a text-mode substitute, works fine for most tasks.
My reading of the parent comment is that they understand everything you're saying, and their point is that the subject matter is thus a poor fit for the "Falsehoods Programmers Believe" moniker.

The phone number example they gave works very well for demonstrating misconceptions. Economics doesn't work as well for that, for precisely the reason you stated about it being partly sociological. In fact it's sociopolitical, which complicates matters further.
It's a bit paradoxical and self-referential for a list of supposed Falsehoods to be enunciated and to include “Econ-101 is NOT a comprehensive...” as an item... having further reduced economics to an even lesser level of sophistication.
That's rather disingenuous, the tunnelling contracts for Crossrail's 42km of tunnels came to £1.5b in 2011, or £1.8b today - £40m per km.

The tunnelling was 10% of the total cost of the project.

Stonehenge requires 6km of tunnels, which would be £250m at crossrail rates, if that was also 10% of the total cost that would be a £2.5b project

The tunnels aren't comparable either -- each bore of crossrail is 7.1m, I believe the ones needed for the road tunnels would be larger than that, but on the other hand crossrail project included electrification of the GWR to Reading and resignalling.
I hope so. Maybe it'll bring back some of that BBS/early-internet community feel to it, at least for a while.
That's funny, I was wanting more details on the bakery as well. I'm wondering how much of a pay difference he's experiencing going from software developer to bakery owner.
People believe in the Falkirk Wheel, even though it's clearly bad CGI!
>Good teachers are scarce too

You have named the very reason the teachers are angrily protesting any and all attempts at evaluation of teachers' productivity. Or introduction of private (i.e., market-based) schools competing with the state run ones.
Wealth has buffered individuals from the unpleasantness of life for time immemorial. It's kind of the point when you think about it.
You claimed that the author had no right to call his desktop setup a desktop setup based on your own made up rules. That is the very definition of gatekeeping.

Also, please tell me where I insulted you. I called you out for gatekeeping and did so rather politely. If you consider a rebuttal to be an insult I’d advise you to grow a thicker skin before interacting with others or you’re in for a lot of disappointment.
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>The very basics of a legal system are consistency (fairness) and completeness (coverage).

You are using words that have a very precise formal meaning into a completely different (informal) sense. Probably this is the source of your confusion.
Disco: Modern Session Encryption [pdf]
The outputs of examples in many tutorials need to be corrected. :)

What not add a new format verb instead?
Given the replication crisis is it not more accurate to say that social "scientists" have difficulty understanding data and logic? It's no wonder that programmers who are grounded in both of those can see through the holes in their subjective and feeling driven arguments so often.
Every time I have to use the slow windows computers at the college I teach at I wish they would put a lightweight linux on them. I wouldn't go full command line but all I'm doing is a browser and word processing. A chromeos-like experience would be fine. Of course what really kills my work computer is the anti-virus. I f I could just disable that then the computer would be a lot more usable.
Easily estimate the price to build a website
Information symmetry most definitely does exist insofar as there are situations one can contrive where both parties are equally informed. Therefore it cannot be ruled out tout court by fiat.
Finally, StackSort (https://xkcd.com/1185/) could actually be useful in a real world application.
Have you an example of a title where you could put all this information in 80 characters (the limit of HN)?
Google Analytics isn't an advertisement, it's a tracking system.
That makes no sense. You're trying to apply a mathematical theorem to a real-world situation on the basis of some very thin analogy.
This is why it's good practice to just never use MM/DD or DD/MM dates anywhere. 2-Mar or 2-MAR is nearly as terse but much less ambiguous. The only other date format I default to is YYYY-MM-DD (i.e. 2019-03-02). It sorts well and, by putting the year first, doesn't pick a side in the MM/DD or DD/MM battle. It just lists the terms in descending significance.
The problem we're discussing here is not about the site having a record of all the legitimate requests needed to load a page.

The problem is that the site is now serving a piece of (third-party, but that's besides the point) malware explicitly designed to monitor events that would normally not cause a network request (and thus wouldn't be logged), and then sending that to a malicious third-party through a reverse-proxy.
EU elections 2019: We will only vote for politicians who vote against Article 13
Yes, Law is the nexus where Moral, Political, and Commercial interest all meet. Its going to be messy and complicated.

But, it's common on tech boards to have a very loud minority of autistic-types claim that all these things can be solved by "code".
The Smart Ways to Correct Mistakes in Git
What's the plan for pairing based curves now that the Extended Tower Number Field Sieve has made BN256 unusable for many applications[1]? Do you plan on integrating BLS curves any time soon?

[1] see https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/crypto/bn256
Only when regulation stops it from being efficient.
I don't think that's true at all. People can rarely tell the difference between an article without facts or sources and a well sourced article. It's only going to get worse when the bots can generate convincing 'fake news'.
Well, I didn't hear about the book yet. But seeing as your coment and the parent suggest it, I'll add it to my to-read list as well.

The Code book I've heard people speak highly off before but have not read it yet myself.
> There wouldn't be a whole field of well-meaning professionals looking into these matters if it were this simple.

I think this list basically an exhortation to think twice before swaggering into a forum thread citing "basic economics" like you've got everything figured out. It's a reminder that things are more complicated.
break up with your SO.
Would like to know, does Google Analytics actually use data for tracking/ad targeting? I thought it would only track users if they embedded the AdWords script. If so, why is it blocked by UBO and Ghostery?
I know several programmers that are many times more productive than their peers, when compared to least-performing peers it's easily 10-20x. They make a little bit more, I'd guess 20-30%.

Not in the US, but I'm sure this is quite common and compensation anywhere near reflecting the performance is a rare exception.
Why This Founder Left a Multi-Million Dollar Startup for Life in the Woods
“Outlier” is extreme. A significant portion of black Americans are in the middle class. The legacy of historical racism is significant, but exaggerations don’t help anyone.
‘We should be outraged’: Alabama congresswoman tackles voter suppression
Hackers Could Track Phones Through Vulnerabilities in 4G, 5G
>There's little salary difference between a "good" and "mediocre" programmer.

An essential condition for things to be commodities is that they're fungible. If we accept that your "good" and "mediocre" programmers are commodities, there's no basis to call them "good" and "mediocre" because they're fungible to their employer. And if there's a basis to do that, how are they fungible ?
It would make sense that Keck open data would use the international ISO standard, no? Further, NASA changed (in 1990) to the metric system, but this doesn't really change how two American astronomers would communicate with each other on a day-to-day basis.
Hi, thanks for the actual feedback!

1. I'd say somewhere between brokerage account(s), or similar applications, and spreadsheets, e.g. keeping track of investments made on multiple brokerage accounts. I currently use spreadsheets for this, but wanted an alternative.

2. This is definitely something to improve.

I'm currently working on portfolio tooling and your points are very helpful, thank you.
“From a societal perspective, and in the interests of reducing the burden of psychological distress, efforts should be made to enhance the quality of social connections as opposed to promoting the virtues of larger social networks.”

They say this, but people with integrity are typically made fun of secretly or even publicly, declared dismissive and asocial, instead of positively recognized in any fashion. They are seen as "rude", as "expecting too much", and at every point of their life, it is as if the society is telling them: "let it go, drop down to our level". Not in those words, but with actions and with the general atmosphere of the society.

A Seneca quote has reasoned with me for long time, I'll paraphrase it: you don't need a teacher for the vices!

It seems as if people prefer what objectively causes them harm (to their mental health and otherwise).

Lying, evil thoughts, friends envious of each other, talking behind their backs, unfaithfulness is more common than being a good person, trying to do your best in this world (which, I am sure, is not easy on anybody), be in a positive mood, if you can't help - at least don't interfere, and so on.

We need to somehow improve our ethics and morals on our own, willingly. I know exactly what I did in my life: I read a lot of philosophy. I also come from a very honest family, so that had some impact I am sure.

Compare this with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19238633 (Why Be Honest If Honesty Doesn't Pay)
I know a lot of financial analysts who don’t know how to “program” but develop incredibly complicated Turing complete excel models regularly. Excel is a very flexible tool and can be leveraged to great effect.
anything Nelson “Big Head” Bighetti is involved in is a guaranteed winner.
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No no no no no...

Read the article. Read it!
this is a terminal, not a desktop. and it's really great at being that.
LLVM _is_ the backend for Mono. It's easier for LLVM to produce better code if it doesn't have to go via a register based bytecode VM like WebAssembly. Was discussed here not so long ago: http://troubles.md/posts/wasm-is-not-a-stack-machine/
> Why then is it permissible to stop someone from archiving the facts?

The "publication" laws were written in a different time - newspapers have, simply because they're physical objects, not searchable at the vast scale and speed that a quick Google search allows now. The laws simply have to be modernized, that's it.

> especially given the repeat scammers who would exploit it.

These can be sued until they burn down to the ground. Making money off of people's misery in that way is as despicable as it gets in a civilized society.
I've always just assumed it does, in the same way I assume Facebook's like etc. buttons do plenty of tracking even if you don't interact with them.