skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "bullshitter" metric actually used is highly correlated with people trying to choose the "correct" answer to the questions.

I'm not sure that people trying to conform to the correct answer in a survey/test is particularly well correlated with what most people would consider "bullshitters" in life though (the guy selling vaporware with fake testimonials, the guy who can confidently talk at great length on a subject without actually saying anything meaningful, the guy that's having lots and lots of sex with amazing girls every night but they all go to another school) who are being creative rather than conformist in how they present themselves.

[FWIW it probably also picks up a fair few kids who ticked their familiarity with 'proper numbers' because they studied proper and improper fractions quite recently and understood it very well, though those who [also] asserted familiarity with "subjunctive scaling" have fewer excuses...]
Creating a chat web application from scratch with Rails and ActionCable
This is an interesting history of the role of Scotland in the story of how rhubarb seeds were smuggled back from Russia in the 18th century: http://www.rcpe.ac.uk/sites/default/files/jrcpe_47_1_lee.pdf (PDF, 5Mb)

A particularly choice quote:

"From 1750 to 1850 Russia was making a fortune from trading rhubarb root through St Petersburg to Europe via the Baltic. Russia supplied and controlled the export of the dried root, thus controlling its price. It banned the export of the seeds to block the growing of the plant elsewhere. Catherine the Great took considerable interest in the cultivation and sale of rhubarb, as it helped to finance her military campaigns in Finland, Poland, Ukraine and Crimea. The price of rhubarb root rocketed! At one time the seeds were more valuable, weight for weight, than gold. To give some idea of the veneration that was given to the plant, Lord Stanhope, a Catholic peer, sent some rhubarb seeds to the Pope in a gold case, encouraging him to grow the plant in the gardens at the Vatican. This monopoly could not last indefinitely. Professor John Hope stated in 1770 that if 'Russian' rhubarb could be grown successfully in the UK, it would save the economy about £1 million a year (approximately £20–30 million in today's money)"
I knew this kind of objection was coming. It was very predictable. Your objection to the massive infringement of basic human rights is morally and ethically completely and absolutely correct in every single possible way.

It's also, for the moment and strictly for the purposes of this particular conversation at hand, irrelevant.

Though I understand if some might choose to believe otherwise for political reasons. The discussion at hand is about overarching legal systems, their general reliability, and how much bearing laws have on what actually happens.

Similarly, one could probably point at some by-the-book handling of a parking ticket in China as proof that it is a nation with rule of law. It would be similarly possessed of opportunity to come into greater alignment with relevance.
So... how do you know how much grit it takes for a brick and mortar college?
I wouldn't expect that. Algorithm interviews as they're practiced tend to favor memory abilities and not cognitive. It's hard to come up with standard algorithms on the spot if you haven't been exposed to them.

I do know that cognitive abilities and long term memory abilities aren't correlated. Cognitive abilities and short term / working memory are positively correlated though.
The feds can issue their own ID, and require that the states recognize it for the purposes of voter identification, at least for federal elections.

But you're right, "federal" was an unnecessary qualifier. I would also be interested in any such bills on state level.

> One of the big oppositions to ID laws is that it unfairly hurts poor voters more than rich ones

That is only so because the voter ID laws you usually see in US are intentionally designed to do just that. But, as I wrote in my initial comment in this thread, most developed countries have some form of voter ID without those issues.

Hence why I don't buy the argument that voter ID is inherently discriminatory. And, logically, if your opposition to voter ID is on those grounds, then there should be a reasonable compromise here in form of implementing it, but in a non-discriminatory way. Hence my question about whether Dems have tried that anywhere.
Is that really fraud or did the wires get crossed?

It's hard to believe an individual could eat $2000 of McDonald's food in two weeks. (For that matter, that someone could eat a poutine and not go to the ER afterwards...)
I think any type of global war would far worse for human lives than climate change and also be terrible for the global climate. And if we are tightly coupled through trade that aligns our interests and helps reduce the risk of war as well makes it easier to cooperate on things like climate change.
>or they get straight up murdered by a Saudia Arabia, a Russia, or a North Korea

I think you need to get some perspective about this, how likely do you think it is that any individual from the US is worried about that fate?
Perhaps an AI-assisted version of Ben Folds' "composing a symphony on-stage"? [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BytUY_AwTUs
> They don't spend on R&D like they used to, instead they've tried to acquire new products and technology.

From my understanding it was the opposite. They spend on R&D quite significantly but if a product isn’t profitable enough they sell it off. [0][1]

[0] http://m.startribune.com/3m-will-sell-corning-its-optical-fi...

[1] https://news.3m.com/press-release/company-english/3m-sell-it...
> Source?

"I will keep you in suspense" is an obvious dogwhistle that he has no intent to obey the rule of law.

https://www.cnn.com/2016/10/19/politics/presidential-debate-...

There is also his former lawyer on the topic, "Cohen: fears no 'peaceful transition' if Trump loses in 2020"

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-2020/coh...

> Is it possible that that's the goal of the media right now? To make things seem so bad that they can swing political opinion? I mean look at this article. They focus on the negative but fail to mention in the headline that we also have the most positive experiences. That's framing and is very dangerous when done at scale.

No, it is not possible that this is the media. The President is directing a genocide and is upset that it is not progressing faster. This is not the media, it is a direct fact straight from the President and it is dangerous and bad.

It is stressful for many many Americans. I would like to think all, but I understand not everyone cares about children being kept in cages and separated from their parents. Or about how the President talks about how using "machine guns at the border" would be "more effective" to accomplish his goals.

It's not "the media". It's the President.
Low budget movies/videos?
I think it's culturally and socially driven. As an outsider looking in I have discussed American capitalism with others and its more ruthless nature compared to the more moderate varieties of Europe. The US GDP (ppp) per capita is very high for the size of it's population (and not being a tax haven or major oil exporter). Even compared to a wealthy powerhouse like Germany the US has a gdp per capita $10k higher. I don't believe that is due to the Us being a more efficient economy. It's because US employees and citizens aren't afforded the same services, rights, and level of care that people in countries like Germany do get that alleviates the stresses of daily life.
you are right. there should be.
This thread is totally surreal and meta enough to be n-gate's wet dream.
We just asked yesterday that you stop the political battle. If you won't stop we'll ban the account, but we'd rather not, so please do stop?

> Please don't use Hacker News primarily for political or ideological battle. This destroys intellectual curiosity, and we ban accounts that do it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
These go a long way towards what I had in mind. Thanks for posting.
Ask HN: Do you have a personal website that isn't just a landing page?
In the increasingly-distant past, personal home pages were mostly eclectic collections of what the author was like, what they enjoyed, and links to other pages they found interesting.

Nowadays, it seems most personal websites are just either A) resumes, B) blogs, or C) trying to sell a service.

Does anyone still have a site that hearkens back to ye olden days?
The AI Revolution: The Road to Superintelligence (2015)
Because people like money
Looking over the rules, it looks like there's an assumed "causal"-ness to the game (not good, not bad, just noting there's an assumption that everyone will play by the rules at all times). Based on the rules [1], there doesn't seem to be any consequence to fouling if you do not have the ball. What stops a non-carrying team player from stepping in the center or tackling a player?

Given the current ruleset, nothing. Three fouls give you a demerit, three demerits give you a reprimand, 3 reprimands ... to infinity. Secondly, is there a difference in severity to stepping in the center vs. tackling?

I get that you could say that 2 fouls is a timeout, and certain rules carry higher penalties (1 for center stepping, 2 for tackling), but it is not written.

[1] https://playspeedgate.org/8/
>> Solution:

>> - stand the F up on every meeting where you hear BS, and call "shenanigans"!.

Great way to get yourself sidelined in the near future, and not being able to intervene when it will be your job to implement a fantasy...

The problem with being honest in a situation like this is, that it will disrupt everyone in that meeting, not just the bullshitter. You'll be perceived as a fire starter and the next meeting will likely take place without you -- organizations at a certain size can be very flexible this way. Or worse: They retaliate. Bullshitters are usually good at manipulating peoples perceptions. Once they feel threatened, they are likely to respond (in a way, you'll probably lose, since they can dictate the turf and the weapons).

A way I found to deal with a situation like this is: Try to gouge the impressions of the other participants of the meeting -- cigarette breaks are perfect for this kind of "talk in private". Try to figure out if they also found this or that aspect of the meeting a bit odd. If it is so (and it very likely is) call out the BS for what it is, but don't be too bold about it and focus on one - two key aspects, not more.

You are usually not alone in your perception of bullshittery and others are probably aware of it in one way or another. It can be a real eye-opener to them that they are not alone in thinking that, was was talked about before was a bit... exaggerated. Once they are aware they might percieve this notion in other aspects of the work of said bullshitter and it gets harder for them to get away with it.

I have to say, I have only limited experience with roles in higher management. Usally the higher up the food-chain, the better the bullshitters and the better the strategies and tactics of them -- it might not work that way when you are up against a hierarchy of self-proclaimed experts. But in smaller organizations and "everyday"-meeting that are somewhere "near production", this is a valid tactic, that has never failed me thus far.

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Gosh how I hate this form of office-politics...
I was talking about polycotton blends which seem to represent 99% of clothes you buy these days unless you're actively avoiding it.

I did not know they released microplastics.
To these people I would probably say, the problem isn't Trump. The problem is the effects of a 24 hour news cycle coupled with social media. Another election cycle or two and he will be gone and the stress will remain. News agencies find a new stressor to focus on is all
You say that but quality of life is still considered considerably higher in the US than China. Even if the trajectory looks good, as more of China moves to a middle class lifestyle, the growth that's fueled by cheap labor will slow.
I don't think companies really care. I have seen mass quit recently on a well oiled machine. Tech force, bad management practices. Nothing really changed and no one seem to care. In the end the quit rate was only increasing (the time that I quit)
Trump is 1% of the U.S.A problems. He's more or less just a dumb symptom.
This is maybe too harsh. A non-negligible portion of these people have what we today call learning disabilities.
It's so ridiculous because instead of wasting money buying unnecessary hardware people could just use already existing DNS servers that do the same thing.

I block ads in my home because it's just a nicer web experience for everyone. Plus when I play games on my phone I don't get a barrage of ads every time I die.

https://adguard.com/en/adguard-dns/overview.html
This looks cool. You can basically host your own github. I wonder though if it works with github clients. Does it use github?
The UK has pedestrian traffic lights, but there is no limit where you can cross.
My interpretation is that among the pool of people who meet the minimum requirements and are interested in that position/career, IQ is the best predictor. If you're just picking random high-IQ people off the street, I don't think they'll do very well in a software engineering job.
Amazon has begun surveillance on their engineers too. There are variety of schemes in-pilot or deployed company-wide that downright scream 'dragnet'.

First, the revamp post that New York Times article ended with a new HR head at the helm with new ideas that aren't strictly worse but none too much better.

Second, the peer review system, Forte, is a hogwash, from what I hear. It isn't taken into account for the infamous OLRs where employees are stack-ranked, which are now based exclusively on the inputs from the managers and the metrics they choose to focus on and the supporting documents/emails they bring to the table to support their bias.

Third, the metrics collection is relentless. Right from tickets resolved during on-call, to issues resolved during regular maintenance work, to code reviews or commits pushed, to design documents/wikis created/edited, to time spent building software, deploying it, code velocity... it's a mess.

Fourth, the employees get sent a daily questionnaire. And it is evident from the type of questions that they're trying to collect information on how employees react to those and if their answers are outliers or if their answers are trending towards employees who have shown poor performance previously and so on. The worse part is, when I refused to answer any of those questions, I was warned of "consequences", just as how I was warned of consequences for not submitting patents on behalf of Amazon for what they thought were valuable inventions.

Fifth, there are other internal tools (including build/deploy/test tools) that have sprung up that collect metrics per developer to see who's productive and how.

Sixth, the promotion process has changed so much that it has been reduced to a checklist and only when a manager deems his reportee fit enough, does the stars align and they get to tick off things on the checklist to get promoted. If you're not in the good books of your manager, or simply report to a manager who's biased, good luck with ever getting any recognition despite the metrics.

A lot of policies are straight out anti-employee, imo, right from how they decide compensation year-on-year, to their OLR process, to international transfer policies, to how employees are sometimes treated by the HR, to how 'well maintained' the offices are... it isn't even funny. Some engs truly are having a blast working at Amazon. I can't help but think they are in the minority (and these are mostly folks stack ranked in the top 10% to 20%). I can see them defend Amazon to death. I wouldn't fault them. They will come around some day.

I think, this culture/behaviour takes its seeds right at the top of the executive chain: The kind of hypocrisy that goes around at Amazon is plain for the HRs and Executives to see, and if they can't, I believe it's the stock price that is blinding their mind, clouding their judgement.

Apologies for the rant, and I admit that Amazon, specifically AWS, is otherwise a great place to hone your skills even if its relatively akin to baptism by fire.
I imagine all these facilities have a high churn rate of employees to begin with.
The Dog Riddle – A Kotlin Class Design Challenge
I am having issues with SAML authentication as well
Honestly?

Make stuff. Get patches submitted to relevant open source projects. Make a small project that's actually finished (bonus if it's demo-able).
Given the stories I’ve heard about Amazon warehouses, I’m perfectly willing to believe they’re hiring with a wide net and there’s something rotten going on.
I have a theory for this. I am a capitalist but I do believe that America has a real wage growth problem for majority of Americans especially on the lower end of income spectrum [0]. Things have changed where now even though people make more money monetarily, the actual purchasing power is much lower. So now, most American families have both spouses working and of course single income households are only by force and not by choice for most middle class/poor Americans. Not to mention the stress of things like healthcare costs, it really adds up to the stress that I would argue most other developed nations don't have.

So I really think that we need a Capitalistic society with social programs that provide the basic needs to EVERY american. For basic needs, we should not compete with each other. We should only compete for innovation and creativity. I want every American to be able to eat, sleep in a decent place and not worry about healthcare. If that can be taken care of, let them excel if they can in whatever they want to excel at.

[0] https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/08/07/for-most-us...
I wonder where these negative experiences are coming from. What are people stressed about? Is it money? Certainly, but would that explain the recent rise? People have been poor in the US for a while.

Maybe it comes from the news, both real and fake.

Only in America
could you find a way to make a healthy buck
and still keep your attitude on self destruct.

-MF DOOM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQnjNOWd1sI
CV Dazzle is perfect for the cyberpunk future that will never happen.
I believe they selected some of the best-sounding pieces. Playing with their tool (which is a lot of fun) is more hit-and-miss: some interesting results, but also some slightly unpleasant music.
Do you know the rules of rugby? And have you read the rules for this game? Totally different.
Product Principles – A Tool Rather Than an Artifact
It’s not really about convenience. The vast majority of humans simply can not afford to carry the personal cost of avoiding the negative externality of their meat consumption.

That is to say, the vast majority of humans can not afford to sacrifice not eating meat to get their protein, due to a combination of inavailability of suitable substitutes of equal or greater quality, and also the perceived quality of life sacrifice, the associated mental, emotional, and social costs of doing this.

For people whose diet and indeed lifestyle is established in part as being meat-eaters, switching is costly in more ways than just financial. And even if a theoretical diet could substitute for the missing meat which costs the same or less, in practice a satisfying entirely non-meat diet for most meat eaters would be expensive in time and money to achieve.

It’s not clearly an ethical win to demand all of humanity to pay the cost to switch when a better alternative is possible; go out and do the fantastically hard work of inventing a better non-meat. So good that it’s not a cost but a benefit to switch to it. And then (almost) everyone will.

I see huge parallels between this and, for example, electric vehicles. Forcing everyone to switch too early is extremely costly. But through technical innovation practically everyone will drive electric because it’s so much better for them.
prisonplanet maybe
> defense is one of the relatively few things the federal government is supposed to be doing

Most people agree the government should also be providing some type of insurance i.e. social safety net.(social security, medicare)

Also where are you getting the 7.65 trillion number from? Most numbers I've seen were close to 4 trillion

see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_spending_in_the_Uni...
Tuxedo computers from Germany
Yup, this is why I said that the output is somewhat uninteresting musically - there are actually machine-learning music models that do a lot better from that POV, despite being seemingly unambitious in many other ways. (I've mentioned one elsewhere in this thread, but BachBot and DeepBach also deserve mention!)
Strawberry rhubarb is pie lying about being cherry pie.
I wonder how much the stress level would change if Americans had a tax-funded universal healthcare system?
There have been covers of people taking a pre-recorded segment of a game (say, a 1v1 fight), and improvising a jazz score around it. How awesome would it be to have this happen live for any game? Anything from mood to specific sound effects.
> To defeat full-body recognition systems, wear clothes with heavy patterns that make it hard to distinguish where your arms, legs and head are.

Isn't this basically how camo defeats the human recognition system in our wetware?
This doesn't seem particularly viable as a 'sport', i.e. an athletic competition, but maybe fun as a group activity. e.g. You have 3 defenders that seem to be allowed to camp without restriction a 6' tall, 10' wide 'goal'. Put 3 athletes on this duty and no one will ever score.
I would disagree re: MS. They are doing pretty good in enterprise space, their bread and butter. Also whole XBox ecosystem is getting stronger as well
Speech synthesis from neural decoding of spoken sentences
Visiting Denmark (and Finland, Sweden, Netherlands) is what it took to make me realize we're (USA) doing it wrong. Those places just feel... low stress, safe and normal.
> [time] is real, as real as anything, it is not an illusion.

Now the arrow of time on the other hand...
For some workloads Mono seems awfully slow. The compiler I'm maintaining at work takes about twice as long on Mono on Windows and about four times as long as Mono on Linux compared to NET. I guess NET Core would be comparable or faster than .NET Framework and similar on both platforms.
You get used to it. My mom says that sitting in a bunker during a long WW2 bombing (in Germany) is a life changing experience. It damages a lot of people permanently. The question is how they express that damage.
My robotic vacuum is incredibly useful and keeps my home far cleaner than it would be without it. It vacuums most of the floor space of my apartment every day, rarely gets jammed or caught on something, and all I need to do is empty the bin every few days. I'd end up spending 15-20 minutes a day to clean as much as my robot does. With two animals in my home, hair appears on the floor instantly so its nice having a vacuum run daily.

My robotic vacuum cost ~$500 three years ago, and I've probably spent another $75 on battery replacements/filters. So $575 for floors cleaned daily over the last 3 years and I'll probably get another few years out of it for another $75. Definitely beats paying someone to come out to my home every day to vacuum.
Try adguard DNS, it's pretty good

https://adguard.com/en/adguard-dns/overview.html
https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/carlo
Take a look at Tuxedo computers from Germany