skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>In which direction is causality flowing here, and how do you justify it? We didn't choose our brains

No, but our privileged parents did contribute to them, and their our upbringing, early months, lack of childhood stress over things as food and war, familial support, good schools, and so on.

Brains is hardly the best contributor to entrepreneurial success. In fact a plot of IQ vs success I've seen plotted looked like random noise except below a certain threshold (obviously seriously cognitive impaired people will have much more trouble becoming entrepreneurs). But aside from that, whether you are 105 or 120 or 150 didn't seem to make much of a difference.
> In my experience Powershell is quite a bit more verbose than that.

This is common misconception. Posh allows both verbose and shorten styles via various mechanisms - command aliases, parameter abbreviations and aliases, proxys, pipeline settings for objects etc.
It's easy to take risks when there's little to lose.

If the only fallout is wasting some family money and at worst delaying your entry-level career by a couple of years for some experience that many employers consider valuable anyway, there's little downside to throwing the dice.
Indeed, and lots of companies have shells in Delaware. Because its lower taxes & "better" company law.
It would be great if this could result in a dedicated page with instructions and templates on how to successfully move through this kafkaesque absurdity. Thanks for the effort already.
The blog actively misleads readers into thinking Scott Alexander is his real name,

> SSC is the project of Scott Alexander, a psychiatrist on the US West Coast. You can email him at scott[at]slatestarcodex[dot]com. Note that emailing bloggers who say they are psychiatrists is a bad way to deal with your psychiatric emergencies, and you might wish to consider talking to your doctor or going to a hospital instead. [1]

Journalists citing that blog should note it is an alias, and deeply question whether or not he really is a psychiatrist.

And no, I don't find it easy to verify his identity, and yes, it is completely relevant here as he's being cited as a real psychiatrist. That's not verifiable without knowing a real name.

[1] https://slatestarcodex.com/about/
Interactive exploration of earnings by age and industry (2018)
That's too US-specific.

And the parallel works only if you change the primary purpose of cars to killing.
How to Build a Dyson Swarm (2017)
Well, that was at a time when those places where at war, famine, turmoil, and the US economy was rising. Easy to "throw caution to the wind" when all you have is some small plot of land struck by drought.
It's hard to read the room when trying to convince people if all you get from them is their voice.
Pretty much all android apps can work without google play currently.

If you don't want to use google play, you can download the APK from any number of apk mirror sites and install the app yourself manually.
Actually Tcl has been successfully using the model of one or more interpreters per thread since Tcl 8.1, released in 1999, a full TWO decades now.
And here silicon valley is the land of Eichlers... Great read.
The Greeks are a fascinating case of the utter break down of social trust. Greeks no longer trust each other, and the level of corruption and tax evasion is mind boggling.

I think it’s a false equivalence to compare the belief that a country needs something fixed and saying that it needs to be “liberated” with the force of arms.
That they have more than they say that they have (and are allowed to have) to the point where cleaning this up would be a serious engineering effort.

I say this in jest but at the same time I'm concerned this might be true.
Focus on doing your best and not on the outcome. Tell yourself you can handle any outcome. This will help your confidence.
You mean like the 'pic' language? http://floppsie.comp.glam.ac.uk/Glamorgan/gaius/web/pic-20.h...

Developed in 1982. Present on almost every UNIX-like system and integrated into the manpage generator.

Probably the main reason we've not seen things like this achieve wide adoption is the small but very influential subset of programmers who refuse to use anything that isn't a pure text terminal for development.
I'm still on the fence. A lot of the time when you run a credit score you also run a police check. Not always but often enough. I expect most of the other stuff will be too much effort to be kept in the score at a national level unless it is a token amount.

China doesn't have the same incarceration rate that the US has (I don't think anyone does). I also don't know how long the score will be impacted by a criminal history.

I'm not saying it will work. I'm just saying that because other countries have done it one way does not mean that every other way of doing it is automatically wrong.

As an expat here my current score is "B" but I'll move up to an "A" next year. I don't know if that score means anything...
> What exactly are they afraid of?

Exposing the level of detail in the data accumulated.

This starts at "opened the messenger app at this location on this date&time" and goes to "visited this Facebook-unrelated website on these times". Having to provide all of this data exposes the detailed profile they're getting on people.
Isn't cement a major CO2 emitter?
Thank you for fighting the good fight. This sort of nonsense is exactly the type of thing that needs to be reported far and wide. People need to understand that for all of Facebook’s PR dollars, they are still the same company as they were a few years ago.
I might have misinterpreted op. I thought it was "leaving now" VS "leaving 2 months after the end of the trial period".

But yeah, as long as it's in the trial period there is no issue.
Perhaps the problems you're describing are symptoms of an underlying fear of vulnerability, something nearly everyone has at some level. Advice for confidence tends to go in the direction of "fake it till you make it," and "who gives a shit what other people think," and I think that can help you _portray_ confidence and even start to feel it.

But imagine if you started at the other end of the problem, and you were able to "put yourself out there," knowing you may well be wrong, knowing that your colleagues' criticism would hurt your feelings (rather than numbing yourself to it), and being able to do it anyway because rejection will hurt but won't kill you, and because you feel worthy and comfortable in your own skin.

Can't say I have all the answers as this is something I'm working on myself (with great reward so far), but it's worth expanding your search to include the vulnerability trail. [Brene Brown](https://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_on_vulnerability) is a good start.
Had to look it up :)
A software that helps easily explore new products – UX Study from UserGuiding
HiSilicon said to extend capacity guarantee pacts with Taiwanese through 2Q20
It's not mentioned in the article (too obvious?), but for wondering: Seems like those computers where used by the sports manufacturer Puma (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puma_(brand))
>When I go to Tokyo and see people walking a couple of blocks to cross the street (there isn’t necessarily a cross walk on every block)

I think that jaywalking laws are nuts, but then again I am from the UK where we get indoctrinated with a thing called 'the green cross code' in primary school, that tells us how to cross a road safely.
They are only getting what you are giving to them.

If you decide to browse the web without uBlock Origin or if you decide to use Android, you know what you're being exposed to.
Article reads like an advertisement for his probably shitty and poorly sourced book.
I understand the emotion of it. But, your kids can borrow money to go to college. You can’t borrow money to retire and it’s a lot harder to borrow money if $life_happens to you as a parent especially for lower middle class families.

If you as a parent want to help your kids after they graduate to pay off their loans once your own situation is secure, help them pay for their loans out of a combination of current cash flows and savings you might have for it.

If $life_happens as a parent and the child can’t pay their student loans, they can get deferments, income based repayments etc.

If the parents don’t have savings because they were trying to avoid student loans and then they lose their jobs or are unable to work, then what?
IMHO to support Ruben's cause, we should all request our data from Facebook. At least those of us who are eligible for that "privilege".

A hand full of people are just an annoyance and can be easily stalled. But to stall many more without running in legal trouble seems more difficult to me, and requires Facebook to actually invest some resources into it.
While I fear you are correct, I enjoy driving. Taking away the hobby I enjoy, and my family has enjoied for generations will not be done with my consent, nor the consent of many of the car clubs, often populated by thoze who own the companies who will enact such measures. I respect your vision, but you have a fight ahead. I think an alternate type of transportation than cars is the future. Most current emissions are heat and brake dust, and autonomous cars are only marganilly better there.
It's a very interesting web page. But it would be better told without all the sarcasm and invective.

I understand the author's need to vent his spleen, but he should create a second, more black-and-white version that comes off as more credible and is less easily dismissed.
This story reminds me the time when I bought a Google Chromecast. It lasted 2 weeks and the device went completely dead. Chat with support:

- which light is on?

- none, device does not power on

- do you understand that is dead and wont power on?

- yeah but which led is blinking?

At this stage i hung up and went over to Amazon, luckily i have ordered the device through them, and after few clicks the replacement device was on its way.
Internationalization Manager App
I played with the Python API thinking it is feature-compatible with the C/C++ API. Unfortunately, it was not.
xyr is a preferred pronoun, typo, or line noise?
The Oneplus One came with CyanogeMod, tho after that they made they're own thing, and at a certain point they hired the Paranoid Android team, that did't last long iirc... Long story short , it's not based on CyanogenMod, and it definitely isn't Open Source.
VictoriaMetrics: Achieving better compression than Gorilla for time series data
I don't know, I read this and felt bad for those kids and their parents who had hustled extra hard to pay without college loans.
That's the intention. He says so at the bottom of the page:

"How will this end?"

This will only end me getting my data, obviously.

And thereby giving you a clearer path to get yours.
Writes article on how to do hard things : article is super hard to understand.
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This is almost certainly not true for the majority of consumers.
> I've seen people that write nice code by day check in horrible entangled vomit because they wanted to make a deadline. So the next time I pull it, "it has just a few issues" and it takes me two days to sort out their mess where just writing it cleanly myself might have cost me only one day.

I've checked in "bad" code before. Maybe I can shed some light on the other side of this.

The business needed a feature a week ago, because all their marketing material had a hard date on the go-live date for this feature. They could not miss that launch date.

Unfortunately the dev team was overloaded and they couldn't deliver all the features on time. So I, a consultant, was tasked with a few last-minute things.

Fortunately this new feature was very similar to an existing feature. It used a lot of the same code as something already in the system. So I copied that into a new class (C#), made some (very minor) adjustments, and checked it in.

We were able to launch the product on time. But now there was quite a lot of code duplication.

Yes, I could have just "written it cleanly myself". But this was a tremendously complex product. We had unit tests, integration tests, and more. But we still had to perform hours of manual testing on any code that changed prior to a release. Refactoring the old code would have introduced more testing requirements, which slows down the entire release cycle - the risk was too great for our timeline.

It's important to consider the total cost of your work, not just the amount of time a certain task takes you, individually.

It's also worth noting, we made a new Jira ticket about the code duplication right away, and we were able to fix the code duplication in the next sprint, after the product release. The next iteration, 1.0.1, had the "correct / ideal" code.
The historical norm for credit has always been offering up possessions as collateral. You don’t need a complicated credit scoring system, or reliable enforcement mechanisms for debt & fraud, you just sell off the collateral if the customer doesn’t pay the loan.

This is exactly the function that pawn shops provide in the West, although their usage has dropped significantly since the introduction of consumer credit.
Often the studies showing your argument is "incorrect/poorly supported" are poorly supported themselves, and just go uncontested for decades, piling citations.

And that's on harder sciences. In soft sciences (and liberal arts, etc) it's the wild west -- what gets more grants and is more popular at the moment gets priority and is "proved".
It's not ridiculous. Amazon retail operates on very thin margins. AWS does +$7B a quarter, $25.7B for 2018.

Sources:
https://qz.com/1539546/amazon-web-services-brought-in-more-m...
https://www.zdnet.com/article/in-2018-aws-delivered-most-of-...
The problem is PG says that you don't have to be a rich kid, and then takes Airbnb as an example where the founders are definitely rich kids compared to the rest of the nation and world (not rich as in "daddy has a private jet", but definitely in the top couple of percent).

Of course PG is right that you don't need to be a rich kid, but he chose his anecdote poorly.

PS: Also Sam recently said (in the StrictlyVC interview) that most founders at YC are from upper middle class families, so there's your data.
It's kind of a paradox, given the tech scene near Silicon Valley and the large numbers of immigrants living there, that there's so little demoscene there. I've heard various explanations for it, but the solution is very simple...run your own!

Back in the 90s, I went to many parties with maybe 10 people in people's basements. In one case, we realized that there was another tiny party happening at the same time in a different state and we turned it into a larger party by virtually combining the two.

The "party" part of demoparty is literally that. We'd get together for a day to finish code or music or whatever, chit chat, get drunk and eat, watch movies and so on. Then have a quick competition, declare some winners and go home till next year. It doesn't have to be formal, and being quirky is completely okay. We'd even through in ad-hoc competitions like a 1 hour music writing competition at 2 in the morning. There's nothing at all stopping the scene from happening in SV and there's plenty of people who'd like to participate if you can get the word out.
>The implementation is somewhat disconcerting, but I’m not sure the underlying policy isn’t a good idea

Any systemic attempt to direct the development of culture by the government is a terrible idea. The government should reflect the people. The people should not be nudge, cajoled or forced into accepting the culture the government wants them to have.

The line blurs when you actually have a democratically elected government (is the will of the government the will of the people) but I think it suffices to say that china's social credit system would cross it.

>nearly universal social indoctrination and social credit systems—organized religion.

The church doesn't record your every misdeed and every major religion includes some strong message of forgiveness for misdeeds. It's not the middle ages anymore so the church can't bar you from doing things under threat of violence like the government can. This comparison is crazy on so many levels.

>We regularly talk about neighbors who display antisocial behaviors

Any neighborhood that includes people who say things like this in a context other than to parodying the hyper-conformity you find in some of the better off parts of the US and Europe (think stuffy HOAs and local councils) is a massive red flag that your neighborhood is somewhere no freedom loving person would ever want to live.
I don't agree. Android builds aren't that big
I advise you to contact them in person. Their privacy officers for EU are more or less public people.
>what you refer to is not Science,its pseudoscience. Pretty much any crap gets published these days, review standards are abysmal and there is hardly any replication.

That's like the argument that USSR was not real communism, etc.

At some point, science is as science does.

There's no some holier, better checked, domain of practice. It is what it is, and it sometimes has replication, more often than not it doesn't.
Induction gets you nowhere though: where did our privileged parents get their brains from? You're proving my point here: we inherit roughly 50% of our traits through our parent's genes.

I never claimed IQ was the best measure (surprised it looked like random noise though), but certainly our cognitive traits matter. So to my question: How do you distinguish that privilege from the privilege you got from your "class"?

Edit: Sorry if I came across snarky here, I appreciate your answer!
I disagree. I think getting angry as hell at having one’s legal rights knowingly stomped on is appropriate, and acting cool about it implicitly validates FB’s behavior.

You coolly negotiate with business partners; you get pissed off at being screwed with by conmen.
Exactly. When the going gets rough, the US is just as willing as any other authoritarian state to sacrifice all justice, friendship, goodwill and fairplay to secure their profits.

Why should the EU follow the US into their dirty game? The first 70 years after war, the US at least tried to keep the illusion of being decent. Now everything's an all-out free-for-all, and EU should be looking after themselves than the interests of somebody else.
(Post is from 2016 which the title on HN doesn't mention!)

Its a MITM. Packets are being changed on the fly. It being a MITM doesn't mean it works. Nor that it works world-wide in 2019. The term MITM isn't descriptive enough by itself.

Perhaps this worked in Bulgaria in 2016? I'd like to see some proof that he got HBO to work though. I didn't see that clearly specified.

I mean, for public transport they were still using (the insecure) Mifare Classic in 2016 in Bulgaria. See this post from the same blog [1]

[1] https://xakcop.com/post/cloning-rfid/
In my part of the USA, someone showing up to your door threatening you would likely result in the resident brandishing if not "defending" themselves. It's probably not a coincidence that I've never heard of this collection tactic in the Midwest.
What is a human right, outside of culture? Unless you're religious, what could it possibly be?

There are rights we consider so important that they all but transcend culture, but that "all but" is critical. It's only a matter of consensus, not celestial fiat.
All of that is bad, of course, but it does not strike me as a code or technology problem. Why was that allowed to be built? Who reviewed the code? Was the design discussed or vetted at any point? Answer to last question is almost certainly no, so why not? Et cetera.
>Greeks no longer trust each other, and the level of corruption and tax evasion is mind boggling.

So? They have their culture and it works well enough for them. They might not be the richest country in Europe and they're still digging themselves out of an economic hole but there's not much else about them that's worth complaining about. It sure beats living your life under the thumb of the government.
> It's a type of learning which causes a change in how you organize things you already know. How do you sell that?

That's potentially a good pitch all by itself.

> Of the top 10 non-English languages spoken in my state, only 1 was offered as a class at my school. It almost looked like they went out of their way to find teachers in less common languages.

This is a great example of language education being frozen in time for essentially cultural reasons. Pre-20th century, and probably up to about WW2, the common choices of foreign languages to study were determined on cultural grounds and largely for ""elite"" purposes. You'd learn German so you could read Goethe and Schiller, or the various scientific papers published there.

Wind forwards to the present day and the obvious choices for US language learners would have Spanish at the top of the list, but that would involve the complex politics of the relationship between the US, the rest of Latin America, and its immigrants. Much easier to carry on pretending that someone might want to read Goethe.
"Disappointed about the lack of appropriate action, I decide it’s time to directly contact Stephen Deadman, Facebook’s fresh Data Protection Officer (DPO)."
Lol so what if they're using a PED? Many people have ADHD diagnosis and use amphetamines to focus. Filtering them out at the interview stage is a huge mistake. Abnormally productive people should be seen as a benefit not a cheater.
Maybe he wants it to be easily understood by politicians who are very skilled in the manners of sarcasm and slinging invectives.
> There was a deliberate decision, not a random mistake

Debian's mess was not a random mistake. "Whoopsie, I somehow deleted the EA tag from the version string - actually it must have deleted itself. Anyway, I've started uploading it to the package index, it's too late now."
I agree with the occasional scare gets you going. People are built to deal with that scare in an evolutionary sense. The change in brain chemistry to get you into flight or fight can really alter your perspective (where perspective is pretty much just brain chemistry + a little bit of experience).

I think fight club called it a "near life experience."

Other examples of changing perspective via brain chemistry recently talked about are magic mushrooms, which really do help lift depression, if only for a while before the brain has a chance to settle into its old patterns.

Exercise of course, also changes the chemistry, but I think it is in a less extreme (and more reproducible) way than a good scare (even if what scares you is some kind of hallucinated dragon).
Read "The Solution To Social Anxiety: Break Free From The Shyness That Holds You Back" [1]

Your thoughts ("I am not good enough") are exactly what the author describes in the book.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Solution-Social-Anxiety-Break-Shyness...
The ironic part here is that by blocking Huawei phones from security updates from Google, could/will create security issues with anybody who has a Huawei phone.

Which in some way makes this a self-fulfilling action.
as another benefit, it makes you tired so you'll sleep better. At least that's one of the major benefits I've noticed. I always had trouble sleeping (which impacts my work). But when I started doing weights and making myself physically exhausted, sleep came easier which meant better work etc :)
Sadly NASA does not pay as well as you think it does, at least from my anecdotal experience (worked with NASA and DARPA folks that left the gov sector for better pay.) You'll get better pay at a tech company in a major US city.
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All over all the highways man. Of I was a curl, would you be my ? Anything? I want to truck you so lard.
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