skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> She ended up quitting and getting into the sciences instead, because she couldn't stand the class warfare techniques that the school taught.

> The curriculum has your usual suspects of business administration topics, but also focuses on forming contacts in the elites and politics, plus explicit instruction in techniques for manipulating and dominating others. Examples being rhetoric, lying with a straight face, defending and justifying an indefensible or immoral case, or spreading rumors and damaging others' reputation.

Interesting, but why are you calling these "class warfare techniques"? Most of them seem equally applicable regardless of your social class or the social class of anyone you're notionally targeting. The first, developing elite contacts, is only applicable to non-elites. If you came in as a member of the elite, you'd already have those.
I hope eventually the metrics emphasis shifts from quantity of interaction to quality. Take a lesson from my hammer, which doesn't scream out from my toolbox every five minutes saying "tap me!".
Trying to look up statistics on this, and what I find is very strange:

Both in Europe and in the US, average age of vehicles on the road is given as ~ 11 years, while average age at scrappage is given as ~ 15 years.

How do you even make an age distribution that agrees with those numbers? How do you make those numbers agree with the statistics of vehicles sold per year, which is relatively steady?
Yes. You can disable it by switching to Fastmail or a similar email provider.

(Sorry.)
It's fine, they just would like to create their own Salvador Allende in the United States if things go left.
Is reason the slave of the passions?
Which processor did you buy where the K version has hyperthreading and the non-K does not? I don't think that distinction exists in any Intel cpu generation. K just means unlocked and sometimes a higher clock, it says nothing about hyperthreading.
If you're filing as an LLC, I don't believe any of your income, distribution or otherwise, is exempt from self-employment tax.
There isn't one really - if they had access to it the same logistical issues would come up no matter how much they pinky promise not to abuse it. The more it spreads the more vulnerable it is

The only way key escrow would be remotely trustworthy would be if there were "hostages" to provide an intrinsic punishment for their failures or stonewalling of transparency.
"I happen to know quite a lot about GDPR because I dealt with it at a client I was previously working with,"

There we go. You already done the time investment at someone else's expense.
So thanks for proving my point.

My comments weren't about GDPR but about regulation in general. Any regulation requires more work which makes it difficult for smaller players. You had to do the extra work.
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I don't think it is snobbishness. Some programming systems definitely encourage hacky spaghetti more than others (if you don't believe me try using LabVIEW) and Excel is definitely in that category.

There are ways that they could make it less so, like only allowing cell references by name, using a saner scripting language than VBA, allowing multiple cell grids on a single page/sheet, etc.

"Millions of successful businesses are built on Excel" is no argument at all. You can build a successful business with pen and paper.
Pretty cool business model where putting dangerous vulns in your product can help you capture 90% of the market.

Then when your fuckups are discovered, other people not on your payroll expend their own resources to fix it.

And you don't even have to compensate customers who paid full price but now find 40% of their compute evaporated.

And that massive performance hit needed to fix your fuckups stimulates incremental demand for your product because customers now need more cores to finish their compute.
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I have no data, but it would have to seem to me that gamers are a tiny market compared to what Intel sells in any given year.
Seeing how many 2013 Altimas are just blowing up transmissions, Nissan/Renault appear to be estimating the lifespan of one of their automobiles as 5 years. I'm glad they've got their eye on long-lasting batteries, but, maybe build a car that can last as long as those batteries?
It’s really the wild dogs that drove the point home to me. I used to jog on Folsom early in the morning, but after a near run-in with a pack of a half dozen hungry, aggressive dogs (a few chihuahuas, some terrifying pit bulls, and a very angry shiba inu)I have switched to running on a treadmill. SF has gone down hill fast.
A pay-walled submission being acceptable on a news site when people likely do not spend a lengthy amount of time and likely do not want a hassle trying to consume information seems like a bad business decision.
>He walked up to them.

That's not aggression. Don't be stupid.

>Because you disagree with what they were protesting, they had no right to be there?

I never said they didn't have the right. Where did I say that? But allow me to help clarify whatever misconceptions you have about what I plainly stated in very few words: It's at best a fundamentally baseless position that has extremely negative consequences for society. At worst its downright an act of evil because you believe you should control other people based on faulty religious grounds.

They were using their free time to support this position. Not really a good look for them.

So I am absolutely correct in totality with my assessment of the situation. And if you think otherwise, allow me to make the claim that you need to evaluate some critical aspects of your perspective on this. If all you can say about what's being said is that it's a disagreement, then you're better of not saying anything at all. It makes you look better.

I noticed you couldn't or simply decided to not address the factual negations to your assumptions. Might want to work on that.
Some games have internal currency or items that can be sold. I'm pretty sure there's malware targetting those items.
It's a politically conservative publication funded by the Manhattan Institute think tank https://www.manhattan-institute.org/
Discussion a day ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20000034
> There's this huge pandora's box about opening up state-level weaponry to the general public. Ultimately, it undermines the nation state as an organizing principle. And that's the world we live in now.

I feel like this point is hardly ever appreciated. I don't think we quite live in that world (where's my open source nuke?), but we're always oscillating on the continuum if we take a long enough view of the situation. The extent to which power is distributed relies on the extent to which technology is distributed, but also the extent to which the distributed technology can be utilised by a relatively small group. A small group with equally good spear designs still loses to the larger group. A small group with equally good drones, nukes, viruses, and firewalls might be able to put up something closer to an even fight. A radical open sourcing of technology might lead to a breakup of the modern nation state into smaller entities. Until it does, or some sort of parallel structures form alongside the nation states which they are unable to actually police, I wouldn't call them undermined. The parallel structure scenario might be somewhat arguable today, but always has been; the line between organized crime and government is blurry. I don't think we've moved significantly far in that direction as a result of open source tools yet. If there ever comes a day when private defense contractors can accept Bitcoin without KYC and taxes, just rolling through the streets in a small division of tanks selling AK-47s to passing school children, I'll completely agree that the nation state has been undermined.
Yeah, I'm curious why these are not more widespread. Maybe it's not as "cool" when it doesn't heel? And probably not possible to run in any regattas with that kite.
Simple. Demand for housing. Supply issues aside, a huge number of people want to live in the SFBA, and the rents reflect that.
When GDPR first came out, I found the terms pretty vague. I don't know how I can implement it.

For example, a user's email is Personally Identifiable Information. When the user wants to delete her account, I shall remove her email. This is ease.

But what if in my comment system, another user mentioned her email in a comment. Do I need to remove this comment too? What if this comment has replies too, should I remove all the replies?

What if a competitor make use of these undocumented gray areas to attack my business?
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It's actually not far from my previous point. Seeking truth when you're not aimed for it or understand its limits reverts to ~tribal and emotional reflexes of trust and influence, a large opportunity for disinformation. And is the sour parallel to relating to others mostly emotionally (except anger). The difference is that people are sold 'pure <sourced> information' as a new paradigm.
My son often talks of an animal, a dingo iirc, that wasn't socialized normally. Maybe it was orphaned and raised by humans?

Dominance behaviors in the species are hard wired biologically, but submissive behavior was learned behavior, so the animal in question never learned things like how ho back down from a fight. So the animal stood its ground, even when outnumbered and so forth. It simply had no other option, having not ever learned any of the not hard wired behaviors necessary to do something else.

It ended up in charge of the pack.
I walked around SF a lot as a visitor and didn't feel in danger. It was a shocking experience to the abject poverty and the homeless shooting heroin right there on a main street. I was only out and about during daylight though.
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How I raised myself from failure to success by Frank Bettger. In my opinion this is a Great Book. It’s also recommended by Tyler Bosmney, founder of Clever.
Well, if a swallow can carry a coconut, it can also carry a flightless bird :p
I was responding to the notion that public or semi-public information is fair game. My mistake if that was not clear.

As such, my point stands.

> Information on social media is public or semi-public. Fair game, and I’m curious about the results."
Once upon a time almost all standards were like that. You got the spec, wrote some code and off to the races. Then proprietary stuff happened, then that got displaced by open standards and now we're back to proprietary. It won't be long before email and messaging are all proprietary.

Wonder what the next swing of the pendulum will look like?
Homeless people actually sleep outside in Montreal even in the winter. It is a problem as many die from hypothermia during particularly cold periods.

Some refuse to go to homeless shelters. Cops will sometimes try to find some bullshit reason to arrest them so they don’t freeze to death.
Doesn’t that strengthen causality1’s argument? You could give the their their $84 and it would be a straight win if they stopped thieving.
I don’t really have much of a problem with that, but I would love the option to replace the guts of my mbp every few years. I keep waiting for Gibson’s sandbenders to show up.
"you know the bad ones" - Yes, we know. The top of the list would be: North Korea, Russia, USA, UK, China ...
> Advanced economies like the US and EU are prioritizing reducing their own emissions.

I'm not sure we're living in the same US. The USA I live in is one of the few countries not agreeing to climate change, with a subset of its population not even believing it is real.

I'm glad you are doing policy work - it is important. But I'm not ready to declare the problem solved in our own backyards quite yet.
Too bad our government has given up on investing in science otherwise you might have read about an invention coming out of the USA.
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The patch was released just one month before the exploits were leaked to the public, and the NSA only decided to act after they were certain that their tools had been extracted.
But we still don't know when it was extracted from the NSA. If they would have brought this to Microsofts attention 5 years earlier (and without releasing an easily adaptable exploit for the vulnerability) a lot of damage could have been avoided.
I've used MIDI ports on an Atari ST to control tool changers and coolant pumps on an industrial CAD/CAM station.
The older northern parts of the city have the highest rent control ratio. These are not high crime parts of the city. So there’s no correlation.

What you do see in the high crime areas is a large homeless population - who of course don’t have any rent to pay. I can’t imagine higher rents making the homeless problem any better?
Pissing off the people that place that high a value on brand integrity for trillion dollar corporations is a prosocial move.
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Sure, I'm already planning to add other backends as an alternative to AWS. Feel free to add a note to issue #7 and I'll get on the case
Hmm, i suppose it would be hard to generate music with ML that make cultural or emotional references, the ML would need to resemble a human in order to understand these, or otherwise understand humans like we understand ourselves. However, current ML sytems might succeed in making references in its music involving a simpler context, like an arcade game, or common physics.
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SF is a weird place.

From a distance, it's really really beautiful and there's a lot of nice things about it.

But walking around it on the ground, the only place I've been that's felt dingier than it was Kuala Lumpur (and I still felt safer there).

Maybe if you live there - you get used to it - but man, was it unappealing.
Alex Jones is a meme. Everyone knows he is a nutcase.

As for danger, the mainstream media is just as bad. In the UK we are having people Milkshaked, including veterans.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9144116/ex-paras-turn-up-to-gu...

Because some publications has deemed the likes Nigel Farage to be a "fascist". So saying that Alex Jones is worse than anyone else is crazy. Just watch CNN and their conspiracy theories about Trump, they do the same but they are never mentioned because they are deemed to be "on the right side" whatever that is.
The burning of dido is certainly memorable but it's rather petty logic to say the second half is bad. It contains much of the interesting criticism of the Roman empire to be. And Aeneid, of course, is by far the most interesting character.
No country "needed" permission for anything, ever. But there's a reason that the cold war didn't turn hot, and in part it was because the major powers, US and Russia, were able to set formal and informal international standards for intelligence, espionage and data collection, for themselves and for their allies. The same can be said with the arms control treaties, nuclear weapons, non-proliferation, etc.

That all seems to have gone out the window in the cyber realm, where there aren't any standards or consequences for nefarious actions.

This seems like a very basic and obvious observation.
It’s california, CCW permits are May-Issue (I.e., very rare) and open carry is banned. It’s less likely that assaulting random civilians will get you shot there than in, say, Texas.
Have you read Ghettoside? That's pretty much the case it makes about crime in poor African American neighborhoods: governments have done a bad job catching violent offenders there, so people living there take justice into their own hands and perpetuate the problem.

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/25/books/review/jill-leovys-...
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Did not know this. Thanks.

https://react-etc.net/entry/javascript-spectre-meltdown-vuln...
Happens on my iPad Pro in the latest 12.4 betas, I can only bypass it by slowing down as I’ve zoomed in, a quick gesture snaps back and is ignored, but a quick gesture followed by waiting a second seems to preserve the zooming in. It happens most often on this site, for me, probably because I’m trying to zoom in to click tiny links, even on an iPad Pro.
TL;DR - DSL's are hard

> The DSL fashion I oppose [...] is the fashion of self-baked business-specific tools that are intended to be used by users that are not programmers or even tech people. Those require much more effort than a regular system and are seldom to be done well. So it is better to think twice before creating your own DSL [...]
Yeah. As the article says, losing hyperthreading effectively downgrades your Core i7 to a Core i5, since (depending on generation) that's one of the main differences between the two processor series.
With everything moving toward the web, increased performance doesn’t really make a difference in a lot of use cases. The biggest performance hit is usually slow hard drives and lack of RAM. You can still get away with 4GB of RAM
> "quis paget entrat".

Um, what? Only one out of three of those is actually a word.
> if you assumed the exact opposite of everything you read that was published in that journal ... you'd be vastly more informed

I don't think the opposite of not knowing is knowing (the opposite fact) :-)

That said, I agree with your main point on an even wider level. I read such very general headlines and conclusions - and when I read the actual paper there is a very specific and very limited experiment, with very specific people in a very specific context. I'm always left wondering how one gets from such a specific thing to such generalizations, especially when it's about such a complex subject as human behavior where tiny variations can produce radically different outcomes.

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PS: Animats says it's paywalled, but the PDF on the linked page is accessible and has the data and details? About the N=150,949 part:

> EFL collected the data from small-business owners at the time they were applying for a loan at a microfinance institution (MFI) in Mexico from 2015 to 2017. As part of the loan application process, a prospective borrower had to complete a short psychometric assessment developed by EFL.

That's just what I said, it's very specific.

> The psychometric assessment that EFL developed consists of many modules, one of which is relevant for the purposes of the present investigation: the flashcard game. The flashcard game is a cognitive test on memory and executive functioning. In the flashcard game, participants are presented with an image; after pressing a key, they are shown a second image. Participants are then asked to indicate whether the second image matches the first. The flashcard game is scored based on whether or not the participant correctly identifies a match.

and

> At the end of the flashcard exercise, participants
saw a question that asked them to estimate how well they think they did on this particular exercise relative to other applicants.... This question was added to the
psychometric application for the purpose of this study

I don't know about others, but I have a hard time seeing such tests justifying the headlines.
>I think we went in the wrong direction in terms of public data.

Aren't all the complaints from private companies? You can't use say FB data to do some nice thing for the society because FB will not give it to you even before GDPR , maybe they give you some secret access if you pat them a lot of money. The API access is super limited.
This is a great question! This again, depends on the company and even team you are interviewing. Some data scientists are asked to answer questions about linked lists because the team might need you to not only research models but also implement them.

Some data scientists take on more of a data engineering role, others data analysts and research scientist. It really depends what the company wants. The beginning of the post discusses various companies and what they might expect based on both personal experience and glass door.
Apple are making a series of design trade offs. What portion of laptop buyers will be swayed by the ability to swap their RAM out? Will they sell more units by designing for interchangeable RAM or by being able to make their unit 2mm thinner or add battery life because they saved 6 cm^3 by cutting a mechanical RAM socket with a minimum height of 3mm and the associated volume eaten up by the RAM module?
> I am intrigued that this hasnt been responded to for an hour whereas responses were pretty quick before.

Without taking sides (I haven't read the whole conversation), I should note that HN has a "cool-down" feature:

"there is a delay before the reply link appears on deeply nested comments, in order to create drag on flamewars."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=880844 (pg is the creator of the site)
We (WebKit team) know of major ad platforms that use cookies as their preferred mechanism to track clicks, in part so that a tracking pixel can work without requiring the merchant landing and conversion pages to include script.

We are also aware of tracking via link decoration (not just for ads) and our first steps at defending against it are described here: https://webkit.org/blog/8828/intelligent-tracking-prevention...
The paper looks more interesting, but it's paywalled.[1] The study involved over 150,000 people, which is impressive. Too many psych studies get subjects from undergrad students, or worse, Mechanical Turk.

Here's the first author's web page.[2] He seems to specialize in this area. Unfortunately, none of his papers listed link to the full text.

[1] https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Fpspi0000187

[2] https://www.darden.virginia.edu/faculty-research/directory/p...
At least as upstanding as sending your shills to bad mouth American products.
I can't find any recent news about class action suits against Intel. It seems everything is from early 2018.

Is this situation so unexpected that major companies don't even know how to react? If I were Amazon or Google, I'd be requesting my 30% discount, retroactively. Perhaps they are?
It might seem like the average age should be 7.5 years but cars that last longer than 15 years will contribute more to the sample than the average car, thus giving an average of 11.
Did you reply and say, "This is not the same business that was rejected?"
> Why is there so little investment in clean energy innovation?

Because the expected value of ROI is not strong.
Oh I think you can easily equate unconstrained corporate lobbying with corruption.

A lot of the western world's focus on corruption in other countries comes down to the fact that good old "pay an extra $50 to get your building permit approved" can't be sucked up by large corporate rent-seekers. Trump can build whatever garbage he wants but good luck adding that extension to your 1-1/2 bedroom house.

Or, that white-collar crimes are essentially bought off or legislated out of existence, while quality-of-life and low-level drug offenses can't be bribed away.

Absolutes don't help the discussion. Corporate lobbying is indeed corruption by the rich in many, many cases. Just because there are legitimate functions for lobbying doesn't mean it's not corrupt elsewhere.
Few suggestions that didn't make that list:
The Innovator's Dilemma (and everything by) - Clayton M. Christensen
Measure What Matters - John Doerr
Obstacle is the Way - Ryan Holiday
Factfulness - Anna Rosling Rönnlund, Hans Rosling, and Ola Rosling
Grit - Angela Duckworth
Civil servant committing suicide because would lose his sinecure... news at 11