skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The relationship is that one of the reasons cited by the article for why Wittgenstein is overrated is because he's difficult to understand. That's not a valid argument. Being difficult to understand is not a fault in somebody who is in the business of having to explain difficult things all the time.

And the fact that the author thinks it's a valid argument makes me think that the author subscribes to the same fallacious cultural norm that PHB (pointy-haired boss) subscribes to when he puts the burden on Dilbert to have to work harder to make himself understood by PHB, rather than PHB taking it upon himself to have to work harder to try to understand Dilbert.

Why am I saying it's not a valid argument? Say you read Wittgenstein, and it strikes you that he is difficult to understand, but, despite that feeling of difficulty, your takeaway from reading Wittgenstein is some idea that you think is the idea Wittgenstein is trying to express. At that point you have no way of knowing whether the idea you took away is correct or incorrect, whether it is complete or incomplete as a reflection of what it is that Wittgenstein was trying to say. You furthermore think to yourself: Boy, that idea that was my takeaway from Wittgenstein, I could explain that very easily so that a 6-year old could understand.

World view A: Holds most dearly the notion of a complex idea explained so simply that a 6-year-old can understand.

World view B: Holds that any idea that can be grasped by a 6-year-old couldn't have been all that complex to begin with.

World view A, together with a personality trait of overconfidence, departs from the assumption that your understanding of Wittgenstein is perfect and arrives at the conclusion that Wittgenstein is doing a shitty job making himself understood.

World view B departs from the observation that your understanding of Wittgenstein is such that it could be grasped by a 6-year-old. Granting that the stuff that some of the most famous philosophers of all time were talking about when they were exchanging ideas on philosophy is not stuff that a 6-year-old could understand, you would arrive at the conclusion that your understanding of Wittgenstein is probably incorrect and/or incomplete.

Now.

Overconfident stupid people tend to go through life adopting world view A. Throughout their whole lives they have the experience of smart people talking to them in a complicated way, and taking away ideas that a 6-year-old can understand. Well. If it looks that way to you, it's probably because, being stupid, you only understand half of what they're saying. And, in your perception: Complex ideas simply do not exist. But the world is filled with people explaining simple ideas in complex ways.

Well, to such people I have something to say: "Complex ideas do exist. And I'm done trying to explain them to you and feeling bad when failing."

And Wittgenstein is not a world-famous historical figure due to being overrated. Rather Crispin Sartwell is somebody no one has ever heard of for reasons that seem to me to be entirely rightful.
I'm not sure I understand this guy's point. That America is evil or hypocritical? Does that add to this discussion about a proposed and rejected solution to the debt ceiling?
That solar "debacle" was ONE company failing out of over a dozen. The program itself turned a profit for Uncle Sam.
That sounds like Zimbabwe dollars. I have a 100 trillion dollar note somewhere, and a stack of 200 million dollar notes.

They're worth a lot more now as collector's items, than they ever were as actual currency.
Well, it could be equally appreciated if all those humans longing for better/cheaper education realized how much better their life because they can learn literally anything for free with a tap/click because someone runs Google/YT, which to take off required some growth capital (an ironic example in this context, yes)
The author of the RFC was a big Haskell user and mentioned that idea came from there.

You can't learn everything from official documents...
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I guess you didn't read the test of the comments then. I perfectly justified my comment, what have you contributed
> Opportunity is often missed because it looks like work.

Man that is 180 degrees from my perception. Opportunity is often declined because a failed inventor (and most inventors fail) looks like someone who got nothing done. It looks like non-work.

Upper-middle class westerners can get away with this, because they've got enough capital to weather the period of speculative effort, and when it fails, they've got enough connections to get paid employment afterward.

A poorly capitalized, poorly connected person who messes around in a shed for two years and produces a pile of non-functional junk has a much harder time getting back into the game afterward, and they know this going in.

Not everyone can afford to be seen failing.
Study examines emotional regulation strategies among the socially anxious
More money for the rich people. Groundbreaking.
Robot, a 1kB library for finite state machines
I guess many people will not, and that this will lead to a higher rate of renting. That promotes economic inequality as the middle class is then prevented from entering an important way building savings: owning a house outright.
Rust’s `dbg!()` macro also includes the source file name and line number; this C++ `dbg(…)` macro looks to add source file name, line number and function name.
And for even more speedup, use Mitogen https://mitogen.networkgenomics.com/ansible_detailed.html
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Ah, I missed that reference at the bottom.
If only those Mongolians had building code engineers.
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The problem is that most spammers know how to strip the plus tags, or can strip the dots to associate you across multiple accounts.

I think of throwaway addresses the same way as I think of a VPN. I shouldn't be the only person on the domain I'm using, and there shouldn't be any persistent information in the address.

With Fastmail, the only information I have to give up is that it is a Fastmail account. I can have `<some_random_string>@fastmail.com`, which makes it much harder for an advertiser or spammer to link my identity from that email to another one.
There are long waiting times to access American health care too, anyway, even with insurance. I feel like the people who make those sorts of claims must never do more than use the ER or walk-in clinics.
On this topic, I felt this while looking into building a healthcare startup. HIPAA seemed like some goosebumps character, don’t say it’s name 3 times or else you’re in violation.

Not only are hurdles a pain, they’re not easily understood.

Edit: beetle juice, not goosebumps
Is a college degree worth the cost? (fun, video) (2012)
Quite unlikely if they are following the current monetary trend. Negative interest rates are going to be matched with large amounts of monetary creation by the banks and central banks (note they are paying people to borrow money).

If someone were to try that policy in an English speaking country I'd be very confident that the creation would outweigh the destruction and that there will be massive wealth transfers from people who have cash savings to people who borrow money. Denmark will probably go that way too.
Perhaps one solution to this problem, which is popular in the UK, is set up child companies to do things like payment processing. If your provider blocks one company, you can simply set up with another subsidiary. Rinse and repeat.
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Why would that be hard to understand. It makes total sense.

People making >200k probably use almost no government resources, and are sick of getting taxed up the arse left and right at any opportunity.

I’d be happy to pay more tax if I had any faith the money would be used wisely, but I don’t. Hence, my goal when voting is tax minimization.
> It didn’t get mentioned in the article but a huge reason of this over the last 10 years is just the number of people in blue states moving to red states.

Huge reason for what? Income growth is happening in blue districts not red.

> It is no question that trump is winning again.

Last I checked he's getting crushed in polls by almost every major dem candidate.
In my view for humanity to exist long term we need to become a interplanetary species. An impact like the one that killed the dinosaurs can certainly happen again and the sun has a expiration date.

Ultimately what is purposed isn't even a solution to the problem. Small reductions here and there that in total only manage to delay the inevitable. The only solution is mass scale terraforming projects and genetic modification of existing species to increase resiliency. If the coral reefs are dying we need to build reefs that are more resilient. If polar bears are overheating we need to breed ones who are more temperature tolerant. If the fish of the sea do not breed quickly enough for us to consume them at the rate that we currently do, we need to increase yields.
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I have a friend in London who was hit with this 3 times in the past few years. He has a security camera overlooking the car but no garage option. First time they stole the unprotected cat it took under 4 minutes. Second time he had the steel cable mesh with collars and clamps protecting it and they stole it in under 7 minutes. Third time he had some sort of fancy protective system with alarm, steel cables, kevlar straps, clearly labeled so the thieves would know. They recognized this to be not worth the trouble so they vandalized the cat instead. The value of the vandalized cat was basically enough to break even with the cost of the fancy protection.
That’s Hofstadter’s law: “It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.”
That's because we suck at politics, not space. America is not just exceptional, it is unique.
Are these conclusions correct though? They show the electoral map and the districts that were lost. Those are more rural and more traditional industry focused areas.

It is more likely that coastal Democrat's income and education was always higher than rural leaning counties and remained at par between these two time periods. To state that this materially changes the Democratic party is not right.
They don't underappreciate capital in that case, they underappreciate the value of online education for various reasons (doubts about quality being one), the weight of tradition on higher education, and the fact that many (perhaps even most) people who go into higher education want a degree to show prospective employers (this is of course itself showing the appreciation and necessity of playing the capital game in their lives).
Not a great example. Harry Potter is a book for children. If you are reading Zola, it's still fiction, but it's deeper.
Yes. But the high house prices feed through to higher land prices so the newly built houses will also be more expensive than they otherwise would have been.
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The other comment is not quite right, a ‘language register’ is not a dialect, even though apparently the whole classification is difficult and imprecise due to the nature of languages as a continuum. A ‘language register’ means a variant, choice of words, that are used in specific situations or settings: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Register_(sociolinguistics)

So, afaiu an ‘informal register’ would be something like brospeak or language spoken at home and among friends, contrasted to that spoken with strangers and at work. But I don't know what the situation is in German. With English and Russian, every generation and each subculture invents their own slang just to differentiate themselves―can't imagine how any country would avoid developing informal language, considering the existence of Oktoberfest.
Why does owning a home compound wealth? Honest question.
hard to work on your juggling if you're slaving away 20 hours a day
the browser also sends information only to Google
It's trivial to replace chrome by chromium tough
I wonder what the advantages / disadvantages were compared to CRT projectors that came out in the 1950s.
I think we can certainly incentivize people more, but in order to invent "important stuff" we need significant resources. If everyone was given the money to invent this important stuff, it's hard to allocate the proper resources to them, or at the very least, they will get fewer resources.

Even at large R&D companies which have the investment, people are still hesitant to invest in new ideas since they simply don't have the money. It works the same way with the government, just at a larger scale.

Many people don't care about any of this though. They just want to live their lives, find something to be passionate about, and die peacefully. You'll always have to fight these people, politically.

We also have to consider the legal ramifications of such things. It is difficult to do ethical R&D.
To clarify, I'm assuming oil that is used as inputs for the chemical's synthesis, not any energy used for the synthesis.

EVs will devalue oil in the short run since it reduces demand. But then again, oil has been so heavily exploited that easy-to-get oil is long gone, so if EVs drop demand below a threshold, then oil production will fall off a cliff.

Crossing my fingers and hoping!
That’s Brook’s law: “Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later,”
IMO this is the end game.

Scenario 1: If interest rates go up significantly this would bankrupt entire nations such as Italy, France and Greece (again) + runaway deflation. Conclusion: interest rates cannot and will not go up. This would be political suicide. Also deflation is the number 1 enemy of central banks and the economy in general.

Scenario 2: Lowering interest rates causes rich people, businesses and governments to lend as much as they possibly can to convert debt into "stuff" that they can charge more currency for. This causes zombification of governments, businesses and rich people: productivity of real estate is 0, productivity of businesses that can't go bankrupt (because you can't miss interest payments if there's no interest) goes towards 0, same for governments. Startups struggle to compete with larger companies, because they don't have the capital (and political lobby) and if they can somehow compete they just get bought. Also perhaps most importantly: this increases the divide between rich and poor and thus social unrest. The poor can't get significant credit so they are forced to finance the "stuff" that the rich own by renting it from them. AKA: the rich are home owners and the poor are home renters at ever increasing rents.

I don't believe for a second that interest rates will go up in the years to come. So scenario 2 is where we are (heading). Smells of hyperinflation to me. Scenario 1 = 1930 all over again.

I don't see any possible positive outcome, unless by some miracle the trade wars (and other government control over markets) end. And even then...

Disclaimer: economics n00b interpreting central bank president talks and stock trader news websites.
The push from the market appears to mainly consist of a) engineering ways of preventing drugs coming out of patent b) absurdly increase margins on basic and necessary items c) insanely increase margins on items with limited competition, e.g. epipens, last but certainly not least, advertising to unbalance healthcare by encouraging the expensive over the appropriate treatment. Pharma prefers to find long term treatments rather than new antibiotics and other treatments that are a week or two then done. Much more money in an ongoing treatment than cure.

It's not the market, but far more US liability laws and willingness to sue that brings the US tendency to over investigate, diagnose and treat, is it not? That seems to be the sole advantage of the US approach over others, and even that can be questioned in many areas.

All of those market pushes seem to be in the interests of medical CEOs and stockholders, not patients and citizens. I am far happier with a system that tries to remove or limit those for benefit of everyone. That tries (fallibly) to achieve fairness on medical not solely market grounds. I would prefer more openness too, but after the infamous farce of monoclonal antibodies, that's not realistic.

Seems more like we need to keep that invisible, and very imperfect hand out of healthcare as much as possible. Then heavily constrain it where we can't keep it out.
The fact that censoring the left is shocking, but censoring the right is heroic tells us everything we need to know about the world in 2019. It is also exactly why people vote for Trump, Johnson, Bolsonaro, etc., etc...
Invention is overvalued as well as the idea of "creativity."

The biggest proof is the current China-USA standoff.

USA is on the paper the biggest nation on earth by manufacturing output, but what was the last time you saw made in USA household goods in supermarket without having to specifically look for them?

Why China has industrial base and USA doesn't?

Wages difference? No, not by a chance. In some places in China, the cost of trained blue collar labour begins to exceed that of US.

An hourly rate for an experienced pick and place machine operator in South China certainly exceeds $15 per hour, and may be closing on $20. This is what I can tell from my own experience.

On an another hand, it is $16 in USA. https://www.indeed.com/salaries/SMT-Operator-Salaries

Even plain assembly line workers now get close to $15, and trained ones above that. For any manufacturing automation specialist in China, wages are better than in USA...

You don't see Chinese industrialists racing to setup factories in USA. Think why now?

I was telling my own story on HN few times already. I was trying to setup an electric scooter factory in Vancouver, Canada, and then in US northwest on behalf of my employer.

I had to hire university grads to do plain assembly, as anybody else had hard time to just wire a battery, throttle, BMS board, and a motor. And that with colour coded wire harness with mechanical keys to prevent miswiring... We spent 6 months looking for an operator for our model of pick and place machine.

In China, those are the jobs I can hire a highschooler for.

America wastes its talent not any much less than, say, most countries Americans call "the third world."

A very good story about that https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/28/technology/iphones-apple-...
“...and since one can’t ask a stranger to fund him...”

That’s been a solved issue since at least the 17th century with joint stock companies. What else is an IPO but asking strangers for money so you can do business?
This sounds similar enough to the SBIR/STTR program that many federal agencies already have from the NIH and Department of Agriculture too DARPA. Basically a company pitches an idea to a federal agency which if accepted will give you something like 100k (phase 1) to explore the initial idea and place in you in a pipeline that can lead to much more money if the idea seems valuable and doable (phase 2 and phase 3). This program has led to the development of all types of cool technology and has supported a bunch of small businesses. However it is not the silver bullet you are suggesting it is.
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why would one be interested in sharing doubts with other peoples computers? just deliver random bits and let the user map it to decisions himself.

while this may be innocent, the potential of abuse and manipulation is too big.

I wonder what the statistics for:

uninstall universe splitter
vs
keep universe splitter

will look like...
I think both arguments sound right to me in some degree.

It is a wealth transfer, and asset prices can’t go up infinitely, unless wages rise equally for the population of house buyers. It seems wages have been stagnating in the US for a while now.

When there’s a shock or wide drop, the latest buyers will be left holding the bag.

But nobody knows for sure, maybe it really is different this time.
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Hi Folks,

What, in your opinion, are the qualities of an exceptional teacher, apart from being knowledgeable in their area of expertise?

I am planning to segue into this field, hence the question. I currently work as a Data analyst. Thanks
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That’s because he reads different media:

https://www.breitbart.com/environment/2019/09/20/nolte-clima...
You kind of described Japan’s economy.
I straight up quit halfway through because the videos/GIFs would take forever to load.

That and the ever present obnoxious prompt to download the app.
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So, most modern people fall into the 2 below categories:

1. The religious framework: an eternal god exists and he/she creates the reality we see around us.
2. We are an accident created by the wave function of the universe (Stephen Hawking and other scientific viewpoints).

Who here believes in something else, and if so, what do you believe in?
No. But that policy suggestion aligns with One Nation and is probably either going to be called racist and/or nationalist.
Well, yes. There’s a transition in progress. I would expect the older API to be deprecated or removed in a future version, probably within a couple of years.
>didn't go all the way through the purchase however

So you didn't actually buy it? lol. reread what you wrote
He got crushed in the polls in 2016. He also lost the popular vote. But he could once again easily win the electoral vote and lose the popular vote.
A growing economy should all other things equal lead to a higher home ownership rate as the rising productivity means that fewer man hours are required to build a house. However the low interest rate environment the US (and the whole Western world) has experienced since 2001 has led to a declining rate of home ownership.

> Historically speaking, the homeownership rate has risen above the 50-year low it reached during the second quarter of 2016 when it clocked in at 62.9 percent. Still, it's several percentage points away from its pre-recession peak of 69.2 percent. [0]

[0]: https://www.thebalance.com/the-homeownership-rate-what-is-it...

Edit: you can also have a look at the graph on page five here. It shows that the home ownership rate topped around 2003 and has been on a steady decline since then:

https://www.census.gov/housing/hvs/files/currenthvspress.pdf
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Whether the period since 2008 has been a true expansion is arguable. On the surface level equity prices increased, yet there hasn’t been much if any inflation or wage growth and yields have gone down for most assets.
The iPhone XS and XR will get processor throttling feature with iOS 13.1
I think the better question would have been, how would Steve Jobs have ended up if he were born in Syria
What sort of optics did you feel weren't covered by your physics courses?
Of course there would be a wing. I didn't think I needed specify that.
Soon enough we may find out that too much is invested into the expectation that interest rates will go down indefinitely.

When inflation finally strikes, there will be no tools left to fight it. Getting deeply into debt and buying as many assets as you can would then be the right thing to do.

Obviously, this is not financial advice.
Yes I did, and no you did not. You made a drive-by shoot-down of an innocent idea without suggesting a better one or giving a single valid reason why you feel the idea is bad. If you don't have something to say that will improve the situation then maybe you should not comment.
Japan's a known potential model of the future of the European economy as they're demographically about 15 years ahead of Europe.

Would make sense to some extend.