skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"They are rarely grounded in an ideology cannily crafted from first principles. Like most of our beliefs, the reasons for political convictions are constructed after we have settled on them.[5] Attempts to make the tangle of positions endorsed by Republicans or Democrats congeal into one coherent ideology are post-hoc justifications. Ideological coherence ultimately matters less than commitment to a coalition."

is `values` synonymous with `beliefs` here? if so, isn't coalitionism a first principle itself? and therefore really what's happening is there's a hierarchy of beliefs and primary beliefs (such as loyalty, faith, etc.) inform secondary (more fungible) beliefs/political interests.

personally i have throughout my life heard people say things to that effect ("god, family, country"). it has stood in stark contrast to how i've felt (because i didn't grow up religious, don't have close family ties, am an immigrant - so not patriotic) and as a consequence (i hypothesize) affects the way in which i approach politics, in that i try to reason things out from first principles.
That has the exact opposite effect on me. I actually use that method to shame myself into accomplishing what I've announced...
I'd word it differently:

"Share your 'go up' goals selectively... share your 'go up' goals with everyone you possibly can"

So, if you want to give up smoking, share that with everyone including your mailman. They will help you on your path. However, beware of sharing your 'go up' goals - like starting a business - with others... they might drag you down.
> the left have lost touch with the lower classes

Nonprofit museum/library techie here. Anecdotally, if by "the left" mean supporters of Democratic establishment politicians, this is very true. They're doing well enough for themselves that they're insulated from economic bumps and they just don't seem to care about the things that real working people do. Real leftists and progressives get it though, which is why politicians like Bernie are so popular with working class people.
yardie says> So, we're at an impasse and no one can tell us anything.*

This is not true. And the system works fine. But you'll have to do some work (write a few letters and maybe a bit more). Here's how:

0. Open a chronological paper file. Copies of all correspondence with dates clearly marked/stamped will go into this file. Put the file into a file cabinet: put a copy of every letter, note or form, including the creditors' initial complaint, into it in time order. Also put notes about any phone conversations into it. Put dates on everything.

1. Talk to your local police department and, with your son, file a report with them if possible. They'll view it as a waste of time but it helps by putting you on "the right side of the law." Do it just to have a police report on file locally.

2. Have your son write a letter to the creditor (not the credit bureau) explaining that your son is a minor, the debt is not his, he did not purchase the item and asking them to remove the invalid entry from his credit report. Add a page with your adult names and signatures explaining that he is your legal son. Send those two letters along with a copy of the chronological file to the the creditor, all via registered mail if you're paranoid.

3. Wait. They _will_ respond. Usually they'll cave at this point. Sometimes they'll call and ask that a police report be filed in _their_ jurisdiction (usually by phone) or some such. Do what they ask within reason. Make sure they (creditor, police) send you copies of everything. Follow up if they don't.

4. Wait. _They_ (the creditors, NOT you) should, after brief investigation, notify the credit bureau to remove the item from your son's credit report. If they don't do so within a few months, send follow-up second and third letters if necessary, reminding them.

5. If you get no response from the creditor after two months, copy the chronological file and send it via registered mail to the credit bureau adding a cover letter explaining that you have exhausted the legal means of redress with the creditors and they have refused to respond appropriately. Ask the credit bureau to investigate the creditor's item on your son's credit report.

This sounds like a lot of trouble but it really isn't and it would be a great lesson for you son, since it shows how most of the world works.

Correction involves loosely-coupled organizations and persons. Nothing in this happens at Internet speed. Each contact must have the situation explained from the beginning. It teaches a person how to order events in time, how to narrate a story consistently and how to be patient.
AllenNLP Interpret: a demo/toolkit for interpreting NLP models
how does one automate the resetting of Adversting Identifier every 2 mins?
>In the UK, Labour was the champion of the working class, now they look upon the same people as "vulnerable people"

This is false. Labour is undergoing a reversal in the policy of the blairite years where they tied their mast to corporate/NGO elites and decoupled themselves from unions. Unions now have a lot more power (including official voting power / influence over the NEC) in the Labour party than they ever have and corporate influence has waned almost completely.
On a very distantly tangential note, based on your list of questions, I wonder if you may find this pair of links very interesting:

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/episode-31-the-feltro...

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/reporter-app/id779697486

I'm not suggesting you replace your steps, I just think you're more likely than average to enjoy them. If not, no worries :)
This was my experience. In my SAT prep class 15 years ago, the first thing the instructor did was talk about the statistics of guessing and how even if you don’t know any answers at all, you can improve your score dramatically just by eliminating the obviously wrong answers before you guess. Then we went about learning ways to find the obviously wrong answers based on the format of the question that was asked. We also took practice tests, but it was the generic test taking rules that made the difference for me. I did very, very well on the SAT and then later, I applied the same rules to the LSAT and did much less prep and did very well on that too.
Ah, good to hear that. I still have to look into that to decouple more from Google. Do you have any good resources for more information on how to move contacts and calendar? Or did this work right from the start for you?
Some 25 years of web usability research has taught us that users are incredibly impatient and will bust out of conversion funnels over the tiniest obstacles like they are the Kool-Aid Man on crack. The conversion rate for most restaurants (e.g. customer places an order) is only 1-3% [0,1].

[0] https://www.blog.shippypro.com/2019/01/27/2019-ecommerce-con...

[1] https://www.growcode.com/blog/ecommerce-conversion-rate/
Very close, in astronomical terms. At a guess, no further than the distance from Earth to the Moon, and probably much less. I'd love to see real numbers though. :)

Edit: According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roche_limit the Roche limit d = Rm * (2 * MM/Mm)^(1/3) for Rm = radius of the satellite, MM = mass of the primary, and Mm = mass of the secondary. So in this case d = 6380 * (2 * 5/1)^(1/3) = 13,745km. In astronomical terms, very nearly a bulls-eye.
Anyone who ever had a baby will not be surprised that prehistoric parents used all their creativity and craftsmanship to develop techniques which made it possible for someone other than the mother to feed the child.

According to Wikipedia, they still used cow horns filled with milk and hang above the crib in Scandinavia in the 18th century [0].

[0] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cow%27s_Horn_used_fo...
My apologies on WGU, I meant Grand Canyon University. Though, GCU apparently transitioned to non-profit last year. Wonder how transitioning actually changes things.
You're Having a Cross-Cultural Miscommunication
I use two Chrome profile, one for work and one for personal. I keep them separate by not logging into personal account in with the work profile etc.

Whenever I open Dropbox Paper with my work Chrome profile, it shows to have access to my personal Dropbox. These two are separate Dropbox accounts with separate emails associated to them. Yet, I'm able to access them since I sync a shared folder from my personal account on the same computer as the work Dropbox account (Work Dropbox account being the account thats logged into on the computer).

Seems like UX overtook security in this aspect since I didn't explicitly want to "connect" both accounts outside of shared folder.
Prism: Scaling Bitcoin by 10,000x
Is it possible to write these in regular code? I am not a big fan of these visual tools. Seems they are quite clunky compared to code.
Toggle content on click without JavaScript (Yes you read that right)
This has nothing to do with web standards. A developer decided to limit a field which could be either 2 or 4 characters to only 2. They could have used 10 different approaches to do this and they all would be broken for autocomplete and copy/paste.
>philosophers who don't understand AI

If you mean "philosophers who don't understand ML/gradient descent/linear algebra/statistics etc", I don't think many philosophers are debating about that stuff.

If you mean "philosophers who don't understand artificial intelligence", that would be all of them, and everyone else too, because no-one understands artificial intelligence yet. And a lot of the people who come closest to understanding it are in philosophy departments.
I think this means the middle class has grown and because of this what used to be about the large working class is now about the middle class and a smaller class without agency of "vulnerable people". This group of people which used to have a champion who understood them now have a champion which doesn't need to.

Anyhow the point is that those in the lower classes do not have someone they can "respect or identify with" anymore
Spot on. The difference in noise pollution, air quality, crime and drug needles laying around is staggering! Having found a wife, neither of us likes going downtown anymore. We have our own sauna and an apple tree!

The only downside is, electricity is way more expensive.
OK, but norberg is the person you blasted, and intent unfortunately doesn't express itself on the internet.
And indeed, it's not clear to me how much of a difference those ads made against the background of that total advertising budget. Such things are hard to measure, but at the very least those ads came after decades of campaigning that primed people to believe them.

Personally, I suspect they moved the needle by at most a point or two. Given the closeness of the election, that was all they needed -- indeed, they may not have been needed at all. But they do make a very good focal point for the broader question of whether it was worth it to win elections under those circumstances, with their opponents presented in such negative terms that political cooperation is almost impossible and they can achieve almost nothing legislatively.
everyone wants to have offices in all the trendy downtown areas. a lot of the cost of the office goes to rent, so even if a desire for cubes or offices was there (which generally management doesn't because they are expensive) the budget won't be.
Yeah, I apologize for WGU, meant GCU though they changed last year.
A laptop.
Copy-paste from another thread, cause it's still relevant.

Urban environments aren't really "nice". For all I hear about the joys of urban living, as espoused by others, I haven't enjoyed it much. Public transportation is crowded and smelly. Fat people take half of my seat (not nice to say, but I'm not sure how else to put it). Things are small, which for a taller guy like me, is pretty tough. As in, every thing is tiny. Living spaces, shops, streets. Streets often have trash strewn on them, and don't smell particularly good. I have to keep one hand on my wallet. Sometimes, hobos get aggressive. Not as much as an issue for me, but I'd hate to be a 4'9" lady. Keeping pets is hard. Cooking food is hard. I didn't have kids, but those I knew had a hard time with them. Things are very expensive. It's loud. There's a lot of traffic. Some times (all winter and some times in summer), it's bad weather for walking. I guess I shouldn't be complaining, since I at least didn't see much in the way of human feces.
This is not to say there aren't up-sides. I like the food, and there are interesting people. It's also much easier to find certain things; for instance, a few major cities still have serious "maker shops" with tons of electronic components. Smaller ones or sub-urban areas often can't accommodate them, as they are in low enough demand that serious density is required.

I like sub-urban living and empty green space. I can hardly blame people for moving out, if it's viable. The above applies differently to different cities; some are better, some are worse, but all have most of these problems in the urban core. Considering how expensive it is to live in a city rather than a suburb (especially if you're talking a similar amount of land), I don't want to pay more for less.
Find a place away from the coasts that isn't trying to be cheap/trendy.

I had half-height cubes at my last few jobs.
And 365 offices?
> I can imagine a situation where a victim doesn't want to go to the police, and that is their call. I'm not sure it is Urber's job to do it for them.

I don't think Uber or any company should be making a decision whether to or not - reporting should always be mandatory. Especially if anyone may be in danger.

The company does not have, or cannot be expected to have, the training or knowledge to make the call whether or not there is a problem. That should be passed on to the people have the knowledge to make that call, and that training is part of their job.

The police are the ones who get to look at the report and decide if something is worth investigating, and whether there is enough evidence, or what even is evidence, to lay charges.

The best way to remain impartial and not endanger the company, is for the company not to make the call.
because the telescope is supposed to be built close to the summit of the Mauna Kea volcano, which is a sacred site for the natives. It'd be analogous of putting the telescope into the middle of Jerusalem.
The horse of Aynrandianism was long ago beaten to death and produces exceedingly mediocre discussion. Therefore this counts as a generic ideological tangent, which breaks the site guidelines, and which we ask users not to go on (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...). It's off topic here.

Picking the weakest thing in an article to complain about breaks the spirit of this guideline: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize." It leads to bad and boring threads. You really had to swoop to cherry-pick that detail, which could hardly be less prominent.

The topic here, obviously, was the author's business. Off-topic comments that are whimsical and unpredictable are fine on HN; but going off topic in order to grouch about something, or turn to some generic issue, lowers the curiosity level and is not fine.

Also, you're crossing into personal attack, a whole other thing the HN guidelines require users not to do. We definitely don't need users tearing on other users here!
This sounds interesting.

I'm guessing you mean that much of the power of the human brain comes from its ability to interact with its environment?

I've been noticing more and more of a trend in recent years to treat the brain as separate from the body, and as if it is "trapped" in the body.
I generally find this is true. I work better on side projects and such if no one knows I'm doing it.
From the article:

> the company has started giving people the “option to allow [Uber] to contact law enforcement on their behalf” if the customer is reporting an incident that may be a crime
Oracle still has individual, soundproof, locking offices, with real doors and walls, in their HQ. I had one, with a mountain view, as an intern.
Do you not see how much this limits your mobility and freedom to do as you please?

If health care (and insurance) were de-coupled from your employment, you would have much more freedom to move around jobs, or even go without a job for a time if you so chose, etc.

Would you be OK with your employer paying for your housing? education? food?

Your employer being in control of your health (and those other things) is sickening. They are just taking power and choices away from you.
Probably the former. As a Canadian, I would ship anywhere and generally made enough off the extra demand to pay for any losses.

And I was happy to make some Super Nintendo collector in Sweden happy.
Indeed, lactose tolerance declines between 2 and 5 years of age in most people. Natural age of weaning in humans is 3-4 years.
In the four years at my current company we went full cubes -> half cubes (you get like 2-3 regular walls and one baby wall) -> open office -> open office no assigned desks. I can't wait to see the next iteration on this.
I'd been trying to figure out why they required a user interaction for some of these. 5 out of 6 of these can be explained by debouncing.

• "Wi-Fi" and "Bluetooth" connection triggers are extremely susceptible to bouncing on and off with variable radio conditions

• "Arrive", "Leave", and "Before I Leave" are all susceptible to bouncing in and out; they combine a fuzzy location of variable precision with a point and radius

By requiring a user interaction, it makes sure that bouncing never causes the shortcut to trigger more often than desired. Apple certainly tries to debounce the event automatically, but that comes with other side effects: the trigger can be delayed significantly and unpredictably.

(As for why "Time of Day" requires a user interaction, I have yet to hear a satisfying explanation. I want my Cron!)
Truth.

I've been thinking that it was a misrouted Viking.
From TFA:

> To test what would happen if Chipotle’s form used these standards, I opened my browser’s developer tools and edited the expiration year field:

> Video of autofill on the Chipotle order form after `maxlength=”2″` has been added using developer tools. It works!

> Adding the maxlength attribute to the field fixes the problem. This makes sense. We’re telling the browser, and by extension the autofill feature, how many digits it should use for the expiration year.

> Autofill is smart enough to know that if we only want two digits for a year field, that the form needs the last two digits of the year. We just need to tell the browser how many digits we expect.
When new cab-hailing apps pop up in my city, they are very quickly bought out by larger companies and stop operating under their previous moniker.
Two held for killing children for 'defecating in the open'
Here, have an upvote. This is the reason HN is the best board on the interwebs.
The reason suburban districts have good public schools and urban ones have bad schools is that dividing students into school zones is a legal method of segregation. Cities and districts will intentionally build only expensive single family housing in good school districts to keep the riff raff out.
Last I heard Microsoft still have it's engineers individual offices.
Let's not forget that many "great schools" are really cram academies for the SAT.
I think I have a somewhat unpopular and romantic opinion: a tertiary education is important not only for what you can learn in regular classes (or the prospects this learning may give you), but the knowledge you can gain outside of them if you are interested in doing so. I studied at a fairly big public university in the third world, not very special by any standards, but the experience of being inside an academic center, with access to people from a myriad of backgrounds studying very different disciplines opened my mind irrevocably. And, I believe, made me a much better engineer.

I recognise that very few people have an opportunity like the one I had and a two year degree with an extreme focus is more suitable for some folks, mainly because of the absurd tuition costs in the US (I studied for free). But it seems the concept of the university serving as a knowledge hub is fading away and giving way to a hyper capitalistic vision where only your future paychecks matter thanks to a kind of social anxiety.
> “Uh, I literally copied-and-pasted exact quotes from the thread.”

Exactly, you just copy/pasted things totally out of context and then acted like they support your narrative when they totally don’t (even as isolated quotes, and certainly not if you go read the original context of each).

You’re deliberately trying to stir shit up by taking things out of context. The grown ups are trying to talk about the actual fraud allegations and data-backed understanding of gender differences in online dating behavior, and you’re just running around yelling “fire!” (“misogyny!”) in an utterly non-constructive way.
If that were true then teaching how to take the test would have resulted in a larger jump on scores.
I am not saying that the students aimlessly wandering the halls are taking the SAT-- they're in the jail or dead-end-job pipeline. They are NOT going to college.

But there are other students in such schools, however, that are trying to make the best of the situation they're in and these students want to go to college. Sadly, these school is so busy with discipline and attendance issues that it's almost impossible for serious students to get prepared for college.

And yes, there are many public schools that would appear to a visitor as chaos. Students do just roam the hallways if they don't feel like going to class. There can be so many doing this that it looks like they're changing class-- all the time. Not exaggerating.
The Roche limit depends on the density difference between the two bodies in question. For a black hole (of any size), the density is basically infinite compared to regular planets, so the Roche limit is basically zero. As in, less than one meter.

The radius of the event horizon for a black hole even the size of Jupiter is only 2.5 meters.
Scholarships for traditional universities are pretty hard to get unless you have really strong academics. And generally the odds are stacked against you to go to a top tier university if you're coming from a low income background.

Keep in mind that if you graduate from Make School in 2-2.5 years, you'll start earning earlier. So the ROI on the $70k is really strong!

Research Universities are definitely the way to go if you want to go into the research focused ML/AI side of things. We're being explicit that this is an Applied CS degree for that reason. But for most tech careers the traditional CS degrees aren't as relevant, including for Data Science jobs (we have a few recent alums making north of $150k as Data Scientists). And you can always go back for a masters if you feel you need it.

Have you visited 42 or been through their curriculum? What parts do you feel are better?
If I could craft the perfect job for me, the one I work at would be it

- an intelligent straightforward manager who will speak his mind bluntly and can take it just as well as he can dish it out. He’s mostly concerned with results not whether you kiss his ring.

- small company without a lot of bureaucracy -- I have full access to our entire AWS infrastructure

- relatively generous PTO

- a decent free family health plan

- Pay is line with the market

- up to date with technology and great chances for resume building.

- coworkers are decent

- easy commute.

But, I’m still debating on whether I should leave in a year and find either fully remote work, a job where I can have an office or at least a quiet work area because of our open office where you have sales people (B2b), customer support managers, and developers from different teams in one office where it gets noisy.