skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
one extreme:

Neurotypical people don’t like autistic people, and would prefer to avoid them to the greatest extent possible.

The other extreme is the way you interpret my statements to mean that I have some delusionally idealistic view of humanity. Reality lies between your overly bleak assessment of average people and the perfectly accepting world you mistakenly attributed to me.

I acknowledge that some people are jerks. However, most people try to get along with people when they interact with them. The people who don't, or who are unusually bad at it are often the neurotypical people.

The word creepy can mean fear or disgust. Frequently in the context of women thinking a guy is a creep, they mean some amount of both. If that's not what you meant, fair enough.

Are you disgusted by fat people, the mentally disabled, or people that aren't beautiful? I don't think that's as normal as you seem to think it is.

There are verifiable prejudices towards overweight people but you make it sound like people can't stand to see them.

Also, don't you think all sorts of self-help groups are self selecting for people with negative experiences?
> their customer service is still better than most (maybe all) of their direct competitors.

I've only needed customer support from Amazon twice, but both times my experience was really bad.
If you read a decent amount of genetics research, you usually end up discovering some conclusions that are politically unacceptable. Even a comment as bland as yours, you can see some people consider it Hitlerian. But at the same time plenty of people do read genetics research and perform cutting edge experiments that advance the state of the art. It is acceptable to do these things, as long as you use enough academic jargon that laymen and politicians can't understand what you're saying.
Yeah I’m surprised that isn’t on there, given it’s the “hardest” computer fiction of any of his books.
Why this isn't a helm chart I'll never know.
Who on earth are you to tell someone not to make friends with women? I struggle to interpret that charitibly
I am well aware.

It's really not tractable.

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/3c52ll/shippin...

Wind is a proven solar-derived marine power system. Used commercially through the 1950s.
Massive paradigm shift in office leasing.
I have been building grouper.ai to integrate voice ai systems with 2600hz's kazoo apis, and have enjoyed doing it as a Greenfield side project. Nerves for hardware on embedded Linux, c/c++ for the voice apis, ports in erlang/elixir to talk the low level calls, using elixir Phoenix in the cloud on the beam. Have used erlang also in day job for custom industrial M2M protocol translation (serial / Ethernet) very successfully also.
My bet this is by design.
Then why bring up five year old allegations that are almost certainly not relevant today (if they indeed were at the time)?
There aren't necessarily serious arguments against encrypting DNS but there are serious arguments against implementing it at the individual application level instead of honoring the system DNS settings configured by the system owner.

System owners are now going to have to be concerned about configuring and locking down DNS settings in multiple locations. Troubleshooting issues caused by DNS problems will be more difficult as different applications may use different DNS settings.

Filters such as child protection filters are more difficult not only on the ISP level but at the home and corporate network level also. I fear the reaction to this is going to be more https interception on corporate networks as traditional DNS interception and filtering becomes less useful.
Suggestion: Instead of “Yo somos,” it should be, Yo estoy.
> WeWork's scale does give them a bit of an advantage

Within the original thesis per se it gave them a possible demand-side advantage. (Commercial real estate is too big for any meaningful sell-side advantages.)

Being able to say "let's open a branch in Singapore and see how it goes for 6 months" with a few clicks is quite awesome. If I trusted it to be around in a few years, it would change how I think about deploying people.

To be able to deliver that value prop, you need seats available in Singapore. (And New York and London and Dubai.) Hence a potential scaling advantage.
Myron Scholes was heavily involved in LTCM, a hedge fund whose strategy was to apply statistical models to trading. It was one of the most spectacular business failures of the last few decades, losing $4.5 billion in value.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-Term_Capital_Management
True, but consider:

1. They want some turkey.

2. WeWorks is a turkey that already exists, in a good enough form and, should non-wanker management be installed, fat trimmed and the co being returned to real estate business rather than technology business, it seems to be a pretty tasty and immediately available one.

3. Buying it outright would have been a lot more expensive.

Is it any different from Softbank investing in Sprint? They could have invested in smaller company and built it themselves but instead they dumped money into someone who was already there and slowly reshaped the management
That's awfully simplistic.

Evolution is simply three observable phenomena: first, living things carry genetic information; second, genetic information is rarely transmitted without any change to a descendant; third, a living thing that does not have descendants doesn't directly contribute their genetic information to any descendants.

There's nothing there to "believe" in any more than you need to believe in gravity.

Next, everything that happens to an organism that is not determined by genes is determined by the rest of the universe. That's pretty obvious.

A really interesting aspect, though, is that genes can't do anything if they aren't being read and processed correctly. Reduce the supply of essential nutrients, and it doesn't matter how awesome your genes are, you're going to get a deficiency disease. Fill the environment with chlorine compounds, and you're going to get poisoned. Too much lead? Too much alcohol? Say goodbye to proper development.

When it comes to humans, it's even worse. If you don't interact with them enough, they don't develop well. Language skill has a few years to develop properly -- without society, humans can't function in society.

None of those results suggest that we are hiding some sort of determinism that we should be paying more attention to.
Is Uber in it for the social change?

If not then this is just a silly point. Some of the regulations were unreasonable and the result of corruption - but Uber also skirted insurance and background check related laws at various times.
Is this another Theranos/Bad Blood kind of situation?
magashna: Punishment is not a deterrent.
rbut: Punishment is a deterrent and has been proven ...
magashna:murder rates are consistently higher in states with the death penalty.
joshuamorton: I doubt this relationship is causal.

Magashna is clearly not arguing causality, but rather that the death penalty has failed to be a deterrent to murder.
it feels like this is the 1.23E23th time I've read this - wouldn't it be time for HN to fix the css to make code-tags more readable (especially on mobile)?!
CA Governor Signs Bill Allowing College Athletes to Profit from Endorsements
It concerns me that them constantly working a ton of overtime is deemed praiseworthy.
Not necessarily, it depends on the advisor, university, program and field.

The problem is that once you start you are committed for 4 years. Abandoning a PhD program and starting another one is quite more complicated than changing of job.
Did not even know this existed. Thanks!
"40 Inches of Snow in Montana: ‘It’s a February Storm in September’"
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/29/us/montana-snowstorm.html

This is not an isolated event. Parts of North America & Europe has had snow & hale in the Summer. Australia had an unusually cold winter. There's also historical precedence for these anomalous weather events.

Growing Degree Days compared between 2018-2019 has been falling in all of the US States except Alaska & Florida; over 20% in the northern states. http://iceagefarmer.com/gdd

At what point would APGW be falsifiable? How much summer/early-autumn/late-spring snow would it take?
By definition, identical twins share all of their genetic code.
This Perfect Day, by Ira Levin. Story of a man's repeated attempts to escape a benevolent automated dictatorship where everything is controlled and everyone is kept sedated.

The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein - The moon is a colony of misfits and is suffering increasingly unreasonable demands from earth (1776 in space). One of the computer systems managing part of the colony is discovered to be sentient and is gradually befriended by a sysadmin.
The author of the essay is the founder of https://dynamicland.org which implements what he's talking about in this article.
Have you checked that those were denim jeans at Primark? Last time I checked all of their trousers were made in huge parts out of synthetic yarn.
It's not about the speed being a benefit per-se, but rather not a determent. One of the big reasons people still use C over other languages is that C is perceived to be faster (and indeed usually is).
Shogun by James Clavelle is one of the best "culture shock" historical epics available. You will learn some japanese too.

Pillars of Earth, read by John Lee, is another one, simply about building a cathedral in medieval europe. Great characters, a villain you love to hate.

If you haven't, you cannot claim to be a fan of science if you haven't listen to Foundation by Issac Asimov.

The Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss, read by Nick Podehl. It's Harry Potter but for grownups. Fantastic story.

Edit - I'm adding this because I doubt anyone will mention it - there is an audio production company called Graphic Audio, their tagline is "a movie in your mind."

The absolute BEST story I have ever heard, in my entire life, is the Stormlight Archives Series - Way of Kings & Words of Radiance books. These are written by Brandon Sanderson. I don't actually read much fantasy when I read fiction it tends to be scifi or historically based. But this series, with the voice actors and the properly timed music/sfx, is absolutely fantastic. I know OP mentioned audible and Graphic Audio isn't available there, and they are very expensive. But if you can afford it, you won't get a better experience. There are some "jump out of your chair and fist pump" moments in these books.
> Is Uber in it for the social change?

The end result is a safer, better-functioning street transit system (in New York at least). I don't care if they were in it for social change or for the money. They delivered results, both themselves and by kicking taxis up a notch.

(Many activists aren't in it for altruistic purposes. That doesn't make their work less meaningful.)
Whether the claim hold up or not. If you developed a language that's faster than C, would you not advertise that as a feature?
Source is the movie. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Catch-22_(film)
Honestly, it wasn't even smart. And the thing it was first at was social focused co-working spaces, there have been more bare bones offerings for co-working spaces for a long time, WeWork just tried to appeal to that SV niche of people that'd like the folks they're subletting with to be the kind they'd like to share a beer with.
I'm surprised it didn't come up with Scoopr.
Looks like a bad 3D render... which it is?
You're saying meat production is bad, but then blaming those that are actually eating less of the meat. I don't think the viewpoints you have presented are consistent with each other.
> Why could the government not operate without lying, except for extreme situations like war?

Cynically? Because if you do that, then all the lies the government wants to tell get justified with war.

Let's say you want to limit your lying to extremely narrow issues like "Ruritania wants to invade, so let's mis-state our defensive strength on the border". Now if Senator Jones wants to send some pork to his district, he can arrange to buy overpriced military radar for the border, since that part of the budget won't be scrutinized. If a presidential candidate wants to scare people, he can announce a widget gap at the border, knowing that the real number of widgets is a secret.

That's a bit extreme, but I think the reality is a slightly broader version of the same. Governments conceal or lie about who they surveil so the suspects won't find out, which creates opportunities to surveil dissidents and political enemies. Governments lie about their mechanisms of surveillance so they won't be circumvented, which lets them conceal the use of unethical methods. Governments lie about their trade positions and economic confidence to negotiate better deals and avoid market panics, which lets them lie about who they're negotiating to benefit and how strong their economic planning is.

We could probably have governments that lie less, perhaps we could decide that total economic openness is a net benefit. But the underlying problem remains: both secrecy and lying are antithetical to oversight, so any ugly intention will get channeled through whatever narrow categories we decide to allow.
Aw, I was hoping it was a new essay by Bret. Needs (2011) in the title.
According to the gene shortage argument, genes can’t be very important to the birth of the mind because the genome contains only about 30,000 genes, simply too few to account even for the brain’s complexity—with its billions of cells and tens of billions of connections between neurons—much less the mind’s. “Given that ratio,” Ehrlich suggested, “it would be quite a trick for genes typically to control more than the most general aspects of human behavior.”

To me, the clearest argument against this position is that horses can walk within a couple hours after being born. That doesn't seem like anywhere near enough trials to learn how to walk from first principles. The method to walk must be encoded in the horse's DNA.

Humans can't walk at birth, obviously. But Occam's Razor suggests that if the ability to walk can be encoded within a horse's DNA, it can also be encoded within a human's DNA.

Anecdotally, when I watch a baby learn to walk, it doesn't really seem like they are trying a zillion things and picking the one that works. It seems much more like their instincts are telling them to move a certain way, and once they grow strong enough, it succeeds and they are walking.
I tend to disagree with this.

PhD's tend to work in advanced areas of companies. When recessions hit, R&D is one of the first places to take a hit.
The thing is, a PhD is in its own way a professional degree, like a JD or MD. The difference is that the profession a PhD is teaching you is research. If you don't enjoy research, there's really no reason to get a PhD. For non-research jobs in industry it doesn't matter if you have a PhD or not, and if you don't want to do research then you probably won't want the jobs in industry that would require a PhD.
Yes, but if your marketing expenses systematically exceed the revenue from the paid customers, your business isn't viable.
JSConf US 2019: Pushing JavaScript Beyond the Browser
None of these eye exercises have any benefit for myopia prevention. They might reduce eyestrain, but that is not related to the article.
They advertise as genuine denim and I have no reason to believe they aren't.
William Gibson didn't actually know much about computers or networks when he wrote Neuromancer (on a manual typewriter IIRC)... ironic given that he coined the word "cyberspace."

And as far as inspiration goes, it's worth noting that Blade Runner came out as William Gibson was finishing Neuromancer, and he almost gave up on it because he was afraid that by the time the book came out people would think he was ripping off the movie.

I don't think the Matrix needs to "credit" Neuromancer as an inspiration, though. The Matrix draws from a lot of sources, but being cyberpunk, inspiration from Neuromancer is a given.
> So not really any "cheating", right?

No evidence of fraud, no. But cheating is not necessarily fraud because not all rules are codified as law. There is cleverly devious cheating, like a lot of what Gates and Jobs did in the 80s. That's cheating, but it's clever and it's cute so we think of it positively.

Then there's cheating as in pretending to defy the laws of economics, which is what WeWork did. They were trying to scale out of a business that loses money on the marginal dollar. Nothing illegal about that. But together with Masa Son's spigot of Saudi cash and Neumann's rampant self dealing, I'd go ahead and qualify it as cheating.
I increasingly see that as one of the most misguided xkcd strips ever.

Unfortunately, the endgame for bot spam indistinguishable from humans isn't some benign silicon intelligence, but an epistemic war for attention, spending, manipulation, and/or fraud, benefitting deep pockets and highly motivated parties.

It ends poorly.
Personally, I think it's a bit asinine.

Rather than decry anything that resembles what we have today as old-fashioned and not futuristic, it should first be asked "why are screens so common today?"

We've been using our hands for years- keyboards, trackballs, mice, joysticks, custom wheels for driving games, the nintendo light gun for duck hunt, and so forth. Take that- and combine it with something else that should be jumping out at you from the article: every picture with a hand shows it holding a different object.

Screens are multi-purpose. They are perfect for scenarios where one control must meet many needs (compared to the pictured hammer, which at best meets two). Let's say that we could imagine some multi-purpose, tactile, 3 dimensional interface... say, like a hologram from Iron Man or Star Trek. Now compare that to the article's mention of Alan Kay's doodle pre-integrated circuit. The difference is huge... we don't even have the physics knowledge to describe how a tactile hologram could exist at safe handling energies, let alone in open air, as described by those fictions. Comparatively, Alan Kay combined things that already existed... battery, circuits, screen and keys, and imagined what could happen if they were smaller and portable.

We had things much more similar to what he drew decades before we had the ipad; the ipad is merely an incremental improvement over some of my own childhood toys, not to mention what was already available a few years after his own drawing, such as the Speak and Spell ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speak_%26_Spell_(toy)#/media/F... )
Everyone Has a Wealth Number. What’s Yours?
It's naive to say that. We as individuals do, but you cannot control every individual in the world effectively. It's best to assume that it will happen and try to put safeguards in effect.
Watch Steve Jobs Assure 1981 America That Computers Aren't a Privacy Nightmare
If ever there was a book that was deeply foundational to the person I’ve grown up into, it was Cryptonomicon. I read it for the first time in middle school.
Fixing Layout Instability
That works when one side has an overwhelming power advantage, or when two sides are fighting a proxy war with little skin in the game. The dominant side(s) can afford to enforce rules that minimize its losses and the chance for escalation, and enforce those rules on the other party because, well, it's dominant. Basically all wars since WW2 have been fought on this template.

It goes out the window when there is actual uncertainty about who might win. Unrestricted submarine warfare was considered a war crime for most of peacetime, but as soon as it became a crucial strategic advantage that might turn the tide of the war, both sides started using it. The atom bomb would probably have been a war crime if it had been the losing side using it; as it is, it remains controversial.

Once one side wins the war, they become the dominant power again, and can enforce a definition of war crimes favorable to themselves. Such an event actually occurred with unrestricted submarine warfare: Admiral Nimitz testified for Karl Donitz at the latter's war crimes trial, because had unrestricted submarine warfare remained a war crime, the U.S. would have been guilty of it too.
Is Security Being Compromised with the Growth of IoT?
Mengenlehreuhr
Google also CIA, all the big tech companies are just shells for American interests anyway.
In the past, it would seem people had a lesser nurture:nature ratio. In the future it seems we will have greater.

I think the greatest ratio would be an AI that can fully program itself (including its emotions).

Point being, I suspect we're a lot less nurture than we'd like to think.
Wow, the future for SPARC (and for Solaris) is not looking bright at the moment, huh? Which is a shame really. I mean, yeah, OpenIndiana or whatever it's called now will still be around in OSS form, and even the SPARC ISA is open, but Solaris was - at one time - a vibrant source of cool OS innovations... and competition is generally a Good Thing.
Tell that to the allies after WW2.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disarmed_Enemy_Forces
The age of consent in China is 14. I am assuming that most people there are OK with this.

So, in your opinion, Chinese people are automatically disqualified for any and all leadership positions?
But in terms of climate change, that's not viable. It's literally a global effort to make change and the current discourse doesn't say anything about that. In my youth, don't waste water by much, every little bit counts if we all do it. Don't litter, if everyone cleans up a little, there's not much trash out there. When I was a kid growing up in Florida, there was a special place in Hell for you if you didn't cut the soda can rings before throwing them away. Where even Hitler looked down on you. While living in Florida, that was the norm. I didn't know anyone who didn't do this. I leave the state to travel for a few years, NO ONE DOES IT. Colorado, Washington, Virginia and Oregon to name a few. I look like a freak to people. They all wonder WTF I'm cutting the rings for. Mind you, these are people who are at least relatively environmentally friendly. And I'm a republican (ish).

I yell at people who don't snip those rings and shame them with pictures of sea turtles. Lots of shaming. Don't use plastic straws, at least use paper ones if it has to be disposable (which Florida coastal restaurants do). Don't crank your AC too low, or get an HE fan to help it out. And again, I'm a republican. Little things compound over time.

But when someone goes "How the hell am I to offset the CO2 of a cruise ship or cargo ship?" I mean... yea. Little actions I can defend pretty easily. And while I understand the powers of compounding efforts. Still.

The current environmental rhetoric doesn't leave room for the average person to make change. In the 90s, the rhetoric was "everyone, down to the individual level can make a difference". Naive and childish statement now that I'm in my 30s. But I do see the value. And that message is no longer spread. It's just "Big companies and governments are to blame and there's nothing we can do about it! We have to rely on governments and companies to make change!"
I think you're underestimating the level of crap StackOverflow attracts: https://www.google.com/search?q=stackoverflow+concatenate+st...

(My favorite is the one where they were actually asking about PHP)
I agree about SO becoming a frustrating site because of crappy mods - in particular, questions being closed by someone who plainly hasn't even read the new question... drives me nuts!

However, it really doesn't look like natural selection is at work here - I recognise several names in the list of resigned/fired mods, and they were some of the good ones.

No, it really looks like SO is well on the way to "becoming evil", forsaking community in the name of profit - which cannot end well for them.
The new US/UK data-sharing agreement doesn't require encryption backdoors
Comment OP is trying to express that life is what you make of it. A PhD or an industry job at google etc etc won’t make your life interesting by themselves, but you need to make it be.