skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been following this through the lens of Beeminder (and "Quantified Self") -- taking away the idea that if you know your own willpower better, you can do magic tricks like "only promise what you can deliver on" and "incrementally ramping up your own willpower"

After looking up this concept of Ego Depletion, which seemed like a new idea I haven't heard of before, when I clicked this discussion today... I can see it's basically the same idea. But what I hadn't considered is that the same ideas are able to be used by, eg. advertisers!

While my goal of study in this field is making the most of my own efforts, there is someone out there looking at the same charts, trying to figure out exactly where is the right place to put their advertisement to maximize the effect it has on me, even going as far as to get me to buy something that I wouldn't have bought otherwise.

That's just fascinating. (Alternatively, that's a horrifying idea...)
A family I know just decided to home school their daughter because the school didn't have adequate support for her disability. (Tourette's)

The home school group will always include more unusual cases that didn't fit the public school mold. So the entire group gets labeled, when we really should just probably avoid stereotypes for that group.

There are just too many vastly different reasons someone could be home schooled. They could be preforming at a higher level than average, or lower. Yes in general they have less access to peers their own age, but I don't know what percent of "poor social skills" is due to lack of social exposure.
Right this minute you could find very fast internet (fiber) in rural areas with very inexpensive housing. I have a relatives in the Dakotas & Nebraska with better internet than I have in Denver. Some of them live in town and some of them live in the country. A lot of it seems to depend on local government having the drive to get rural access funds from the FCC.

As another said, eastern Montana could be brutal if its not something you are used to. There are extremely hot and extremely cold days (in the -30s degrees F) possible. It will be really windy and really brown (its very dry) for much of the year. You might also be shocked by how much some people drink/use other substances and how they get around when incapacitated. (There is no Lyft/Uber). There will not be a lot of young singles around, either.

I personally don't think there will be a big boom because of Starlink for housing. At the end of the day, internet is just a small factor in what makes a place desirable to live. Climate, distance to city/airport, local bars & restaurants, scenic beauty, and local activities all factor a lot, too.
Ah I’ve been reading the wrong list!
What not to do on your work computer
npm has only gotten worse about lockfiles over time, not better. I wonder out loud some times if they know what the word 'lock' means.

If yarn would fix a particular bug that blocks our workflow I'd be burning political capital at work to get us off of npm as fast as humanly possible.

As to proxies, we have something misconfigured with ours, such that occasionally it gets latest of half of the React or Babel ecosystem and latest-1 of the other half, resulting in dependencies that can't be resolved for a few hours when they increment a minor version somewhere.
It sure sounded like they had a scheduled task to run it manually every hour. "Until then our IT department has promised to stop running the /verifyrepository command every hour, which should avoid the worst symptoms."
> A significant proportion of existing dwellings are unoccupied or under-occupied.

Source? I can't imagine this is true given the ridiculous rent that a dwelling commands. Why leave cash on the table?
You can see it on children schools too.

I wonder if any culture has this differently.
I think the bigger problem is getting more companies to allow fully remote employees, internet connectivity is only a small part of the issue.
I went to grades 1 to 8 at a rural one room school house with about a dozen other kids. My high school was about 600 students. Then I went to a university with about 20,000. Adjustment in that direction is not easy either.
It has a relatively seamless setup and is far from bloated, encryption is efficient on low-powered ARM devices and it works surprisingly well in environments where internet connections are shoddy at best.
I'm [vaguely] interested in unconventional Android devices.

People often talk about "plenty of android devices with X" where x is e.g. a keyboard. But a search of Google, Ali Express, etc don't yield much except for conventional phones.

Is there a list or other source where I can discover these mythical interesting devices?
Sure. We homeschooled our kids. When we worried about socialization, we grabbed them, dragged them into the bathroom, and beat them up for their lunch money.

I'm kidding, and I stole that, but I have a point. Much of "socialization" in school is horrible. It's not quite as bad as socialization into prison, but it's socialization into a society that's rather broken. Why do we assume that socializing into that is going to produce healthy adults?

Me, I wasn't homeschooled. I attended a private school until fifth grade, and then public school. I... um... wasn't all that well socialized by the process.
100%. We shouldn't be creating perverse incentives. Subsidizing a low-wage job is a net loss for everyone. For taxpayers, it's just more money out of their pocket and for the parents, you're being encouraged to leave your children with strangers so you can go and work a job that doesn't pay enough to cover the cost of paying those strangers.

We need to get past the ridiculous idea that staying home with one's children while their young is some sort of failure. It's not. It's valuable work, which coincidentally is why childcare is as expensive as it is. Frankly, given the importance of the work, I'm surprised childcare doesn't cost more.
IMO the 'testing' done these days for CS interviews is just a by-product of the "big" "OG" companies starting out with a lot of "top university" grads/students. So when those guys needed to hire new recruits, they wanted a way to screen them that resonated with what they were used to: rigorous testing and exams. So they replicated the kinds of tests they needed to pass to get into Stanford/Ivies/MIT/etc. and the ones they had during coursework and produced the basic idea of what SDE interviews are now.

And since that became the standard from the beginning, it's what remains now.
It is more complicated - there is workforce and capital. In order to have higher labor productivity (or GDP per capita), you need higher rate of capital to labor, so you need that capital growth be larger than workforce growth.

If you increase workforce but not increase capital (or increase workforce more than capital), then it is true that economy as a whole (GDP) will grow, but GDP per worker will go down, there would be downward pressure to wages and upward pressure for capital yield.
What's not to believe? You can look at the cost of filing a claim in the High Court online for yourself.

I apologise for not making it clear — that fee is specifically for filing a claim in the High Court. Inferior courts will charge less.
While I agree with your point, firemen are a particularly bad example here since in France most of them are volunteers and there is no such restrictions on physical abilities.
> Aren't majority of men forced to work instead of choosing by that definition?

Yes, I never said or implied otherwise. I don't know why you think I'm fighting with you.

My entire point is people work because they have to more than they want to, and gender is irrelevant. What I originally said:

> I think it depends on the individual more than the gender.
GoodReads (https://www.goodreads.com/) might not be perfect; but I think it at least comes close to a book log and recommendation system.
> Not sure if you know this, but dropping interest rates is a policy that is strictly speaking opposed to taming inflation. It in fact creates inflation. You might have your history wrong?

Doesn't this depend on how much of the money supply is debt?

I agree that dropping interest below zero when 99% of the money is debt can be inflationary, but back then maybe most money was "real" (not debt) and then dropping interest would have been deflationary?
I'm pretty sure I've observed this exact phenomenon. The tricky part is hiring unconventional candidates requires an unconventional process, which requires figuring it out, getting everyone on board, and being able to defend it to upper management. Requesting the standard resume and doing the standard interview allows everyone to throw up their hands and say "we did everything we could".
> Python has all the advantages of BASIC, with none of the limitations.

BASIC scaled down amazingly well. Gates/Allen/Davidoff's original Altair BASIC fit in 8 kilobytes (or 4KB for a stripped-down version.)
I think one of the scenes with Humpty Dumpty could be an appropriate allusion as well.
This is untrue: There's no constant k such that k*2^n > 3^n for all n. In general O(a^n) is strictly stronger than O(b^n) if a > b.

This is why you sometimes see complexities that are e.g. O(1.3894732894^n) in wikipedia articles on the best known cases for various algorithms.
Occam (Programming Language)
> You're talking about career changes as opposed to initial schooling

Yes, but it's the same question. Initial schooling is implicitly accepting a working age adult contributing no income for four years. We're just accustomed to it.

> what assumptions do you think need to change?

* 18 year olds are capable of making decisions about what career they will want for the rest of their lives

* Leaving (or pushing back entering) the work force for four years in pursuit of a degree is a nigh-universal good

* Taking four years of time / 120 credit hours is a reasonable and good target around which to structure degrees, regardless of what amount of knowledge must / should be imparted

* Training on the job cannot replace any meaningful amount of what four year degrees can offer

* Anyone can get a degree, and should be encouraged to do so regardless of whether or not they actually can or will

I mean, there are more, but that's a good start.
Yeah I much preferred Arch because every moving part was one I'd installed, so there was less mystery.

However, still very annoying having to rearrange meetings because you did an upgrade and some X11 config needed to change and so you can't even boot a GUI for a bit.
I'm old enough to remember when American t-shirts and jeans were largely made in the USA. I still have some of the t-shirts. They were more expensive but no where near 10x, much less 30x.

For that matter, I still buy boots made in the USA and they're less than 2x over boots made in Vietnam.
>children who had access to better child care become more productive citizens.

From the article:

But young Canadians who were eligible for the program experienced, as teenagers, “a significant worsening in self-reported health and in life satisfaction” relative to Canadians from other provinces. So, did the Quebec child-care experiment “work”? Yes, for parents and public financing. Perhaps not for the kids.
Because everyone likes and uses credit. Including the ordinary laborer that takes on a car note so he/she can get to his/her worksite.
> They carry themselves like adults and interact with adults as a peer at 16 or even younger.

This is exactly the problem. They can relate to adults but not to their teenage peers. I'd bet they feel terribly uncomfortable at social events with only kids their age present.
For some added context, JWST costs about 10x more than the most expensive terrestrial telescope ever built.
Wait...were you making 330k in Poland? Because that would be insane.
Sanctions don't affect the leadership, they starve the people. Palestine, Cuba, Iraq, Iran, Yemen, North Korea and many others... admit the truth: it's. hardly-ever. works. It only "feels" like a solution, but it's purely an idealistic panacea based on diffuse, passive-aggressive, starvation-causing harm.

The problem and solution comes by first asking "what's worked and at what cost?"

Monroe doctrine has been the over-arching ideology: US corporate interests > everyone else's. That's the problem: trying to control other countries and steal their resources, rather than dealing with other countries as equals by mutual-respect of sovereignties.

---- "Successes" (but failures in diplomatic and popularity terms) ----

- invasion (see: Smedley Butler's War is a Racket )

- genocide

- death squads trained by SoA

- arms trafficking in exchange for cocaine

- illegally sending arms to right-wing death squads

- CIA-backed coups, overt and covert

---- Failed ----

- US plutocrats' media-fought coup attempt recently Venezuela
> This is one of those cultural ideas embedded in XXI Century logic which only does harm and transmits the wrong message: people’s life is as valuable as the money the work or the “job” they have, and of course, caring for the family is not a proper job.

First off, what if someone doesn't want to be a stay at home parent? Why force traditional values on them?

But, in terms of pure economics, let's put it at an extreme.

Child-care is too expensive, a woman who would otherwise go on to make breakthroughs in medical science stays at home.

The lost value to society is in the literal millions.

This scenario only has to be repeated a few times before it becomes economically irresponsible to not offer subsidized child care.

And, given how large the population is, this situation will happen.

The ideal of capitalism is that people are rewarded for their contributions to society overall, by providing value for others (ideally increasing net happiness!) people are reimbursed.

Now I'm not going to even try and say that is what always happens, obviously things have gotten a bit off kilter, but by and large I'd say that for many jobs out there, that is still true.

And the thing is, some people have an outsized impact, potential is on a curve, and if a single person on the far end of the "can help out humanity' curve is not enabled to do all that they can do to help out, then we all lose out.
> 2.
Isn't bitcoin ruled by less than 1000 people?
Or for someone who broke bad a little too much.
It might be better to have higher/stricter standards than suing them after the collapse. For example, some rules around how much of the raised money they are allowed to spend on advertising, forcing them to post monthly financial statements (so any money mismanagement is caught early) etc - something like that. This might improve the quality of companies attempting such projects.

Litigation is expensive - plus, 150K isn't that big of an amount in the larger scheme of things. This isn't Theranos level fraud, assuming it was a fraud and not just incompetence/inexperience
Its a club, sv has always been a smart boys frat. They like you ir they dont, skills come second. They are important, but frontend dev can always be taught.
The inevitable takedown of the female CEO
I wish I could do that full time.

I took some time to take a class for a career change and I LOVED IT, i was shocked how much I enjoyed it, but don't have the time / resources to go all in at this time.

I completely echo your sentiment about taking classes at a mature age being completely different. I was not a good young student but I found myself excited EVERY DAY for class when I was going. It was so much fun. There were a few of us older students and we were always excited with a handful of younger students.... the rest of the students looked like they were greatly inconvenienced by going to class (admittedly I probabbly did too at that age).

The difference taking classes now vs then is night and day for me.

There was a core group of us who worked together a lot showing up early / staying to help each other, and it was about 30% older and 70% younger and it was a great experience.
When you have a dime a dozen ______ Studies majors it makes it pretty easy to find. And having a _____ Studies degree is a good indicator of someone who is willing to sit and do administrative level work for at least 4 years without getting bores
Yeah I got my dreams crushed by looking into private jets. The distance to go from BOS to HAN is ~13,000km, of which only one of the newer gulfstreams with a range of ~14,000km might be able to do. I guess that's why a lot people still fly business/first class.
Would recommend reading "Sapiens" if you found that excerpt interesting (as it's rehashing one of the most important ideas from that book).
The person who gets "Uber, but for Parenting, not cars" right will make a fortune.

The solutions in the article are "Medicaid, but for Parents, not doctors."

What we need is "a culture with jobs that will pay enough to support two adults and their children, so that care of children, family, and the community is an expected part of every adult relationship."
Unless the subsidy enabled workers to work instead of mind children, and thus pay more income or consumption tax. NOT APPLICABLE IN STATES WITHOUT SUCH TAX.
Putting PiHole on this would have been wonderful.
Jesus. You can get a bespoke suit made by OECD-state labor and with decent materials for less than it'd cost to put together a jacket + trousers combo from Acronym. Granted, yes, you could also spend way more than that if you want a particular, famous tailor shop to make it, but still.
> It will be really windy and really brown (its very dry) for much of the year.

Remember playing soccer with a guy from Montana. We were playing on a field in the Fall that was basically all dead, yellow grass. He used to say. "Dude, I'm from Montana, this is considered LUSH"
There seems to be two companies named Unicorn in the scooter business:

The failed one: https://unicornrides.com/

The other one: https://www.unicornscooters.com/
Agreed. That was much more aggressive than it should have been. I don't think I have an insight into your state of mind, and I'm sorry for using that to land some stupid burn. The point would have come across just as well without my bile. You're right, that's not what I want the Internet to be.

In that spirit, I would very politely suggest that you read your original comment and consider if it represents what you want the Internet to be.
If your college has any proper security on access ports, they'll be limited to one MAC address per physical port, and hopefully a decent 802.1x setup
Not necessarily. PS2 dominated its generation; Xbox did OK, but only a company Microsoft's size could have sustained it (and even Microsoft superseded the console in four years, unusually short for that generation). Xbox 360, Microsoft's second try, was hugely successful, beating PS3 everywhere outside Japan. Had it only been as successful as Xbox was, though, Microsoft might not have tried again.

No Windows Phone iteration ever had more than a few percentage points of share. iOS and Android both clearly destroyed it in the market. Had WP seen a few years of sustained success it would still be around today, sort of like how BlackBerry the brand is still around, albeit for Android-based devices.
I wonder if modern readers would envision something like this: https://allhomosapienswelcome.wordpress.com/2012/01/19/when-...
yeah, I had similar thoughts. Using absolute numbers makes sense of some cities, using the expansion over a tech base for others, and expansion over total base for yet others.

From the NYtimes piece it looks like they use absolute numbers but the study itself seems to run a mix of analyses including absolute, % change etc.

Their definition of an innovation job might have something to do with it, too.
The economy isn't something to optimize unto itself, but rather a system that is supposed to serve humans. Additional labor is "being produced", and sure it is also "being consumed" - what this really means is we're all working more, and to what end?

The childcare discussion cuts to the heart of this, because the language of economic optimization cloaks its real world results - the addition of ever-more third-party intermediaries to raise your own kids, such you can keep on performing the most system-legible labor possible.

What should have really happened is that "full time employment" should have been redefined to 30 hours per week, a few decades ago. By now we should be at 20-25 hours per week. We're in the age of the greatest technological progress in history, yet rather than success, the treadmill is turning faster than ever! All to produce more layers of bureaucracy, overpackaged fast food, or junk that ends up in a river. And then we do our penance lamenting about "sustainability", when the simple answer is to stop overproducing in the first place.
It depends on what transformations are allowed. So you cant have a general solution and apply it to many use cases.
> Is the socialization problem for homeschooling solved?

Is the socialization problem more due to lack of social interaction because they don't go to a school building, or more due to the kinds of people who homeschool being fringey types who wouldn't let their kids socialize with "normal" kids for fear of contamination?

Maybe I'm too "Midwestern" but my mental model of homeschooled kids is kids who were kept away from the sinful secular world by parents who really, really wanted them to grow up utterly immersed in one specific dogma, such that even the local parochial schools were too broad-minded for them. They're going to have problems integrating once they leave home, but it isn't because their parents lacked the opportunities to let them run around down at the local playground, and building more playgrounds isn't going to help them, because their parents wouldn't want them around "those" kids anyway.
Right, but what you are saying now borders on tautological: women like those with high socioeconomic status. But socioeconomic status is just the combination of all things which makes people like you.
This isn't quite right. For example, 3^n is not O(2^n) (see, e.g., https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19081673/big-o-notation-...)
I'm not sure that's very important. I cringe at a lot of my behavior as a teenager, and I was very good at being social. I mean, I'm still good at being social, but I had to unlearn a lot of the behavior that made me good at being social in school.
Part of the task of marketing is to disinform customers. Companies existing to scam people are necessarily marketing-heavy.
Isn’t this corrected by the satellites themselves?
What's more insane about this is that they went broke after whitelabeling an off-the-shelf Ninebot/Segway ES2, that retails on Amazon for $480, $220 less than what Unicorn was offering. All I can see that they offer on top of the scooter is "UnicornCare," basically insurance for $1/day on top of the $700 price.
Agreed, Microsoft was an even lower bar... but in a good way: I felt they just wanted someone with basic CS knowledge, whereas the Amazon interviewers seemed to think they were some sort of elite group of engineers.
Yes but that's not about race, that's about how we deal with crime as a society. These things aren't being unfairly applied to minority communities and that's the point. The system would be working the same way for a non-minority community, and it does, where the economic situation is similar.

That's why the racial angle is a waste of everyone's time and energy. It's not the relevant issue. The more relevant issue is how we deal with crime prevention. Currently, we go with a punishment approach rather than a truly rehabilitative one. This also has a lot to do with economics, and lobbying and private prisons and so on. It's much more complicated than 'everybody's racist'.
Living in the US, I'm a bit jealous of the 100mbit upload...