skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> I am very skeptical of any claim that such vague and abstract behaviour descriptions can be measured with accuracy.

What they mean by sensitivity, is " is someone who experiences acute physical, mental, or emotional responses to stimuli." This isn't very vague or abstract compared to things we measure all the time like "GDP".

>> The cited studies are claimed to have been conducted cross-culturally, but I really doubt that different cultures would really assign the same meaning to these words.

It really doesn't matter if they assign the same meaning to those words, or even have words to describe the concept. You're not measuring whether they are sensitive relative to their own meaning of the word, but if they are sensitive relative to a specific trait that psychology professors are interested in measuring. A baby has no concept of weight but I can still weigh them.

>> For instance, if I like flowers, am I "sensitive"? If I cry at weddings? If I cry at Game of Thrones? At MMA fights?

What would make you sensitive is if you are "someone who experiences acute physical, mental, or emotional responses to stimuli." Of course people are different. Of course they find different things emotionally salient.

Image we ran an experiment. And we asked two people, Person S(ensitive), and person R(ock) if they found 10 situations emotionally overwhelming. S tells you every time they were extremely overwhelmed.(Weddings, deaths, criticism, something unfair happens) R tells you they didn't feel overwhelmed at all.

Now if we ask S and R if they felt overwhelmed about an 11th scenario what are they chances they say yes? Previous studies have said S is much more likely to answer yes than R. This correlation is the thing they are measuring.

Btw the criticism you are making is called construct validity and is a something that psychology professors study and worry about all the time.
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Ask HN: How do you build a successful mailing list?
I'm curious about making a sort of curated newsletter with brief commentary on IT-themed geopolitical events. It would be completely free. I suppose we could generate revenue down the road by offering deep-dive reports to sell to anyone interested. But the main thing to do is build a mailing list, and I'm wondering if anyone has any experience or interesting stacks they'd recommend. Thanks.
Please turn to page 170 and enjoy the best ad ever published, for game publishing house Crystal Computer.

I'd love to play "Galactic Quest" the self-proclaimed "ultimate space adventure" in which "Vegan warships attack and fire in real time simulation"

The artwork used in the ad reminds me of concert posters for 80's high school bands.
Your first point is extremely ignorant. The mess in the Middle East was mainly created by the Ottoman Empire consolidating disparate ethnicities and religions into one empire, and then Europe’s dissection of it after WWI (dividing it between Britain and France). The US inherited the mess afterward. Syria, for example, is ruled by an Alawite minority. The Ottomans oppressed them and tried to convert them to Sunni Islam. When the French took over, they favored the Alawites and created a separate Alawite state. The French encouraged them to join the Syrian military (because the Alawites were friendlier to the French than the more hostile Sunni). Eventually, that Alawite contingent in the military led a coup that led to the Alawite minority ruling over the Sunni majority for decades until the civil war.

Literally every ethnic and religious fault line in the Middle East that is now causing violence is the doing of the Turks, British, and French.
They do build on previous knowledge. That’s literally what the training is doing.

It’s just easier, engineering wise, to start over from scratch on each iteration. And it makes it easier to evaluate how each change improves the outcome or not.
My oldest just graduated from college. Just like childhood, if feels long while you are in it, when it's over it feels like it went fast.

But, now I have a young adult that is permanently attached to me in a close and wonderful way for the rest of my life. I wouldn't trade any extra hours of netflix or going out to eat for having my own people.

Have as many kids as you are willing/able to have. I had 5. First one is a shock. Second one means one kid per parent. Third is now a full family, but the oldest is so thrilled about a sibling now and there is play and joy in the house. 4th and 5th don't really add any extra work (mentally) other than you have a few extra years dealing with kids. And you need a minivan. (which I love anyway for many reasons) The older the kids get the more they take care of themselves, and eventually add more to the family than they need.

Now, when my two oldest visit, we have a defacto party and we have so much fun hanging out and playing, talking, laughing, cooking together, making plans...

I get this for the rest of my life now.

Best investment I have ever made.

Edit: We know a family that both parents were single kids (they said their childhoods were lonely) so they had 7 kids and then adopted 7 more (all siblings from a messed up home). They love it, their house is like a dorm. I couldn't do this, so I think its so much about your life experience.
Does Australia even have a car industry?
Does this picture change much between the 32-bit vs 64-bit world? How about if there are few vs many threads? (For instance, if a program on 32-bit windows spawns hundreds of threads, surely you can't squeeze all those stacks below the heap, can you?)
Oh, is there a way to test the collisions for this? Like it generates a uuid, prints it to screen, then does a progress bar showing how many tries attempted and a timer for duration.
All designers steal ideas. But can I just implement the Sushi design system in a new startup? Using the Sushi palette and font, in combination with material ui components, won’t give me any enemies at zamato?
I don’t think Americans invented tonkotsu broth.
>Contrary to what one might expect, for all of these personality effects the sex differences tend to be larger-- not smaller-- in more individualistic, gender-egalitarian countries.

My working guess is that social dynamics in highly individualistic countries tend to be more competitive, while less individualistic countries are more ritualized -- arranged marriage being a prototypical example of collectivist norms. It seems like a more competitive culture (on both friendly and romantic levels) may lead to increased pressure to express gendered traits -- or it may simply lead to higher levels of stress in social situations, which causes unconscious influences to have more effect. But do these hypotheses fit the Russia datum? I'm not sure.
> I can't believe how political correctness and feminism have normalized a nigh-miraculous coincidence, that male brain == female brain, while male body ≠ female body, against the entire backdrop of evolutionary biology. It makes no sense

Bear in mind that for most of the last hundred-and-something years, the psychological profession has laboured under the blank-slate assumption that human psychology is 100% learned and the human brain is somehow a general-purpose learning machine; in which case the identically of these unevolved blank slates makes perfect sense.

As recently as the 1980s I remember my schoolteachers telling me about instinct, and how ducklings knew immediately how to wander down to the water and start swimming; but that humans are different, we don’t have instincts. (Admittedly I’m sure my local primary school was not exactly on the leading edge of psychology research, but still...)
Maybe not unironically, but unexaminedly? It's not like he was intending to mislead people.
For these reasons, for many crimes even the attempt at them is punishable.
It's very interesting
-Do go on vacations with your kids. You are investing in having them travel with you in the future, and liking it. You can do it! Just give them tasks and treat them with respect.

-Ignore the kids menu. It's shit. Just order off the regular menu and share with your kids.

-Some kids are hard to raise, some are easy. You will probably have both if you many more than 1. C'est la vie.

-If you're like me and value time, get a job you can walk to. Have your kids go to a school you can walk them to. It makes things so much easier.

-Hire a cleaner every few weeks if you need a break.

-Buy used clothing if you can. Same with toys. No need to break the bank.

-Give them space, teach them to be bored on their own.

-Have scheduled electronics free time. Kids careers != Parents careers. They may end up doing things completely unrelated to your career. Let them find it.

-They will push you to the edge of your patience, and you will lose it. It's all good. Just try to keep calm. Even if you lose it once, just try to do better the next time.

-There is no instruction manual for kids - it was forgotten by the doctor inside the mother's womb - for every kid ever born :) So yeah, we're all winging it!

-My kids are 6 and 8. They have given me a new range of emotions that I never knew existed and have made me better for it.

-Kids make you value your time. Learn from that lesson.
My dad too. And same thing, about a decade not talking and now a very superficial relationship that is more sad than anything. All he cared about was money, no empathy, everyone else's fault. Not fun growing up around this -- and can't remember a single time he ever read to me. But I remember my mother often doing such (amongst other things), and we have a very close relationship.

> What my kids (grown now) care about? That I can afford to give them money to help pay with their rent and any financial issues and that their Dad is not 'a loser'.

Well, maybe you should have done a bit more and this relationship would be a little bit less transactional. Something to think about.
It's very nice and quite interesting
This question assumes that daycare is just, generically, a warehouse for kids. That is certainly true of some daycares. Some do perform a useful pedagogical function, more in line with what one can expect in more well-developed public state kindergarten/preschool/daycare systems in the Western European states. Moreover, as a sibling commenter pointed out, they get to see other kids there and develop socially--and this is particularly important given the propensity of most Americans to live in fairly insular suburban bubble-houses, and more generally the lack of a public realm and civic space that suburbia entails. It's not like they'd otherwise be out running around with other kids; they'd most likely be marinating at home in front of the TV.

I'd go so far as to say that not sending one's child to some kind of playgroup before school age is irresponsible.
Intelligence organizations and other institutions handling very sensitive data likely have way better information discipline than almost any org, but even there singular individuals leak and cause outsized embarrassment.

Trust is bigger than big.
Couldn’t one say that sticking it out to study and practice for interviews is itself gritty?
In Austria this number is 86,6% (long distance, max 5 min late)
Austrians also travel the most by train in the EU. (a coinicidence?)
Why not limit your scope to just sodium and potassium?
This guy tries all of the alkali metal salts!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJh9yTIBY48
Congratulations. You have made part of your DNA immortal by procreating.

Having kids is the only way to ensure life. It’s not you. There is no ‘you’. It’s the genes.

Now substitute ‘part of me’ every time the word ‘children’ appear in the article or any of the comments.
https://www.mobygames.com/game/apple2/galactic-quest/screens...
The correlation is so large that I find it literally incredible.

Could ramen restaurant prevalence really explain a quarter to a third of the variance in mortality (which is what r=0.5 to 0.6 implies)? If so, the damn things are an outright menace.

And why is it so different from fast food, which is equally unhealthy but supposedly makes people live longer?
/u/op00to: This is challenging because ramen is classified by a mix of base, seasoning and thickness.
Roughly bases can be: bones of chicken, pork, fish or in rare instances beef. Often there is blend of these bases

Seasoning: sea salt (shio), soy sauce (shoyu) and miso

Thickness is a spectrum ending with: kotteri (thick) and assari (light)

Now, how to pick a light broth? This will be highly context dependent. Most shops in Tokyo where I'm living right now are specialists so research will show you upfront whether it's tonkotsu (heavy pork), chicken paitan (heavy chicken), hakodate (light fish), tonkotsu-gyokai (blend of pork and fish).

If you're in Japan, I recommend the Ramen Beast app which has location based recommendations, high quality reviews and lists for lighter ramen.

If you're in NY and looking for a lighter bowl: I can vouch for most of the bowls at Nakamura, the yuzu shoyu at Mr. Taka, and all of the bowls at Yuji Ramen.
I have used this application on my mobile for a long time, really what I love about it is its dark mode. The website is also available.

http://hn.premii.com/

PD: Android link is broken
Alternative: https://m.apkshub.com/app/com.premii.hn
> I suspect the reaction would be fascination rather than the anger characteristic of racism.

That seems quite optimistic. One crow would be a curiosity. A million crows would be seen as competition and there would be torches and pitchforks.
It seems Mumble uses speex as the codec. Not sure how well that's supported by the browsers.
gzip + ssl is still (and will always be) a risky choice, isn't it?

Do any of the newer compression algorithms fix that problem?
That's easy. Lies, misdirection, and the person doing the technical due diligence being a C-Level/Director with zero IT background but plenty of project management experience.

They know just enough to be dangerous and frustratingly useless getting useful information from. So your integration team has to do all the planning with only the foggiest idea of what they are getting into. They then spend the entire first day on the ground just getting the lay of the land. No time to schedule local cable contractors for the really needed cable runs. Let's hope that the existing CAT5 runs work fine on gigabit for the next few weeks till we can get those contractors in to replace all the wiring. Worse case, we'll have to limit the port speeds to 100Mbps at the new switch if retransmits become an issue.

Even more fun when the next project is even less detail but the entity you are acquiring is on another continent instead of a few states over.
The methodology of the field of psychology?
Value proposition. What value do I get if I sign up to be spammed?

I'd also set expectations, are you going to post once a day? once a week? only when there's something of value?
Even then, mid 20th century philosophy is a pretty broad category. It contains stuff like Derrida but also contains stuff like Quine.
WebMD has a profit driven interest to pick on health anxiety by exaggerating symptoms
I read "parts of inner sunset" and assumed it would include the Judah part but didn't bother to think to look at the map:

https://sfgov.org/ccsfgsa/sites/default/files/2000%20Census%...

which does seem to show that 7 borders the Judah line (on Judah itself). But to be fair, I'd assumed District 7 went to the park and that it included part of the UCSF area.

So he's getting hit by MUNI lines on both sides :).
Is it clear that they're not alike? In the end it's all information and data being processed, whether by silicon or neural cell. What difference does the medium make to the end result?
ImTui: Immediate Mode Text-Based User Interface Library for C++
Could somebody explain why this is news? I'm obviously missing the relevance
Calling the ground floor “first floor” is a North American thing, and everyone else (including UK) agrees with German numbering. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storey
You can presume that your kid will have roughly the same lifestyle, and emissions, as you over a lifetime - so having a kid is a decision of doubling your emissions.
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Did it get easier to change at all once they were old enough for school?

I'm genuinely glad you said this too. I don't have children and don't really want them. I think it's totally fine if people want to have kids.

Even if there isn't a discernible change in your cognitive and thought processes, human beings still can be happy with the choices we make (and we're actually less happy with reversible choices; see Dan Gilbert's talk on happiness).
What I find interesting is that the “insane asylum” apparently knew that it was wrong.

e.g. when asked why they need so much space on their laptops, they were evasive.

To my mind this makes it much worse. Not only were they doing something dumb, but they knew it was dumb, and they hid it instead of fixing it.

It certainly invites speculation about the company culture in the acquired business.
It doesn't end there. Kid will probably have kids that have the same lifestyle as well. Who will also probably have kids, etc.
Personality psychometrics and IQ tests are quite literally the most replicated and strongest findings in psychology. If you dismiss it, you are very literally dismissing the entire field.
I was in Switzerland recently and they put German trains to shame. I dont think we were ever more than a minute behind schedule. As soon as we crossed into Konstanz the scheduling went to shit
So you think search warrants should be illegal? If police find someone holding a gun next to a dead body, they shouldn't be able to take that gun if the suspect refuses?

Police must be able to confiscate evidence related to an ongoing case. They just need to give it back after the case closes.
It depends on what you mean by 'production'. I've had great success setting up my data collection, engineering and predictions in batch processes. I agree though, I would never try to use R with a REST API, but I don't think it was ever designed for that.

As a general rule of thumb, if something needs real time predictions or I need deep learning libraries, I use Python. R is for anything else.
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Fun read. I’ve never heard the term “crypto Jews” before — I’ve just used the special case “Marranos”.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marrano
I'm atheist but culturally Jewish. I don't believe the crazy stuff in the Talmud, I just go to synagogue for the community.
Thinking about thinking is a fascinating topic, and the heart of true critical thinking. At the same time, it's easy to get wrapped up in our own inventions and hubris if not careful. When approaching "truth" check out the following as an added sanity check :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases

BUT also not allowing these to limit blazing a new path forward!
Yea and once you start digging through the papers, it can get all over the place. I mean, trying to measure happiness is pretty subjective anyway. It's almost always a self-reported score and there are so many other variables it's difficult to lock down solid correlation.

I'm not sure if it's possible to tell if kids make people happier or not. There are simply too many other factors.

If you want kids have them and if you don't, then don't. Your mind will compensate if you see it as a non-reversible decision. Our minds have a power psychological immune system to help us accept whatever irreversible choices we've made (Dan Gilbert does a good talk on this. I also wrote a post about this about 10 years back: https://battlepenguin.com/philosophy/science/time/).
"Liquid bacon" seems quite disingenuous and cynical. It's thick broth that is, reportedly, full of collagen. That doesn't sound like liquid bacon to me.
Skip the tonkotsu and try another broth like miso?
I'm gay (male) with no plans to adopt, but instead wish to spend my family budget taking care of aging parents so my siblings with kids don't have to. I also very much use my freedom to travel, take professional risks, and create special moments with friends and loved ones. I'm happy for PG and hopefully we always have parents like him, but the essay was weird and your anger understandable.
I think it depends on how much you want to have kids. If you feel very strongly about it, then go ahead and have kids. You will probably experience the chemical changes in your brain that will help you cope. But if you are unsure about having kids, then don’t have them. You don’t need to over analyze it. If you feel the need to analyze, overthink and research it, then it seems to me like you don’t have the kind of brain that will make it easy for you to be happy while dealing with all the parenting challenges.

I believe that if you need to carefully analyze whether to have kids, then you will also continue to analyze and think about your decision after you already have kids. And it will make you miserable.
Well... obesity is pretty American.
50% match on the 401(k) is nothing special; a federal government employee who puts in 5% gets a 5% match (1% agency automatic, 3% 1:1 match, 1% 1:2 match). The great part is that there's no cap beyond that imposed by the IRS.
On the technical side, mailchimp is easy to use and free getting started up to 2,000 people, if you’re looking for even more control use AWS with Maildown. Managed solutions like tiny letter and sub stack and several similar also exist. Like most types of content, starting a new email newsletter is easier today than ever before. That said, lower barrier to entry makes it harder to get noticed.
> I am surprised Russian law is that pro employee - would wreak havoc for offshoring

I think it only seems that way because we're so used to the US model where software you develop in your spare time at home with your own equipment might still be owned by your employer or even a university (even if you're just an undergraduate student already paying many tens of thousands in tuition fees). I read a few IP policies over the years, and, if they are to be believed, apparently, even if you're simply using WiFi to work on your student project in a university building, they may claim to own the whole copyright and patent rights to any resulting work; I don't quite understand how everyone else doesn't find it as demotivating as I do.

If you look at the actual reasons for Rambler not owning nginx — this situation is actually better for offshoring because anything developed for the client per the spec would be owned by the client, yet anything that employees work on in their own time, they could package as their own offering (e.g., separate packages and/or modules) and ramp-up work for more than one client without violating anyone's IP rights.

TBH, I don't actually understand how software craftsmanship consulting is supposed to work in the US. As an IC SWE consultant, I was negotiating a nginx consulting project with one relatively big company, and the sample MSA I got from them basically would have precluded me from ever working on nginx again had I signed it as-is. I think it's really amazing how more folk don't get sued in the US for these sorts of things; I can only imagine that it's merely for lack of trying on part of most of these corporations, not for lack of standing (unless all these terms everyone agrees to are somehow unenforceable in reality).
It should be noted that the evidence that stress is a primary cause of gastric ulcers has been fairly weak since the discovery of H. pylori, though there is some evidence stress may be a contributing factor.