skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is (legally speaking) a difference between "algorithm deducing how much you can pay" from taxi driver looking at your face and setting their meter accordingly to their feeling of how much you can pay? Is this legal?
how can you base your whole life on such a "surrounding nature" prognosis? our children are not their carbon footprints and the planet future is not an impending doom even if there are some climate change effects

think about that.. our parents could have decided the same based on the old prognosis from the 70/80s

this dangerous world point makes sense if applied to our faith/morals, but not to the nature environment which affects our souls/happiness/feelings much less (we have all kinds of people in all kinds of environments but still all livable)
Unfortunately, the outcomes of people with GEDs are not good on average (see below). If employers disdain GED holders, it's better to get a regular high school diploma if at all possible. OTOH, if your nephew will definitely get a college degree, the lack of a high school diploma may not matter.

https://www.bakadesuyo.com/2012/10/ged-high-school-graduate/

Are people with GED’s more like high-school graduates or high-school dropouts?

More like dropouts.
While GED holders are as smart as graduates, in terms of future outcomes (annual income, unemployment, divorce, drug use) they look exactly like dropouts.
> Agile approaches honestly reduce the complexity by not building anything that isn't being asked for and being intentional about which tech debt to pay down.

It can do those things, but it very rarely does, even by well-meaning teams.

It’s time to drop the “should help” and adopt the “...but historically, did it really?”.

Changing that mindset I found to be a nearly impossible task.
I hope there isn't. But my point was that in the event they are indeed compelled by law to reveal passwords, this would be the only way they'd achieve that.
Write a database. Depending on what angle you take, it can look like a compiler (SQL parsing, predicate evaluation, optimizing for index usage), OS (file systems for in-place updates of complex data structures, and scheduling with lock dependencies), distributed systems (consistency and availability tradeoffs across machines, with possible partitions).

And then there's the whole mental model of relational algebra and stream processing of queries.

It'll give new appreciation for existing databases and what they can and can't do for you.
TIF and GIF are trivial compared to JPEG and H.261, saying that having implemented LZW and GIF (in assembly for 8086) as teenager
Curious about the age of your kid. Mine is 3-4 yrs old, the only one. My life has changed, a lot, over those years. What you describe was the first 18 months for me. The next year was hell with zero productivity. Then 5-day a week pre-K changed everything again. I hear it will change again in a few years even better. Hoping for it.
Social pressure tends to push parents toward perfection. In fact as income goes up, expenses go up.

A kid in the Bay Area will realistically cost a professional (upper middle class), dual working couple over $1m through college; that certainly is expensive.
Amazon shows different prices to different people already... I sent a link to someone and stripped the tracking bit, and it was $10 cheaper for him
Awesome

I can’t wait to try it out
Setting Mac OS Catalina App Security Preferences (Screen Recording) via SqlLite
>The danger is twofold. First, people forget that these are population level trends and that it is bad reasoning to automatically assume every individual in a given group conforms with these trends.

Yet it is equally bad reasoning to ignore the prior as it is to refrain from updating it. One form of foolishness will find you unpersoned, the other such mental handicap allows one to signal great virtue. As it takes great moral restraint to distrust your lying eyes.

We are in interesting ideological waters. The great taboo of our age is quantifying human capability, precisely when our tools have never been sharper.

Cognitive genomics is joining this strange fray. Extremely politically incorrect truths are beginning to stumble reluctantly out of the field. The confirmation of a dysgenic trend in Iceland is one of the milder examples:http://www.pnas.org/content/114/5/E727. Much more controversial truths are yet to come.

One wonders how much truth our mental Lysenkoism will survive. It has resisted all reason so far, so one must bet it will continue.
I have a folder cathartically-named "useless bullshit" into which around 50% of my emails are automatically routed and never read. Also any email with a DL in the BCC field is automatically routed to the trash.
I'm a heavy user of R, and I like using it a lot. But the language has lots of traps for beginners: code idioms that look correct but are subtly wrong. For example, if you need to iterate over the indices of a vector X, the obvious thing to do is 1:length(X), looks fine and works fine until you happen to pass a 0-length vector, and then it explodes. Similarly, the obvious way to select a subset of rows i and a subset of columns j from a matrix is X[i,j]. But that's wrong too, because if either i or j has length 1, you get a vector instead of a matrix. And I don't even remember off the top of my head what happens if either or both of i and j has length 0. The R Inferno[1] is essentially a big collection of cases like this.

None of this makes R a bad language, in my opinion. R is far from the only language with surprising edge cases like this. People say that R is designed for statistical analysis more than general programming, but I don't think that's exactly true either. Certainly it excels in writing code for statistical analysis, but I've used R a lot more than that, and I plan to continue. It's a perfectly fine general-use scripting language.

I think the real reason R gets such a bad reputation is that a lot of people writing and publishing R code aren't programmers by trade. And you know what? That's fine. Because I'd much rather work in a community that values and celebrates the publishing of code than one that shames people for releasing their code because it's "not good enough".

[1]: https://www.burns-stat.com/pages/Tutor/R_inferno.pdf
Nothing, which is why taxi metering is set by the city/state, so it can't be altered (legally).
Another guide that I found added clarity around flexbox:

https://internetingishard.com/html-and-css/flexbox/

I think often it is about finding a guide by an author who happens to explain things in the way that clicks with you. For me, this one really helped.
As someone that can’t have children, listening to somebody talk about their “religious experience” is like having a group of Jehovah’s Witnesses show up at your doorstep, proclaiming the greatness of their God, then telling you that you can’t be a part of it.
Adoption is an option, but it is a far more planned and far less organic experience than the one described here. It’s easy to prefer having free-time over adoption, but pregnancy is like a calling that’s hard to ignore.
But it's not transferable. If you teach the AI to play checkers, you don't use that knowledge when trying to teach it chess.
The Cathedral and the Bizarre
I thought Educated by Tara Westover was a fascinating look at how people grow to have radical views when they're surrounded by people who hold those views (In Westover's family's case, survivalism, extreme Mormonism, and anti-governmentism).
There are many possible hormonal modes and they are expressed dynamically, not deterministically, even within the same body. Hormonal behavior can be learned, it's not purely deterministic. People can be trained to habitually perform certain kinds of behaviors and postures that may not feel natural, and can grow into them, just as people can be trained, pressured, shamed: to carry certain attitudes or use certain language, to eat certain foods, to exercise certain muscles... but not others.

Nature and nurture are not clearly separable as biological and social reductionists like to think. They intermingle in countless ways on multiple scales. People exist on many spectrums, and are dynamic, not predetermined.
Except that cab drivers randomly setting their meters isn't a thing in any of the cabs I've ever been in, and I've lived in both NYC and London.
They meant there are parents in Group A. You might be talking to someone (who is a parent, but low-key) about a new Scorsese film, and think "this here's an interesting person, talking about interesting things!" You aren't thinking about the fact that the person you're talking to is a parent.
Check for yourself if our solution works for you. We use it on a daily basis. But reproducibility is not the only thing. The most important was to have a project for R.
Also looks like machine learning which is why we chose it. Couldn't imagine it ever becoming an issue like today.
I'm consistently flabbergasted people put forth getting a lot of messages on dating sites as some difficult situation that's hard to deal with. It's metaphorically like they want some cheese so they go to the cheese store and are so overwhelmed by all the cheese selection and free samples that they run out screaming without buying any cheese, somehow expecting me to feel sympathy for them and accept that I was in the privileged position starving in a cold wet cardboard box not having had any my whole life despite searching far and wide trying as hard as I could, not being able to get my first nibble of cheese until the age of 24 while they got pallets and pallets of free cheese offered to them their entire life.
I'm a parent and I'm not sure why the idea that parents should protect their children is somehow controversial.

In this case it should not be necessary - the world should be a better place, without these sick assholes preying on children. However it is not a better place and so parents need to be aware.
Where did I claim you're more likely to get in a car accident with a billionaire?

There should be a punishment for traffic violations big enough to discourage the offender from repeating it. Since a couple of thousands will not cause such an effect on an ultra rich person, the punishment should be calculated in such a way that it actually does. Calculating it based off of income achieves just that.
L+2 should be the default level of metacognition. Excellent project, excellent delivery. Now I have to go put my VR headset on to go watch this video.
> You're not even considering the idea it could be different. Many people have lived in communities where they don't lock their doors because they were actually able to trust the people around them.

The trust in these tightly-knit communities is generally maintained by driving off predatory and criminal folks, and/or by harshly and promptly retaliating against them should anyone be victimized. Unfortunately, this is not something that can work beyond the scale of a fairly small town or perhaps a "gated" neighborhood in a larger city.
Our (allegedly very good for our state) elementary school gives the Kindergarteners iPads. Not to take home—I think they wait until 3rd grade or something for that complete fucking nonsense—but during much of the school day. Their free time in lower grades is iPad shit. Mediocre edutainment games. Having the iPad read books to them. That ends up being quite a bit of their day. Meanwhile they have under half an hour of recess. Talk about screwed up priorities.
No, because a wealthier person is not more likely to harm a wealthy person while speeding. Again, the harm is constant and does not depend on the speeder's wealth.
Totally agree. This is the "fuzzy overlap" to which I referred in my OP. I use the word 'fuzzy' because we just don't know how nature and nurture affect each other.
Not at all. At the end of the day the truth is the truth regardless of whether we like it or not. An idea isn't dumb or backward if it has proper validation.

The problem is that most people bringing this up are not doing so in an intellectually rigorous way. They are coming to the table with a pre-existing conclusion and then trying to fit data to support that conclusion. Both sides do this in fact, and approach / intent matters because doing this creates bias even if people try to stay neutral. That is a poor way to try to discover or talk about the truth. That's what I mean to say.
> Women have it so easy.

I would not categorize having to dig through online harassment as “easy”.
Just enjoy the time with them. You being a great dad is the biggest project you will ever work on. I'm not exaggerating. These kids will become adults and the good job you are doing now will pay off big time.

You will get your time back in due time. If you screw this up now, you wont forgive yourself. When you went to college (assuming you did), you probably focused on getting good grades. This is the same. Just get a ~4.0 in parenting, the rewards are massive not only for you but for society as a whole.
I did a text editor once; it was bad.
This rule works well for some people if your manager and coworkers buy into it:

Emails where you’re cc’d or bcc’d end up in a “quiet” or “lower-priority” folder. A slightly expanded version of this is described here: https://www.hanselman.com/blog/TheThreeMostImportantOutlookR...

If it’s urgent, people can IM or @mention you on Slack, or just call or walk over.
Show HN: Twending – Yet another GitHub trending web application
In terms of integration of a first-rate statistics language with anything resembling a web interface, not only is Shiny great, but it pretty much reigns supreme.
I doubt they'd stock books on Flat Earth in the school library. Maybe it'd get a mention in a book on kookie conspiracy theories alongside Elvis being an alien. There wouldn't be enough material there to get a start then... just keep going indefinitely, like there is on the Web.
Ironically, I find students who rely on the tidyverse to be the most vulnerable to "This isn't working and I'll never be able to figure out why."
> women really are on average less suited for many technical pursuits

Do you have any pursuits in mind? And numbers to back it up?
Hi Wit, you guys do a great job to make R ready for deployment in production.

What do you think of the new renv package?
Not from 2019, but "Bad Blood" by John Carreyrou, detailing the Theranos scandal. A truly spellbinding work of investigative journalism.
It is kind of disturbing to think that your personality and many other traits make you different from other people, and there's nothing you can do about it.

It's quite disturbing to me.
Is this american football or regular football?
What should be said about it that's not already covered by CPU and memory overhead?
Hmmm. Some of this seems dubious. What does “tough-minded” mean in the Scientific American review? As for the personality guessing, isn’t there a confounding factor that people are likely report and self-report women as more “warm”, “sensitive,” “anxious”, “friendly” etc than men BECAUSE we culturally think they are that? How often do you hear a man described as warm, sensitive or anxious vs women?
This sometimes badly backfires on people. You're essentially betting that your first kids will be willing to do this, and will be responsible enough to do a decent job of it.

When kids get older it seems fairly common to start fighting over having to look after siblings, as it's a barrier to having friends and studying.
Yeah but that is more of a city vs suburb/rural problem rather than then vs now.
inevitable. After spending the last year or two without a car at all, in part 'cause lyft and uber had started subtly raising prices, I bought a car a few months back.

I mean, I was a little sad, it was really really nice being driven everywhere... but fundamentally, I'm not quite rich enough to pay market-clearing prices to get driven everywhere. My own impression was that for the last few years, softbank has been subsidizing my own luxury rides, which was really nice! but it was also obviously not sustainable.

my own observation all along was that a lot of the price variation was "specials" - it used to be I could count on some discount several times a week. the biggest price increase I experienced, the one that pushed me to buy my own car, was seeing fewer of these.

Interestingly, now that I have a car and only use uber/lyft when drinking or otherwise away from a car, I get more discounts and specials again.

From talking to drivers, it's similar for them; a significant amount of their income consists of specials, for doing X drives in Y time period.
I think it is still a race to the bottom while you can get all rideshare prices in google maps.
"psychopaths push for forms of social ordering that allow them the greatest latitude,"

This is an interesting idea, but I fully disagree that it's reality.

We can debate about 'how much', but some aspects of social order require hierarchy and power - it's unavoidable.

The 'psychopaths' are the one's who wield it without regard for the inherent responsibility.

'Concentrations of power' are not inherently bad, but they provide a much more potent opportunity for corruption.
Lots of high school classes use Piazza.
Sure isn't, but that's how proprietary software is, you only have hope.
On the other hand, it's pretty prejudiced to assume that say, male software engineers are on average more sexist than other professions, just because there are fewer women in software engineering.

People (especially on the left) seem to make that assumption more often than assuming that say, female teachers are more sexist, even though the gender skew in teaching is just as bad.
People have been saying the same about carbon emissions for a long time.
> That still assumes there is a large and untapped consumer base of potential assassins out there who are only not killing politicians because doing so isn't easy enough or anonymous.

I don’t think it does.

Consider that the purpose of a marketplace is to connect people who want to produce a good or service with those who want to consume it. Right now, there is a disconnect between “people who want to kill <public figure>” and “people who are willing to kill <public figure>”. A market would change that dynamic.

> People like Jim Bell assume everyone is as sociopathic as they are, but most people aren't. Everyone hates politicians, the government, taxes, etc, but most people aren't willing to kill even if they can get technically away with it. Meanwhile, the personality type willing to commit political violence to begin with is already radicalized enough in their beliefs to likely be willing to risk being caught, even if only for the notoriety. There's no real "casual" market, here.

A market would require two parties: someone who cares enough to pay, and someone who needs the money enough to do it.

If payments are truly anonymous and untraceable, then I’m sure that there are plenty of people and entities out there willing to post the bounty.

If payments are ensured and publicly verifiable, then the consumer here isn’t an “assassin” - it’s someone who needs money badly. Someone who is suicidal but wants to set their family up for life, for instance - or someone who has been diagnosed with a terminal illness and sees claiming an assassination contract as a means of ensuring that their family is taken care of after they’re gone.

At any rate, it’s all in the essay. At the end of the day it’s just a thought exercise.
Then make something useful, at least for yourself. A tool that helps your productivity. An emulator that you will actually play games on.
Hopefully we are able to use our willpower to bring about personality change over the course of our life.
What part doesn't make sense. Sends out different prints containing targeted ads to specific subscribers as opposed to the advertiser targeting the content. Are you arguing to prove some point?
Damn. This is me!!
Well, as they say, it's not wasted time if you enjoyed wasting it.
I speak only for myself. I find differences in human categories fascinating on some level, but I don't think we (humanity, HN, or even myself) are mature enough to discuss them without impacting the way we see and treat ourselves and others. Women score lower on math tests when reminded that they are women[0]. That's a horrible thing for a culture to do to an individual, and if women are sexist against themselves to the extent that it causes them to be worse at math then it seems obvious to me that men are expecting less of them as well (whether they're aware of it or not). I'm not saying discussion of gender differences should be censored, but I personally tend to not engage in them these days because I worry that propagating my views on gender differences will cause differences in both ability and treatment of individuals in ways that are hard to even measure or know whether you yourself are engaging in. This is one of those topics that might be best left to academics and future generations, depending on your goals and in what proportions you care about raw information v.s. treating humans kindly.

[0]: https://web.stanford.edu/group/ipc/pubs/2006Steele.pdf
I haven't read that, but I'd assume it was the other way around: somehow she lost control of her limbs whilst sleeping and it penetrated her dream.

I've dreamt I'd lost an arm before, only to wake up to find out I'd slept in a position that made the "missing" arm go totally numb.
I don't think anyone is missing it, it's just that it's too obvious to warrant discussion (they article does not try to hide that) and beside the point unless your specific allegation is not that it's advertising, but that it's fabricated.
Ofthentimes password is there to discourage. Information is sensitive but it's more important that you can get it even if you lose the password than keeping it secret.

And sometimes you have a really good long password that decays in your memory until you can't get it right. After few hundred tries you must either give up or start cracking it systematically using parts that you remember.
> the risk\reward equation is astronomically biased against them

...what? An almost guaranteed date for a minimum of effort is a bad risk/reward how exactly? I suppose it is a little more effort than just replying to one of the 1000 messages in their inbox.
If the authorities have cooperation agreements with the other country then often they’ll work together. In Australia the police catch a lot of paedophiles using information supplied by the FBI.
My bids on my roof were 6k to 54k.

The 54k bid included a whole house energy audit with positive pressure tests and some stupid stuff. The bids from 6k to 32k were for the same literal shingles (architectural ) with the same installation and the same tear off and the same warranty.

The one pattern I noticed was the bids over 25k showed me a video with company values. (One talked about how Christian the owners were) The bids under 25k I got like a 5 minute explanation and a chance to ask questions.

Think I spent like 7k on the roof and it’s great.
This is very interesting! Although it is very much a draft in progress.

It also references a new one I haven’t seen before, https://vanadium.github.io/concepts/security.html
Quite an interesting guide. 50% match on a 401(k) is great. Although as far as asset allocation goes if you’re <35 I’d do 100% into VTSAX or equivalent. You can gradually convert to 90(stock)/10(cash or bonds).
Like I said, what's your alternative?

Also I think maybe I didn't explain what I was trying to say clearly. My point is that all political positions, not just socialism, amount to trying to force the laws to reflect how you feel society should operate.