skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t think most people accept social science research as valid.

Replication crisis is a real phenomenon that will likely never go away unless we accept that social sciences will never have the rigor of hard sciences. More often than not it’s wielded as a political tool to support pre-existing biases and positions.

Also it doesn’t help that academia doesn’t reward those who seek to replicate studies which likely hides the magnitude of the problem.

“ According to a 2016 poll of 1,500 scientists reported that 70% of them had failed to reproduce at least one other scientist's experiment (50% had failed to reproduce one of their own experiments). In 2009, 2% of scientists admitted to falsifying studies at least once and 14% admitted to personally knowing someone who did”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis
> .. full Microsoft Office-compatible office suite ..

Really? Seems unlikely unless they are restricting the meaning of compatibility to exclude scripting.

If someone would produce an Excel compatible spreadsheet that executed Excel VBA that would be a real achievement.
Fuel cells might be able to compete in that small slice of the market that needs deep-cold compatible vehicles. There are millions of people who live in places like Edmonton or Novosibirsk where temps can drop below -40. I don’t know if current HFCs can handle that but since gas solubility is higher at low temperatures it seems like a possibility. Lowering battery operating temperatures seems to be a hard problem.
one of my biggest regrets is not having kids.

I had the chance, but I squandered it.
Airbnb Bans over 60 White Supremacists After Iron March Forum Database Leak
> It’s also more difficult for me as a I have a US layout keyboard at home and a German layout at work.

I'd hate tp be forced to use a specific layout governed by my employer and I'm glad it's not been a problem so far to get a replacement keyboard with US layout.

It's pretty common nowadays for developers to simply prefer the US layout if their country's is not great, like the German one that makes typing braces etc. a pain in the ass.
Yeah, that also depends on how modern your diesel is. The Kubota is much, much better on the particulate scale vs out old Ford thanks to a substantial DPF filter.

Newer diesels, when not modified are much better than they used to be.
> I think men have no idea that girls and women experience this.

There is a stats model as to why this is. I can't find the reference, so my recollection may be spotty.

Essentially, assume there are more men than women in some room. Assume that some percent of either sex will espouse sexist comments at the other sex. Running through the math, you find that women hear more sexist comments than men do. If you plug in some real world numbers (of sex imbalances, sexist remark frequencies, time in various environments, etc) to these percentages and not just some random ones, then something like 95% of women will get some very crude remarks thrown their way nearly every day. Again, I can't find the reference, but it has it's own eponymously named rule to it on Wikipedia (though it's not on that linking page yet for some reason).

Basically, one possible reason men don't hear a lot of very sexist stuff all that time is 'because math'. Men need to listen to their sisters, mothers, wives, friends, and coworkers and believe them more often.
Regarding the trains,

>They are usually on time and cover basically everywhere worth visiting in Europe.

He has a very ungerman definition of usually on time :) There's probably not a bigger laughing stock in Germany than our trains (Okay, there is BER). The long-distance ones only arrive within 5 minutes 75% of the time [1]. If you have tight transfers to make, that can get very annoying.

I also thought the ICE and non-ICE dichotomy was funny. I would split them into long-distance (IC, ICE, EC) and regional (RE, RB, S-Bahn).

[1]: https://www.deutschebahn.com/de/konzern/konzernprofil/zahlen... (Db-Fernverkehr tab)
In classic “Innovator’s Dilemma” style, Tesla spotted an opportunity to sell a technology slightly before it was ready for the mass market, by focusing on a small and undemanding (in price-performance terms) group of consumers that the big players couldn’t be bothered with.
8 o’ clock isn’t early for your average 5 year old.

It sucks only seeing the kids for 2 hours during a week day but people have to work, because that’s basically how society works for most people. However working parents more than make up for that lost time at the weekend.

The point the GP made about books is because with the best will in the world, sometimes you need your child entertained so you can get on with other stuff. Sometimes that is doing chores. Sometimes it’s just because after being woken up at 4 in the morning and then having spent 6 hours running around after your kids (often quite literally running after them), you do sometimes need 10 minutes to switch off before the next activity. An adults energy is only finite. Plus let’s also not forget that independent play is also good for a child’s development as well.

Also, before someone inevitably chimes in with the “why don’t you incorporate children into the chores?!” remark, yes, most parents will do this too. However sometimes you just need to get something done quickly. Or properly. Or without an argument.
Nonfiction I’ve read this year and enjoyed greatly:
- How to change your mind by Michael Pollan
- The Lean Startup
- Company of One
It is unfortunate that, although sentenced with finite punishments, ex-cons continue to be punished (i.e. judged, discriminated against) well after their sentence is over.

That said, I can also understand why companies avoid ex-cons. Companies make decisions based on statistics. A company will, ceterus paribus, always choose the candidate who has no criminal history because that candidate is less likely to commit a crime and hurt the company.
I don't get this. How does the fact that many people have worked alongside people who cannot code cause impostor syndrome?

It doesn't seem like it would cause it in the first set people - they compare themselves to the people who can't code and feel like the opposite of impostors. It doesn't seem like it would cause it in the people who can't code, because those people really are impostors, so can't have impostor syndrome. So is there some effect on some third group of people?
"No mathematical theorem, no enjoyable novel, no work of art of any importance, have ever been produced by a herd. I fail to see why innovative software ought to play by a different set of rules."

Nobody tell this guy about Bourbaki... He's also probably never enjoyed a movie.
don't worry, it's not you alone.

openGL is only a specification. and there are many openGL versions. and drivers have different implementations. and modern openGL uses shaders. which use another language, GLSL, which also has different versions. and openGL needs a context to draw on. each OS has different display servers to create those contexts and windows. here we also have to differentiate protocols and actual implementations. and then you might want to write openGL in a certain language different from C/C++. now choose a library or two or five, where each one will deal with one or two or twenty of those issues, plus other things like keyboard and mouse input, etc.

so, either you follow config instructions very closely and repeat until you find one that works, or you try to start understanding all this, get very annoyed and throw your computer through the real window.
I think my favorite story is how they transported the A-12 prototype to Nevada for testing. They sent a team a few weeks in advance to find all the road signs their wide trailer would hit, cut them into two and bolt them back together. On the day of the move, they sent trucks ahead to disassemble the signs so the trailer could pass. They also had to negotiate a large cash bribe when a bus driver clipped a truck in their convoy to prevent any insurance report from being filed.
YouTube Admits to Suppressing Independent News, Pushing CNN and Fox News
I think there's some confusion here. The effect is meant to describe the feelings being experienced and not the actual objective state of the individual.

I have come across many people who had never heard the term before but immediately identified with having experienced such a state when it was explained to them.

I also disagree that having names for things that is common to most peoples' experience is a bad idea. On the contrary, it helps people better understand their experience as a human. This isn't a competition to see who experiences it the most.

In the case of impostor syndrome I have also found this is true. In my experience, once people are exposed to the idea they find it a great relief to know it is merely a cognitive bias and it makes them more confident about their abilities in the future.
The architecture of a large scale search engine (2019)
>Since it's illegal to hire based on intelligence in the US, we have to come up with other proxies for it.

Where are you getting this from? Mental disability is a protected class but not the same as intelligence.
Juno was a great model...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetically_excited_...

Ie “coil whine”.. not saying this guy isn’t a nut. But it is possible to hear electronic devices. On a computer streaming video the increased current demands can make power supply coils more audible.
Actually, that's exactly what I was saying --- plenty of existing text editors use the "stupid" single array, yet no one complains about their performance.

One example? Notepad.
I wonder what happened to that proposal from a few years ago [1] to let Linux communicate more detailed error info to userland. Integer error codes are good enough for the most common errors, but in obscure cases like that one, it's often unreasonably difficult to figure out where an error code came from or what exactly went wrong.

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/657341/
I'm not sure, but filling out questionnaires doesn't seem all that different than polling, which seems pretty accurate?
At any rate, learn to to touch type blind, and then switch to your preferred keyboard layout in software (and ignore what’s printed on the keys). My mom can do it; I’d expect any programmer to be able to do it.
:( These are the projects that I look forward to though. Not having anyone to please is a very nice break. I find that to be the opposite of useless.
A million dollars to a millionaire is still a million dollars. The net present cost of moving might increase with wealth, but it doesn't increase linearly. It might cost a millionaire $200,000 instead of the $50,000 it would for someone in the middle class, but they also have the $200,000, and if you would fine them $1,000,000 instead of $1000 then threshold exceeded.
The problem with fuel cell vehicles isn’t really the fuel cells. It’s physics. And economics.
A novel also is produced by a “herd”. There are a lot of people involved. People that make suggestions, corrections, the editor... It’s not a single person effort.
>Seriously, I'm starting to think turn based strategy games like Civilization, etc, will be the last to get any attention. Why?

I don't think the answer is technical. A good AI for a game like Civilization would have knowledge of human social concepts like honor and vindictiveness, which are both concepts problematic to pin down. The definitions of concepts like these are fluid, they change with the times and societies in question. But that's not to say any possible setting for these concepts is equally valid when trying to emulate human behavior. Some settings will seem unrealistic, like a mustache twirling villain or a hyper-rational pointy-eared alien. Neither make for good AIs if you're shooting for human-like behavior.

Humans can certainly individually craft fictional personalities that seem realistic; authors do it all the time. But from a gameplay perspective that tactic falls flat; you end up with a limited set of personalities the player becomes familiar with and the game consequently loses relay value. In the Civilization games, every player knows that Gandhi has a short temper and likes to launch nukes. Rather than crafting individual personalities, how does a game designer define a function that returns personalities with a realistic distribution? How can a game designer define such a function if the parameters aren't truly known by science and the artists who craft individual personalities are going off wishy-washy metrics like gut instinct and artistic intuition?
Fusion has been amazing in my experience. Never had issues with my VMs being sluggish like with VirtualBox. Plus 100% compatibility with Workstation for transferring VMs between Windows/Linux and Mac hosts. Annoying that they have a paid upgrade yearly, but I’ll gladly accept that because the alternative is giving Oracle money. Older versions usually hold up fine for a few years anyway, so long as newer Windows or Linux releases don’t break anything.
Can anyone point out some of the good ones?

Just about every presentation I went to this year at re:invent was not particularly good. They lacked depth and just seemed to be saying "just use this aws product" and you'll be all set.
Oh I’d be totally into that. As is, I carefully use small scissors to remove brands/logos from any clothes/goods where they’re attached via stitching.
Growth, by Vaclav Smil. It's not easy reading but it is rewarding.
You are presenting a theory that those primitive tribal living environments did not have the same social interactions and dynamics that we have in the present day. But you’re not presenting any evidence so support that assertion.

It’s entirely reasonable to assume people then had the same existential dread and fear of social exclusion we had today plus festering wounds, lack of hygiene, and poor dental care.
Crux uses a Worst-Case Optimal Join [0] algorithm with bitemporal indexes, and the Datalog-specific query layer is implemented in less than a thousand lines of Clojure: https://github.com/juxt/crux/blob/master/crux-core/src/crux/...

SQL certainly provides a lot of bells and whistles but Crux has the advantage of consistent in-process queries (i.e. the "database as a value") which means you can combine custom code with multiple queries efficiently to achieve a much larger range of possibilities, such as graph algorithms like Bidirectional BFS [1].

[0] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1803.09930.pdf

[1] https://github.com/juxt/crux/blob/master/docs/example/imdb/s...
...is because humans, in general, have a natural truth bias.[0]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth-default_theory#Truth_bia...
Surveillance is a fact of life, so make privacy a human right
Another example that came to my mind after I wrote the comment above is that in comp. games frame timing can reveal critical information, i.e. act as ESP. In CS:GO for example the game does not know the position of enemy players at all times, the server only sends their positions if you could possibly perceive them. However, this does mean that if you are holding certain positions and the other team is sneaking up on you, you will experience a reduction in frame rate once your game starts to process them.

The entire game loop would need to be constant time w.r.t. player activity to avoid this issue!

> I'm 100% sure my Skyrim install is perfectly fine (it is a fresh one) and it does happen, just not frequently. If you haven't noticed it... well, as i already wrote, it isn't really noticeable.

My ability to detect lags of one second (like you wrote) is approximately 100 % assuming I am actually looking at the screen. I've seen pauses like this when I had a hard drive and with the 32-bit version of the game when it experienced memory pressure, and also due to badly written mods.

> And - especially on Skyrim - you'll also get way more variance than 1ms just walking around.

That's sadly true, though it tends to run smoothly when it has finished loading everything for an area.
> a) many (perhaps the majority, don't have time to source now) of the bankruptcies in the US are due to medical issues and spending

The vast majority of medical bankruptcies have nothing to do with the cost of medical care, but the disruption to career/income flow imposed by illness. This is clearly a problem in other countries as well.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJMp1716604

> The rate of growth of US spending on healthcare....far outstrips the rate of growth of money

This is true in other OECD countries too. Further, this doesn't mean what you think it does. As our productivity rises, the share spent on consumption categories with high productivity growth (increasingly low relative prices) can decline, which frees up spending to be spent on health and other areas subject to less productivity growth (the majority of the expenditure growth corresponds to rising real health consumption tho)

https://randomcriticalanalysis.com/2019/12/03/no-means-no-th...

> The same medicines by the same manufacturers and often the same production lines ... often cost 10-100 times more in the US than they do in other places

One might be able to find outliers of this sort, but that clearly doesn't reflect anything close to central tendencies (mean, median, mode, etc), especially when compared (accurately) to other high-income countries. Richer countries, like the US, generally pay relatively higher prices.

The US may pay a somewhat higher premium, but there are tradeoffs here vis-a-vis incentivizing innovation in the long run. It's also not widely appreciated that the US pays markedly less for generics....
Perpetual growth is good only in a business sense. Social software has an optimal amount of users. Too few and there isn't enough signal, too many and there's too much noise. Both make people lose interest and leave.
It's a shame. If a country can't show you its culinary best at a university cafeteria, where else can you go?
Yes, basically every sport now has someone running a fantasy version.
> I keep distances from people with kids when the kids are around, because very possible they will leave their kids to me to gain a couple of hours to themselves.

I recognize that you certainly have your unique circle of acquaintances, but in general I find the above statement to be extremely improbable. Not only would I never leave my kids with an unwilling babysitter, it's actually the opposite -- you have to convince me that you are a safe choice.
I have a 1 and a three year old and I’m going through the same thing — if you make a good tech salary, a live-in au pair is surprisingly affordable compared to full time day care for two kids and it has helped us so much. Not just for day care while you’re at work, but just little things like watching the kids for a 15 minutes while you run to the store or if you just need a break.
I have a lot. Whats your point? Are you saying there's no willpower at all or what?

There are people with unusual levels of willpower. I am one of them and I know others. It is what it is.
last time I rode BART from sfo, a crazy guy attacked a german tourist.
>People from Africa or Asia routinely get held at extraterritorial prisons indefinitely. In case you have mixed ancestry and look like "people of color" be cautious.

Not regarding anything else you are claiming this is quite an outrageous claim and I have no recollection of such things going on in Germany for the last few years. It would also be a severe violation of the German constitution if this would be happening (extraterritoriality doesn't matter) not even mentioning the European Charter of Human Rights and other important Human Rights treaties.

Edit: I would be very interested in hearing about some concrete examples. If this is happening (which I somewhat doubt) there is definitely not enough spotlight on it in the Public Debate in Germany.
Exactly, I believe I read a Carmack article saying that you need 4K pixels per eye to get to a resolution where pixels are imperceptible (though presumably those with better than 20/20 would need higher).

That’s probably a few years away, but I’d be surprised if we don’t get there in 5-10.

Meanwhile, we need to build all the ui and OS code to drive such displays.

That said I’m not sure I’d sign up for using the current generation as my primary display device.
If anyone’s interested in statecharts, have a look at these two resources:

https://statecharts.github.io/

https://github.com/davidkpiano/xstate
(This is probably the most complete implementation of statecharts so far)
It makes sense if you believe that men and women generally have different interests. If you believe that the men and women don't generally have different interests it's a paradox.
You are responsible for the choices you make.

You can learn new information, and you can adjust your behavior or habits based on that.

The new things you learn wouldn't have been inside your DNA/genes.
I suspect that slowness is due to something else; remember that computers these days can execute a few billion instructions per second.

I've written code to do word wrapping, and it was surprising how fast it was. Line numbers are similarly complex.
> The long-distance ones only arrive within 5 minutes 75% of the time.

By standards I am familiar with, that's good. Last time I checked, my local train station had trains arriving within 10 minutes only 50% of the time.
My wife did research for grad school related to this, so we went in to this eyes open.

Her studies showed that people who have a kid 3 or younger were less happy than equally situated peers. Their first smile is nice, but it's a lot of poop and your peers are going to Europe.

If your youngest is 4 or older, there's literally no difference in happiness. Europe is nice. Their first play, them as actual human beings - also nice.

When the _parents_ are north of 60, then happiness _and_ health go up if you have kids, by a rapidly increasing margin with time.

So when we decided to have kids, we just knew that for the first few years... Well, that's going to suck. It's made it easier knowing what we signed up for.
Well, to be fair, a textbook is not a theorem or an enjoyable novel... Also, a movie is not made by a “herd” (unless one thinks of a company as a herd.) Wikipedia would be a better example.
I should have worded it better - it's effectively illegal.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griggs_v._Duke_Power_Co

TL;DR: It's hard to defend an IQ test against a discrimination lawsuit.

Unless there's an explicit business need to concretely identify someone's IQ, a business is at risk of being called out as using the IQ test to discriminate against some protected group, since that protected group is potentially disadvantaged while taking the IQ test by any one of dozens of (legitimate) reasons.
> Since it's illegal to hire based on intelligence in the US

Source? This article says it can be legal. https://www.hiresuccess.com/resources/guide-to-employment-te...

> when you're evaluating hundreds, or thousands, of applications for a single opening, you're going to fall back on stereotypes.

You personally might. But that's not what everyone does, not what the most successful people in recruiting do, and definitely not what I do. Why not use far stronger signals? For example:

1. Do they have the exact skills you are looking for or only some of them?
2. Aside from listing the skills, do they give concrete examples of using those skills?
3. How much experience do they have in their role?
4. Do they have experience in our specific industry?
5. If written communication is part of the job, how well is their resume written?

You can do a quick scan of the above in 10 or 20 seconds.

Thousands of resumes? Scan the first hundred that arrived and skip the rest. For most companies, your job isn't to find the one best person out of thousands of applicants, which would be a huge cost. It's to find someone qualified for the job.

Why use stereotypes when you have much stronger signals already available and it's just as quick to scan for those better signals?