skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not at all what he said. What he said was "truth is truth if they've got high quality data to back up assertions," and "a lot of people believe dumb and backward ideas about other groups, and they'll twist and cherry pick the data to try to back up their biases without the nuance of presentation shown here." The difference is clear enough that your response appears a bit twisted and cherry-picked.

I have no idea why anyone could think that such a vastly sweeping generalization such as "all sides do exactly the same thing" might be anything other than false, but what is contrasted here is exactly two instances, two sides, in which people are not doing exactly the same thing. There is, on the one hand, the careful presentation of nuanced data in good faith — without a witting ulterior motive — and on the other hand, the selection of data on the basis of its ability to appear supportive of an a priori conclusion, something that can be done unwittingly, but which is just as often done wittingly.
Annie Duke's "Thinking in bets" was pretty good as was Rory Sutherland's "Alchemy".

"Thinking in bets" got me thinking about playing more imperfect information games. The obvious choice would be poker, but I've been wondering which modern video games are fun to play and are imperfect information games? Or at least have elements of those. Hearthstone?
Ask HN: Where do handmade artisans/makers like to hang out online?
the rich person would just hire poor people to buy their trivial consumption items for them, both to get better prices and to put downward pressure on the practice. that's not even a particularly ingenious solution, but that's the kind of thing i mean by underestimating our collective ingenuity.

the transactional value of money is not inconsequential, but people absolutely do all kinds of (silly) things for status (see social media), moreso than just for transactional value.
Check out QB64. Modern implementation of quickbasic. Looks, behaves, and feels like the original if you want it to.
Rationality: From AI to Zombies

Sapiens
It does change your life in a lot of ways, and is one of the 'big divisions' in one's lifetime (before/after things like marriage, college, kids, Etc.)

What I like about this essay was Paul's ability to understand that he really didn't understand, on a fundamental level, the point of view of parents before he was one. I think every engineer I have known both before and after they had kids had this same shift of perception.

An interesting variant was one of my friends who married a woman who already had kids and grew into the perception over time rather than "all at once" as so many who were present at the birth of their first child do.

In discussions here and on other forums it is easy to spot the difference in responses from those who are parents and those who are not. It really is a different way of thinking.

My wife stated the obvious to me when I was going on about how amazing this change was. Her comment was "Well maybe if your boobs doubled in size in the 9 months before the birth you would have figured out that things were getting ready for this new state of affairs." Changes in your view on the world are less visible but quite profound.
How Unix Works
I know many parents and there is a giant unspoken difference between the ones that truly love it, and the ones that are just hanging on and trying to survive. Thanks for being honest, it is way more refreshing to hear than anything paul had to say.
The effect of gender priming on women’s attitudes (2005) [pdf]
Not having children is assumed not to be a final choice. But in many cases, it is. The more I learn about correlations between genetic disorders and parent age (including the age of the father), the more I feel I have been deceived about this.
My dad did the sound effects for the local amateur dramatics group and he had a few of these records. He would record them onto reel to reel tape and edit them with a small guillotine, sticking them together with special tape. Incredibly primitive and time consuming by today's standards.
Ah of course, my bad, I must not have noticed. For some reason I read the "internal" flag as "nightly" :P
I'd even go further and say it's irresponsible these days to post things like this. If nothing else, because we know the Earth cannot support many more people. Or at least it's looking that way.

I think as a society we need to get away from sappy Hallmark channel stuff like this and celebrate the individual. We should not be made to feel like having kids is some transcendental thing.

Studies consistently show childless people are happiest irrespective of age. Parenthood is just a thing to do, nothing more. There's no need to make people believe they want to have kids when it will more likely decrease their happiness, and definitely increase co2.
Yet if you read the rest of the comment you would realize this specific use-case (editing text) was done fine with a single array buffer when computers had less than 1mb of memory to work with.

This is a perfect example of when it’s stupid to keep optimizing.
Personal finance in this county is not difficult. 401(k) and IRA in an index fund with match will be enough to retire on, even if one does not put money into a brokerage account.
Guessing by your name that you are a climber. How did having kids affect that part of your life? I am a pretty devoted climber at the moment, to the point that I left my job to pursue it more. Eventually I want kids though. Obviously I know that will affect how much time I can spend climbing but I'm curious to what degree it affects most climbing parents.
It's goal is different.

We started with reproducible project definition. Then we implemented rsuite to help manage the project. It includes dependency management which is what renv solve.
What is the biggest difference is that our project consists of possibly many pkgs that are local to it. This allows you to create complex solutions. Moreover deployment PKG is zip file and to use it you only need r. No PKG installation on prod.
APL and J (2015)
If you feel strongly about this issue and you think it's worth being debated then the best thing you can do is to write an in-depth analysis in your personal blog and then submit the link
Yikes.... that is a.... uhhhh.... interesting take on things.

One thing I do agree with is it helps to have your own retirement squared away. It will make it easier on your kids. But all those “trivial events” like reading to your kids... that is what they’ll remember. I remember my dad reading to me and singing me to bed every night. I love that I can pass that down to my kids.

There is way way more to life than money.
Plenty of people have been prosecuted for conspiracies that, unbeknown to the conspirators, could not possibly have succeeded. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1468-2230....
AWS Re:Invent Presentations
> Also forgot to mention open a Fidelity BrokerageLink account for your 401k.

I thought about adding it, but BrokerageLink requires a minimum balance transfer. By then, I figure that people will find out about invclub if they want to pursue more custom strategies.

I also added the note about the fresh Windows 10 Enterprise install. Ultimately, it's a wash. The group policy will apply one way or another.
Thank you for your answer and advice!

In pure mathematics - I found most interesting topics around algebraic topology. Next year, I plan to look into homology. These fields also have computational aspect and some applicability outside of pure maths: computational homology and Topological Data Analysis.

This autumn, I finally looked a bit into category theory (applied) using this good book: https://www.amazon.com/Invitation-Applied-Category-Theory-Co..., and, unsurprisingly, found it exciting.

Regarding PhD in an applied area: I tend to agree with you, and also keep thinking about focusing more on computational / applied mathematics so that my studies could be somehow related to my work. My tech focus at work is around data processing: with interest in distributed databases and computations.

Heh, I see that distributed systems, algebra, topology, and categories are similar in mental representation in my head, they cause same kind of excitement when I study them: visualising, analysing, and playing with the systems of structures, connections, defined rules and operations :)
Your genes are at work 24/7/365. How much willpower do you have?
Exactly. Just busywork with less documentation and more fragmentation.
The problem tends to be more that they don't sleep in long enough time blocks... So you get punctuated sleep. When my son was little we eventually adopted his sleep pattern as much as we could for naps to compensate for the broken sleep..

When he got a bit older, one of the highlights of the weekends was taking him to soft play because we knew it meant we'd get a nearly 3 hour nap afterwards.. The first time he came back from it and didn't fall asleep was soul crushing...
The Sword That Shapes the Hand: Data Liberty as a Human Right
The Long-Forgotten Battle for the Longest Domain Name on the Internet
It's an economic issue. Solar reaches a price advantage in Phoenix before it does in Toronto because there's more sun, so people in Arizona are willing to pay a higher price for panels. Or there is more demand during the day so it's profitable much sooner to buy solar to satisfy the daytime/nighttime load differential than if you need to combine it with batteries.

So you build a bunch of panel factories, sell panels to Arizona and pay off most of the fixed costs of building those factories. But then the markets willing to pay higher prices get saturated. Once you've sold them as many panels as they need, they already have them and stop buying as many. Lower demand. So by supply and demand, the price comes down.

That's good -- now you're competitive in Northern California and people start buying panels there. But it's also bad -- it's profitable to keep operating your existing factories which are already built, but at the lower price it's not as profitable to build new ones. Eventually the price gets low enough that production capacity stops growing.

You can use the existing production capacity to get to 100% eventually, but if you wanted to do it faster you would need higher prices to justify building more factories. Only then there would be less demand, so you still can't increase the growth rate.

Nuclear comes at it from the other end. Can't compete with solar in Phoenix for the daytime peak but it can in Toronto for baseload. Which means there is greater demand for solar for some uses and greater demand for nuclear for other uses, and you replace carbon faster when you build both at once.
I use to read the blog on virtualdub.org (video capture and processing) and enjoy his rants on bundled library bloat. Virtualdub was small in footprint and great to use. So do programmers become reliant on scaffolding too much, or is it a necessity as you learn?
They were made for use in TV and radio programmes so need to be of the highest quality and well indexed. I assume the BBC employs people to go out and record them. I also assume they licence them to film companies and other TV companies.
An article about the paintings was recently discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21773479
Eh, you’re thinking way too hard about this imo. It’s a biological thing. Having a kid takes you back to a level of animality that probably only sex gets close to—you’re tapping into a bilogical instinct and you’re ruled by instinct—that’s why people talk so much about their kids—there’s really not too many experiences in everyday life that have such a fundamental psychological and biological effect—as soon as you have a kid nature has wired you up to put that kid before everything else —just look at how a mama bear will react when you get between her and her cubs, human parents are not so different, so obviously their intense focus on their kids seep into their social life.

It’s probably not something varianece in social structure will change since it comes from a fundamentally biological place.
Thanks for the feedback. Agreed, topic list pagination sounds like a good idea.
No, gender segregated work was pretty common throughout human history: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1069397106297529
Just remember that your desire for productivity, for time to think, and your ambitions, all come from that same place that makes you want to have sex and maybe kids.

You get to decide what kind of slave to your genes you'll be, but no one gets to build themselves free of them.
the value add of uber is that you can use your phone's GPS and a map to tell someone where to pick you up instead of calling up the taxi company and describing where you are. I know taxi companies are starting to implement this stuff, but they didn't seem to be in a big hurry to do it before uber/lyft showed up. I haven't tried in a while, but I bet the smaller cab companies still don't have anything like this.

even if their value add is just getting a driver to me a little faster, this isn't nothing. the difference between a five minute and a ten minute expected wait isn't just five minutes of wasted time; at the margin, it's whether the customer decides to purchase a ride at all.
I sat around with a desire to “make an open source contribution” for years. Followed the advice about looking through bug trackers for tractable issues. Never could make heads or tails of a project.

Then at work I become an ambitious user of a relatively immature open source platform. As a power user, I finally had real motivation to fix specific defects, and a good enough mental map to get it done. It came naturally.
I think this company is selling panic and hysteria to make a quick buck. The whole thing could well be made up, pure fiction. Their claims aren't worth a discussion.

I don't doubt that this stuff happens. The web is full of filth and excrement. But using the language of moral panic to sell a dubious service is just crass.

If we must wade into the debate about whether kids should have access to it, my answer would be a resounding no. I know of ten year old girls with smartphones. I try to tell people that those things are portals to hell, and they look at me like I have two heads.

The web has morphed into a raging monster, and 'mobile devices' are the devil incarnate.

We should step back from the abyss, or at least refrain from looking into it, lest we discover that we are but monsters ourselves, and the abyss is only a mirror.
Then I don't do business with them.

Seriously, auto dealers STILL try to do this and it pissed me off to no end the last time I had to buy a car.

Except one company. I sent in what I wanted on email. They sent back the quotes on 3 cars in stock. The quotes were all reasonable and slightly below the average. I went in and bought the car.

Since then, seven other people in my social circle bought from the same auto dealer the same way. Sure, individual salesmen aren't making commissions, but that dealer is up probably up $25K in profit for roughly 15 hours mostly spent signing paperwork (it takes 2 hours just signing and signing for all the paperwork even if you walk in with financing).

Attempting to "size me up" is almost always a good way to "piss me off".
Why Boris Johnson Won the Election
It felt odd writing it. You are right, but when people do suddenly come into money (the initial cash signing bonus), they will sometimes do irrational things. Being able to step back from this emotional reaction will allow that money go much further.
Url changed from https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/12/se..., which points to this.
> How often do you hear a man described as warm, sensitive or anxious vs women?

Quite often.

Individuals do not conform to population averages.
I wonder what a text editor made by HN would be like, everyone is already thinking up strategies :)
We did. Ever since the days of the Athlon 64 / XP. The P4/rambus abomination still leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
How would more surveillance help you find and apprehend people internationally?
> it becomes such an emotionally-charged subject for both sides.

Yeah but it's not like one side is claiming it's 100% nature and the other is claiming it's 100% nurture. One side is claiming it's 100% nurture and the other side is claiming it's some mix. The side claiming it's 100% nurture is 100% wrong. But somehow it is verboten to state this publicly or you are shamed.
It is good to not minimize the problems. But this article goes to the opposite extreme, and maximizes them.

We're in a death spiral and Europe isn't? Is that why they've been rioting on the streets of Paris for months? They're better off than we are? Is that why Greece is doing so well?

In saying this, I do not want to minimize the problems we have. They are serious, and they look like they're gaining on us. But Europe, taken as a whole, is not this shining example of how to make it work, either.
Even the Tardis was silent?
"Does it compile" is indeed a low bar to clear, but you can also get fairly quick data on "how fast is it?" by benchmarking, and sometimes even "how well does it work?" (ML, compilers, etc).
That's a subtle subject change from the article itself to the inflammatory ideological climate, which guarantees a repetitive flamewar. Please don't do that on HN. We want curious conversation here.

Going on generic ideological tangents guarantee reruns of same-old, increasingly nasty, arguments, which is why the site guidelines ask users not to do that:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
There are good arguments that the situation is worse for men. The Contrapoints video on incels goes over it well.

I could easily say it's like comparing having a hard time losing weight because you have so much free food available to being homeless and starving.
You may well know this but John le Carre's father was a big time con man. The somewhat autobiographical novel "A Perfect Spy" goes into his experiences and is an excellent read.
> There is plenty of documentation on data collected (see first posts regarding Human Web on the tech blog), how anonymization works, why record-linkability on data collected is prevented (and forbidden), etc. Furthermore, source code can be inspected, as well as traffic in the case documentation is not enough.

Question is, is it opt-in data collection or do you make the choice for me? If it's opt-in, great. Otherwise, I don't want to read your "plenty of documentation" and so on and so forth.
There's only one driver with the HN username guptaneil in the whole world. I could drive like a maniac and I would barely create a measurable blip in traffic fatalities.

Where do I sign up to be exempted from traffic fines, since my driving doesn't have any impact anyway?
Raytracer was the thing that sprang to mind for me.

Currently the only two I have left to do on the list are the Basic compiler and the spreadsheet. I plan to do the compiler quite soon, once the emulator IDE is nice enough. If I decide to do a Basic without line numbers I'll probably be doing another text editor as well.

Not sure if I could bring myself to write a spreadsheet. I feel queasy just looking at them.
The dialogues in the article included people sending dick pics to a person they thought was an 11-year-old child. I’m sure that the lack of a ‘real’ victim is a problem in some countries, but this kind of offending is regularly prosecuted in Australia.
> It doesn't vary based on how wealthy the speeder is...Pigovian taxes should be constant.

Speeding is not a market activity and a speeding ticket is not a tax. Speeding is either a misdemeanour or crime, that means it is simply prohibited. Period.

The state of affairs you refer to, where the speeding ticket is considered just a cost of doing said activity is exactly what we want to avoid, and income-based speeding tickets are one mechanism that does this.

The purpose of a speeding ticket is to (a) punish and (b) deter. Both essentially don't work on rich people if they are too low, as you amply demonstrated, because they will consider this just a tax or similar minor nuisance. On the other hand, the fine that would actually deter a rich person from speeding might bankrupt a less wealthy individual and would therefore be disproportionately heavy.
There are just certain things you aren’t allowed to think about, if you’re a good little progressive.
I still think that chess skills are highly domain specific, but it clearly shows he has more than one skill that he dominates.
For those who want a real challenge I'd recommend trying to write a code that could read/write PDF files without using any purpose built libraries.
I thought the whole idea of RocksDB was to be embedded in your application. When would you want to use it as a remote service? Does it deal well with concurrent clients?
It could be something in their process that's rare but just happens sometimes. Heck, maybe it gets damaged in shipping. If it's uncommon enough and they do replacements maybe they just write it off.
I'm right there with you. At about 915, after stand up and coffee I have this spike of energy that gets me into work and makes me think 'tonight I'm going to put aside two hours for x'. Where x is side project, exercise, date night, whatever.

By 7:30pm that energy is a vague memory. Often the best I can manage is not falling asleep while I put them to bed.

People talk about crowding out the bad with the good: don't make time for things, just do them and let the world mold around what you love. In this stage of life though, the consequence of don't this can be massively damaging.

Kids this age are relentless, if you push hard for yourself it can be very hard to recover. But in line with other comments, I can feel the change coming. At 2 and 4, the sleep is better and their needs on us are becoming less.

I can see the light at the end of the tunnel and this helps me recognise that right now just isn't the time to push hard.
Thanks for sharing your story. It really makes me angry to hear about the countless obstacles the formerly incarcerated face when it comes to reintegrating into society. As you put it, the debt to society has been paid. Someone who makes a mistake when they're young and stupid -- I know I made my share -- shouldn't be prevented from ever being able to have a good, normal life.
I don't think the electoral college is an effective way to give everyone a voice because it creates a situation where some votes count more than others and it allows a minority of the population to hold the country hostage.

I believe that something like proportionate representation is a better solution. It would still allow minority populations (e.g. rural areas) to band together and get representatives elected that reflect their priorities. However, since the system is no longer winner takes all it promotes finding solutions via negotiation.
You'd be very unpopular using it on a train or in a coffee shop!
It's great - maybe make desktop and mobile versions?
Is there even such a thing as a Fantasy Chess league?
It's impressive.

I suppose you could say there are some skills from chess that are very transferable to something like managing a fantasy sports team; the ability to predict or prepare for certain outcomes and the ability to manage and minimize risk being two that come to mind.

It also helps that Carlsen is a football fan and has domain knowledge there that assist him in employing these skills.
How do you modify the to e required between attempts?
> Except depreciation and other costs are pretty heavily a function of miles rather than time.

this isn't really true of most mainstream cars. as long as people perceive the 2020 civic as an improvement over the 2019 model, a 2019 civic with zero miles will be worth less (you can verify this by visiting any dealership that still has the outgoing model in inventory). this is even more true of high-end cars until you get into stuff that's truly rare.