skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
MBTI is pure quackery. The only personality model shown to have any statistical legs whatsoever is the Big Five model and even that I have reservations about because it relies so heavily on subjective descriptors rather than measured quantities.
I ran into this pretty heavily recently when trying to talk through problems with users (who weren't also SWEs). My goal was always to approach the problem bottom up by breaking down into significant detail where the problem originated from and the steps to arrive at a satisfactory solution. Their concern was top down and they could care less about any of the details other then 'ok its "fixed" now' - even when these details were necessary for them to contribute to the problem at all.

Long story short I sighed deeply (in private), took a deep breath, and tried to turn off any emotional connection to the problem while I did all the work necessary to make it a non-problem.
Where do they mention that she didn't report an increase in income?
Indeed true that I'm extremely low risk for flu complications, though I live with someone at high risk, and should get flu shots now.

It's not that I don't care about externalities, but that I'm going to weigh them against direct concerns. It's true driving an SUV might have a small percentage impact on the environment. It's also true that it slightly increases my chances of killing someone else in an accident. But if it significantly decreases the chance the person killed in said accident is my wife/kid, I'm going to prioritize that over the "dangers" SUVs provide to others.
I object.

Engineers are the most creative. Every valid patent is evidence of that. When I'm judging creativity, the marketing gunk on the side of a Kashi cereal box ranks far lower than the design of the exhaust valve cooling in the Ford Mustang. Thomas Edison was more creative than Banksy. The people who created Vantablack were more creative than Anish Kapoor and other users. There was more creativity in the Antikythera mechanism than in the Mona Lisa.
I imagine most of those companies can afford to have some overages built into their caps. They should also be able to afford the developer time to create fallback behavior, and graceful degradation of services.
There's more to it than that - there's the plea bargain system, which is largely considered to be unethical elsewhere, that increases the _conviction_ rate.
I learned a new word, though. "Antepenultimate." And penultimate was already one of my favorite words.
This is easily solved if we had the will to solve it via Ultimate Beneficial Ownership registries. There's no good reason to allow anonymous ownership of companies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beneficial_ownership
The best way to implement that is with a local income tax credit, at least for cities with an income tax.

That is, double the property tax but offer half of it as a rebate to, and only to, people paying the local income tax (i.e. residents)—-including owner-residents and renters on a pro rata basis.
You can also use `set -xv` to get nice debugging logs

https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/The-Set-B...
What exactly is overpriced about Uber? The drivers aren't making that much and despite Uber's cut they still aren't profitable
How I Generate $1.2M/Year Working 5 Hours per Week with Audio Online Courses
That makes me happy to be an European
Worth bearing in mind that the birth ratio is generally tilted towards boys, about 52.5%
Depends - if your profits increase in line with your expenses, you might be raking in the ad revenue/views/sales/whatever because your product 'went viral' and you might prefer to keep it up.

Or if the rise in costs is something you can mitigate on your end - such as a bad deployment - you might want time to respond yourself, rather than your site going offline.

More generally, few site reliability engineers are looking to add extra ways for the site to be taken offline.

Of course, if you're large enough to be in those situations, your round-the-clock operations staff will be monitoring the billing situation as carefully as they monitor page load times and error rates and database load so an unexpected bill will be very unlikely.
Won’t they just correlate the name and address on your different credit cards?
Right, the problem is higher education is required. Reform secondary education so higher education is not required, and only fund public institutions that give people additional skills to help 'live on.' As long as public money is subsidizing 4 years of 'drama camp' or whatever it those kids do, we should be investing in people that want to do actual work for a living.
In Australia, indigenous land acknowledgements are commonplace, and I cannot think of a single instance where they have caused any inconvenience.

I see absolutely no reason why the addition of a sentence to the header of the syllabus would be onerous.
Sure, but typically a business will have specific resources they’d be willing to shut down rather than the entire billing account.
Shameless shill:
We've been building a set of tools to make software development more visual, kind of like this. There are some examples on our site here, https://refinery.io

More specifically, you still write code and you visually connect pieces of code together. Think "pipelines of transformations" in a functional programming way. Then you click "deploy" and have it all running on AWS Lambda with rich logging and other goodies.

A lot my inspiration comes from being a former game dev who has used Scratch and UE4's Blueprint engine. I've personally found that it's difficult to get the abstraction right in a way that keeps complexity in check (as others in this thread have commented). That's why you still write code in Refinery -- you're just visually chaining microservice calls.

Would love to hear feedback + thoughts, if anybody is interested in sharing. free at refinery.io is a good email for me. :)
> Medical is a special market due to emotional heartstrings. At a certain point, people will pay anything when death or health is involved.

This is a common misconception of what healthcare services are. People pay more for unsafer cars every day or decide to travel by plane that carries life&death risks for the pleasures of tourism. Life is a currency we pay with anything, from eating garbage to smoking and drinking and fundamentally, taking risks.
Charging for support, even if it's contingent as you described, would definitely be more of a drag on brand than having no support.
Ocean plastics have a finite lifespan. A significant percentage is unusually stable and lasts more than 20 years, but quite a bit is breaking down every day.

Assuming they could scale this to 20,000 trips per year for 6 billion dollars every year, they might reduce the rate of new plastics by 10%. However, this does not scale as it depended on a specific unusual situation.
I'd be glad to pay now that I've enjoyed reading it… but I'd almost certainly not have read it if I had had to pay first.

I like the approach taken (among others) by Matthew Butterick for Practical Typography [1]: I've enjoyed reading his book the same way and gladly paid for it /after/, as he asks, even though I would not have bought it at first.

[1] https://practicaltypography.com/
I realize that it has similar footguns, however reading through their info pages, I was surprised by how many they just decided to fix, unless you explicitly turn on compatibility mode.
It's slightly annoying that when I create a new game (for the browser) or think of ideas for games I inspect things through the lens of cheat-enabling. It happens to the point that I dismiss ideas based on the fact that there is no viable way for me to stop cheating when it leverages it. The funny thing is that I did most of what I could (source-like networking) and basically no one plays my games so the risk of cheaters spoiling it for everyone is super slim. I wonder if it ever makes sense to think in those categories or am I just paranoid.
It seems like having a bankruptcy on your credit report for the next seven years would be disincentive enough, especially now when everyone from the phone company, to your landlord, to your employer may look at your report.
> I can tell you that nothing we have ever done at Fog Creek has increased our revenue more than releasing a new version with more features. Nothing. The flow to our bottom line from new versions with new features is absolutely undeniable. It's like gravity. When we tried Google ads, when we implemented various affiliate schemes, or when an article about FogBugz appears in the press, we could barely see the effect on the bottom line

For early-stage startups that are not well-known, press can definitely have a bigger impact than more features. For me, coverage in The Atlantic led to an interview on NPR, which led to tons new customers and a long-term benefit of being able to say we’d been covered by these two outlets. It helped with customer acquisition and award competitions, and would undoubtedly help with fundraising as well.

1: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/05/a-bett...

2: http://thetakeaway.org/story/eureka-moment-makes-reading-eas...
>> Robust anonymity can't be created via technical means.

That defeatist attitude is what they want us to believe. Those doing the surveillance want to do it easily. If thinking that resistance is futile means you don't bother doing anything, then you are an easier item to monetize.

The reality is that we live in an age of amazing privacy tools. I can talk to someone on the other side of the planet totally anonymously. That wasn't possible until just over a decade ago (Tor). I can encrypt my data in a way that all the computers of the world working for billions of years could not decrypt (strong encryption). People used to put their lives on the line, risk being killed, to move such communications across boarders. And these tools are open source, under regular and public examination internationally. Adblockers and lower-level in-browser privacy tricks are also commonplace. So too companies dedicated to online privacy (VPN providers). They used to be illegal. Privacy-focused Linux distros abound. There might be more people looking at us, but this is a golden age for privacy if you care enough to actually try.

Those IR-emitting glasses really do work against 99% of cameras (the ones without mechanical irises). They are a powerful tool. What you will quickly learn is which places are really being watched, rather than simply recorded. You won't get 20 feet into a casino with them.
It's possible to write bug-free code, but would you bet your financial future on your ability to write bug-free code?
> I work in a golang shop where engineers were stupefyingly trying to port Java Design patterns over to the language (...) It's only when I referenced quotations by Rob Pike (creator of golang) on how Rob Pike designed Golang to get away from OOP did people start to actually listen to me

I mentioned this "Python is not Java" [1] blog-post in my first interview for a job as a Python programmer 15 years ago (I got the job), interesting that some things seem to never change.

[1] https://dirtsimple.org/2004/12/python-is-not-java.html
> Problem is that states usually have constitutional safeguards that keep a safe balance of power between citizen and state.

Seems to me constitutions being widespread is actually quite recent. Also, in many places 'constitutional safeguards' alone don't hold and often haven't held much value.

The only actual safeguard is power.

In companies' case
- the law (as long as it is actually enforced by the state)
- customers' choice on wether or not to buy the company's product
- employees' ability to organize, strike or quit and find another job
- shareholders votes and ability to invest / divest

For states?
- If they have fair and meaningful elections, votes. - Otherwise, well... One way or another, it usually doesn't end well.
Yes, but the people writing and running the bots still care about those incentives. So it makes sense that they should own the copyright to the articles they generate with their bot.
> Zsh had arrays from the start, and its author opted for a saner language design at the expense of backward compatibility. In zsh (under the default expansion rules) $var does not perfom word splitting; if you want to store a list of words in a variable, you are meant to use an array; and if you really want word splitting, you can write $=var.

https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/26672
This is not good advice at all. Reducing rounds to increase performance is going to significantly weaken the cipher if obfuscation is the key. And new attack vectors, especially with the advent of cheap cloud storage (rainbow tables), advances in GPU performance, and quantum computing are all necessary factors to consider. I wouldn't use Blake3 for anything after reading the above.
For one thing, the "NIMBY" problem gets much worse when a multi-billion dollar company has a substantial portion of its worth tied to the value of the homes that it owns. The last thing we need is an incentive for huge firms to benefit from limiting housing supply.
If you turn the framerate all the way down to 1 FPS that would probably result in a smaller file, but not be as compatible with different player software/hardware. After all, a video is a very fast slide show...
Work is important but labor is not, so to speak.
Seems entirely possible for the local government to hold the LLC accountable for following local rules without having to know who's behind the LLC

The meta-conversation going on within these threads is more to the point of folks suggesting hard-to-implement laws about who can own what, and how much of a thing they can own, and what sort of penalties exist to control the way that the population of owners can develop.

All that secondary stuff seems too chaotic to control... better to just -

a> allow for the LLC to do what it was designed for: protect the owner from liability beyond the cost of the house

and, b> let the municipality fine the LLC according to whatever rules exist about whether it's morally reprehensible to remove a renter for failing to pay a fine
Tried python-sh?
This is just a rehash of the same issue we have had for millenia: people trained in certain ways of doing things will try doing everything that way.

Engineers, doctors and accountants are often pilloried for their lack of people skills, yet we never complain about a counsellor’s inability to build a bridge.
A ml app could scale massively in an hour.
>A competent developer will show you a blank page and explain that you need to enable Java Script

I completely disagree with this, if I'm understanding you correctly. As someone who disables Javascript, I don't want you to purposely break a page that previously worked (in the sense of being able to read the content of the article) simply because a portion of it which I might not even use doesn't work.

The fully competent solution would be to use progressive enhancement[1] (i.e., use functioning anchor elements initially, and use Javascript to add the Javascript-only functionality on top of the HTML solution).

If you don't have time for that, the somewhat-competent solution for alerting non-technical users that Javascript is disabled would be to add a banner at the top of the page (like Stack Exchange does) stating that some features will be broken without Javascript.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_enhancement
> Like, wouldn’t I prefer that money to go towards the actual funding of the company’s projects?

The problem is that this would make the company too responsive to the needs of investors rather than its markets.

The corporations power is delegated via its shares but its value is derived from the markets it serves. It’s in the interest of shareholders (who passively invest in it) for the corporation to judge projects based on what the markets think are valuable. Neither the corporation nor the shareholders know exactly what that may be, but the corporation spends more time and effort trying to get a good answer than the shareholders do. So the shareholders leave everything beyond the most drastic decisions (sell, close the company etc) to the corporation.
Until you take into account the alleged role of female orgasm in upright walking species.
And if we started treating behavior like this as equivalent to the search for bug bounties, we could iteratively patch the law until it is no longer cost-effective to search for them.
Easy to pay high salaries when it's OPM on the line and you (the business owner) have already cashed out FU money and have significantly abstracted the hiring process away from yourself by letting your middle managers pretend they are Google.

The way that this ends is either I'm wrong and everything's cool, or WeWork and you're all fired, thanks for your hard work.
Most people would act no differently most of the time but it's the exceptions that matter.
I can count on ten fingers the number of times in twenty years I've worked with another bash coder who did the su and ssh cases correctly without triggering escaping bugs. It's not any insult on them, but it's almost always done incorrectly and happens to work due to the absence of whitespace and backslashes, leading to eventual bugs (that Shellcheck won't always catch). Given:

# ARGV=( "one two", "three four" )

It's probably safe to recommend "$@" for use with su only whenyou use -c correctly, as you're locally specifying the args without any further IFS interference. But $* isn't usable:

# CORRECT
su root -c 'rm "$@"' -- "$@"
rm "one two" "three four"

# incorrect
su root -c "rm \"$@\""
rm one two three four # wrong arguments

# incorrect
su root -c "rm" "$@"
rm # -c doesn't use arguments

# incorrect
su root -c 'rm "$@"' "$@"
rm "three four" # loses the first argument (?!)

# incorrect:
su root "rm" "$*"
rm one two three four # wrong arguments

# incorrect:
su root "rm $*"
"rm one two three four" # command not found

It's probably safe to recommend "$@" for use with ssh only when using printf %q to ensure that you escape your arguments for their transit through ssh to the remote host, as otherwise the arguments get corrupted by the extra layer of shell processing. $* isn't usable here either:

# CORRECT
ssh remote -- 'rm '"$(printf '%q ' "$@")"
rm "one two" "three four"

# incorrect
ssh remote 'rm '$(printf '%q ' "$*")
rm "one two three four" # wrong arguments

# incorrect
ssh remote rm "$@"
rm one two three four # wrong arguments

# incorrect
ssh remote "rm \"$@\""
rm "one two three four" # wrong arguments

# incorrect
ssh remote 'rm "$@"' "$@"
rm one two three four # wrong arguments

# incorrect:
ssh remote "rm" "$*"
rm one two three four # wrong arguments

# incorrect:
ssh remote "rm" "$*"
rm one two three four # wrong arguments

EDIT: Shellcheck misses 3 of the 4 broken su cases, but catches all of the broken ssh cases. (And produced a warning I disagreed with in one of the complete examples, but in the spirit of things, added double quotes to silence it.)
College loans rates (costs) would certainly spike if they were made dischargeable.

The bargain probably should have been "Cannot be discharged in bankruptcy, until 15 years have passed after loan origination."

Like Prop 13, the overall effects of undischargeable loans have been overwhelmingly negative -- decoupling college tuition inflation from income growth / general inflation, via government underwriting of loans, while removing market influence on guiding students to choose majors with a return on investment.
Exactly this.

reducing incentives toward central planning would remove downward pressure on decentralizing systems. I vote for more decentralized systems.
Wages for public sector workers are legally defined and, at least, in this case, have very little to do with any measure of utility. Our society is horrendous at measuring utility in almost all long term cases.
And then it breaks down in to smaller bits that the fish can eat and die.
If what you say is true and the bitter, violent trolls are only a small minority of the larger incel community, and if that community wants a peaceful, reasonable dialogue with the larger world, then that community is going to have to clarify its position as being distinctly different from the trolls and denounce them rather than encouraging them, glorifying them, or treating them like martyrs.
The 80,000 hours podcast probably had the largest intellectual impact on me of any media in 2019, not only in terms of actual content but pointers to other thinkers / ideas.

My favorite episode was probably: https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/glen-weyl-radically-...

The first time I listened I noped out after the first 20 minutes due to all the terminology being slung around and (seemingly) ungrounded anti-capitalist rhetoric. But I gave it another go after the episode with Vitalik Buterin and I'm very glad I did. Once they get going it's a fascinating introduction to collective action problems, public goods, and bleeding edge ideas of what we might do to solve them (pairs well with "Vitalik Buterin on The Portal" first as a gentler intro to the idea of public goods).

The charter cities institute episode was also great as an exploration of new ideas that might really move the needle on human suffering

https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/lutter-and-winter-ch...
We in the east are well aware that we benefit in some ways from the extremely risk averse regulators in the US and Europe and others. It's often explicitly acknowledged with labels like "treatment developed in the US" though it can also be hard to separate the real from the false claims of such.

On the other hand, not only does the east manufacture many of the pharmaceuticals sold in the west, it is a vast market which provides additional revenue with a convenient geographical separation which is difficult to arbitrage (Ibuprofen costs nothing in India compared to the US, but you don't see Indians flying to the US with suitcases of pills for sale).
Unlike software, legal bugs are often by design.
Aka preventing debt slavery.
Can you name any of the latest generation SSRI? Would taking them in this case make sense if there is no depression etc.

Not seeking medical advice just want some perspective
You're on Hacker News -- 99% of startups fail. Every person is just a one-man startup. He tried something, it didn't work out. If he was a company, nobody would bat an eye at bankruptcy.
Or just work a job you don't like for a few years. I have a few lawyer friends doing that now and have tons of options open to them now they they are debt free and have a massive income. A few made transitions to careers they liked after not liking work for a time.
Engineers lack creativity

What?

The etymology of the word literally means to “contrive or devise”

Engineers are creators, to say they lack creativity is nonsense.
I don't mean to be flippant, but I agree easy to make broad arguments about how society in general ought to work. Those arguments just don't have much to do with, and aren't particularly supported by, this game theorist's analysis of how inequality affected the game he experimented with.
No. It decreases the security of dissidents and many people living outside normal or legally approved modes.
>The current situation of 70k a year college is predatory, but a student accepting that cost should be smart enough to know what that means.

Many students who accept these loans are 17-18 years old. Expecting children to make solid financial decisions regarding hundreds of thousands of dollars is optimistic at best.