skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand who you are saying thinks that people doing what they want to do if they can do it when they remember/are prompted isn't common sense. I have only read the page that is posted here about Fogg's behavioral model, but I don't see how it is useful. Obviously you need ability and motivation and a prompt to do something. Do you also need a bunch of Foggy jargon to do what you _really_ want to do?

Can you explain what you mean or maybe specific examples where you "noticed its absence"? Maybe then I'd get it.
It's increasingly difficult to have "business" with the big tech. I lived many years anxious with my Google AdSense account. Recently it a was a Facebook Ads account banned without any clear reason, and a 5yr old Pinterest account too.
When the algorithm decides, you are terminated. It just don't matter if you follow all the "TOS" rules.
Why do you think your vote doesnt matter?
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Even the value set of greed should nudge them in that direction—though perhaps not short-term greed.
Impact based leveling is deeply flawed: it privileges those who are assigned to work on the best products with the most legible success metrics. That’s how you get the kernel hackers who keep the lights on perpetually at entry level, and the people who were told to scaffold CRUD apps in the right place at the right time treated like rockstars. (I am the latter by the way).
Just for friendly argument’s sake, allow me to disagree a little bit, and explain why. It’s a shame if we can’t allow people to learn and share mathematical intuition in small pieces. I like that the author saw the boundary behavior and thought about it, questioned why it actually works. The intuitive argument presented does take one step in the direction of detailed balance, it just doesn’t cover the continuous case. (And I’m not sure - does detailed balance actually apply to the boundary? The process doesn’t run in reverse for areas where your probability field goes to zero, right?)

I don’t necessarily think that an article on math should cover everything that is known about a subject. It’s okay to write for an audience that doesn’t know anything about autocorrelation and multi-chain methods. The need to elaborate so thoroughly on every possible prerequisite and/or application, and cover every corner case you might have is one of the reasons so many people dislike reading math on Wikipedia ... it’s unapproachable unless you already know everything about it. It’s becoming a reference only for experts not very usable for learning by a student.

Anyway, what’s the true danger of a simple or incomplete understanding? It’s not that likely to lead to people putting the wrong thing into nuclear reactors; isn’t it more likely to lead to someone getting the wrong answer in a weekend project software and then spending Sunday learning a little more about MCMC methods?
> As a member of academia where our (low) salaries are published in a government website,

> I find it rather strange to know that in private companies the salaries are not public.

Why does this come off as “people still watch TV. I haven’t owned a TV in 20 years”? Are you really saying that you didn’t know that the private sector doesn’t publish salaries on a website?

> How do people put up with this bullshit?

The same could be said about why academics put up with the “bullshit” of “low” salaries.

Why is it so strange that people would make different trade offs than you do?
It still works in iOS.
Agreed, the industry isn't actually allowing engineers to engineer. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22391047
I am pretty sure principles of medicine and engineering changed a lot over years. Even Hippocratic oath does not have all that much in common with ethical expectations in medicine. Most of what is in not is not expected anymore and most of current medical ethos is not in it.

No doctor is expected to share money with his teachers nor is expected to teach sons of his teachers. Abortion is allowed and lately euthanasia too. Current doctors can perform operations and are not required to treat all sick people.
FAANG won't stop, as they put people through hell on purpose. They want them to dread interviewing and switching jobs, so they can have them for themselves for longer and pay them less.
https://github.com/facebookarchive - 11 Pages of unsupported open source software.

Beringei, a TSDB, (https://github.com/facebookarchive/beringei) in particular with what you are saying was a PR piece (https://engineering.fb.com/core-data/beringei-a-high-perform...) since it was never really used by anyone outside of FB.

I really don't see the negative part of free code that you can learn from and/or incorporate at all.
In an ideal world you're right. In reality, unless you are in a swing state and very active in politics 3rd party vote means nothing, I would vote just for the sake of it but there needs to be a moderate 3rd party to start with.

I have noticed a division of two means us vs them. A division of more than two is us vs us (we need to work together not apart since no one can have a super majority)
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Real rates are probably more nuanced with many under 50 at very low risk and those above 60 at higher risk. A serious case can present as a viral pneumonia, if there is a break down in health care system and those who need oxygen on a temporary basis cannot get it or if they develop a secondary bacterial infection and antibiotics are not available then mortality will go higher among those cases.

I think this year will be remembered by many as "the year my grandfather died of pneumonia."
An unusually good thread, considering how worn the topic is, and how indignant people tend to get about it. (Indignation makes for boring threads once the coals cool down.)

The top comment is brilliant and sums up the brokenness in the best way I've ever seen.
Thanks, and good point about the generalization.
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I was also curious. I found a relevant reddit discussion:

https://www.reddit.com/r/lgg6/comments/7yxk0a/whatsapp_insan...
Oof, boy is that true in software requirements as well. Good point.
On the other hand, I work with some developers in their late 40's and 50's who are just as sharp as those far younger, not afraid to use new technologies (if they are a suitable solution to a given problem) and be awesome mentors.

Assuming that anyone over the age of 45 is "deadwood" is actively harmful.
This is silly. Suggesting a change to the way democratic representatives are selected is not tantamount to wishing for civil war.

I remind you that “democratic system” is not the same thing as “voting system.”
What do you think the purpose of the quoted sentence was? To shift some of the blame to the victims? Something else? (I really don't know)
They did end with a disclosure. The Twitter rule being violated is against mass copy-pasting tweets.
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I'm not sure this is particularly novel or even desirable. Games have streamed from optical drives to ram for decades. Page files are quite old. Consoles and Blizzard games, and others have partial install/background download support in the wild.

Paging files over an internet connection works. It sucks on mobile because you just might not have internet access for an extended period of time but it works well on home devices.
I don't think internally promoted SED III+ are any cheaper than externally hired ones. If they were they'd soon go else where anyways.
Perhaps in some cases it approaches the linguists' approach, but the Requirement Elicitation I have actually witnessed looks more like a group of stakeholders in a room, writing on a whiteboard or something similar. Better is to make an MTP (minimum testable product), and put it in front of the user and have them tell you all the ways it's wrong.
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Yes, windows on exercising are also part of the value, but you are fundamentally misinterpreting the concept of investing real money and optionality.

Your misunderstanding leads you to believe that somehow an option is worth a lot less than a 1x participating stock, and it's not.

Again you side-stepped the comparable:

As an employee, even with a '90 day exercise window' which would, you chose for compensation (or what would most people chose?)

1) the ability to invest $1M for a bunch of preferred shares; or

2) a bunch of ISO's at a low exercise price?

Everyone will take the ISOs due to their riskless nature, now why would they take option 2 if it's so 'inferior'?

A 1x participating preferred is a perfectly rational type of financial instrument for VCs, and some type of ISO is actually well aligned for staff. Though things might evolve here and there, there is zero chance that the 1x preferred aspect is going away.
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I think developing defense mechanisms against Slaughterbot attacks is a good idea, because certainly they will happen sooner or later. If the best defense mechanism is killing the ones launching the attacks, we will see several significant consequences:

1. Power will only be exercised by the anonymous and the reckless; government transparency will become a thing of the past. If killing the judge who ruled against you, or the school-board member who voted against teaching Creationism, or the wife you're convinced is cheating on you, is as easy and anonymous as buying porn on Amazon, then no president, no general, no preacher, no judge, and no police officer will dare to show their face. The only people who exercise power non-anonymously would be those whose impulsiveness overcomes their better judgment.

2. To defend against anonymity, defense efforts will necessarily expand to kill not only those who are certain to be the ones launching the attacks, but those who have a reasonable chance of being the ones launching the attacks. Just as the Khmer Rouge killed everyone who wore glasses or knew how to read, we can expect that anyone with the requisite skills whose loyalty to the victors is in question will be killed. Expect North-Korea-style graded loyalty systems in which having a cousin believed to have doubted the regime will sentence you to death.

3. Dead-Hand-type systems cannot be defended against by killing their owners, only by misleading their owners as to your identity. So they become the dominant game strategy. This means that it isn't sufficient to kill people once they are launching attacks; you must kill them before they have a chance to deploy their forces.

4. Battlefields will no longer have borders; war anywhere will mean war everywhere. Combined with Dead Hand systems, the necessity for preemptive strikes, and the enormous capital efficiency of precision munitions, this will result in a holocaust far more rapid and complete than nuclear weapons could ever have threatened.

While this sounds like an awesome plot for a science-fiction novel, I'd rather live in a very different future.

So, I hope that we can develop better defense mechanisms than just drone-striking drone pilots, drone sysadmins, and drone programmers. For example, pervasive surveillance (which also eliminates what we know as "human rights", but doesn't end up with everyone inevitably dead within a few days); undetectable subterranean fortresses; living off-planet in small, high-trust tribes; and immune-system-style area defense with nets, walls, tiny anti-aircraft guns, and so on. With defense mechanisms such as these, the Drone Age should be more survivable than the Nuclear Age.

But, if we can't develop better defense mechanisms than killing attackers, we should delay the advent of the drone holocaust as long as we can, enabling us to enjoy what remains of our lives before it ends them.
There are significant differences:

- With the Lambda ISA, your remaining balance is forgiven after 2 years of payments, while the federal income-driven repayment plans require 20-25 years of payments.

- Lambda ISA has a fixed dollar "cap" (currently $30k), but the "cap" for income-driven repayment plans is however much you borrowed + interest that accrues over the life of the loan.

- Most importantly, the Lambda ISA is for a much smaller amount of money. Very few of the news articles about student debt profile students with a balance of only $30k. The horror stories tend to be students who borrowed >$100k, often for graduate study.
I respect your opinion but I highly dislike the "not voting for the lesser evil" logic. Every candidate no matter what is a "lesser evil" because no candidate can be perfect.
I think the reality right now is people go to the "camp" where they fit more comfortably. Older engineers with kids that want to work their 9-5, get work done and go home gravitate towards companies that are friendly to it.
Unbait, unBS yourself:

After five guesses it could spot Pins about 43% of the time [...] these results were produced when Pins and patterns were picked from a 50-strong set of numbers and shapes.

(2015)
Hi Dan. I see that my account has been penalized again. What should I do about that?
Please don't take threads in this nasty direction. It leads to predictable and tedious discussion. We all know the situation is broken, but the quality needed to discuss it interestingly is curiosity, not bile.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and posting more in the intended spirit of the site, we'd be grateful. Note this one: "Assume good faith." That's not because people do always act in good faith (of course that's not so), it's because the assumption of bad faith leads to crappy HN threads and the assumption of good faith leads to better ones.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22393019.
Ultimately accountability.

There's a reason we have hard standards for being a PE or an MD. If you just let anyone do it you risk many problems.

Most software simply isn't like this. The valley loves talking about disruption and all and how world changing everything they do is, but the fact of the matter is social media isn't killing anyone like a failed bridge would or a person who isn't qualified as a doctor. Most of the money made in the valley is off of advertising or data. Who cares if the product is shitty? people don't die. rich people make a little less money.
Stack Overflow is leaking user emails (unsafe use of MD5 hashes)
Speaking of which:

https://www.opsian.com/blog/jvms-allocateprefetch-options/
Does it work with a launchpad? Or is there any other options that do? Ableton and virtualdj are literally the only pieces of software I keep windows for.

Edit: sidenote is there any software works with a mixtrax3
A great idea, but I think the problem is convincing politicians to appoint independent commissioners that may remove their electoral advantage. Perhaps a necessary step is to come up with a rule that can objectively determine how gerrymandered a given set of boundaries are, and then convince enough people in both parties to agree to the same limit:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrymandering#Efficiency_gap_...
It explains why she would take the dubious bootcamp route.
>Designers can’t even agree on their own responsibilities and what to call themselves, with job titles and responsibilities I’ve seen at many companies having 0 correlation to the next.

I agree 100%. I've been in the UX field for about 6 years, and if there's one thing I've noticed, it's intense fragmentation when it comes to that actual job title. What's the difference between them? I couldn't tell you as at each job my responsibilities were basically the same.

Also, one of the biggest issues that I have with UX bootcamps is that there's a lot of emphasis placed on making the portfolio look visually appealing, but when you get into it there's not always a lot of substance. Same goes for a lot of work on Dribbble that's tagged as "UX" or "UX/UI".
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What about high performers that don't want to move up? I've known a few really good engineers that just don't want a lot of stress and don't care that much about the extra pay. They just want to do their work well at the level they are at and get paid.

I'm considered "senior" but the work in the last half of my career has certainly been more intense than the first half. Sometimes I think it'd be nice to go "back" a few steps to a job that I'm certainly very comfortable doing without too much effort and get paid decently well.
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Show HN: WeKeep – A spreadsheets-first accounting software
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Hey all,

Nadim here, I'm the founder of WeKeep.

In my previous startup I found that Xero and Quickbooks are not suited for our needs; that they are more geared toward small businesses that need to issue invoices to customers and for typically low volume transactions. You can use their APIs and build an integration, but I found that most startups are not willing to put their engineers' precious hours into this at the early stage – so they end up tracking their financials in a spreadsheet.

So I built an accounting software with a spreadsheets-first approach. WeKeep is a double-entry accounting software with in-browser spreadsheets (for the most part) to serve some common use cases, but also has all the advanced features an accountant needs for when you're ready to hand over.

A typical use case of early stage startups that we've used WeKeep with:
They don't send out invoices (no accounts receivable), so instead we created simplified invoices - these are invoices paid in cash (typically through a payment gateway or a POS). So they can export data from their backend and paste into the simplified invoice sheet. Same for expenses – typically no accounts payable, just expenses paid for through a company card or a founder's personal card.

Right now the product isn't tailored for any geography, so you'll probably find several features lacking (e.g. Stripe integration, bank feeds). I'll surely get these going at some point if I see traction.

Would love to know whether this is something you would find useful, and if there are any hard requirements for your geography I would love to hear them too.
Democracy is crippled when megatech decides who gets to speak and when, whatever you may think of Bloomberg in particular.
Hi Austen, thanks for replying to this. But could you explain how attempting to change curriculum mid-flight would lead to:

* being graded by a student 2 months ahead

* being taught by someone hiding under a sheet

* being paired with a student who hadn't been participating in the curriculum

It seems like there was more going wrong for this student than just a curriculum change.
Free code is good, yes.

When you rely on the systems themselves, and do so with expectation of support from the originating company, your expectations will almost certainly be broken.

I think that's the simplest takeaway - not to run away from any open-sourced project, but to take into proper consideration if/how they plan on supporting the tool, and how much you would be capable of adapting and owning yourself if the worst happened.
Berkshire’s job is finding stable, undervalued companies and buying them with the funds from massive insurance company floats (ie leverage).

The government’s job is to protect people from the negative side effects of the aforementioned activity.

Clayton homes is one party doing its job properly (Berkshire), and the other dropping the ball (the US government).

We cannot just hope and pray companies will follow our vague and differing ideas about what is right. If we want them to act a certain way, we have to write laws to make that happen.
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When I interviewed at Google for a front end position they didn't ask me a single CSS question. It was all algorithms and easy JavaScript questions. It was just really weird, like at least ask me how to center something. They bothered to ask me how I'd deal with diversity issues if I was in HR, though. I probably didn't get the job because of my answers there...
He could spend his entire fortune and it wouldn't even make the smalle blip in our economy. While he's wealthy, $55 billion isn't really much money in the American economy with a GDP of over 21 trilion.

Quantitative easing has literally zero to do with what you're proposing, the amount of money infused was pretty small compared to the size of our economy (arguably way too little), and the rest of us would've been even more fucked had it not happened.

Correlating QE to billionaire spending and inflation is like correlating how much change you find in your couch to your maximum potential earnings. It doesn't make sense.

And don't get me wrong, I totally hate Bloomberg and I know he has literally zero business being president. I'm not shilling for him, he's a piece of crap, don't vote for him...

I just really fucking hate it when people say things that sound "right" or even "informed" about economics that aren't because the whole science gets shit on daily by people who have no business talking about it without stating "I know nothing" before posting. If you don't make posts on physics theories don't make them about economics; it's actually even more hurtful because getting through the misinformation is harder and more prone to error.
I have a different perspective: I’d say Lego is having a hard time keeping its core principle (building stuff) while going along with the times.

In particular Lego has a “Technic” and “Boost” series that in particular allows remote control, with motors, actuators and these recent years bluetooth hubs.

The first saliant point: Lego doesn’t sell the “Control +” bluetooth hub alone, and it’s been a while now that the piece has been in sets.

You’re SOL if you break/lose the one from the set, there is no legit way to get one if you want to use it on other creations in parallel, even if it’s arguably the central piece of a lot of constructions. It’s not listed with the other bricks in the order site, and it’s not handled by sites like bricklink.

Then Bricklink: taken over by Lego, they got rid of most custom parts and anything that was extending what you could do with lego bricks ahead of what Lego publishes.

Last, their whole latest Control + app has customizations for their specific sets. For the Top Gear one for instance there’s specific mini games and efen the motor control is slightly tweaked to have a “racing” effect. This goes pretty far astray from having generic playing tools.

In general their efforts in the Power Functions/Boost/Mindstorm/NXT/Control + area seem overly proprietary, limited and way too expensive for what we get. So much that at this point third party hubs are better than Lego’s in almost every respect especially ability to use vanilla Scratch), but get limited by Lego stalling the whole ecosystem. Why is there even 4 different systems doing the same thing, it’s insane.

I guess the people staying on more classic sets feel it less heavily, but for me Lego is really lost in how they want to move forward, now that kids playing with gears and programmed parts has become realistic and commercially viable.