skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have come to intensely dislike most of PG's essays, for many reasons, but the two main ones are that

1/ he plays fast and loose with the facts, reduces the whole history of (the various peoples of) humanity to a single arrow, and confuses demonstration with affirmation

and, more importantly

2/ he has an unhealthy obsession with "classifying" people, by which he actually means ranking them, from top to bottom. The people on top are the ones that make the world move in the right direction, and the ones at the bottom are dragging us all down. (Of course, he always ends up in the best category himself.)

But innovation isn't good per se. If you invent novel ways of torturing people (or animals, cf. the whole meat industry), that's not progress.

If you come up with clever ways of escaping the law for your own benefit while everyone else suffers (the whole "gig economy"), that's not a net gain for society, and society is legitimate in fighting you.
“Conservative” here is being used to mean “marked by moderation or caution”, rather than the set of political positions called conservatism.

The poster is saying that global climate change is probably even worse than people think. Often, the reporting around climate change focuses on the best case, the average case, or what could be achieved with an immediate strong response. But the actual paths we are on seems to track some of the worse, more pessimistic cases.
This comment chain appears to answer you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23930812
Since it's my lunch break, I put together a PR: https://github.com/chowderman/Hacker95/pull/4

My CSS-fu is very basic, so it might need further tweaks to make button presses look right.
You sound like someone who has never experienced the second phase of where this culture inevitably leads to. I pray that it remains that way.

This is not a left/right issue. This is a mental homogeneity to the point of militant aggression towards dissenting views issue. And it always leads to totalitarianism.
I believe that our government and corporate culture is way too authoritarian and have been speaking out against it my whole life. That does not mean that we should depart from all sense of proportionality and reason. You do us no favour by exaggerating and mischaracterizing the situation.

The US government isn't kidnapping anyone off the street for damaging wall paint -- they're arresting people. If you can't see the difference and keep that simple fact straight, you hurt your own case and seem unreasonable and untrustworthy as a source.

If there have been unjust arrests, then say so and make it known. But don't pretend they are kidnappings -- it sounds ridiculous on the face of it and makes you sound childish.
In truly rural areas you can, but I think the areas being referenced are more semi-rural, with single track roads, and fenced off private land or dwellings on the sides. I’ve done that sort of walk a few times and it’s terrifying, especially when you know half the locals are going to be charging round at 60mph because they know the roads.
Imagine that $12 is to remove ads. That on its own would destroy most of the ad revenue because the people likely to put their hand in their pocket are exactly the ones advertisers want to target.
I'm skeptical. What evidence is there?
News is habit forming.
It's interesting that I can tell that three of these are obsequious, but Jobs' response of "please leave us alone" just begs for a no. Not just a no, but a followup investigation.

Honestly, all four come across as snobby and entitled. Oh, you don't want a meeting? You don't want to do your work? Tough shit, neither do the rest of us.
You are of course free to model the underlying causality as you see fit, but the fact remains that this is one of the most robust and well-understood findings in all of psychology (see e.g. the Rescorla-Wagner model). The effect does not depend on the type of reward and exists in practically all intelligent animals, including humans. As noted, video game compulsion loops and gambling machines are carefully tuned to take maximal advantage of this "variable reward ratio".

I like to model this in terms of multi-armed bandits. Given a set of levers giving out unknown rewards, what is the optimal policy to maximize your rewards over time? A bad way would be to try all the levers until one gives you a reward, and then just keep pulling that one lever in hopes of more. This doesn't work because the other levers might have given you even better rewards.

Instead, you should try to learn to predict how much reward each lever is going to give you. A fast way to do this is to focus on pulling levers that "surprise" you, i.e. where your predictions of reward deviate from the actual reward you got. This works as long as the reward from the environment is at least in principle predictable, as it mostly is in nature. But with truly random rewards, you tend to end up with addictive behaviour. In nature this isn't a big problem, because truly random rewards are generally one-off events. So we're basically exploiting a bug in our own reward mechanisms, and evolution hasn't had time to adapt.

Incidentally, all of this can be viewed as a mathematically and psychologically precise way of saying that the reason you get addicted to news is because you are curious.
It depends on the situation. I've had code that absolutely benefited from static types and it helped me find bugs before they happened.

But my current job has very, very little that would benefit from static typing. Adding it into the mix would slow us down, both literally and figuratively.
Middle-class white women also suffer the Karens. They might suffer less on a per-encounter basis but they have lots more encounters with Karens so it might even out.

If you haven't suffered the Karens, you might be a Karen...

When could society ever be characterized by an ethos of "let's tolerate people"? ISTM that now anyone might receive for criticism for objectionable behavior, not just poor black young men.
How confident are you that this is true? What kind of information would you have to see to feel alarm?
> Static vs Dynamic Typing

All research is inconclusive? Sure. I wonder what kind of type systems were in there? I guess Java and similars are accounted and yet I wouldn’t put any faith in them.
ML, Swift, Haskell... now that’s something else.
>I find it quite horrifying that elected officials are legally allowed to use totally unaccountable social media platforms to communicate policy to the public.

It also creates a number of issues. If twitter decides to ban me, doesn't that impact my right to contact my representatives via twitter (especially since a judge has already ruled that a government official blocking a person on twitter does violate their right). Seems that the government should only be allowed to use a platform for communication if that platform is treated as a public square that all can access regardless of past history, same as public squares of the past. This isn't putting a limit on Twitter, they are a private company and can do what they want. This is putting a limit on the government. Now, if Twitter helps the government establish such an account, then they would be a private company choosing to open itself up as a public square and, specifically with regards to the parts that are a public square, losing some of the rights of a private company (they can't ban you from the public square, but they can ban you from anywhere else as the rest of the site isn't part of the public square).
> As far as I can tell, "zoning" is just a bad idea.

Spend a week in Houston, TX and see if you still hold that opinion after. That is one of the least walkable cities in the US and doesn’t utilize zoning as far as I’m aware.
Unironically yes actually. The inputs are simplified and documentation wouldn't really help anyway given it is based on such a vast dataset it is less trying to drink from a firehose and more trying to drink the entire ocean at once.
Top Researchers in Computer Vision
This is one of PG's weaker essays. He attempts to glide between psychology, history, politics, and philosophy without proper evidence or background in those areas. His construct is somewhat interesting on the surface but is only supported by his own feelings and his own anecdata, he doesn't point to anything relevant or similar written by actual experts.
There are a range of projections among climate models, and as we learn more it seems that on average the consensus models have been too optimistic.

I.e., things are even worse than we thought.
> As for most attempts to classify people, it should be strongly stated that any single human would fits several quadrants depending on the subject

Its not related to such subjectivity as the subjectivity is itself a likely form of conformity.
Media Continues to Misreport US Unemployment Numbers
Thank you for saying more, chrisdalke! I actually tried to post the font’s website, but because it was already posted last year, hacker news wouldn’t allow me to submit the link again.
You are accurately identifying that he uses his identity to hide his class in order to increase his profits. This is what modern corporate diversity initiatives are in a nutshell.
Well you can’t get a concealed carry permit in Europe, and you cant compare two countries like this, where one has extreme gun control and the other doesn’t and then further go on to compare crime rates. This doesn’t even fit into the proper definition of experiment, where’s the control?
Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France is a great read. I wonder which quadrant Graham would put Burke in?
This really isn't a fair take on the situation.

(a) They implemented a very boring transaction/caching/replication layer that is like any other DB except they borrowed the idea that "longest chain" should be used for conflict resolution.

(b) They worked with upstream to get a few patches that were unique to their use-case. Once you're in deep with any DB this really isn't that uncommon.

(c) They used a dedicated (lol non-ephemeral) white-box server that has a lower amortized cost than EC2.

(d) Bedrock isn't bound to the hardware. You could run it on EC2 and reap the benefits just the same except you'd pay more.
Whatever it's using for conn_type, it's not accurate. I get "wifi" on all of my computers, wired or wireless.
> “Decade” isn’t a technical term

This whole article and thread is about building technical systems for dates.

In a technical context, 'decade' is a term with a specific standard meaning, which is that it starts on a year ending with a zero.

It's not nerd sniping to point that out in a thread already all about giving dates precise technical meanings!
> People are not being abducted off the street by the US government never to be seen again

Uh, you sure about that? The only part that's not provably false is the last five words, and how would you expect to know for sure on those?
I’m bemused to see reports about the police overreacting to peaceful protests, followed by a sentence or two acknowledging that fires were set at those same protests.
No my friend, it's also insulting via the "why you picked Karen (implicitly white woman) as a reference for an insult" route. You may use the insult on anyone else but the fact that you picked "white woman" as the reference means you believe that this is a defining enough trait to associate with them, you consider white women the embodiment of that negative trait and as representative of it.

It's the same reason calling someone a "fag" is meant as an insult for both that person (even if they are straight), and for homosexuals since you obviously consider this trait of theirs only suitable for an insult. It's an attack both on the people you address it to, and on the ones you based your insult on. Something an uneducated bigot would readily use but never realize why. They usually feel threatened by everything they don't understand or like (different gender, color, sexual or religious orientations) and "weaponize" that as a cover for their own ignorance. ;)
It may be the case that we just crave variety.

If I am scrolling hacker news, and someone opened a portal to the Australian outback, I’d probably put down HN (sorry, folks) and crawl through the portal to hang out for a bit.

I lived on a beach for years and in a big city for several, and in each place I craved the other.
My biggest issue with formal verification after doing it a couple of times was how absurdly complex the specification needed to be for it to work.

If the spec is 5x more complicated than the code would be then I'm not sure I see much of a point coz you're just creating different spaces for bugs to hide in.
> Additionally, FAANG and startup tech offices often serve as more than an office - they tend to have a lot of shared amenities that are just not practical to have at home. I don't use a 3D printer often enough to own one, but there is one in the office. Gym? Office, and it has more than a pull-up bar. Post office? Office. Inbound packages? Post office. In the office. Grocery shopping? Happens much less often if you eat out. In the office. Why would I want to eat out of my own fridge and pantry (and have to prepare the food myself) when I can grab tasty food prepared by people who actually know what they're doing?

I definitely get why people want these sort of perks, and I don't want to invalidate their appreciation of them.

In reality, it's unusual to find a company with all of those things at once. For starters, I bought gym equipment for my home because I hate the experience of most gyms. If I can get my workout from home, an office gym is just adding a middle-man. In my experience, not all companies are happy when you use their address for your various Amazon orders. Eating out all the time costs way more than eating at home. Besides, there's nothing stopping WFH'ers from eating out if they wanted.

Again, I'm not trying to diss the lifestyle of the kind of work environment you're describing. It's just not what I prefer.
SCMP: US Dollar Risk of a Sudden Collapse
Index has been a very rare example of an actually profitable online news site; it's been the oldest and most popular online media. It is worthy for the ruling party to simply destroy this value (similarly to what has happened to other big players) because they have enough public money for them anyway.

A while ago various oligarchs have bought almost all of the Hungarian media, and then donated (for free) them to a single 'non-profit' organization. Now the local newspapers looked like this before the last general election:

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2F...

(Title: 'Vote for Fidesz')
Two words: pony motor

They've been used since forever to heat and start large engines. Depending on size the pony motor might even produce enough heat when idling to keep the crew cabin warm while you service the main engine.

I still wouldn't want to share a box with an old soviet diesel though.
A problem with factual books is the format. Sometimes a concept only needs 50 pages to explain, support, and explore implications, yet grows to 300 pages to fill the format.
> can be accessed over USB

True, but some devices (like the Fenix 6 lineup) don't mount as USB mass storage.

For those, Android File Transfer [0] seems to work.

[0] https://www.android.com/filetransfer/
Seems no one has mentioned it yet but what bothers me about most of these stylesheet hacks is that they never get the font right. Granted I don't know what it would take to make the old font (MS Sans Serif?) browser-compatible, possible copyright issues aside(?)
No, our company's first H12 server batch with DDR4-3200 and second-generation EPYCs arrived last fall.
I recommend book "Stop reading the news" by Rolf Dobelli.

To put it short, daily news are bad for you. Especially and including your understanding of the world. (Yes, I am still addicted, but trying to work myself out.)
It’s too far in the game to still make this claim.

Go through this list and tell us there is no “real” speech suppression:

https://twitter.com/SoOppressed/status/1282404647160942598?s...
Jesus dude, I'm really not sure whose post you're responding to, because you didn't address anything I said in my post.

> The discussion at hand is about the effects of “Perseverance towards life goals” when somebody has depression, anxiety, or what have you. The article mentions it is useful, and I can no doubt agree with that. It can be meditative, having a mission and all (perhaps one that you do not 100% agree with). It is satisfying, and can keep life afloat.

> But this “fake mission” trick should be just that — a trick. A placeholder in life for when things get real tough. A patch on your wound that helps the wound heal. The patch isn’t healing the wound, your body is.

There's nothing "fake" about life goals, and it's not a trick. When I say I want to have close, honest relationships, or when I say I want a contributing role in my community, I really want those things. These aren't placeholders, patches, or bandages for anything. They're actually what I want, and it's arrogant of you to think you know what I want better than I know what I want.

> Stay on track with what the mind provides to you and be free about it (sometimes ignore it, hate it, listen to it, coddle it, be depressed, be anxious — to the mind emotions are generated and should be accepted without scores attached to them). Then the implicit goals will become explicit. But this hijacking of explicit goals without respecting implicit goals is pure whack.

This implicit versus explicit goals dichotomy is something you made up, and then started accusing people of choosing one over the other. Nobody is suggesting choosing explicit goals over implicit goals. In fact, nobody even was talking about these things before you invented them. This is just a straw man argument.

The entirety of your post could have been reduced to around five sentences--this would be a great increase in clarity with no loss in meaning. Throwing in random parentheticals and clauses might fool dumb people into thinking what you're saying is smart, but smart people are going to suspect that you're hiding a bogus argument under layers of words.
How is stoicism a SV thing? It's kinda been around for a while...
Well I can't prove a negative, but i'm reasonably sure given history and the lack of any evidence otherwise. Do you have a link for any evidence I should know about?
The Covid-19 pandemic is forcing a rethink in macroeconomics
> But innovation isn't good per se.

Innovation isn't anything in moral terms.

All technological change is a trade-off. For every advantage a new technology offers, there is always a corresponding disadvantage.

The advantages and disadvantages of new technologies are never distributed evenly among the population. This means that every new technology benefits some and harms others.
Any info that can be gleaned from the request is fair game.
C++ is still used extensively, even for completely new projects, in computer graphics, databases, etc. Relatively new projects I’ve seen it used: TileDB, tensorstore, core Apache Arrow, etc. CUDA programming is C++ at the bleeding edge. I’m in the process of updating my C++ to C++17 and there’s definitely been a lot of changes over time in the language. I would agree that for many, they’d go with python and let others accelerate that python with underlying C/C++ they wouldn’t have to see.
You want to read either Elements of Statistical Learning (2nd ed.) OR Kevin Murphy's ML book for the theory.

Then you will want to consult a text book in your work domain (e.g. introduction to speech & language OR statistical natural language processing for the domain of natural language processing).

And finally, you will want either a book, or free online Web resources/tutorial videos that show you how to do things in practice, given a particular programming language and tool-set (e.g. Python + TensorFlow, Java + DeepLearing4J).

This recipe of Theory + Application + Practice/Tools should get you there.
So who is deciding these limits on what is acceptable and what is not acceptable? Will they be published in a paper somewhere?
You get out of every program what you put in.

During my undergrad years, there were people who made it out without programming in any language besides Java, and barely did any tech hobbies or independent programming outside of class. There were others who were constantly learning other languages, playing with random tech, and building small opens source tools and webapps.

I've met people who went through community collect programs who didn't understand basic BigO notation or algorithm optimization (no fault to them; it's just not taught in a lot of two year courses) and I've know people with only high school degrees who've picked up advanced CS books and would learn about compile theory and different types of parsing on their own for fun.
Does Garmin offer an SLA on these services? I feel like if I paid that much annually for a service they better well give me an SLA.
Am I the only person who remembers Pennsylvania state police using the same “kidnapping” tactic in 2009 ( http://thecollegepolitico.com/2009/09/25/the-truth-about-the... ).

I’m not saying it’s a good tactic. I’m saying it’s not new.
Many people intentionally mischaracterize Peterson as intolerant. His position is generally extremely open-minded and comes from the position of a psychologist that has seen the failure modes of many different clients' lifestyles. When he tells moral tales that tilt toward a conservative lifestyle, they are told in the sense that straying from a conservative path is morally fine, but subjects you to personal risk of worse outcomes.
The HN algorithm automatically puts everything from paulgraham.com to #1 :-)
Exactly. Conformism in PG's world is praising "merit", "innovation" and inequality.
Clojure spec seems like the way to go. I really like that it defines what should be going in and out while leaving it really easy to merge incoming data without having to write a bunch of extra code.
It's true that pragmatism, as a philosophical orientation, is young; it's a 20th-century invention of the USA. Nonetheless it is only young because earlier philosophy gave so much special consideration to humans; as soon as we want to consider non-human agents, then pragmatism is far simpler than god-given ensoulment when it comes to figuring out why humans do what they do.

Also, by no measure should we simply pick up and embrace philosophy from 900-500 BCE without carefully examining it, and that includes all of the Abramic religions. We know how much of the old stories were not just mythic, but deliberately distorted in order to exaggerate the importance of various kingdoms in the Levant and justify military campaigns.

Finally, if we only concentrate on intent, then we eventually arrive at thoughtcrime. But thoughtcrime is undetectable; we cannot build a society out of forbidding thoughcrime, and we can't even build a morality beyond "don't think the bad thoughts". From this angle, pragmatism is a clear and obvious upgrade which removes psychological baggage.
Commonly used hormonal birth control does this already[1]. I assume if we routinely dosed men with sex hormones we’d see a change in male partner preferences as well. I’ve heard the claim that xenoestrogens already have, but I’m not sure if there is quality research on that.

[1] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091007124358.h...
I would have to see the left gaining real political or financial power. Right now I am far more concerned about right wing fascism since that is gaining popularity in multiple countries.
They promote what they asked for. Assigning it agency from its content would be fundamentally ignorant and/or disingenuous. It is the exact same thing as the Google testimonies where congress members were upset that negative content came up when they were searched for.