skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm 48, and have been a bit mid-life-crisis-y lately. One thing that's been bothering me is that the best times of my life are probably behind me. I don't mean the most productive, or the highest status, or whatever - I mean the most fun. I don't want to delight in the "consciousness of a life well spent and the memory of many deeds worthily performed". I want excitement, and adventure. My friends around me not reminiscing about the times we had, but HAVING THE TIMES right now. These things are getting more and more difficult to come by
I did not start yet, just a beginner, but (cellular, synthetic) biology. I also ordered the biohacking kit with real neurons.
And again with my Camry example, assuming 60 mph and 39 mpg, that's about 9 lb/hr fuel consumption.

The Cesna has a 140 mph cruise, a bit over double that of the Camry on highway, but that still means 20 lb at equivalent distance for the car, less than half the light plane.

Aircraft are fuel burners.

(Agreeing, just giving land-travel equivalent.)
Also, 4-inch woofers? That's pretty small to be attempting to produce any serious amount of bass.

(Source: I made myself a bass amp for my bass guitar when I was a teenager. It had a 12-inch woofer, and needed it. I don't think speakers have broken the laws of physics quite that well in the intervening years.)
You start by understanding hate speech isn't the issue. GPT-3 will happily barf out pages of hate speech for you, but that doesn't mean we're trying to ban/silence/cancel GPT-3, does it?
I imagine the same argument was made by coal barons who were forced to stop paying in company scrip.

And the industrialists who were forced to stop employing children in their factories.

And the owners who were forced to grant weekends and 8 hour workdays.

We have a long history of protecting workers from exploitation in this country. The weekend, prohibitions on child labor, OSHA standards, PPE, minimum wages, payment in US dollars, anti-discrimination laws, coverage for accidents on site, leaves for illness, etc. etc. etc.
For the same reason some people will buy a BMW and swap out the exhaust or add a turbo with their own two hands. Because it gives them the combination of customization, challenge, and capabilities they want.
What products are specifically designed to permit the circumvention of the law?
My iPhone is almost 4 years old. It is still very fast (never had to reset it) and still gets updates.

What's not to like?

My last Android (Nexus 5) stopped receiving updates just 2 years after I bought it, because of some ridiculous graphics driver bs.
Academic studies have repeatedly found that one of the single biggest determinants in success of just about any kind is luck. It is a very common misconception that hard work results in success, or that talent results in success, but that's looking at the successful from the wrong end.

It is rare to find someone very lazy or completely talentless among the most successful, so it must be hard work and talent, right? No, because it's easy to find very hard-working and talented people who are not successful. In fact, according to research[0], the most successful are usually not the most talented, but those of mediocre talent and a lot of luck.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.07068
VISA.
> There was an article posted recently to HN titled "Cheerleading, Monopolies and Sexual Predators"

Isn't that this post?
Having the time and energy to devote to it is not the same thing as whether it materially changes your life. Often those things are anticorrelated.
>want to immigrate to USA

Why? I don't know where you are coming from, but the world is a big place and there are lots of nice places to go. Granted, there are visa / immigration issues in plenty of countries apart from the US as well, but frankly for decades now the US has been on the decline in every measure of livability: health care, education, incomes, leisure time, commute time, etc, etc. About the only thing the US nominally leads in is a vague notion that you can make more money here than in other countries, but even that is subjective relative to the cost of living and quality of life.
> and in any case Computational neuroscience doesn’t have terribly high standards of rigor

I beg your pardon sir! The standards are relatively OK
> that is why I am so critic of those that use 25 inch screens to organize xterms and nothing else, I was doing that in 1994 with twm on IBM X terminals, something better is to be expected in 2020.

Seems weird to criticize people for working in a way they like to work. The "something better" might just be improved command line tools. I think there's room for both, and different people prefer different types of interfaces.
If the goal was a desperate work force then we succeeded decades ago.

By measuring sufficiency of pay against the population of drivers you're not measuring anything useful. Intellectually indolent comments like this are overtly harmful to the people desperate enough to work for nearly half their cities minimum wage.
Sorry, but you are the one missing the point. The person who mention 999,998 doors didn't give any reasoning for why that would be the logical extension of the problem.

Obviously, you and I know it is, but the person grappling with the Monty Hall problem is right in not being convinced of that just because someone says it is!
I don't know offhand of any high quality opinion surveys asking about approval of _demonstrations_ vs _BLM_ in general, so I don't know if your hypothesis is born out.

However, opinion polls _do_ show a _correlation_ between support for _BLM_ and coverage of demonstrations: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/support-for-black-lives....
This is thought out and useful criticism. Thank you for contributing.
Using pricing to mitigate abuse is only necessary if you're not doing anything else to mitigate it.

Imagine a collection of independent storage pools managed by various entities that control access, e.g. the IT guy of your family, your employer, some free software collective, some small business association. You join one (or more than one) based on a referral or personal relationship or whatever criteria they want to use. Then you have an account with a quota in excess of what any ordinary person is going to require but which doesn't allow Bob to dump 500TB of garbage into the pool without first negotiating with the administrators.

At which point the altruistic donations, i.e. the idle capacity of the devices of everyone in the pool, are enough to handle everybody's non-abusive workloads.
Had a very junior engineer who had just started report a compiler bug to our all-technical-staff mail list. He was testing the not-yet-released next version (of tcl), so it was possible but we had appropriate skepticism and someone on list asked for the smallest reproduction case.

Few hours later, he verified and produced on-list a reproduction case where a variable could not be incremented by 1 but could by 2 or any other number.

Turns out he’d been taught in typing class that l (lowercase L) could be used for 1 and carried that into computing.

WONT_FIX
I'm sure there will be many applicants, but they'll all be sociopaths. Whatever shreds of decency may have once existed at that company, they're making sure to eliminate.

I have normally been very against political talk at work, but this is not a normal moment. Choosing to pretend you can be neutral in this environment is something between incompetence, insanity, and evil.

If you choose to join Coinbase now, expect to be "mysteriously" rejected for a lot of jobs in the future.
Watch: British inventor sets world record for fastest trash can
DAI Personal Computer
XBox + related properties?
> If employees aren't motivated enough to organize and close the power gap

"If X aren't motivated enough..." usually ends up being a really horrible take for most values of X. I'm not so sure it's different for X=employees, specially when the type of interview we're talking about is more burdensome to older folks, folks with certain personality types or anxiety issues, arguably most women, etc. Why should the burden be theirs alone, while employers get a complete pass on setting up whatever arbitrary hurdles they want?
A great way is to encourage them to question the rules that they have to follow, including your own.

That's something they already do, and most enjoy doing. We just need to guide them to question the rules in a coherent manner.

Besides critical thinking and argumentation, by letting them question your own rule, the meta skill you're demonstrating here is intellectual humility, IMO the most prized quality of a great thinker.
Thanks! We've found that this scales fairly well. Tables generated from the activity stream are generally done in seconds or minutes at the worst case.

One reason for this is that most warehouses are column-oriented. This means our table, which is 11 columns wide but pretty deep, is really fast to query.

We had a customer on a 3 Node (tiny) DS large Redshift warehouse dealing with billions of rows. Their Looker queries literally took 8 hours. We moved them to the Narrator structure and they saw the same queries assembled using the activity stream down to minutes (<5 minutes)

Edit: I should also point out that all queries in Narrator are compiled to SQL that runs directly on the warehouse. We don't use any external data stores or anything like that.
It could also be related to excessive narcissism! A zeitgeist of the times ..
Taxes. Ideally progressive taxes. The tax burden of a wealthy person in Seattle is currently incredibly low. (Speaking as a wealthy person in Seattle who is shocked at how little I have to pay every year to support my local community.)
Actually investigate and prosecute reports rather than saying, "well, yeah, you shouldn't have been there."

Make it economically infeasible for companies like Varsity and their related organizations to ignore. And yes, you will get a lot of push back, using libertarian, freedom-related arguments.
Just say you want open borders and are opposed to the nation-state — it's more succinct and clarifies the stakes, to boot.

Cool story tho
But it wasn't banned in one example where the statistic was cited. Aside from the subreddit, the only difference was the additional context that "this is a test of censorship".

I will note, however, that your original comment has now been flagged and is invisible, cooling this whole discussion. While I object to the statistic and think that censorship of statements including that statistic may actually be productive in some cases, I think that this conversation has the potential to be productive, and I regret that the meta-conversation about censorship is not possible.
GP never said to ignore politics. You are the one that brought that up. They said to leave them out of the office. There is plenty of time for politics before and after work. Bringing your politics in to work just makes for an uncomfortable work environment for you co-workers.
Trade unions urge EU to investigate Amazon effort to spy on workers
A lot of harm has been done by humans “just doing their job.” The world needs people who are willing to stand against those who take no interest in weighing the morality of their work.

For example, AGI will be built either by accident or intentionally by sociopaths at Google, etc. All decisions at a certain scale are inevitably political, and choosing to ignore the politics in those contexts is in itself a political position.
80% of Uber/Lyft drivers have other jobs. The vast majority of drivers will be worse off with a floor on earnings that makes many earning periods no longer viable. Those are people who have decided to trade their free time for money and if there were better alternatives they wouldn't be driving for Lyft/Uber. Ignoring them because they drive less hours per week doesn't give us a reason why we should ignore their economic interests. If the goal of the law is to make sure that the 20% of full time drivers are better off, they're probably better off by making regulations around that specifically rather than sacrificing 80% of the drivers who have other jobs (that clearly aren't making ends meet on their own - because they're driving extra hours for ride share companies on top of their existing jobs).
It was obviously not the status quo, because they were banned from the country.

Companies should advocate for the rights of their employees. They should demand their employees treat each other with respect. Both of those stances will often conflict with some people's politics and there's no way around it.
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>Children want to please their parents, so they might work on things that they think you would like.

I think this is known as the Pygmalion effect. It is very powerful, and we as parents/teachers have to be very careful with this.

Knowing what each of us really wants is a difficult question to answer.

I often wonder how much of what my parents were and were not shaped what I have become.

My daughter actually just taught herself to ride this past weekend. Her biggest hurdle was getting over the fear of crashing. She started out balancing for a few days before she just magically started pedaling.
What's your point? We already know that high labour costs (as in a liveable wage even for so called simple jobs) doesn't necessarily cause high unemployment. Northern-European countries have proven it for ~70 years.
I have almost never heard anybody outside of the tech world express concern about this sort of data collection, and even most tech-savvy people I know explicitly reject the idea of caring about it.

Yes, admittedly this is anecdotal, but I am talking about an extended family/social circle of hundreds of people over the course of quite a few years. The odds of it being a massively unrepresentative sample are rather low.

Let's turn it around. How do you know that people are concerned about data collection?

All available evidence points to my assertion being correct. All sorts of "smart" devices, chock full of phone-home tracking, are flying off the shelves. There are alternatives, but they are quite niche.
neocities.org, an attempt to replace groceries, places no trackers or advertisements your website. And it’s free.
> think this is mostly because they don't realize which companies are large and which are small or even just hobby projects

Definitely - it is hard for many to grasp how productive a single engineer can be in putting together a project that looks quite polished and professional.

But also, some people are just mean.
Also, I had kept this in mind ever since I had heard about it: https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/06/09/6169288...

But it wasn’t until I started trying to examine paradigms, or heard Sandford’s approach to growing people, that I understood why it works for indigenous families, or how it can work in the modern world. Those toddlers want to contribute something meaningful and the indigeous parents let them, growing their capacity. When the scope of the contribution expands from helping the household to helping the community, helping the society, helping the world, such a kid becomes powerful agents of meaningful change.
Yes, but that doesn't help you if someone steals your MacBook when it's asleep.
> "This imbalance caused heart disease" is very different from "this imbalance caused me to die".

Well, the mechanism through which licorice might cause you to die is hypokalemia, which causes heart disease, which causes you to die. They only look dissimilar because you ignore this.

> There's taste-based regulation of salt. Do you want scientific references? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specific_appetite here's some links.

Taste is not the same thing as appetite.

> You just claimed the body doesn't do that with salt.

My mistake. I also explained why exactly I don't think I would be able to live on a licorice-based diet, an explanation which doesn't pertain to taste.

> I'm skeptical that there are inbuilt licorice systems. I think the burden of proof is on you there.

I don't care that you are skeptical of "inbuilt licorice systems", and there is no burden of proof there because no one has mentioned it until now.

> Going to a doctor is a good idea! But I thought your claim was that they would "feel" licorice was the problem, not that a doctor could tell them.

Yes, as you would feel a knee pain even if you didn't know you'd hurt it in your sleep.

> Right, but I'm saying that someone who wasn't sustaining themselves on licorice candy could still be getting the same amount of actual licorice.

Again, entirely speculative that this would cause an issue if you have an otherwise healthy diet.

> I mean that they won't know it's from the licorice. They will feel "something is wrong" not "I am having too much licorice for my own good".

They will feel that they've had too much licorice for their own good. I never intended to claim that they would magically know the cause. Maybe the sentence is ambiguous, but for you to assume the interpretation you have, you must think quite poorly of me.
the actual tweet (doesn't seem to be linked in the article) https://twitter.com/traf/status/1307707156788060160
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Seizes or sabotages .. it's all a matter of perspective
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I would have to submit that family's situation is rare. My dad did what he could to help me, bought me computers, subscriptions to Creative Computing magazine (I'm dating myself here, read early 80s) and letting me be me. My mother was not academic in any way. She was HS educated in the rural south and didn't contribute to my academics in any way. My father had a MSc in engineering and designed flight systems. He was always gone, sadly, so I had to sort out things myself.

With my own children, I read to them, have them read to me, and allow them to pursue their own interests, which as kids under 10, are admittedly not too many or technical, although they are wanting to learn Raspberry Pi stuff. I tend to walk them through their own questions, such as having them analyze potential outcomes. At the same time, I don't want to be a helicopter parent. They play outside, largely by themselves since we live in the county. I do keep on eye on them, but they tend to build things out of wood or look for frogs and lizards. We have agreed they want to build a small-scale replica of a fire lookout tower and they will help choose parts and assist in building. One of them already wants to be in Forestry and has for the last few years. I guess my answer is to allow myself to see our comings and goings as projects that we all enjoy and help them learn along the way.
It's not a commodity that can be bought or sold. It's hers, no matter how much (or how little) someone pays.

> Then it doesn't matter if somebody else takes it by force. It's nothing of value.

This is a rather chilling position to try and argue for.
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A serial port is all you need, if you have room for a wee GDB stub. Then you get the full power of GDB.

I do this routinely where the target has 256GB of RAM, and (not incidentally) specialized network hardware, but no dev infrastructure except gdb-server (which provides the stub) and sshd. I build in a docker image that matches the target, but with dev tools, with the output bin directory sshfs-mapped to a directory on the target. I run the binary on the target under gdb-server, opening a socket listener. Then I run gdb natively on my dev machine, and `target remote server:61231` to attach to that socket. If I didn't have easy access to listening ports on it, I could ssh-tunnel one in.

So, a serial port and small RAM doesn't have to mean you have no debugger.
You have to remember that French borrowings have a special place in English. The timeline of Middle English is roughly defined by the Norman conquest at the start, and the replacement of French as the literary standard at the end. So it's not uncommon for French words to be spelled and pronounced somewhat accurately. (Now their meaning being recognizable is obviously a completely different question...)
I could find no frequency response nor distortion measurements.

I don't get how this ad made it into the front page.
He did say “within”.

The Christian religion in Europe got its start mainly with slaves and poor people. I am not familiar with the details of early Christianity in Rome, but I suspect there are likely major Christian saints who were in fact slaves.

Bilal, a slave who was one of the vanguard of Muslims, also has a pretty exalted rank. There were other slaves, mainly in the mystic track of Islam, that are also highly regarded for their “virtue” and apparent perfect peace with God (“happy”?).

The Human experience is ultimately an internal, subjective affair between the human and (perceived) Reality (aka God).
But they are doing it. So things like flexibility must be important. If it was a small number of people we could expect that they might be making some kind of irrational decision. If it's thousands and thousands of people then it's likely an indication that it's the best possible option for people in that situation.
What do you think should be done about the wealthy responding to those measures by leaving the city, or the state?
But the indifference is on Varsities part, specifically; and it seems it was in a position to threaten anyone who knew about what it was hiding.

Who used the phrase "boys will be boys" in this situation?
So only the NSA should be able to do this and then also keep it a secret?
That's a fair point. But I'd imagine it's a multi-step process. Step 1: group products into families, like "milk" or "ketchup". Step 2: optimize shelf space with whatever rules you have applied to product families. Within a product family, pick the N best-selling products.

The loss leader in this scenario is the "milk" family, not a particular brand of milk.
this is undoubtedly true, but also undoubtedly easier said than done. we don't seem to be wired as a species to have difficult conversations without feeling emotions amd having those emotions affect our relationships.
How the NYSE is handling Palantir, Asana's direct listings
my only compiler bug was a doozy: pre-egcs gcc, on a strange MIPS chipset running an odd mix of at&t and bsd. the machine had been retired, and was being used (with blessing) as a host for a MUD.

it turns out that gcc was compiling with an opcode that was invalid on this particular architecture, causing the application to crash in weird ways. being pre-egcs, it was easy to track down and fix by changing the opcode to two instructions instead, fixing the problem.

it was then I understood why this very cool (to me) machine with a fast multi-cpu and high memory had been retired: it's hard to reliably run binaries that you compile that crash randomly, and I seemed to have been the only one to take the time to figure out why.