skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed, singular instances of instances of calm, reasoned, cooperation can in fact be identified. Studying such instances and seeing if they have unique characteristics that could be incorporated into a model or practice that is reliable and scalable seems like a fine idea, anyone who undertook that task would have my full support.

However, I am interested in the opposite: scenarios where human beings cannot cooperate (reliably, consistently, and at scale), and more fundamentally: where it seems not possible to achieve this cooperation (even though it is in both party's best interests), why is it not possible? Is there an underlying cause, and if so, what is it?

I happen to subscribe to the theory that the problem is innate (in some manner), neurological/psychological in nature, and I think there is plenty of evidence to support this type of theory. As a thought experiment, imagine it like this....let's assume that there are certain things that the human mind simply can not do (the reasons are irrelevant for now), certain ideas that the human mind simply will not compute - full stop.

Now, imagine if one of these ideas was a pre-requisite for achieving reliable, consistent, at-scale cooperation (perhaps not in all instances, as your example demonstrates, but sometimes/often, which seems to be the case). Also imagine that there is another one of these "neurological cannot do's", and this one just so happens to be a pre-requisite for the cognitive processing required for identifying the first one. But because CannotDo #2 cannot execute, CannotDo #1 cannot be discovered.

If this was the case, you would then have yourself a situation where a fundamentally important problem can be identified, that all/most parties support fixing, there appear to be no impassible blocking barriers to fixing it, and yet it cannot ever be achieved. You are stuck in an unsolvable problem, blocked by something that you cannot see.

So now that you have this theory, is it possible to find some real world examples of unusual/illogical human behavior that plausibly matches this theory (which would represent a sanity check, not a proof)?
Broadly, there are two challenges: building a company without crossing the line into unauthorized employment and getting authorization to work for a company you founded/own. Beyond not getting paid, the line mentioned above is a grey and nuanced one; the very general rule of thumb is that its time to get work authorization when the side project is no longer a side project. The work authorization options are the H-4 EAD, as you note, which almost certainly will remain untouched if there's a change in administration, a concurrent part-time H-1B, which would allow you to continue working for your current H-1B employer, the O-1, a high standard but ownership and control are not really issues, and the H-1B, with ownership and control stumbling blocks.
You didn't actually consider the fact that I might have an axe to grind towards everyone who makes the workplace political, and toxic by alienating people with minority view points?

Would you consider it possible I'm a liberal myself? And that my liberalismi is exactly the reason it's difficult for me to accept this sort of behavior?
Great Barrington Declaration
I'm sure there will be an EU mandated change that results in an extremely shitty user experience.
Then you are free to continue believing that black lives don't matter, as is everyone else who shares those views.

Given enough time, your being incorrect on the topic will only harm yourself, not others.
GP posted an example of a decision tree, which is — very broadly speaking — a type of ML algorithm.
One comment on using git, isn't there a pull:push bottle neck that means it can't service any workload that has any write rate greater than (say) one write every 30 seconds. Write is subject to interpretation of course given commit != push (and i am unashamedly suggesting that a DB is better)
Who is the Matt Levine of other fields (e.g. law, medicine, etc.)?

I believe there was a thread on twitter about this, but can't find it anymore.
It's up to you (and the query optimizer can reorder), but you have to make sure the column is available when you use it. Broken up:

I had:

a = employee(name == "Jones") a has name, salary and age

w = a[comp = salary / (age - 18)] w has comp

You want:

b = employee[name, comp = salary / (age - 18)] b has name and comp

w = b(name == "Jones" && comp > 500) w has name and comp

In one line:

w = employee[name, comp = salary / (age - 18)](name == "Jones" && comp > 500)
Seen out front of a hotel in Santa Fe recently: "2020 has been longer than a CVS receipt"
And yet even then, console games such as MMOs are not required to actively mislead the consumer about their account management options.
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The problem with the Loop macro isn’t the English, it’s that it doesn’t look anything like the rest of the language. It’s like finding some embedded Python in your Java; even if you’re fine with using Python, it’s going to be pretty hard to work with when you’re in Java mode.

Also, macros are much harder to debug, especially when the macro expansion code itself crashes. The loop macro does a lot of work, which makes it a particularly annoying macro to fix when things go wrong.
Higher score is better. 4/4 is best.

Compare vs. China https://freedomhouse.org/country/china/freedom-world/2020
Even if you don't use Latex, all the equation editors in e.g. word etc use more or less the same latex symbol names Julia does (I remember typing things in by name in MS-Word 2007 long before I started latex). Even if they don't use more latex than that.

And if the people don't use enough symbols in their papers to memorise the type-able names, they probably don't want to use them in their code in the first place.
This was originally posted here with the title:

> Very clever story telling using HTML and Javascript
https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/07/social-justice-and-wor...
sweet, it has "the valley"[1], the first roguelike i ever played. someone remade it for dos, but it didn't have quite the nostalgic feel of the original (the monochrome graphics actually help with the atmosphere).

[1] http://bbcmicro.co.uk//game.php?id=2250
> "We've sold more in the last three days than in the last five years," said Mr McLean, adding they are also now listed under "sexy onions" on the company website.

Perhaps surprisingly savvy for a grocer, but good on him!
Ok, makes sense, thank you - personally, I agree with the current approach (that basically says "hey, careful, there might be complications) :)

Yeah, in general I'm ok as well about using in some cases one or two direct "~"/unstable-packages, but historically I always got "burned" when using more than 3-4, therefore nowadays, being older and hopefully a little bit more wise, I'm super-extra-cautious :)
> If a big company buys another one in order to close it down

Apple's business model right there.
More amusing is that for this AI "yen lecun" get a Turing award.
Robinhood is playing a game it learned from banks.

If I walk into a bank with a gun and demand money, everyone agrees I am robbing the bank. But if I walk into your bank and claim to be you, suddenly I am not robbing the bank. I am committing "identity theft," and the bank will take no responsibility and do as little as legally possible to help resolve the situation.

It is a neat trick.

Pass all the expense of being a victim of a crime down to your customers.
What are you using to learn Gregg Shorthand?
> Companies aren't democracies.

I think that's too strong a statement in support of the current default, which is the largely feudal corporation.

First, company structures are pretty clearly being pushed in a more democratic direction, and have been for quite a while. Silicon Valley is the poster child for flatter organizational structures, "good ideas can come from anywhere", increased freedom of movement for workers between companies, as well as sharing the financial gains more broadly (at least, that is the ideal that SV represents to the outside world).

You look at a typical SV corporation and see a rigid hierarchy. Most of the rest of the world sees an insanely freewheeling mess that can't possibly work.

There are also today already companies that are explicitly structured as democracies (in some cases a bit more like constitutional monarchies, and in other cases more like minarchist collectives). Not all of these experiments are successful, nor should we expect them to be.

But I certainly don't expect this overall trend to reverse, stop, or even slow down. If anything, I expect it to accelerate, as existing companies continue to try to pick out and graft on the parts and tools that seem to be working for other organizations. Even when these grafting attempts are unsuccessful (which is often), they just draw attention to the orgs that are succeeding (inspiring attempts at analysis of what is different), which leads to more such experiments.
Then you run into the problem of "What is authoritative?" By limiting it to just two, Twitter can say, "We like these guys. They're reputable." Instead of having to line up and vet thousands of other sources, and task people with monitoring all those thousands of authoritative sources around the world.
What? No. Alternative stores will want to be installed by default, and then we're off to the bloatware races.
SWE's don't have a union, so of course they're getting relatively hosed, too.

Though the disparity is somewhat justified in that the efficiency of software (neither in its running nor production) haw kept up with Moore's Law. In any case, owners and executives are funneling up the excess value created. It's there, you're just not getting it.
The median American with a 401k has $22,217 in it.
The phantom reference and the propagation of error
About 10-15 on an average. My 7 year old says "too many dad" :)
For those participating in accelerators and incubators in the U.S., the B-1 visa is the default option but this visa doesn't allow the founder to be compensated, only reimbursed for his or her reasonable business and living expenses.
How much did it pay for that privilege?
>the only thing it gets truly right is the creation of water life before land life

50% of probability of having it right just by chance
Unlike SMR fission and fusion startups, direct air capture is being used in practice, and has captured CO2. They will be able to start iterating right now. The technology is far more real, understood, and far more developed than SME fission, much less fusion.

I would say that direct air capture of CO2 is about 2x as likely to be economically efficient and a significant part of the economy than SMR fission. And fusion is only at pie-in-the-sky stage, the level of materials development that would need to happen is practically unimaginable. We have no idea that it would ever be cheaper than fission, for example.
There's an app called Stoico that has Epictetus's Enchiridion, Discourses, as well as Marcus's Meditations and Seneca's letters. Basically all of the Stoics' writings that have survived to our age. Highly recommended.
> But closer to an election, they can be gamed and weaponized for harm

But there's elections all the time. There's many different elections in the US alone, any many many more throughout the world.

And elections are just one thing, what about influence over opinions for bills/law/reforms? Wars? Public opinion about basically any subject, from economics to gender/race/class tensions?

If you accept that social media is weaponised for this election, it seems naive to not accept it is being weaponised absolutely all the time
Human and pigs have a common creator according to the Islamic view. Even via observation, we can see that humans and pigs are similar in that they both need to eat, breathe, sleep, excrete. Both have eyes, lungs, hearts, brains... Is there a loss of dignity or some sort of implied conflation because of shared properties?

What's your intention behind this question?
I am sincerely of the opposite opinion. Code that I write on a whiteboard or in a paper or in a textbook is much easier to read than ASCII code.

The over bar example you give is a bad notation independently whether it is code or not. But Unicode indices and superscripts are amazingly useful. And .dot and .kron are simply terrible notation compared to the standard Unicode operators for the same operations.
> "people are allowed to insult straight white males, but insulting other groups is off limits"

No-one in the thread has said this.
I had an interviewer do that once, and it was clearly just to show that he knew more obscure technical info that I did, even though it was at a much lower level than was required for the job. The other interviewer even sighed and rolled their eyes at him, so I'm guessing it isn't the first time he'd done it.
No list of YC failures is complete without mentioning Loopt.
As long as she excepts that other women might have different feelings about the matter, she is completely entitled to her own. I just find it weird that when women prefer a career over raising children it is considered normal and when they prefer raising children it is viewed with suspicion (they must have been forced). Can't both preferences be equally valid and normal?
> we'd see the consumer price index dropping. That's not what's happened.

Not for all goods & services. The consumer price index has been falling for most goods & services with the notable exception of healthcare, housing, education, and (to a lesser degree) food.

https://howmuch.net/articles/price-changes-in-usa-in-past-20...

The only way to prove that “market forces do not reduce prices” is if all goods & services are provisioned through purely market forces, and the CPI still increases. But not all goods & services are provisioned through purely market forces.

The price of food in particular is largely dictated by the price of low wage labor, and minimum wage laws bring that up, despite productivity improvements elsewhere in the supply chain. In other words, the consumer price index for food could drop if the cost of labor wasn't constrained.

> Most of the structures of UBI I've seen seem like a massive redistribution scheme to the wealthy.

Only true for landlords, but that's because the supply of housing is artificially constrained by zoning regulations. If we fix that, then this becomes less true.
One product idea (that I'm freely giving away here because it's a little too evil for me) is to use neural style transfer to seamlessly and automatically inject corporate-themed jingles seamlessly into the middle of popular music tracks.

Say someone's listening to WAP on the free version of Spotify, Their ad tracking indicates that they've had recent searches for life insurance. The algorithm would then inject a Cardi B sounding rap lyric about how bomb Northwest Mutual's whole life product line is.
Alternate brand name 'Not Bewbs' :-) But I agree, it is a good talent to be able to jump on to a moment of virality and capture the value.
I am now seriously concerned that nautil.us is running a HN upvote ring. If this comment is against the rules I will remove it. There are repeated issues with articles from nautilus on HN:

- they are posted by people who submit a lot of nautilus articles

- the authors of these articles are often freelance writers (as is the case here) whose job is to write income generating content

- nautilus articles are often low quality with little insight, like the article here

- nautilus articles seem to frontpage on a regular cadence around weekends

- nautilus articles have relatively lower engagement in the comments than other articles
Thanks for this comment.

Question-- how exactly does one check that gpu-acceleration is on in FF? I'm running nightly on a NUC with Intel Iris GPU and it seems to be faster than LTS from Debian Bullseye, but I'd like to be sure...
I’ve done a similar thing with APIs that return JSON. I write a small script which strictly queries the API and dumps the raw JSON into Postgres. Any structured data can be derived from the raw results (optionally with triggers) but what’s key is you will never reject a response from the API - anything goes. A nice of extension of this is having a distinct process using listen/notify on a derived table to drive notifications. I used this design to notify me of apartment listings changing and it was quite reliable.
I would guess that just the shiny skin tone curves are enough.

Or maybe this is just a a weird niche that Facebook is correctly blocking. /s
Apple Starts Shipping Devices from Stores to Speed Up Deliveries
By my very limited calculations, you would be paying effictively about 33% tax, because of baseline deductions, and beeing in the lowest tax bracket. remember you still have free healthcare, education, paid vacation, paid maternity leave etc.
And almost all of them in LA, even with a bias from it being digital so that's how you get it if you want it outside of LA.

Compared to Levine, who has me, in the UK, as a subscriber.

He has a way bigger potential audience than the LA Times.
I definitely come up with solutions to hard problems while spacing out in the shower and while sleeping, I've even woke up from a dream about a solution to a problem I was working on during the day and have dreamed new features and business idea. So I definitely think your brain is working out problems coming up with ideas even when you're not conscious of it.
The concept definitely lives on in places like Jesuit educational institutions, one of which I attended for 6 years in the Netherlands [1]. These are not religious schools, they are schools started by people from a religious group which had the odd effect of several of my teachers being priests teaching mathematics, classical and modern languages, physics, etc. The only religious aspect of the school was that the school year was opened and closed in church with the French teacher leading the sermon, the Latin teacher playing the organ, etc.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignatius_Gymnasium
(1) Yes and I'll forward it shortly. (2) Yes. (3) Possibly but these petitions will be scrutinized even more closely. (4) I'm not sure what you mean.
But then why would anyone do a hard or dangerous job?

(That's not to suggest that software engineering is hard or dangerous.)
Many people will stop watering their lawns during a drought. But they usually start up again after it passes.
Reversing the technical interview (2017)
I used to try posting my generative artwork to my public facebook page.

My work was heavy on perlin noise, so basically a lot of curved blobs. This would lead to a lot of automatic flagging for being NSFW.
>Twitter plays a critical role...facilitating meaningful political debate"

Has Twitter actually read Twitter?
It's unfortunate how few people on the inside don't see it this way. The slippery slope is real and we shouldn't start sliding down it just to beat Trump.
That's a great tip, thanks. Looks like you can use that option with 'git show' too:

git show --color-words
Im from Denmark, none of the money is derived from oil.
It's just a very nice coding font.
Tons of OpenType features like alternatives etc.
But it's doesn't go to excess with ligatures.
It has huge unicode coverage.
The letter shapes are nice.
It's just good.
> sack

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If the only thing stopping one party from ripping up ballots for their opponents is that someone might be able to tweet about this happening, then the election has already lost its integrity.

It's also worth thinking about which is more likely to happen: Twitter suppressing a true claim about election integrity being violated, or Twitter suppressing a false claim. Bear in mind that anyone can make a false claim.
(1) The wait times now are closer to 12-18 months in most offices. (2) Yes but you would need to reside there for at least 90 days before applying and remain there until naturalized.
Residents of remote Scottish peninsula face up to its future as spaceport
magit users can enable this in all diffs by setting the variable `magit-diff-refine-hunk'.
Github and npm are both graveyards filled with dead JS libraries. They make it too easy to litter the universe with sub-par orphaned software. And somehow, it's up to each individual to filter it all out. You have critical software such as React sitting next to mountains of bad nonsense code. And they are all on equal footing.

People love to trash Perl on HN. But among many other things that Perl devs understood, they deeply understood issues that come up with dependencies. Most CPAN modules are namespaced, have unit tests, and unit tests run when modules are installed. Not only that, the people behind CPAN understood that it is a community effort and you, as a library author, have certain responsibilities to your community.

https://pause.perl.org/pause/query?ACTION=pause_04about

None of that exists in npm. We have scopes in npm, and that's about it. CPAN makes npm look like a child's toy.
Most startups fail. I don’t think most founders have the acumen to really know the full story of their own failure.
Everybody offers free trading nowadays.
$2M ARR is such a small part of the story though. You really have to look at things like cost of acquisition, churn, gross profit, along with understanding the market itself. Certain markets can be easy to create quick ARR either through enormous CAC spends and/or large amounts of churn, all of which means poor long term growth potential.
That graph is not very well laid out; in order to see the effect it purports to show, you'd want to scale the SWE salary to all salaries to compare them; otherwise, you're just looking at "SWE is paid more than most occupations" → "SWE is still paid more than most occupations". Both clearly experienced growth, but did SWE experience more growth, or did it grow proportionally?

The SWE line in that graph grows by ~74%, and all other occupations by ~57%. So, the title seems probably correct, plus or minus the accuracy of my eyeball in reading those. But that's not how to present that…

(And also, the sin of not putting the Y axis min at 0, to exaggerate the effect.)

As a SWE myself, looking at the potential cost of housing if I ever decide to start a family, I'd mostly say SWE's wage growth hasn't kept pace. All other occupations are just getting hosed even harder. (My opinion here is that it's somewhat housing cost/supply: too little supply is driving the cost up, and wage increases are likely to just push that further. What is needed there is increases in the supply, moreso than wages, for housing specifically. For wages, I do think the minimum wage is too low, and has not kept pace. See also this graph: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/12/03/precariou... )
Comparing the Yamato expansion across Honshu to the European expansion across the Western and Southern Hemispheres is a difference of degree so great as to breach into a difference of quality. I'm sure the Ainu weren't particularly happy about their circumstances, but I figure that China, Korea, the Philippines, and much of Polynesia would beg to differ with the notion that Western influence did not substantially change the expanionist sentiments of "Nippon damashii".
Wait... I replied to the wrong comment by accident and can't delete now. Ignore please.