skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is the competition is much better than anticipated. Human irrationality is greatly overstated, because people conflate being bad at explaining why they are doing something with doing something irrational. Humans aren't anywhere near as irrational as portrayed. If they were, they'd be dead. Not just, like, dying today, but dead long ago, and you'd have never been born, because humans would just be dead. Reality does not permit high degrees of irrationality to survive very long. To listen to some people describe it, humans are beings who, when presented with a choice between a cookie now or two cookies in 15 minutes, choose to gouge their eyes out.

Rationality studies aren't going to rewire a fundamentally crazy, irrational person into a rational one that is suddenly the one-eyed man in the land of the blind. Rationality studies can only clean up some of the rough edges on a being that fundamentally behaves fairly rationally most of the time. There isn't anywhere near as much room for optimization as some people seem to think.

And part of the reason for this is, it is very difficult to overstate how bad humans are at explaining why they are doing something. Just, mind-blowingly bad. Study after study reinforces the endless parade of anecdotes from my own life. Everything agrees; people are terrible at this.

But, the thing is... doing the rational thing for the wrong reason, or without any reason at all, is still doing the rational thing. Jodie may gossip terribly about Ethel for all sorts of reasons our calm, collected putative "rationalists" declare to be "irrational", and Jodie herself may think she's doing it because Ethel is ugly and smells bad and just pissed her off yesterday, but nevertheless, the goal Jodie doesn't even consciously know she has is likely to be attained, and Jodie's access to better mates is likely to be successfully increased at Ethel's expense. (Not "guaranteed", but likely enough that, well, this strategy has been around since the dawn of recorded history and is still going strong for a reason, you know?)

A good chunk of the remaining belief about human irrationality will come from people who aren't clearly looking at the world, and will declare on one level or another that that's an irrational thing for Jodie to want... but... goals are much less amenable to "rationality" than means. That you personally think Jodie shouldn't want that, or shouldn't need to want that, or whatever, doesn't change the fact that Jodie is operating on that goal, and really quite rationally pursuing it.

That said, there is room for improvement. But I don't think it's the sort of improvement that leads to fame and visibility very often; it's life improvement. Nobody's famous for really having their life together, and making good decisions. But there are still plenty of people who are better at it and plenty who are worse, and even if there isn't as much room as some people may think to improve that, there's still plenty to make it worthwhile.
Caste Arrives in Silicon Valley
Sam Cornelius is from India, and works in the U.S. tech sector. Sometimes when he meets another Indian at his company, they ask him questions that seem innocent enough on the surface, like, "Where is your family from?" Or, "Are you vegetarian?" Sometimes they might even suggest going for a swim. But, Sam says, these questions can feel like a dangerous trap. Coming from a fellow Indian, they're often clever attempts to find out something very specific: his caste.
What a terrible news site, and not even a picture.

But anyway an important factor with that twinkie is that it has been able to dry out.
That was a pretty good Mensa burn, hadn't heard until today and I just got a good chuckle. It's the corollary to the same burn against teachers, but punching Up instead of Down.

For those who don't know the phrase: Those who can't do, teach.

And to go further, the derogatory phrase means if you can't make money doing something, you could still make money teaching other people to do it.
This is like, how the system works right now...
Data indicate the opposite, that is the wealthy who can afford to stay and the poor who cannot afford to live here: https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2020/01/not-the-gol...
No, they said they didn’t work. They lied to get people to stop buying them. Look one level up thread.
End of Jira Server support in 2024
Your interpretations of "hum", and "giggle" being different from "chuckle" (tee-hee vs heh heh), are the same as mine.

I tried using my mouth open and didn't get significantly different results, though.
Wim Hof is a Western bastardization of a very small subset of Pranayama, it's up there with people who think Yoga is all about stretching.

Learning from the original source is always better and will yield way more benefits including 'psychic' abilities if you're that way inclined http://www.yogebooks.com/english/atkinson/1903sciencebreath....
I get it when my right ear has way too much earwax. J lose some hearing and the ringing wont stop. Just a bit annoying so Im usually wearing headphones with nice soothing music until I can get that wax out.
I have not yet read this piece, but Ken has turned into a completely different person since ~2016 and I'm not sure he's quite an unbiased legal source at this point.

Edit: I read the piece and generally agree, but Ken has become increasingly partisan over the past few years to the point where I have had to stop following him.
But is it higher satiety because your body is absorbing more nutrients? In that case, it seems to be a wash. Chewing slowly just means you can get by with less volume of food.
I’ve been using piano marvel which does exactly that, and find it pretty great. The only issues with it are that it’s built on somewhat old tech and can be a bit buggy, but for actually learning pieces it is genuinely useful (I’m around grade 7) and also has method/technique pathways you can go through. I think there’s a free trial for it too.

(Not affiliated, just something I personally use)
Or we could disentangle government from regulator. The market needs rules and enforcement, maybe the government could pay a private regulator to some of that.
Last I checked, no radical solution is needed. Fracked natural gas is quickly eroding coal demand. Wind and solar have contributed, but not as much. Despite lighter regulations, coal isn't rebounding.[0]

> These are some of the strongest and most resilient people in the world. They can learn any job and they just want work.

You hit the nail on the head there. Most miners don't have any particular allegiance to coal. They just want a good job to support their families.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/05/us/politics/trump-coal-in...
I was a manager, so I had plenty of interaction with HR.

For the most part, they weren't actually bad people, but their job was to be fairly two-faced. I think it caused a lot of issues. HR had the highest turnover in the company.
Facebook and Twitter are absolutely not even close to being utilities. Utilities are essential services AND have monopoly power. Facebook and Twitter are neither essential services nor do they have monopoly power (there are a billion other websites you can post on, and the barrier to entry to creating your own website is close to zero).

Being big is not the same as being a monopoly. McDonald's is big, but they are not a monopoly because they have a lot of competitors. Regulating Facebook or Twitter as utilities would be as dumb as regulating Mcdonald's as if it were a utility.
The articles are interesting, but in both case it is not enough the 400°C that they used in this experiment.

I think that "cold fusion" is not theoretically impossible. For comparison, "high temperature superconductivity" is also weird, and in 1985 any result about it would have been received with a big dose od skepticism. The problem is that "cold fusion" has a very bad track record in the last years.
Teacher beheaded on the street because he had shown the caricatures of Muhammad
Use you pre-existing fortune to buy assets that will increase in value.
I suggest looking into Customer facing roles since you like to solve problems that you find interesting. Those roles are typically Customer Success/Support Engineer, Business Analysis/Requirements Gathering for customers, Project Management or even Product Management.
I always smell the milk and look at the texture being poured before drinking milk.

Amusing: once had milk that was well past the date, but not stinky, microwaved it (kid liked it warm for cereal - don't judge) and it curdled after being warmed. Tasted like fresh yoghurt. I didn't eat the whole thing.
Well what about this:

Malignant content is very hard to define. If I shared videos of mexican gang violence, people would end up calling Facebook headquarters and saying "get this off my feed.".

Even though the content getting visibility is a success of overcoming local Mexican censors who are silencing voices talking about the issue.

This happened. Mexican videos went viral, and when people in the UK woke up, they called their friends at FB and the material got removed.

Also - Wouldn't Any algo that starts filtering for malignancy, have to become a sort of MR. Rogers algo?

I guess, how would you define malignancy? By intent?
> I really like making things and while I always have really enjoy programming, I'd like to use it as more of a tool to solve problems that I find interesting, not really for developing large software

That sounds like a thread I would like to pull. What exactly do you enjoy building?
The problem is not that Section 230 clearly requires platforms to be neutral. The problem is that it doesn’t.

Section 230 isn't in the Bill of Rights. It's a legislative gift that was given to internet companies to help them grow by granting them a special legal shield for all the highly problematic content that they host and monetize.

If they want to editorialize on the back of that content, then I don't see why they should have such special status.

We do not need to eliminate Section 230. But the definition of 'Good Samaritan' blocking and 'good faith efforts' should explicitly not include the editorial decisions of a publisher.
How do you know who is actually lying if half the information is removed from the sources you usually read?
Polyform Licenses
become a freelancer. i work maybe 20 hrs per week max. and still earn more than i did as director of 30 people

just get your sales in order and fill a niche
Semi-related, IMO it's easier to not get siloed, at work and in general, if you position yourself as a math major rather than a CS major. Most people don't realize the overlap, and think "programmer" when they hear CS and "smart person" when they hear math (I have both and this is my experience, ymmv).

If you're not sure what else you want to do, working as a software engineer for a while is not a bad idea, and may be a very good idea depending on your financial situation - if you want to focus on solving problems instead of working on large software systems, maybe try a smaller company. If you're especially interested in entrepreneurship, this could also expose you to a lot of valuable knowledge.
IE on Mac was a different code base, different layout engine, and did not run ActiveX plugins.

It was a good browser at the time, and helped move the OS X platform forward. Perhaps even a vital part of the software support available at release.

But it wasn't IE6.

All that corporate ActiveX, DCOM software could not be deployed on it.

Microsoft grew multiple platforms to address this, for 20 years, but that's another story (that may also be relevant to the article).
Yes, that's the right solution. GPL + a commercial license. It works for Qt, it works for Java, and it works for many other projects.
COVID-19 is just way more deadly than the typical flu might be true, but it is telling not much more than claiming COVID-19 is way more deadly than the common cold.

Less than 217000 people died of COVID-19 during the epidemic in the USA while some 1.5 million people died from other causes in the same time frame. Why the obsession with COVID-19?
BugTracker – an open-source SaaS app built with a step-by-step tutorial
The "Eco-" in the words "Ecology" and "Ecosystem" indicate that the inventors of those words disagree with your assessment.
You can't claim you're not a publisher when you start promoting stories that push one narrative while blacklisting stories questioning that narrative. Imagine a news site that accepts submissions from the public, but filter which content is visible based on their own views, claiming no responsibility for the BS they allow on the frontpage.
Happy Friday HN!

I’m building BugTracker in public as a way to walk through all the topics required to build a SaaS (software as a service) product.

- Here’s the demo - https://bugtracker.dinosaas.com/

- Here’s the source code - https://github.com/Dino-SaaS/BugTracker

There are tons of technical resources out there for learning programming. But if you’re trying to build and launch a web app, you have to know a little bit about a lot of things.

It’s hard to know where to start.

My goal with BugTracker is twofold:

1. Cover all the topics you need to know to build, deploy, and optimize your own SaaS app

2. Build reusable components so you don’t have to repeatedly reinvent the wheel as you go.

It’s built with my preferred tech stack of Ruby on Rails, Sass, and Bootstrap.

What features or general topics would you like to see covered next?

Any and all feedback is welcome!
Facebook's remote policy is for senior (e5+) engineers in the US only right now, conditional on manager approval.

Hilariously enough, they used to allow this kind of remote till 2018, when they killed it.

It's the circle of reactive tech decisions, I guess.
From Popehat's post:

> Among the most common lies: Section 230 requires sites to choose between being a “platform” or “publisher”

The idea that Twitter moderating its users' posts means it's acting like a "publisher" is nothing but Republican propaganda[1]:

>Furthermore, a number of senators have prominently criticized Section 230. For example, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) repeatedly (but completely falsely) claims that Section 230 only applies to “neutral public forums."

Threatening Twitter and Facebook with liability for their users' content is authoritarian suppression of free speech. The US government should not be forcing Twitter or any other social media service to carry the president's re-election propaganda - even if the propaganda is factual, let alone if it's full of holes and lies like the NY Post story.

[1] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3306737
I think they tend to use a lot of fancy jargon because the jargon is actually really good, and there's no real replacement for it without circumlocution.
As evidenced by our status as the world's largest and most sustained COVID-19 hot spot?

What's your definition of failing?
> They are massive and they control narratives.

they might only control the narrative on twitter. only around 10% of americans would be a monthly active user on twitter. the world is not twitter, or social media. It might feel like that. Plently of people are still getting their news from other places. the article is still on nypost.

> is allowing some stories and blocking others election interference?

Lets say CNN decides to not publish this story, is that election interference? Now their viewers won't know about it.

You could also say its election interference to run an unfounded story in the first place
Are you using cotton swaps in your ears? What might be happening is that you shove wax in, clogging your ears and giving you tinnitus. That used to happen to me - the ear wax wasn't the problem, trying to clean it was.
Of course it’s more free - corporations are free to take your code and do as they please, as we’ve just seen.
This is exactly the misconception that Ken is trying to correct. There is no difference between platforms and publishers according to Section 230, and there is no "special treatment". This meme has sprung up out of nowhere because people are angry at the social media companies and want to think that anger has legal backing, but it doesn't.
I work as a quant trader and come from a software engineering background. Why don't you apply for jobs as an analyst in sales and trading? After a couple years, get an MBA or MFE or even try a PhD and move into a more quantitative trading/research role.

I think quantitative finance would be perfect for you. I know I wouldn't be able to stand doing anything else. Pay is awesome, problems are incredibly interesting, and the work environment is exciting and fun.
Congratulations, reaching that stage is very impressive and could be life-changing to a lot of people.

> CEO Dr. José M. Mejía Oneto, who has a PhD in organic chemistry and trained as a medical doctor

As an electronics PhD student with a growing interest in medical applications of my skills, how does one go about training as a medical doctor? Are there shortcuts one can take if not intending to practice? Though at this point, it seems to me that recognition/credentials is a bit orthogonal to building up knowledge.
Beautiful writing! But "stacked into decrepit victorians" might be taking some poetic license; isn't a new arrival more likely to be stacked into a soulless condo tower or apartment complex, with the ambition of eventually moving into a little hillside box?
Not much of false sensor data, they use existing endpoints used by ADAS.

Steering or gas or brake ECUs on older cars without fancy adaptive automatic thingy don’t accept remote control, units in such cars only take analog user inputs and only report statuses on the bus.

Since ADAS is complicated and developed independent to the rest of the car, car manufacturers expanded those actuators to incorporate remote control mechanisms, and ADAS systems are implemented as a self contained computer that send out those control messages. Sort of like a Raspberry Pi with the camera in a case that is advertised as an “Ethernet AI camera”.

Openpilot on officially supported cars impersonate those ADAS unit. They are not directly meddling with pedal potentiometer readouts and such. That kind of rigging are used in some lab experiments but not in the majority of OP driven cars.
I'd rather be a rationalizationist, they've never been wrong once.
There is no such thing as high quality chip tuning, unless you are replicating 100% what the manufacturer just disabled for your MCU (e.g. unlocking some kW your motor is in principle capable of outputting). But then again, e.g. BMW uses different, more reliable mechanic parts (camshaft, head, etc.) on motors that have these kWs unlocked, so you are still risking ruining your motor in the long run.

Chip tuning always meddles with curves the manufacturer chose after long consideration and extensive tests (let's just ignore VW for a moment) - and you are trying to tell me that guy from this shop just "knows better" and "sure, this will be better in every possible aspect"?

Are you trying to say a 2019 BMW out of factory will shoot out black smoke while accelerating (quite boringly) from a traffic light?
I don't think it would be world ending to get rid of Section 230. I almost would like to see it happen, if only because it would have precisely the opposite effect expected by all the people whining about being censored. Though, I suppose you can't be censored if the channel itself is extinguished.

More practically, the technically literate would go back to the world of Usenet, mailing-lists, and minimalistic forums like HN, hopefully inventing distributed reputation systems in the process. I have this vague idea for PGP web of trust-like signing of Usenet posts (published as hidden posts when readers +1/-1) which are then SPAM scored based on the depth of the attestation chain to the reader's own trusted posters, which may have been seeded from one or more centralized databases of group maintainers, similar to the current registration system for moderated Usenet groups except you could freely choose alternative registrars.
What are you but your brand in the year 2020?
suyash is basically correct; usage of GPL (any version) licensed software is very heavily scrutinized at Amazon. Explicit exceptions need to be filed for, and are rarely granted. Unless you can make a very strong business case for the software, you're not going to get it approved.
You misunderstand what happened. Some open source software still had more restrictive licensing, but most corporations opted not to use it, often because they simply couldn't and still operate legally, and thus, the software was less supported and less used software died out.

When companies couldn't find free software to use, they just wrote it themselves, typically, unless it was something big and way outside their domain.

Rather than being beholden to a licensing agreement, it would be nice if OSS had a license for an "enterprise-level donation" that was mandatory for for-profit use. It would be a one-time cost, so it would be easier to push through the accountants at lots of big companies, and companies could feel free to use the software at their leisure. Authors/contributors could choose to charge another fee for upgrading to a new major version, opt to end support of an old version or not and so on and so forth.
I've tried Teams. I dislike the UI however that is mostly personal preference and indeed it's not bad enough to make it unusable. If the UI was the only thing wrong with it I could still live with it.

The problem is that it's just so damn slow and unstable. It is an order of magnitude worse than Slack which is also an Electron app, so Electron alone isn't to blame here.

The notification system is a mess. They use their own notification system instead of integrating with the system one which is terrible because those notifications take up way more space than the default system ones and established UX behaviors (like dismissing them by swiping right on the trackpad) don't apply. There's also a bug where the notification is its own window which remains (in an invisible state) even when no notification is displayed (which means you can Cmd+Tab into it).

The tiny video window while you're on a call will bring up the main Teams UI when you try to minimize it. So if you're in a call with the participants in the main window and switch away from it, the little window will pop up in the bottom right corner of the screen. If you minimize that one, the main Teams window will come back into foreground and you now need to minimize it too.

The text editing experience is awful. It's wysiwyg-based with some minor Markdown-like formatting supported, but the problem is that copy/pasting most content from other apps will paste as "rich text" so not only is the formatting of that pasted text screwed up, but the screwed up formatting continues as you type beyond it. The button to copy a meeting invite link will copy HTML which means it'll work if pasted into a rich-text field (although the formatting will still be screwed up and differ from whatever was there before), but it will just spew out several long lines of HTML if you paste it into a plain text field like a code editor or another messenger. When you make a button called "copy meeting link", it should copy a plain-text link and that's it.

The slowness of it all is just the icing on the cake and makes dealing with those (relatively minor if in isolation) issues painful.

Teams is a pile of shit and its only objective is to win marketshare by appealing to bean-counters who will never seriously use it or people who've spent their entire life in a bullshit Microsoft environment and never tried real tools. I guess if your only experience of enterprise chat is Skype for Business (ex-Lync) then maybe it's better, but that's a pretty low bar and is definitely a trip back to the dark ages once you've used a real messenger like Slack or even the consumer-grade ones such as Discord, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, etc.

My experience using it for the past 3 months was so bad that it's now on my "stuff I don't work with" list and any potential client that insists on it gets an instant decline on my part.