skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting read!

After moving to Japan from the United States, I've started to realize just how biased Western articles about Japan really are. Stories about Japan by Western news outlets often limit themselves to a few common "takes" on Japan:

> Japan's economy is stagnant (e.g. [1])! -- Western media tends to apply Western economic metrics to everything--and as we have all seen recently, the stock market is NOT the economy! It's not necessarily a problem for an economy to stop "growing" once it has reached a comfortable size. These same articles often conveniently ignore that lower- and middle-class workers in places like the United States are suffering from similar problems.

> Japan is "weird"! Maid cafes! Kawaii culture! -- Conveniently forgetting that in a metropolis of 14 million people like Tokyo, it's not difficult to find 10,000 people interested in absolutely any niche topic you can think of. New York is just as "weird" [2].

> Japanese people are sad! -- Articles often misrepresent Japan's suicide rates as being higher than Western countries [3].

> Tokyo is expensive! -- I live in Tokyo, and this is patently false. I pay less in rent, groceries, transportation, restaurants, and entertainment than I ever did in a major city in the United States. See [4].

> Japanese people are racist! -- Sure, some people face discrimination, Chinese and Korean immigrants especially, and it can difficult to fully assimilate. However, I feel incredibly welcome as a foreigner, and I believe that most friction between native Japanese and foreigners can be attributed to a language barrier. For instance, renting apartments can be an issue for foreign residents with poor Japanese language skills [5]. It is exceedingly rare to meet someone who is outwardly hostile towards foreigners, but the same cannot be said for places like the United States.

After seeing these patterns and actually living here, I can't help but view most writing about Japan as pro-Western propaganda, whether intentional or not. Certainly the United States has a thing or two to learn from Japan when it comes to infrastructure, city planning [6], healthcare, and safety. Most articles, though, serve the purpose of reiterating to American audiences that America is the best country on Earth, and there's no reason to ever change or question anything!

As the author said at the beginning, there is a great deal of writing about Japanese economics and government that hasn't been translated. If anyone can point me to some English resources giving the Japanese perspective, I would love to read more!

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/e5b9e75a-a8b8-4899-a0e4-4aea19d97...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_To_with_John_Wilson

[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/japan/comments/k39yps/in_japan_more...

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Vi2xePezOE

[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZ5f_QokinY

[6] http://urbankchoze.blogspot.com/2014/04/japanese-zoning.html
I agree that this will be radar for sociopaths, so it should be a hit with leadership.

On a plus side, this should stop folks from making 3rd party products that rip video feeds out of the meeting and run realtime emotion analysis.
They do rule on factual matters. But it has nothing to do with the truth (well, we hope it has something to do, but there's no guarantee whatsoever), it's just legal action. They can rule sun rises on the west, but it won't change the movement of the sun. They can rule somebody is a murderer, but whether it's the truth or not is not determined by that ruling. It could be either. The legal consequences are determined by the court ruling, but the actual murder doesn't change. We hope that in most cases the ruling coincides or at least resembles the truth, but we know for a fact (and this is the truth) that is it not always so.

> Every human being and every institution has such limits

That's exactly the point. So we shouldn't act like these limited institutions suddenly gained magic capacities because we conducted some complicated procedures involving some highly paid people.

> But if your point is that courts are useless when it comes to arbitration of the truth

No, they are not useless. They just aren't the truth, they are implementation of a flawed process that hopefully leads us closer to the truth than any of the other the alternatives we could find. It's not binary - it's either whole truth or useless.

> There may be others but most institutions are going to converge on similar functions

There are other models. I wouldn't claim they are better or worse, but they exist. I would recommend checking out: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30066446-legal-systems-v...
Are any of those better than what we have? Who knows. Maybe we had the luck of finding the best one. Maybe in 200 years history enthusiasts would be laughing at us idiots subjecting themselves to such obviously flawed and useless system.
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>That's a bad example. By many measures retail investors have outperformed institutional investors since March.

The average retail investor might have outperformed institutional investors, but it's a leap to suggest that wsb outperformed institutional investors. Foe one, the average retail investor isn't buying otm options like wsb users are.

> The simple reason is that options have a built in exit strategy, the thing that's missing when most people lose in scams - including Ponzi schemes!

Not really? Options can have their value go to zero if they remain unexercised, just like if a ponzi scheme goes bust.
I grew up in the Deep South. My German immigrant mother used to say "Southerners step on their words before they say them."

I think she genuinely struggled to understand some Southerners. I don't think she was merely being catty.

(I grew up correcting her English pronunciation. I can remember her still pronouncing the silent K on words like knuckles when I was a child. She spoke no English when she met my father.)
Also, what do you mean by "chainable interface"? I was expecting a `flatMap` method when I read that (luckily I was wrong, it would be a bad idea).
They rely on property owners (and probably usually property management companies) to self-declare: https://vancouver.ca/home-property-development/declare-prope...
It’s worth pointing out though that hugo has chosen to be a bag of tools to solve everyone’s problem rather than a simple one solution for all approach.

Omakase is sometimes desired when you don’t have the will to put up with another new ecosystem to learn.
In order to build on a superlative strength or insight, a small business absolutely needs the iron will to be good enough at everything. Any crippling weakness must be met head-on and fixed, or growth is out of reach.

Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Michael Dell were all adaptable enough and good enough at marketing, engineering, management, delegating and everything else that their unique strengths counted.

A business cannot dodge failure to understand a market, buy the right equipment, do the right maintenance, ship on time, advertise effectively, change course 180 degrees at the right moment, hire the right people, and so much else.

You can sell software that you write and things that you make. With App Stores, Etsy, Amazon, and social networks, customers are accessible and word-of-mouth can blow up your exposure. Software development suites and CNC machines have never been cheaper. Yet, there must be a center to your organization. Arguments must end and the focus must be directed at weaknesses until they are remedied. If it’s just you, then you must figure out what you suck at and stop sucking at it. There will always be a change that will result in more improvement than any other change. If lesser changes are required in order to make the necessary change, then those changes are also critical.

People do not normally think this way. Only in a crisis, do some people think this way.

I noticed that success has molded me into a person that people I would like to like me, hate me, if I’m not careful. I find that I have to keep kind-hearted sociable people away from my core reasoning - reasoning that is ever-ready to cast a long term labor into boiling lava in order to save the greater organization, if absolutely necessary. It’s not a question of identity, anymore. I have tried hard enough and failed long enough at doing what I love that I figured out what I need to succeed at it. The road to realizing the most ambitious dreams goes through, “I was wrong; I’ll find another way to that destination; I’ll never stop trying; nothing can possibly stop me; what next?”, in a loop, until you cross the mark to success, sometime in the night, without even noticing.

I lost 20 years of retirement savings and the same amount in debt before I got my shit sorted. So many epiphanies, realizations, self-corrections, desperate attempts, and unlikely successes that became building blocks. I’m a glutton for punishment. I knew I needed it. By God, starting my own business and keeping at it was the only way.

Some have better instincts than others. It doesn’t matter. Have a goal. As you work towards it, constantly identify the biggest problem and fix it. If you have a huge goal, then some years later, yours will be remembered amongst the greatest names in history.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tzompantli

I have wondered if these skull walls were part of their methods...
Fair point - personally I found APL to be a little too terse to be readable in ASCII. I think that there is a big difference in the affordances of a chalkboard/paper and a monospaced text editor, and to me APL is too close to paper based notation where it is easy to read and write a larger set of symbols. Matlab has some dedicated notation around matrices but uses more text heavy descriptions beyond that which feels better suited to a command line. Julia takes an even more text based approach and supports notations like list comprehensions which feel easier to learn, read and use than a set glyphs.
This title is silently reframing the issue to change the discussion in a way that favors the viewpoint of the poster.

“for payment processing and worldwide store distribution” is a more accurate headline, and specifically highlights that they’re not just paying a payment processor. This is, however, more complicated and no longer permits the easy comparison with card processing fees, and so I see many headlines show up that try to dodge this.

It’s fine to disagree with app store fee structures, it’s fine to disagree with how they manage their distribution models or handle approvals or whatever — but it’s totally uncool to lie-by-omission that it’s about credit card processing fees alone.
Windows in the Bootcamp role was also compliment ary, in that it enabled a company or individual worker to consider Ape hardware where Windows was a requirement or desired as a personal preference.

This also enabled those users to spend time in MacOS or switch to virtualizing Windows and may lead to one or more personal purchases for themselves or members of their household.
It's kind of weird to read this meta sarcastic article yet see that their journal is full of...articles of the type they critique...?
I think of programming as most similar to writing. This may be more true of userland application development than things that are more purely mathematical or low-level. But even then there are parallels. At the end of the day you are creating a work of written language, where "humanistic" decisions beyond the raw formulas shape how the work is understood and interacted with (e.g. symbol/variable/file names, or how the code is broken up [or not] into modules/subroutines).

A programmer getting started contributing to a large existing codebase may feel more like a proofreader or editor at first. But creating an application from scratch definitely seems very similar to writing a novel.
but most of all, samy is my hero
As a counterargument: it's precisely because of high-dimensional statistical learning that interpretability is a valuable trait. Yes, the power of modern ML is that it can handle situations that the designers did not explicitly design for--but this doesn't necessarily mean that it handles them well. For example, if your approval for a loan is subject to an AI and it rejected you, then you want to know why you were not approved. You'd want the reason your application was not granted to be something reasonable (like a poor credit history) and not something like "the particular combination of inputs triggered some weird path and rejected you offhand." Another example is machine vision for self-driving cars. You want the car to understand what a stop sign is and not just react to the color, otherwise the first pedestrian with a red jacket will bring the car to a screeching halt. Even though you may not have had red jackets in your training set (or may not have had enough so that misclassifications ended up contributing to your error percentage), you can verify the model works as intended using interpretability.

It's dangerous to treat this sort of models as a black box, as the details of how the model makes a decision is as important as the output; otherwise, how could it be trusted?

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This topic is the subject of my thesis, so i am currently steeped in it. Let me know if I can answer any more questions!
How do you know whether those teachers were actually wise or just repeating bullshit that sounded good?
What counts as social media, though, especially in an age of Discus, federated media platforms and Hacker News?
I agree that the similarity between reviews and Covid cases is compelling; I’m just pointing out that there are other possible factors.
context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samy_(computer_worm)
> Not sure why anyone thinks that’s an argument for doing it.

Because it didn't take very much effort and it doesn't require changing distribution models or abandoning those things.
Title should include (2017)

This appears to be the initial release announcement post, there are more relevant recent posts with updates regarding the use of UTSC, such as this one in May of 2020: https://coolsdrstuff.blogspot.com/2020/05/may-2020-hackertho...
Like others have mentioned, the US pays it's developers like royalty because they are a key fuel in the tech bubble. In a playground full of millionares and billionaires developers are an enabling piece of the puzzle.

The rest of the world doesn't have such extreme market forces, and there are even subsets of the software market in the US that also can't afford to pay at that level because they have more traditional business models.

You could say wages for devs in the US are more closely tied to the value they provide to the tech bubble and it's inflated economics, not the value they provide to society in traditional business models.

This is also why there are more "family owned" style small software companies in the rest of the world. A single SV wage would be more than some companies yearly revenue.
The general answer to these questions is that before Industrialism, all of humanity lived on, or one mishap away from, the famine line.

"How did my ancestors ever think of trying to eat X"? Well, they were dying anyway, so they didn't have much to lose.

My main message is, you and me are so incredibly lucky to live in this era of wealth, health and progress. We should try to appreciate it.
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Here's a link to the official rules for "Show HN"'s: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

You can also contact the mods directly if you have a question that's not answered.
It’s not impossible to end. Just have people learn other languages. Once you yourself have struggled with a bad accent and different pronunciation from most people, I think your view tends to change. Monolingualism is the bane of just about every kind of intellectual development and diversity.
MAOIs have a mild effect on their own, based on what I have read.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XH9ihoLi1NA

This looks pretty factual to me. It's fraud of some kind.
Manhattan needs this.
Thank you for the context! I looked briefly through the review that you cited. Maybe I missed something, but it seems that the neurogenesis claims are based on cell cultures?

I'd still like to see some human evidence of this effect to be fully convinced, but still that this story fits in this broader context does help convince me that this is likely true in humans.
I think `pass` has an official extension to handle OTP, but here is how I do it:

#/bin/bash

clip $(oathtool -b --totp "$(pass show otp/$1 | head -n 1)")

Basically there is a really handy utility called `oathtool` you can install that has all the one time password logic built into it.

Then in my `pass` store I have a `otp` folder where I put the codes for my different services.

So to get the OTP code for paypal for example, I do this:

pass otp paypal

And then the code is copied to my clipboard and I can just paste it.
The whole architecture was bad... Try serving static pages from an Apache configured with (and using, for some other user) mod_perl, for example. My point was that the whole setup counts, not just the fact that the pages are static. I'd rather serve content from some small Go executable than Apache + static pages. But apparently it's undesirable to point such things out. Best if I don't post anymore.
> She never was his lawyer

Your relationship to facts is increasingly strained.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/13278115271231037...

And the UCMJ is irrelevant to the outcome of the election. With the sole exception of the process of collection of military overseas ballots, the election is an entirely civilian and mostly state-level process that has no involvement from the military.
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Yes, I think so. In the vein of simplicity, we created a lightweight secret management script called encpass.sh (https://github.com/plyint/encpass.sh) Our use case initially was to have a simple and relatively secure way to handle secrets within shell scripts. By simple I mean does not require a lot of external dependencies and likely may already have its requirements installed on a machine.

encpass.sh only needs a POSIX compliant shell and uses OpenSSL. This is nice for restrictive computing environments (think big enterprise IT) where you may not be able to control the software that is installed on the machine.

The implementation turned out to be so useful and easily adaptable that we created an extension to it for Keybase (https://github.com/plyint/encpass.sh/blob/master/extensions/...) and have a whole workflow built around using the tool to manage secrets with teams and Keybase's builtin encrypted Git repos. (Primarily used in our automation scripts to hold API keys and other application level secrets)

I stop short of recommending the Keybase extension for others, since the acquisition of Keybase by Zoom, but the original OpenSSL version might prove useful for people who are looking for a simple secret management solution that is easy to plugin and extend.
Unless HN comments count towards the 1e6, I need to get cracking. I don't know my word count for blog / technical stuff, but I'm reasonably sure it's nowhere near a million.
Hydration actually isn't very important for endurance athletes in events up to a couple hours. The real benefit comes from carbohydrate supplementation. The water just acts as a convenient delivery channel to get the carbs into the athlete's body quickly.
West coast cities homelessness problems are indicative of nothing more than the specific economic and political realities in those cities. It is folly to extrapolate that to larger macroeconomic conditions.

While some specific cities may have their heads up their butts with regard to public policy resulting in more visible homeless the living conditions of the "almost homeless" and working poor have very much improved since the early 1970s (as far back as my knowledge goes).

You can say what you want about the blue collar middle class (off-shoring and student debt have hit them hard over the past decades) but things have very much been improving up for the poor as a whole even though some poor people are unlucky enough to live in backwards places where things have gotten worse locally.
I'm sure zoom filters that detect all such potential prejudice bearing signals and either sanitize them or translate them into your preferred locale (presumably your own - the one to which you're most sensitive) just like Vinge's localizers that were able to sense subtle emotional cues in the clicks and bzzts of an arachnid race and translate them in real time to cartoon caricature projections for human scouts aren't too far away.
How is that a Ponzi Scheme? Self-promoting and narrative-building to make it sound easy, but if you’re building something that someone will pay you money for, you’re literally just building a business...?
Just try Hugo. Jekyll is okay but extremely slow with hundreds of Ruby plug-in dependencies and nonsensical breaking changes between versions.

The author is pedantic and seems to just not want to use other tools. That’s fine. But this is a dumb road for others to follow.

Remember the entire thing started because they don’t like front matter. They could literally have written a script to parse front matter, which are literally a few plain text lines.

Then they wanted asciidoc but without the dependency. Except their own code will likely have an asciidoc dependency unless they wrote their own entire asciidoc parser. In which case they could also have done this and plugged it into the same script.

“You don’t want to get stuck into the thinking of others,” they scream into the wires, followed by hobbling themselves into the most minimal viable product straight jacket imaginable.

Fool programmers and their time are soon parted.
You could always solve this problem by setting yourself an extra "day 0" challenge: write a userscript that runs on the contest website and hides all references to the leaderboard.
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Theres a bit of lag In non english speaking spheres =}
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One reason to want to understand what some "black box" is doing is distribution/dataset shift, especially in medical applications.

For example, suppose you're building a neural net to detect early-stage lung cancer on medical imaging, and you test/train it on patients in a small set of hospitals. Often the hospital name is given on the image, and this can be used as a covariate to improve accuracy (due to the hospitals serving different populations with different demographics). But a model that does this may suffer when put into production at other hospitals.

Some real-life examples with this flavor are given at the end of these slides: https://mlhcmit.github.io/slides/lecture10.pdf.

See also Section 6.3 of this paper for how interpretability can help choose models with superior generalization: https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.04938.
While I and many others have issues with King's apparent inability to end a story and his editors' not saying "no" enough, one thing I have actively noticed in his writing is that I never get hung up on overuse specific words or phrases. For a counter example, Frank Herbert's earlier works had the phrase "shoots a glance" so many times that I ended up being focused on counting those rather than the story. I also tend to notice when an author uses a specific term more than their peers, such as Dan Simmons and his use of) "lapiz lazuli" rather than just saying "blue". It's fine to use, but it stands out to me in ways that cause me to pause my reading and acknowledge the term consciously, rather than keep the narrative flow in my head.
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