skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It quite reliably took people who absolutely loved reading and made them hate books. I'm not quite sure the point of it, really. It took me a decade after high school to read a fiction book again, and this is far from uncommon among those who suffered through it alongside me.

I pretty much only read science fiction now, and the occasional crime thriller, although I used to be a voracious reader. I din't realize why until I read your post: high school English made me hate fiction. It's like I was playing a game of guess-the-password, and was being graded on how close my arbitrary answer matched the teacher's expectation. I hated it, and it destroyed any interest in reading "high" literature to this day :(

I think I can appreciate sci-fi books in particular because my brain knows there's no way they'd ever be taught in an English classroom, so it doesn't evoke memories of those horrible literature classes.
Fear is a much more powerful and simple emotion than contentment or happiness. That's why things spread like wildfire, particularly in conservative circles. Often completely fake news circulates before there is any hope of quelling it.
I remember someone trying to justify college over self-educating (quality varying all the way from coursera to Wikipedia to YouTube to Facebook): you just don’t learn the same way anywhere else. Being with your peers, having your ideas cross examined in real-time and having direct and personal feedback is invaluable.

I think the same applies to wfh. Yes it is fun, yes I like that I avoid commute, but I’ve also become a shell of what I used to be (remember I wasn’t the most social guy in the first place).

I am looking forward to going back to office and enjoying the hum of work around me.
They used to say the same thing about motion pictures last century: https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1300&dat=19131008&id=...

I remember reading that quite a lot of people didn't like Elvis too for his provocative dancing and believed he'd have a corrupting influence on the youth of the time.

In retrospect these things didn't turn out to be so bad after all.
Your (poorly informed view, IMO) of the world does not consider immoral and illegal activities carried out by law enforcement and those with authority. Stalking, and harassment and abuse based on stalking, is a problem. Making it easier and simpler with facial recognition causes bigger problems. And this is just one example.
It’s pretty far off if you’re talking about the population that can afford Teslas.
Avoiding the GitHub WebUI
How to reverse a sentence in Java without using inbuilt function
Survivorship bias? If another group of boys failed to form a successful team with enough skills to survive, they wouldn't have survived to tell their story. So it's not surprising that the author only found a successful story. We don't know what happens to the thousands of boys who go missing every year.
This story is amazing and The Guardian did a great job presenting it in an interesting way.

The comments here make me wonder, just why did Lord of The Flies become popular in the first place? Was there a generation that thought it was a good story for illustrating human nature? Why?
How do you explain the prices of Class-C shares which don't bestow voting rights to the holder? For example, GOOG trades for over 2000 a share. In fact, it even trades at a $50 premium over GOOGL, which offers voting rights. Strange.
In what sector of "tech"? Perhaps it's sample bias, but I've never observed this behavior (leaving after less than 12 months, or after your first project) in any of my peers. I could definitely see that for contractors but people who leave that early usually don't do it voluntarily.
Read the comment. We’re talking about locations that don’t have gas stations. There won’t be gas stations or sockets. Cross country highway trips on two lane roads, back country driving, etc.
I have a friend who works at G that told me shortly after he started working there, he accidentally typed some portion of his password into another website, at which point his laptop immediately locked down and he was forced to change his password before doing anything else.
I am not sure, if developer tools are on the watchlist of state regulators, nor am I sure, if they should be.
Google announced in a support page: Starting in late 2021, when a user opts out of interest-based advertising or ads personalization, the advertising identifier will not be available. You will receive a string of zeros in place of the identifier.

This is a good follow up on Apple's iOS 14 privacy push to limit cross app tracking. For Facebook, it's more trouble as it further limits their ad tracking ecosystem.

Today, Facebook's biggest regret would probably be their lack of attempt at building an operating system like Android and iOS.
On the other hand, the meaning of art is determined by what you bring to it. If you find a self-consistent interpretation that is not or perhaps even contrary to what the author had in mind or the classical analysis, that interpretation is just as right.
it's not like we'll ever get anywhere near all US adults to take the vaccine anyways, the subject has become far too politicized.

At this point there's a substantial chunk of the US population hellbent on demonstrating the lockdowns and vaccines and everything that's been done throughout 2020 was completely unnecessary, by simply continuing to do nothing. They will never take a vaccine, they'll risk getting sick and let the natural immunity unfold. They're more concerned with overturning the 2020 election results.
>How do you reverse paying someone with cash? You don't.

Exactly, that's why centralised systems with moneyback guarantees (PayPal, Stripe) exist for online payments where you can't see the goods in person - online fraud is still a concern in 2021.

>So you keep most money secure in a cold wallet, airgapped and password-protected, and some money secure in a hot wallet, PIN-protected.

I'll admit I'm not super familiar with crypto technology, but this cold wallet basically sounds similar to stashing your life savings under your mattress (or, at least, in a safe in your house). Nobody in their right mind would do this.

>Just like using a wallet with cash in a secure manner took time to become cultural knowledge, using a hardware wallet with cryptocurrency will to

Makes sense, honestly. Everyone understands credit cards/WeChat.

Regardless of the individual arguments, though, I think the overall point is whether or not the risk of being screwed over by the machinations of a giant corporation outweighs the risk of being screwed over in the "wild west" world of crypto. For the average person, I think (well-regulated) central institutions are the lesser of the two evils.
The ask last 4 now only. At least they no longer asked full SSN from me, like they did initially.
You didn’t even make it through my whole comment before you commented. Rooftop solar is not an option for a huge chunk of the population.
Blow up that report card and frame it on your wall. That's high praise.
You're right, I did get that backwards. The overall point about stability remains, though.
I really felt that story. Mind if I ask, where are you working and what was the Elixir project?
Access to full article: https://archive.vn/AWE0t
I also can imagine that a 16 year old kid in Tonga is probably, by most accounts, already considered an adult with enough skills to provide for himself.
That sounds incredible inefficient

What was the rational for such enormous single payloads?
Same here. My main distraction is the internet (HN, YouTube, looking up things I'm interested in). That can happen just as easily at work. At least at home, I can take breaks that recharge me better like watering my plants or having a nap.
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This reminded me of a dynamic I saw in city government when it was working with non profits, although not quite exactly the same. The example I'm thinking of is that the city placed requirements on non-profits that were helping unhoused people find housing, so shelters and so forth. Sounds good, right? And on the surface, it is. You don't want these non profits to be taking funding from the city and elsewhere and not helping people get housing.

However, the restrictions were so unrealistic, that in practice, the non profits had to end up cherry picking people that they'd let into their case management profiles and offer housing. At the time it was realistic that someone may find permanent housing after around a year (and even that was on the shorter side) but the city for some reason was giving the non profits something like 90 days. It was really just a data/numbers game and when the city set the numbers to play the game the non profits had to set their clients. This led to people who faced the most barriers and arguably needed help the most to not get help. For example a white mother with a child may look better on paper when the case managers were calling around and trying to find a fit than a non white male. As an aside, that's what really bothered me about Amazon's "contribution" to homelesness in Seattle - they chose to help the least objectionable class of homeless people, moms with kids, who already have loads of non profits fighting over them and doors open to them that pretty much anyone else in that situation doesn't have. We need more low-barrier resources.

Anyway, just another example that goes to show you, kind of a game theory thing, if you start out with some kind of fixed rules of the game, even with the best intentions, people are going to game the system to match it and often come to a totally different outcome than you were intending.
maybe that's as good as it gets with hiring, you never know how people truly perform until they work in the intended invironment.
Let the workers unionize!
If you want, I'll give you some points by making a bounty on some old question and giving it to you.
You have to answer it though.
You’re confusing loading the module vs executing every method inside. I would not expect loading a module that has dangerous methods to do the destructive thing by default.
What’s your hourly wage and how much time do you spend preparing food?
(Context: replying to gray post)

Whenever a pissing contest about grocery prices happens (and don't kid yourself, if a number has been mentioned it's not a question of when but rather an indication that the pissing has begun) you must quote a lower number than the previous person. It doesn't need to be true, it doesn't need to include critical qualifying information like location and tradeoffs, it doesn't even need to be particularly likely -- but it must be lower. So it is written. Here, I'll demonstrate:

I only spend $250 per month on groceries and I cannot imagine the disgusting excess that could possibly lead anyone to waste a single cent more!
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I would trust Matt, who said it was largely a waste of money and said we will have to see if anything actually happens in the future.
> Why buying a company if you don’t want to make any change?

because it keeps printing money which you can use to acquire other companies. That is what Buffett does.
I am highly sceptical of the idea that standardized testing is truly meritocratic. There's a recent KnowingBetter video that goes into detail on how it can be viewed as a segregation tool and how that idea of "we are educationally disarming ourselves" started with Reagan and Ayn Rand, but that would veer too much into politics, so I'll make my own argument: the fact that you benefit from private tutoring, having a good learning environment, a culture of academic expectations etc. will make rich kids and kids that are pushed into studying more by their parents much more likely to do well on standardized tests. It won'tnecessarily transfer though. So by focusing on standardised testing, you filter out poor people (which still just happen to be overproportionally PoC in the US...) while optimising for people who can do at standardised tests, not necessarily those who'll do well in research.

And given the number of diagnosed AD(H) and dyslexic people I've encountered in my higher education who only pass their exams because of accomodation of specialised needs but who are brilliant at their roles now... I'll rather take diversity I think than trust some government to codify what "intelligence" and "merit" means.
Medicine is an odd one. You need a bachelors + md + residency + possibly a fellowship to start practicing. Those are all competitive too. The residency will pay but only a little, and 4 years of medical school and living expenses will add up in living costs. So yes, if your parents are wealthy and willing to pay for it or it is the most important thing in life to do then medicine is the way to go.

Or you can go to a boring tech company and save about 50k/year for 10-15 years. This will be enough to achieve financial independence on and it will be possible to retire right when you would be beginning to practice medicine.

This is all only with a bachelors from a state school no extra-curricular or mcat stressing is necessary.

Also Medicine is not 100% and accidentally killing someone can get your license taken away. Done goof and break production you get a talking to and at worst fired but can probably find a new job shortly.
Totally. Also seeing and hearing the fear and subordination, a sociopath's delight.
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I was just bitten by this the other day. In my case, it's not that I cared about any specific order ("unique lists"), but I did need the output to be deterministic for a caching mechanism to work properly. I knew dicts would 'just work' because of the ordering guarantee, but I was surprised to learn sets didn't. In the end the easiest fix was to just reimplement a set type on top of dict.
I'm horrified at what is considered OK at US campuses
Although I've graduated, I'm part of college facebook groups...

moved to USA as a kid, one of my goals was to discover why my country wasn't as functional as western countries. Topics how USA was founded, Greeks/democracy, age of enlightenment i.e. Voltaire, check and balances, civil rights, freedom of speech, govt evolution and supreme court cases.. interested me.

I learned that western society is built on some principles and if those principles are not upheld system will very quickly morph into something ugly.

However, I've come across substantial student body on facebook groups who whole heartedly believe....

- people should be convicted without proof (i.e. me too)

- censor anyone who you disagree with (so much for ill defend your right to speak)

- discriminate based on gender and race (when goal should be to NOT differentiate between people due to race, gender, age, etc..)

It boggles my mind how can someone take these stances and be oblivious to consequences..

- If you could convict people without proof, what kind of society do you reckon it'd be? Heard of "Salem witch trials"?

- Censorship? This needs to be explained? Censor Whistle blowers? Censor scientists who say earth isn't the center? ... how many times good ideas come from fringe ideas. Opposition actually polishes the good ideas into better ideas. Censoring isn't winning an argument... opposite of it.

- Bizarre! It was drilled down into me that it's wrong to discriminate based on age, race, gender.. meritocracy was the way to go. How these things lead social injustices/abuses. But now I see open discrimination against some groups, esp against white + male students. It's one thing to give extra help, but another to hold some back so others can get a head start. what stands out is complete disregard toward what's fair. Instead it feels like some people are on crusade, to them breaking all laws are fair game as their cause takes precedence over right/wrong.
That's a very touching story. Although most of us don't work in the consumer hardware business, many of us work on frontend web design. This post serves to underscore the importance of accessibility in our designs.
The traditional posix filesystem is yet another leaky abstraction. Inflexible ACLS and metadata, a horrible and confusing consistency story, an inability to reliably / cleanly rename files, interfaces that are painful to implement performantly without surprises, don't even get started on fsync...

I just want to create, read, update and delete some resources :)
Hmm, seems like it should be a compiler option
ah, yes, CSVs. The format famously preferred and lauded by the web development community
It's odd enough that there are no rules against refusing service on arbitrary grounds for companies.

I do not believe this to be legal in the E.U., but from how I understand it, In the U.S.A., a store can refuse any customer service on arbitrary grounds without having to say what the reason was.

This is even more troublesome because the U.S.A. is a country of low population density where in some rural areas many people will have only one grocery store available to them, that could actually refuse them service simply because it's manager did not like the looks on their faces.
But sometimes, the reason you are failing is because you are missing a key person or lacking funding, so it isn't quite as easy as that (and this is even said as someone who thinks most software companies have 10-100x too many employees ;P).

Honestly, I think the real problem is blindly following "metrics" of any form: metrics are input to a decision making process, but can almost never be directly optimized without causing some kind of serious mistake (which is sad, as humans are often biased; the real solution is thereby to not build large companies, lol).
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The article is rather empty. It just highlights that incentives create unexpected consequences.

But the truth is, if you're monitoring "URA", or other peripheral metrics, it means you're unable to actually measure performance. If you could, then URA wouldn't matter, because who cares if performance of a team was achieved by an old, stable team of company veterans or by an always evolving pack that has high attrition?

The other problem is cargo cult. Amazon is obviously a highly successful company, and so, because of this, everything they do will be regarded as a genius move that should be emulated everywhere else. But it's hard to know what contributes to success and to whar extent. For your business, maybe you don't need to use a door for a desk, or ask employees to piss in a bottle.
I recommend his most recent post on it.

> Well! About a hundred of you emailed me to say that it’s obvious what’s in it for Engine No. 1: publicity. This is a hedge fund that launched six months ago; it runs a small fund and doesn’t have much of a track record. Now it is The Little Engine That Took Down Exxon. It has gone from nothing to being a daring successful activist, and an activist with a halo of environmental virtue. It can fundraise off of that forever, attract lots of money, collect lots of fees, etc. The $30 million of proxy expenses are an investment to make millions more in management fees.

> A related benefit is what any activist fund gets from a successful proxy fight: The next company they go after will be intimidated by their Exxon victory, and will try to settle by giving them board seats. You spend $30 million on one proxy fight so you don’t have to spend any money on five more. You show up at a meeting with the next company’s CEO, you put Exxon’s severed head on the table, you say “board seats, now,” and you get them without a fight.

> Fine! That’s all fair enough. One reader pointed out another, more technical but also quite important answer: It is customary for activist hedge funds that win their proxy fights to be reimbursed by the company.[1] So, because it won, Engine No. 1 probably spent $30 million of Exxon’s money on the proxy fight, not its own. That probably helps. It took a big risk here: If it had lost the proxy fight, it would be out $30 million and wouldn’t have all the fundraising benefit of having taken down Exxon. But because it won, the economics actually look pretty good.

> I think the basic reading here is that at a giant public company like Exxon, the managers and board of directors sort of assume that they get to decide who can be on the board, and that shareholders are not really supposed to interfere. Technically this assumption is wrong, and at Exxon last week it did not work out, but you can see why Exxon found it so surprising.
Author here. I've made this list to help G Suite users find out great extensions to Gmail, Google Docs, Google Sheets, etc.

Google has so many great add-ons but contrary to the app store, I don't feel like they have a curation team to promote applications to users. Apple is doing a great job on their App Store, so looking forward to do something similar.
> online fraud is still a concern in 2021.

Sure, but this is why you transact with trusted people and businesses, just like you would when using cash.

To be honest, I don't know a single person that relies on PayPal's protection when making a purchase online from an individual or business. Every single person I know that uses PayPal does their due diligence on the seller before buying. None of them assume that PayPal disputes will actually work.

The same would be true with crypto. You'd do your due diligence before buying, just like you do today, if you're buying from a random.

> this cold wallet basically sounds similar to stashing your life savings under your mattress (or, at least, in a safe in your house).

You would use a social recovery wallet, in which, say, your trusted family members could secure your life savings as a group. Vitalik Buterin, the founder of Ethereum, has a great article [1] on this.

Even if you don't trust a multisig/social-recovery wallet, you can store your money on an insured exchange. It still comes out ahead of banks and PayPal in that your transactions themselves are private and cannot be censored.

> I think the overall point is whether or not the risk of being screwed over by the machinations of a giant corporation outweighs the risk of being screwed over in the "wild west" world of crypto.

Just like online payments and credit cards had their "wild west" period, crypto has its own. I don't see a big deal here. This is a field in its infancy with staggeringly rapid development. Over time the UX will get better. I'm not expecting your average Joe to move their savings to Monero tomorrow, but I wouldn't be surprised if they did (to whatever Monero-equivalent exists) 10, 20 years down the road, when social recovery wallets are easy to use and crypto prices have algorithmically stabilized itself (ala DAI) or have naturally fallen into an equilibrium.

[1]: https://vitalik.ca/general/2021/01/11/recovery.html
is there hosting provider who has track record of being anti-censorship
No it’s not the same FFS. Sidewalk is using your home internet connection. It counts against your data caps and if Amazon gets malware on those it’s associated with your IP.

When zero days start floating around that allow people to bypass the VPN they are just sitting directly on your internal network.

Amazon is absolutely sharing your Internet with randos, they are just being picky about where the traffic goes. Still your data caps and still your qos bucket.
It's one thing to play catch up and invest against a technology tree that has already been mapped by more advanced competitors. It's quite another to have to fund exploration. Governments have not proven adept at funding technology advances in peacetime compared to private industry.
Oh no, this is so similar to http://ndjson.org/
I see you haven't gone down the decentralized finance rabbit hole yet. It's the most fun I've had learning and playing around with in a decade. It's a lot like early web dev but with money.