skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don’t need to post articles, or, well, not to me at least. I didn’t go to the link. I won’t either. It doesn’t matter what it says.

What matters is it’s a vox article. Sending a vox article is like quoting a bible verse. I’m sure it is very meaningful to you. But to many other americans, it simply is not.

On the other side, if someone posted some right wing newspaper, it would be like them quoting the quoran at you. Surely it’s deeply meaningful to them, but, how can the quoran be true? The bible is true! They are stupid and their heads are filled with lies!

And they think exactly the same about you. You are the stupid one with the head filled with lies.

I’m sure you are convinced you are actually in fact right. You have “science” or “statistics” or “reputable journalists” on your side.

There are a million ways to convince one’s self of something. They are just as convinced as you.

As for your question

> What else would you have us do with them?

Work towards a peaceful breakup of the united states, based not on geography but on moral outlook.

It won’t happen though. So, I guess the tit for tat will continue and escalate until it gets to guns and worse.

—-

PS: When I wrote that I’m sure you are convinced you are right, the article spam was precisely the kind of thing I was trying to preempt. I’m sure all those articles support your point of view. I have no doubt. “The others” articles, they support their point of view.

Let me propose an experiment. For a whole week, do not consume your regular media diet and instead consume “the others”. Walk a mile in their mocassins as it were. Take it as an exercise in empathy.
> I haven't ever been in a place that felt so fake and liveless. The only thing you can do is go to the mall.

That’s not true at all. Mall is probably the last place anyone should go to in Dubai.

Instead of going to the Mall, you could drive a little and go view the wonderful collection at Louvre Abu Dhabi.

You could also go eat excellent sushi at the little (and cheap) 3 Fils at the local Fishing harbor in Jumeirah. There’s also a decent seafood restaurant next door run by local fishermen.

On Palm there’s the excellent Ibn AlBahr run by a group of Lebanese(?) fishermen.

Deira too is full of nice authentic places.

But sure, if you’re a mall enthusiast then a shitty mall is all you will find. If you seek out nice authentic places, they’re easy to find.
"If a sponsor wants contestants to throw a ping-pong ball through a hole in a watermelon, he’ll go outside with his employees and re-create it himself, recording the results."

Kind of funny that he ends up doing some "market research" himself. I also wonder what this is like for the employees. If you really want a good statistical average to base it off of how much time do they spend doing it? Is is "yay, we get to have recess and go do some silly activity in the middle of the day" or "come on boss, I've been throwing this ping pong ball at a watermelon for 9 hours, can I go home yet?"
Mega.nz and OneDrive work well for me, albeit slightly less polished and (thankfully) a lot less opinionated than Google Photos.
Free Courses – Language Transfer
The most effective seems to be to do the first round independently, IE each person come with their 2-3 best ideas before collaboration. Otherwise there's a strong tendency to just +1 existing ideas rather than think independently.
One can start with an already tame population of foxes/dogs and select for aggression. Aggression would be a useful trait in a breed desired for protection/guarding.
I'm convinced this model only really works because of the tech visa program. When you have a huge class of people that don't really have a choice between pushing back and keeping their hopes for a green card, you're going to get an environment where collective bargaining no longer works. I have experienced this at the last 3 places I've worked, all large enterprise software companies. There's no going back unfortunately and I feel bad for future generations of tech workers as it's already starting to feel like a bloodbath.
This looks like a decent interactive Ferraris 1777 map: https://maps.arcanum.com/en/map/belgium-1777/
I agree with you in general, but the mockery in this article is pretty undirected and mild. If you actually said this at a gaming table where a new and, especially immature, player was using the dice in question; then this applies in spades.
What about time spent commuting?
some of it seems so petty

It's the harsh logic of resource mobilization. Artists compete for a share of (mostly poor) people's leisure budget by producing songs, hoping that people will like them so much that they'll pay money to hear them from the source. Songs' popularity is a function of novelty and longevity. Radio station operators can't make songs, but they have transmitters that can amplify songs. People listen to the radio to hear songs for free. Radio station operators get kickbacks from the artists or sell advertising, or some mix off the two.

There are more songs than the market can bear at any one, because most people get bored of most songs after a while. The time to play all available songs equally exceeds the number of hours in the day people can listen to the radio (this is the allocation problem streaming solves, at the cost of fragmenting the audience). The radio station wants people to listen as much as possible, so the operators want to play the most popular songs. The listeners decide what is popular, but it takes time for those choices to be communicated back to the station operators and artists, so the station operators try to predict based on the combination of their own musical taste and their ability to get audience information (answering phones at the radio station, using information gained at promotional events etc).

Whereas artists might once have simply trekked from village to village playing their songs and being rewarded with food and sex, that is no longer a viable way to compete against people whose songs are played on the radio. Thus the radio station is now able to hold artists livelihood hostage by their decisions on what 'the popular taste' is at any given time, a symbiotic relationship that can go bad if either party's assessment of the music's popularity drifts too far from reality.

In more advanced societies, media corporations or nations function as amplifiers for ideological or territorial claims which are articulated by social movements appealing to the tastes of populations, and which mostly provide strategies or tactics for their adherents within those populations to maximize their own take from a limited resource pool from which said populations compete to draw.

So, the current political spat over a Supreme Court opinion is the equivalent of one group of legal scholars releasing a diss track of another bunch of legal scholars, delighting or enraging their respective fans. All the intellectual depth and complexity of legal opinions is partly a function over how long the arguments last, in this case ~50 years rather than the few minutes of a typical pop song. The war in Ukraine is a language/cultural identity conflict that has played out over hundreds of years about who gets access to the good agricultural land. I would argue that all social conflict is just elaborated competition over limited environmental resources.
Nqcdynamics.jl: A Julia package for nonadiabatic quantum classical MD
I didn't say this was good, I'm merely pointing out that this is an inevitability^H^H^Hpossibility now that the data is available. No moral judgement provided.
Searching “By industry” doesn’t make a lot of sense. Do you mean “within the same industry”?

Mispelling “higest” in tab.

A convenient tool. I’m restricted from trading in my employer’s stock. There are no rules about trading in a highly correlated proxy.
>worked at Google.

At, not for.
People handle different loads. Some people perform better under stress, others need far more time off and breaks and they'll perform better.

As a manager you're a representative of the company, and it's your duty to maximize value for the company. That means approaching each person differently and with respect. Most people say "I want to get promoted" or "I want to be in this position in my career in X years" or "I want to work on Y type of project". As a manager I have to deliver Z.

All of those require a level of stress to achieve, so I work with my colleagues to help them achieve their goals in a measured way. At the same time I ensure we deliver Z on time.

Don't really know how you got the "start to crack" out of my previous comment. People are different, they should all be handled with a unique approach to collaboration.
Neither have a positive return as far as the gambler/insuree is concerned, if they do, they casino/insurer will not stay in business for long!

The difference is that one has a potential huge upside, the other prevents a potential huge downside
Sure, and lock your door when you leave home, that’s common sense. But it is not a reason to argue against outlawing burglary. I am not against taking precautions, though no precautions are foolproof and I have been mugged on a bus in bright daylight.

But I am against this edgy cynical idea that there is no point deciding rules because someone will circumvent them. Or that you are a naive idealist if you want better. Instead, what we do is we punish burglary, and it becomes rarer and rarer, and everyone lives better, even if one day you happen to forget to lock your door. Same thing for PII, and personal data in general. We should punish companies that are reckless with their data, and strictly limit the information access providers can log. This is not magical thinking, and is completely uncontroversial for medical or financial information. So why the phone cynicism (not from you, but from a large number of technophiles who ought to know better)?
There's arguably a difference between a contractor employed by Nintendo (receiving a 1099 from the company) and a contractor employed by an outsourcing firm that Nintendo uses (paid by the outsourcing firm). The former seems analogous to "second-class citizens" while the latter seems analogous to "foreign resident"
The country functions with differences in morality. It has for the past 50 years. The only reason it would not work is if some people try to force their morals on others when the situation has nothing to do with them.
Strange how over thousands of years we've been able to selectively breed incredibly specific variety in canine physical form but we've been completely unable to breed for specific behaviors... /s
> WoW came along and really defined what a MMO is.

I wouldn't call WoW the first that defined it, or even the first wildly successful one that did. I never played any of them, but EverQuest was huge back in the day. If we are willing to lower the bar of success, there's predecessors to EverQuest as well.

Then again, maybe there's something very different than WoW and EverQuest that I'm not aware of? They seemed pretty similar from the outside.
Didn't know mouse microswitches were standardized/interchangeable. Are they like mechanical keyboard switches?

Where can I learn more about them and buy different kinds?
For what? That younger people are more likely to not have kids than people further in their career? That women’s careers tend to be affected more by having kids than men? This are “the sky is blue” type facts. They don’t really need citation.
>None of them - not one - would have happened virtually.

And is it possible that this is not a universal thing? Maybe some people can solve problems or have ideas in a different way? Or maybe in the parallel universe you might have maybe less financial/career success but something even better (less stress more happiness) anyway I can tell you that as a developer you can solve problems, you can help the team from remote too. I have almost 20 years of coding experience only on remote but won't bet that 100% an office job would have been better or worse, we never know.
adb shell rm -rf
> the insurer in the article seems to do pretty sound analysis to ensure his expected return is positive

Just like casinos ensure their expected return is positive. So?
These are excellent free (and effective) language courses.

Previous comments from HN folks:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20634393

I just recently started learning Swahili and found some amazing classes from Language Transfer[0]. (I have no connection with them.) I've spent a lot of time learning languages, including tricky ones like Mandarin, and this is by far the best learning method I have ever come across.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16824186

I've tried with Duolingo quite a bit, but what I studied never seemed to stay in my memory. I've had much better luck with Language Transfer - https://www.languagetransfer.org

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15508003

I have been using http://www.languagetransfer.org to learn Spanish, and it is the best language system, aside from total immersion, I have ever used (I speak five language with varying degrees of fluency).
agree that walking is a reward in itself. I should have phrased it as - "more people would walk more if they were rewarded more tangibly". Friendly competition might incentivize more people to walk. Just some thoughts since the article is trying to encourage more people to walk.
Another Vice article about the same thing [0]. It seems they have discovered that location data is sold.

[0] https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7vymn/cdc-tracked-phones-lo...
At my work right now (where we're using Laravel, which has migrations as a cultural standard) we have many migrations. But 95% if not more of them are adding stuff, very few are removing or refactoring stuff. The database evolved under harsh deadlines and growth so there's a lot of technical debt in there.

It's definitely not terrible, but just wished to see people talking about using migrations to refactor databases a bit more.
Another reason for me to download stuff and put in a home streaming server is that I get to control what my small kids watch. There are so many stupid stuff on YouTube and other streaming services, so I just download good cartoons for my kids to watch.
I wonder if Hissp would be more to your taste? https://github.com/gilch/hissp
I think private sector politician is intended to mean someone working for a private company but who embodies the worst of politicians: big on personal visibility, short on doing the work.
Who can resist a title like that?

Direct link to PDF:

https://www.lasvegasadvisor.com/shop/wp-content/uploads/2017...
Definitely unions are becoming more and more popular again for a reason!
I pay Viz and Shonen Jump as a subscriber in their apps. Whats frustrating is that I only get a tiny subset of their catalogue. I can't ready some of their older series. I'm even willing to buy them if given the option but I'm only offered new stuff that I'm not really interested in.
This is downright racist.
I agree with everything you wrote! And yet... the endless myriad of programming languages which don't bring anything particularly new is still annoying me. Perhaps I'm just getting old :)
I found the book 'How to Win Friends and Influence People' pretty helpful to understanding how important emotions are when working with people. After reading that book, you wonder how you ever dared to break that rule.
Can you explain to me which benefits exactly the article is describing that is over the line? With quotes from the article.
1. No, it only kills the validity of IQ tests for which the examinee has practiced, and only if the amount of practice is unknown and the amount of improvement is large and unpredictable. Nevertheless IQ tests correlate with performance on a wide range of cognitive tasks.

2. Environmental factors affect everything. You try to standardise them as much as possible for an operational definition of the thing you're measuring. You will never succeed completely. Nevertheless IQ tests time correlate with performance on a wide range of cognitive tasks.

3. Not sure anybody really understands what's going on with the Flynn effect. Nevertheless IQ tests correlate with performance on a wide range of cognitive tasks.

4. I'm sure it is in fact impossible on some level to create genuinely culture free tests. If we're going to be anal about this, this is a consequence of the various no-free-lunch theorems in statistical inference. For any culture/person/algorithm there are problems where they'll do better relative to others, and problems where they'll do worse. Nevertheless IQ tests correlate with performance on a wide range of cognitive tasks.

5. I'm sure they do, but I haven't read the book and the summary in the Wikipedia article is too vague to tell.

None of these objections actually engage with the parent comment's assertion that "Ability to solve these puzzles correlates with ability in a diverse range of cognitive abilities".
I actually really agree with this too. It helps normalize comp across all life choices too. There are so many, some which people get salty about suggesting it's a form of "comp" .

For examples:

* I basically don't drink so anything that has alcohol as it's selling point is non-comp to me

* I'm not going to be a parent so why cant I have a sabbatical in place of parental leave?

* I basically don't get sick, and when I do I still manage to deliver decently. Why not pay me out sick days? I could just lie and take them, but why should I have to?

-* and before someone goes exclaiming "Privilege!" remember these are real life choices with costs borne in other areas of life -- for example the choice to not have children is going to be very expensive when I'm older and have to pay for everything that children do for free taking care of their elderly parents. It's not a pure privilege, but a temporal shift of cost/benefits. *-
>Tolerance of intolerance is intolerable.

You say that as if it was some law written in stone, whereas it's nothing more than a thought experiment by an influential philosopher (which, in itself, is far from an absolute authority wrt how humans should behave).
> It's hard to type (holding shift for two keystrokes)

Not if you've swapped : and ;, like I have!
I hadn't even thought to tinker with this, because the auto-volume stuff is not that annoying... but now that I know it's there I'll try it out, so thanks for posting this!
> Either a system is sustainable or it's not. If it is, it can continue forever. And, if it's not, it won't. One way or another, it won't, though you can pick the method early on, and later, reality will force it on you.

The mistake you are making is thinking the plastic system is a closed system. It is not. The plastic system is part of the universe, which is populated by people who constantly create new knowledge to solve problems. And we never know which new knowledge will be created which will affect this system.

For example, when nuclear power was invented one might have predicted that cheap, clean power would be available to all. But you probably wouldn’t have predicted the environmentalist backlash to it and resultant continued dependence on fossil fuels.

Or Malthus predicting worldwide food shortages and starvation as the population grew. He had no way of predicting the invention of fertilizer.

There are a million examples of this but the takeaway is: people solve problems and create new knowledge that is constantly redefining what is possible.

> The history of civilization collapse is the history of this reality being forced on groups of people who thought it didn't apply to them.

On the contrary, the history of civilization collapse is rife with people who insisted on thinking about things as closed systems and stifling open ended progress (e.g. ancient Sparta).

It is actually hard to think of an example of a civilization which couldn’t have been saved if only they had the right knowledge. Say the cure for a disease or a piece of military technology.

I believe that is the point the other person is trying to make. That humans continually solve problems, create new ones, and rapid progress means a higher likelihood of developing the new solutions needed.
I was going to say this exactly. We've started doing this recently and it's worked really well.

We'll start off with a topic and give everyone, say, 15 minutes to write ideas in the doc on their own. Then take the next 15 minutes to read digest what everyone else wrote, and then rest of the time to discuss as a group.

It's great because it gives everyone a chance to think through the topic and share their perspective, but also you can quickly see the common themes.
It does make sense from one perspective I've seen. Scammers are using 2FA to lock people out of their own accounts and demand a ransom for the tokens. Happened to a friend of mine a couple months ago.
There is no evidence that the SAT is a function of practice and training, and a lot of evidence that training has only a small impact on SAT scores.

See, for example: https://nepc.colorado.edu/sites/default/files/Briggs_Theeffe...

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Benjamin_Domingue/publi...

These controlled studies show an impact of something like 10-35 points from coaching and other prep.
I used to be a libertarian, but reading about international organized crime made me realize we do need the state because these people won't be stoped by NAP principle-touting ideologues. financial havens definitely and provably assist in building organizations that can subvert governments, and not in favor of your freedoms I assure you.
I think what you are missing is cheaper places don't offer the same quality and standard of living.

Although this may force people to skip the overrated bubbles.
I have used voip.ms for years. The basic plan costs approx 1 usd/m with no contracts, etc. and any messages received can be forwarded to and responded from email.
I would invert your statement and posit you were riding in very dangerous areas. Most of the US is very safe compared to St. Louis, Chicago, Oakland, Richmond (CA), Detroit, Atlanta, etc.

Don't go to stupid places filled with stupid people doing stupid things and you'll likely be okay — and this includes bars after midnight just about anywhere. Nothing good happens after midnight, but I digress.

I agree with you that it was a good thing you were on a bike and I'm glad you're here to post about it!
Just one thing keeping me on Google for email/calendars: Search. I recently switched back to the Gmail app away from Spark for this. Don't have any examples off the top of my head, but I routinely encountered situations where I'd search for something in Spark or the Apple Mail client and couldn't find it out without using Gmail desktop/app.
I've been following this feature request for awhile now: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/32712

Look at how many different hands this had to pass through before anything got done. I don't think I've seen any startup survive working like that.

Oh and nothing is done yet, 5 months later. It's still in the "design phase".
Translation really is a major problem with Anime/manga. The unfortunate thing is the pirated versions often have better translations and translation notes vs the official release. Why? Because it's mostly just a bunch of nerds trying to share what they love.

It seems like the studio translators are very often just trying to churn out a translation as fast as possible. It gets a little better when dubbing is involved (because someone ACTUALLY has to speak the line, which makes bad translations/awkward phrases a lot more apparent)... But, like you said, there's often a lot of editorial choices to make sure things are palatable to the widest portion of the English speaking population.
I was mostly referring to parties, though a liquid lunch during a (rare) slow week is not unheard of and can prove quite conducive to meetings.
Awesome!

One very minor suggestion: Can you tell me what keys to use (in the UI)?

I figured out the arrow keys, but I just don't know what keys map to A & B.