skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mobile note: if you just click "feed" and then back to "decision engine" again, it will render much more nicely. (thanks version_five!)

Hi, I'm one of the devs! Been interested in improving decision making for awhile (doing PhD in one aspect of it that can be assisted by AI and been reading a bunch of decision making books and psychology papers recently). Would love to know what you think of this MVP and this general direction (tons of improvements we have in mind if we go full steam ahead). Especially interested in hearing from people who already use decision tables or consider themselves "maximizers"; I suspect we can make the decision process much less painful for y'all (I'm one of y'all). Here's our website: https://www.oogway.ai/
It's not something you can find any information on online. I think this is just not something noweb users do.
Can you name one desirable outcome that is not also a desirable opportunity? If we draw a Venn diagram of desirable outcomes and desirable opportunities, and they exactly overlap, then what's the difference?

I do agree with everything you said. I think I'm arguing philosophy and you're arguing more concrete economic policies. In realm of policy, I agree with you, in the realm of philosophy, I'm not sure I see a distinct difference between outcome and opportunity (see my first question).
I dont mind leaving my phone as long as I’m with my kids. I cant imagine something happening to them and I didnt know for x-amount of time because I decided to leave my phone.
Just save a bit of money and then quit your job and see what happens when you stop paying your bills. The fact that you're that far removed from actual poverty is both highly encouraging and disgusting at some level.
Can cryptography change the state of affairs in this regard?

The whole problem is reputation management here. From eBay's perspective, they did not have strong enough signals that you are an honest person.

With cryptography, you could sign something like "It's me, Joe So And So - signed by the owner of joesoandso.eth". "Oh and here are cryptographically signed endorsements of 3 of my friends who are long term users of eBay". So that eBay has strong evidence you are a reputable person. In an automatable fashion.
Chargebacks can only be contested by the merchant if they have enough evidence you talk your bank into reversing.
Depends what you mean by “xyz”.

A cheaper part of your country? Yes.

A cheaper country? It makes it easier emotionally for managers to take that step, but there are still time zone, cultural distance and language issues arguing against it. They may even deem the extra paperwork to be too much hassle for them.
Yeah, I'd be throwing out all of my shit.
It isn't "misperceived", they are actually harmed when adjusting for their SAT scores and academic records.
Until very recently it was also a dependency of Bootstrap. That’s why it’s in my project (can’t upgrade yet).
> It just takes up more room and uses more electricity.

It also probably has less open hardware than a Raspberry Pi.
Monzo will do this; I signed up for a bank account without a permanent address, and had one within 30 mins of arriving in the UK. They still require an address to mail you your card (so not the same target market as the OP), but it wasn’t too onerous.
The early game in The Sims is kind of like a poverty simulator, but eventually it gets a lot easier.

I assume that some mods and things of that nature can make the game more difficult.
For the same reason people have been posting ads offering hacking services here.

Misunderstandings and hopium, mostly.
If you're privileged and carrying the feeling that you need to be the provider in your family group, that facet of your life experience would be improved by greater equity in our society. The patriarchy harms everyone, including those that it privileges.
> But why can't this be true? Numerous studies have shown that genetic and particularly cultural traits produce vast differences in cognitive ability. Most recently for instance in a story about Korean twins separated at birth[1].

Let's be honest, the reason so many people are opposed to this view is because it has been wrongfully used in the past to justify very real oppression and inequality of opportunity. At the very least, it is a very dangerous mindset historically, and even now it's not very well understood.

For example, in the study you mentioned around Korean twins, one was raised in a fairly standard Korean household while the other was tossed around the foster care system and had multitudes of setbacks given to them. And yet people will still use it as evidence that these differences are inherent and unchangeable. Do you not see how this reasoning can lead us to ignore our own blindspots and biases?
The problem with "letting the market decide" (which is very similar to what you're suggesting - "If you don't want the interview I'll take it!") hides long term (negative) impacts and costs. "Letting the market decide" has made fossil fuels cheap enough that we've got a climate crisis.

"Sure, we destroyed the planet, but for a brief period of time the hand of the market ruled fair!"
This is what meditation is about, but replace "phones" with "everything"!
If you live in a society controlled by people who have concluded that it’s okay if your outcomes are terrible because you culture, genes, cognitive abilities, etc. are inferior, then I don’t really see any sense in which it makes sense to say that you received “equality of opportunity.” And my claim is completely independent of how confident the powerful people are that their beliefs about your inferiority are big-T True.
100% the issue.

That said - whenever you bring this up, probably worth mentioning the important caveat of 'historical injustice'.

For example, some 'underperforming group' may technically have 'equal access' to education, but if their parents are absent, gangs everywhere, no role models, over policed, and become cynical and standoff / thuggish by age 15, and fallen so far behind there's 0% chance of them leveraging supposed educational opportunities ... well ... then is it really 'equal opportunity'?

Definitely one could make economic and plausibly racial arguments.

Second - there are issues of visible representation.

Even if we took 'the most competent and qualified people' to be in US Congress, would it be good if they were 100% Black Women, or 100% Asian Men? Probably not. In some cases 'representation' is a form of 'qualification'.

Similarly for TV readers, some high profile things.

I don't think that it matters that much in private things and the issue is pushed too hard.

...

So we should not be dismissive or lacking in intellectual rigour or even empathy with the issue.

That said, yes, 'forcing equal outcomes' is going to be dystopian.

Also, I fear that it's really easy to push the idea of 'equal outcomes' and it's as 'ugly populist' as 'ultra nationalism / my country first' etc..
PowerToys Run is fantastic as an app launcher. Not quite as good as Alfred on MacOS but then nothing is. There's a bunch of similar apps for Windows (I used to use Hain) but none ever worked quite right for me, PowerToys Run does though.

FancyZones is awfully nice too for just putting a window somewhere at a reasonable size and location.

As other folks have noted SysInternals is another similar rogue Windows product by Microsoft. Process Explorer from there is indispensible, as is Autoruns.
We don’t do that, but we did a lot of pair programming when I started and my productivity was through the roof.

The equivalent in commercial settings should be pair programming. I was on the headset with another programmer who would realize some concepts only as he put them in words and explained them to me.

But the same thing was the case in academic settings. I could tackle some problems only in dialogue (again over headsets) and only in mutual we would even be able to come up with many solutions. I found that it only works in a pair settings and it breaks down in a setting of three.

I think once we engage the speaking part of our brain we unlock something that makes us find solutions instead of take ambiguous shortcuts.
Not sure what all the down votes are for, I’m English and this is completely correct.
I think it’s worth trying, even if it’s hard to implement. If Signal and WhatsApp can do it, Twitter can too.
"Massive white-collar overproduction means the victory of sharp elbows over sharp minds."

Some of the oil states have hit this in a big way. Egypt, for one. Egypt at one time guaranteed employment for all university graduates. That resulted in the government employing a quarter of the workforce. The US is around 14% government, and it's mostly local government - teachers and cops. In the US, this becomes about half the people with college degrees doing jobs that don't need a college degree. A college degree in the US no only no longer guarantees a middle class lifestyle, it may have negative economic value due to debt.

The solution of overproducing white-collar jobs is at first natural and then dysfunctional.

We see this in college administration, where the administrator to professor ratio has doubled in 25 years.[1] If you look at pictures of factories from the early 20th century, there's a common pattern - a small administration building in front of a large factory. We no longer see that.

I'd expected the US to hit "peak office" about two decades ago. We may see that now, but it's because of working from home, not a reduced need for white collar work.

[1] https://www.huffpost.com/entry/higher-ed-administrators-grow...
> So which societies have adopted them and it lead to negatives?

I'll leave this as homework, find societies than have ended worse than they were without any external cause, you can group by democratic, aristocratic and dictatorial societies, examples are not scarce.

> I would like an example and also an explanation for why these things aren't solved problems in America then?

Because we don't know how to solve these issues. I'm not sure what you'd like an example of.

> That also does not mean the USA is working and working well for people, hence the millions of suicidal teens. It's possible that no system is working.

Agreed, my point this whole time is that what you call the solution other people call the cause.
Being forced to pay for council parking in the UK using a mobile app is completely astonishing to me, and leaving home without your mobile, or no data or a broken phone can cause you a world of difficulties.

I didn't agree to wanting to normalise the removal of parking meters and mandatory app usage just to park your car in a park or highsteet. I'm not sure where this motivation started.
Even the nationalities are debatable. A lot of the national identities didn't form until the 18th or 19th centuries.
My phone screen was cracked, I had to leave it with the repair place for an hour or two. It was glorious.

I leisurely strolled past shops, sat down to eat something without being distracted, and generally enjoyed being outside. I had to ask someone for the time.

I resolved to go without phones more often, as it made me feel connected to me environment more, with less stress and reduced absentmindedness.

Of course I never did and promptly returned to my 4+ hrs/day of phone time. I am not ashamed to admit I feel somewhat uncomfortable pooping without my phone.
Going to call BS on that one. Employers have been required to physically verify employment authorization documents (i.e., SSN or passport) since 1986. (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-resources/handboo...)

Work authorization status also affects a number of things related to payroll. So it's not a trivial issue for one person, acting alone, to make up a bunch of fake employees. In order to get away with something like this in real life, there would have to have been someone else at the company in on the fraud (since, as you claim, it's a "BIG" company).

And since payroll is involved, you are looking at several federal and state felonies, which means its not the company's choice to file charges or not. Multiple state and federal agencies would pursue this even if the company did not.

This story would have been believable if you had said it was at a small startup without an HR department.
This is what I did in a very similar predicament. They sent me to collections after the chargeback and dinged my credit.
Scapy is an exceptional library that I enjoyed using for a recent project. However, I felt that the focus is entirely on capturing and analyzing traffic. If you want to manipulate the packets then the API is a little unsuited for that (for example recomputing packet checksums requires some invocation to pretty-print the packet which is weird).

OTOH, really amazing project to put together quick packet-level prototypes. Really shows the strength of the python ecosystem.
This is a common scam on platforms like eBay, and it seems like Paypal's policies in particular make it very hard to get your money back.

Tracking numbers can't be considered anything but public information, considering both the ease of scraping and all the 3rd party sites to enter them on for tracking.
I use the window zoning thing all the time to center windows at less than full width on my ultra wide screen.
>Isn’t that what happens with women and causes misogyny?

I'm not sure what you mean.
I've been trying Obsidian, Foam, Dendron, etc., and most of these Zettelkasten-like editing environments have issues with relative links (i.e., they don't let you specify a base folder) and/or completely ignore front matter, which makes them hard to use when you've got 8000-odd posts across a big directory tree.

(taoofmac.com is like that, and is actually a pretty big wiki)

I've been resisting hacking my own, but I suspect I will eventually have to :)
It wasn't text-to-speech, but me typing too fast helped by Android auto-incorrect.
Something connected to even piece of your PII is likely connected to past fraud or unpaid fees. That plus the category and quantity of the items you’re selling probably triggered this
This was my first time going after “senior” titles, and was also the first time I’d seen system design interviews. They only cropped up in final rounds. I had them at Amazon, Uber, and three other companies.

I was supremely nervous about them before but I actually wound up doing really well (save aforementioned DB crap). It was a chance to talk about my personal niches, like accessibility and load times.

Frustratingly, every single one was wildly different. I found that approx. 0 of the “cracking the system design” stuff I read beforehand helped in anyway.
I feel uncomfortable leaving without my phone, for one simple reason: I’m typically leaving with my pup, and if anything happens to either of us I want to be able to call for help. Pay phones are basically non-existent, people understandably don’t like to let strangers use their phone. It’s just a basic precaution.
Something that, at minimum, allows a user posting ability/"dept organizers" from being able to mess with plugins and other random admin stuff! =]
That happened to me with Discord.

Signed up, logged in, then was banned.

Luckily I use throwaway emails for everything so I just made another.
I was thinking about transpilers lately.
Can you point me to examples?
In this and the GP we have Vitamin D and depression in a nutshell.
TOTP itself doesn't require a phone number, but the Authy phone app from Twilio managed to screw up their TOTP implementation and it requires a phone number. I filed a bug with them and they finally acknowledged that it's deeply embedded in their implementation.
It’s simple economics, dealing with false positives have a negative ROI, so these businesses have a fiduciary duty to fuck you over..
Supersymmetry syntax
This is only true if preferences are equal as well.

Say group X prefers job 1 to job 2 by a 3:2 ratio, and group Y prefers job 2 to job 1 by a 3:2 ratio. Assume that equality of opportunity exists, and equal numbers and qualifications of both groups X and Y.

The expected outcome is that the X:Y ratios would be 3:2 in job 1 and 2:3 in job 2.

If job 1 pays more than job 2, then the "equality of pay" outcome is not achieved. Group X is paid more than group Y.
Also take a look at https://github.com/davidbrochart/nbterm
That's the case with nearly every indigenous people though.
If you lower the threshold far enough you'll also hit some of the most active users.
Yes it's called arbitration and it's in the eBay ToS.
The “advantaged ingroup” presented in the study is not “the wealthy”, but rather “white Americans, people without a disability, men, and non-felons”.

They’re not addressing the question of “the wealthy”.
It can get hairy due to how most apps are developed.

You'd usually have backend code guarding against constraint-violating entries, and then you'd have a database constraint too.

So what you need to do now is test almost exactly the same thing from your code test and from your database test to get proper coverage.

Enter declarative ORM schemas, and suddenly there's not even a guarantee that the schema you are running really matches what your ORM thinks the schema is.

For that reason, I prefer all those SQL-based database migration/evolution approaches over ORM-based schema generation, coupled with pure SQL tests (eg. with pgTAP, but yeah, any tool can do).

Basically, even for declarative code, there should be a unit test, a la double-entry bookkeeping in accounting.

And even if this is what I prefer and believe is only right, I never worked on a large company project that did all of these things.

So I don't think the entire topic should be easily dismissed: while unit testing is simple, have you ever worked on a project that tested db-schema embedded logic exactly at the right level (and not the level up)?
Your take assumes that highly paid highly respected jobs aren't a limited resource.

In most universities there is a fixed number of PhD slots determined by the available budget. Then each person getting one of those jobs is blocking someone else from getting that job.
It's not only that the rate is adjusted for locale but that the disparities in USA are much larger.

In USA a very senior engineer at a FAANG in California will earn 20x times more than a junior engineer at some small midwest company. In UK a very senior engineer in London will earn perhaps 4x that of a junior engineer in Wales.

In USA "pays very well relative to other professional-level jobs in the local labor market" will often mean a compensation that's double or triple of those other jobs; in UK "pays very well relative to other professional-level jobs in the local labor market" would imply a 20% or 30% difference.

That makes a meaningful conceptual difference.
Why is his compensation or net worth newsworthy?

I have no dog in this fight but I fail to see how more than one article on this topic is news.
> many humans see equalized outcomes as more a dystopian nightmare

That's not correct.

First: even in conditions of equal opportunities, outcomes almost always include a percentage of randomness.

Practically all developed societies understand that and employ forms of progressive taxation and wealth redistribution. This is widely supported by economists except few fringe libertarian extremists.

Second: difference in outcomes are seen as justified only within reasonable ranges.

Polls show that people find acceptable for top performers across various jobs to earn 2x, 3x, 10x the average income. Not 10000x.
a little late for mothers day will use for father day!
Check your diet. Just because you take vitamin d supplements doesn't mean it gets absorbed into your bloodstream.
> corporate leaders are foolish and misguided.

> corporation made a smart decision

The bankers who traded subprime mortgages and fucked off with their gains made an excellent decision. The corporations didn't, because they are not real, they don't make decisions.

Just because something is in the interest of a senior leader, does not mean it's in the interest of the whole company.
Well you have a choice in e-commerce marketplaces. You don’t have a choice in justice systems.

eBay does not have a monopoly on violence.
This seems to be the issue every time people bring up equality. The truth is that we are doing a lot better in terms of equality of opportunity than we give ourselves credit for. And equality of opportunity often produces disparate, unequal results - like in countries with better gender equality, where we see more unequal distributions of workers in different fields [0].

The dishonest argument that equality = equality of outcomes will harm us in the long run and push us towards unhealthy and draconian social policies.

[0]: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/02/the-more...
> When someone’s values are so different it’s hard to have any sort of meaningful conversation.

This is something I spend a lot of time thinking/worrying about.

I deeply believe that to make meaningful progress, we all need to start listening to each other. Not just what others are saying outwardly, but looking for the underlying reasons they’re saying it - their values.

When someone’s position on policy is drastically different than my own, a conversation about values often reveals that we’re not so far off in terms of what we believe. They just got stuck on their particular implementation detail.

But when values are worlds apart, what then?

On the plus side, I’ve encountered far more people who fall into the former category - disagreement on policy - then I’ve encountered in the latter - a true chasm between our value systems.

The frustrating part is that the same group of people in the policy disagreement category are quick to lump me in with the value extremists without stopping to make sure that’s what I really believe.

And such is the state of modern political discourse, where championing equality is derided as a fanciful dream about equity, when nothing could be further from the truth.
I went without a phone or social media for like half a year and people legitimately thought I died or something

Haha
Dementia Is a Place Where My Mother Lives. It Is Not Who She Is
> Pixabay does offer a legally binding license to you, written here: https://pixabay.com/service/terms/#license

"However, it is your responsibility, to make sure the depicted content (persons, logos, designs, property, etc.) is suitable for your use and does not infringe any rights" (https://pixabay.com/blog/posts/pixabay-license-what-is-allow...)

What happens when the depicted content does infringe through no fault of the user who got the image from Pixabay?
it's largely because when people claim the opportunities are the same even though the outcomes are different, they're lying. So, you just cut to the chase and try to improve the outcomes.
This may very well be true, but only as a post-hoc explanation.

Reactionary politics (all politics, really) have their home at a subconscious level. Politics are ways of feeling and acting. It's an error to think that if the other side had more "common sense", they'd see the light. Even animals have politics. Only the most _surface-level_ politics can be affected through logical explanations.