skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
'This is a ridiculous' is name-calling in the sense described at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html:

When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. E.g. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."
Understanding of others is probably more correlated with an elite education than not.

It's just that understanding of others is relatively rare in the first place among all humans. It's just way more annoying from elites because they tend to think they're very open minded, even when they are not.
I agree, there are even people who don't end sentences with full stops. The bastards.
So would this lead to self-censorship on social media?
Of course the bad guys are going to have fake social media accounts, so I don't see what benefit could accrue from such a policy.
Well, we're getting there. If you're interested in ML with Go, there is Gorgonia: https://github.com/chewxy/gorgonia

I've been using it for several years to build pipelines
You can be jailed for anything. That's what you accept when you give up your rights to a sovereign state, controlled by people who use fear.
Sorry, but this makes my head hurt.

>>> best chess engines are still worse at analyzing openings than humans.

>> Is that actually the case, or perhaps humans try a lot of sub-optimal opening lines?

> Sub optimal from the perspective of the AI

There's no perspective involved: optimal play is perfect play, assuming the opponent also plays perfectly. If a move is sub-optimal for White that means White has a better move, no matter what the opponent plays.

Sure, in practice a non-perfect-player might do better playing a sub-optimal move A rather than a better move B, because they don't know how to continue after B or because their non-perfect opponent ends up replying even more sub-optimally to A.

But just because I can manage to pull a fool's mate on someone that doesn't make it an optimal opening. One could say I might be "optimizing" for fun or for time, but if you redefine optimality arbitrarily then the original claim might as well be "chess engines are worse than humans at analyzing openings because they play better than humans".

PS: I'm not claiming that chess engines are better or worse than humans.
And, incidentally, playing an inferior move while hoping the opponent makes a mistake is bad even if it works, as it really hinders your progress.
I also work at GitLab on a non-infra team. Here is Sid's explanation:

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/infrastructure/issues/727#note...

I, personally, was apprehensive of going to bare metal for most of the reasons that Sid lists in the above message, and I think that making the app just _better_ is where we should focus before we try and run to pure hardware to solve the problem.
There are at least two failure cases here:

- a military AI in the hands of bad actors that does bad stuff with it intentionally.

- a badly coded runaway AI that destroys earth.

These two failure modes are not mutually exclusive. When nukes were first developed, the physicists thought there is a small but plausible chance, around 1%, that detonating a nuke would ignite the air and blow up the whole world.

Let's imagine we live in a world where they're right. Let's suppose somebody comes around and says, "let's ignore the smelly and badly dressed and megalomanic physicists and their mumbo jumbo, the real problem is if a terrorist gets their hands on one of these and blows up a city."

Well, yes, that would be a problem. But the other thing is also a problem. And it would kill a lot more people.
In my experience, the drivers are usually very happy to talk about Uber - including how much they're making. They will often tell you what they're getting paid for the same ride, which you can compare to how much you're paying. I have never seen them get paid less than what I was paying, and am often surprised how much more they're making (it can be 3x depending on the promotions).

Yes, this data is limited. But all signs point towards Uber hemorrhaging money with no easy way of becoming profitable. And we know that competition can easily swoop in by looking at Austin, where Uber and Lyft left. It's a race to the bottom until self-driving cars are a reality.
He was awarded the doctorate for one of the papers (the photovoltaic one, if memory serves), after extending it one sentence to meet the minimum length requirement.
Funny enough, Geisel has many of the same problems that Boston City Hall/ Gov't Ctr. does...two that leap to mind is that the entrances to both are hidden under the concrete superstructure, and that the pedestrian approach to both at ground-level involves crossing a flat, empty concrete plain.

Rarely if ever did I see anyone at UCSD taking advantage of the area underneath the stack tower, even for shade on hot summer days. That said, the view from the stacks, with the floor-to-ceiling glass, was spectacular. Especially looking north, down the slope of pepper canyon. The rest of the library has the sort of issues that are common to Brutalist buildings in La Jolla-for instance, reinforced concrete is not as durable when sitting close to the ocean as you might hope. As was put by a faculty member I worked with "...the windows don't open; but they do leak!"

I prefer the enthusiastic futurist poured-concrete '60s buildings to the craptacular corporate office-park nonsense that so many newer buildings on campus
have.

Fun fact: Pereira did not intend the Geisel Library stacks to look like the concrete & glass banyan tree that got built...it was originally supposed to be a concrete sphere on a single, giant column!
I actually was thinking more about "avoiding the government" for immigrants who are already here, and over the long term, than the actual border crossing bit. But that was an interesting read nonetheless. Thanks for sharing.
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The stock market in the 1920s held far less importance then than it does today. At that time, very few people had access to the stock market. The shoe shine boy anecdote is mythology.

It is true that margin calls cascaded to obliterate billions of dollars of value, but the investors impacted were mostly trading firms, banks, and capitalists. Joe sixpack had no exposure to it since there was no such thing as a market-backed pension fund (who even had pensions back then?) and 401(k).

Corporate earnings did not drop significantly during and months after the crash. Production and consumption were not affected.

The primary reason for bank failures in the following year were from agricultural defaults. The small, regional banks were the first to fall, not the big city banks.

I don't contest any of your points except "The roaring 20s caused the Great Depression." The economic growth in the 1920s was steady and mostly not speculative. The stock market was speculative but Finance was a much smaller part of the economy at that time. An avalanche of other factors were the causes.

I have no firm opinion regarding post-WW2 growth as anomalous. I think that the idea has merit. The scope of my argument is limited to 1890-1933.
> Or give public schools $3K per student,
> and you'll see huge changes. It's a lot of money.

Yes, you'll see them spend $3K more per student. You won't actually see any improvements in the students, though.

http://washington.cbslocal.com/2014/04/07/study-no-link-betw...

The public schools have many problems; lack of money is not one of them. Having any idea what to do with it is.
Good point, that adjective changes everything. In regards to scaling, yes I haven't met performance scaling issues with Python web applications, even when needing long running asynchronous tasks by relying on the ever popular celery and redis, because I've never had somewhat even moderate traffic. In hindsight, I am guilty of over-engineering previous web applications "to deal with potential scaling issues", especially at the infrastructure level, leverage clusters of containers when I could of got away with Heroku.
> LG would only enforce its own very minimal, objective & limited constitution. As a corporation within LG, USG would have to make USC enforcable without help from LG

In general libertarian thought, the government enforces contracts between private parties. What you're describing sounds more like anarcho-capitalism.

> Only if its in my interest to do so.

In Libertarian thought, following contracts is a moral requirement. I have no disagreement with what you're asserting here - actually I think it's a good check against overbearing contracts. But we have to share a context in order to have a discussion. The tenets you're describing aren't libertarianism, at least in the US sense of the word. My entire point here is to help US-thinking libertarians avoid falling into the trap where their philosophy is bastardized to justify replacing government with all-powerful corporations.
It's incredibly trivial to get this kind of quality if you're willing to go out of your way and pay a relatively small premium to get it. Many local markets exist.

Personally, I don't find it to be worth it, I don't notice the "quality" as much as some people seem to and I'm not willing to pay even a small premium for it. You've picked a few particular things, some of which only appeal to a very small niche market - you might argue that people have learned out "quality" in their tastes, but that's an opinion, not a fact.
That said there are plenty of verified expert-level players there, whom are probably at least 1 standard deviation above and beyond satisfying 99.99% of the world population of people looking to play chess.^1

[1] - https://en.lichess.org/stat/rating/distribution/blitz
I don't think he made that case, either. But it doesn't stop some of his observations from being thought provoking.

I do agree that a science professor would likely have an entirely different perspective.
First off, that's a blatant ad hominem.

Moreover, if your best argument against the guy you're claiming is defrauding everyone is "I can't be bothered to read his work"...
Flight crews should have an onboard device--I'll call it a tricorder--that constantly scans the electromagnetic spectrum onboard watching for certain things. "Please turn off all whatevers" should not be left to the honor system. You scan and find what's on, always showing you a live report.

If it finds something unusual, it could be carried down the aisles and quickly locate the source, whether in your hand, your pocket, your luggage, or below in the cargo hold.

It should also have jamming capabilities that will activate instantly and automatically in some cases, manually in others.

With this extra monitoring should come extensive testing of just what is and what isn't an issue--an the necessary reengineering of avionics, etc., to make certain things no longer be an issue--so devices that must be off can be guaranteed to be off (or quickly found or instantly jammed), but on the flip side, things that don't actually need to be turned off can be left on.
It's entertaining how far we in the states go in denying we have classes. Some years back a blogger tried to cook up a taxonomy of our class system. Since we don't have words to describe them he adopted archaic Indian terms instead. Brahmins are the NY/CA elite, Vaisyas are the Trump voting worker caste, etc.

https://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2007/05/castes...

Other writers have recognized and described it too: http://siderea.livejournal.com/1260265.html

Even our very own Michael O. Church: https://www.meetup.com/Philadelphia-Political-Agnostics/mess...

I'm with Mz on this - we should start explicitly recognizing our caste system.

It's been helpful to me; once I figured out our castes and where I live in it, suddenly a lot of things clicked into place. For example, why do so many people not recognize me as white? It's because I don't give off the cultural signals of being upper caste (Brahmin in Moldbug's taxonomy) but I'm solidly within Brahim professional and social circles. Given these mismatched signals, Kashmiri or Argentinian seems like the most plausible hypothesis.
Kinda hard to recommend a portfolio from a guy who admits it is broken and is still trying to fix it.

Honestly, I think that this is probably the only thing that makes me think there could be something worthwhile.

All portfolios are broken in some way. It's refreshing to hear a proponent of one admit it and try to fix it.

(Also, I highly recommend Lewis' "The Undoing Project" if you think this is a problem)
There is also Azul Zulu Homebrew cask available, but last I checked it was a couple of patch version behind.

https://github.com/caskroom/homebrew-cask/blob/master/Casks/...
> a choice not psychologically available

I feel like you missed his argument by about 3 words.
It's a common misconception that the stock speculation bought on leverage was the cause of the depression. Indeed, margin calls caused automatic stock sales to cover the leverage, forcing stock prices down.

However, the cascade of bank failures occurred due to due to defaulting agricultural loans. The loans' refinancing requests were suddenly refused when European powers pulled currency out of U.S. banks in order to pay their war debts and reparations.

The stock market crash was not the cause of the depression; just one of many larger factors that precipitated it.
> Grass fed beef is higher quality than corn fed beef

So - can I taste the difference? In what way is it "higher quality"? Is it a difference I'm willing to pay for or one that isn't really worth it? I think we've settled with what we have because the quality improvement just isn't that much, if it's noticeable at all.

I've compared many organic and local products side by side with commodity variants and found little to no difference to my tastes, so I have to wonder - is it worth it at all? Certainly not to my cheap palate at least.
Of course, it does have a cheeky tone, though I think all of my points stand. The "interesting points for a layman" are actually a series of straw-man propaganda arguments. It does not argue in good faith and it should not be afforded the legitimacy of a thoughtful opposing position.
Your last paragraph is most crucial to being sympathetic towards this article, as most of the comments here have fallen into "damn the man" raving.

If you're in the position of having elite status thrust upon you, it's generally in everyone's interest that you actually be good at that, and not just told that you're good at it because you followed the rules.

We must assume that most people, most of the time, regardless of their apparent status or agency, are not strong-willed philosophers, but prisoners to scripted expectations and obligations. We will all try to avoid struggle and have it easy, and in doing so condemn ourselves to the life of the living dead by staying in an ever-diminishing comfort zone. And for someone who is in this state to step into a role with great power and then coast along without vision or direction - well, that sure does describe a lot of people!
> We were “the best and the brightest”

I always have to laugh when I see that phrase used by people who clearly don't know the derogatory connotations that it has carried since Halberstam's book of the same title.
Omnibus makes a ton of assumptions about how many things you want bundled, as well as the monolithic configuration is daunting. I'd suggest breaking up into smaller containers for each service. No matter what container medium you choose, the philosophy of omnibus isn't something you want to 'containerize' as it is.
use-the-most-appropriate-tool-for-the-job-dammit

Wow, and to think some fools think the most inappropriate tool should be used.
I wouldn't tell them shit. I would tell them I have none. Prove me wrong brown shirts.
That's well within the reach of a single trade.
Would you care to place a bet on which jobs will be replaced by technology?

Banks haves acres of class A office space filled with people preparing powerpoints to show each other. Those jobs will go away.

And those are the people who hire management consultants.
I'm puzzled. I have been referring to a quite old article that doesn't mention anything about FBI anymore. Unless I'm heaving early Alzheimer, I can swear reading at multiple spots that Nathan Blecharczyk was once on 100 FBI top wanted. I'm confused by this, however I guess the minimum I can do is not mention that "fact" anymore.
I'm glad so much of the discussion here is about suburbanization. As a staunch urbanist I want to beleive this is a huge cause, but I must admit the "alone in New York" counter-narrative is also compelling. I think I have to speculations on reconciling the two.

First, I think we can agree that frequent interactions with another is a necessary (if not sufficient) condition for friendship. If so, it should be obvious that density is good but size is bad.

Second, I believe our major metros—especislly since the great invertion—attract a certain sort of person less likely to foster community. Your steriotypical new gentrifier is career-focused with strong sense of individuality, moving for work, and, perhaps most importantly, fresh out of school where making friends presents very different challenges.
You're half right, but you ignore market dynamics. Silver Tuesday [0] is a good scenario where the value of a precious metal was inflated due to the behavior of market participants and not an intrinsic value of the material.

There is a rational basis for everything's price but scarcity and signaling making up huge components of that rationale.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Thursday
Torch is a great library, and Lua a fine language, but they are competing against ecosystems built on the world's largest languages.
Nor it will ever happen because he arrived in Russia without possession of any documents. They had had already been taken by Laura Poitres and Glenn Greenwald.

As many of the commentators have already stated, they should either exonerate him(not likely) or figure out a way to brand him a peadofile.

My guess is; if they were to label him outright then everybody would call the government out and they maybe put in a awkward position of vindicating him. Will be interesting to see what 2017 brings.
I haven't used it, but I understand there are iOS and Android ports of Torch.

https://github.com/clementfarabet/torch-ios
...against one of 2 strains.
TL;DR:

Going to an elite school

1. denies you the opportunity to empathize with anyone beyond a narrow spectrum of socioeconomics and culture

2. anoints you with a sense of self-worth and entitlement that is, if earned at all, only founded on a narrow set of skills: analytic ability and hard work

3. admits you into the class of seductive "entitled mediocrity", which allows you to fail spectacularly with essentially no real repercussions

4. constraints you, via social pressure, to a narrow set of "prestigious" career paths, among which you might not find the one that is truly right for you

5. shelters you from failure and encourages the idea that it is unacceptable, leaving you less likely to take on risk which might be necessary for growth and fulfillment

6. "is profoundly anti-intellectual", because students are encouraged more to acquire power and all that is necessary for it than cultivation of one's intellect, which requires such slothful indulgences as sitting in solitude, journaling, or even making time to have a relationship with a close friend

TL;DR for the TL;DR: elite schools' "real purpose is to reproduce the class system", instead of to grow their students' minds.

I'll add that when I read Deresiewicz's article in the New Republic and then went to his talk on my undergrad institution's campus, his tone was markedly more bitter than it is here in 2008. I suppose the situation has not improved in his eyes.
The Challenger explosion is one of my first vivid memories from my childhood as my mom was letting me watch the launch on TV as a 3 year old. I also had an understanding of death at the time as I asked my mom if they were in heaven (which was as advanced as my understanding was at the time). This is a fascinating read 30 years later.
In addition to the other responses, the ecosystems around Rust ML (e.g. scientific computing) are still very early and the Rust ML community itself is still fairly small. Take a peek at arewelearningyet.com
The tolerant left, everyone.
I've been using:

"theme": "Soda Dark 3.sublime-theme",
"color_scheme": "Packages/User/Monokai (SL).tmTheme"

and generally happy. Not sure it is "modern" with the bells and whistles of the themes the post suggests though.
Every serious lib was written in C/C++ under the hood long before TensorFlow came along.
I would think that it goes without saying that higher education is not the 'be all end all' in overall 'life' education.

While I don't believe the author is directly incorrect in his claims of of university behavior/culture, I feel like most of the 'disadvantages' he lists are of his own decisions, whereas for a lot of people they are forced.

'Yet it is precisely that opportunity that an elite education takes away. How can I be a schoolteacher—wouldn’t that be a waste of my expensive education? Wouldn’t I be squandering the opportunities my parents worked so hard to provide? What will my friends think? How will I face my classmates at our 20th reunion, when they’re all rich lawyers or important people in New York? And the question that lies behind all these: Isn’t it beneath me?'

There's nothing preventing the author from being a teach aside from his own mental barriers that he can overcome himself - I'm sure if he applied, most school boards would leap at the chance of having him. For others though, that simply isn't the case, and they have real, hard, economic/environmental barriers.
There was a response to this which quoted some statistics, including the argument that overall crime had decreased in the USA while the illegal immigration population had increased. I wanted to respond, but it seems to be gone.

This trend is true, but this is the kind of statistical manipulation that happens when emotions come into play about these kinds of sensitive issues. Comparing trends in overall crime with the growth of a minority population is misleading, as it's a minor contributor to total crime, even if it is disproportionate, especially in violent crimes. Some arguments even switch briefly to talking about legal immigrants, which is a completely different population. Also, this is an international issue.

There's plenty of interesting information in the USA. I like this article because it shows some of the errors on both sides.

http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/2015/12/04/problems-w...
I've been thinking about this a lot lately, and am coming to the conclusion that it's similar to dead-weight loss in a taxation scenario. As a society we've accepted the "lower efficiency" and deadweight loss of rejecting {thing}ism because we don't want any one {thing} to get wrongly persecuted only on the basis of it being such a {thing}.
That's why we built deeplearning4j and datavec, fwiw. https://github.com/deeplearning4j
Its popular to believe so, since corn is branded as evil these days. But of course corn-fed beef is tender, juicy and flavorful. Grass-fed is tougher, leaner and less flavorful. I know which one I prefer.
Do I think people in tech should be subject to the type of popularity contests that domestic workers in Imperial Britain experienced? No.

My point was that there is enough caution around these sorts of conversations with references, that companies already avoid them, even though it might expose them to other dangers.

I think it was a potentially harmful suggestion, because if it were a more widespread practice, people's career prospects would increasingly change for non-meritocratic reasons, and therefore the productivity within the industry as a whole would suffer. However, it's simply easier to talk about the potential legal jeopardy it puts people in in the near term.
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