skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But it is, because it ignores the reality of the situation. "People don't like to be constantly shown ads, and so if you don't show ads too much they might respond to the ads. They also say they want more truth in advertising so you should refrain from over the top advertisements that promise the moon." sounds like a reasonable logical argument. Except that practically speaking its not how it works and contradictory things often get you results. The main problem is that we're dealing with humans and also that logical arguments don't work well in heavily interconnected contexts.

As programmers we like to isolate and optimize and we will continue to run into a wall when we try to apply that in human contexts.
I've heard various stories. The claim that the people and rulers of Medina voluntarily submitted to Muhammad seems unbelievable to me, given Islam's history of "coerced" conversions, but what's beyond dispute is that Muhammad became the ruler of Medina.

Whether that was completely voluntary...well, history is written by the victors.
The divide over immigration isn't over immigrants -- but illegal immigrants. Huge difference. The "anti-immigrant" meme is inaccurate. It's "anti-illegal immigrant."

If someone were to refuse to pay taxes the Left would be livid; if someone refuses to respect the legal immigration process, the Left calls for amnesty.

My wife is a naturalized citizen from Mexico -- it's insulting when people call for amnesty for illegal immigrants while US consulates all over the world have lines around the block for people to apply for immigrant visas.

When we have military veterans that can't get decent care at the VA; I feel a huge resentment at a single dollar supporting illegal immigrants in any way.

Refugees are quite another story: refugees commonly aren't illegally entering the country, but have gone through the proper processes.

The Left supports the so-called "path to citizenship" only because the majority of illegal immigrants would vote Democrat if given the chance. Case in point: note the silence at the Obama administration changing the wet-foot-dry-foot policy for Cubans. Cubans historically vote Republican, so that policy shift illicited not a single protest from so-called "pro-immigrant" groups. A women with a felony convictions and a deportation order resulted in protesters blocking roads. Janet Reno deported Elian Gonzales back to Cuba and the Left supported that. Yet the complete opposite logic is used to support the admission of unaccompanied minors who arrive from Central American countries.

The Democrat support for illegal immigration is nothing but playing to a particular constituency that they need in order to have any hope of winning elections. Cynical? You bet. Look at Lyndon Johnson's comments about black people as an example of that disingenuous "compassion" in action.
I definitely agree people deserve second chances and make mistakes. Especially people who are young and have more money than they are accustomed to having.

At the same time, it is really, really hard to look upon this charitably when he was screwing with something with such high stakes. I get that 24-year-old kids don't take much seriously, but for goodness sake don't use your money for political purposes without thinking it through.

Heck, having millions of dollars makes me dislike him kind of like how people don't like Hillary for being successful and having millions. At least Hillary took her position seriously and attempted to look like she was trying to do the right thing, vs Palmer's 'shitpost 4 days, memes r life' bullshit.
That's a good point, but still shouldn't these people be held criminally liable? I feel like they went well above what any local law would allow for their behavior.
I think it's rather refreshing to have someone speak out against scientism, thank you for the book.
Yes. I like this approach.

One challenge with immigration is the development of ethnic communities (not bad in and of themselves) which can prevent complete assimilation. This sometimes leads to hard feelings on both sides and makes it hard for immigrants and descendants to truly "belong, prosper or contribute" to society at large. The problem becomes worse when you throw generational poverty in the mix (in cases of immigrants from lower income regions).

As bad as public schools may be they do provide one valuable feature in my opinion. They promote assimilation.
Whatever you think about Musk, or Mars, this aspect of his business is just amazing. SpaceX is incredibly impressive, and the novel approach to landing and reusability is really moving things forward.
I actually wanted prepare in production, because it would have allowed me to override the class dict with an ordereddict, which was a more preferable solution to making output jsons deterministic than just sorting the components, but you do what you can.

As for init subclass, if you're alright with a DSL that does weird things with the class line, it can be useful, as an example applied to SQLAlchemy, they could do this (in pseudo sqla):

class MyTable(Table, primary_key='uid'):
uid = Column(int)

which would enforce via the api that there can only be 1 primary key.
I think the idea is that it keeps you engaged much longer than an ordinary ad would. Now, that just pisses me off when I figure out what's going on because you're deliberately wasting my time, but the claim is that it's measurably more effective than shorter, less-rambling copy. Used to be lots of posts about it on HN, few years back.
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> Do you have evidence of this claim? How do you know? Please show sources.

Of course! There are really two claims in my argument that I need to defend:

1. Pay is effecting the number of highly skilled people who enter the field. (Also that standardized testing is effecting the number of high skilled people who enter the field, but that was a bit of a tangential point I think?)

2. high skilled teachers provide better educational outcomes.

I THINK you're asking for evidence of the non-parenthetical portion of 1, so that's what I've provided. If I mis-interpreted your request for evidence, definitely let me know. I have cited good introductory essays for each of these three claims I've made.

So, here's evidence for the claim that pay is effected teacher quality.

This article from WaPo is a pretty balanced perspective (despite the clickbait title), citing some major names on both sides of the debate. It doesn't contain any of the data or analysis -- just competent summaries -- but it does link to the actual research if you're interested:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2016/08/...

From there you can follow bibliographies and get a pretty decent picture of the landscape.

One key take-away that resonates with my experience, both interacting with STEM teachers and tutoring college kids: "Generally speaking, the small fraction of the most cognitively skilled college students who elect to become teachers has declined for decades (Corcoran, Evans, and Schwab 2004)". Other research does the work of tying those choices to various things, most notably pay.

> You don't believe poorer kids have worse outcomes in life?

Of course I do.

What I don't believe is that local school districts are anywhere remotely close to taxing people into poverty.

Your claim was NOT that "poor students perform worse", which is what all your evidence backs. Your claim was that education budgets are such an enormous drain on household incomes that they make an appreciable difference in quality of life. I think that's probably bullshit.
Yes. They should if they are in the United States.
Yes, if wilt spends the money he made on things that don't further concentrate his money-making ability then it will cascade and circulate, helping create the imbalances necessary for activity (economy).

The effects of spending your money can have three types of impact: 1) you spend money in ways that don't directly offer you further capacity to concentrate wealth (food, drugs, entertainment, (clothes, cars, and houses are arguably marks of status which in many societies is a tool for further wealth concentration). 2) you spend money in a way that reduces other's capacity to concentrate wealth (you spend money to abolish the school board in the liberal capital of a rural state in the bible belt, like the Waltons and Stephens just teamed up to accomplish in Little Rock, Arkansas. (thanks guys!)) 3) you spend money in ways that can directly benefit your competitive advantage in making money. In the business world we call this Capex, or capital expenditure. Spending money on things that help you make more money.

I think it's important to say:

What is money? Money is a store of value, which is used to peacefully coerce others to do what you want them to to. It can be used to convince others to do your bidding, or in the case of a well established (specified) civilizatiobn, people have already done the work they expect you to want, and are ready to make the exchange. Changes to the product or process happen over time, with the consumer communicating to the providers what and how he or she wants a specific thing, and will guide businesses with the placement of his or her own dollars. This is why these guys spend more on 2 and 3 of this list: money is a form of power, where you can dictate not only what but the way products and services are rendered. And as a member of the elite class of producers and financiers, it is further advantageous to impede any one unit or subgroup of consumers from having enough money to coerce the elite into business practices that favor consumers
Crickets: chirp, chirp.
Sure, but we don't really need Tesla to give us electric cars. Every auto manufacturer is going to be doing that soon enough.
This almost sounds like an advertisement.
It looked like one of the grid fins got toasted. Will they still be able to stick the landing? fingers crossed

edit: and they did it! I was pessimistic for a minute there!
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Creating educational content is a part of it, but (generally speaking) I think we tend to fetishize curriculum content because it's tangible and relatable. We've all seen curriculum content by virtue of being a student, but that doesn't provide a great deal of insight into what else a teacher does in their professional practice.

Curriculum content (or Planning, more generally) is a part of it, but so is lesson performance and assessment. It's a closed loop that should be feeding back on itself. Right now, I'm interested in how teachers could move from a 'creation' to a 'curation' mode of working to give them greater freedom to focus on the high touch elements of the job.

Shoot me an email. I'd be happy to chat more.
And they caught it again. Truly amazing.
They've landed it too! Amazing!
And they stick the landing!
Sitting here smiling ear to ear :) Also interesting how many references there were to the Mars mission in the lead up to the launch.
SpaceX Lands Reused Rocket
I saw that! I wonder if it was from the entry burn. I was worried because as I saw the fin get toasted, the video cut out, but that was because stage 1 went trans-sonic.
g.711 has such low latency because it doesn't take advantage of inter-sample redundancy in any way whatsoever - it's just raw 8-bit samples at 8 ksps with a compander on either end (traditionally on the analog side of the DAC and ADC).
Couldn't agree more. I see exactly _no_ potential use cases for this.
Damn straight, Twitter's most iconic affordances @ and # were community driven (i mean, they're old IRC syntax but still we never did get '/slap' )
Which is why I said "nobody outside their counsel's office".

Here, we're all pretty clear these aren't good-faith deadlines, but rather negotiating devices intended to coerce people into accepting terms without consultation with their own lawyers.
Used Falcon 9 first stage has landed on of Course I Still Love You
While it should be, it's not. There has been lawsuit after lawsuit of pharma reps that promote off label uses of drugs among many more egregious acts (typically at the behest of the pharma companies).
WorkMail is DoA. Horrible product.
SpaceX makes aerospace history with successful landing of a used rocket
CONGRATULATIONS SPACE X!
"Coal plants are the nation’s top source of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, the primary cause of global warming. In 2011, utility coal plants in the United States emitted a total of 1.7 billion tons of CO21. A typical coal plant generates 3.5 million tons of CO2 per year2."

http://www.ucsusa.org/clean-energy/coal-and-other-fossil-fue...

Ever wonder why you read that you should avoid eating fish because of mercury?

"...Every state in America has issued health
advisories warning people to limit or avoid eating certain species of fish due to toxic mercury contamination, many of which cover every waterbody in the state.
...Coal-fired power plants are the single largest source of mercury contamination in the U.S., responsible for
approximately 50% of human-caused mercury emissions."

https://www.nwf.org/~/media/PDFs/Global-Warming/NWF-Mercury-...

These are long terms effects of burning coal - in the short term tens of thousands die each year from the air pollution from coal plants.

The failure of government is that we allow coal and natural gas to be burned when there are alternatives that are much better for the environment and much better for the general health.
I think it may help that Canada is so young. Nobody can pretend to have a claim to this land above anyone else (except for the aboriginals, who we continue to fail.) I'm as Canadian by way of British colonization as it comes and I grew up hearing stories about how my ancestors immigrated here due to tough times at home through the 1800s. We are all immigrants.
That "live" Elon interview seemed really pre-recorded... Did anyone else get that feeling?
"The Left supports the so-called 'path to citizenship' only because the majority of illegal immigrants would vote Democrat if given the chance."

Thanks for poisoning the well.
Amazing. But the video seemed to cut out right before landing.
Yeah, I think this is probably true. Hume was trying to argue that normative statements can't be reduced to or derived from natural statements about how the world is; Nagel's fighting the reduction of consciousness to positive, objective statements about consciousness, because of the existence of phenomenal character. There's a certain way to be a bat that's wrapped up in the very fact of its being a conscious being with a specific biology and neurology, but which is still irreducible to those features.

If you wanna link this up to an older philosopher, this is basically what Kant's on about in his Critique of Pure Reason. Our special human brain stuff is responsible for providing us with the faculties (e.g. understanding of things like causation) we have for understanding the world. We are always trapped in our experience of the world, and though that shouldn't preclude us from experiencing the world, you can't separate how we experience objective reality from the fact that we experience it as humans, with human brains and faculties.
An exploding offer is simply one that has a deadline set so short that the recipient must accept or reject on the spot.

In startup funding, they're intended to prevent you from comparing an offer to other potential offers from other investors. In the Airbnb case, they're intended to prevent you from consulting with a lawyer or further appraising your damages.
How is this off-topic? I think its a pretty good point.
That cut to black nearly gave me a damn heart attack haha. Satellite connection lost because rocket exhaust is basically a giant ionized cloud of noise.

Elon looks like he hasn't been getting enough sleep or showers, and like he's about to back flip and start happy crying.
History made, their biggest public accomplishment since the first landing!
> Depending on a member’s current assignment and cover concerns, the EAA would evaluate which tiers they could participate in

EAA Sports: It's in the game. "It" being operational security concerns
Doesn't that heavily depend on the teacher though? I don't disagree with you in principle, but couldn't the reason so many people try to dictate the best way to teach is because there are a lot of bad teachers?
This is awesome. Congrats!

One thing that is missing (or hard to find) is the number of etcd nodes and the number of Kube master nodes that were used to back this cluster. Are there recommendations for this? For example, does adding more etcd or master nodes improve performance? My assumption is that scaling etcd or master nodes would allow the cluster to tolerate more failures and not improve performance, but I am not 100% certain. If there is an official doc on this, that would be great.
Shitposting in real life.

Essentially taking comments you might find on /r/The_Donald and posting them on real life billboards.
You could see the flicker of the rocket exhaust reflecting on the panel at the back of the drone ship in the split feed so it was at least extremely close when it cut off. Probably the rocket exhaust interfering with the transmission as well as the blast simply pushing the platform out of alignment.
I wouldn't draw such a conclusion just from this article. One of the things it highlighted, and that I feel as well as a Canadian, is that to a certain extent the sponsors acted in ways that benefited themselves over the refugees. Like the lady who wouldn't show them how to use the bus, because she's wealthy and doesn't ride buses. Or when the sponsors refused to let the kids' parents work through a simple issue like the school bus not showing up, and instead injected themselves into situations they didn't belong in. That was selfish and self-aggrandizing.

People are people. I think there are many Americans who would be happy to sponsor a refugee family (and indeed many have donated towards sponsorship costs for Canadians), but their government doesn't let them. Likewise there are a lot of Canadians that are virulently opposed to refugees coming here and getting government assistance after their private sponsorship assistance runs out. In fact our own government put the brakes on the sponsorship program early this year.
only that they cut to him as they were counting down... it seemed genuinely teary
Although when the technical webcast went black just at the moment when I'd expect the vehicle to come into sight, I was sure that something had gone wrong and they'd pulled the plug.
Not without shutting down free trade agreements and becoming protectionist, which virtually everyone agrees is a bad idea.
Even having that argument in the first place is basically crypto-dualism.

The idea that there is objectively such a distinction is 100% reducible to any other attempt to assert that some definitional dichotomy "actually exists". It's exactly isomorphic to any other argument about taste. What is a sandwich, what is a car. An argument about whether a fetish is hot, between a person who has it and a person who doesn't. It's all the same damn thing.

Shit like that is why I hadn't stop taking philosophy courses in university. It was just rehashing what always came down to this exact same essentially platonist theory of forms bullshit, over and over and over.
I have not owned an nVidia card in years. However, I am about to buy a new PC, and I got a used GeForce GTX 960 for cheap from a coworker, so I have the option at least. ;-)
> It doesn't seem fair to forever conflate Palmer with Trump

It happened about six months ago. That's a lot shorter than "forever". Even in Silicon Valley time...
Wonder if they will be able to launch it a third time, though, since it seemed it did get a bit more damage on entry this time around. Either way, impressive.

Btw, does anyone know how reusable these things are expected to be in the near term? As in, would a perfected Stage 1 be expected to be able to fly 10 missions? 100? 1000?
Yet the Trump administration's first action on immigration was to curb legal immigration. And if you bring up H1B on this site or others you will find loads of people who hate the program.

I don't think the claim that the right only wants to curb illegal immigration stands up to scrutiny.
I didn't downvote, but I wanted to add this:

Many years ago, I was staying with my then-girlfriend and her parents. Her mother, deciding to prove to me that I was sexist and prejudiced because I'm a male, started by talking about a TV show (Scrapheap Challenge) where teams built machinery out of pre-selected scrap. The show starred a male comedian as one presenter, and a female as the other.

To underscore that I was sexist, she told me that one of the presenters was a qualified engineer - and took my surprise to mean that I assumed it was Robert Llewellyn, smugly announcing that it was the woman.

What she mistook was my surprise that either of the presenters was a qualified engineer. I expected the engineers to be off-camera, advising the teams. Ultimately, I would have been far more surprised to learn that Robert Llewellyn, an accomplished comedian as well as a television actor, is an engineer than any given woman.

It seems to me that those who present evidence of gender bias can be quite selective in the constructs used to demonstrate this bias.
> As bad as public schools may be they do provide one valuable feature in my opinion. They promote assimilation.

It shouldn't be at the expense of other students though.

If there is an influx of students that aren't proficient in English, and the school is not prepared for this, then other students will suffer.

ESL classes are crucial to proper assimilation. Of course, that increases costs. So, either funding decreases for other students or taxes increase.
No. If it was pre-recorded, I'd be surprised if he was "lost for words".
They warned that would happen, the real time coverage is a good show of confidence.
Yeah, everything about that seemed pre-recorded, especially considering how calm everyone in the background was. Understandable though considering how busy Elon is.
This is a great essay, and I would highly recommend this as a counterpoint to Nagel in terms of explaining consciousness ("qualia") if you want to get the most out of Nagel's argument: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/27/daniel-dennetts...

If Nagel things materialists can't explain consciousness Dennett thinks they can. E.g.

"The obvious answer to the question of whether animals have selves is that they sort of have them. [Dennett] loves the phrase 'sort of.' Picture the brain, he often says, as a collection of subsystems that 'sort of' know, think, decide, and feel. These layers build up, incrementally, to the real thing. Animals have fewer mental layers than people—in particular, they lack language, which Dennett believes endows human mental life with its complexity and texture—but this doesn’t make them zombies. It just means that they 'sort of' have consciousness, as measured by human standards." Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, MARCH 27, 2017 - http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/27/daniel-dennetts...

More detailed counterargument by Dennett: https://www.amazon.com/DARWINS-DANGEROUS-IDEA-EVOLUTION-MEAN...
Why does Twitter hate itself so much?
A huge amount of early schooling is little more than basic socialization, literacy, numeracy, some vocabulary, and most of all daycare. Later it ostensibly becomes more focused on learning, but really it mostly just teaches people how to learn (in theory); that pretty much continues through high school, and sometimes much of university.

It's a pretty ancient edifice that exists in the current form due to societal, intellectual, bureaucratic, political and corporate inertia. All of that is backed by the terror parents feel that if they "get this wrong" the child will be unable to get ahead in the world (at best) or intellectually/socially ruined (at worst). This is further exacerbated by parents who, far from appreciating just how long it takes for real learning to begin (and how much of it is always self-guided), think the key to raising bright children is Mandarin in infancy.
Headed to a museum, probably, after some testing.