skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you step outside your bubble put your ear to the ground so to speak, you'll find the world isn't so black and white.

I have a friend who's a family attorney and I wish he was exaggerating about all the fucked up cases he tells me and his colleagues have. Women pulling every trick in the book in order to have a baby with an unwilling partner (of which include lying about being on birth control, and in one case, digging in the trash to get a used condom and attempting to get pregnant that way) more common than you think. In almost all instances, men are completely blindsided and then sucked dry by the courts.

You don't hear these kinds of talking points from feminists though. Equality in the court system simply isn't a priority to them.
You can do persistent connections but it only applies to the same child process and you don't have fine grain control over this process if you choose to use it.
Session cache is stored on disk.
This just seems like something riding GPU hype. We run a medium sized Memsql cluster, and get better performance on larger tables with more complex joins than they do in their demo video...and we do this for much cheaper than the lowest g2 instance + AMI. Our data is quite narrow, so fits in RAM quite well, but I would bet that even Citus would fare quite well against this.
No one ever argued the consensus was unanimous.

You can probably find a scientist or two who believes in the flat earth idea, but that doesn't mean there isn't a scientific consensus that the world is round.
Harris Poll – Majority of Adults in Favor of the Law Legalizing Abortion
A standard internet boast about not getting past sentence n, where the snark gets bigger as n gets smaller, is nothing worth posting here.

The article's author may not be a native English speaker. If so, the dismissal was not only unsubstantive but parochial. We have a lot of international content on HN and users need to read it charitably (and read other things charitably too).
It's not just a matter of hardware. People didn't really know how to train neural networks more than 1-2 layers deep at the time. This is also before convolutional neural networks were invented by LeCun.

This network is literally 30x32 pixels => two NN layers => steering decisions. No convolution, no semantic segmentation. It's a very cool technical demonstration, but we've come a long way since, on every front.
> Here you can see the problem of these congressional committees: they hear from a few people on one side, and a few people on the other, completely unaware that the few denialists they've heard from are basically all of them

The committees (largely their staffs) choose who is going testify, and they absolutely know this.

To the extent they pretend not to, that's because they are trying to use the hearing for propaganda purposes.
Is large scale energy storage any better than just using nuclear energy?

They don't have the "nuclear" tag scaring people away, but modern batteries and capacitors are still very dangerous and have a lot of environmental hazards to go along with them.
The idea of "demand" for hate crimes doesn't even make sense, so there isn't any argument to respond to. Clearly, the intention of the original commenter was to minimize the existence of hate crimes. That is what I was responding to. You might also bear in mind that it is not difficult to find other examples of hate crimes than the one I chose, or to find official statistics:

https://ucr.fbi.gov/hate-crime/2015
As a former chemist, I think there's always a role for a gadfly in science (or in any profession). But part of being a gadfly is acknowledging you're probably wrong and the majority is probably right, and not trying to intentionally sabotage others' efforts. For a good example of what it doesn't look like, take a read at Scott Adams (Dilbert) blog, where he argues that the mainstream climate science community isn't just factually wrong, but they're actively deluding themselves. That sort of statement doesn't contribute anything to the situation since the only way they can stop 'deluding' themselves is to accept the opposing view.

There's nothing wrong with criticizing the status quo, so long as it's done honestly, with the humility to say: "I 'm probably wrong," and that's where these guys seem to go wrong. They're sure the majority is wrong to begin with.
"A bicycle of the mind"

Jobs was not only a great showman, he was definitely a genius.
It doesn't stop them using it in a Lua script. Better off renaming the function in the config file to a some UUID.
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I have no problem with a five minute check to make sure that I'm not just flat out lying when I claim to be able to code. There are a surprising amount of "senior architect" types that can talk all day but can't write very simple code.

I'm never doing another hour-long whiteboard interview again in my life however. The whole process has become so gamified now that most new entrants have practiced the exact types of questions asked hundreds of times. I'm not interesting in spending a month of my life doing that any more and I no longer need to.

The whole SAT-prep feel of the interview process now is tiresome.
that looks like an example from YC's text on how not to describe your startup
ISPs don't have to pay the content providers that cable does though.
twemproxy is not the best piece of software when it comes to maintenance of code quality. But it works reliable. We are still using twemproxy and we are maintaining our own fork of it. This fork often has changes from us, like bugfixes or introducing new redis commands that are not supported yet.

Every bug we fix we apply this as a PR.
A few PRs from the repository we have cherry-picked internally and deployed.
But we have also a few issues with it like this one here: https://github.com/twitter/twemproxy/issues/442 or live reconfiguration would be a nice feature.
Think about it if you really need this, because it is not only fun.
A few pain points:

* Deployments of new configs and restarting twemproxy on your server farm

* New redis version with new commands? Extend twemproxy for those command support

I don't now any _real_ alternative to it, right now.
I know from https://github.com/Netflix/dynomite which is a twemproxy fork.
When we had only memcached and no redis (we are using both with twemproxy), then we would try https://github.com/facebook/mcrouter from facebook. But it is specialized on memcached.

If you come up with an alternative, please let me know.
On the other hand, the people who use electron are generally people who should be using Qt.
So It's my hobby side project.
I want to try to implements vdom.
> I don't think the elite aristocrats in previous centuries had any problem with not working.

Exactly. And they were not doing any kind of "art" either, for the most part. They went hunting. Sometimes they made war to one another (usually, only in spring and early summer, because the rest of the year, war was too inconvenient). They had intrigues (who slept with whom).

I fail to see how work as it is currently understood, ie a 9-5 job, has any connection to any kind of "meaning". Life is already meaningless; but it's unpleasant. If we can make it more pleasant by having machines do the work, how is this bad?
> Have TV ads lowered the cost of cable?

Almost certainly.
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>when handled properly

That's the crux of the nuclear issue. Everything works great in the theoretical world where everything is handled properly, all factors are properly accounted for, and all tradeoffs were wisely made. That is simply not how the real world works, and Fukushima reminds us of that.

No matter how many failsafes you put in place, they will, at some point or another, be breached. The question is then "What happens when every failsafe fails, and is that risk acceptable compared to the alternatives?"
Thanks for the message, glad you had fun playing round with it and appreciated the amount of work that went into it!
We've reached the point where more people are arguing that access to X is a fundamental human right, where X is something that requires resources and labor to provide.

As the breadth of what is socially argued to be a human right increases, you'll find that those working to provide the labor and capital will be increasingly deprived of the fruits of their labor to provide for those who are sitting around watching TV.

There are many leisure activities I would like to partake in and would be able to partake in if so much of my income didn't go to taxes. I'm not saying all taxes are bad, but the scope of what taxes are increased to support only increases under a democracy. A democracy will always result in the election of those individuals that promise to give benefits for free, when thevtruth is that the benefits will increasingly come from those in the minority.

I currently still think a democracy or republic are the best form of government compared to others that have been tried because it prevents abuses by a few against many, but it fails to prevent abuses of the many against a few. I'm not sure how we can achieve a governmental form that generay prevents abuses in both directions.
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Even just the top 4 of your list include "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" and "Memento". If those don't count as fabulous concept movies, I don't know what does.
It's a little dishonest to state a casualty rate when the spent, toxic fuel going to be deadly for a few hundred thousand years yet. That problem is so very far from solved, and it's a massive problem.
>think about a plane architecture being made of plastic instead of aluminium: this will not happen soon

Actually the trend is towards carbon fiber (reinforced plastic) laid out on a mold https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUp9Yl6-QBM
Consensus in the literal sense of 100% agreement? Correct.

But there is consensus in the everyday sense in that 99%+ of climate scientists agree climate change is real.

Latching onto the idea that lack of perfect consensus means anything is pointless. There are people who believe Earth is flat, so technically there's no consensus on "round earth" theory either.
I think quite a few companies would love to try and compete with Asia on labor cost, and a good many have. I'm not trying to argue against the value of corporations or anything, but I think it's generally agreed that the goal of corporations is to make as much money as possible for their shareholders. To that end, companies are going to pursue profits (i.e. lowering labor costs) over creating good paying jobs whenever they can. I'm sure many CEO's would, in theory, prefer to keep middle class jobs over profits, but in reality many of them know that they will be replaced if they do. It's rare that they can have it both ways. Also, it seems to me that given the choice between creating a few middle class jobs or a larger number of subsistence level jobs, large corporations have more often chosen the latter. "creating" more jobs looks better on paper and it's easier to fire someone if you have a larger pool of candidates to replace them with, or, better yet, pick up their slack while being paid the same.

On the subject of unions, I was interested to see here, https://www.bls.gov/news.release/union2.nr0.htm, that in 2016 only 10.7% of workers were union. I certainly agree that unions have traditionally been a force in keeping wages high, but I don't think they are really the best case to use as an example of US manufacturing as a whole. I'll be the first to say that I haven't really researched it, but it seems to me that quite a lot more then 11% percent of US manufacturers have moved their operations overseas.
The OS can be smart enough to load identical libraries once. But it requires them to be the same file. This can be achieved with Docker image layers and sharing the same base layer between images. It could also be achieved with content-addressable store that deduplicated files across different images. This would be helped by container packaging system that used the same files across images.

Page sharing can also depend on the storage driver; overlayfs support page cache sharing and brtfs does not.
But that's not how services are priced... you can't guarantee that how/what a private entity will cross-subsidize. The whole point of a Universal Service Fund (for telephony) is that there was no motivation for this kind of monetization.

As for the gov't getting tax revenue from selling the information, that's just unpersuasive. First, it's an incredibly indirect way of getting the revenue, and second that could be used to justify any profit-making activity, which makes it meaningless.
Out of subject, but I glanced at the title and kinda wished the name was "FreeDOM" :)
My worry is something like Verizon's "super-cookies"[1]. You can block requests to known tracking websites relatively effectively, but if tracking can be added outside your network there is no possible way to fight it.

[1]: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/verizon-x-uidh
Reminds me of "My Unhappy Life as a Climate Heretic" https://wn.wsj.com/stories/c81eb3c4-e367-4087-93aa-1f90b5de1...

Professor Pielke (his words) "was under constant attack for years by activists, journalists and politicians." The pressure to stop asking critical questions became overwhelming.

Seems there could be a place for viewpoints that don't go with the consensus, especially in an arena that is so highly politicized.
If they also create "red teams" to challenge their tax and health care policies I am all for it.
And since some things are easier understood from the outside, perhaps an intelligent second-person view on the human condition could be useful?
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Why can't you opt out of Google?
I was a military wife for a lot of years. The military provides excellent benefits, including free medical care for the family, that most civilian Americans do not have access to. I suspect quality of life for poor European children is generally higher than for poor American children because the government pays for things like basic medical care in many European countries.

I think it is incredibly hard to compare poverty rates in a meaningful way between such extremely different systems. I believe this in part because so many people new to the military look at the nominally low pay and bitch and moan about it and say they could do better outside of the military. Then they leave the military and find that their pay does not go as far as they think it will because they have to pay out of pocket for so many things that were free or had a nominal fee in the military.

For example, when we had on base housing, I had a phone bill but I don't think I had any other utility bills and I could go to a building on base, show my ID and check out a lawnmower for free or get free sod to get my lawn up to standard so it would pass inspection. When my kids were little, I could fill out a form at the military pharmacy once a month and get free OTC drugs, like cold medicine and Tylenol. (They no longer do this. Military benefits have been eroding for years. But cold medicine is not cheap and you need it endlessly when there are children at home.)

I have spent much of my life trying to figure out how to adequately compare the low pay and high benefits of the American military to the often higher pay and lower benefits of civilian jobs. I am good with numbers and it is really hard to do, even though it is the same country. I think the comparison you are trying to make is much, much harder to make than you realize. Different countries with very different systems for everything is very much an apples to oranges type comparison.

Please take my word for it that the quality of life of many American children is appallingly, shamefully bad for such a wealthy country.
I'm not sure what the comment about "grey haired workforce" is in regards too, but "storage is a tractable problem" is often said without evidence. I'd need to see a smaller nation decommission all of its base load generators before that claim can be considered valid.
Slight nitpick: The Shia-Sunni divide has plagued the Islamic world ever since the succession of Muhammad. Sure, Sykes-Picot aggravated it greatly, but it did not cause it.
Why would you only want the politicians to see it? Are they somehow unable to install adblockers or have aides take care of that for them? Don't be so naive.

Politicians do not care about such nonsense, because they don't have to deal with it, because they have power. What politicians care about is their credibility, and if the public can't see what's going on then it has no impact on their credibility.

You seem to think that what we need to do is help politicians understand the significance of what they're doing, and that once they see it our way they'll do The Right Thing. But this is to assume that the politicians and the constituencies that elected them share your basic values about fairness, privacy, and so on. In many cases, they don't.
You can choose not to use Google (and use DuckDuckGo or Startpage instead). However in most places in the U.S., you don't get many choices for ISP. There is no meaningful competition.

The ISP you mentioned, Sonic.net, is only available in a few select locations.
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I think MTA should also consider putting a barrier on the edge of the platform. So that we won't get dozens of people being pushed off to the rails.
Came across this yesterday. Can someone (maybe poster?) talk about when you would use this versus something like scikit-learn or any number of R libraries? Is the goal simply to have all machine learning in Java so it can be productionized easier?
I keep in touch with a group of friends via FB's Messenger app. Recently, several posts on the chat would have greyed-out boxes on them with an "add to story" button on them. While I understand that FB's looking to centralize and capitalize on what and how people communicate, I'd love the option to turn some of this more intrusive stuff off.

No, I don't want to put the contents of my chat into an FB post. If I did, I would copy and paste them into an FB post. To some degree, these changes degrade Messenger's usefulness as a chat app. I want to see content, not buttons begging me to become content.
> There most be an increasing amount of hardware/software with egregious business value (hundred million+) with a decreasing number of surviving/available designers etc.

See COBOL.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COBOL
No, it just means Westinghouse is going to get its debt restructured. They'll still keep operating under supervision of a bankruptcy judge.
Hearings are not held to get a neutral point of view.
I don't get it - what does that kind of fairness buy you or society? If it's enough when one side takes contraceptives, what logic argument is there that the other side must do the same? Economically (time, resources, even environmentally; the pill and condoms eventually end up in our water or the sea) this does not make sense.
Arguably there is a difference - Castro regime do not have half of Cuba with people of the same culture living in a drastically better conditions and most of population unaware of that fact.
The monotonic IQ increase can be attributed to improved nutrition and schooling. However, most evidence suggests that intelligence is genetically heritable to a large degree. Improved nutrition only goes so far; a really healthy pig still won't have human-level intelligence. At some point, we would expect selective pressure towards being less intelligent to catch up with us. Or, looking at it another way, we might be a lot smarter today if we had both the nutritional and educational advances of the last few centuries and a birth rate that wasn't higher in lower-intelligence populations.

Being poor or jobless has vastly more to do with (lack of) technology and access to resources than it does with your position on the intelligence distribution.
False.

The Commission election involves several steps.

First, the President is nominated. While this is technically a power of the European Council (not to be confused with the Council of the European Union), in 2004 the Parliament won the right to determine the president and the nomination by the European Council is only a formality. (Similar to the appointment of the British PM by the British monarch).

In practice, the choice of president is now the result of the elections to the European Parliament through the so-called "spitzenkandidaten" process [1], where each group in the EP nominates a candidate and the candidate of the largest party that can command a majority in the EP is chosen, who is then formally appointed.

Second, the Commission President in conjunction with the member states nominates the remaining commissioners. The EP conducts hearings, after which the Commission is voted on. The EP can reject the Commission. In 2014, this resulted in the rejection of the Slovenian commissioner [2] and the Hungarian commissioner being stripped of the citizenship portfolio [3] as the result of questions regarding Hungary's human rights record.

The EP can also remove the Commission through a motion of censure, Article 234 TFEU. This is what happened to the Santer commission (except that they resigned before the EP could vote them out of office).

Note that under the British system, the Prime Minister and his or her cabinet does not even have to face hearings. The members of the cabinet are simply chosen by the PM, the PM is appointed by the monarch.

That only the Commission can initiate legislation is not much of an issue and has more to do with how complex EU legislation is, which has to conform to the legislation of all the member states. The EP can propose legislation through Article 225 TFEU, can attach legislation to other legislation (such as the budget) through amendments if necessary (similar to how the US Senate gets around the Origination Clause) and simply force the Commission to initiate legislation or block other legislation (or, in the worst case, vote the Commission out of office).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_European_Comm...

[2] http://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/slovenia-s-nomin...

[3] http://www.novinite.com/articles/164253/Hungary's+Navracsics...
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> The point is that powers of veto are less influential than powers of creating policy.

Can you explain what you are talking about? Because I honestly have no idea.

> democracy (which to me means a directly elected executive body).

Which happens pretty much nowhere in the world. Even in the US, only the President is directly elected, not the rest of the cabinet. In the UK, Germany, Spain, the executive is not directly elected.

And in actual practice, the Commission President is the result of the elections to the European Parliament, with each party nominating a candidate and the candidate of the winning party getting the job.
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cool :)

you need a lot of tests to cover all your features as assurance that regressions won't happen and everything works as designed.
> Technology, meanwhile, has been developed even longer than logic has. However, just as the application of logic was long bound by the human mind, the development of technology has had the same limitations, and that includes the first half-century of the computer era. Accounting software is in the same genre as the spinning frame: deliberately designed by humans to solve a specific problem.

I firmly believe that any problem that can be framed in the environment of "producing an output given certain inputs" will be solved by ML in the near future.

Currently I'm deep in the process of transferring my lease. The process is heavily manual (I sign a form, they sign a form, humans review the form & make a risk assessment, etc.). There's no reason that the entire process can't be replaced with a CRUD wrapper around a ML model.