skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's worth re-reading this a few times to understand what Wigner was actually getting at:

He's specifically saying we have no a priori reason to expect that mathematics should have predictive ability in the real world, but it seems to do so (I'm not sure I buy this), and we should be thankful.
I'd be the first to say that people make bad economic decisions and companies are full of bloat, and even layers of management who attempt to demonstrate how they add value by laying off people more productive than themselves to achieve short term cost-reductions.

But as a general rule, I think "someone else thinks your job is worth doing to the extent they're willing to pay you more than you could earn in other jobs to do it" is a better metric for the usefulness of a job than "do you resent the fact people would rather pay you for long hours pushing paperwork than for the sex, drugs and rock and roll lifestyle of being a poet-musician", which is Graeber's preferred yardstick. (And if he's not spoken to any corporate lawyers that think what they're doing is very important, he probably hasn't spoken to enough corporate lawyers. Some successful songsmiths get sick of touring and consider their more successful songs to be sellout shite too.)

And the idea that jobs which probably don't add value to their business exist as part of some sinister "ruling class" plot because of the "mortal danger" of too many people dropping out to become poet musicians, as opposed to because the less useful employees are good enough at promoting themselves to protect their salaries from a shareowning class that would happily reap the rewards of firing them if it understood its business a little better is just silly...
I wish you could write comments in JSON files... What I would give to write the reason I kept this package at version 0.9.1 instead of upgrading to 1.0.0...

But it would also be useful for onboarding new members.
Vimeo is amazing when their player doesn't suck.
fman looks awesome...Norton Commander for mac.
> And much, much harder for applications if that "bag of bytes" is an invalid UTF-8 sequence.

It makes copying-and-pasting filenames as Unicode unreliable, for one thing.
Ear plugs for sleeping
Which sucks. I can't count the amount of times I've plugged in my iPad to charge and forgotten to check if the wall socket is switched on. On my android phone on the other hand I've never had this problem because there is an led which tells me if it's charging or not
Google glass also sucked as a business product.
It wouldn't be
Nice program, It would be great to put a comparative with the `timeout` utility from the coreutils
Yes but Kalanick and his bros are sociopaths. They will do anything/everything to try win the self driving car race even if that causes innocent people to die.

How is this legal and why hasn't he stepped down???
I'm just glad to see languages as old* as C++ evolve and continue to have improvements made. It's a good time to be a programmer: our tools just keep getting better.

*Old but close to metal and fast and versatile.
A note to James:

Sometimes it's difficult to be objective when you write your own, maybe it would be good to have a friend or associate proofread your piece before you publish to get more objectivity.

It's rather obvious to the reader you think a lot of yourself from the 2 phrases below:

. . . as a highly trained academic researcher . . . .

. . . when I’m not producing incredible scientific breakthroughs, . . .

Usually, these are the kinds of comments it's a bit safer/less appearing boastful, for other people to write about you - - not for you to write these comments about your self.

I would suggest there are a sizeable number of comp sci. folks, perhaps even some racist zombies out there who will read your piece that are are quite aware that the tech industry places what they consider an "annoying bias" on hiring women and minorities with little or no regard for skillset/ability just so they can "look good" to the Feds and the liberal media - - - and who publish stories that the Facebooks and the Googles of our world are dominated by male WASP employees - - - - and that somehow - - - for some reason - - - they should be ashamed of that.

In other words, you don't want to attract the wrong kind of attention by appearing to be boasting about your abilities to a world which is overwhelmingly dominated by male WASPs for a reason, and likely will be for the foreseeable future.

Just my 2 cents.

Regards,
> that much is beyond debate

I think you'd find plenty willing to debate you on that one!
Discounts on software (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, etc.) for developers who are students
That's not at all what the data is "telling us." That's just your political narrative of the status quo.
Probably a combination of two things. One is that the payer is not incentivized to value the work of an EMT. People don't really need EMTs that often, and even when they do, do they directly pay them? I suspect it's a combination of taxes and insurance funds that go towards paying the EMT, and hence they're a step removed from the person actually benefiting from them, which doesn't help the bargaining power of an EMT.

Second is they might not actually be important enough to justify paying them more. Markets work well when there is lots of supply and lots of demand, but if that's not true, then it's not easy to figure out where the supply curve meets the demand curve.

At the end of the day, I would postulate the answer is a combination of the above two factors, and a well qualified EMT simply isn't that important to society, and/or people who would make well qualified EMTs are not going to want to do that type of work at any realistic price point.

I wonder if EMTs in zip codes with wealthier people are better paid and staffed.
I think StavrosK is largely right in pointing out that most of your points are things many people think about, talk about, write about and are doing things about. Not only are veganism and vegetarianism both on the rise in the developed world, per capita meat consumption is generally either plateauing or declining in most western countries (though this is of course dwarfed by population growth and increase in consumption in developing countries).

However, even still, most vegetarians are relatively apologetic about their diet, and definitely consider it unacceptable to enforce it on others, or even to preach. They're essentially entirely accepting of this system of mass torture and killing - and most people will even consider that description of this system to be hyperbole, because it's the status quo.
Confusable characters look similar or the same to humans.

Canonically equivalent Unicode sequences look the same to machines.

The latter is a much more significant problem, because it can wreak havoc with interoperability.
Not all gladiators were slaves. Many were well regarded for their abilities.

We still have trophy hunters today, who hunt not for food or sustenance, but for a pelt or a tusk.

> are actually pretty safe

We used to think that Boxing and Football were "pretty safe" as well. Then we learned how much impact things like concussions have on a person's life. I can't really imagine that MMA is that much safer when I see people repeatedly being choked out, having joints nearly separated, getting knocked out...
San Jose and Oakland area job markets tumble
No its not like saying that. Distribution is access to volume, that distribution does not have to be have made on great content that can be made on so many other things like network, monopoly, wealth, political influence etc.
What does this paragraph even mean?

"On the same note, though perfectly correlated variables are redundant and might not add value to the model (and if removed, would be computationally efficient), a high-variable correlation could have additional information to add. In other words, two variables that are not correlated could still be of importance to the model. When in doubt, it’s safer to train the model and observe it’s performance."

The "In other words" part seem to talk about uncorrelated variables while the sentence before that talked about highly correlated variables. I always thought to discard one of two variables that were highly correlated.
You listed several things you don't like about it, and then said all in all you like it. To me, that seems a tad incongruent. I'm not sure if you actually enjoy it or if you're conditioning yourself to justify its presence because you have one. Sounds like the moaning is justified.
Yeah, the difference there is that you have to crack open your laptop or power it on to know if it's charging if there's no light. iPad? Press a button. Now you know if you're good or not.

Audio feedback isn't too useful either
The progression of myopia from its onset to adulthood: A 23-year follow-up study
Toyota thinks they'll need 8.5 billion miles of autonomous driving before they'll have statistically useful data about the safety of autonomous vehicles. Of course, by the time anyone gets to the 8 billionth mile of driving, the technology will have matured considerably, rendering the early data moot. So it will be a long time before we can start making data based proclamations about how safe autonomous vehicles really are.

Escalator accidents kill 17 Americans a year. So I wonder if the average American travelled as many miles per year on escalators as they do in cars if the death/injury rates would be higher or lower?
True. Plus Clifford is an awesome guy:)
Yes, I used that too :) Also some similar options on sshfs. But I'm glad I discovered this all before transferring critical data :)
For me its also a MacBook Pro 15". It's beautiful, durable hardware. You can use it for many years and sell it afterwards for a good price, if you want to upgrade. The OS combines the best of Linux and Windows, but looks better. The terminal practically takes the same commands as in linux, very powerful. The OS is well thought through as opposed to the mess you see with Windows sometimes.
I have never understood this stance 'C++ was terrible'. Even with the introduction of destructors - and exceptions! - C++ became way ahead of other languages of its time and almost instantly secured its well deserved place in the minds of programmers.
Making Athens Great Again
It is everywhere illegal yet slavery persists in many corners of the global economy. How do its beneficiaries justify it?

This piece was written by a professor, isn't there an error in the subtitle in the proper use of the English language ?

The subtitle would be corrected by stating: It is illegal everywhere, yet slavery . . . . .

(switch everywhere and illegal)
"pre-courage", I must admit, while accurate, I had a chuckle.
Apple audio especially with Airpods is full of glitches..
Planes are still useful for controlling air and ground. Maybe not against nations, but definitely against terrorist groups and unknown flying objects.
> ... file formats continued to serve as a critical competitive moat with immensely strong network effects.

I couldn't agree more.
This isn't true of apps such as viewers/readers that use App File Sharing.
I figure it's a simple case of what humanity considered to be wrong and right have changed. Our advancements in technology and society have changed what is required just to live; have given us room to re-evaluate the status quo.
Foreign Policy is a main media extension of the Council on Foreign Relations, an extension in the US of Chatham House and British Imperial cough sorry Commonwealth policy.

Relevant reading verifying they are part of a conspiracy against the US: Carroll Quigley.
Why is this downvoted... a sociopath is someone who holds a complete utter disregard for everyone but themselves. Does that not describe all and any of Uber's actions or this is getting downvoted because your one or want to be his bro?
In a capitalist society in which most markets are monopolized and industry regulatory agencies are captured there exist similar conditions to soviet union inefficiency as the author mentions - even if you call it capitalism; which differs significantly from the initial freedom of markets that capitalism creates as seen in 90s Russia.
I see graphical artifacts when I wake my computer up as well, though I have a 2013 MacBook Pro. I'm thinking it's a software issue, it never used to happen before macOS 10.12.
Thanks. I was a bit skeptical at first. May have sounded like sort of a dick as a result. But thanks for for the link. Cheers!
While this may not be the data GP is referring to, data from studies of people's responses in controlled circumstances when factors other than the apparent race/ethnicity of the person they are responding to are held constant shows that Americans, in general, are racist.
There is no they. The climate science community is not united.
"A car failed to yield to the autonomous SUV and hit it, authorities said. The self-driving SUV rolled onto its side as a result crash."

From http://www.abc15.com/news/region-southeast-valley/tempe/temp...
The more interesting statistic is of such and such "released" games, how many of those have fulfilled the satisfaction of supporters.

With traditional mainstream "AAA" titles coming out in such buggy and disappointing states, this could be a differentiation. The problem is, I think KickStarter-backed game development has been even worse for the most part.
I've had an opposite experience. Most of the video games I've backed have turned out well, but the only board game I backed was quite meh.

The board game was Mottainai. We did play it a few times, but my girlfriend found a strategy that works really well but makes the game boring (always just pray on your turn) on her first try.

Data for video games:

Great: FTL, Torment: Tides of Numenera.

I didn't back the Pen and Paper RPG Numenera which Torment is set in, but it sounds really good.

Good: Chaos Reborn, Sunless Sea, Dreamfall Chapters, Elite Dangerous, Broken Sword, Pillars of Eternity

Bad: Godus. He made several of my favourite ever games, but Peter Molyneux is not getting a pre-order from me again. I can only assume that someone else was the talent at Bullfrog and Lionhead.

Not finished yet: Battletech, Maia (early access is available and looks good)

Never made: Unwritten. This was a victim of the US medical system. A refund was offered.

Failed to meet target (therefore payment not taken): Ars Magica Video Game, The Ship: Full Steam Ahead, Nexus 2.
Obama did both those things that you mentioned, routinely. I don't think they're good examples.
I'm noticing this also, there is somewhat of an accepted "uniform" and "toolset" for the SV life.
Improving WiFi performance on Linux LEDE
Truly this is a terrible laptop. I use a USB dock so the awful keyboard, oversized mousepad (with attendant accidental bumps) and pointless touch bar (oh, hey, I accidentally bumped mute again) don't matter that much.

However, at least once a week, when switching between the dock and home, my mac goes into flicker mode, requiring a hard reboot. Insanity.

To make matters worse, the power key (the Touch ID key) is unlabeled and doesn't look like a pressable key. And now that apple has removed its boot up sound, for no good reason, I don't know if I've successfully rebooted until seconds after I press the power button.

The audio occasionally craps out and randomly decides not to select the right output when I plug in to my dock.

I've been a mac guy since college in 1994. This may be my last mac.
I'm not an expert by any means, but I think you can manually gzip your content and add rewrite rules to Apache (don't know about other servers) to use the .gz versions. I think this is the only way for compressed content to be cached by Apache, but I'd love to learn if I'm wrong here.
So when its colder than average, is that proof negative?
Holy crap! Xpath 1 is still being used for it? I actually have no clue what the differences are between xpath versions but I just assumed everyone is on xpath 2.

I guess my other question is - have you run into any situations where the JavaScript parsing or browser rendering wasn't good enough?
I think, the problem with Unicode normalization is, input methods are (well, conceptually, at least) meant to produce text, not binary. If filesystems are using binary data for filenames, there can be a case when is really no way to address a file by typing its name, even if you can type in that language. This isn't an issue for case sensitivity or alike.
Last I checked homeopathy was western. i think your bias towards eastern medicine would be better founded if you were to say faith healing rather than eastern. Within eastern medicine one also finds people who used early forms of experimentation to derive working cures. Examples of working medical cures include boswellia used to treat bursitis, artemisin used to treat malaria. Also both Chinese and Indians had developed anaesthetic before Europeans. Similarly the procedure of rhinoplasty was developed in India. When the British came in western surgeons studied the technique and took it back to Europe. In fact hygiene was a critical part of the ayurvedic surgeons life well before Europeans realized the importance of hygiene in surgery.
Of course there are a lot bogus stuff in eastern cures as well but in the west you have stuff like homeopathy. I think the key take away is that you cannot divide by east and west. We are after all human and each culture has their own contribution to the face of the earth.
Who's deciding what media the masses develop their choices around?
6b14 is actually damn old. The Java 6 VM is not supported anymore and in fact on the latest 7 or 8 it's definitv fixed for OpenJDK and Oracle JDK.
if Libreoffice works fine, why have "real" Word at all?
Interesting thanks.
Yes that's what I've assumed as well
What is the benefit of .net Core and how would that be used in comparison to .net Framework 4.5?
> You're on the internet, your content is instantly automatically available to 1 billion people.

I'm surprised anyone would say this, given the realities of the media landscape. It's very, very, rare for 'good' content to get automatic distribution. Some viral content does get high exposure, but most content, especially barely-insightful commentary that is produced on Medium has very little mass appeal. When you consider that the average RPM (revenue per thousand page views) is around $1.50 or less then even an article with ten thousand views can only make $15, which is barely worth writing it.

It's also extremely difficult to rank content using search engines, as anyone who knows about SEO will testify. The market is very crowded and big content brands dominate the top positions. In short, content on the web is a commodity.

However, it's important to note that search engines are not the only form of distribution. There are many opportunities to grow an audience in new media that is coming up. For example a new provider of VR content can grow quickly, even if their content is crappy, because the distribution channel (VR hardware) is growing.
Making Music on the Amiga
I meant it is obvious in that everyone knows that. But they'll still want to bypass it. So everyone is completely aware of it.
The proven way to cap population growth is to empower women and give them social clout. This works over and over. It's a problem that we have the solution to.
Tech Blogger
That would defeat the entire point of the site.
I agree. It has something about the loss of control- a fear of the headline that reads "Ybar (sic) self-driving car loses control, 317 people dead."
You're answering the headline, but not the article text:

> But over the past two decades, deaths attributed to inequality, isolation, and addiction have risen for both men and women without a college education in the US. In particular, as Princeton economists revealed today, white middle-aged men with a high school education or less, hit disproportionately by the Great Recession, are dying of despair. Well-heeled techies obsessed with life extension have little to say about these problems, suggesting a grim blind spot: Are they really trying to extend everyone’s lives? Or just those of people already doing great?

The article's thesis is: People are dying right now in the world's richest third-world country of easily-preventable things, and this is being ignored.
Algorithmic classical music
Distil is really interesting.
I don't know the technical details but the UTF-8 from a Mac is different from UTF-8 on Linux.

Copy "hällö" from Mac to Linux over samba -> works fine.

scp or rsync that same file again from Mac to Linux (without special conversion options) -> you will have two "hällö" there.

The first one is recognized by Samba, the second one is invisible.
That's not unintentional, though. It's just a form of planned obsolescence, which can be avoided by getting an Android phone that can have CyanogenMod installed on it. Alternatively, you can get a Nexus phone, which recieves OS updates directly from Google instead of a third party.
Had that phone, worked fine. Gave it to my dad, still works fine. My brother bought one, his works fine, he still has it. I now have a g4, that works fine.
Is endless innovation desirable?

I have an iPhone 6s. I like it. I'd like to see longer battery life and higher storage capacity in future models, but otherwise it's a good phone.

I don't want it thinner - in fact, I'd be happy if they added some heft so I didn't need a case, without one it feels like it is about to fall out of my hand. (This might allow for a removable battery, which would also be useful)

I don't want a dumbphone - I like having access to all my music and podcasts. And I like being able to do secure texts and calls with Signal. Privacy advocates seem to fetishize burners and feature phones, but a "dumb" Nokia blasts out everything in the clear.
Yes, I should have said that even sites like The Register, that have good content and established distribution, can fail if they think that high-quality or unique content is the only reason they have survived.
The surveillance went as far as spying on members of Trump's campaign, which is eerily similar to Watergate.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/devin-nunes-donald-tru...

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/19/us/politics/trump-russia-...
I didn't say it was. I said generics would help one easily switch their choice on the different semantics, not avoid choosing at all.
This is why your marketing isn't working
It's interesting that slavery existed for millennia, and then virtually disappeared within a century or so of the emergence of capitalism.
Define 'unnecessary'. If I run a pizza shop and there is sufficient demand to justify late night deliveries, then that position is absolutely necessary as I'm trying to maximize profits.
That SO question has barely any code examples but mostly links to sometimes quite technical documents. I'd really love to see a comprehensive list of all features (if possible c++11, 14 and 17) together with small explanation + code samples: even though I am already using a lot of the new features I still feel like I'm missing out on certain things just because I don't know they exist and because the information is shattered. (e.g. I'm fairly sure SO has Q&A on like every new feature, but it would take an insane amount of time to go through every question tagged [c++17]).
>Just with the difference that people usually don't get killed on the arena

That's a pretty significant difference.
Many, or most, languages already do that by representing filenames as native strings (which are usually abstract "Unicode" strings).
> Complexity is good

Avoidable complexity is the root of all evil.
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That's just part of the pump and dump scheme that is Uber. Handing out $20 bills to entice people to accept a ride isn't a sustainable business model... robot or no.
Title is misleading. Article actually lists 10 online classes.
>https://www.truecaller.com/

Not the best option considering the app sends them all your contacts.
Robot trucks turn the economics of trucking company into something more like railroads, which having been eating the lunch of trucking for awhile now.