skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm actually reminded of this quote from Will Durant about Aristotle's attitude towards manual labor, which I've always found amusing so I might as well share it here:

"Such work in Athens had not become so complicated as it is today, when the intelligence demanded in many manual trades is at times much greater than that required for the operations of the lower middle class, and even a college professor may look upon an automobile mechanic (in certain exigencies) as a very god"
‘And people are shot at when they ask for Biafra’ – reaction to Buhari’s praise
The West Virginia Productivity Miracle
Since hiring for engineers is so competitive, it is arguable that choosing fancy tech can give an advantage there. It has been done successfully (in a hiring sense)... Twitter pushing Scala, Jet.com on F# are two I can think of.

The downside is it could backfire on who you're able to hire. It could just lure people who will either want to migrate to the next new-and-shiny or just leave quickly.
Anarcho-Communism isn't an oxymoron; people often (because Lenin) confuse Communism as an ideology with the practices of certain regimes which notionally were oriented toward achieving Communism (but never progressed beyond the phase they described as Socialism, which is distinct from Communism) and which leftist critics (including, among others, non-Leninist Marxists and other socialists) described as not even that, but State Capitalism.

In Marxist Communism (and, with variations that are important but not relevant to this discussion, it's derivatives through Leninism), "Communism" is the desired stateless end-state, and the "dictatorship of the proletariat" in which the workers seize control of the means of production through the State—Socialism—is a transitional stage used to get from Capitalism to Communism.

Non-Marxist Communism seeks the same stateless end goal by other means; Anarcho-Communism is, in a sense, among the purest forms of Communism, since it seeks fairly direct (not necessarily immediate, but constsntly in the same direction and not the out-and-back "empower the State to destroy the State" approach) transition to the statelessend end-state.
Maybe they should take it a step further and not use software at all.

Also looms are destroying cottage industry and maybe it isn't too late to riot some more against the enclosure of common grazing lands.
It seems like capitalism really needs something like a wealth tax -- ideally with the rate tied to the change in concentration of wealth over the whole society, so during periods of time when capital is concentrating, the wealth tax goes up vs epochs when it does not...

Interestingly, I was reading about the idea of a wealth tax and came across this depressing nugget ...:

> In 1999, Donald Trump proposed for the United States a one off 14.25% wealth tax on the net worth of individuals and trusts worth $10 million or more. Trump claimed that this would generate $5.7 trillion in new taxes, which could be used to eliminate the national debt.[18] A net wealth tax may also be designed to be revenue neutral as where it is used to broaden the tax base, stabilize the economy and reduce individual income and other taxes[citation needed].
Is that where insurance and/or trade cooperatives come in?
Linus' law? :)
>And I find it at least questionable that parenting has gotten markedly less supportive in the past few decades.

Look at the trends of the past few decades: divorce; single parent; and dual income households. There is in fact remarkedly less two parent, supported by single income households, meaning it's a rareity for a child to simply have a parent at home when they return from school to fix them a healthy snack, ask how their day was, or help with homework. Certainly it's not a single cause, but stability in the home is indisputably tied to mental well being of the child.
I can't answer why but if you want to see the Java stats, they shared this tool : https://dgrtwo.shinyapps.io/tag-traffic-hour/
All the more reason to stick to tried and tested tech. Engineers like to experiment themselves, not have the foundations they stand on be experimental.
"In favor of subsidizing education" isn't the same as "actually getting people educated", though. And that party's policies, even when enacted, haven't created an educational system that does much better at actually educating people.
Yea, tax gain harvesting is definitely something you can do. Though it's harder than tax loss harvesting. You have to take into account the entirety of a person's tax situation to do it, as opposed to tax loss harvesting, which only require knowledge of the account transaction history, which Betterment and Wealthfront of course have. To do tax gain harvesting you have to wait until late December when you have most of the information, and you essentially have to complete an entire tax return.
That requires economical access to education opportunities, which is presently not the norm in the US.
Or when transmitting data packets over a network you want to favor real time data like phone or video calls over file downloads. And in case of a failed transmission you want to just forget about the few milliseconds of voice you just lost but you certainly want to retransmit a lost packet from the middle of a binary.

It's all the same, identifying objects with different characteristics in order to handle them with tailored algorithms instead of simply using a generic but less optimal algorithm for all objects.
I wish cell phone cameras would pick up on-sensor phase detection autofocus. It's the one thing that really holds them back. Contrast detection is just too slow!
It could also be that they fail to understand the metrics. A topic rarely showing up gets fewer chances for the user to express interest.
Show HN: HLC, an extension that lets you highlight texts as you want, for free.
Arxiv here
https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1704/1704.02535.pdf
Clickbait? Frankly, I'm not trying to attract clicks - I'm using HN as a free repo to save articles I find interesting and may want to refer to later. The clicks are just a coincidence...should I care what others think? Does HN penalize these kinds of posts? The sheer volume of unnecessary articles on HN would suggest otherwise. Please enlighten me if I'm egregiously violating protocol.
You say "A disbeliever in EMH should look to identify these managers and pay them some fee".

In the next breath you say that even if the EMH is false "individuals investors should act as if it were true".

This makes your post somewhat ambiguous; not so clear about which position you're advocating. How "plausible" is it that these managers are "impossible to identify ex ante."? Why is it plausible? "Impossible" seems like a pretty strict standard (akin to strong EMH), why not just say instead that identifying such managers before they outperform is "practically impossible" or just "really, really, damn hard and something that you're deluding yourself about if you think you can do it."

Also (assuming it is your position), it's important to clarify that you don't disagree with the assertion that many people do identify market-beating managers before they outperform. Probably millions of people have done it; it happens every day. What they don't do (in my opinion) is use skill or knowledge to identify the outperforming managers. If they do identify an outperforming manager (of which there are always many) it happens because of chance or luck. (Just as, IMO, the outperformance itself of almost all outperforming managers is due to luck or chance, not skill.)
It's probably a better indicator of their audience, the in-group. I don't know how old you are, but this is what it's like to become a square.

The thing is, if you don't like it and get stuck on lingo, there's a good chance you're going to be left behind by the future. Your complaint is a symptom of falling into the out-group of the cutting edge, into becoming part of The Previous Generation.
Interesting statement: "To the extent Silicon Valley is wealthier than West Virginia, it is mainly because Silicon Valley has some very successful companies, such as Google and Facebook, and not because the Walmart in Mountain View, California, is so much better-run than the Walmart in Wheeling, West Virginia."
>"compiled/closed sites"

It's worth noting WebAssembly isn't compiled into a form only computers can understand. There are plans to offer 'View Source'-style functionality for WebAssembly. WASM is a compressed AST rather than hardware-specific bytecode.
Revenge isn't the answer. The answer for the problem presented is for other groups to receive the same empathy that poor whites are receiving. For other groups the answer is "we'll build more jails".
That kind of repetitive and obsessive behavior is much more on the Autism spectrum than ADHD. And it's possible to have both ADHD and still be on the spectrum - want to talk about a painful combination of traits to have.
After 7 years of 100% distributed work, I suggest your communication skills will be even more valuable in a remote environment.
Everything I know about React I know from HN. Guilty, criticizing tech I've never used - but it's more about the whole constant update mentality than React in particular.
I know that I'm paying a premium and that the coffee isn't as good as what else I could make.

I'm paying for time. I can just press a button and have coffee in ~1 minute. No need to grind beans or clean the coffeemaker after.

Worth it for me.
This is also relevant - https://github.com/ai-tor/DeepGTAV
(A plugin for GTAV that transforms it into a vision-based self-driving car research environment.)
I am an example of one of those people. I DID have a learning disability (officially tested for and documented). Failed high school and now I am middle aged, have my own business making mobile games for clients. Also went back to college late 2000's and 3.8 GPA. (I would have had a 4.0 for my BS like I did for my Associates but got struck with H1N1 virus).
I would be very surprised if even Microsoft was not supporting the Windows Phone. I am sure it will pop up.
Maven's pretty big still.

https://github.com/search?l=Maven+POM&q=pom.xml&type=Code&ut...

https://github.com/search?l=Gradle&q=build.gradle&type=Code&...

And that's public github, which is supposed to be more cutting edge than the legacy code that powers most companies. I started a project with gradle on my last team and everyone complained because they had never used it before.
This is correct. Off-putting to non-males and other developers who wouldn't consider themselves a "bruh".

Not judging the merits of the software but rather promoting inclusiveness.
I agree. To that I'd add the fact that senior engineers - unlike junior engineers - get pulled from a bunch of other companies. By hiring young engineers companies would get longer commitments and leave plenty of rooms for employees to grow.
No offense, but isn't this just anecdata? I don't deny that people can do extremely well taking non-traditional paths, they certainly can. But pointing out the existence of exceptions isn't a substantive response to the observations about the larger trend. You can always find exceptions to any trend but generalizing from them is fallacious, as any casino owner will be glad to confirm.
> These opportunities are likely to cause an outflow from passive into active if that is where the money is.

Sure. But it's unclear where the equilibrium is between the volume of passive investing and the volume active investing (or if there is one).

In the meantime, the increasing share of passive investment is causing the prices on all these assets to become more correlated. This increases systemic risk. When everyone diversifies completely, you lose the benefits of diversification.

It's unclear to me how well investors recognize this shift in systemic risk. Obviously there will always still be some active investors. But how can you be sure that the economy won't be destabilized from this?
When I bought my Sony in 2012, it felt obvious to me that cameras with mirrors are a dead end.
how are we defining success. also colledge never neccissarily meant rich. there is the pursuit of knowledge(among other things) which was a lot harder without the access we have today.
I think that the despair that people in these situations are facing is terrible and destructive and yes, a crisis. We need to find some way as a society to address the deep structural issues that has created this malaise. It's a really big deal.

But... can you explain why it's a load of crap to point out that this crisis of despair and drugs and early death is being treated differently than previous ones that mostly affected blacks and other minorities? Reporters could have written awfully similar articles about hopelessness in the inner city at just about any point in the past few decades, and at least a few of them did, but society's response wasn't "Oh no, how could we have let this happen? How can we give them hope and a future worth living for?" as it is in this case, but rather the War on Drugs and mass incarceration and police militarization and condemnation of black culture (and many other minority cultures).

To be clear, I'm absolutely not advocating for white, rural America to be targeted by no-knock raids and public blame for its own predicament! I think that "How can we help?" should be the response to all crises like this. But we as a society are still heavily invested in the War on Drugs and a whole host of other forms of structural racism. So yes, I'd be a lot more comfortable with this treatment of the drug crisis facing white communities if it were going hand in hand with a similar reevaluation of the parallel challenges facing minority communities as well. But it's not.
FWIW, I too would pay $60 for this (although I obviously would be super happy if it were cheaper).
I wish FB let you select certain categories. For example, only postings from Friends.

Or only postings from other feeds that I follow.

There is all of this garbage that I don't want, so as a result I rarely look.

Twitter use Tweetbot seems to work a lot better in this regard as I can follow those groups I wish to follow without the junk.
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you can educate people as much as you want, the majority aren't going to be able to become engineers and physicists.

Unless we can get to the point where we can manipulate genes to increase intelligence that's not a solution to the problem
About 10 years ago when this high fps stuff started to become better and better in dslrs, all the sports shooters had a freak out because they got worried that their license fees would go up because events would charge them for the motion picture license not the still license. I don’t know if this ended up becoming true but it was all the talk at WEVA for years. Sony have always made great cameras, unfortunately their primes don't hold a candle to Canon or Nikon. Anyone who reaaalllly cares about this feature is probably shooting fixed (tho I've been out of the industry a long time I'm sure it's changed)
But what's the alternative? Do no medication whatsoever?

If you tell a parent "this drug has been shown to have a N percent chance at improving your child's life, with the following potential risks", and don't give them an alternative, what else are they supposed to do?
They are shipped refrigerated; that's why they're limited to only a handful of states. From the article:

> The products were only available in three states until Tuesday, when the company expanded to 17. Packs can’t be shipped long distances because the contents are perishable.
> All your friends and potential dating partners are concentrated in the big cities

This is comparable to saying "all the young people live in cities" which is demonstrably false.
Their DSLRs can all function in mirror lock up mode. It's straightforward to delete the viewfinder and have a comparable product.
Free time is a bit of a curve too I think (like marginal utility).

In an entire 7 day week, if I only had 1 hour of freetime, I would value it at $1000. My 100th hour I might only value at $5, as I would be getting bored.

So if you are busy with family and commitments.. working from home vs not may be the difference between 10h and 0h of freetime a week. Whereas for a single guy with no hobbies, it might only change the balance from 30h of freetime to 40h of freetime, which is a bit less.
Your profile says your company website is http://www.shaggyfrog.com/ which is currently being parked and not used, does it send a signal that you are bad at what you do because you can't even handle your own website? Let's not make assumptions based on how the person talks, what if he likes to use those words but creates great and useful utilities?
The mind is a metaphysical concept which no one understands, and yet many stand to profit on this fact by making popular but unsubstantiated assumptions.

Yet in some cases medication can help.

Writing about something I have seen a bit of, ADHD, it is very clear to me that some people get remarkably better lives when the get medication.

Still I hear voices trying to vilify standard ADHD medication.

For the rest of this post here is a disclaimer: I have no formal education in this - I only happen to have reasons to be more than usually interested.

Now I cannot tell you why it works biologically but I have an interesting idea why stimulants are effective against both inattentive and hyperactive variants of ADHD. My idea is that both are caused by a too high (in boring 2017) treshold for "interesting". Hyperactive kids solve this by being unusually active thereby attracting attention or otherwise make things happen. Primarily inattentive kids solve it by zoning out or daydreaming.

If my idea is right the reason why stimulants work in both cases is because it either raises the general interestingness-level or lower the interestingness treshold.
Educate them with what money? That requires redistribution of wealth because these people will not leave the workforce with the means to retrain and reeducate themselves.

How many scientist and engineers can any future workforce support? There will be a limit to how many "production" jobs there can be. By this I mean manufacturing, farming, infrastructure etc. This still leaves many creative endevours that can be produced and consumed almost without limit - but this also assumes people have expendable income.
> The scale of that inflow becomes clear when it is compared with the rest of the mutual fund industry — more than 4,000 firms in total.

No mentions of ETFs? SPDR is not a mutual fund company.

> Already, six out of the 10 largest mutual funds by asset size belong to Vanguard, with the largest, Vanguard Total Stock Market Index, now weighing in at $465 billion, according to Morningstar.

The elephant in the room is ETFs like SPDR. SPY (SPDR's largest fund) has $230 Billion in assets. It isn't quite as big as Vanguard, but clearly SPY needs to be mentioned.

The silence is deafening. "Classic" active mutual fund companies may be dying, but a new breed of investing has already begun... and its competing against Vanguard quite gloriously. Low cost, quickly traded, with large numbers of derivatives: ETFs.
That ship has sailed, and they are playing the long game now.
It's entirely acceptable to raise the question of the quality of the source if it's unknown. I, for one, know nothing about the World Socialist Web Site, or whether they have a habit of pushing stories with glaring omissions, unfounded additions or in the worst case, plain falsehoods. I do know to some degree about a fair number of larger news organizations, and while none are perfect, I trust a number of them to not completely violate the faith many people have in them (as that would be counterproductive to their business).

If the WSWS is respectable, presumably it will have a history of handling stories responsibly, and someone here can vouch for that. If nobody here knows, then it is useful to note that so people can investigate before assuming truth.
Today's discount is tomorrow's fee waiver.
Better than gumification.
Except your minivan can haul things, your suv is barely better than a car.
I suppose there is no harm then in milking the tax loss harvesting for as long as it is profitable and then reevaluating performance in ten or fifteen years to see if it makes sense to switch to a lower cost provider like Vanguard.

Like I said though, I have seen very significant returns from my loss harvesting. Even without a yearly source of capital gains, it definitely does not hurt to collect the losses and use them later in life (for instance if you sell an investment property).
It could easily store and forward data the next time you open the app though.
It keeps a history of evicted keys. If there's a miss, it knows if the miss was in the lfu or lru part, and it tunes the ratio of space allocated to the lru and lfu part of the cache.
I'll offer a brief glimpse into the future. Juicero, burnt by the ease at which consumers rob them of potential revenue poaches someone away from the likes of HP or Gillette. That someone comes up with the perfect solution: add a coded valve to the juice bags which only opens when it has been inserted in a licensed Juicero machine. The added advantage is that the machine can refuse to squeeze more juice out of a bag which has been in the machine for more than X days, all for your protection of course.

Next thing consumers take knives to the bags to circumvent the coded valves. Bags are reinforced. Consumers use better knives. Bags are made double-walled with some nasty tasting/coloured liquid in between the two walls, all for your protection.

Next step is Juicero goes bankrupt, consumers are left with useless machines which end up on flea markets or landfills.

Rinse.

Repeat.

Me? I just eat an apple, an orange or a banana. My daughter prefers to put them through the blender first and calls it a smoothie. Takes all of a few minutes and works with apples and oranges and bananas from any source.
Increasing partisan rancor by generalizing across large groups of people does nothing but make the situation worse. Please don't do this. If this is something you care about, and it appears you do given you chose to comment on it, do what you can to improve the situation.
> your perfectly parroted talking-point is controlled for.

Sorry?

Did I take the jam out of your donut or something?
> 2. What you do when there is an issue?

This is fascinating to me. What kind of issues are you finding solutions to on SO? The only times I ever find myself using the programming SO are if I'm learning a new language or looking up algorithm ideas for a problem.

If there's a linking error or something, the solution (if it exists) is usually on a mailing list, not SO. This may come down to differences in tool selection.

Re. question 1 I mostly use Haskell, Python, and C(++).
Ask HN: How much are you making from online courses?
Who's selling online courses and what are you generating? Is it a profitable business? Hard to get started?
Nice. Sounds amazing.
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After years of working on 100% remote teams, I agree with your thinking. I am excited about where distributed working is heading in the years to come. I anticipate that it will be a strong cultural force in a couple of decades.
Savings accounts are basically a negative return due to inflation, even if your credit union will do 1.25%, inflation is still 1.6% to 1.7%.

We need to mobilize this capital back into the economy, rather than letting it languish in the financial markets, guarded jealously by a handful of people. The economic stimulus it would provide could easily help kickstart and sustain waves of growth and development, though we should not repeat the errors of the past (urban sprawl, heavy investment in infrastructure in dying suburbs).

The last two were borne of an era where sprawl was supposed to distribute the white populace so as to allow some to survive nukes, and it has run its course and proved to be unmaintainable (look at Livingston, TX).
Neither is unlimited leisure. I'm proposing the former in place of the latter.