skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
...make possible a wide range of new applications such as

- hacking voice-controlled interfaces

- generating fake news

FTFY

don't @ me saying "sure any technology can be used for good and bad stop being a ludite" yeah I know that just messing with you
Is this how we get a Handmaid's Tale / Children of Men infertility scenario?
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This is not a very meaningful argument if you don't provide metrics for 'excellence' and 'success'
If we randomly sample no-longer-used languages, I suspect we will see infix support more often than not. Infix won't save a language.

> fact many people believe programs in Lisp syntax are hard to read.

It's not a fact; it's just a couple of trolls, plus people just repeating what they have heard. People who reply to "lisp" with "lots of irritating silly parentheses" haven't necessarily even tried to read any examples of Lisp; they are just repeating a joke they heard.

Just like how people who say "fix it again, Tony" when they hear "Fiat", who have never driven a Fiat, and have no idea about the statistics of Fiat reliability relative to other makes of car.
You seem to have jumped to the conclusion that I haven't tried the FP features. If I hadn't tried them, I wouldn't be criticizing them. If I wanted to work in FP style, I would choose an FP language; not encourage a traditional, solid language to be perverted to do something that is completely against the nature and design of that language.
> Do you think I will regret having an Echo one day?

Certainly some people have. A court case recently had Amazon turn over Echo recordings.

Similarly, your DNA could be used to place you in relation to a crime scene whether you committed that crime or not. I certainly don't want someone I bumped into earlier to have my DNA on them when their body is found if my DNA is trivially searchable. I'd much rather have them need to go through me and my lawyer before any of that is possible.
Had an interesting pricing experience with them a couple of years ago. We were happy with our Mesos/Marathon cluster of ~100-200 machines but needed some acute support and we were in the same investment fund of DCVC. Got on the phone with ... Sales... No problem; you're a friend of ours because of DCVC; we'll get you special, friendly pricing on DC/OS...

Got an email a few hours late: $100,000 per year. Was fairly puzzled.

Two hours later, I got another email correcting the prior price: the special, friendly price was now $150,000 per year.

We migrated to AWS ECS and all was well.
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Yeah, you are right. I certainly wasn't trying to be creepy and you can rest easy that I haven't pushed my kids like I was pushed (in fact the kid in question regrets that I didn't push him).

I just am dismayed that my kids don't build stuff. Building stuff has brought me so much pleasure and satisfaction. I want that for them, for their happiness, not mine. I'll be gone one day and I want them to be good whatever they do.
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I'd like to see this correlated with family income and other factors before attributing it solely to Olin.

Also, this was written by an Olin alumnus.
There is nothing unnatural about negative real returns on stores of value (even though negative nominal rates can create issues). Before financial systems existed, almost all investments had negative returns if you didn’t put work and energy into them. To store value, you had to accumulate stuff, buildings or land. Most options either had high maintenance costs, were subject to risk of damage from natural causes and theft, were very volatile or required hard labor to get production out of.

Even in societies with financial systems, getting low risk, hassle free, liquid, positive real returns has been difficult for most of history. This just reflects the natural laws of thermodynamics that tell us that everything tends to decay without a constant supply of work and energy. In general, most things require maintenance to keep their worth.

The 20th century was probably the most notable exception. Because of unprecedented demographic and technological growth, positive risk free real returns were easy to find. The recency effect probably explains some of the confusion people have about this. It is possible that under favorable conditions, wealth can have positive returns and even compound into very good long run returns but it is not a guarantee and there is nothing natural about it. It may not continue forever, particularly amidst an aging and retiring population in a world no longer as rich in easy to exploit natural resources.
> To me, if anything I'm curious why python was so low percentage-wise in question views only five years ago.

The majority of the top CS colleges switched to teaching using Python within the last five years. This provides a big reason for companies to use Python as well, since it drives down the cost of hiring.
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Large, pluralistic societies create a new kind of natural-selective environment that pushes cultures towards greater fitness in their niches or rewards cultures that expand into or create new niches. You definitely can't expect all cultures to behave the same way and exist in all niches. See e.g. the enormous propensity of Mormons towards dentistry - "be a dentist" is not a valid universal cultural attribute, but can be adaptive for a small group. There are many routes to success.
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The maximum speed or acceleration abilities of a car are objective metrics, but how much people actually value those things is subjective.

Value is subjective, each person values the same objective metrics differently (e.g. soccer moms generally don't value sports cars as much as single guys, if they did then we'd see a bunch of soccer moms driving their kids around in sports).
you shouldn't, it's not healthy. you'll contribute more to future generations if you're happy, and individuals who are concerned about whole generations tend to despair. despair leads to loss of sexual appetite, which leads to selection against said trait. ;)

you don't need to care about future generations in general, but you probably deeply care about the future of your children. if you do not have any (yet): i'd said similar things before i became a father. since i've had kids... my urge to preserve the well-being of my children specifically is absolutely visceral, and i can only assume (it does seem so) that other parents feel similarly. no parent needs to care about their children's whole generation, the urge to care is decentralized and spread over the whole generation of parents.

the next question might be: why would you care about your offspring? because parental care is a trait that helps carry the DNA which encodes it farther than DNA without this trait will get (all other things equal). in general, we care about (a few particular members of) future generations (our offspring) because people who didn't give a fuck about their own children died out.
So instead of just giving the preschool money, they were forced to deal with something totally foreign to them. They had to go through painful bureaucracy. The giver also got scammed and in the end both lost $10k.

Why not just give real money again?
A lot of the people who hold these sort of viewpoints in the US would benefit immensely from visiting and even living for a while in literally any other western democracy, or even just the English-speaking ones.

I can't think of any country in the western world who has a social welfare system on the same low level as the US - and yet we don't have such a 'decline in social indicators'. Quite the opposite. And we are not perfect: the upcoming NZ election is pointing out all the remaining flaws in our society, along with futile attempts to fix them by empty-promising politicians. But no one would ever say we are not vastly better off than the average US citizen, so clearly 'social welfare' is not the problem.

Maybe having a society where a random illness or infection doesn't destroy you economically - unless you are slaved to your employer with health insurance - might help fix things? Or maybe endless foreign wars and an influx of PTSD veterans along with an outflow of patriotically brain washed kids is not healthy? Maybe a political system where a egotistical demagogue can hijack the government is a flaw to correct?
> It warns on and removes any unused rules, then it minifies the result and lets you write it out to a .css file.

So... is `el.classList.add('error')` going to do nothing if the source contains an otherwise unused error class? Is there some comment flag that prevents this behavior? Do you need to shut off the analyzer completely, or add extra hidden markup to also consume your dynamic classes?

Does it handle media queries? Or new/upcoming CSS features like the replacement for the attempted mixin standard? (:theme and... something or other...)

I'm all for finding dead rules, but if it automatically eliminates them I worry it'll be easy to accidentally trick.
Here's an example from the Wolkenkit brochure:

> user.login({ login: 'user', password: 'secret'});

> const isUserLoggedIn = user.isLoggedIn();

If you look at this purely from an API design point of view, this stinks: by forcing the command to return void, the code ends up twisting its design to return the result of the command through an artificial channel (the state of the 'user' object). In the end, we are still interested in "the result of the login attempt", and the easiest way to do this would be a function that returns a value:

> const isUserLoggedIn = user.login({ login: 'user', password: 'secret' });
I would recommend people read or re-read "Democracy in America". I've read it several times and each time I find a new layer of truth in the work.
> He wrote most of the LISP machine code.

That's nonsense. The Lisp Machine code was written by several people, some which had significant contributions.
Larry Ellison is a dick, but he's not that level of dick.
The problem with your analogy is that it is tied to a very small window in history.

Has liberalism and free speech only existed in the time span where there's been regulated common-carrier type "services"?

Lets roll back the clock to before AT&T. Was there free speech and liberalism? Was any printer required to print anyone's manuscript? Was any newspaper required to be open to all opinions? Was any private person or organization required to spread those opinions across the world?

Historically, Facebook is much more like an open-to-the-masses publisher/distributor than you claim, with the difference resting more in economics (cost of publishing) than anything else. But that difference is hugely significant in practical terms - an unrestricted Facebook doesn't have much historical analog at all, hence the debate.
thank you. yes. that nails it. it's ridiculous. so many of these 29 paragraph articles could be 3 paragraph articles.

writers paid by the word. doctors paid by the number of treatments.

this is why we can't have nice things.
Well, that's interesting. All of those do present different levels of engagement though. The phone - only voice and no facial or body queues. Novels - obviously no audio and no opportunity to engage, and comic books - less use of imagination required than a novel. Television being the most like real-life, most stimulating as actually watching something in the real-world ... designed to be more engaging visually and with sound than stimulating with interesting thought (most of time - entertainment vs educational/learning). Writing too, perhaps if people you learned the most from and listened to the most from were very well-spoken - and perhaps Socrates understood the value of the listeners/readers being present for engagement, whereby if someone doesn't understand a point or wants to challenge it, they can instantly. It does seem like all of these evolutions and innovations of humanity and language, communication, are making the natural world a less healthy place.
I prefer positive examples. It's no secret that the Jewish people have done so phenomenally well, despite two millennia of persecution, because of their strong values of hard work, family, and creativity.
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It is a fact that different cultures value things differently. Japanese culture has different values than Hawaiian culture, or southern white culture. Where there is difference in kind, there is different in adaptation. Every culture likely has its advantages in some areas, but not every one of those areas is deemed valuable by a modern society or economy. It is an inescapable fact that some ways of living, and some systems of moral and social values are more conducive to a modern, democratic capitalist society than others.

What we choose to do about that is up for debate. The fact of the situation, however, is not.
And it's extremely hard to sell biologists on the idea that your model just happens to capture sufficient signal to be useful or to accomplish more than a simple regression line on one or two known-to-be-causal factors. But I do think the importance of context has become inescapable and any therapeutic approach that overlooks it will fail to deliver needed efficacy.

Personally, I believe the day of telling the patient, "Sorry, but since none of the existing drugs will work for you, we can't help further" -- that era of medicine is past. Using deep drills through the maze of each patient's relevant / causal / contextual data, it's nigh time for us to dig deeper and do better.
great article overall - but starts off by saying 'do not cargo cult this' and then proceeds to proscribe many 'mandates' without giving any rationale behind them..
Has anyone dealt with being burnt out while enjoying their job at the same time?

I started a new job and although its very interesting (I like the technologies used, the project domain and the competence of my teammates) lots of symptoms mentioned in the article apply to me. I just feel so stressed out all the time its affecting every aspect of my life.

Not really sure how to proceed right now. Honestly I don't feel like pushing through will help but I don't want to quit my current job so soon.
I pretty much always read the entire thing, and I love them for the extensive context. I have the opposite problem these days, where shorter articles without much else going on fail to hold my attention. There are plenty of those out there, but far fewer longform pieces that give me a more complete picture of the topic at hand. I actually just clicked over here from finishing this article[1] which was fairly lengthy, but also informative, relevant, and interesting.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/06/magazine/the-resegregatio...
It's all a matter of technicalities and definitions :)

You are consuming housing when you pay rent/mortgage. A house is built, and then its owners consume it in "housing units", or rent those "housing units" to other for consumption.

Likewise that ground beef you have in the fridge is an asset - you can sell it to your neighbor at any point before you consume it.

Equity is a claim on a company's assets. If General Electric goes bankrupt and you own GE stock, you will get paid out (after everyone else) a share of the bankruptcy proceeds. So in a way you own some of what GE produces, some of the inputs it consumes, etc.

You can look at literally any transaction as an investment into an asset (generally durable goods) or the purchase of a good for consumption (generally non-durable goods). It depends on how you want to record it on your personal balance sheet...
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Except that success is, well, relative. Defining success is impossible because you can't have an agreed upon frame of reference.

However, freedom is not. Freedom is well defined. The right to travel. The right to exchange your currency, or your work value. The right to buy and sell stuff with foreign countries (ie: trade).

Think your country ban travelling for 6 months to save up on hard currencies. Think your country banning certain imports (luxury)

China might be good for the average and bottom person but not for the freedom seeker.
That... seems like literally the easiest thing to correct based on a genetic sample.
any recommendation and resources to read up on for when to use cassandra and how to design the schema?
China is riding a wave of economic growth. When the growth runs out, we'll see how stable the state really is.
His point still stands, though. :)

Those who already know what a Bloom Filter is would probably the find the name more convenient than having to say a short description every time. Those that are just learning programming might argue that Hash, Array, Boolean, String, etc. would be understood faster if they had more descriptive names.

Having a short, distinctive name helps in differentiating and reasoning about the different objects. Think of an everyday programming-related discusion that includes hashes, arrays, and strings, and think about making the following substitutions:

- Hash : Contiguous Allocation with Well-Shuffled Value-Derived Indexes

- Array : Contiguous Allocation of Same Typed Values

- String : Contiguous Allocation of Character Values

- Boolean : Either True or False Value
Same in France, it's the default language now.

It also mean more questions in SO by a lot of lost students.

And it means later, more Python devs on the market.
I think because the 'state', isn't.

Think of the number of times your computer has crashed, had memory wiped, new OS installs, been stolen, replaced. Did your bookmarks from 15 years ago survive?

With mobile phones identity works a little better and likely because of SIM cards.
Since lambdas and streams are optional, what is your critique of them?
Thank you for raising those concerns. We take those very seriously. You can read more about our ethical stance in this article: https://lyrebird.ai/ethics/

To recap:

- we want to start by raising public awareness about the technology and we did demos with the voices of Trump/Obama for that,

- your digital voice is yours, people can not use it without your authorization.
Baffled by Ord's defence of discount rates. The transcript reads like a primer on the pure theory of discounting.

In practice it's a cargo cult ritual that leads to the conclusion that we should give within epsilon of zero fucks about anything that happens N years from now for sufficiently large N (which you get to choose as the author of an analysis).

That's partly because there's no mathematical difference in exponential discounting for the role played by 'pure rate of time preference' and the 'good' discount rate. It's always just 3.5% for no particular reason other than that's what in the back of the Treasury handbook written before 2008 during the Great Moderation.

Oh, and is 3.5% a reasonable number? Sounds kinda like inflation/mortgage rates, right? But if you look at CPI $100 dollars in 1817 is, equivalent to roughly $2k dollars in 2017. But would I rather spend this 'same' amount of money in 1817 or 2017? It's a no-brainer as long as I prefer penicillin and smart phones to legal opiods and vintage mustache waxing. This is really hard stuff to model, which is a clue that it doesn't get done.

If Ord and Wiblin could pick one easy fight to change about government policy making and promote longtermism it would be savaging the use of discounting in long term policy decisions rather than beating around the bush.
I was examining a Mesosphere deployment a few years ago and also found the pricing model to be difficult in a cloud environment, but the salesperson I spoke with seemed more clueful than your description.

We chose to go otherwise for a variety of reasons.

Today, I think I would probably suggest to a Serious Company with a fully staffed ops/sre/devops team to run a pure Mesos play for the data systems with k8s on top or side by side for web systems.
Tumours are organs that implement thermogenesis
Yes, this is a tricky subject! We have thought a lot about it and we think we are doing the right thing for society.

We write more about it here:
https://lyrebird.ai/ethics/
not surprising imho - you probably have more 'dedicated hardware' (in an abstract sense) per request than a busy CDN.. if the site software is all cached in ram and cores are free, you're pretty much running 'wide open' on each request..
Switching the gender would be an ill-advised way to be anonymous. Its easily determined from the raw data itself, based on the presence of Y-chromosome SNPs. I have heard that some people prefer to use fake names, emails, prepaid credit cards, and use a PO box or some other mailing relay to mask their home address.

I'm not sure if 23andMe cares about anonymous users, but they might care about survey results being faked in a large number of users, because that would affect their scientific mission of finding interesting patterns.
Yes, China censoring the internet is entirely based on us saying China is bad for censoring the internet.

How laughably circular. Governments do not get to be immune to criticism.
As a 45yo man who recently discovered via 23andMe that my dad wasn't my biological father, let me state that the ready availability of cheap DNA testing that has suddenly happened over the past few years is going to have some interesting effects on our social structure. I shudder to think about its impact in countries where familial lineage is a really big deal.

Just 10 years ago, it took a real effort to do this sort of thing, but now you can have your entire DNA history - and potential familial connections - within weeks. And, as with anything that relies on network effects, each additional 'node' in the graph increases it's value in proportion to the square of the number of connected users of the system: Meaning that finding lost/unknown relatives will become easier and easier.

What's amusing is how the major services - 23andMe, Ancestry.com, MyHeritage.com - avoid suggesting that you are 'half' related to anyone. After discovering my history, I joined the other sites and was confused when MyHeritage discovered someone that it had a 'high confidence' was my first cousin, because we shared a relatively high 11.6% DNA. It turns out she was my half-niece. This possibility wasn't listed anywhere on their site.

Have you joined 23andMe? You know that person that shares some of your DNA and is potentially your 2nd-4th cousin? They might actually be a half-relative instead, but these services are avoiding that designation for obvious commercial reasons. The problem, I think, is that this is actually a lot more common than it seems, and they are really misleading their customers.

Anyways, if you have a suspicion (as I had) that you might be the 'black sheep' in your family for reasons other than the genetic lottery, it's easier than ever to confirm your suspicions, and that will definitely affect lives for real.
Agreed.
If anyone has recommended resources for someone coming from from SQL world and wanting to learn more about databases like Cassandra and HBase space, please share!
>should we adapt society to make all cultures and values equally successful?

Given that this includes people who value a society where particular values aren't successful, it is probably not possible to have a society like that.