skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an extremely good question and very difficult to answer, to say the least. There has been quite the disinformation program going on in many conservative states; actually not simply disinformation, but demonization, so that its difficult to even get many people to listen to liberals.

But I think Al Gore probably has the best solution to this, which he talks about in his new documentary: if you focus on real economic benefits of certain "liberal" ideas, then you seem to have a chance. e.g. if wind energy is shown to be cheaper than natural gas, people will adopt it.

Democrats (and fact-believing republicans) really need to include more economics in their messages. Like how expanding Medicare actually helps small businesses and rural communities. Like how higher taxes on the rich help fund education and infrastructure projects that lead to greater prosperity.

I understand it is a somewhat skeevey way to do it, because if you're a democrat, you probably also believe in other non-economic democratic values (e.g. diversity, womens' reproductive rights etc.) and to win the support of people who don't believe in these things might seem uncouth.
It’s not just about protocols it’s also about the pattern of the data: the sizes and timing and other statistical characteristics of your packets. Tunneled traffic looks very different from normal web browsing even if you can’t read the content.
But there's zero evidence to show that this works. Generally the opposite is true; the business pockets the tax break, and does nothing new.
Big news. Which one are safe now (in US and China)? Telegram??

I remember back in the days, when you wrote "fuck" in Skype from China and it would get censored. Which one is a trusted messenger these days?
I'd mainly chalk that up to them being the only ones open to a genuine discussion with him. The articles coming out in the aftermath were all extremely demonizing of Damore.

I remember watching Peterson's interview with him, and Damore didn't really seem comfortable with many of the former's statements, just based on his body language. Maybe that was just social awkwardness.

Also, I don't follow Molyneux or Carlson, but neither Peterson nor Shapiro can be truthfully called extreme.
China is still in the range of development where it's pretty easy to make the case that raising the wealth of its people aligns with increasing the power and wealth of its rulers. An interesting question is how long those interests stay merged.

I suspect it isn't ultimately driven from a political power calculation, but on what areas of open growth are available. Cutting off WhatsApp keeps open growth available in that area internal to the nation. But as areas close off and get filled, economies have to start making harder choices about where to put effort. It's easy to commit to long-term society wide efforts when it's easy to forsee improvements _and_ personal profits. But as choices get harder to forecast and make good on, will China start looking shorter term and with a more narrowly focused self service scope as many western economic leaders have done.
if 5 were true (though i doubt it) it would make for a pretty sad conversation between Mr. Zuckerberg and their firstborn some day. i mean, c'mon. have some class. it's a move worthy of our current president.
I do know Athena is built on top of Presto and it can pair with lots of different data sources. But somehow when talking about Athena I always end up thinking about using big CSVs on S3 as data source, so what I really meant was Athena+S3 I guess.

Edit: regarding transaction though, I wonder if Athena could even be used as a "meta sharding" layer, when all of the underlying data sources support transaction, but data is too large to fit in a single instance. The advantage would be to not implement sharding logic in code. Not sure about the performance though. Just a thought.

Edit2: not sure if I read it correctly, but looks like right now Athena does not support transactions yet (http://docs.aws.amazon.com/athena/latest/ug/creating-tables....) although using Presto there could be a future that they do support.
I'm not sure how you took my remarks as a criticism of jQuery, as it's likely because of them that selectors were approached from said angle at all.

Anyway it's pretty simple to emulate the jQuery selectors' syntax elegance.

eg. from a link I posted below. This would produce similar results to jQuery selectors (minus backwards compatibility for older versions of IE).

-- Note if you try to use vanilla JS methods on a jQuery-selected element you will have to target which of the selected elements you want to act upon. It will return undefined for the selected element and throw an error if you try to, for instance `$('p').innerHTML = 'something';`:

class DOM {
constructor ( selector ) {
let elements = document.querySelectorAll(selector);

this.length = elements.length;
Object.assign(this, elements);
}

each ( callback ) {
for (let el of Array.from(this) ) {
callback.call(el);
}

return this;
}

on( eventType, callback ) {
this.each(function() {
this.addEventListener( eventType, callback, false );
});
}

}

let $ = s => new DOM(s);

$('#something').on('click', e => console.log(`Hello, event: ${e}`) );
Harvard Thinks It’s Found the Next Einstein – And She’s 23
> Have those differences ever been shown to affect their ability to do the same job? No.

Has anyone claimed that? No.

Why arguing against something for which no one is arguing for? If sexism exist because of a perceived answer to which no one is asking, then maybe it is time to stop.
Ditto. I'd be happy to that for 6-12 months. :) Then I'd work on whatever I wanted thereafter.
The primary problem with automation is temporary displacement of workers. There needs to be a mechanism to connect skill demand to people otherwise people end up in low skill jobs.

>If machines are to rule, then we have to change the way we redistribute the worth they produce.

In theory if there is enough competition the price of the good decreases through automation.

Imagine you're a business selling clothing where 50% of the cost is labor and the rest are materials. You now buy a machine that replaces the labor cost with a 10% robot cost. You make 40% profit on everything you sell. Someone else builds a factory and sells the same good for 70% of the price. Consumers now have more money available to spend on other goods that are more "labor" intensive.

Unfortunately in practice we have monopolies/oligopolies everywhere.
"In 1970s you would just create plastic models of spaceships and film them with normal camera"

Are you sure? For example, from the ILM history at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Light_%26_Magic we see:

1975: Resurrected the use of VistaVision; first use of a motion control camera (Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope)

Following the link to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_control_photography gives us:

> The first large-scale application of motion control was in Star Wars (1977), where a digitally controlled camera known as the Dykstraflex performed complex and repeatable motions around stationary spaceship models. This enabled a greater complexity in the spaceship-battle sequences, as separately filmed elements (spaceships, backgrounds, etc.) could be better coordinated with one another with greatly reduced error.

That doesn't sound like a normal camera.

The text immediately before that quote is:

> The 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey pioneered motion control in two respects. The film's model photography was conducted with large mechanical rigs that enabled precise and repeatable camera and model motion. The film's finale was created with mechanically controlled slit-scan photography, which required precise camera motion control during the exposure of single frames.

And in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, the mothership was made of wood, plastic and metal, and wasn't cheap.

Now, to be sure these are high budget movies, but your broad description makes it sound like it was true for all movies in the 1970s.

I think a better comparison would be to look at the model-based special effects in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine with the CGI effects in Babylon 5; both produced at about the same time. Quoting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_Deep_Space_Nine :

> DS9 was the first TV show in the Star Trek franchise to use computer-generated imagery (CGI) for exterior space shots. Although a few other television series, like Babylon 5, were using CGI exclusively to avoid the high expense of model photography, the Star Trek franchise had continued to use primarily physical models for exterior space shots because producers felt models provided more realism.
I think this alternative is more reasonable. Those who think China is just a copying machine, underestimate the influence the Chinese engineers had in the landscape of many industries. The hoverboards (the type with wheels) became a household product thanks to them.

Conceptualization is not making something actually happen, unlike what the patent-trolls want us to believe. IoT was first proposed in the 90s, but did it gain any traction before cheap Chinese prototyping components? This bares the question, is it the West that has made IoT or the East?
To make a long story short, here are the results:

Speed in MB/s
HFS+ HFS+ Encrypted APFS APFS Encrypted
1M WRITE 1375 1373 1372 933
1M READ 2446 2340 2162 1304
4K WRITE 852 797 502 378
4K READ 2106 1486 2156 1001
>I am currently enjoying eating 7-8 year old mutton and it is better than the best spring lamb that I have had.

Where do you get this?
Well they could take new ideas from them, but it's much easier said than done. The philosophical, historical and cultural framework that allowed the thought of Rousseau and Hobbes to spread in the West does not exist in China.

Interestingly this also partly explains why totalitarian Communism spread easily in China... Chinese culture was conducive to that philosophy.
Thanks, I came across that article too. I've included an edit, there were many factors involved in the South Bronx blight (economic and political), but yes fire stations shutting down in neighbourhoods with less political pull was certainly one of them.

The fires ended up ruining entire neighbourhoods due to the poor city response times, but the simple fact is many of them were started due to landlord arson or from poor property maintenance by the owners.
Man Partly Wakes from 15-Year Vegetative State
> Especially as China avoids the mistake of closing itself off to the rest of the world, but stays integrated in the markets, as well as the academic exchanges.

So if the strategy is have-our-cake-and-eat-it-too why does the rest of the world play along? Corporate greed outside the control of governmental entities?

Like the parent and unlike the grandparent, I'm not convinced "openness" of the sort that fosters innovation requires liberal societal values. Openness in terms of not being legally restricted from copying and improving on existing products is the bigger one there, and China has this in spades. It's similar to the industrializing United States in the 19th century, which went from copying industrialized England to surpassing it - would less free political speech have stopped that?
MIT School of Computing? Turing award winners say it is time
It's way more powerful than WhatsApp, too (location based chats, payments, etc.). And, of course, it's not E2E encrypted; just the opposite, you can assume that it's being wiretapped/monitored.

Thus, please don't install it.
A bit off topic, but quite mesmerizing too :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNJYpyxBfWc

edit: I also like the contrast between the subjects ocean's stillness and full on demonstration of forces
That was the entire argument in the Damore essay. He made a logical jump from facts about men and women to the claim that women were less capable as software engineers.
I work on the policy side of digitalisation. Looking at the things listed in the YC call this all doesn't seem too much line the things that are really needed. Here some major issues that education (thinking here mainly about schools but this covers all sectors. And about developed counties other than the US, which has a strange, immensely commercialised education) faces :
- cost (depending on the country education can be 3-8% of GDP), most of which is salary
- equity - even in the best of countries kids with the right parents fare much better
- changing demographics - massive increases (including migrants but also due to housing cycles etc) in some areas while in some villages a school might end with 6 students, all at different ages.
- how to truly personalise learning (without kids being on devices all day or teachers having to insert massive amounts of data)
- teacher training in subject matter, technical skills and pedagogies, while time and resources are limited
- lack of good teachers (often due to pay...)
- relevance of learning content and methods
- improving assessment
- lack of time for teachers (choose resources, plan lessons, learn new rules /curricula, do a lot of admin,...
-measuring impact of new policy /tools /... (issues are scale, the direct cause-effect link, worry about too much /instructive tracking, etc)

I think for none of these there are any good solutions out there short of throwing money at the system, which few places can /want to do.
For anything to find actual uptake in education it needs to be timely, cost-effective, easy to train /use, respect very specific laws, and tested /proven in a real setting.

There are huge concerns about issues such as vendor lock-in. And looking at some of the proposals listed, there are things that seem crazy /near-evil, eg the suggestion to give a system free to schools but let parents pay.

This seems like a rather negative post, but I just mean to give a bit of perspective. Education is complex, deeply personal, so emotional, immensely important, shapes and determines society and our common future. There is a massive amount of both idealism and frustration on the part of the people involved (especially teachers) . Most have experienced a dozen broken tech promises and been covered in advertising leaflets of questionable commercial providers.

All that ends with either the same pretty much evil players dominating this complex market (everyone in education hates Pearson but few can avoid using some of their products as they know how to play the system, including the funding models and rules ), or with an increased influx of highly commercial tech players (Google, Microsoft, Apple,) which don't understand/care for the aims of education and just see a massive market and an opportunity to train the next generation of users on their systems.

Maybe you'll have some ideas... :-)
I'm saying that client/server has a meaning that's independent of who initiates the connection, or what kind of connection it is.

For example, whether you weed dealer "Dave" calls you on the phone and tells you he can drop by if you're interested, or if you call "Dave" and ask him to drop by, "Dave" is still the server, and you're still the client.
Third World Quarterly Publishes “The Case for Colonialism” Leading to Censorship
It was not an attempt to spread a meme or feel a sense of superiority.

My comment was an observation of a cultural difference that is not even really confined to the south.
It’s more about rural and urban differences. I can only speak about the south because it is what I have experienced.

A culture that is at its root regressive, anti-science and anti-intellectual should not be surprised when it does not succeed in a modern world.
Yeah, I glossed over that part with an "uh, yeah, kinda, sure" for the Uhuru and Worf things (the put-upon not-terribly-competent "service worker" in TOS is clearly Nurse Chapel, if it's any named recurring character, and Worf gets punched a helluva lot less than one might think given his role and demeanor—Picard is more often both the physical and emotional punching bag, I'd think), an "I guess..." for the Sisko bits, and a "wait, what?" for the complaint about Janeway (they gave her arguable the toughest circumstances for any captain in episode 1 of their show in a Trek thusfar, but she did fine because it's Star Trek and the good guys may have ups and downs but they do basically fine in the end, and it's sexist somehow that she did really well? That show has some deep problems, even with Janeway's character, but sexism's nowhere near the top of the list) and an "I guess I missed something?" for the reboot movies bit.

That should have primed me for being confused later in the piece, I suppose.

[EDIT] the Sisko thing'd have had more weight if that show hadn't spent so much screen time openly dealing with humans (=the US, mostly, for production and character reasons) racist past (mind you, I like that aspect of DS9, even if it doesn't always make much in-universe sense)
I am having this issue on my 6S since the update to iOS 11. Have to charge the phone two times per day instead of one before updating. A friend of mine also has the same problem with his 6S.
I always find it interesting to listen to Marten's ideas and thoughts. I met him in 2007 (back when he was CEO of MySQL), and have been following him since. I then met him a few more times when I moved to Silicon Valley. Direct, honest, great at delegating and empowering his employees.
Fair point. FedEx was a catch all. USPS would be better. It's encrypted so if they seized it ...they'd have more problems than the encryption as my work is government in nature.
I will note that his local computation could just as easily have been done on a single, fully managed/secured "cloud" node with much the same performance. I think it misses the point to say that not downloading the data is where the cost lies.
I tend to be conservative about filesystems on external drives. What if you want to plug one in to a computer that does not support APFS?
is any of the dd tests actually valid? I don't see any of the options used that would bypass the cache.
From the article:
"It's not likely to fix itself," said EIG co-founder Steve Glickman. "Entrepreneurs are everywhere, but capital flows are really isolated and captured in a handful of places."

From YC's FAQ section:

Location
Can we do it without moving to where you are?

-Sorry, no. We tried this once, and by Demo Day that startup was way behind the rest. What we do, we have to do in person. We would not be doing a startup a favor by not making them move.

I've said this before, but the conservatism of YC regarding location is astounding when considering the diversity that YC accepts in virtually all other facets of its operation.

They'll invest in a file sharing app and a nuclear reactor company in the same batch, but apparently investing outside the Bay Area is just too hard.
> instead of WeChat there would be Whatsapp and
> instead of Baidu, there would be Google

I think that's the kind of thing that the parent poster meant with this phrase:

> The end result is that China's fate as being
> relegated to being the world's giant copy machine
Even more pressure for teachers to teach tu the test and /or give inflated grades.

Even less incentive for teachers to accept /focus on weaker students.
How to get hired by a SF-based startup and what it’s like to work there
So far they had little success convincing the rest of the world using the tech that only a Communist mother would love.
When this first came out I had some troubles with it. I guess since then homebrew and others have caught up to the changes. It hasn't been a problem for many months.
No, I wasn't trying to end debate. Your position is, in contrast, an appeal to motive which is a logical fallacy.

We cannot expect the people who have been discriminated against and oppressed to stand up on their own. That is not the approach of a civil society, that is placing the entire burden on the wronged party.
CNN was blocked in 2002 (Tiananmen square was still fresh in people's minds) and isn't blocked today (CNN is a shadow of its former self, not very threatening). Ironically, because CNN was blocked, I started reading New York Times, which today IS blocked.
The devils advocate position is that without a social media presence or ads, it can be difficult for some companies to find customers to talk to.
If you want that level of quality, don't use Linux, use instead FreeBSD or OpenBSD.
>Neither did South America

What are you talking about? South America was colonized by the Portuguese and Spanish, which most definitely come from the western liberal tradition.

It's fine to take a position against "Chinese culture", but it should be an honest one.
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Kudrone Drone Campaign Scams Thousands of Backers
Thank you! Happy to hear someone was actually reading that. The experience with using Medium Series as an author was not very pleasing to say it the least.
I actually agree with you on this. But unless there is some kind of consensus among different countries, including those that have free trade agreements with the US (e.g. NAFTA) to change the terms, it seems rather unlikely to happen anytime soon.

Besides, I wonder how much more expensive that alone would make manufacturing in other countries. AFAIK a significant reason for labor being cheap is COL being cheaper in other countries.
Website doesn't load on my end, unless I remove the "/amp/" from the URL

edit: Seems to be a problem with my adblocker (uBlock)
"Surely this is true of all markup languages. How you would represent this visually in a document?"

Not to be snarky, but the ML in XML and HTML stands for markup language..

I'd like my markup to be easy to read and also to map to a tree hierarchy. This seems essential for parsing and anything related to literate programming and reusing "blocks"

Like when I drop in a org mode clock (for logging time in my work logbook), without a tree hierarchy I have no means of binding the time to my description of the work I did. I mean... I see in visually, but its not programmatically linked as an attribute of that text block.

You can kinda get around with pepperin headers everywhere, but it's not as flexible
> Those treads are powered via a wind turbine that captures the planet’s whipping wind gusts

This seems odd to me - Venus has high wind speeds in the upper atmosphere, but on the surface the winds are only one or two m/s. Is that enough to wind a spring?
That's not a standard part of the new "async" feature. It's a leftover from the Stackless spinoff of Python.
If he made that claim, then you can quote it and cite it from his document.

This article is about how he did not make that claim, while media outlets and social media accounts claimed he did.
>>> When I'm in the middle of something I don't want other people asking me questions or having "quick discussions."

Yeah, I get that, but most of us work in a team.
Good luck finding anything public about graph processing on a dataset too large to fit on a single machine. I can launch an AWS instance with 128 cores and 4 TB RAM--how many triples is too many for that monster? Tens of billions? Hundreds of billions?
What is "China" in this case? Its government is the Communist Party. It's not going to abolish itself!

The question to ask, if you want China to change, is to ask how would the Chinese Communist Party lose its grip on power. That would probably need to happen following an economic crisis. However, looking at how badly the Chavistas are driving Venezuela into the ground these days, and how much they're able to hold onto power, you can see that it's not easy to get rid of a government with a lot of resources. The boiling frog theorem applies here. A sudden shock, sudden famine, sudden economic turmoil is what's most likely to create the conditions of regime change.
No, that's an over simplification. Until the statistically high rate of sexual harassment and discrimination is addressed we cannot have a valid intellectual debate on whether sex influences someone's ability as a software engineer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gulf_War_Did_Not_Take_Plac...