skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What do you find shocking about it? There is a big moral question about corporate profits vs. wages. But given that some portion of revenues become profits, they are either going to turn into a corporate cash hoard, dividends, or buybacks. I don't see anything shocking about choosing a buyback over the other two choices. After all, when a company takes investor money in a public offering, the idea is that the money will eventually be returned to investors, plus a profit if possible. A buyback is one way to close out the deal with some of those investors and return that money.

Edit:

Also, I think there's a bit of funny math here possibly contributing to a misunderstanding when the article says things like this:

> During that period those companies used 54% of their earnings—a total of $2.4 trillion—to buy back their own stock, almost all through purchases on the open market. Dividends absorbed an additional 37% of their earnings. That left very little for investments in productive capabilities or higher incomes for employees.

By definition, wages don't come out of profits. A company could increase wages by $1 billion, have $1 million profit, do a $1 million buyback, and then a journalist could write an article saying "company spends 100% of profit on buyback, giving none of it to workers."

In reality, many companies have a large cash hoard which is not going to employees or investors. Doing a buyback in those circumstances (notable recent examples include Apple and Facebook) doesn't have any effect on employee wages.
Given plenty of time I'd probably focus on e.g. contributing useful code to open source projects (maybe scipy, numpy? not sure what aerospace involces). Probably cheaper and definitely faster than college, and doable in parallel to paying work.

You'd have to ramp up some on your own, of course.
But then you can point at real scientific computing code, which is better than "and I took some classes".
A tariff on Chinese imports would be a direct hit to growth. It’s not going to force companies to manufacture here. It’s only going to hold the US back. It’s like saying we’d better off closing all of borders. The US produces lots, but it would hardly get by in isolation. Not to mention that waning from the national stage bequeathes power to the next in line.
> No one thought GWB would be a 2-term president. No one thought Trump was electable.

That's nowhere close to the truth. Tens of millions of voters did; and likely tens of millions of more non-voting people thought so as well. Michael Moore thought Trump was going to win, because of how he was connecting as an anti-establishment candidate and Hillary was strictly representing the old establishment - in an anti-establishment election. Plenty of right-wing media outlets provided sound reasoning for why Trump would or could win.

George W. Bush was a double war President, who was still knee-deep into those wars in the run-up to the 2004 election, and a mere few years post 9/11. The Democrats ran two weak politicians at him. The second one vs Kerry, given the broader war/political context, was an obvious outcome.
Chicago has a gated middle 2-lane express lane in the freeway. Gates go up on one side to allow traffic through, depending on traffic conditions, to force it one-way.

What I've never been sure about is how they guarantee no one is still traveling in the wrong direction at transition time
When I'm using my SSD over USB 1.1, and the SSD is the bottleneck, then yes, I'd complain.

Just like how I'm right now using a spinning HDD over public internet via networked storage, and the bottleneck is... the storage driver peaking all CPUs at max. (spoiler: it's portworx). And obviously I am complaining, too.
You will start fighting Rails as soon as you add a frontend framework. Rails was conceived in the era of server-generated webpages.
Are you sure this is not a German thing? /s
> all computational systems are axiomatic systems

Whatever gave you that idea?
You think https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-dot-open-comment-period... will result in no changes?

Or do you mean that there will still be some rules about fuel economy?
The part that I don’t understand is that just about everyone involved with the current administration, as well as many of those who voted for it, are old enough to remember. I’m certainly old enough to remember a smoggy L. A., a dead Lake Erie with rotting, dead fish on the shore, and companies that just dumped their toxic shit wherever they liked. The pictures just don’t it justice, especially that it was just everywhere you went in comparison today.

And yet despite being old enough to remember, those responsible for current policy, and those that vote for them, want to return to those times. I just...don’t...get it.
I just tried ripgrep and it's faster and I think I like the output better :)
Genuinely curious here, are there any similar "WYSIWYG" CMS/Site builders that you could recommend? There seems to be quite a jump between the "know how" to build a simple Wix site, and building the same site on something like Wordpress and the hellhole that is its themes.
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That is very prescient of them! I now hold them in even higher regard.
Stock buybacks have a distinct advantage over dividends: they're not taxable

Done correctly, it’s a synthetic dividend without the immediate tax burden on the shareholders. Those that want to cash out, can sell a portion of their higher priced shares.
VM/CMS (another mainframe variant) may have played a stronger role. It in many aspects resembles Unix, far more than MVS.
This is good news, but I'm slightly surprised with the attention this got here and other circles because this actually is nothing new and just a PR move by Google.

From https://www.kernel.org/category/releases.html:

3.16	Ben Hutchings	2014-08-03	Apr, 2020
3.2	Ben Hutchings	2012-01-04	May, 2018

These are just currently supported ones, there have been several other releases in the past with 5+ year support (like 2.6.32 and 3.4 from top of my mind). These were also (not coincidentally) selected kernels of older Android releases.

Edit: Digged here a bit more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel#Maintenance

2.6.32 December 2009 to March 2016 (6 years)
3.4 May 2012 to October 2016 (4.5 years)
3.10 June 2013 to October 2017 (4 years)
Not yet! I'm not using convnets or backprop or anything so I don't think it would be beneficial that way, but you could get something similar to what I'm doing by looking at Fritzke's Growing Neural Gas[1]

[1] http://papers.nips.cc/paper/893-a-growing-neural-gas-network...
That's one hell of an inflection point. What happened in ~2005? Was it the 2008 economic crisis?
No the problem is unethical companies that sell 6mb dsl from a DSLAM fed by 2x t1s, or that refuse to upgrade their peering links because they want their peers to pay them too.
personally I find Java EE nauseating
I got an RX480 (no idea what edition) at the start of the year and it worked fine with with arch and ubunutu gnome 17.04. I've had some issues like the occasional system freeze and one game in particular always freezing but it's been stable for the most part. Other distros (including earlier ubuntu) went into some horribly unusable resolution on boot.

I was annoyed at the teething problems too, but the progress has been good enough that I stable API doesn't seem necessary. If they hadn't tried to work in their own abstractions then the progress might have been better.
But who cares? I don’t think their users do, and Wix is growing.

Everyone here is disgusted by it because, it is in fact disgusting from the perspective of a developer.

I spent a few hours with with wix earlier this year while needing help a family quickly get a funeral site up they could hopefully have some chance of maintaining themselves. Getting started is actually pretty slick. The designer software is easy to use and gets a basic decent looking site up extremely fast.

Towards the end of the few hours I was hitting roadblocks left and right. Artificial limitations, edge cases not supported, things that could have been fixed on a real site trivially.

Still, what they’ve built, what it in turn allows pretty nontechnical people to build quickly, is impressive. I think it may have been possible to do better on performance and flexibility without compromising for other users. My guess is it’s not mostly because they are just not obsessing on that part much.
Revelation Space

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revelation_Space

The novel reflects Reynolds's professional background: he has a PhD in astronomy and worked for many years for the European Space Agency.

Revelation Space was short listed for the 2000 BSFA and Arthur C. Clarke Awards
Google AI Residency Program, 2018
> "but a century from now when all of us are dead who cares if our confidential info gets released to the public then?"

Your descendants probably. Especially if grandpa earned a lot of dough which by heritage would be theirs now. Or just for the sake of privacy. Would you care if your private social network data was dumped after your death?

To me, when I sign up for confidential that means now and always. Not until death do us part.
The ngram viewer suggests that if such a terminology was ever commonly used, it was suspiciously correlated with the Cold War: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=first+world%2C...
> They still have much higher costs than their Chinese competitors, so they'll be outmatched on R&D, marketing, variety, etc.

That's incorrect. It's essentially as expensive at this point to manufacture in China as it is in the US, for everything except the most basic of labor-intensive manufacturing (particularly in industries where China's lax environmental and labor protection rules are beneficial). Which is why China's manufacturing industry is barely growing. Companies that would have chosen China as an obvious, easy solution for decades, are now choosing Vietnam, Mexico, Pakistan, et al. It's enough that it has robbed China of nearly all manufacturing expansion.

2015: "U.S. Manufacturing costs are almost as low as China’s"

http://fortune.com/2015/06/26/fracking-manufacturing-costs/

2016: "These days, China's labor costs are only 4% cheaper than those in the U.S. when productivity is factored in, according to Oxford Economics."

http://money.cnn.com/2016/03/17/news/economy/china-cheap-lab...
What, like as in candle wicks? I don't think that makes a great deal of sense?
Even doing it on a single server is more secure than whatever these guys had. You can only be found if there's an actual exploit in the VM or tor or something, webserver bugs don't pwn you alone.
For installing it, yeah pip is great too, but for building conda includes third party tools and libraries and stuff. e.g. in order to use the MPI backend for PyTorch's distributed processing you need to build it yourself and conda just makes it a bit easier. That and I had a real bad experience with trying to build Tensorflow (and Bazel) to run on an HPC cluster.
Two related books you may find of interest along the lines of Paul Graham's insightful "The Acceleration of Addictiveness" essay:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernormal_Stimuli
"Supernormal Stimuli: How Primal Urges Overran Their Evolutionary Purpose is a book by Deirdre Barrett published by W. W. Norton & Company in 2010. Barrett is a psychologist on the faculty of Harvard Medical School. The book argues that human instincts for food, sex, and territorial protection evolved for life on the savannah 10,000 years ago, not for today’s densely populated technological world. Our instincts have not had time to adapt to the rapid changes of modern life. The book takes its title from Nikolaas Tinbergen's concept in animal ethology of the supernormal stimulus, the phenomena by which insects, birds, and fish in his experiments could be lured by a dummy object which exaggerated one or more characteristic of the natural stimulus object such as giant brilliant blue plaster eggs which birds preferred to sit on in preference to their own. Barrett extends the concept to humans and outlines how supernormal stimuli are a driving force behind today’s most pressing problems, including modern warfare, obesity and other fitness problems, while also explaining the appeal of television, video games, and pornography as social outlets."

And also "The Pleasure Trap" from 2006 by Douglas Lisle and Alan Goldhamer, which is mainly about food but much the same idea. They say humans are adapted to eat a certain variety of nutritious foods. But modern industry has made it possible for businesses to sell large quantities of tasty but non-nutritious foods which people get used to. The foods destroy people's health over time in various ways by malnutrition from missing micronutrients and fiber which leads to cancer, heart disease, stroke, and so on. Getting back to enjoying healthy eating generally requires four to twelve weeks of suffering through "neuroadaptation" to appreciate the more subtle tastes of whole healthy foods. The book is summarized here in detail:
http://web.archive.org/web/20160418155513/http://www.drfuhrm...

Here are some other related books emphasizing how children are being harmed by pervasive commercial media and what parents can do (all easier said than done) include:

* "The Cyber Effect: A Pioneering Cyberpsychologist Explains How Human Behavior Changes Online"

* "Reset Your Child's Brain: A Four-Week Plan to End Meltdowns, Raise Grades, and Boost Social Skills by Reversing the Effects of Electronic Screen-Time"

* "Glow Kids: How Screen Addiction Is Hijacking Our Kids-and How to Break the Trance"

* "So Sexy So Soon: The New Sexualized Childhood and What Parents Can Do to Protect Their Kids"

* "The War Play Dilemma: What Every Parent And Teacher Needs to Know"

Or, as I summarize in my sig: "The biggest challenge of the 21st century is the irony of technologies of abundance in the hands of those still thinking in terms of scarcity."
I mean, if we shred the numbers a particular way we get this result:

Australia has a population of 24.6 million and that table[1] says 26 million people want to move there. That's 105%.

Where as the USA has a population of 325 million but only 138 million want to move there. That's only 42%.

If Australia had the population of the USA the number should be 341 million, all else being equal.

1. http://news.gallup.com/poll/161435/100-million-worldwide-dre...
The main paper for this project is Andrew Kennedy's 2013 paper "Coq: The world's best macro assembler?"

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/coq-wor...
They go together.
Yup! To cite some sources:

> Periodic reminder that most of Isaac Asimov's stories were about how the three laws of robotics DON'T ACTUALLY WORK.

(https://twitter.com/grok_/status/904675286230470656 - MIT Research Specialist in Robot Ethics, in the superintelligence-is-in-no-way-a-serious-concern camp)

> It must be emphasized that Asimov wrote fiction...The general consensus seems to be that no set of rules can ever capture every possible situation and that interaction of rules may lead to unforeseen circumstances and undetectable loopholes leading to devastating consequences for humanity

(https://intelligence.org/files/SafetyEngineering.pdf - MIRI, home of Bostrom, Yudkowsky, and other the-superintelligence-control-problem-is-super-important folks)

To the extent that there are sides here, both of them seem strongly in agreement that the Three Laws are a narrative device and not a solution to anything.
If you can afford it by all means. It's never too late to go to College and get an education but you need to be highly motivated. Also don't neglect Math, in fact, I you can get a Math degree it's even better. My 2 cents.
I recently released an audio-based choose-your-own-adventure inspired game for playing in the car called Road Trip Adventures. If 7th Continent appeals to you then you should check it out!

https://playroadtripadventures.com
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Not sure why this is getting tons of downvotes. Warby Parker's profitability per retail square foot is one of the highest in all of retail mostly because there's such a distance between what their frames cost to make and what they sell them for. Limited choice (Trader Joe's style) and a good sense for the products their target market wants seem to be their secret sauces to pulling off crazy margins on said products.
Why are stock buybacks an ugly picture?
Some pollution, sure, but not all. One of the top causes of pollution and global warming is from meat production.And it's cheaper for multi-national companies from China to import pork from the US rather than slaughter them at home: https://qz.com/433750/the-world-eats-cheap-bacon-at-the-expe...

"It begs questions about the quality of life the world’s richest nation will tolerate for its poorer citizens, questions that have been thrown into sharp relief by the recent entry into North Carolina of China’s—indeed the world’s—largest pork processor, WH Group. Drawn by the low cost of production there, WH Group finds it cheaper to raise pigs in North Carolina and export them to tables back home than to raise the animals in China. "
The President has power over things affected by his executive privilege. Like the State department, for instance, which has experienced massive hemorrhaging of personnel, is barely staffed, and is ensuring that the US has less than the bare minimum of institutional knowledge and capacity to maintain its (good or bad) hegemony over the world's affairs. This could have momentous long term effects.
Does the author realize that Facebook already has a public API?
> In the same way, an ant hill is not just a bunch of ants, it has so many emergent properties that thinking of it in terms of its components is a mistake

The thing about emergent behavior is that you just have to take enough entities and organize them the correct way, and the behavior appears, unexpectedly, and out of nowhere.

If it is really emergent, then nobody (what includes me and you) has no idea how far we are from a general intelligence at all.
This article is not that detailed, but it's a sentiment I agree with, so I'll add one major shortcoming of Tensorflow: its memory usage is really bad.

The default behavior of TF is to allocate as much GPU memory as possible for itself from the outset. There is an option (allow_growth) to only incrementally allocate memory but when I tried it recently it was broken. This means there aren't easy ways to figure out exactly how much memory TF is using (e.g. if you want to increase the batch size). I believe you can use their undocumented profiler, but I ended up just tweaking batch sizes until TF stopped crashing (yikes).

TF does not have in-place operation support for some common operations that could use it, like dropout (other operations do have this support, I believe). Even Caffe, which I used for my research in college, had this. This can double your GPU RAM usage depending on your model, and GPU RAM is absolutely a precious resource.

Finally, I've had issues where TF runs out of GPU RAM halfway through training, which should never happen - if there's enough memory for the first epoch, there should be enough memory for every epoch. The last thing I want to do is debug a memory leak / bad memory allocation ordering in TF.
By far the best was the dBase family, mainly foxpro.
There was some page towards the end I remember being hopelessly lost and never recovered.
Multiple years is a lot of opportunity cost, and while it is probably tough to get a sci programming aerospace job without at least a CS degree, (a) you might not manage to land a job in such a narrow specialty, and (b) even if you do, you might not earn back the lost wage, especially because you'll be sort of tacitly acknowledging an EXP "reset" and starting from a lower salary rank.

These are obstacles you can overcome if you have a lot of career and negotiation savvy. But the Venn diagram of programmers with that kind of savvy is not encouraging, so you may want to do some personal reflection before investing.

The good news is that if you want to get away from piecework web grunt stuff, you don't need a degree (or even any formal education) to do that. If you apply yourself as seriously as you'd have to in school to practicing serious development, on personal projects, in specialized areas that are interesting to you, have some job market applicability, and involve more hardcore programming, you should be able to get yourself to a place where you can start interviewing for serious dev jobs.
It seems to be about standardising communication between desktop applications using an RPC broker server (Plexus Interop). It’s aimed at traders, who often use multiple desktop applications (for trading, news, comms) in various runtimes (Java, C#, Python, etc). This tool is some at creating a standard platform enabling those other tools to communicate with each other. I guess like a sort of cross-runtime service bus with service discovery.

(I don’t work in FS, this is just what I can gather from reading the docs).
I don't know C#. Should I assume this is the way to write comments? That's just terrible.

/// <summary>
/// Log a message with the specified <paramref name="logLevel"/>.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="logLevel">The level of log entry.</param>
/// <param name="exception">The exception to log.</param>
/// <param name="message">The format of the message object to log.<see cref="string.Format(string,object[])"/> </param>
/// <param name="arg1">The first argument for message formatting.</param>
[StringFormatMethod("format")]
void Log<T1>(LogLevel logLevel, [CanBeNull] Exception exception, string message, T1 arg1);
The article is politically motivated nonsense.

The author admits he wants to force companies to invest their profits in expansion instead of paying back shareholders, because he claims they have an obligation to maximize their wages and taxes paid.

If stockholders were never allowed to realize a profit, why would anyone ever buy stock at an offering?

The author sneers at icahn for not buying at the IPO, ignoring that icahn is making good on the implied promise that IPO investors would get to eventually cash out.
Or, alternatively, a zero-g banjo and opportunity for true space music.
Colin Sholes: “Getting in Touch with My Past: The Typewriter Museum”
That sounds useful. The thing is rails is just one of many frameworks. What if you're using a go backend for instance?

Also, does the generation output single page apps for popular frameworks such as react and angular?
IMO, there's an injustice here when things like stepped-up basis result in these gains never being taxed, but that seems like a separate issue from the question of wages vs. profits.

To be explicit, there is a decision tree where a company can decide whether to have wages increase or profit, then decide what to do with the profit, and the rise of stock buybacks vs. dividends is an answer to the second question, not the first.
I am fighting the good fight too with creating this website to expose the exact messages of scammer so anyone searching... can find a particular scam.

https://scamshare.com

Feel free to submit your scam emails to the website... the more in the database, the better chance of hopefully protecting people from getting scammed.
College education at least to me is a scam. My wife recently started her school because she can’t work here as she is on a dependent visa, and the only way she could work here is to get a student visa. Paying 48k a year for 10 week courses per quarter which she could have easily learned from coursera in much better way. I feel per course fee is too high for a ten week more or less too fast and superfluous study.

I honestly think you could brush up your skills through coursera and other tools and then present your work through github and LinkedIn or your network. I know you need a bit of luck, however if you have good projects, you will get notice the coveted tech company recruiters. I have friends who took this path and are successful.

This will save you a tonne of money (those loan payments are nasty) and working hard would be common denominator.