skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The strategy you've propose doesn't seem likely to me. It would take a lot of effort to steer them to the kite, only to have to chase them out again to repeat the process. I think it's far more likely that they herded/chased them toward the kite, and from far enough away to keep them from scattering, and jumping over the stone 'walls', and when the herd traversed the kite, it gradually bunched up as it got closer to the point of the kite. At the point would be the kill zone, with hunters waiting to slaughter as many as possible.
Parents are exhausting their children. An eighth-grade boy explains how
I have no doubt you've had great success with clojure.

However I question generalizing from 'this was not an issue for my team at my company' to 'this should not be a concern for any company under any given constraints'.

I don't doubt most devs wouldn't have problems learning these concepts. It's whether business have capacity to allow those devs to onboard in such a fashion, knowing that different business are subject to different constraints.
"Story for Medium members only"

Is this a thing medium does nowadays?
For the same reason people use JavaScript in the back-end (Node.JS) — Code Reuse

If you are a Rust developer and need to create some code for the frontend of a web service, this solution allows you to keep your confidence in the language that you are already used to use (Rust in this example) instead of having to worry about the ambiguity of the JavaScript language.
Fun fact for HFCS bashers: it’s nearly the same blend of sugars as honey. If you think HFCS is bad (and I believe it is), honey can’t be good.
I disagree. this is Google's tools being used to speculate on why there are so many discrepancies and unexplained things in the 'official' narrative of what happened. As I said previously, how do you 'fact check' something which is questioning those logic lapses.

'Being tagged as baseless' reminds me of the old Soviet Union.
Yup, I agree.
Thank you. For example, one of the worst forms of evidence, that is not permitted as science, is eye witness testimony. People are too fallible be relied on. We only forget that because of our judicial system, unfortunately. But what's even worse than that is what's next in line: a collection of testimonial opinions, or a democracy on truth, especially one run by a non-opensource algorithm.

Maybe nothing bad will come of this, but every step Google makes has me worried that they will abuse their power. There's something that seems dangerous about a nation of people fact checking primarily via a single corporation.

Remember when NASA burned up the Challenger space shuttle because of the groupthink that prevented a couple engineers from letting everyone know that they knew this would happen? And NASA is not evil, nor have incentives to allow this, which is why we need to work together to be dilligent to protect ourselves from these problems--they easily sneak in.
Part of the issue is just the systems on the backend. I had my account removed about 3 years ago for some mistaken flag of copyright infringement, having never uploaded a video. I had 7 years of liked videos and curated playlists, that I wanted to save. Compounding the personal severity, some of the channels I'm subscribed to contained personal private videos from friends that had passed away.

It took me 4 days to get my account restored, and required calling into both Google and Youtube, as well as emailing, and contacting friends that worked at Google to get internal numbers. All because they have some system that accidentally flagged an account with zero uploads, and Google still lacks any real form of public customer service.
While some may find GitKraken visually pleasing, it can't be used for big repos; didn't even manage to open a few of the ones I tried.
See What Past Generations Thought Today's Cities Would Look Like
Berkshire Hathaway didn't purchase shares in GEICO until the mid to late 70s (he was already worth hundreds of millions) and didn't buy it outright until 1995 (when he was a multibillionaire).

Before purchasing GEICO, Buffett averaged a 40% annualized return in his investment partnerships over 13 years, then averaged a 25% annualized return in Berkshire Hathaway for two and half decades. He was already the greatest investor in history before buying GEICO, and since purchasing it Berkshire Hathaway returns have dropped significantly (though not because of GEICO). GEICO has had only a small part to do with Berkshire's success, in fact it's a small portion of their insurance companies, which include General Re.

Float can be negative. In fact, the vast majority of insurers carry negative float, they lose money on the policies they write and squeeze out profits only with the interest they earn on float. Buffett's use of float is only successful because Berkshire is incredibly disciplined and doesn't own any insurance business without demanding it produce an underwriting profit.

Lastly, GEICO's float is probably the least useful float of all their insurance companies. Float's value is in proportion to the insurance contract duration, auto insurance is a short term contract and the float has to be returned quickly, greatly restricting the types of investments that can be made with it. Ajit Jain's group writes insurance contracts that have durations up to decades long, and that float can be invested much more aggressively.
I think a more plausible description is that he's using shady financial engineering to prop up failing firms at the expense of investors to his other companies: https://www.fool.com/investing/2017/10/18/solarcity-teslas-s...

> The logic of the buyout never made much sense in the first place, unless you looked at the hundreds of millions of dollars Elon Musk, Peter Rive, and Lyndon Rive would lose in stock and bond value if SolarCity went under. This is looking more and more like a bailout and Tesla may eventually have to take a massive loss on solar operations.
That's right, and I'm not at all convinced that the author of the TechCrunch article is correct.

But there is one important difference between the past 20 years and the 20 years before that. The number of people participating in a self-employed or entrepreneurial role has been far greater in the past two decades than before.

We did see some of that during the PC revolution as well, but it was disproportionally smaller in scale.

I haven't done the research to say whether there were historical periods before in which such large swaths of the population were gripped by the idea that they could start their own business based on a new technology.

It's possible that it happened before, but I don't think it was like that between 1975 and 1995. Certainly not towards the end of that period because I would remember.
I meant to say "traits". I'm not even going to try to figure out how that came our as "rates".
Yeah, it's hard to get this right, and while they've been overly aggressive on copyright claims for a while, I'm glad that they're finally expanding this hardline stance against extremist content too. Though I'm not surprised it took literally funding Hezbollah (in contravention of UN SCR 2178 I might add) for them to take a look at what their monetisation schemes were enabling. A lot more to go though. When opening an incognito tab and searching something as innocuous as "feminist" gives the results it does, it's not hard to see youtube as being one of the foremost contributors to extremism, especially in kids. Real change won't happen until flagged videos get penalised in recommendations and search results too.
We don’t need technology to fix this. We need better education. This is a problem not created by technology but by ignorance.
One of many fun parts in reading the BRK letters is seeing this "tweaking" of their underwriting through the 70's until eventually losses were rare.
It's a thing authors can turn on on Medium, yes.
> “God exists ... > Fact check by Progressive-example: false

Not even false. Religion is immune to fact checks.
I fail to see how this is different than keeping non-zero weights on suboptimal actions for exploration?
Fewer citizens also means smaller budget, how does that help?
> That is just not how population studies like this work.

I agree (that's not how these studies work), and that's kind of my point. If you're going to throw around phrases like "caused by" (or "responsible for", as claimed by the study), then you really should be able to definitively link the two.
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Just because a CYP is involved, doesn't mean the target substance is hard on your liver in any way. Liver toxicity is highly non-linear with dosage, and damage typically starts abruptly when substrates are depleted. The classic example is paracetamol, which is quite safe at reasonable dosages (and without alcohol) where the liver is well within its limits, but causes damage rapidly at higher dosages when you run out of glutathione.
You can build that environment for yourself. Buy a small cabin in the woods. There are many who have done this. Check out Joey Hess' blog: http://joeyh.name/blog/.
I don't think lava tubes breed.
maybe that was a joke and i missed it. deeply interesting? no idea why it's on here.
Why are you assuming that Google is going to trust these people implicitly? They are providing markup so they can associate claims of fact with identities. They can then choose how to weight those claims using other evidence.
I think the best method for detecting propaganda or fake news is to look for rhetoric. If the author is overly verbose or presents something other than basic facts or logic they're probably lying.
Could you elaborate on the "open proxy" part? I now switched to unlock, but still miss adblock plus interface. This could help me not switching back
The flip side of this movement is of course even better profiling and mass surveillance.
Something like Bell Labs did a lot of great work in the past while separated from the world. A lot of research institutions do too.
Well, it's the biggest capital exporter in the world (huge surplus) and is the third largest exporter in total. It's also got the highest GDP in the EU by a fair margin.

Per-capita in the EU is skewed by a fair number of very small but very very rich countries. Luxembourg, the leader, being a tax haven and a population of half a million (!!) does not make it the healthiest and best economy.
Whole grains are one of the biggest sources of dietary inflammation. There isn’t something inherently wrong with grains, it’s that they’re not even close to the grains we evolved to eat anymore (at least, not in the U.S. — grains in mainland Europe are generally fine, unless you have an issue with gluten/grains such as celiacs, Crohns, or IBS).

Source: Tons but the book Wheat Belly is one of the most succinct. Also, every trainer who is even half-way decent at transforming clients tells them to avoid grains, don’t discount what people are ACTUALLY doing to get results, even if a definitive study hasn’t been done on it (although many studies have been done, see Wheat Belly).

Fruit falls under the category of “healthy, if you’re healthy.” If you’re overweight and inactive, and you want to lose weight, then you should not be eating fruit, or any high-sugar, high-carb food for that matter. Once you’re lean and physically active, it’s fine.
Certainly there isn't any way to link it with the certainty. But the number of dead from Air pollution being at least 5M is pretty widely accepted.

The wikipedia page has a figure of 5M

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_pollution

The Copenhagen Consensus puts the figure at 7M

http://www.copenhagenconsensus.com/post-2015-consensus/air-p...

Bjorn Lomborg runs the Copenhagen Consensus centre. Lomborg is hated by many environmentalists because he says that the return on spending on Global Warming is not very good, He's not a far left environmentalist.
Great, so now the frozen IPO market means that all the growth from tech unicorns gets captured by saudi oil sheiks. thanks SEC/SV!
I think the short answer is we don't really know, but the simplest explanation is muddy icy comets colliding
Unit tests don't catch everything. Integration tests don't catch everything. I can do the tests if the company's happy with half the features implemented, half the bugs fixed, and paying dev rates for work that they're currently paying QA rates for.

If they'd built the core code in a unit-testable manner 20 years ago, there'd be fewer places that need manual testing now
You should be extremely grateful you were actually able to reach anyone and get it restored at all.
It's actually the reverse. Buffett requires his insurance companies write profitable policies, so that interest earned on the float is gravy. When one suffers through an inevitable bad year (Gen Re a recent example) float interest is a greater margin of safety.

Most insurers write unprofitable policies and use float interest to cover those losses and make a profit. When they have a bad year, they often lose horrendous amounts and can be forced to raise more funding at unattractive rates just to stay in business.

And the value of float seems to be over-rated on this site. Float almost never can be invested in the stock market or other high yield aggressive investments. Because it represents policyholder's premium dollars it has to be invested very conservatively, usually in safe fixed income investments. The way Buffett uses it adds a nice bump to earnings, but it's far from a key to his success. He never owned any insurance companies when he had his highest return decades.
It's always there for anyone to grab. Try lying on your back with all your gadgets turned off and eyes closed; and observe your brain thinking for a while; which is about as difficult as meditation needs to be. Might take some practice to not identify with the thoughts and get carried away, or to not block yourself by trying too hard. Then ask yourself while lying there: Who am I? Literally :) Who is observing the thoughts? The experience is not of this world, it can't be transferred using words. There are other ways to get a glimpse, mushrooms, ayahuasca etc; but introspection is the way to go for lasting results. I spent 32 years writing software, and I just know that a computer will never be able to do the same thing.
You are being extremely unfair towards the average person. The average person knows, and they also know that they are powerless.
For me it finally pushed me enough to switch to Vim for web dev work. But I do have Sublime for just in case.
Every personal account I’ve read, suggests it takes a great deal of will. It’s not easy to eat less than you need to eat to sustain your present weight. You also need to change very much what you eat.

Recently I weighed myself and found that I was 73.8 kilos. For my height, it is overweight. “Sacre bleu,” I thought (I sometimes think in French), “je suis Américain obèse.”.

I bought a scale and made an effort to eat less every day. After a few weeks I realised I had to change my diet — more rice and vegetables and lean meat, less eating out and having dessert with lunch every day...

This was a long, stressful period of eight or nine weeks wherein I managed to lose 7 kilos, filled with many reversals, changes of habit, and frank comings to terms with myself.
The parent said: What I learned is that i'll still be an introvert at time but at least I can change how I respond to people.

In general, behavioral therapy[1] does not aim to "fix" a trait, it tries to make interaction with "normal" people easier.

[1] I include "help yourself" books and those used as such here.
Yes, but will Google's fascism be symmetrical?

https://news.avclub.com/behold-the-fearful-symmetry-of-roboc...
Probably ice. Ice that falls into the entrance and then sublimates has a good chance of moving to perpetual darkness regions and to stay there. Factor a couple billion years and you probably will have a decent amount.

Now imagine there is some simple biology happening from the time the Moon had some atmosphere, in caves sealed billions of years ago.
Is type 2 diabetes really a disease of aging? I don't know any older Americans that have developed type 2 diabetes.

I guess downvoting a question is cool now.
It was either this or having a large part of humanity living without western comforts. Fructose is cheap to get and produce.

In addition a fat liver sounds more curable in a thirld-world-country then diabetes. So the worser of two it is.
You are also most probably human, have you even bothered to have a look inside?
Search for any recent year and "berkshire letter", then, in the PDF, search for "insurance", and you'll see Buffett saying something similar going back as far as you can find Berkshire shareholder letters.
Its definitely meant to make javascript more capable. Currently while you can do some things with webaudio for example, with WASM you can use complex DSP, you can also build out valuable audio code that you want to keep locked down in binary format where someone getting your algorithm could do damage to your business but in the case of a webaudio DAW the code can't be run on the server.
Spain is not nearly as complicated for a freelance. The problem in Spain is that the administration is a disaster in the "customer care" level. Also, every time a new technology appears they have to open a process for companies to bid (basically because their own IT dept is totally overloaded and I highly doubt they are keeping up with technologies) and do whatever is needed, but it's at least one year cycle.

They try to make everything anti-cheat, but in the end cheaters cheat anyway, and in the process they make everything slow and painful.
I'm sorry to have come across as condescending. Communicating this stuff is hard! I've probably had to post something like this at least a thousand times, and the statelessness of it can get frustrating.

Meanwhile, even though commenters here are supposed to know the site guidelines, you may not have had any idea that you were doing anything wrong. If so, I can understand how this would be an off-putting way to hear about it.
I'm not sure what your point is. If a thing is true but nobody believes it, then there is no way to determine that truth from Google searches in the first place.
Big Brother further pressing their place in defining what is and isn't true.
Partisan fact checking -- which this effort intends to standardize and elevate -- is part of the problem, not the solution.
If there had been no urgent reason to be the first to get an atom bomb, wouldn't the world be much better off if the Manhattan Project had taken the Calico strategy? We'd have a much wider array of advances in many different disciplines, and the knowledge would be spread out among many institutions, rather than locked away under one roof. And maybe we wouldn't have an atom bomb, which is a good thing in my hypothetical world where nobody else is trying to make one.

> Calico probably thinks of itself as the Manhattan Project.

I think it's clear that they don't. Their stated mission is not "cure death", it's "devise interventions that enable people to lead longer and healthier lives." They hope to "build a Bell Labs of aging research." This is not Manhattan project talk, this is what you say when you want to support an ecosystem of research, and you have no idea what the outcomes will be.

If you're trying to improve the world, which is what they say, I think Bell Labs is a much better model than the Manhattan Project.

> No wonder our grandparents could get big things done, and we can't.

What do you mean by this? Do you not see stuff like LHC and LIGO as "big things"? What big problems do you see today that our grandparents would have solved by now?
Or an incentive not to collect the data at all in the first place.
Electron sits in the same hybrid space as Cordova/Phonegap, and will suffer the same fate once React Native, or something similar, starts eating its lunch.
Deal. I'm in Oakland during the day and Walnut Creek during the nights. Let me know what works.
"Should we condemn them" - manipulatively dramatic language imho. Sometimes we have to step up and take on a burden we might prefer not to - it's done to improve a situation. You want the country's strong to abandon the country and its weak? Or do you want the whole population of every poor country to migrate, should they want?
Mounting Disks on AWS
There's already been lots written about this, but it's astounding how much these SoftBank funds will effect the startup ecosystem for years to come.

After years of VC's talking about how too much money is floating around creating over-priced unicorns, Masayoshi Son is going to end up injecting a trillion more dollars into the private market.

Employees need to start demanding that their employers create regular buyback/secondary programs to make up for the restrictions on their illiquid stock. It should be a straight forward part of the performance review process: "Here's some more stock, here's some more salary, how much of your existing stock (eg. up to 10%) would you like to sell in the next buyback?"

Companies like Slack are never going to go public in this sort of environment and its the employees that suffer the most. The public not being able to participate in startup gains is a legitimate issue, but they're not the ones creating the value in these companies.
Berkshire entered insurance in 1967; were their best years prior to that?
If publishers put out official-grade softcopy EPUBs — like O'Reilly used to do until recently — they'd be just as good as the same publisher's hardcopy prints.

Pragmatic programmers do this and it's an absolute joy to use their digital books, you can have ePub, Mobi or PDF format. The quality of their eBooks over that available from Amazon is much higher.
Citations for this crap?
Scripting Monad: The Future of Windows Scripting (2005)
Really good points. I was suggesting the need for a shoulder so people don’t just drive into the walls like they do on I90.
I tend to view it more as a regressor. Golang is a conservative retrenchment towards Java pre-1.5 in a lot of ways. (And that may be fine for some use cases; I get the appeal even if I think it's misguided.)
"We do not want our million plus customers that do not have solar to be buying solar at 10.5 cents when we can turn it out for them at 4.5 cents or buy it for them at 4.5 cents,” Buffett told CNBC Monday morning during a wide-ranging interview. “So we do not want the non-solar customers, of whom there are over a million, to be subsidizing the 17,000 solar customers.”

The real shark was Musk, who was just mad that he wasn't able to force consumers to buy solar at more than twice the cost of other energy to subsidize his solar business, like he got the poor taxpayers of Nevada to subsidize his factory.