skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The recognition was just a side note, my main point is that by 1930, the big American businesses were investing heavily in the USSR, therefore the idea that the media was suppressing stories that might jeopardize those deals is completely consistent with Manufacturing Consent. Especially if the US populace was already hostile to the USSR in the first place - they would want to diffuse that, not provoke a reaction.

In any case, the model described by Chomsky applies mostly to post-WW2 media, as the newspapers and radio channels really began to grow and concentrate, fueled by the flourishing advertising industry. Whether the NYT in 1930 fit the model is not very relevant.
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Java was taught at my school because you don't need to learn much boilerplate to get started, the OOP parts of the language are relatively clean, memory management isn't manual,...and because they got a nice deal with Sun.

Python has similar arguments. It's a clean but powerful language that gets out of the way of learning basic programming, data structures, and such.

> But because once you learn Java, all you know how to do, is teach Java.

Why is that true for Java or Python, but not for other languages?
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If you are on macOS, then Dash (by Kapeli) with the CSS/HTML/JavaScript docsets is your best bet. Having offline docs available at the speed of my fingertips throughout your OS has been a fantastic productivity booster for me. I'm not a heavy MDN user, so I don't know if there's anything that's not covered by the above three docsets.

If you are on Windows or Linux, then Zeal and Velocity are basically the same thing (they're only available on platforms where Dash isn't). Zeal's search used to be pretty bad, but at least you have the option to send Pull Requests on GitHub.
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The conventional wisdom for Chess engines is that aggressive pruning doesn't work well. Chess is much more tactical than Go, selective algorithms tend to lead to some crucial tactic being missed, and the greater the search depth, the more likely that is.

Modern Chess engines are designed to brute-force the search tree as efficiently as possible. I will go out on a limb here and say they would wipe the floor with AlphaGo, because AlphaGo's hardware would be more of a liability than an asset against a CPU.

See also:
https://chessprogramming.wikispaces.com/Type+A+Strategy
https://chessprogramming.wikispaces.com/Type+B+Strategy
Per SpaceX's plans, the landing would be some miles away from people.

A supersonic jet makes a sonic boom on the ground over its whole trajectory. That's what makes it undesirable for overland travel.
Surely as a manager you understand that pitting people against each other is a recipe for disaster and not a path toward improvement.

In other words, never say "John's code is cleaner than yours", say "I suggest you work on polishing these pull requests".
I don't see a problem with it. I never saw the reason why any employer needed to know what someone was paid before. A job is worth around $X to your company to be performed. What I was paid in my previous job has absolutely no bearing on that.
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Ironic that this system was built and is used for communicating with systems capable of creating radiation belts.

https://fas.org/nuke/guide/usa/c3i/verdin.htm

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_artificial_radiation...
Lo & MacKinlay. Anytime I hear Andrew Lo I think of MacKinlay as I heard their names used together 1,000 times during undergrad.
Dollar Stores are a terrible deal. The products not only tend to be inferior but they skimp on the quantity, so you end up paying a much higher per-unit price than had you shopped at Walmart or anywhere else.
>and having precise figures available can be really destructive.

How? It doesn't change anything with regard to this specific concern about family. They already have an idea about how you live and how much you have from knowing you. They might not have a specific dollar amount, but they'll have a good idea.
Not the bravest of bets. How's @wazoox supposed to collect from you if the system collapses?
Yes, but that's probably the theoretical minimum.

What I'm talking about is the size that is required so that the neural net can learn it. This may be different.
Remember folks - correlation does not imply causation.

"linked to" != "caused"
As a shareholder of Google, you do not have access to every individual $100,000 expense they have across a given year (much less an explanation of exactly how it was spent, why it was spent, when it was spent).

The most obvious argument against it, is that people aren't always rational (and are regularly irrational about things like money). I'd argue they frequently aren't able to accurately assess their own financial value (in either direction). It opens a pandora's box within corporations about why X person is worth $Z, while Joe or Jane thinks they should obviously be paid more vs X person. It's not easy to maintain harmony within organizations, that would make it far worse.

What would be the value gained from making all individual employee salaries public (within a public corporation)? It would have to be immense to offset the friction it would cause.
> I find this essay very curious, especially the strong view against the Bullet Cluster supporting the model of Dark Matter. This is the first time in professional astronomy I've seen this brought up.

I've heard it in a few places, starting not too long after the bullet cluster lensing results were published. I thought some revised LCDM studies found the velocities were less discrepant than originally argued, but I think it's still a few sigma off.

Regarding the question of the offset in visible versus total inferred matter, I think MOND proponents would note that MOND doesn't work in clusters with only the baryonic mass we see. At those large scales MOND still requires some form of dark matter, though I believe it is argued a light non-WIMP particle can do it (neutralinos?) and is at a factor of ~2 level, not a factor of 5 or 8 like dark matter. But I have never heard if you can get that type of displacement with those types of particles.
I'd disagree with it as well. Over here in the UK, shops like Poundland and Poundstretcher are doing a booming trade, even in areas with both wealthier populations and a ton of retail options in general. Same goes with cheaper supermarkets too, with the likes of Aldi and Lidl opening up a lot more shops now than they did in the past and gaining a much larger share of the market than the established brands.

It's not just those with few options. It's a general shift towards extremely cheap goods in general, which seems to often be true regardless of the amount of options in the area or the demographics of the folks that live there.
Yeah I can't handle being asked for money too,I inevitably just dump my wallet into their hands (cash).

I remember some lady at a train station seeing me do this and was like "Oh you're just handed out money huh? Give me some too." (jokingly)

I wasn't born into rich but I was dumb. Your parents/society tries to tell you what not to do in life with regard to finances but nope you know better and you get into debt/fear of being homeless because you're marked (credit) and then you can't apply to places/be denied.

I have an okay mind maybe I can get a tech job and get myself out.
I think it's going to be really bad because the people in charge, administrators and executives making large salaries in relatively low COL locations, are going to pretend everything is fine through years of slow burning until there is a nuclear explosion at the end of it. Why turn off the oil well if its benefiting you and you yourself arent hurt by the flames?

EDIT: exactly like the mortgage crisis went down
I’m still baffled that we can’t name our personal assistants the way we see fit. Why can’t I trigger it with « Hey Jarvis », « Alfred », « Marvin », « Come in Scotty », « Computer », or whatever hot word I fancy, especially when it’s supposed to respond only to my voice? Is that because of some pre-training of the NN?
>Hiroshima

Don’t know if you’ve ever read this, but here you go: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1946/08/31/hiroshima
What would it take to get number two to become a reality? Some sort of special module? This is the one main drawback I've found doing "production stuff" with Node.

Does Java offer cross-thread shared memory? Go, Haskell, Python, etc.?
Probably. My point was that a) it's not a big deal, nobody really cares and b) that public salaries are great for employees who want to negotiate. Confidential salaries are mainly a tool for employers to keep employees in the dark.
That was an incredibly good read, thank you.
Heh, it’s slightly ironic you use the sequential programming model as the basis for modern computing when that’s less true each year, both at the language and the instruction level. A better way to term it would be interleaving data dependencies and computation.

Heh, in some ways llvm ssa is the closest you get to a natural programming language for the modern processor.
It's called "privacy". You might want transparency "for the greater good" - I just want to be left alone. I'm not in public position, and I prefer not to disclose information about myself I don't have to disclose, thank you very much.
Praise to the authors for a very well done project. I always wonder though, what's the ultimate impact of recycling plastic like this? One or two extra cycles is still nothing compared to its 500-year life span. We should start reducing usage in mass produced items altogether - with current purchasing habits you don't even need the durability it offers for most products.
Yes, it's the same person:

http://alo.mit.edu/biography/
That's sounds like a good way to lose candidates to competitors.

You are free to offer less money, and the candidate is then free to not waste their time talking with someone who will underpay them.
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Most of the Forbes richest are 1st generation rich. Generational wealth gets called out often, but it's not "the vast majority".
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This contamination has happened before with HeLa cells and the original "War on Cancer". It was an absolute disaster back then, and I'm aghast that the medical industry hasn't learned from this mistake. I actually am quite shocked and horrified that this has happened again. This means that many many human lifetimes of work are invalid.

There's a great documentary by Adam Curtis on this exact topic. "The Way of All Flesh" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0lMrp_ySg8

Again, I can't express just how sad this makes me.
A point which I think illustrates my strongest disagreement:

> It also doesn't seem inconsistent with her story that they'd fund her, a reporter, to do reporting, given that (according to her) they weren't against the story until after it was done.

That's the wrong, simplistic way to think about things. Like startups and software, stories are not "done" until they are published or put on market. Waxman had a single off-the-record source. That is not a story, that is the beginning of an investigation (as it likely was for the current NYT-Weinstein investigation). Maybe the editors were at fault for not aggressively suspecting fire where there seemed to be smoke, but Waxman had nothing of the sort that the current NYT reporters had -- neither in notes nor draft form -- and for her to suggest so is dishonest, since she would be presenting that evidence in her critique.

Again, not having read "Manufacturing Consent", I can't address its specific evidence. But I would love to see what datasets and hypotheses Chomsky uses as proxies to empirically show the ties that you say. Because while data is the plural of anecdote, I'm inclined to believe the inherent nature of data and the politics of its collection means that many of the necessary datasets needed to make those conclusion do not exist in a comprehensive form.

To argue that the powers-that-be, including the media, were "incentivized" to see the end of the Vietnam War may be the actual objective reality. Or it may be a conclusion easy to reach in retrospect of history (i.e. the Vietnam War being a political disaster) by cherry-picking the "data". What would be the evidence/data that could conclusively show the null hypothesis here? And for that matter, why don't the "powers-that-be" include the U.S. presidents (and all of their corporate overloads) at the time whose careers were devastated by the negative perception of the Vietnam War?

I agree that Chomsky's hypothesis doesn't require 100% successful manipulation of the news. So what's the accepted success rate? 75%? 50%? When is the success rate so small that it's indistinguishable from coincidences in a random universe, or one in which the actors or much more independent and the factors much more complicated?

Maybe the answer -- like the hypothesis "Because God made it like so" -- is truly impossible to discern. But the hypothesis is still harmful because in a universe in which the hypothesis is false, it causes us to overlook the more mundane events and systemic factors that precipitate terrible things. Instead, we unconsciously absolve ourselves of action by assigning blame to conspiracy and collusion at a scale too great for us to act upon.
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It's the Lake Wobegon effect. No company wants to say their CEO is below the mean, and pay is a signal of CEO quality, so every company is always trying to pay above the mean, and so the mean inexorably rises and rises.
In the US, it is flat out illegal to place any prohibitions on employees sharing salary data with one another, obvious caveats about "at-will" and employers lying about why they fired you notwithstanding.
Not really. For the traps I've seen, a powerful fan pulls air from an intake pipe at a certain height above ground level through a fine steel mesh filter. You remove the filter after a certain time period, and weigh the mass of the collected insects. You can then count them, and separate by species etc. It's difficult to avoid being sucked in so it's very unlikely that learned avoidance plays any role here; it's simply sampling flying insects in the local vicinity.
I think it's just the opposite. Allowing employers to ask wage history helps maintain the wage gap. If women are underpaid at their first job, then that will propagate forward to future offers. If they can't ask, then they'll have a harder time knowing whether they can continue to underpay a woman. Having a stated salary range also makes it a little harder for them to play games.
Historically, w3schools had a lot of outdated (or outright wrong content):

http://www.w3fools.com/
> Do you care to give an example? Are they more or less well defined than find-the-cat-in-the-picture problem?

You mean like go over and feed the neighbor's cat while they're on vacation?

How about instead, being able to clean any arbitrary building?

Go isn't remotely similar to the real world. It's a board game. A challenging one, sure, and AlphaGo is quite a feat, but it's not exactly translatable to open ended tasks with variable environments and ill-specified rules (maybe the neighbor expects you to know to water the plants and feed the goldfish as well).
That's the thing, even if I wanted to there is nowhere to go to but Apple, the closest I've seen is a Dell XPS or one of the MS Surface models, but they seem to have there own problems, not to mention I heavily use the Mac trackpad and the gestures, which I've yet to see so well done on a Windows laptop :(
Yeah they are king of the 90% price point and seem to use it as an anchor for uniform pricing on their whole bar range in Switzerland.

I think that gives the perception and benefits of being high end to the high volume but lower blends, but means the over 90s seem a bit too poor. But I'm not really sure how the botique 95% blends are and I'm glad lindt's aren't up to the challenge. It is hard enough to travel with a 90% addiction.
Yup, this is a problem of money draining from rural america. There are many symptoms.
I'm failing to see the problem. They're negotiating. If you don't want to pay them max_salary, then you need to have a reason why not, and counter negotiate.
But AWS has the concept of availability zones that they equate to a data center. AWS refers to an AZ as an "isolated location". It's becoming clear with the S3 outages and this outage that isolation is not as robust as expected so now we see more reference to cross-region replication. But unlike cross-AZ services like S3 or DynamoDB, you need to build your own cross-region replication and failover.
> I wouldn't take anybody's word for it, unless I knew them personally.

Maybe that's the thing: We need reviewers that we "almost know", who aren't faceless, but also aren't as deeply corrupt as most YouTubers? A bit like John Siracusa reviewing toasters in podcasts [1]. At least with simple gadgets, I would rather trust him than Amazon reviews, even though I've only heard him talking for a few hours.

[1] https://www.caseyliss.com/2015/9/10/siracusa-on-toasters
I just what to thank the author of the article. I am from the camp of those who had this misunderstanding of thinking that Pascal is only a "toy language" to be studied at school or university and the articles gave clear proofs it's not. I'm not going to switch to Pascal now or explore the question more deeply; it was just an important thing for me to learn.
>>From a financial perspective it almost never makes sense to sell unless you have to get out today.

On the contrary, you should never wait to sell until you have to. That just puts you in a very weak position and ensures you'll be selling it for pennies on the dollar.
There is a 23 lectures course »The early universe« [1] from MIT by Alan Guth, inventor of cosmological inflation. I am only half way through and inflation is only mentioned in the introductory lectures and will not be discussed in more detail before the last third of the course so I will not dare to voice any opinion on the blog post. At least up to the point where I am now, the course is very accessible and I would certainly recommend it for everyone interested in the topic.

[1] https://youtube.com/watch?v=ANCN7vr9FVk
Back when I worked for Data I/O, the wife of the CEO was kidnapped and held for ransom.

There was a home invasion a couple blocks away.

Lots of people prefer to keep a low profile and not attract these sorts of crimes.
Uh... yes. They're not allowed to give random companies all your money.
> I don't get how you can cram hundreds of millions of under-classed people into what are essentially poverty ghettos without a total outright revolution

Distract them Facebook and reality TV.
There's also a pop-top conversion[0] available for the Element, which takes advantage of its very large rear sunroof (which cannot be opened while moving, btw).

I own an Element and I've been flirting with this for years. I've slept in the Element a few times with my wife, but I'm 6'3" and everything gets a bit tight.

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> Some of the staff involved with the latter participate in larger or smaller ways in the former

Researchers are almost always faculty (yes, some places have research scientist type roles on staff).
Norway - Scandinavia in general - has a distinct culture that isn't shared by any other region on earth.

Some things that are perfectly normal in the US or South Korea or Colombia or China or Japan or Zambia or Saudi Arabia or India are without a doubt not considered acceptable or comfortable in Norway. That's how cultures work. What you're describing is an extension of Scandinavia's culture.

The hours worked in Japan or South Korea are culturally acceptable. They would not be in eg France. One could spend an immense amount of time listing the thousands of famous cultural variances between major nations, in regards to things being acceptable in one place but not in another.
I upvoted the authors comment linking the Arxiv paper, that said, I think the presentation oversold the claim that smoothing is always a good thing to do. In particular, showing that excel, grafana, graphite etc, do not smooth by default, (apparently because it is a hard) looked like a low point of the talk, sorry. Smoothing has its uses but its hardly the panacea.

What is an appropriate smoothing is very context sensitive and I would like the consumer of the plots be in charge of that. Sometimes smoothing away the high frequencies or transients are exactly the wrong thing to do (for example, when you care about transient spikes)

I have seen more than enough damage done by plotting tools sneaking in a smoothing without informing the consumer. Especially so in the monitoring space. When the user expects raw plots it better be raw, and raw is a good default. Smoothening should be invoked explicitly.
"Serverless" means "I can run code without having to maintain my own server or execution environment". Using the term "serverless" for that might be confusing and non-literal, but that's how we use it, and the term has stuck. Arguing about that several years ago may have made sense, but that ship sailed long ago.
I don't think Napa features shared memory though, does it?
Yeah, I like the touchbar, but yeah was a little disappointed in how loud the keyboard and even the trackpad, coming from a 2015 MBP.
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Go is still a well defined game within a limited space that doesn't change, and rules that don't change. It's just harder than Chess, but that doesn't make it similar to tons of real world tasks humans are better at.
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Also affecting those arriving on H-1B, I bet. If your previous job is in a non-Western, non-Middle-Eastern country (plus Japan, Singapore etc.) your previous salary is likely much lower.