skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Not attempting to reason with someone so ideological, just want him to be aware that is viewpoint isn't ok.

We need to send a message back to her that she is the one being drama and needs to grow up and be a 'real adult' like she says she is.

Honestly that just sounds threatening, it's not alright.
Have you ever seen a 150 in real life? There's nothing in the tailcone. If you had a battery and some avionics boxes in there, the you could probably move the tail a few feet towards the front to achieve the same moment.

You simply can't guess the balance from a picture.
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Not really. The focus of the project died with WP.
>Making advertising illegal

Might as well make money illegal.
Guy Fawkes night’s oddest traditions are due to a 1606 law (2014)
> Maybe the Unicode consortium made a mistake by specifying them as bright yellow

I don't think Unicode consortium initially specified any color for these characters. For instance U+1F604 is defined as "SMILING FACE WITH OPEN MOUTH AND SMILING EYES". I remember an early Android phone displaying these expressions on green robot faces. As far as I know color specifications only came later with the skin tone modifiers.
Yeah, didn't say that was ok, I was trying to explain to you that maybe, just maybe, that scenario might make someone uncomfortable. You've decided her reason are invalid, that's not how it works.

You're complaining about her "demonizing" people, but you decided to make an account to demonize her without a shred of empathy. What's your excuse for why this bothers you so much?
I feel you should have more empathy for people that do not look like you.

For some people, race, fighting for for recognition, let alone equality, is a daily battle. You may live and work far from this conflict, but it exists, and in some part the diversity modifiers for emoji provide folks with empowerment. Don't take that away over limitations in the spec.

There are billions now who own smart phones, and want that funny Japanese Telco encoding standard to reflect their world too.

This is not a technical or standards problem, and the fitzpatrick modifiers do not decrease functionality of unicode.

I feel my point is to chill, and consider how functionality outside your perceived value might bring others joy.
That would be amazing, but unlikely, since they were described as having lower than normal IQ. Watching the videos makes that obvious as well.
The poster was talking about what "you own". It's really easy to have more than $100k in assets. That's basically anybody who owns a home.
> America takes and redistributes just as much money

The statistics refute this claim.[1]

All values in USD/capita. Stats are from 2015

USA - 14,794

Finland - 18,580

Iceland - 18,783

Sweden - 21,800

Denmark - 24,527

Norway - 30,138

The other Scandinavian countries are included for comparison.

[1] https://data.oecd.org/tax/tax-revenue.htm
> That bad guy student (Ambrose?) has no motivation beyond just being a deliberate antagonist

Ambrose is a bully. You've never met a bully?

"The researchers found that children who bullied were often motivated by a desire to increase their popularity and that they chose generally unpopular victims to avoid losing social status... Bullies tend to be aware of the social hierarchy within the class and are seeking the admiration of specific people." [0]

Amrbose (unknowingly) thwarts Kvothes QUEST as part of a petty prank to put him in his place. Kvothe fights back. Once that antagonistic relationship is established, it gets out of hand and there is plenty of motivation to keep it going.

[0] https://www.webmd.com/parenting/news/20100325/what-motivates...
You can say some things about Africa. Electricity and connectivity are always more expensive. It's one of the most expensive data and infrastructure markets in the world.

Of course, there is massive variability as Africa is huge and diverse. But the entire continent has more expensive power than say, Germany, or something.

Also, stuff that is human powered (food, tailoring, etc.) are much cheaper. Again, lots of variability, but food in Ghana is going to be cheaper than food in say, Germany, or the US. Although you can certainly get expensive stuff in some areas (SA, TZ, etc.).
Not income, static assets. That is, if you own more than about 40 sqft (sic) of apartment space outside of a city centre, you must pay a wealth tax on it.

It's sad that this is the top response, because you have completely misunderstood what I said, and responded with something unrelated.
I agree why give google everything?
You could try http://brick.im/fonts/
brick fonts is at least a choice..
I have used it and it seems fine..I have yet to expand use of brick fonts but on some sites I see no issues..
nice choice of fonts as well
Did anybody bother to ask George if he’s a woman? I don’t know.
This entire opinion piece is speculation. Also it's all a single company with multiple properties so 1 single site being profitable doesn't seem like a strong argument.
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Taxes are not rent. Taxes are the share of expenses you pay for the services and security the state provides. In European countries, especially in the Scandinavian ones it’s commonly understood and agreed upon that the stronger ones carry more of that burden. That may sound like communism to people from a country with a stronger “each for his own good” mindset, but pretty much all statistics point in the direction that it makes for fewer extremely rich people but to an overall happier society. Not having to worry about health care is one of contributing factors. And when looking at the fact that a medical incident in the family nearly bankrupted the last Vice President of the US, you really have to be one of the few insanely rich to be certain that such an incident won’t hit you.
Yes! Absolutely. Unless you already have quite some proficiency with mathematics and/or generic programming then learning category theory is pretty pointless. In fact I don't even know what it would mean to "learn" it if you don't have a suitable background to build it on.
If the dude refined a kit and is able to create a relatively safe DIY plane for under 100k in parts isn’t that an innovation?
I'm unsure if you're joking, but in case you're not: Tinder actually had a feature remarkably like Snapchat for posting images that were visible to all of your matches. Was quite a neat feature when used for its intended purpose: I met my current girlfriend through it as she posted an excellent German beer that I was a fan of, so I sent her a message about it.

Of course, it was quite often used mostly for photos of male genitalia, according to my female friends. I assume that's why the feature was removed, which was a shame.
Are white people any more represented by the color yellow than black people?
Telling people to please stop doing things that are profoundly enjoyable, in opinion columns, seems like the stupidest possible idea for how to solve the climate crisis.
I think you'd be surprised. I moved to Columbus in the early 2000s after college from another Indiana city. Perhaps I have blinders on, but I don't ever recall any casual racism or homophobia. If anything I'd say it's a more progressive city than many other small conservative midwestern towns. There is considerable diversity in the city, given that many of the engineers who live here have come from other countries. There was a recent presentation about the problems of "conversion therapy", and the presbyterian church a few weeks ago had a day of remembrance specifically for those who are transgender.

Not saying it's anything along the lines of Colorado, or the bay area, which I've frequented the past decade - but I think 2017 Columbus IN is vastly different than late 90s Columbus IN. The article really nails it.
I hope you meant it in a good way. There's very very few good things about Eastern Europe. But the "open minded humor" and ability to both take and receive jokes that would offend others is one of the good things. Humor has rarely been "malicious" and discriminative here, like in more developed European countries or the US. EE never actually had things like slavery or serious racial discrimination (the Rroma people are a good example of that actually - they have been so well tolerated that they never actually integrated... not that that is a good thing), and communism actually brought women closer to equality status in the workplace. This made jokes that are "charged" in other places of the world be very OK here.

Yeah, it's kind of the "South Park of Europe" so you need to have a taste for this kind of thing to enjoy it.

And, unfortunately, it's disappearing... people are getting too thin-skinned and liberal-corporatist there too. And nobody can be blaimed for that either, since pulling towards the opposite direction would be pulling towards the East and that's a no no. Better thin-skinned liberal pro-European than getting even a millimeter closer whatever toxic pseudo-authoritarian concoction is brewing around Rusia nowadays...
When they say that the probability of Face ID accepting the wrong person is 1 in N, what do they actually mean?

Does it mean that if some random person who is not you tries to repeatedly unlock you phone, that person will succeed on average once every N tries?

Or does it mean that the set of all people can be sorted into two groups, (1) those who can unlock your phone almost all the time, and (2) those who cannot unlock your phone, with 1/Nth of the population being in the first group?
It would be interesting to see income distribution as opposed to per capita. I think, it will throw up even more contrasts between USA and Nordics.
What if the company makes contributions to open-source through other projects - for which no one is paying them? Is it ‘fair’? Who is the leech?

Even a $1m/y company (which is not big at all) will be hard pressed to pay 1k/year for a git wrapper. The whole idea of OSS is that everyone benefits from the exchange and costs are distributed. This won’t scale at all - count your current open source dependencies and imagine paying that sum for each of them.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15628317
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Meditations - Marcus Aurelius - A Roman emperor's private thoughts to himself. He was a philosopher and practiced stoicism. He had everything a human could want, money, women, power and yet he reminded himself daily how fleeting it all was. How easily a man can be swayed from his purpose. How not to look down on others. It's my all time favorite book for keeping life in perspective.

The Road Less Traveled - M. Scott Peck - When I was struggling with depression and not feeling worth anything and generally a piece of shit someone pointed this book out to me. It talks about how no one can shoulder your psychology burdens for you and fix them. You have to take the work on full force and fix yourself. You may have suffered wounds in your childhood and be playing them out in your adulthood. It's all subconscious behavior.

The Game - Neil Strauss - I was struggling to understand women and relationships. This book fundamentally changed the way I understood myself and relationships with other people. Another great book for understanding that external forces can't bring you the happiness or fill the void you're hoping for.
I think you are forgetting that in the US we also pay state and local income tax, state and local property tax, and State and local sales tax. Even if you rent you are paying property tax indirectly. There is also Social Security and Medicare taxes so pile on 12.6% for that as well.

Once you figure in all those things the effective US tax rate is a lot higher than the federal income tax rates.
This feels like another service Google can replicate and be much better at it considering their past experience.
Pretty clear from context that the author intended it to be ":-)".
>His viewpoint isn't okay

And yet you call upon him to act like an adult.

Anyways, I'd love to hear what defines a viewpoint as okay. Is it just the fact that it agrees with your viewpoint? I imagine you are some kind of authority on life who knows what every valid and invalid view is.
Everything you own? Or everything you earn?

If the former, then this would an application of Piketty's idea, of taxing capital instead of revenue, which I thought had not been implemented anywhere yet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Piketty
I disagree, here's Mark Twain's quote on the matter:

"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime."

― Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad
https://www.theonion.com/new-eco-friendly-cigarettes-kill-de...

/sarcasm
I'd argue that "learning how" to write good texts or understanding a person psychologically, for example, is a rather valid example of a soft science having a real impact on the world that can easily compete with engineering problems. It's a bit like arguing that construction work is more valuable than planning architecture, which might be true in a hierarchical sense but ultimately it's just a matter of perspective and scale.
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I enjoyed most of Professor Rota's comments, but couldn't disagree more with his Lesson 6 and think it is pretty destructive.

In my view, the ultimate proof as to whether you deeply understand something is when you can engage in rigorous synthesis using that thing, or correctly explain it to others without using terminology as a crutch.

Getting to that level of understanding is not merely a function of the recognized accomplishment level of your peers or your instructor. What imbues people with a deep understanding varies from person to person, and many really benefit from a deliberative, instruction and discussion/conversation-focused instructor. My casual observation of MIT is that the level of instruction can be far from the best I've seen, because the students are so bright or so fast that they don't need much from the instructor in order to immediately see the conceptual space.

Imagine however that you are no intellectual slouch, but maybe are a more contemplative and deliberate thinker. You may be penalized in an environment like this, which bears no representation on whether or not you can get to the same quality and depth of understanding as your peers. I once had an MIT-educated professor say, "I know how to grade these exams. My 'A' students will finish the exam in the time allotted, my 'B' students will finish most of the exam, the 'C' students less so." This infuriated me then, and infuriates me now. The counterpoint was a (well-known) UMich-educated professor, one of the best I had, that gave challenging exams with no practical timelimit. He inspired me to be very ambitious as the lead on a free-form semester group project, so much so that it was clear we wouldn't finish during the semester. He saw how ambitious it was, and gave us an incomplete until we could turn it in the next semester. We did, and it was a really nice body of work.

I've seen similar patterns in the rest of my education. I've always gotten the most not from the best-credentialed professors, but from those who themselves understand deeply and make the material and themselves open to the interested learner.

This is ultimately what teaching and learning should be about, and can easily take place at any good institution, not just the MITs of the world. In my field of engineering, there is no significant correlation between those who were educated at MIT or Stanford, and the impact of their contributions to what is in the field and has truly advanced the state-of-the-art.
You forgot high taxes and low salaries.
It's a different animal than property taxes (which we have in Colombia too.)

If you want to comparison shop high speed internet access, for example, you have to get a quote from each provider, as the rate is based on your estrato. Things have gotten better recently but until the last couple years, those rates were just in a big binder in the office, not something you could just look up online. I feel it hurts competition - providers can’t just advertise a monthly rate - and I can only imagine the added complexity in billing systems, etc, that ultimately is passed on to the consumer.
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I basically agree with you, but we're arguing to different ends.

What I am saying is that there is nothing wrong with these arguments or with using them usefully. What is wrong is when nothing is falsifible or able to proven, either. So in other words, arguments are useful, but it does matter if it has to agree with scientific experiment.

Programming does, at the end of the day, agree with fundmantal truths for it to work. Its foundations are on the metal, and everything is reducible experimentability.

Perhaps everything except the human element: most aspects of modern product development involve programming language improvements that have to do with improving human interaction with a computer. But even here, we have a sort of market for ideas in that developers who adopt better ideas will be more successful.
If Facebook or Google were that powerful, they would be nationalized.
I like your clearly stated purpose that you are learning to expand the breadth of your knowledge. I had the same mindset when I began my self-learning path about a year ago, and the path gets longer as your pursue it, so I would advise changing the 3-6 months to 3-6 years, if your plans is to learn. We can both agree that we are not looking to become experts, so we can relax and go with the flow—in 30 years, who knows what will happen.

CHUNKING

My self-learning approach is chunking subject into 1-2 week blocks. Rarely less than 1-week, never more than 1-month. It’s a cyclical process that I use to give my brain time to consolidate new knowledge.

UNDERSTAND THE BIG PICTURE

When learning a new subject, I always spend my first 2 chunk sessions to understand the big picture, and in later sessions I learn the details through deliberate practice. What I mean by big picture is when you commit time to read a book, or watch a video (@1.5x), you don’t need to read in a linear order, or watch every single minute of the video. Don’t read/watch any content with “learn ABC in less than X time” in the title. The goal is to learn best practices from experts. Only challenge the status quo once you have gained the discipline.

DATA SCIENCE (2weeks)

So in your case, spend 2 weeks learning Data Science: pickup a Wes Mickiney book on Python Data Science, or find a GitHub repository with great contributors sharing their work to help you. If you get stuck on transforming your DataFrame into Matplotlib or Seaborne, stop. Go work on your art project, or in this case, let’s read.

LITERATURE (1week)

For reading - read Strunk and White or William Zinsser if you want to improve your writing. Read Walden, Gatsby, or 1984, if you want to see thoughtfulness in writing. I rarely finish an entire book because I’m more interested in the themes and proses than every details because I have limited memory and I want to ready many books. (1 week)

FOREIGN LANGUAGE (1week)

Now spend the last week writing to your foreign pen pal. Let’s say if it’s in Japanese, learn the hiragana, which is quite easy since all the sounds are romanized, and afterwards you can use the Japanese dictionary, instead of Google translate, to write your letters.

MOST IMPORTANT STEP

Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. (Method: Deliberate Practice)

You'll most certainly meet some asshole who tells his nonchalant story about mastering Machine Learning in a month, right after you just told your 3-year Data Science journey. Give the guy a cookie, and call Alexa--who responds “I was born knowing Machine Learning”. The point is filter out the noises, because a few will really make you doubt, but I recommend reading what you wrote and understand that you are curious to learn and don't let other discourage you.
Agreed, I think it's very hard to deny at this point. Careful what you say :D

Thank you for reminding me to read the Culture series. I've put it on my list for many other reasons, and now I have a new one :)
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Not to be confused with LightTable[1], an editor with Clojure live coding support.

[1] http://lighttable.com/
Also, you see, other peoples' travelings are mostly stupid and pointless, but my own travels enriches the world!
Hinton's “Network Capsules”?
I'm intrigued and would very much appreciate an ELI5 of Geoffrey Hinton's "network capsules" and some prognostications about how capsules may affect the state of the art in neural networks and the current flood of papers and graduate students in the pipeline of ML.

https://www.wired.com/story/googles-ai-wizard-unveils-a-new-twist-on-neural-networks/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTawFwUvnLE
I agree on limiting time the amount of time you work per per day to maintain momentum, but for me (and perhaps some others), its also really helpful to limit the number of things you work on per day to cut down on context switching costs -- for three projects, spending 45 minutes per day working on one project (and rotating which one i work on each day) as opposed to 15 minutes per project each day. Thought this also strongly depends on the type of learning.
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I cringe a little when people on Twitter keep posting their FOO(plane->)BAR statuses about their many trips, like it's something to be proud of.

Sometimes there is no reasonable alternative to flying for a very important trip, but some people seem to not consider the problematic aspects at all.
>I suspect that many (most?) people who believe that leaving Facebook will hurt their professional lives actually hurt their professional lives more by spending so many hours on Facebook.

Boy, does that ring true...
Thankfully all the silly ideas in C99 regarding security weren't adopted by C++ and became optional in C11.

Meaning VLAs that can blow the stack and memory related functions that still track pointer and size in disjoint variables.
That's a good angle.

We deify the military and then question whether the government can be trusted to build roads.
Let's say you're selling product X at price Y. There are three kinds of people you could reach with advertising:

* People who have an unmet need for product X at price Y.

* People whose need for product X at price Y is already met, but who can be manipulated into buying from you rather than someone else.

* People who don't need product X at price Y, but can be manipulated into needing it.

Advertising is only good for society to the extent it reaches the first group. Influencing the second and third groups can be profitable for you, but on a societal scale it's just a game-theoretic arms race that wastes resources, plasters our environment with ads, and makes people miserable with new needs. We should totally try to discourage it.
I keep coming across this idea and as much as I dislike advertising, I have trouble seeing how making it illegal would reduce consumption. Intuitively, I've always perceived it as a zero sum game. Never heard of anyone who started sitting on top of a pile of cash after installing uBlock either.
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See, it'll be alright.
Is it not narrow-minded to disregard the catastrophic effects of global warming on the poorer parts of the world?
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