skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this an outlook on women constituents affecting American libertarianism?

Reread the passage several times and have to conclude it sounds like lawyer-speak: words generally make sense but are broad enough to encompass anything and open to judicial interpretation.
That gif is wildly intriguing to me. Probability theory is the bread and butter of mainstream science. Have people been doing it wrong this whole time?

I want to dig deeper into this but two things come to mind:

1. George Sugihara's and Floris Takens' works on quantifying causation in non-linear systems. Correlation doesn't imply causation, so why not look at causation? Here's a writeup on it: https://www.quantamagazine.org/chaos-theory-in-ecology-predi...

2. Andrei Khrennikov argues that quantum models can be expressed with Kolmogorovian (classical) probability theory. He points out that many probability theorists have glossed over an entire subtlety of Kolmogorov's work: that probability spaces need not be finite dimensional, that they can be subspaces of higher dimensional, even infinite dimensional probability spaces. Khrennikov's philosophical convictions are not widely shared by quantum theorists, but his math is solid (he seems to be in pursuit of quantum theories with "hidden variables", like Einstein was looking for). http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0375960103...

Even in the gif shown in this article, you might suppose that each point set could be modeled in higher dimensional terms, for example adding some kind of discrete curl-like measure. But even without going there: something as simple as a changing to a polar basis should reveal different statistics.

And isn't this kind of what deep learning is all about? Going between higher and lower dimensional representations?
Go can do almost the exact same thing, in fact, it's baked into the stock http server library.
> The Ivy Leagues come calling with big salaries, but you don't get to choose what tax jurisdiction that's in.

If multiple Ivy League schools come calling, this does offer you the opportunity to pick the one with the most beneficial tax arrangement.
This is a great team. Hats off for this release and I can’t wait to play with it.
aka the "frisbee on the roof" attack, it's been a known danger for years. The danger is that the difficulty recalibration time is measured in blocks, not in actual time - so if taken to extreme levels such that miners drop out, there is no guarantee that recalibration will ever occur. And profit is inextricably linked to block time here.

(and note that "attack" in this sense is not necessarily deliberate in the sense of an attacker, if Bitcoin Cash or another coin suddenly becomes drastically more profitable for some reason it can occur naturally. It's more of a vulnerability than an actual attack. It's a state-machine state that is potentially non-recoverable without a coordinated fix.)

Bitcoin Cash actually includes a specific fix for this attack, which is why hashrate has been seesawing so badly between the two networks - BTH becomes unprofitable, the power moves back to the BTC network, then the frisbee fixer kicks in and reduces difficulty, which spikes profitability back up.
Thanks, That's a good question, I'm not completely sure yet actually. Usually battery life isn't too much of an issue as there's always electric plugs around where I spend my time.

Something that can have a simple multiple monitors setup / hook to the TV setup. Something that's not overheating, but that would be powerful enough (not sure if those 2 are compatible!) to compile C++ programs full of templates. (i.e. good multicore setup, 16+ gb of RAM, and a large enough SSD), and a 14 or 15 inch monitor

These days though I'm wondering if I should simply get a desktop and a tablet for everyday browsing. The reason I favor laptops is because I'm assuming Linux support of the different drivers there would be better than a custom made desktop, I might be wrong there! I'll do more research as my w520 gets obsolete, but after easily replacing its DVD drive bay with a second SSD, and disabling the Nvidia GPU, I get a good enough experience right now.
On annualized turnover you need at least one or two more zeros to reach F U status :)
Anti-NIMBY movement is winning with a simple message
That is true, and if the article is any indication, it sounds like the marine community uses "SSB" to mean "an HF radio with SSB", and "VHF" to mean "a VHF radio with FM".

A bit like the way the ham community uses "CW" and "Morse code" somewhat interchangeably, even though as scoot pointed out they are not the same thing.

In fact, the ICOM IC-M700PRO shown in the article bills itself as an "SSB Radio Telephone", but it also supports other modes including AM, CW, and FSK (frequency shift keying).

http://www.icomamerica.com/en/products/marine/ssb/m700pro/

(Note that where the specifications mention USB, they are not talking about Universal Serial Bus. They refer to Upper Sideband. Since there are two sidebands for every AM signal, when you use Single Sideband you have to pick which one you want to use - the upper sideband, USB - or the lower sideband, LSB. This radio only supports upper sideband, not lower. Ham radios use either one depending on the convention for the ham band you're using.)

But still, the article really conflates SSB modulation with the HF frequency range:

"[Ham radio] covers a broader array of wavelengths than SSB..."

"...they’re both using SSB frequencies..."

It's not a big deal, and obviously the author knows far more about sailing than I do. But the article specifically calls out propagation differences for different kinds of radios, and it's worth knowing the actual reason for those differences.
If you haven’t before, check out PBS’s America’s Test Kitchen. Perfect blend of the chemistry/food science and some really good cooks and explanations behind tradition.
When Will Climate Change Make the Earth Too Hot for Humans?
Many state governments pay much better than the Federal government and offer better benefits, and don’t require that you live in the DC crazy corridor. Local governments depend on the locality — big counties and cities pay ok.

It all depends on what is valuable to you.
I haven't heard or read a lot of debate claiming that callbacks are superior to promises and async/await.

From the people I work with and everything I have read there is almost universal agreement that promise based code is easier to work with than callback based code and async/await is superior to both.

Callbacks do have superior performance, so if you are writing some really performance sensitive code then it might be worth using them, but like all optimization techniques that should only be done if the case truly requires it. Most don't.
I’ve heard similar objections but the general consensus from what I’ve read still seems to lean to printing being the primary cause.

That said, it’s rarely that black & white so it’s quite possible it’s a combination of everything.
"Local, blue collar workers" are generally completely uninformed outside of their little bubbles, much more so than the "expat bubble" you speak of.

They have a job and are making a reasonable salary? Things are great.

There may be all sorts of looming major issues for the country, but their existence is local, not looking at national debt loads, workforce statistics, and the like.

I don't think their outlooks are particularly useful other than as a measure of consumer confidence in their little area.

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"The poorer, blue collar workers will start to prosper more, but the upper-middle class will start to face difficulties."

Why? It's a serious question. Poor, blue collar workers in China (and elsewhere) are generally that because they lack useful skills to do anything higher-paying.

Are they going to suddenly develop those skills as adults?

Is China's economy going to have big increase in it's need for unskilled labor and a decline in it's need for skilled labor? (And if so, do you expect that is somehow also going to be paired with rising economic opportunity rather than a decline and return to sweatshops?)

I don't see how any of that is likely.
I'm not sure why that gif is so interesting to you; that wasn't the reason I submitted this piece. Average and standard deviation are hardly useful data points in evaluating a dataset, and also don't have anything to do with probability theory. The second half of the post contains the bulk of its interesting content (as I read it).
Tanushree Mitra wrote a computational paper on this in 2016 [1], finding something similar:

"Using four years of longitudinal data capturing vaccine discussions on Twitter, we identify users who persistently hold pro- and anti-attitudes, and those who newly adopt anti-attitudes towards vaccination. After gathering each user's entire Twitter timeline, totaling over 3 million tweets, we explore differences in the individual narratives across the user cohorts. We find that those with long-term anti-vaccination attitudes manifest conspiratorial thinking, mistrust in government, and are resolute and in-group focused in language."

[1] http://comp.social.gatech.edu/papers/icwsm16.vaccine.mitra.p...
It definitely sounds like he doesn't believe in democracy and he does believe in some form of libertarianism. I could see how one might argue that once people get an entitlement like Social Security or military procurement programs that have components in forty plus states, it's hard to pare those programs back. On the other hand one might argue something like Social Security for elderly/disabled is what every country with enough development should do, unless one is a libertarian.
You'll be good until we figure out how to make machines write enterprise ready software programs and the ability to maintain it on its owm. I think you have 10-20 years so you should be in management by then though so you have nothing to worry about :)
These guys are working with an Amiga vendor who has done a series of designs around the Applied Micro PowerPC 440 series SoCs (systems-on-a-chip). The block diagram clearly indicates an SoC. (IBM POWER, the fast PPC chips, are not SoCs!)

I infer that this is another PPC 440 design. Those chips top out at 1.2 GHz with just a couple cores, and they are a legacy product as far as Applied Micro is concerned -- AM is now focused on their ARM products.

At best, this project is a very pokey laptop from a near-dead Amiga OEM. At worst, it's a scam.
He hasn’t said what city or even country this is in. We can’t just assume it’s a $250k + salary give the job could be in the UK, Germany, Canada and knows where else where salaries are lower in general for software engineers.
Obligatory complaint about the mis-representation of Heinlein.

This is an author who also wrote a (glowing) book about anarcho-syndicalists liberating their prison colony from corporatists colonialists (that'd be MiaHM). Does it get more anti-facist than that? This is also the author who wrote a book about how free-love hippies are so much more correct than Mrs Grundy that physics itself obliges the hippies (I'm thinking of SiaSL).

But even Starship Troopers is a book not about facism, but about the virtues of service to the collective. (Again, other books talk, extensively, about the problems with service to a collective.)

Of course service to a collective is part of a facist state, but it's also part of a democratic state. Well, a healthy one, anyway.

Heinlein's politics were diverse and complicated (and sometimes thoughtful, and sometimes wrongheaded), and attempting to summarize them based on a shallow reading of one of his novels is a mistake no legitimate journalist should make.
I'm not sure I follow. Are you saying that eating bread causes an insulin spike, and since bread contains gluten, that's part of the insulin spike? Eating gluten-free carbohydrates also create an insulin spike. If I'm misunderstanding you, please feel free to clarify. I'd rather not be building a straw man inadvertently.
IBM Ups Its Quantum Computing Game
Orson Scott Card's speaking outside of the books makes clear he is a far-right reactionary. Some of his books make it clear that he is gay curious and I'm not talking about Ender's Game. I have no idea what to make of this.
I understand him to mean that adding women made it worse, but like many things, you can't simply take it away again and get back to where you were.
>If they're lying, the police will figure it out. If they're not, then they won't. What's so odd about just letting idiots be?

I know where you're coming from. However this article is not like facebook randos posting their 2 cents on non-stories. The guy has expertise in sailing, and in ripping apart stories, we enjoy both.
They aren’t that fast they have good acceleration but you’ll top out very quickly and your car will throttle down because your battery pack overheats.

The breaks, suspension and handling is also poor.

Want a fast car? A Maclaren 650 Spider can be bought for the same price or so a a new Tesla 100D its much faster and much more fun to drive.

The ludicrous mode in a Tesla is a gimmick nothing more nothing less.

And if you think that the Model S is luxurious then you need to step into a mid range BMW or a Benz, Tesla looks good but feels very cheap.

So far if you want luxury and a low impact then the plug-in hybrids form BMW are the way to go you get about 30 miles on battery which is more or less within the commute range of many people, a proper luxury as far as the finish goes and at less than half the price of the Model S.

I can buy a new BMW 330e today for less than £35,000 a Tesla would start at about double that.
For those who want the source of the gif : https://www.autodeskresearch.com/publications/samestats

The paper is actually really interesting, as it provides a useful insight into what summary statistics mean and the importance of data visualization.
The content is characterized as "highly technical longform static content in a minimalist layout optimized for fast loading & rendering catering to Anglophone STEM-types in the USA", which is definitely true, but I think there's an important subset not mentioned. According to http://www.gwern.net/ the most popular three articles on the site are about darknet drug markets, and #4 and #5 are reviews of specific controlled substances in the US. I don't know what the ads for these pages looked like, but here's an example from a Google search for "modafinil" in incognito mode with my adblocker turned off: https://i.imgur.com/3dRssOy.png ["the silk road" and "lsd microdosing" didn't turn up any ads, but it's possible Google does more filtering on its own site than on others... I couldn't easily find any LSD review sites that used AdSense for a fair comparison]

If I saw an ad like that in a banner at the top of the page, it's going to cause an immediate, visceral reaction: the site is sketchy, maybe trying to scam me, and any content is going to have a big conflict of interest. To be fair, since I use an ad-blocker, I'm probably more ad-sensitive than the sample set... but who hasn't gotten their fair share of similar email spam before?

The CSVs don't have page information, unfortunately, but I'd expect most of the harmful effect comes from the drug-related pages.
>Why should Prolog be slower than CLisp?

In general, declarative programming tends to rely on having a sufficiently smart implementation. Maybe Prolog is simply more efficient than I would've guessed
It was kind of disturbing to see my young infant cousin watching stuff like this without his parents noticing how bizarre these videos are. A kid's youtube browsing can start with a normal kid-friendly video, and then end up with this garbage.
I believe part of it must be to basic economics. It is only worth leaking information if the individual believe that the benefit outweigh the costs (ie, chance of positive outcome vs risk of negative outcome). if the political environment is one where a leak would have minimal impact, then the leaker has less incentive to leak.

Is it likely that a leak would impact the Russian election? Could a leak cause the Communist Party of China to be voted out of office? How likely is it that a leak would not simply be suppressed, but rather cause a change in the political direction?

Leaks in the US has a history of causing real change. That could be the biggest reason why we don't see much leaks from other superpowers' intelligence organizations.
> However it will be difficult for non programmers.

I work with non-programmers every day who know what APIs and queries are.

There are millions of people who are technical enough to manipulate Excel sheets, talk intelligently about API integrations, and tweak SQL queries but are not programmers themselves. Non-programmer does not automatically mean non-technical.
Wikileaks publishes the source code of the CIA hacking tools
It's possible many ad-supported websites deserve to die... as I see it, they are economic parasites. Advertisers accept bad leads as a cost of doing business, but the cost is simply passed on to consumers.

Many low-quality news papers, TV channels, and magazines died when ad revenue shifted online - consumers did not see enough value to justify the unsubsidized rate. Others survived because consumers saw enough value to pay the higher rates. The internet isn't any different... a large chunk of the internet is spam surviving off of wasteful advertising revenue. Soon, the cruft will die off.

None of us need unlimited access to everything out there, and I don't think it's a sustainable expectation.
The problem is, society interacts with companies as consumers, not citizens. Markets optimize for price and convenience, not ethical business practices, and market forces speak louder than societal pressure.

Unless Amazon does something to spark mass outrage on the scale of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, then society is going to be happy as long as they get their Kindles and Echos delivered on time.
It sounds like he's saying American voters have become increasingly less capitalistic.
Research shows daily family life is all the “quality time” kids need
Regarding Card, yeah. I mean, I'd word it differently from you, but I think we agree.

The Ender's Game series collectively are constantly looking at fascistic themes. And these are invariably brought up for the purpose of looking at the drawbacks of that worldview. (Although they're occasionally sympathetic to the virtues of that worldview, too.)

The main way that Card is demonstrably "right-wing" or "reactionary" is that he has an abiding sympathy for the social mores of the religious right -- but even there, he does a lot of second-guessing himself too.

But far-right or fascistic? Hah.
Just watch it with subtitles and the sound off if it bothers you that much (I personally enjoyed the presentation).
> What is it that you purpose Amazon just pay everybody $200,000 a year and then go out of business?

How about they just pay enough for full time employees to actually live where they work, without taking overtime, a second job and a roommate just to make ends meet? Pay in proportion to the standard of living?

>you can work your way up and Amazon provides ample opportunities for growth.

Yes, but most of those opportunities only present more responsibility, but not more (or barely more) pay, at least at the bottom tiers. You can work your way up from the bottom for years and still make less than someone sacking groceries.
Intel hardware (CPU, NICs, iGPU) is well supported by modern Linux kernels. AMD CPUs and GPUs are also hassle-free. NVidia is fine with proprietary blobs only, while open-sourced Nouveau is barely usable on modern GPUs. I personally run GTX1080Ti on ArchLinux with closed vendor driver with no complains. However developers claim that there's a serious issue with the NVIDIA support[1].

As for end-products: I've heard good things about Dell's XPS-series (especially "Developer Edition")[2], Purism Libre-series[3], and System76[4] laptops. Lenovo ThinkPads[5] are traditionally also well supported.

Generally it's always good to check Linux support on ArchWiki[6], LinuxWireless[7] and other resources before buying any hardware.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15564611

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13359588

[3] https://puri.sm

[4] https://system76.com/laptops

[5] https://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkWiki

[6] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Category:Hardware

[7] https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users
Hopefully more developers stop giving their work away for free so that this attitude can change.
I used to work in tech at a call center and that would confuse the auto-dialer software. It's designed to know a person and designed to know voicemail. But just silence is a new one! Good strategy.
Everything you said is true except the last part has an omission.

The state helps fund local school districts, and has been doing several things to reduce that amount every session ever since White was governor if my memory serves. For just one example there was an expose in the Houston Chronicle how the Texas Education Agency imposed a set percent limit on special education students so no matter what, if a school reported a percentage above that, the school was penalized heavily so school adminstrators played the game, and never found more special ed students than the TEA limit. The budgetary reason for this is special ed students cost a lot more per student.

There was a public radio expose but the story was in print first.
http://www.houstonchronicle.com/denied/
"Doesn't believe that voting will fix (the things he's concerned about)" and "thinks voting should be done away with" are two separate things.

Would you be similarly confused by the difference between "doesn't believe that eating peanut butter cups will cure bubonic plague" and "wants to ban peanut butter cups, or take away people's right to eat them"?

While Thiel could have been more clear here, I don't see any inconsistency in his statements.

It may be more confusing if you're one of those people who thinks that government intervention is the One True Solution to every single problem that troubles the human race.
Lots of errors in this article. Spelling, punctuation and typos.
Sitting around a table with my family each day for dinner was a huge part of my childhood and I'm sure impacted me in significant unconscious ways.
> I detest smalltalk. Over dinner however, talk is deep and profound and often difficult and challenging.

Smalltalk is how you get to know a little about someone so you can move on to deeper things you both want to talk about. It's really unusual to just launch into deep conversation with someone you barely know.
I imagine that a company has a range and they just don't feel comfortable posting it. Maybe they are afraid that their range is too low or too high and are using the applicants salary range as a baseline.

It's pretty easy to prove they do have a salary range though. Imagine the most qualified candidate you can possible imagine. Would you pay them 150 billion dollars a year? If the answer is no, we can be reasonably assured the upper limit to the salary range is below 150 billion dollars.

You run into this type of argument all of the time in philosophy when it comes time to draw a line. Just keep constructing thought experiments until you end up with a range that is somewhat meaningful
Seconded.

That’s also the very reason I switched to ddg: getting non local, non trending results in Google is a PITA. It’s a constant fight against the AI that tries to steer the results towards what 90% of the people in that country are looking for.
A company called Liveops has become the Uber of call centers
Pournelle and Card weren't fascists either.

The author is clearly one of those who uses "fascist" as a synonym for "a person who isn't a communist", and can thus be safely ignored.
Realistically, they probably have.
> Let work elevate your personal life, and let your personal life elevate work.

That's nonsense, though, and it's coming from a man whose company will push employees into 60 hour weeks for arbitrary lengths of time, often with little forewarning, because they expect work to be personal life, because "customer obsession."