skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>edit: This site is slowly turning into Reddit - contrarian opinions need not apply. Instead of down-votes, why not rebut what I said? It's not like the matter is settled, and the last couple times the populous tried to "abolish" social classes, mass terror followed.

Now now relax. You're in a thread about class and you're saying that class distinctions are good because they glue our society together. You don't think those people who have experienced the bottom are going to have a reaction to that?

>It's also very easy and PC to venerate the poor out of some misguided sense of pity or moral absolutism.

Sure but the veneration is usually weak, it's akin to the 'noble savage' - the 'hardworking blue-collar.' It's veneration at a distance, contact between the wealthy and the poor is frequently uncomfortable for both.

>One could look at poor communities, and, as you said "turn away from such a lifestyle in disgust" and choose enrich themselves.

You make it sound so easy! But it's not, growing up in a poor community frequently means growing up in poor schools with poor opportunities, no mentors and rare role models.

>I'm also not entirely, or even in the least bit, convinced that our society, institutions, social structures, and general well-being would be better off WITHOUT class distinctions. Going deeper, they seem to me to be an essential component of civilization, one of the many necessary "glues" of social order.

Would you say the same thing about racial distinctions? If not, why?
At first I thought it was an article about dependency injection or something. Talk about programmer bubble...
Depends on how many 9s you want in your reliability. The first couple aren't too bad, gets harder after that.
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A better REPL experience for Clojure?
Success in Your Culture
Apple Reports Record Results for 1Q 2018: $20B Profit, $88B Revenue, 77M iPhones
Apple Reports First Quarter Results
Steve Jobs' Childhood Home
They weren't "random" they were experts. And their findings were never official policy which is part of the point of the story. They convened to update the medical understanding of death given new information and published their results. The official government definition came later and was less precise and has led to this current quandary.
Of course, but it doesn’t feel that way.
Hey as long as Big Pharma can add their own useless ingredients and nonsense pretty packaging to extort as much money as they can out of patented cancer vaccine flavors, we'll never have to worry about those pesky natural cures that can't be patented and aren't as profitable
The hunk feature of magit is great; you can easily stage/unstage not only at the hunk granularity but also arbitrary lines using the selection. Being able to easily do that was something I really missed when I moved from darcs to git.

When it comes to magit and TRAMP, definitely the best part is with-editor[1]. This is one of those ingenious "why didn't I think of this?" hacks to let you use your local Emacs as EDITOR on remote machines without having to do SSH port forwarding for emacsclient.

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I suppose one could argue that in an absolute philosophical sense there is no causation that we can have knowledge of, only differing amounts of correlation. It would be an extreme position to take but - like solipsism - a difficult one to argue against.

(Anyone with an actual background in epistemology care to help me out here?)
I hate these "XXX found to eliminate cancer in mice" news blurbs. I really want there to be an easy, effective, and inexpensive solution to one of the worst medical conditions imaginable; but they make these kind of announcements 3-4 times a year and 99/100 times they don't pan out because humans are not mice... and medicine is hard.
Sure, NIH syndrome can be rational for technology that is crucial/central to your system.

The problem is it is often used to justify re-inventing even mundane stuff. I once worked with a client who wanted to implement their own bug tracking system. The client’s main product was something totally unrelated.
I really miss the "Q&A sites" like The Conversatron from the late 90's/early 00's https://www.everything2.com/title/The+Conversatron

Hours of enjoyment from a very simple concept.

EDIT: Oh, who can forget the Purity Test sites! https://everything2.com/title/Purity+Test
Have the other person order first, then order the same number of courses and roughly the same price points.
This would be a great addition to my other sites. One finds matches based on your mothers maiden name, and the other finds matches based on your social security number.
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Give me t2wo reasons that's valid!
The most valuable skill is knowing when to externalize your tools. You don't always want to reinvent the wheel every time you need something, when you have deadlines to consider.
I'm not currently looking for a job, but if I was, this is the company I'd apply to. My wife and I have been using YNAB for years - it's quite literally one of my favorite tools of all time.

Great product, great company.
Are you open to junior developers for the front-end software engineer role, if the other requirements are satisfied?
Not appearing to care helps you play the social game. Not caring makes you comfortable in your own shoes. In my view, the second is more important.
Yeah, I've never really had any luck getting stuff that is really cheaper than traditional options.
> The evil rich people figured out that if you start a gender and race war among the 99%, you can distract them from the fact that they're all being economically exploited and subjected to wage slavery.

Yeah, this is something I've been thinking about for a while too. It's very convenient that the whole 'Occupy' thing got followed up by a huge push for social justice beliefs and comments about deplorables. Like someone didn't want the attention to be focused on the rich, and thought a bit of interclass warfare would be a nice distraction about now.

You can see a huge media political shift about this time too.

But hey, maybe I'm coming across as paranoid here.
What natural cancer cure would you suggest? Maybe tumeric, or fasting, or acupuncture?
They are the only big company I have seen make money from the trump tax thing. Microsoft, Intel, Apple, etc, all paid a lot more in tax. If I read this right, amazon got money back...
Happy subscriber to Newsblur here too, I actually prefer it to Google Reader, primarily due to the high-quality iOS app.
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Not the OP, but I've been running production Ceph clusters for the past 4.5 years at two different fortune-50 companies.

We've had very good success with Ceph for block storage and a fairly rough time with it for object storage. We're currently doing our best to try to improve it (both our own upstream contributions and collaborating with RedHat).

From a technology standpoint, I think it is very interesting and for the most part has a lot of very good engineering.
However, it is fairly complex and even today it's very easy to have a hard time with it when starting out. You really need to pay attention to every detail and your hardware selection is extremely important.

It is extremely resilient, and goes to great lengths to preserve your data. Ceph can be performant, however that requires very good hardware and network.

My experience is limited up to the Jewel release (we haven't upgraded to Luminous and we are not planning on using BlueStore anytime soon).
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If mispredictions leave their calculations in cache why can't that cached data be cleared after the branch is determined to be bad?

"Clearing the cached data" is just as detectable as caching the data in the first place. You'd have to treat the line fill as a transaction that could be rolled back. Unfortunately, transactional memory and CPU caches lie at polar-opposite ends of the performance spectrum.
I think this is a symptom of the "release often" philosophy. With yearly or longer releases you could actually keep up and read the release notes. With stuff being released several times a year it's too much work to keep up unless you are deeply into it at the moment.

I notice the same with my Android apps. I used to read release notes of new versions but now I have it on auto update and am sometimes surprised that an app I have been using all the time has completely changed and I don't know how to use it anymore.
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It's also absolute madness that the native Photos app on iOS will not search the meta-data of the photos, only of the apple-restricted "scene recognition" objects, and dates.

Add a description to a photo, search for that description in Photos for iOS, and there will be no results.
Mind if I ask how much these cost? I've been wanting to get my whole lower replaced due to significant wear and this would be a great excuse for a trip to Vienna.
Don't a lot of people "self certify" for accreditation?
In my experience, most of this "screening" isn't very deep.
Same thing in deep learning. I already had to dump half of my code because of theano, as well as api changes in keras and tensorflow that made it a pain to load some of my old models in newer versions of the frameworks.

Now I'm rewriting a bunch of it in pytorch while anxiously waiting for 0.4 to come out (no idea when) and break all of my models again.
Laser Scans Reveal Maya “Megalopolis” Below Guatemalan Jungle
They had been deferring taxes and then finally paid them with the reduced rate.
Absolutely fascinating read. Thanks for sharing, strange to think that my computer has run your code countless times and contributed to years of enjoyment.
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The question that needs to be asked is this... were Intel subject to the same products liability laws as auto manufacturers or drug makers, would it make Meldown, Spectre and the ME vulnerabilities less likely?

It would certainly make modern high-performance computing less likely.
The article and the title don't seem to match. This title is misleading.
With major cities that are in demand, long-term rentals on AirBnb can disturb housing equality and rent control programs. So we hear about long-term rentals being curtailed a lot.

The states don't need to address what's already being addressed by the major cities, unless it's a big problem outside of the major cities because the housing demand isn't as high. The long-term rental issues aren't as bad outside of the major cities. The short-term rental issues, however, are a bigger issue, because those living in a less urban area have more expectation of knowing their neighbors.
Deep Learning and the Cross-Section of Expected Returns
Praise Novamin. You can buy it on Amazon, they will ship to the US.

https://www.amazon.com/Sensodyne-repair-protect-novamin-pack...
Absolutely agree. Its been ages since I used by RSS aggregator to read blogs the way I used to.
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None of these really applied to me when I was happiest while working (Freshbooks, 2008).

Back then I was able to both learn and perform at astonishing rates. I had a manager back then that really understood my strengths (self-directed, inventive, intelligent, learns quickly) and my weaknesses (bored by routine work, sometimes silly) and just set up an environment around me to where I was constantly over performing.

I think I made FreshBooks close to a million dollars in value that year. I didn't care about invoicing. I wasn't loyal to my manager. I was motivated by my growth and performance.
Lightworks is a good editor but I found its performance on my desktop on 1080p footage could sometimes be worse than editing 4k footage with Final Cut Pro on my macbook (that could be because FCPX generates proxies but I'm not certain about that as it seems very fast scrubbing through footage even when its still on my SD card. FCPX is also amazing at accepting most video formats and dimensions. Good luck getting Lightworks to do something unusual like export at a 1:1 aspect ratio for instagram.
.plan wars. Oh the memories!
I guess it's a learning experience as much as anything else.

But hey, as the XKCD comic says:

https://xkcd.com/927/
> We’re thrilled to report the biggest quarter in Apple’s history, with broad-based growth that included the highest revenue ever from a new iPhone lineup. iPhone X surpassed our expectations and has been our top-selling iPhone every week since it shipped in November

This is interesting, as the majority of the publicity I've seen about the iPhone X has painted it as lackluster.

> The Company posted quarterly revenue of $88.3 billion, an increase of 13 percent from the year-ago quarter and an all-time record, and quarterly earnings per diluted share of $3.89, up 16 percent, also an all-time record.

As much as I see people deride the touchbar or the iPhone X notch, it seems consumers are at least willing to take a chance and try out something new.
Microservice Madness
I think rayiner is talking about keeping braindead patients alive using life support.

Assuming that’s what he meant, your example of a terminally ill but otherwise conscious patient isn’t comparable. I’d also agree that it’s mostly pointless and wasteful to keep a braindead patient alive at the hospital’s expense.
Is some piece of JavaScript loaded in your browser one of those "bigger problems to worry about"?

As soon as I hear of such an exploit in the wild, I'll panic. The demonstrations so far have consisted of arcane research papers and canned videos.

Send me a link to a PoC page that returns stored passwords, harvests cryptocurrency wallets, drops payloads, or otherwise screws with my unpatched system. Until then, I think people are grossly exaggerating how big a deal the Spectre/Meltdown exploits are.
Amazon Web Services Revenue Spiked 45% to $5.1Bil in Q4
I think this time, really, Apple is doomed. Trust me. This is the end.
A detailed summary is at https://quantpedia.com/Blog/Details/deep-learning-insights-f... .
I agree it's not the same - but wanted to put that offer on the table in case you weren't and wanted to contact people you may have lost touch with because of the shutdown. Losing touch with friends because you cannot contact them is terrible.
White House Release Secret Memo on FBI
I have yet to find a study that accounts for confounding variables like hospital mortality rate, key biomarkers (blacks have a greater incidence of diabetes, for example), insurance status, financial standing, doctor ranking, educational level, patient compliance, etc., to arrive at a statistically significant conclusion there is a racial element in healthcare delivery outcomes. The examples you gave would feed into such a study, but are still not teasing out the complex socioeconomic factors that already plague blacks (which are another ball of wax to unwind for causes). Don’t have a dog in this fight either way; want to see more big data-driven analysis of policy questions now that it is more practical to do so.
Bringing amazon to your town may not boost employment
I've used Resolve quite a bit and think outside of maybe blender it's the best free editor, plus it's not intimidating like blender can be.
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