skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I very strongly disagree with applying the First Amendment protections to data hosted on private infrastructure. 4chan more or less takes the "free speech" approach and it's a goddamned disaster.

People honestly can't even handle free speech in real-life, let alone anonymously on the internet. We literally have to create barriers around Planned Parenthood because people use free speech to berate women who are already suffering.

Speech needs to be protected, but when it starts to encroach on my pursuit of happiness it's a problem. Facebook, Twitter, etc don't need to become chan sites.
I think one of the most underestimated economic returns is the paranoid spending of a military complex. Those guys go nuts in a way a market simply cant- computer chips, the internet, jet-planes, rockets- to be honest, i wish the us-military and china would duke it out in this space, obviously without nuclear weapons- out there in space.

The sovjets have nuclear missiles in europa- we need missiles on Io to counter this, or our magnetic harvest rights might become conested, mr.president.

The longer i live, the more the whole of the western economic machinery, seems just like a waste product consumer of the military industrial complex. Yes, the actual wars are pretty useless and horrific- but those guys would get fusion done, if they believed the enemy was allmost theire. None of this 50 year waiting bollocks.

If you are honest, Musk basically only gets us back where the US was in the early 70s.
I'm a pilot. I understand it quite well.
MMmmmh, but you do not lose your job as a dry wall contractor. You lose your “uber driver” job if you do not accept uber’s fares.

What am I missing?
Huh? For something you can not criticize, I see a lot of criticsm. Both now and in the past.
https://twitter.com/CoyoteToledo/status/966832602383552513

US: I'm on fire
CANADA: jump in the water
US: water won't work, i need more fire
UK: we used water when we caught fire
US: it won't work for us we like fire too much
US: I'm burning
AUSTRALIA: here is a video of water putting out fire
US: *stuffs fire in pockets*
Without well-known exchanges, it would be a lot harder to cash in your chips. Particularly for large amounts.
“Allow” as if mom and pop restaurants will pay more than the minimum legally necessary.
Isn't this what their "Trust and Safety" Comittee was for?
Yeah they are so concerned. If they had started adding decent shadow-ignore capabilities to curb the harassment ten years ago, it would already have been scandalously late. Twitter is what it is, and no amount of executive window dressing could change that. If they were a firm capable of major functionality updates (or profit!), they would have shown some sign of that before now.
Wouldn't the ship's mass only appear to increase to the outside observer?
Be So Good They Can't Ignore You.
> one thign that annoys me about the media scrutinizing tech companies like this, is that the MEDIA themselves is one of the most masogogynistic cultures out there

NY Times, Huffington Post and many other outlets have a social justice agenda so this is easily shown to be false. Any news publication regularly read by left leaning Americans stay uncritical of anything that furthers a social justice agenda.

How often do you see news articles critical of the prevailing viewpoints? How often do you see articles critical of the prevailing viewpoints on the left?
My problem is that, as time goes by, English use will become more common, and Icelandic less. The spread of the English language (e.g. the children in the article who '“know what the word is” for something they are being shown on the flashcard, but not in Icelandic.') is accompanied by the spread of US culture (TV, film, music). While US culture isn't neccessarily better or worse than any other, I get a lot of enjoyment from visiting places where English isn't spoken, and where one can see different traditions, greetings etc. I see the spread of the English language a step in the Americanization of the world, which is a shame.
> But in around half of occupations with better-educated workers average wages have still fallen in real terms.

Did I miss something? "Half" is not a substantial argument without more detail. What about the other half? Stagnant? Rising a little? Rising dramatically? Which types of jobs fall into each bucket?

Not against the signalling argument per se, I'm just missing information.
>> No person in a transaction should have certainty about the outcome while the other one has uncertainty.

Ironic in view of the top post on HN right now. Doctors and surgeons pretty much always have certainty about their part of the transaction (receiving payment for their services) in medical interventions. The patient's outcome tends to be much more uncertain.
Just wait and see how it develops. My doctor agrees, you could check with yours.

By your argument, if there's no need to scan, there's no need to treat it right away either. Of course, if you are the sort of person who is prone to panic, you probably don't want to get a scan
Your post uses periods for thousands separators and mentions Sweden, so apologies if my US-centric view is a tangent.

If you're including the taxes the artist pays, shouldn't you include the taxes the gallery pays as well? Both are presumably taxed on net income after expenses. Thus it's not as if the gallery gets to run off with 50% of the revenue (which you called "earnings," but I think you meant revenue) and deposit it in the bank. In the US, a professional such as an artist would file a Schedule C to deduct business expenses from business income and pay only the remainder.

Re your later comment, why does the gallery calculate its percentage before VAT rather than after? It seems lopsided that the artist but not the gallery should be subject to a tax on funds that neither ever sees. The artist's business relationship is with the gallery, not with the buying patron, so it seems VAT should be charged on the amount the gallery pays to the artist. Maybe that's just how it is, and maybe it's an artifact of an imbalance of negotiating power between the gallery and artist. But it seems wrong.
California has the worst quality of life of the 50 US states
Help, I cannot find the actual study (paper). It's referenced (in this article) as:

James Alan Fox and Emma E. Fridel, "The Three R's of School Shootings: Risk, Readiness, and Response," in H. Shapiro, ed., The Wiley Handbook on Violence in Education: Forms, Factors, and Preventions

But from Wiley's listing of papers in this volume (https://www.wiley.com/en-us/The+Wiley+Handbook+on+Violence+i...) the only article written by Fox and Fridel is called "The Menace of School Shootings in America: Panic and Overresponse".

Maybe it was renamed since?
The quotes in the article mention anonymity as one of the problems, but all Bitcoin transactions are public. Is it really that difficult to tie people to these transactions?
DDoS?
I’m quite surprised they are still using c++. I thought most schools switched to java by or in the first half of the oughts.
When I searched "google", this story didn't even show up in the first page of "popular". I had to sort by date to even find it.
Northern VA is having a ton of power outages due to high winds. NOVEC electric company is reporting power issues for almost 10% of customers so far
It's bad for the individual too. Many checks have non-trivial rates of false positives, many treatments have non-trivial rates of severe complication.

Checking occasionally for something specific that's reasonably suspected due to symptoms is good. If you're always checking for everything, you have a high risk of finding something you don't actually have. It turns out that that risk overrides the beneficial chance of finding something real before it has any symptoms.
Yeah, our projects were generally

A functional consultant on our team who is great. Connected to their functional consultant who was wildly differing in skill level, from expert to can barely use a computer.

Technical Consultants, which involved 1 Senior who knew everything about one segment of topics. Another Senior who knew everything about a different segment of topics. A junior to learn things. And the PM which was also the sales lead looking for more work.

1 of those Seniors needed to be able to have social skills and diplomacy, the other didn't. You could hide the 2nd through preplanning.

The junior just needed to know to keep his mouth shut.

Then you'd have a variety of other seniors who you could call in on a particular topic, but you'd try not to use, as they are on projects.

And in our case, we had a GM who was more functional than all of us, almost as technical as all of us, and the best in front of customers. He could be brought in to deal with any special scenarios, and to gut check our plans.

So we were really, ridiculously successful with that model.

Basically, really well paid, SMEs, no cruft except a younger guy to learn on the job. Such a good structure.
It's almost like there's a closely related cash cow incentivized to keep people in worsening chronic pain such that they need pain killers or something.
Simon Peyton Jones on lenses:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wguYuQwjTtI
It makes a lot of sense for non-CS students to be able to learn CS using Python.

For CS students, there's a good argument for starting with the fundamentals and adding abstractions later. It's not the only way to learn it, but if the CS department wants to start there for CS students, that's reasonable.
MI may have jurisdiction - dictatorships come to mind.

Pedantic i know, but what can?
As someone who hasn’t driven for Uber, I’m not sure what that looks like. What are the conditions under which you would lose you “uber driver” job?
> can't seem to go more than a day without picking a fight on twitter

Thanks for that. I was blocked for correcting him (I can't remember about what, it was years ago).

Also, this "only go if necessary" is bad advice unless you are a doctor and can tell, from your symptoms, whether it is or not necessary to go. Make an appointment or show up at the ER and let the doctor decide whether you need help or not.
My self hosted repos won't get DDoS. BitBucket is a large target and that's a problem for me.
It's mildly ambiguous (like most things) but it's not misleading or inaccurate. It finds bugs. Which are in the code. It doesn't say what kind of code and it certainly doesn't say it finds them by looking at the source code.
Security Engineering Fundamentals e-book
And it's only one AZ, so it sounds like Atlassian services aren't spread out over AWS properly. The recent S3 incident really highlighted the importance of this.
Want to Win a Pitch? Ignore the Pitch
This is false. Any income in an S-corp that isn't paid via wages is not subject to FICA and Medicare, regardless of number of shareholders. That's a big reason why so many LLCs choose to classify themselves as S-corps. There are (or were, at least, before the latest tax bill) significant tax benefits to doing so.

It doesn't matter how many shareholders there are, since an S-corp is not a disregarded entity, like a single-member LLC.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S_corporation#FICA:

> As is the case for any other corporation, the FICA tax is imposed only with respect to employee wages and not on distributive shares of shareholders. Although FICA tax is not owed on distributive shares, the IRS and equivalent state revenue agencies may recategorize distributions paid to shareholder-employees as wages if shareholder-employees are not paid a reasonable wage for the services they perform in their positions within the company.

If you have data to support the contrary, please post your sources.
Sure but I rarely hear people talk about class which isn't so visible as other things. You can be a black woman born to professors or a working class white man born to garage store attendants.
The prevention is not free of costs either. Suppose access to guns is limited. An argument can be masse that since fewer people know how to deal with gunmen they will be less able to defend themselves from one so the shooting will be more massive. (I concede it is a weak argument.)

Likewise the argument can be made that there might be psychological results from drills like the ones used to allegedly prepare kids.
i too have a degree in collaging.

my friends call me Scrapbook King.
Absolutely, but education for education's sake can easily be provided for cheap or free via MOOCs, continuing education, The Great Courses, or just picking up old books and reading them.
Why don't they have the Virginia Tech massacre in 2007?

This data seems to be missing what a lot of people would call "school shootings".
This was mentioned in another comment but nothing about "education" is about actual education. It's primarily about credentialisim and not being locked out of a career with a high ceiling.

Though I disagree with many of his political opinions Peter Thiel I think is right on the mark when it comes to education. Additionally credentials serve to lock people out of careers where they can thrive except for the rubber stamp of a piece of paper.

In the words of Syndrome "if everyone is super, no one is". If every one has a BS/BA , masters, PHD then in a real sense no one really does.

(Added after reading critical comments: "Nothing" is to strong of a word. With that said I still think most of education is about signaling/credentialism etc.)
It's likely a DDoS attack against Akamai (again). Github also saw a record-breaking 1.3 Tbps attack recently:

https://www.wired.com/story/github-ddos-memcached
"Blind" second opinions. Go to another doctor - perhaps even at a different pay-grade - and see if she recommends the same treatment without you indicating to her anything about what the other doctor(s) said.

This is slightly easier for surgeries and anything non-acute where you have at least a month or two to make a decision.
> education for education's sake is a perfectly worthwhile goal

Obviously there is an opportunity cost which can affect individuals terribly. Look at all the med students that dropped out and tell them "well, you got some education right?"
Often the w2v embedding layer will be the first layer of a network, through which a document of word representations will be passed. The output of the embedding layer will be a 2 dimensional tensor with the embedding dimension in one direction and the number of input words in the other. The next step is often to apply zero or more convolutional units over the word direction before some kind of pooling to get a 1 dimensional output. The output of the pooling layer will be a document representation based upon the word vectors.

Other approaches like doc2vec are also used.
> it's a sacred cow that you cannot criticize

That is hardly the case; it's trendier to criticize than to defend.

> Thiel

Thiel has many crazy ideas, some of which lack the sophistication of an undergraduate paper. Money doesn't make you smart, but perhaps college would have helped him. (EDIT: Apparently he did go to college and graduate school; my point was mostly snark, but some education in many issues saves people from thinking they are too clever.) It's no surprise that someone who openly wants to disempower the public and eliminate democracy would be against the public becoming educated and empowered.
And also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16498551

Also worth highlighting from that discussion is a link to the actual paper, as found in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16499850
> Why does a failure mean that I cannot read AND write from BitBucket ? Why are those two things even related ?

https://status.aws.amazon.com/

If there are network issues then it wont matter if you want to read or write to bitbucket
I’ve been having issues with several services today:

- Jira
- Ring Central
- Github

I suspected AWS but don’t see anything on the status page.

Isn’t part of the point of a DVCS to not be overly held up by an inability to access your server?

I don’t know about your situation but I know that a company like Github can probably do better at SRE than I can with a self-hosted server
This is generally great advice, and aside from the package manager recommendations is still relevant today. I do take issue with a few things though.

1. Don't put your internal libraries in /pkg. /pkg has special GOPATH meaning as "compilation cache". Its not an actual name conflict, but why bother risking it.

2. This is just wrong:

> fmt.Printf is self-contained and doesn’t affect or depend on global state; in functional terms, it has something like referential transparency. So it is not a dependency. Obviously, f.Bar is a dependency. And, interestingly, log.Printf acts on a package-global logger object, it’s just obscured behind the free function Printf. So it, too, is a dependency.

stdout (and the buffer, and mutex on it) are exactly the same as the global log object. In fact, `log.Printf` is more or less just an alias to `fmt.Printf`[0]

3. I wish it had mentioned the functional options pattern in the part about constructors[1]

0: https://github.com/golang/go/blob/b77aad089176ecab971d3a72f0...

1: https://dave.cheney.net/2014/10/17/functional-options-for-fr...
At current market cap of almost 200b for bitcoin based on https://www.coingecko.com/en

It seems that the market is ignorant against news like this. As we have seen after what some countries had attempted to ban

People will see value in this and try to acquire it. Making it harder to buy may very well put bitcoin a higher price or activity goes underground. Everyone loses
> Collage (from the French: coller, "to glue";[1] French pronunciation: ​[kɔ.laʒ]) is a technique of an art production, primarily used in the visual arts, where the artwork is made from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole.

:-)
The Obama birther movement was borne out of an inability for Republicans to reconcile that Obama had won the election legitimately, and sought to disqualify him with anything they could find. Is the parallel more clear now? The Russia election meddling controversy, especially its effects on the election, are borne out of an inability for Democrats to reconcile that Trump legitimately won the election and are seeking to disqualify him with anything they can find.
But do managers adjust their expectations of your main project to 0.8 of expected output?

Sure if you can get everything expected of you done in 32 hours, you can spend the remaining 8 on something else.
Issues that can't be discussed can't be solved, they only grow larger.

I once would have thought that this would have been somewhat obvious.
Would you not say that rewarding "good" communication through better exposure is effectively censoring "not good" communication by prioritizing it less than the "good"? Twitter isn't banning anyone, but it's relegating an arbitrary set of speech to a position where people will receive less exposure to it. If we normalize the level of exposure the net result would still be censorship.
Is that realistic given the extra insurance costs associated with using your vehicle as a private hire car? You'd have to do a lot of this just to recoup that cost.
The flaw in these studies are the assumption that the person would not have a car unless they were an Uber/Lyft driver. This has a huge impact on the final per hour calculations.

If the vehicle is a fixed cost for the person regardless of whether or not they are a driver, then factoring in the cost and depreciation of the vehicle isn't really a fair measure.
Seems reasonable that there could be 6000 or so Icelandic speakers outside Iceland.
This "You were born into implicit bias/racism" shtick sounds an awful lot like religion's "You were born into original sin" shtick. The fix is almost identical too: give us money, attention, and spread the word, or else you're extra double-plus ungood and we'll shame you harder.
Thanks for clarifying what you intended when you meant screening, which is differentiated from screening for cancer itself, which is how I read your upthread comment "[s]ome nipped a potentially fatal cancer in the bud".
At this point I expect actions like this from people holding the prevailing viewpoints in Silicon Valley whenever someone with a different viewpoint dare speak.
People accept all kinds of barely functional stuff.
That's something that is bound to happen more often. I cannot let that affect me. I cannot let their problems become mine.
Skin in the Game by Nassim Nicholas Taleb – Digested Read
Plus 5000 or so scholars around the world specializing in the Norse sagas.
Link world
Ironically, he has no real "skin in the game" on almost every topic he talks about, which kind of proves the point of this book.

It's sad really. If he didn't have such a narcissistic personality and possessed more modesty he could have been one of the great thinkers of our day.

His life is a cautionary tale.
A man doesn't need to accuse you exactly of harrasment, there are pretty other easier ways to destroy your career. You just prefer to stay sexist, not educate yourself on this matter and be a typical part of the problem. Instead of defending this disgusting attitude you could actually learn about the subject honestly and see that your position is just wrong and harmful.
Show HN: Eggradients – Background Gradients
ARgentina's public education is disastrous at all levels.

While we have a public university that is free, mostly middle class goes there. Upper class goes private, and lower class does not graduate highschool. Our high-school graduation rate is 50%. And our public college graduation rate is about 50% as well.
"Part of the reason why university graduates earn more is because they are brighter and harder-working to begin with."

Is that it, though? Or do they just get to reap the rolling snowball of opportunity from successful parents?
I hate guns and I want them banned in America. But, crime goes up after gun bans https://crimeresearch.org/2013/12/murder-and-homicide-rates-...

I am okay with that because it spreads the violence but each instance of violence is less deadly. So for the sake of no school schootings, I will accept increase in general violence. Let's repeal the 2A.
"Dry wall contractor" is a pretty generic job title. "Uber driver" is very specific including the "location" where the driver is working. To make the analogy fair you'd have to do have a "Dry wall contractor for Boeing" or similar.
There was an interesting debate on this at LSE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmGL67coWwc

There is clearly a problem but I'm not sure what the answer is.
Law is not the only variable and is not deterministic. Social environment and cultural values are of great influence.

The US media glorifies violence and yet censors the reality of it.

How many of those other countries with stricter gun control laws have been involved in as many violent conflicts across the globe as the US?
UCLA is one of the biggest users of CoCalc.com. They use CoCalc extensively to teach a course called "LS30: Mathematics for Life Sciences". Well over 1000 students a year in this course program in Python for hours every week (via SageMath Worksheets) in a lab and at home. The content is really beautiful, and teaches ideas from Calculus in a much more hands on and motivated way. Expanding Python education at UCLA would definitely help support the LS30 sequence.

(Disclaimer: I started SageMath and CoCalc.)
Ha, thanks for that.

The implication was the drivers live in cheaper rural areas and come into the city on weekends to make money. Thus they don't know where they're going and are dependent on internet maps.

Back when I drove a cab, there actually was some skill to it - you had to keep all the streets and bars in your head and know the best routes.
That’s currently showing an issue with Direct Connect in northern Virginia. That seems like a bit of a stretch and it certainly wouldn’t say anything good about their DR planning if one region can take the whole thing down.
You're correct! The keras example implementation of FastText uses a global average pooling is used to reduce the dimensionality [0].

[0] https://github.com/keras-team/keras/blob/master/examples/imd...