skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't get how in a world where about 10% of the work goes into actually producing nescessities, and all the rest goes into 'make work' or even worse producing things that are health hazards or nearly straight to landfill junk, we still think we need to 'work more/longer/harder'!

Our 'productivity' has gone up by at least 2% per year. If you understand compounding you realize how significant that impact is. We're in front of a next generation work automation tsunami. The notion that 'working longer' is 'needed' as a consequence of anything besides a completely failed and derailed socio-economic model is absurd.
Just watched this talk - what an emotional ride!
Only in this case it’s mostly due to a republican controlled government.
It's not about the tax code complexity. It's about the government having a system in place to use the information it already has to automatically complete your taxes if you have a simpler tax return. This happens in a lot of other countries and, having lived in one where this happens, is much better.

Intuit lobbys to stop this happening because they know a lot of people don't have complex returns and if the government automatically calculates basic returns it would wipe out a large portion of their customer base.

https://www.propublica.org/article/filing-taxes-could-be-fre...
Rich Formula: Quant Trading (2015)
I agree, private sector workers should also get free healthcare.
They focus entirely on the tantalising idea of letting go of everything. Being free, following the open road, unfettered by the obligations of modern society.

They conveniently gloss over the fact that modern society is also the thing that's keeping them, you know, alive.

McCandless would undoubtedly have survived if he'd spent even half a day making realistic preparations. Something as simple as just bringing a map.
>I don't think taking $6,250 from every person in the state just to support a tiny, tiny fraction of the population is doing much good.

The government paying its debts and not committing wage theft is a public good. It's a pivotal decision point in whether we are a functioning civilization with a rule of law or a third-world regime on its way down. It may be convenient in this one isolated instance to renege, but the knock-on effects of the message it sends - that public servants will be paid only when convenient - will be huge. Although that may be just as well, if you hope to minimize the role of government going forward.
Tesla has just found out that producing 100 cars a week is absolutely different than producing 5,000 cars a week. The same applies to every other product. A few PCB fans will not have the expertise to build factories that output millions of PCBs a month.
All factories have been purposed to create weapons in war times. I wonder if this impacts undesirable voter districts for the current party?
Taught me better hygiene and bought me better clothes. Was way too late in my life when I corrected that stuff.
I think the gulf between individualism and collectivism is more similar to what has become of left versus right, which is to say it's completely insufficient by itself. With left versus right it's now also critical to consider libertarian versus authoritarian. So too with individualism and collectivism, I think you need to also factor in nationalism versus globalism.

The US was certainly driven by nationalism, but the individualism vs collectivism component is not clearly individualistic either. For instance in our founding, states were viewed as entities in and of themselves. Institutions like the senate and the electoral college are very clear reminders that the state was seen as more relevant than the individual.

In either case today we've gone more individualistic and globalistic. This diminishes the strength of the state. And I think many see that as a positive today without considering that things we consider rights and privileges we take for granted are not inalienable, but a product of our nation which creates that inalienability. The reason you can burn a flag as a protest without being rounded up and summarily 'removed from society' one way or the other, as would happen in many parts of this world, is because of what that very flag represents.

If we created a nation that was an aggregate of this world, it'd still be quite an awful place. This is in part why, though I'd hardly consider myself nationalistic, I think that keep our nations strong and independent is so crucial. I also find it trite that the push for extremes of globalism is largely coming from corporations and other power non-state entities. Guess who rules a society where the nation or state is secondary? Many would like to think it's the individual, but it's not. Globalism is analogous to union busting on the international scale. Many people were led to believe that unions were not in their best interest. That worked out well...
That's because it's not a config file, it's a javascript app that is run to produce a javascript object, which is then used as the config.

That object needs 4 main properties: the entry (the file where your app begins), the output (where to put the compiled stuff), the loaders (what to use to load various file types identified by a regex to test the file name), and plugins (for anything else that operates on the compiled output).
Yes, documentation is the single biggest problem for the webpack team and something they seriously screwed up with the release of webpack 4. I think they understand now but it remains to be seen. Unfortunately they have lots of devs but no clear project manager, which is what really makes larger projects work well.
If it's a rural area, surely they can build the factor in a place where they don't have to destroy people's homes, no? Even if the state/county has to build new roads, power lines, water mains, etc. to support a new locale, seems like that would be better than taking people's land away.

I'm sympathetic to the idea of using eminent domain to take land for public projects, but for a private company? Nope. That's simply insane.
That was originally the case, but many (most?) people pronounce it “QT” these days.
The point of the article is there isn't enough surplus in the economy to pay these people for 40 years of retirement doing nothing.
pgAdmin III is pretty good. But imho one should start with raw psql before going to a GUI.
...using JavaScript?

I mean as long as you use import or require it just works. Everything else is optional.

You can use all that other stuff but there’s zero requirement to do so.

What conventions do you mean?
More Equal Than Others
Most government jobs are not blue collar jobs. They're bureaucrats. Half of the jobs in the public school system are administrative, not teaching.
Doesn’t work for high quality face reco systems like iPhone X. You’d also need to get the IR reflectance, as well as a sign of life from the eyes.
I'm not sure why paths are such a big issue. The config object only needs the path to your applications entry file, and the path to where to put the output. All the paths within your app js (the import() statements) dont have anything to do with webpack and wouldn't run anyway if they were wrong.

What other paths are you running into problems with? Also debugging this is just like any other app, start with 1 line at a time and see what changes. You can technically run it all inside of a debugger but that's a lot of setup so the old-school 1 change at a time + console.log() statements work well. Remember its just a single-file js app that produces an object.
Meh, I've known cops retiring at 55 they are in better shape than your typical 55 year old programmer, same with other blue collar workers. They may not be able to run down a 25 year old perp but physically they are above average.
And more straw men.

Again, let me ask you the same question. Do you think what you just said in way reasonable represents what I've stated throughout our discussion? And again, if I point out the [rather absurd] misrepresentation you're making, would it be likely to change your view one way or the other?
The article mentions that many (all?) of the landowners, except for some owners of farmland that has already been purchased, haven't received any offers from the county, despite the fact that the assessment process has been completed for some time. It's... fishy, to put it mildly.
Man builds giant robot to realize his anime dream
Shame no one wants to pay for that skill set.
Can you provide a explain-like-im-five version of what you just said?
I doubt much of cop work is chasing anyone. It's paperwork, sitting in the patrol car, investigating, following up, running license plates, sitting in court, canvassing the neighborhood, collecting evidence, guarding, routine sweeps, etc.
The open source BIM collective
>an entitlement

It's compensation earned in exchange for labor under a negotiated agreement. The fact that the check is separated from the labor by years rather than days doesn't suddenly make it "an entitlement."

The time to complain about entitlement, selfishness, and intergenerational wealth transfer was when we were promising those pensions, not now that the bills are due.
Is this an article from 10 years ago? You could buy an SSD yourself every two months at the going rate.
With regular activity, your strength doesn't really start to decline until you're over 60.
>"Airlines would be willing to do this if all tickets were 100% non-refundable, non-exchangeable, no excuses. But, that would be a terrible experience for customers. Imagine if you missed your flight, and were informed that you had no choice but to pay for another ticket"

In the US all three big carriers - American, United and Delta all charge $200 to change non-refundable tickets.[1]. Any you pay the fare difference if any on top of that. So there's already a hedge in place.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexandratalty/2015/07/20/dont-...
I'm not sure I agree with that. If you publish your methods and make your data available, then a replicator has all they need. They'd have to reimplement the data pipeline anyway, otherwise it's not a replicated result it's just someone running your notebook with potentially the same bugs in it again.
That seems like a pretty generous offer. For comparison, that comes out to around $1150 per square foot, which is what a lot of (developed) real estate is going for in SF right now.

Still, though, I think it's disgusting to use eminent domain in order to turn land over to a private company.
As someone with a sourceless depression for many years, I also used to think (and still do sometimes) that death/oblivion is the only "real" cure, and anything else is a temporary distraction from the problem.

Lately I've been trying to see it from a different direction: What am I really looking for when I harbor suicidal thoughts? Escape, and more specifically: Freedom.

It's not that I WANT to die; on the contrary, I want to live forever! There's too many things I want to do and see. I want to get off this planet and learn what's beyond. But I can't, and in the back of my mind I feel there's no point to anything. I like to create but nothing lasts forever. So I'd be content with just being able to explore and discover as much as I can, as long as I can.

Skydiving definitely gives a sense of freedom, as well as some degree of control – I could choose to throw away my parachute and splat on the ground – but I suppose the rush of physical sensations might make one feel alive enough at the moment to not want to die just then..
The impracticality of house the state mismanages its afairs should take a second seat to the fundamental rights of poeple. The people that pay a tax today to fund benefits are being robbed of money today, and of benefits in the future.
>"If a significant fraction of people won’t show up ."

I think its safe to say that there isn't a "significant fraction" of people who don't show up for their flights.
>...dark UX only has one sensible interpretation

I've been working in software for over 20 years, I can't name a single person outside of my industry that even knows what UX means or refers to. And if they did, they'd confuse "dark UX" with something other than "nefarious".

Despite this, everyone I have ever met that uses software HATES being tricked by their software or manipulated by it.

There is a real need for a term that communicates to the people that are being affected, and the word "dark" just doesn't cut it.
Question: what is the advantage of SPA for a statically generated site?
This is why I treat IM at work the same as email. I show up as unavailable and check a few times a day. If someone really needs me instantly they can come to my cube.
Spherical Convolutional Neural Networks
Eh, I'm not sure I agree. I think eminent domain is useful, if not essential, in cases where land is needed for public infrastructure projects. But allowing its use in order to give land to a private company is going too far.
“Make your queries difficult for the server and easy for you”... that’s a great quote. We’re a bit more fragile!
Modulating fluid intelligence through cognitive training and brain stimulation
I always will wonder if, suppose we hadn't bothered with a "cold war" and the mutual antipathy & fear, the Soviet system would be ticking along well.

So, I always find the bits of Soviet thought fascinating. In large part, I think it is because it is both modern and alien. A different road was taken and a different perspective was built in so many things. Even when I work with people who grew up in that world, they have a variant viewpoint versus people from other worlds.

I would love to see a volume translating the key developments of Soviet computer science & programming languages. There's drabs of translated information, but not a coherent narrative & a solid compare & contrast.
If you know you aren't meant to have access, that's still legally questionable. I think they're relying on the fact that AIQ/CA would rather not draw the attention of unproductive legal action.
Elon Musk stressed but “optimistic,” predicts big increase in Model 3 production
One of the definitions of maturity is knowing when you're in over your head and to consult third party experts. Being intelligent in an abstract sense doesn't magically impart knowledge/training/skills in a field that a person has no direct experience in.

For example I have no clue how to sail a sailboat, so if somebody gave me a 30' Catalina tomorrow I would go out and get training on how to sail before trying to discover the techniques from first principles.

Watching the British Columbian news for the past 25 years - I could find probably at least twenty instances where random tourists go off into the back country and are never seen again, or are found deceased in a ravine years later by random hikers. You can die in the North Shore mountains within 10 km of North Vancouver pretty easily. Search and rescue missions are a fairly common thing in tourist season. Thankfully boating and kayaking has a bit more equipment/preparation barrier (compared to just heading off into the woods with no map, no GPS, a few Clif bars, wearing sandals, a tiny water bottle and no jacket) so maritime search and rescue is not as common.
Don't forget about https://github.com/happi/theBeamBook
That may be true, but if the .1% of households making more than $1m/year can obviously and unquestionably overthrow the government, we may as well dispense with any pretense of democracy.
> military spouses have high unemployment rates because locals don't want to hire them

May I ask why? Because they know you're going to move soon, or any other reasons?
Yeah, the focus on a few outliers is strange.

The bigger issue, from what I've read, is that governments agreed to huge pensions in contracts with public employee unions. In exchange for lower salaries. Because pensions were deferred costs.
Not really a field ...
Ray Dalio's Bridgewater seems to be on this track: https://www.cnbc.com/2016/12/22/the-biggest-hedge-fund-in-th...
Needs don't create jobs, economic demand creates them - and the big difference between a need, necessity or desire versus economic demand is the ability to afford that good or service.

If people can't afford basic physical needs, then that's going to create jobs only if these people somehow get extra resources for that. The current job trends won't do that, they're likely going to make it worse for those people that can't afford basic needs - either it's going to be solved by some major politic-economic intervention redistributing resources (UBI being one of multiple possibilities) or it's not going to happen and those needs will stay unmet.
On the rationality behind declarative effects in JavaScript
That was very interesting reading. I am surprised I never heard about it before.
Oh interesting. Thanks for the link. I guess I always just assumed it was some old IBM 360 series. Cheers.
Please don't, even if someone else is wrong.
Depends what kind of testing you’re talking about. Tech / does it work testing should be pretty easy to accomplish regardless of users/phones available. UX testing is a lot harder and probably better to do a combo of “just release” with recruiting testers.
Russian watches are a good gateway drug to watch collecting without having to spend a lot of money. There are so many unique editions and designs and (here in Germany) they can often be found on flea markets for unter 20€.
Ha! I had the pre-ORM ERP experience myself, definitely a way to learn how to go beyond the basics. Probably not available to the newest programmers though.

For Postgres and other feature rich RDBMS's one important thing is to take some time to learn what's possible. generate_series() is at the heart of a lot of good reporting tricks, as shown in the article.
"schmaltz" in that context would instead mean "schmaltzy" music – maudlin, sappy, or overly sentimental.
Jack Ma: US-China trade war will kill jobs, opportunities and hope
You can export to LaTeX and hack the "template" (in the terminology of Jupyter) that defines how this conversion occurs.

I used this as a starting point and modified it for my own purposes: http://blog.juliusschulz.de/blog/ultimate-ipython-notebook
Oops I did not see your response until now.

I agree, changing the model changes the estimates, because the parameters you are estimating change.

However, given one misspecified model, the parameters of that model are still well defined, though they may not have the interpretation they would if the model was correctly specified. As OP called it, this is the "best fit line", and is a projection of the truth onto your model. E.g. for a simple linear regression of Y on X, where the true conditional mean of Y given X is not linear, there is still some "true" best line. This line depends also on the distribution of X, though it would not if the model was correct. Estimates from linear regression will converge to the parameters of this line, though using the usual standard errors will be wrong.

There's a very general theorem or corollary that covers this in Asymptotic Statistics by van der Vaart. I think in the chapter about M estimators, right around where MLEs are covered, but I don't have it in front of me.
I'd love to see a clinical trial on this. What's a suitable placebo for jumping out of a plane, I wonder?
These look so familiar - my family had quite a few of these everyday objects when I was growing up in Ukraine. I am no fan of USSR or the state of Russia today, but I do feel a sense of nostalgia when I hear or see descriptions of objects, apartment layouts, etc from those days.
Yes, they know you are highly likely to move again soon. But really it should say in part because... The benefits package makes living on one income viable. This contributes to spouses being less motivated to job hunt.

Another factor is that frequent moves make it nigh impossible to develop a real career. If you have a serious education and want a professional career, this is largely out of reach for most military spouses. Nursing is just about the only exception that I know of. Nursing pays fairly well and there is typically a shortage of nurses just about anywhere you go. If you want any other kind of serious career, being a military spouse is a huge obstacle to working that out.

If you are content to deliver papers or wait tables, you can probably get those kinds of jobs. But better jobs mostly don't want you (edit: and just may not have openings when you need them or may not exist at all in some locations).
Any system of rules will have a utility monster. Be it the Politburo, or Wall Street.
> It may be convenient in this one isolated instance to renege, but the knock-on effects of the message it sends - that public servants will be paid only when convenient - will be huge. Although that may be just as well, if you hope to minimize the role of government going forward.

If you want to reduce the role of government to only a narrow core of tasks for which there is no alternative, you probably still don't want to send the message that workers in government will be arbitrarily deprived of the compensation for which they've agreed to labor, since presumably in that case it's even more essential that the set of tasks to which government is reduced is done by people who are competent and motivated.
Despite a ridiculous signal-to-noise ratio, the YOSPOS subforum of Something Awful had some wicked smart posters. It’s been years since I visited though
What surplus?
Jaron Lanier: How we need to remake the internet [video]
I really like this project. I have some high-dimension data (object deduplication) that would really benefit from a visualization like this.

In the music example, it has to give up on rendering all intersections since the layout isn't feasible with area-proportional circles - is there anything else that could be done? Is it possible to use ellipses or curved-shapes instead?

But then I guess searching for a solution could become too computationally expensive for client-side JS.
Given that bacteria and viruses existed for billions of years...
Why does this feel a little like fear-mongering?

George Carlin on germs, really funny stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnmMNdiCz_s
I find it interesting that the function doesn't have a closed form solution, given how easy it is to compute it. I wouldn't have thought, at first glance, that the function wasn't invertible.
Is sorted using SIMD instructions
Yes, in the lab, bacteria can double in less than an hour.
When Elixir first came, I think like you.

Eventually I try to do something with Elixir. Then suddenly everything is so good.

The whole experience how I create a new project with `mix`, get dependencies, build, compile, run `repl` was so much better than rebar.

To me, `mix` is the greatest tool. I don't see something like mix in other languages, except Clojure and Leiningen.

The community around Elixir is awesome too. It's very different from Erlang type. I have a hard time to find library and stuff in Erlang before. I don't have a central place to look for that. Elixir brough me hex.pm.

I personally like Erlang syntax, I think it's short and concise. But I end up like Elixir much more than Erlang.
That can’t be right... there are 43560 sqft in an acre.
Most in-repository bug trackers have (or plan to have) a way to get bug reports committed to the repository automatically, usually via email or a web site.
Every government that ever existed more than transiently did this sort of thing. It's done every time the government wants to put in a road, a palace, a port, a fortification, a school, a prison, a military base, a nationalized industry, etc.

It's easier for communist countries, though, because the government already confiscated everything.
If you google the title and click on the same link it will be outside the paywall.