skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Am I disappointed? Yes. Am I surprised? Absolutely not. They truly fear for the safety of their industry, which is responsible for ~$7.5B in revenue between the two (per annum).
>However the problems Communism tried to solve are real and as of today even more pressing than ever.

How are they more pressing than ever? Are communities in more dire situation than let's say after or during first world war?
Reminds me of Diamond Age!
To some extent, all visual processing is learned. See, for example:

https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/2apb6d/til_t...

But, yes, you need that part of your brain to be functional to start with as a prerequisite.
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It’s a static site (as in it doesn’t need a web server) but vue-markdown to HTML conversion still happens in JS on the browser - so the browser needs a 500kb supporting JS file. If JavaScript is disabled then you won’t see the content.
I think an interesting thing about turbotax and ifttt is that they both were confronted with the problem of a really hard UX and they both decided that the simplest solution was just to make everything a series of modals with the absolute minimum number of decision points. Kind of like the game Reigns.
We started on ~v1.4. Ember has improved in every dimension since then. ember-cli, the ember inspector, contextual components, data down actions up, much better docs, an open RFC process, the ember addon ecosystem, the experimental glimmerjs, a smooth approach to deprecations and major version released. A lot of small steps and the odd big leap really adds up.

Performance is great now. The rendering engine has been rebuilt (without major changes to the templating syntax) and the new glimmer-vm architecture yielded huge performance and payload size wins and continues to deliver incremental performance gains every 6 weeks.

I've never considered error reporting an issue in the past, but I may just not remember the pain. It's not an issue for us now though.

If you (or anyone else reading) would ever like to chat in person, feel free to reach out:

https://twitter.com/gavinjoyce/status/928719024644612096
The problem with Mathematica from a science point of view is that, being closed source, means you can't independently ensure the calculations are happening correctly

Have there been any high profile failures root-caused to Mathematica (or MATLAB or any similar product) getting its sums wrong? I can find any news stories etc. Plenty of serious calculations were and are done on “closed source” HP and TI calculators too. Every serious scientific instrument with its own data capture uses a binary blob too somewhere, so if that’s a problem for you then you can’t even trust the raw data!

And even if you have all of the code - you still need to worry if the proprietary, closed FPU is working “correctly”.

This sounds very much like a post-hoc justification for “its free as in beer”. Do you think Wikipedia is more trustworthy than real references too? What about blogs?
How is Brunch with importing fonts and SVGs these days?
Here's the other option. Pay the promised pensions and inflate them away. Since this is a growing national problem, I'm guessing that solution has at least been considered.
Yes, org-mode is very inspiring. But, as you say, it's not quite user friendly enough for some target audiences (e.g., beginning students).
you become a party member after you become a billionaire. Then there is responsibility comes with it, you will need to help the government with jobs and other things. Sometimes you will need to help to revive a bankrupt company for example.
Just wanna give an update to our desperate experience: Rebuilt server on RHEL 7.5 with :
3.10.0-862.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Mar 21 18:14:51 EDT 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
And Zol 0.7.7 because we have many other systems using 0.7.7 not showing any issues but on a lower kernel. (3.10.0-693)

On the new box, out of the wrapper with a brand new 32TB zpool - directory listings are messed up:
>ls /newzpoolmount
>ls: reading directory .: Not a directory
>total 0
ALthough a new file created can be edited and read - just not listed. No hard link nor any thing else in the zfs.

If this is the original issue, then we are bewildered as to why our other boxes with 0.7.7 and a lower kernel dont' show the issue with massive rsyncs running and why upgrading to 0.7.8 makes no difference? (Haven't tried 0.7.6 yet as we came off 0.7.3)

Just putting it out there in case this is a useful test scenario.
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False equivalences FTW.
Would it make sense for the government contract out the pre-filled tax returns to these companies?
He was incredibly prolific during his prime. He did twenty-eight hours of live radio programming a week -- almost double the typical 15 hour weeks of national talkhosts. He did 5 hours of content Monday-Friday nights plus the 3-hour "Dreamland" show on Sundays.

A fan recorded a tribute song called "Ballad of the Grays" that can nowadays be found on Art's website:

http://midnightinthedesert.com/the-ballad-of-the-grays/
(via Deep Work)

How to Depth Jam: http://chrishecker.com/The_Depth_Jam
I'm not sure what the point of your comment is, but the large number of 3 month bootcamps that create frontend devs does seem to show that anyone can do it.

I'm calling out the fact that the things you mentioned and the concepts behind them are not unique to frontend and certainly not even that complex. All it means is that the frontend landscape is finally catching up to traditional backend languages and dev practices. We've had compilers, multiple language versions, and environment targets for a long time. We've had functional programming, event sourcing, actor systems, immutable data, and materialized views for a long time. We've used DSLs and full programming languages to create config objects and execution paths for a long time. We've had async and multithreaded programming for a long time.

None of this is new or suddenly challenging, which goes to the original point of this thread that backend skills tend to move much easier to current frontend dev than the opposite direction because of what's involved. I'm not sure how much backend experience you have, if any, but naming assorted buzzwords and claiming that configuring webpack is complex only seems to reinforce my comments.
One thing always strikes me in terms of design when I'm in Latvia (USSR republic in 1940 and 1945-1990). It is how modular, repairable, and in that way "simple" things that have survived from the Soviet era look. Ingeniously built wooden ironing boards for example, the older generations of trams of Riga, the "Minsk" folding bicycles that you still see around very often, the trains (no new ones since 1991!), even many of the "Chrushchovkas" appartment blocks...

Contrary to my previous western bias, some things were clearly being built very sturdily. In comparison, a lot of things built in the '90s and 2000's seem to be crumbling already. It all smells of inferior materials, quick and dirty fixes... I don't know if that is survivor bias kicking in though...
The .04% of people who announce they are in the .04%. It's a very select group with an unusual hobby.
I don't believe it covers that at all. I believe their definition of crust there is a lot more superficial than it sounds like.

eg, the Chicxulub (Yucutan) crater is 66 million years ago, and clearly hasn't been recycled else we wouldn't be looking at it. We have dinosaur fossils dating ~230-240 million years, so the crust clearly hasn't been recycled that thoroughly. Indeed, the entire Pangea theory would be invisible to us if the continents didn't remain 300+ million years later.

(I'm not saying we should have a fossil record of 'the others', as the article says, there's a survivor bias in fossils. Just that the fossils we do have wouldn't exist if the crust has been geologically renewed in the last few millions of years.)

They're talking about surface markers like roads and buildings. To replace a previous civilization's trashheaps with geological mineral seams, you'd need to pre-date Pangea.
Reminds me of the similar article posted recently, '“Is curing patients a sustainable business model?” Goldman Sachs analysts ask.' Or net neutrality. Regulatory capture is out of control in at least a dozen american industries i know of.

I've read a thread like this before, prepare for lots of people from countries that aren't the US explaining that their taxes are way simpler.
He doesn't say if there was an underlying condition, like dyslexia.
Why would you look at their after tax income when this comes out of their taxes? (But I can't remember the deductibility rules under the new tax code, maybe they can't deduct state tax payments from federal now).

(Also, I made a mistake, that number was household income)
Quite nice. And likely faster and more secure. Do an independent check for yourself. Look at the compile flags. Along with what’s statically linked, vs what conda manages as dynamically linked. Also don’t miss what all the pip-installed wheels are statically linking.
I feel that image in your tweet deep down.

I would like to add it's not only working in a horrific code base it's working in a horrific code base and getting a lot of push back on fixing it.

Telling PM's week after week that the backend will eventually keel over if we don't take some time to clean it up and being told there is no time to do refactoring or maintenance only time for features is very aggravating. Additionally watching outage after outage occur because of this and still being told "we need more feature work there is no time for refactoring" drove me up the wall.
A confounding factor may be hobby and the social aspect.
Jail is a place where you're put if there is a chance that you might try to run away from a trial and its resolution. I was in jail - and I did nothing, the case was immediately dropped.

Additionally, while the remedy for this crime is a fine, the remedy for not paying the fine is prison.
Maybe you should acknowledge the fact that others may have different tastes than yours, instead of calling for "system issues" because you do not like the mainstream tool (which is perfectly fine, in itself).
If you love fictional settings based on such concepts, check out Numenera [0]: A "hyper sci-fi" set a billion years in the Earth's future, after at least 8 great civilizations have come and gone, leaving the planet covered with the effects and remnants of incomprehensible technology.

Also has a computer RPG [1] by some of the people behind Planescape: Torment.

[0] http://numenera.com

[1] https://www.gog.com/game/torment_tides_of_numenera
Lobbying is a way for the rich to legally shortcircuit democracy. It’s legal corruption and as bad for democracy as the illegal counterpart.

In Denmark we have had prefilled tax forms for I don’t know how many years. More than two decades. Nowadays its online. You log on and see your taxes and edit when necessary. It’s still unnecessarily complicated if you are not an employee, but for the 90 percent who receive salary as their only income and only have ordinary deductions it’s somewhat bareable although it can be hard to check if the tax authorities calculated the tax correctly.
This is a bigger version of the Soviet TMS-65, which is a jet engine on a turret on a truck. It's for decontaminating tanks after a chemical attack, and can also be used to generate smoke screens.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBI43LKuW00
why it is subsidized? as if Tencent doesn't make enough money already? If the government wants it, it can have the data for free. I thought you have access to all Tencent information.
No, the Libertarian dream would not contain much of a government, let alone one that was reposessing houses.
I found this recent book by one of the Postgres contributors helpful:
https://masteringpostgresql.com/
Debugging system(s) failure sometimes make me feel I should be consulting with spirits, ouija board and all. But as the article said, we'll rely on rumor, hearsay, conjecture and if time remains, we will consult the logfiles.
1.x to 2.0 was a little rough, but so much better than the "all apps left behind" approach of Angular 1.x to 2.0. Ember's 2.x to 3.0 upgrade path was much improved as earlier mistakes were learned from.

Trajectory matters, and Ember had got a really great trajectory for apps that value longevity now.
(Thanks for the correction, and the polite response.)

The purpose of notation is to communicate effectively, and ideally notation should match the thoughts that the writer has and wishes the reader to have. That is, notation should match thought, rather than humans change their thinking to match notation.

When a mathematician (who works often with asymptotics, say in analytic number theory) writes something like O(n), they are not thinking of a set; they are thinking of “some unspecified quantity that is at most a constant times n”. (As de Bruijn illustrates with his L() example: https://shreevatsa.wordpress.com/2014/03/13/big-o-notation-a...) So for example, the sentence

(n + O(log n))^2 = n^2 + O(n log n)

is thought of (by the person writing it) as something like

“when you take n and add a quantity that is at most a constant times log n, and square it, you get n^2 plus at most a constant times n log n”

and not as something like

“the set of functions obtainable by adding the function n ↦ n to a member of the set of functions that map n to at most a constant times log n, and squaring the sum, is a subset of the set of functions obtainable by adding the function n ↦ n^2 to a member of the set of the functions that map n to at most a constant times n log n”,

even if the latter is the fully formal and precise way of articulating it. (Consider “the sky is blue” versus “the sky is a member of the set of all blue things”, where “the set of all blue things” was never a part of the original speaker's thoughts.)

That's one reason for preferring the equals sign.

I think what's happening is that we lack a good theory or notation for talking about unspecified things the way we think of them, and set theory (and associated notation) is the closest thing that anyone's bother to develop. (An unspecified thing is “just” a member of some set. And when someone wants to be fully formal, that works fine enough and in fact the differences disappear. As Thurston says (https://shreevatsa.wordpress.com/2016/03/26/multiple-ways-of...): “Unless great efforts are made to maintain the tone and flavor of the original human insights, the differences start to evaporate as soon as the mental concepts are translated into precise, formal and explicit definitions.”) Using the equals sign here captures the original thought better than ∈ or ⊆.

What's so terrible about a one-way = sign anyway? The problem can't be that it goes “against all mathematical convention”, because using it that way is the mathematical convention for over a century, ever since soon after Bachmann introduced it in 1894. It seems that as people learn more mathematics, they learn to accept a great many things and extensions to notation, but the thought of an asymmetric = sign, used like “is”, is just too much to bear for some people. But everyone who works with asymptotics enough does get used to it and comes to appreciate it, so it can't be that either...
Concur. Once you get over the initial learning curve, psql is the weapon of choice.
> It's propelled by a diesel piston engine

I don't think it is - the power pack is a turbine which is connected to the drive. If you look at cross sections you can see it doesn't contain pistons.

https://grabcad.com/library/honeywell-agt1500-engine--1
It's worth noting that they're also against it getting too complex too. There's a sweet spot where most people feel comfortable using software to complete and file their returns but is also not too simple to need software.

Also, their position is that simple filings allow the government too much control and that taxpayers are better represented by an entity that is incentivized to minimize their tax burden.

Still, I always found Intuit's lobbying efforts to fail Brad's (Brad Smith is, the CEO) "you wouldn't tell your mother" test and it was one of the main reasons I ended up leaving Intuit.
Unfortunately SSE doesn't speed-up huge data much. It's only fast when everything's in the cache.
Officers did nothing wrong in Philadelphia Starbucks arrest, police chief says
They were't crazy big in 1991. I mean, maybe his was, but the Camcorders back then were available in Video8 format.

https://www.ifixit.com/Device/Sony_CCD-TR81

VHS-C was also available, but it didn't have the same runtime IIRC
Dopamine is the compulsion chemical, not the pleasure chemical. It turns thoughts into beliefs into actions. This is why people who take too many dopamine recreational drugs who get leaky dopaminE vesicles tend to easily believe any thought that occurs to them and do all kinds of psychotic things. A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick had some great portrayals of what this looks like.

Opioid are the pleasure chemicals and that's why exogenous opioids destroy people. There's nothing that an opioid high can't fix, because that's literally how the brain is wired. Once the opioid receptors are activated, the brain is literally done trying to do anything else because the ultimate aim, at least the way the brain is wired, has been acheived.
Lobbying is an excellent way for small groups to be heard in political corridors. Lobbying happens in any large democracy and when it is illegal it often happens through backdoors creating a chain of unimaginable corruption.

It is much better for Intuit and HR Block to openly lobby for complex tax code rather than paying bribes through backdoor.

Secondly, why are people re-electing the politicians who suck up to Intuit then ? It is because people do not care as much.
They'd have to take recycling to a whole new level, to place the different metals separate geological seams, however.

If the human race were wiped out this afternoon, and you came back in 100 million years, you'd still be able to tell the difference between a mineral seam and a landfill or scrap metal merchant.
In both cases there is a described mechanism which produces the effects that are observed. In the case of Moore's law the mechanism has now been thwarted by physics, everyone knew that this had to happen at some point, but the surprise was how long physics was staved off by clever engineering. In the case of Eroom's law the mechanisms seem strong, regulators will continue to strengthen or at least remain as strong, new drugs will have a higher bar to jump due to old drugs, market economics will dictate that firms will throw money at high risk projects to hail mary out of trouble. So to say that nothing about these trends must hold true misses the point that they are/were strongly founded and could be used to make good predictions about the evolution of the economy and society.
Can you confirm whether 0.7.8 is actually fuctional under RHEL (centos) 7.5 (released last week) as this may be a complicating factor?
Nice! You and Justice rock!
> “I’m a tax-paying citizen and I deserve better than this, to just be kicked to the curb and thrown out of my residence.”

oh but you don't understand. The jobs will be so plentiful. We sacrifice you at the altar of our corporate overlords and the jobs will just rain down from the heavens and fix everything.
Don't hate the player? Lobbyism doesn't serve the public, but it is how American law-making is done. Of course companies will lobby to keep their business.
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AIUI, what GitHub offers is Subversion access to Git repositories; it doesn't host Subversion repositories per se.
Huh, well at least the billionaire owner paid for a stadium that brings in revenue locally right?

oh right. https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/texas-business-report-...
The queries in the article seem trivial to me, very basic introductory level stuff.

I got to my current level of understanding by (a) writing 1000 queries as part of my college degree; we got to define our own schema, but then were given a list of query features to use, and several months to write them for our schema. This was perhaps 20% of the score for our databases class. I know of no better way than exercises of gradually increasing complexity. Even the school of experience is less complete and may have inconsistent difficulty jumps that leave you stuck.

And (b) exhaustive examination of query plans, while having mental models of what btrees and hash maps are. To understand performance and adjust your query to encourage a different plan, you need to understand what's possible and develop an intuition about what the database will choose to do.

I write fairly large SQL programs composed from successive queries in order to process large inputs (millions of rows) efficiently. It's cheaper to load the data into the database and compose operations over it than to loop in memory and iteratively perform queries.
You're right actually. There were a lot of absolute statements being made, most of them contrary to what the actual evidence is. Ants pass the mirror test with flying colors -- 30 out of 30 scratched a colored dot off their heads when presented with a mirror, but did not if the dot was the color of their skin. The ants didn't do this when presented with a clear pane of glass with other painted ants behind it. The ants are able to pass the test a few days after birth, but not in infancy.

From what I understand, the current thinking is that the ratio of brain mass to overall body size is much more predictive of intelligence than brain mass by itself. And there are odd cases too in humans like an individual with a severe case of hydrocephaly, with 95% percent of his cranial cavity filled with fluid pushing his brain matter to the sides of his skull, and this individual exhibited very high intelligence and majored in mathematics. There is a lot not known about the brain and animal intelligence, and I would not be surprised if we continue to find out amazing things about ants. I recommend an older book called "Ants at Work" by Deborah Gordon to get an idea of the complexity of ant behavior.
such as “sharaholic” or “meme poster” and only visit those circles occasionally.

But people don’t fit neatly into those categories. You’ll miss an important life event from “meme boy” or “share girl” if you’ve filed them neatly away like that. G+ is unpopular because their solution to organising your friends is worse than the competition.
France, same.

I have moved to the US very recently. I have actually filled my 2017 French revenue form today.

It took me 10 minutes and that's because I had to find how much I had paid home cleaning services (home employment is deductible), it could have been done in 2.

Even after paying 180 dollars to HRBlock, my US taxes were way less straightforward and took me hours.

The 2 jobs are comparable and should be just as easy to declare for.
How did you still end up at google?
Right, the libertarian version would be Foxconn coming in and strong-arming people into doing what they want while the government does nothing.
You don't explain why it is supposedly better than the alternative.
Because unless you can figure out how to get the government to count tax twice that's where the money is going to come from... disposable income now going to tax.

Otherwise now the government now has less money to spend. Aka the "no fuel for trucks" you mention.
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