skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want a more gentle introduction, I recommend (in no particular order):

1. This website: https://www.philosophybasics.com/

2. The "Philosophize This" podcast (start at the beginning)

3. The "Philosophers in 90 minutes" series (I recommend going in chronological order since most philosophers build on the work of previous philosophers)

4. "The Philosophy Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained": https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/0756668611/

For a very thorough and newcomer friendly introduction:

1. The HoPWaG (History of Philosophy Without any Gaps) podcast: https://historyofphilosophy.net/

When you're ready for more deep dive, or if you like to start out sprinting:

1. Introduction to Greek Philosophy (yes it's an "intro" course but it's amazing and pretty deep. Highly recommended even if you are mostly interested in modern philosophy):
https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/introduction-to-greek-philosophy.html

2. The Modern Intellectual Tradition - Descartes to Derrida: https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/modern-intellectual-tradition-from-descartes-to-derrida.html

3. The Modern Political Tradition - Hobbes to Habermas: https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/the-modern-political-tradition-hobbes-to-habermas.html

4. A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell: https://smile.amazon.com/History-Western-Philosophy-Bertrand-Russell/dp/0671201581

5. European Thought & Culture in the {19,20}th Century: https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/european-thought-and-culture-in-the-19th-century.html and https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/european-thought-and-culture-in-the-20th-century.html

6. Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition (honestly not my favorite, but it covers a lot of ground): https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/great-minds-of-the-western-intellectual-tradition-3rd-edition.html

7. Original Sources! Especially:

A. John Locke's Second Treatise of Government

B. Descartes First Meditation (this will blow your mind)

C. Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason

D. Kant's Metaphysics of Morals

E. If you are into politics and/or economics (if you really try to understand these books, you may come away having no idea what your political leanings are):

1. Karl Marx - Communist Manifesto, and Das Kapital

2. Ludwig von Mises - Socialism, and Human Action

3. Hayek - Road to Serfdom

Those are some of my favorites. There is a giant queue I have left to read, and I've also left off some good ones.

There are quite a few additional books and Great Courses that I can also recommend if you're interested.

NOTE: Don't pay full price for a Great Courses course. They go on sale a couple times a year, so just keep an eye on them until they are 70-90% off. Also if you buy through their website they are DRM free.
not entirely true. Socializing medicine has reduced their power significantly. Even in the mid 90s my father was friends with many doctors who wished they could switch into computer science. My GP just quit medicine because she was basically a grunt for the health system, the last straw was when they started to adjust her hours like a retail employee.

The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence. Tech doesnt have nearly the regulation, the slow pace of innovation, and lack of mobility that medicine has. Professors are the worst and are not well paid at all, unless they are able to do consulting on the side.

I personally have owned my own company for around 18 years. I dont care about status, but I want to generate enough $$ to not have to worry about money.

The money I make is about the same as my friends that are at top tier jobs in the bay area. Though my income fluctuates between 300-600k and theirs tends to be more steady.

My wife doesnt work and so many of my friends with two more modest tech incomes make about the same as I do.
if you assume markets price inflation expectations efficiently, the answer is invest in just about anything with a market price or interest rate.

Even bonds. Bonds are just the price of money in the future. If the market expects inflation then bond prices will drop accordingly to match it. Just don't stuff money under your mattress or keep it all in a checking account.
Falcon is just as simple to learn as Flask but so much more pythonic. It also blazing fast.

With that said good to see Flask get to 1.0. Long time coming.
>> Let’s reject the false dichotomy between quality and kindness

> Because at the end of the day, we need to kill the 'brilliant jerk' archetype already.

We need to recognize that everyone shifts significantly towards the autistic side of the spectrum when they're online. You're looking at text, and trying to infer emotion from words, and do it quickly. That people are as good as they are reflects a fairly amazing amount of patience from the average person.

These "jerks" that we're going to brand intolerable and kick out are probably fairly decent people.

Honestly, most moderation systems would benefit hugely from a simple "please rewrite this post" feature.
Making a large amount of this kind of data operational in real time seems like a large task. I'm wondering if it's mostly used as a postmortem tool to determine the attack vector and close that hole going forward.

Also I am interested to know if this data would fall under GDPR for any employees in the EU, and if so, how that data could be scrubbed if the employee left the company. In the US it's assumed that any information about actions on corporate hardware is owned by the company, but maybe that's not true outside US borders.
Most US mortgages have a fixed rate for 20 - 30 years with no balance further due at the end.
I love how the favicon's still a gopher.
Exploit/bypass PHP escapeshellarg/escapeshellcmd functions
G ∘ f patterns by Mario Fusco
Fixed rate debt may increase the value of your house if interest rates go up and your mortgage is assumable.
> It sounds right somehow, so it sticks with us.

Because that is the case generally speaking. People become more resistant to change as they get older. They become more conservative, their openness trait decreases.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16435954

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2562318/
The world's smallest drawbridge
My guess is that although you don't know the race/gender of the person there's a chance that they'll use a different questioning style. More senior/regular users then frown upon this different style not necessarily because they're being racist/sexist just because they don't like the way the question was asked.
Or:

Our culture encourages women and minorities to speak up. White men are expected to endure abuse in silence.

Consider how much attention complaints from women and minorities receive, and how little attention (and how much hostility) complaints from white men receive (unless those men are individually powerful, of course). People tend to repeat actions that are effective, so women and minorities learn to speak up, white men learn to keep their complaints to themselves.

Edit: I'd like to thank those who downvoted this comment for providing a live demonstration of the phenomenon.
While attempting to destroy labor might be business as usual it is wretched enough that it shouldn't be written off, ever, especially when it starts as illegal practices.
i'm not sure about plumbers, but i think CS graduates do much worse in the UK, even adjusting for cost of living and currency and so on.

of course it's hard to compare statistics, but 40k pounds a year would be somewhere around normal for a dev with a couple years' experience?

whereas $70-80k would be low for a similar developer in the US, and you're making $100k+ if you go to work for a big tech company straight out of college.

i've heard people speculate, without much justification, that this is a CP Snow "two cultures" thing, where a sort of British aristocratic spirit means that engineering and other fields requiring applied scientific knowledge are lower status than other professional fields like law or finance. (if this applies to medicine as well, it would explain the lower status of doctors in the UK.)
Congratulations to David, Chris, and Dan! I've always thought Weebly was one of the best startups in our batch, and the top one I would have wanted to invest in had I been in a position to do so (and I've said so a bunch of times over the years, even very early on).

This is, I think, a smart move for Square. Stripe has been moving up the stack aggressively (and much faster than Square, who were very effective in the beginning, but kinda stopped innovating), making it easier and easier for people without a dedicated software team to build out an online sales channel. Weebly has a lot of that stack already built. You can build a website and sell things in a very short time with Weebly already. I imagine Square will be making the "sell things" part of it even more core to the experience.

And, businesses do not change payment processing often. If you lock them in when they're brand new and tiny and using something like Weebly, while also providing paths for growth, you'll probably keep them basically forever. We've rebuilt our website and ecommerce basically from the ground up four times since we launched the company a dozen years ago and have only changed payment providers once (maybe twice, I can't remember if we launched with Authorize.net and moved to PayPal soon after or if we switched before launch...partly based on ease of deployment and management). That's a lot of money made on that initial customer acquisition. To get businesses earlier than that, you need to have a really clear path from "I don't have a website at all" to "I have a website and can sell things with it."

Enjoy your private islands, or the next project, or whatever y'all decide to do next.
Models that have an explicit goal state, and a distance estimator, are naturally going to be more efficient than vanilla RL without this side information where it has to learn purely by exploration.

Edit: Im saying it looks like apples vs oranges.
> Most debt is fixed-rate

While technically true, the term of the loan matters. The government (and most companies that issue bonds) have revolving debt. I.e. they are continuously issuing new debt as existing debt expires. So while inflation theoretically makes your existing debt cheaper, it might not matter that much if you still need to rely on the debt markets in order to fund operations.
E, secure distributed persistent language for capability-based smart contracting
Maybe for their next console they could wire the case so it will destroy some crypto chips when anyone attempts to open it. Another idea might be to wire in a radio clock with a set date in the future that causes a over voltage in the SoC, that could be more accurate than to rely on the obsolescence of the glued in battery. Also I think they should learn from Sim City (2013), I know EA eventually released a patch that put the server side single player code in the client again, but Nintendo should learn from that mistake.

But with all seriousness, Nintendo really should learn from the failures in their past, I mean come-on! I can still play Zelda on my original Game Boy Pocket I can even replace the batteries without any tools, come on what were they thinking!

/edit although.. I do like that you damage the switch everytime you put it in the dock, must give them that
Non-Google, Non-AMP link: https://www.recode.net/2018/4/26/17287476/amazon-prime-new-p...
> Anything outside of that narrow band (hell, even most stuff that's perfect appropriate) gets smugly dismissed by petty assholes.

The petty assholes who spend hours of their time tediously cultivating one of the world's most useful resources? Those petty assholes?
I wonder if this is related to their recent TOS change that requires arbitration and prohibits class action lawsuits.
I have the exact opposite opinion. Flask just gets out of my way and allows me to design my app just the way I want it.
How did you get your hands on Titan V 5 months ago? I still can't find it anywhere in retail in EU...
Your personal experience may have been different, but it does not change the fact that almost no major commercial product has come out a fully-distributed company.

Individual anecdotes that support one case or another are easy to dig up, but you would be hard-pressed to find large pieces of really innovative software products developed without people in close proximity (you could claim that the Linux Kernel is a big project but that's an open source software that is not really a commercial product).

Everybody can not move to the Bay Area, and good developers do not become bad by moving away or not being there, but the simple fact remains: there are no (financially) large and successful software companies have been fully distributed from the ground up.
Apple officially discontinues AirPort router line
It's pretty funny, but this isn't really a collision. Rather, he's searching for combinations that make hashes that start with "cafe"... nothing more.
It is unbelievable the amount of garbage they throw at people who contributed so much to society. What other industry creates so much free stuff like the horrible programmers with their open source and free tutorials all over the place?

I think this is actually the problem, the programming culture is too open and permissive, all you need is a laptop and an internet connection to make your mark on the world. But people don't want that, what they want is a certificate and status. That's why you see so many women doctors and lawyers, they would rather go through a system which whisk them from one point to another and protect them with certificates than doing something themselves.
I have 400ish reputation on stackoverflow

Everytime I ask a question I automatically expect it to be downvoted to hell, get marked as duplicate, "dont post your homework", etc. Doesn't really matter how well I try to phrase the question either.
You can't please everyone and some of the mods go on powertrips

I treat SO simply as a potential place to get feedback and search for answers to issues I am facing. It sometimes comes at a cost of salty responses, downvotes and hostility but the pros outweigh the cons.
Copper: high-performance workflow engine
If the goal was to head off job losses from automation, then the work requirement should have been in place, but it should have somehow scaled up and down proportionally with the number of unfilled jobs in the country.
Highly disappointing. They took the soul out of it, the gopher is not even included as part of the logo, like a wink in history. The Gopher IS GO! Its scruffy looks, small and mighty made it approachable and fun.

This looks like they hired an external team of wan#&$%, pardon the term, but humour me for a second: the brand guide pdf:

- ven diagram, check

- big wanky words, check

- big wanky opposite words, check

- proxy terms that are samey to any brand they'd do, check

This could have been delivered on April 1st.
At first I was fairly disappointed that Swift was chosen over Julia, and I still wish there was strong Julia support because Julia is a great language, but I've slowly been changing my mind and think Swift could be a really good choice long term.

I also just really like Chris' work and trust him to make the right calls until proven otherwise.
No such thing as fixed rate: fixed rate just means "variable, but in 3 or 5 year (or whatever) increments". The interest is a bar graph with bars that are several years wide, instead of a graph with one-month-wide bars.

Fixed rates are not free; you pay extra for the fixing. The longer the fixing, the more you pay.

It only makes sense to go fixed rate if you're very sure that the interest will climb over the next term. Not only that, that it will climb sufficiently enough to offset the cost of locking into the fixed rate so you still come out ahead. Once that term is up, you're no longer locked in; so you have to re-evaluate everything at the start of the next term.

(You don't have to do this upfront, either; variable rate mortgages have the option to switch to fixed for the remainder of the term.)

Anyway, people who go for fixed rate mortgages end up paying tens of thousands of dollars extra over the life of a mortgage, unless they are somehow able to game things in periods of rising interest.

When I was signing up for a mortgage, the financial institution offered to cover the lawyer's fees for all the paperwork, running into the hundreds of dollars. That offer was quickly rescinded when it became apparent that I'm declining the fixed term mortgage and opting for variable. That's obviously because the fixed term is good for them; that's why they incentivized it. When some aspect of a deal is good for you, it's never incentivized.
That is a fair point. Since I was doing something kind of CMS focused, Django fit the bill. I suppose if you were doing something orthogonal to that, it would be better to have the flexibility of Flask.
Does this story remind anyone else of David Manning?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Manning_(fictitious_writ...

Cause he was a fake 'expert' meant to shill products too. In that case, a fake movie critic created by Sony to sell its worst movies.

As it turned out, misleading customers that way was illegal, and hence as mentioned on the wiki page:

> On August 3, 2005, Sony made an out-of-court settlement and agreed to refund $5 each to dissatisfied customers who saw Hollow Man, The Animal, The Patriot, A Knight's Tale, or Vertical Limit in American theatres, as a result of Manning's reviews.

Wonder if something similar could happen here?
I think this sentence is the key to the lack of understanding.

>The problem is, it leads directly to the conclusion that "if you don't have any money, you shouldn't be entitled to any medicine."

You are not entitled to anything from anyone even if you do have money.

I'm curious if you've been following the popular show, The Handmaid's Tale. If you haven't, it's a show in which the human race is facing potential extinction because women are becoming infertile. To solve this problem they essentially enslave and repeatedly rape fertile women in the hopes of increasing the population. Now obviously this is an exaggerated scenario, but by what moral principal would you suggest that it's wrong to to enslave and rape women to save the human race? And why would you not apply that same moral principal to a surgeon and an individual patient? Does the moral principal no longer apply simply because the scale is different? What level of coercion are you willing to apply to the surgeon? If he won't help a bankrupt person will you remove his license and create an additional bankrupt person? That doesn't seem to be beneficial to society at all.

The moral thing, of course, is for the surgeon to spend some portion of his time aiding those who cannot help themselves. And the moral thing, of course, is for all of us to help those who cannot help themselves by either providing our own time/labor or perhaps funding the surgeon so he can perform more "free" surgeries. Some people will certainly choose not to aid others, but that doesn't justify forcing them against their will.
Guessing it is related to USPS reform plan...?
Metro Manila also felt very much like that when I was there (except for the crime). I wanted to leave almost as soon as I landed. He probably got some inspiration from his country's capital.
> But this isn't true. No one knows anything about a user on Stack Overflow unless they explicitly announce it, and generally my perception seems to be a disdain towards newer members in general, not ones from any particular group.

Almost everyone on SO uses a variation of their real name. I suspect you are a smart enough person to know that that is far more than enough to engage in racial and sexual discrimination.
I think the whole moderation thing is completely opaque. Last time I discussed this, and suggested some changes involving various "queues" and "waiting areas" for review etc - it turned out most of this already exists. There is a whole secret machinery behind the facade that somehow is hidden from users. I have been a user for years and never seen that. As far as I can see there are votes, close votes, and then questions just disappear.

When I see a poorly worded question, I might comment with some suggestions for improving the question, then immediately start writing an answer. Before I'm
done with the answer, it doesn't matter whether the asker had improved his question. It's probably already closed. That is to me one of the biggest issues, The "race" nature of Stackoverflow. Did you find an easily answerable but unanswered question? Don't write a good answer, write a quick one. Then maybe improve it. If your answer is the top one, you'll get upvotes forever. If it's the best one but stuck at the bottom - no upvotes. Same with questions. If your question was poor for 5 minutes, but is later fixed? Sorry. Closed. I just I don't get why the system wants to encourage someone to write the same question again, rather than improving one?

Worse, it seems moderators fall in this trap: it seems to be a rush to find things to moderate. They have so successfully gamified the notion of moderation and cleanup that it's now also a race. A suggestion: if there is any kind of point system, statistics, badges or anything like that - hide it from the mods themselves. It just shouldn't be gamified.
I think the first time I really noticed a Weebly blog was on the bottom of Jessica Livingston's site: http://www.foundersatwork.com/
Sometimes I just get tired. When I find myself thinking "hey sleeping in this chair right now would be cool" I force myself to get up and sleep in the bed. Sometimes I fail and end up falling asleep in the chair, which is bad.

But the thing that really helps me is the feature in f.lux that is a reverse alarm clock. Starting at midnight, it pops up an alert saying "you're waking up in eight hours". It does that every 1/2 hour, counting down. So at least every 1/2 hour a get a reminder to at least think about going to bed.
As a gamer, I wonder how noticeable this latency truly is (2ms - 50ms). The browser runs at "60fps" so any input, by default has a 16ms delay (unless I'm understanding the browser incorrectly). This kind of delay does not phase me one bit. However, if it was 3 frames (ie. ~50ms), how much would that bother me?
> People do all sorts of stuff on their corp laptops. I don't know enough about Dropbox's company culture to know whether people ever use their machines for personal stuff, but I do know that occasional personal use is an SFBA startup norm.

Hmm I wonder if this is true or not, or if it’s a startup thing. As someone who has worked for BigCorp Inc. companies, I know I carefully maintain a strict separation between my work and personal devices, for privacy reasons and simply to follow company policies WRT confidentiality. Is this “crossing the streams” between work and personal stuff that common in the startup world? I’d think at the very least even a small startup would want to keep their secret IP off personal devices and limit risky horseplay on company equipment.
I believe that's because Alacritty focused on optimizing for throughput instead of latency. That is it will take less time to render a large chunk of output, such as running yes.
Many years ago, I've had a project manager reluctant to have us commit to the Hadoop ecosystem because, come on, "Pig", "Zoo"[keeper]... this can't be serious!

Sometimes people are the problem. Of course they're just names and have no incidence whatsoever on the relevance of a project. Until they do. For terrible reasons.
Sexual assault victims ask Uber to drop arbitration clauses
Does he still pursue hobbies associated with opera singing?
Make ActiveRecord do conditions on your associations
I'm not sure you're talking about the same company as everyone else. Weebly, AFAIK, always had consistent growth; there was no time in the past where you could say they were doing better than today, I don't think.