skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Writers have been despairing about writing in America for the last couple decades, maybe longer.[0] They are right to note that serious writing has been eclipsed by other media, like television, gaming, movies and the Internet.

It's hard to make a living as a writer. Lots of people want to write, but nobody owes them a living, and they end up caught between their own inclinations and an indifferent market. Most of them end up teaching to pay the rent, like Chee. (That of course is pyramid scheme, like others in academia, where teachers teach would-be teachers even though there are not enough teaching roles to go around.)

Chee has written some pretty good things.[1] He has also written some self-indulgent things, which, in my opinion, includes the essay through the link above.

Self-indulgence is one hallmark of contemporary creative non-fiction in America. It's frequently soft autobiography and banal scenes ginned up with internal melodramas. Whether or not one enjoys that is a matter of taste that we won't settle here.

Those who are put off by the self-indulgence will be less likely to read Chee in the future, which makes his expressions of despair the trigger of a vicious circle.

But Chee is not writing for a general readership here. He says he is writing for other writers, and the general readers among us just stumbled on his letter to them. Maybe it's just what they needed.

[0] Jonathan Franzen "Perchance to Dream: In the Age of Images, a reason to write novels" (Paywall) https://archive.harpers.org/1996/04/pdf/HarpersMagazine-1996...
[1] Annie Dillard and the Writing Life https://themorningnews.org/article/annie-dillard-and-the-wri...
Gzipped source in a high level language can be much smaller than the equivalent bytecode.

That's not why these demos "Hello Framework" demos are 3-7MB though. That's due to the cost of shipping an entire widget system that takes complete responsibility for everything between raw user input to pixels on the screen, without using many of the affordances of browser APIs. This is really awesome for emulation, sandboxing, and preservation of software, but it's not a good route for saving bytes for the user.
Highly doubtful while it's still the case that American Capitalism openly encourages and rewards predatory, sociopathic behavior. The existence of these people is inevitable.
Agreed. I just worry it'd be the wrong people.
It doesn’t jolt with their EPA filings which indicate higher capacity for each model time and time again I’ve linked to one from 2013 below and it’s the same story every time.

The degradation pattern is ofc different because SSDs or HDDs are essentially binary the sector or cell is either good or bad and when you go out of spare sectors you are screwed.

Also most of them have many other modes of failure which do not involve their primary capacity.
I think the idea is to use the Pi purely as a display. Picotech's scopes tend to be well specced with regard to analogue bandwidth/sampling rates - around 5x Nyquist typically.
If they're done with Windows 10 Mobile, this may be a consolidation of what was done in W10M to Windows 10 and more convergence to a single OS. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The secret to wealth is easy.

Spend less than you earn, and invest in the market. Over time, wealth will surely (surely) accumulate.

There is no unfairness. You can read the same thing in books that are many decades old.
I have had nothing but good experiences in using Google Cloud. The only issues I've had is in other tools/libraries being specifically targeted at AWS and not working with other tools. Seems like the kind of thing that fixes itself as GC gets bigger / more used.
That’s not what the cert petition is about. The government didn’t just force Khosla to allow people to use the easement:

> To be clear, all agree that petitioner owns the property in fee simple absolute. But the Coastal Commission and the County nonetheless declared the power not only to mandate that the property be kept open to the public unless petitioner obtains a permit to close it, but to dictate essential aspects of how petitioner must invite the public onto its private property—including the hours it must allow access, the absurdly low price ($2) it may charge, and even the extent of advertising alerting the public of its ability to access petitioner’s private property for a pittance.
According to "The Great Leveler" by Walter Scheidel inequality throughout human history has always been going up and only been reset by things like war, violent revolutions or major economic throwbacks. So I'm pessimistic that we can solve the issue in a more pleasant manner.
Are you so irrational as to reject facts because you dislike who tells you about them?
Yes I pointed out that YT needs the creators.

And I was recently told by my employer that due to budget cuts, a bunch of my services were no longer needed. Of course I'm bummed, and I think they made the wrong cuts, but I didn't go around b*tching that they owed me a job.
If jobs ads were as blatant as they were in China, then they would definitely get sued.

But there are many ways to game the system in rather legally safe ways where subjective decisions are involved.
Pasta is good for you, say scientists funded by pasta industry
The easement is at the very least implied by law. Consider the case where person A owns property that has no access except by crossing person B's property. There is an easement granting person A the right to cross B's property whether B agrees or not and whether or not it's recorded in the public records, etc. This is similar, although I suspect he'll try to argue alternative access exists or some other nonsense.
I have been using it since Google Reader died in... I forgot when
Raldi said that innovation is easier when it is not in conflict with peoples' livelihood; not that innovation shouldn't happen. (Eg, when changing printing methods won't put most workers on the street)
What a fantastic idea! Given the value this could provide for interviewees I hope you're planning on charging appropriately. Where can I sign up?
There's a lot of court cases about how making something absurdly expensive is the same as not allowing something.

The rules exist because otherwise people act in bad faith
George H.W. Bush suffering from Widowhood effect?
You are right that Hinduism is very diverse is India(especially between North India and South India), but there are few thing wrong in your view.

> Firstly, the census data you linked to still relies on the British definition of "Hindu".

No. Here are the results of 2011 Indian Census(10 years after the earlier map, but almost same percentage of Hindu):

Hinduism (80.3%)

Islam (13.7%)

Christianity (2.3%)

Sikhism (1.7%)

Buddhism (0.7%)

Jainism (0.4%)

Other religions (0.7%)

Religion not stated (0.2%)

> In Kerala, Hindus even eat beef from cows which would be considered a sacrilege in Uttar Pradesh.

Everywhere there are Hindus who eat beef and Hindus who resorts to violence against people eating beef. But, yeah, you are right in that it is more common in the south to eat beef(specially in one state).

But still, what is your point? That female foeticide is done by one type of Hindu and not other? This also does not hold much water, as Kerala has lowest percentage of Hindus in the South and highest female to male ratio in India(also one of the most educated, most rich, most socialistic).
We should have a BBQ there.
Your ability for logical reasoning appears to be flawed. Being down-voted is not proof of your point. The existence of shoddy articles by your opponents is not proof of your point.

The existence of bad arguments or bad conduct doesn't prove anything one way or the other. Because for most durably contentious issues, both sides have plenty of crappy advocates.

To contextualise using the issue de jour: There are many good pro-Trump arguments and many bad pro-Trump arguments. There are LOTS of good anti-Trump arguments and LOTS of bad anti-Trump arguments. The solution isn't to point to the bad arguments as evidence for the opposite. All you can do is discount and ignore all the bad arguments and isolate your focus on the good arguments.
Sort of reminds me of Factor Tables: https://github.com/RowColz/AI/blob/master/Factor_Tables.pdf

One can "compress" the Factor Tables using statistical "stereotyping" as a kind of a lossy learning technique. You have systemic control over the size-versus-accuracy tuning of the hashing (indexing).

Similarly, we learn to recognize or respond to patterns without remembering each specific instance of the pattern we encounter, which can be seen as a lossy form of hashing also.
Most podcasts that I've encountered lately don't have RSS feeds listed. You have to view source to find the URLs. The Internet needs to revive that open technology culture.

Instead of Facebook/Twitter/G+/etc. subscribe to RSS feeds.

Instead of Medium, use WordPress/Hugo/Metalsmith/etc. on Netlify/Surge/Github etc.

Instead of Mac, use GNU/Linux.

Etc.
> Could it be the knowledge of the history that's holding blacks back? If everyone somehow forgot Jim Crow and slavery, would the next generation of blacks do as well as immigrants, do you think?

Forgetting Jim Crow and slavery is not enough -- this thread helps to illustrate that. The effects of Jim Crow and slavery would need to be eliminated.

> Also, I really think you should have some evidence at all that slavery or persecution causes intergenerational poverty after the effects have gone. I hear that theory a lot and I've never seen any science to support it. Only to support immediate poverty of the individuals who were persecuted, not their great great grandkids.

How could it not? I mean just think about the institution of slavery for a minute.. there was a time where the Mississippi Valley had more millionares than any other place in America.. how do you think that happened? Through slave ownership? Black families were literally torn apart generation after generation, they were denied the opportunity to realize the wealth their labor produced, generation after generation. A slave owner passes on his million dollar plantation to his children.. what does the slave pass to his child?

> Another counterexample is Australia - founded by convicts 200 years ago and in a much shorter time, they ended up doing very well compared to blacks since slavery.

How are the Aboriginals doing?
My father ran a small-town newspaper and tells me that the printers unions were very strong. When he finally did away with the linotype machines, the operators were guaranteed lifetime employment. When my father finally retired decades later, he still had some of the original linotype operators doing what he called make-work jobs. Many of these operators were never able to pick up the new required skills, but he had to find something for them to do because of the union contract. Not a good situation for anyone.
The next release usually requires fewer but higher skilled people. This has been happening for the last 10,000 years.
VSCode can do all sorts of thing, but the huge runtime dependency (Electron/CEF) and slow startup time is kind of unfavourable.

Well, maybe it’s my extensions that made it slow.
And people think Facebook is bad.

Remember DoubleClick, the ad company that did all sorts of scammy and slimy and hacky advertising? Yeah, Google bought them years ago. Now mix in "AI" -- which really means crap arbitrary computer decisions that you have no recourse on.

Yeah, "Do Evil, and dont care". That's their slogan now.
It is murder.
Also FLTK, both would be very small compared to Qt.
> The North is dominated by a centre-right democratic party and a far-right nationalist party, whereas the South is a cacophony of center-right to far-left parties

Literally the two most left-eing democratic governments in the history of the entire world are two different states in the north of India. One of those includes the second most populous region in the entire subcontinent.

Indian politics doesn't really map cleanly onto a Western left-right polítical spectrum, but if people insist on trying to do it, at least do it somewhat accurately.
Perhaps it's time for progressive real estate taxes.

AKA roll back prop 13 but make it progressive. 1% on the first $250,000 worth of land, 2% on the next $250,000 to $1,000,000 worth and then 3% for anything over $1M.

Not by parcel, total.
You have just provided more info than that entire Bloomberg article. Thank you.

If this is the case, then my sympathies have switched to Khosla.

If there is no dispute about the existence of the easement then this case could be closed immediately and people would have access to the beach.
I was actively involved in the Bitcoin ecosystem when the ETH pre-sale launched. I'd argue that the majority of pre-sale participants were BTC holders. That group was not small in 2014.

Also, look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumulative_distribution_functi...
> And since there is an implied assumption that a blind programmer will be less productive, you are probably right about being pushed toward accessibility work.

> The solution is of course obvious (and typical for any kind of disability): Show that your productivity is in line with others. People aren't malicious usually, just unaware.

Should be enough in theory, not in practice. There are many factors affecting productivity and that are not personal; disabled people (among others) are rather prone to poor non-personal factors. In the other words, productivity is a function of the person in question and everything else surrounding that. We typically approximate this by assuming personal factors and non-personal factors are independent---of course, not in reality.
The thing to remember about uncanny valley is that it is a valley, and once you cross through you will start rising up again to the next peak. That, is where peaceful bliss awaits, where technology works so perfectly it is no longer unsettling or scary. That is the goal, and that is where we are heading more and more. The uncanny valley will soon be behind us.
China actually has the opposite dowry problem: it's the male side that's expected to pay, and because of the skewed gender ratio, prices have risen. There are now families who don't want to have a son because they wouldn't be able to marry him off.
Thanks for the reply! I'm quite interested in this.

> FWIW, your "Hundreds of Milliwatts" are routinely used by hams to communicate world wide.

Read again, I've written "hundreds of microwatts" :)

And that's for a reasonably wideband signal! A narrowband signal with high power has a lot more potential to interfere with a specific application. I seriously doubt anything of that order specially with a rough bandpass (passive) filter around the frequency of interest can cause significant interference. Passive filters have <1 gain, so they shouldn't risk narrowband amplification of the weak signal. The background noise should be within this order of magnitude, no?

(I don't quite have the time to give numbers right now, but here's a source from quick googling: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=7833115 -- the ambient noise should be on the other of .1 uW / GHz; at a few hundred meters away this competes with our wideband microwatt-scale transmitter?) I'll see if I can do some actual calculations later
Because I had to look it up:

> A Ternary Plot ... [is a] plot on three variables which sum to a constant

It's a neat way of plotting (A + B + C) = 1

Looks great!
Any chance you know of a good list of full uncrippled rss feeds?
A bit of fun: https://youtu.be/qwYQwgtXSvc

"Take my seat aboard a plane and what is this I see?
Leonard Bernstein comes aboard and sits right next to me.
First class New York to LA some things just work out right.
I’ll be sitting next to Leonard Bernstein this whole flight.

Maybe I should just act like I do not recognize him?
Be real cool and do my best not to antagonize him.
Now we're rollin' down the runway, next stop is LA.
I'm nonchalant like I ride next to Lenny every day..."
By all means dislike away, it's all about the qualia after all.
Sorry if I wasn't clear, but I was referring to female infanticide, not foeticide.
That's not quite relevant. The question always is how much force can you pool together for the duration of whatever you need to do. For Russia and China, that run by the diktats of a central authority, there's little stopping them from pooling together whatever they can muster. For Europe, there are lots of little impediments.
Tom Siebel Is Both Delighted and Worried about AI
Could you elaborate on self-replicating talent machine (or link to posts if available)? Does that mean their talent attracts other talent from outside or their culture and process help develop (already talented) people working there into greater heights, or something else?

It sounds really interesting and might benefit others as well.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MQrzcwsGYy8 captain disalusion is a YouTube person laity who debunks viral videos, not the kind of bulk or subject matter you're looking for.he breaks down what to look for in fake videos, though.
My father ran a newspaper and he said that the state school for the deaf trained linotype operators. It was a good job for them because the high noise-level wouldn't be an issue.
There should probably be a GunTube website then.

There's nothing new here though. "Guns" are a special category of product that were already excluded from many online sites, e.g. eBay, Amazon, Craigslist, and more. That's why you have GunBrokers, Bud's Gun Shop, Armslist, etc.; there's a whole parallel ecosystem of sites related to guns that exist because the biggest sites in those fields don't allow guns. Having a separate video site would fit well into that paradigm.

For another parallel, look at porn.
> You can absolutely use it for free in any project, as long as you conform to LGPLv3.

So you're saying there are projects where I cannot use Qt? The fact is, there exists projects that do not have the option of using Qt without paying for expensive licensing. Such projects should at least consider using Electron which might have significant non-technical advantages for them.

It is cool that what many consider to be the best commercial desktop GUI is also open source, I will admit that much. Still, we shouldn't complain too much when many projects choose to use Electron, it's licensing is just so much more permissive which is a significant advantage for many projects.
As far as what I heard is that in cultures where a woman can choose watch she wants to do, most will not choose tech.

Whereas, in countries where women are expected to do what society wants them to do, they are forced into tech because that is where the money is, and is how they can best help feed their families.
No need to replace anything; the implicit assumption is a 2D space.
economics posits that individuals are rational actors, not that societies always make good collective decisions, and further economics describes many conditions under which collective decision-making can end up disastrous for all involved despite or because of each individual acting in their best interest along the way.
Yes; I'll be doing one or both of the above shortly. There are tutorials online for most of the process, but the non-Google-maintained ones are generally very out of date. The app itself draws heavily from the TFLite Java Demo App, which can be found at tensorflow.org.

For now, it's a placeholder with just a privacy policy, but the details will be at eigenloss.party in a week or so.
Great project, subscribed. How do you create those catroonified images of your interviewees?
Lots of good comments in here. I will chime in with the observation that: we've made a lot of progress. To be a programmer 30 years ago is totally different from today. The tooling is better, more approachable, more abstract and less technical.

Will we ever be without code? Doubtful. Things will evolve and improve, but the only visions sold of no longer having code is in the sales pitches of products.
Now is also a great time to change that font-size
It's astounding that as screwed up as the budget & debt picture is, it could still be fixed if everyone were willing to be even modestly rational about our situation. The fiscal house has been on fire for a decade and most of DC wants to pretend otherwise (particularly when their favored party is in power).

- Lock spending growth for ten years at a maximum 1% per year, no matter what.

- Cut $250 billion off the military. Make the human force smaller. Trim or end various very expensive, unnecessary weapons systems. Close & consolidate a lot of bases. Aim for ~2.3% of GDP for military spending.

- Reverse the recent personal tax cuts. Raise income taxes on the top 1/3, staggered toward the top 10%. Try to get $150-$200 billion here.

- Bring Social Security costs down by $50b. Add some means testing for people that really don't need it.

- Squeeze costs out of healthcare by using Medicare/Medicaid/CHIP/VA as a club, across the board targeting of all costs in the industry. The US Government spends over $1 trillion on healthcare, find at least $100b in savings.

- Go to work on the national debt by gently abusing the position the dollar has as the global reserve currency. Have the Fed start a ten year QE program buying $500b per year back in debt and retiring it.

- Federal legalization of marijuana (another tax point for states, perhaps reducing some federal revenue dependency that could be redirected back to the federal budget); it'd also reduce the vast, expensive government prison, policing & enforcement costs. We're heading this direction now, let's just move faster.

- Meaningfully increase gasoline taxes, eg $0.20 per gallon, to fund & offset infrastructure costs. Also consider a new infrastructure tax on expensive consumer vehicles, meant to amplify the contribution by higher income persons to the infrastructure funding increase (since the gas tax hits the bottom 2/3 far harder).

That combination would produce a budget surplus within maybe five years. The surplus after a decade of spending growth locked at 1%, would be immense. We'd be down to $12 trillion in public debt within a decade, with a $26-$28 trillion economy, making the public debt easily managed. The Fed's QE debt retirement could end there. And all it would take is ten years of shared, modest pain and discipline.
The state you’re from ranks highest in female infanticide?! That is terribly sad.
Perfect for me: develop the front end using Qt (on an OSS licence) and Go, which is just a dumb data rendering layer with caching, and keep all the actual business logic server-side. I'll happily open-source a "shell" :)
I imagine the ultra rich have had lots of time to think about it too. Even Sam Altman has written about disaster prepping, testing his readiness, trying to find the optimal mode of transportation for a chaotic metro area, etc. Not to imbue any connotations of evil or notoriety. Just making the point that disaster prepping is kind of well rounded in that regard, due to the inherent unpredictability of disasters.
The Symbol/Motorola/Zebra/whoever-owns-the-brand-this-month li2208 is cheap and can read a phone display. I think it can decode PDF417 (? The 2D barcode on the back of your driver's license) but Im not sure about QR