skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This kind of reductionism is why I have to wade through a pile of barely adequate tools every day at work.

Part of my brain knows that people who use physical tools for a living use old and slightly busted ones all the time, but another part fantasizes about pulling a Peter Gibbons and going to work with people who actually appreciate the value of the right tool.
Express Entry is an option but it's getting difficult every year and also an employer needs to provide a positive LIMA to offer a job to hire an employee outside Canada. Masters will buy me some time (and express entry points) to get there. That's all!
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As someone who spend half their teenage years drawing on graph paper creating custom character sets for use with graphics and large sprites, this is a pretty cool and novel way to do an animation.
I ordered a MBP 13 without touchbar and it is shipping now. I wonder if it will be subject to this issue or if new models are already “fixed”
Curtis's docos (and some parodies of them) are excellent at many levels.
> Yeah, but given the market it comes from and how prevalent it is there, that qualifier is really only used because some people don't realize saying "I watch anime" is sort of like saying "I watch a category that's a significant subset of Japanese mainstream television" when all people know is that the Japanese have some eclectic television by U.S. standards.

Such as mainstream Studio Ghibli anime "Pom Poko" which includes many songs and sight gags about testicles.[0] Or the Penis Festival.[1]

0) https://i.imgur.com/UsIfG.jpg

1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HMwASzcdIU
Don't fight it. These people have studied architecture and city planning at the best schools. They know whats best for you is to live in a two bedroom apartment next to the train station. Once there you will start to understand how irrational your life decisions have been.
are you kidding? maybe you aren't kidding.
They're not welcoming because they're fundamentally bound by the lowest common denominator of the platform. You can't provide any feature every client doesn't offer, or the feature just generates immense confusion and frustration.
A lot of demo effects are almost like magic tricks --- before you understand how they're done, they seem like impossible magic; but once you do, you think "that's so simple, why didn't I think of that?"

Animation by essentially "panning" inside a larger pre-rendered image is one of those tricks:

http://norecess.cpcscene.net/the-elders-scrollers.html
The privacy story for SSL is no better than the privacy story that Slack offers. Basically, you're proposing a level of privacy that only asymptotically approaches the most popular unencrypted web chat program in the world.
The abuse is disproportionately targeted at people who aren't white men, and is is disproportionately performed by white men.

This is nothing particularly new. It's the history of America, which was founded by and for white men, and whose story can be told as white men slowly and reluctantly giving up their power.

If "many (most) 'white men' do in fact care", history doesn't really demonstrate that. Not, at least, in terms of doing anything about it. This is not particularly shocking; people care more about problems they experience, and less about problems that happen to benefit them.

We need only look at how the majority of white men supported a blatant racist and sexist for president. And who continue to support him despite (or because) that has only become more clear.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleeing_felon_rule
A relationship? you don't think that Meltdown / Spectre didn't have something to do with it as well?

I would hope that Meltdown / Specture / the recent TLB Cache yeah Intel would be in a world of hurt over that.

2 Adults should be able to get it on without a problem
You might be able to find a bolt to replace that rivet.
A few ideas. The data model. How to map and continually re-map the server side model to the client side model. The design patterns appropriate to the problem, for instance using redux middleware to implement an interceptor, and leveraging any number of message based programming patterns from the Patterns Of Enterprise Application Architecture book. The communication mechanism from client to server. The data serialization format. Establishing testing patterns that are reliable in preventing bugs and regressions.
You can utilize lambda traffic shifting in conjunction with CodeDeploy and Code Pipelines to do safe A/B (aka Blue/Green) deployments. It has some rough edges but overall works well. Check out these docs to get started: https://github.com/awslabs/serverless-application-model/blob...

It's also possible to use API Gateway canary deployments and dedicated "preprod" stages as well - the benefit being you can, in theory, use traffic shifting lifecycle hooks to deploy a new version completely isolated from customer traffic and test it before incrementally rolling out your main A/B deployment. I created an experimental proof-of-concept for this but haven't had the time to flesh it out for production usage, but would very much like to at some point.

tl;dr The answer to your question is yes, there is a good story around CI with Lambda using the AWS ecosystem. However Lambda alone is not something that should be relied on for long-term or definitive versioning on its own.

Edit: thinking about your question more, it seems you are assuming that individual developers will directly edit Lambda function code in the console and you want to track versions or trigger deployments based on that activity. You absolutely should not ever be editing Lambda code manually directly in the console outside of one-off experiments/prototypes that are completely unrelated to dev/test/production. Always keep your Lambda function code under source control and deploy using zips uploaded to S3 and CloudFormation (the serverless framework[1] provides good tooling for this, though we don't use it - instead we use SAM and our own internal tools).

[1] https://serverless.com/
25 years of high performance chip design.

Perhaps you’re an FPGA guy? The tradeoffs are different in that world.
Thanks for sharing your story. I'm glad you were able to get the business back on it's feet. I'm sure it was a journey.

It is very interesting how long-running companies change over time. I'm reading "The Toyota Way" right now, which shows some of the interesting history if that company (the main focus isn't history).
If experiencing something that's not shared is the only qualification for solipsism, then we're all solipsists, as (arguably barring the possibility of telepathy) our experiences are all private.

But that's not what solipsism typically means. Solipsism usually refers to the position that only you (or perhaps only your own mind) exist. By that commonly accepted definition, one could be mistaken or deceived in any of the ways I laid out earlier without them entailing solipsism.
It's a shame you're being downvoted for expressing quite accurate downsides to city living. Issues like what you describe are why I will never live in SF and only begrudgingly live in any large city.
I remember running into a few viruses floating around that (among other wonderful behaviors) disabled the ctrl+alt+del shortcut to try to prevent you from getting to the task manager. Often ctrl+shift+esc still worked, though.
More details today at The Register
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/06/22/intel_tlbleed_key_d...
> ... it’s free.

And doesn't require 8 GB of RAM to run a client.
Why, you anti-density, hell-bent-on-destroying-the-earth scoundrel! :)
You're missing the point. It's not that NATO and the UN are powerful or effective as bodies independent of the US, it's that their greatest achievements have occurred without direct US military intervention.

NATO and the UN both benefit (and suffer) from the power and presence of the US military, but their proudest moments (the German economic miracle, smallpox eradication, historic decreases in child mortality and malnutrition) all stem from smart policy and liberal principles, not from the looming threat of American tanks.
10 cent beer night at the ballgame. 8 innings of increasing shenanigans and then a riot broke out in the 9th inning. The refs called a forfeit and the Cleveland SWAT team had to be called.
If conditions are bad workers have an increased ability to unionize. If they're not bad they don't. That seems like a fair incentive for businesses to keep conditions good. I think unions got a bad rap precisely because they used the government as a lever (and the trappings of that, e.g. UAW bosses in Detroit). If the government steps back the system balances itself.
*trillion dollar company.
> Under U.S. law the fleeing felon rule was limited in 1985 to non-lethal force in most cases by Tennessee v. Garner, 471 U.S. 1. The justices held that deadly force "may not be used unless necessary to prevent the escape and the officer has probable cause to believe that the suspect poses a significant threat of death or serious bodily harm to the officer or others."[2]
I agree that does sound unlibertarian too me too.
D.A.R.V.O.

Deny

Accuse

Reverse Victim and Offender

It’s a playbook that’s as old as people, and sadly it works, especially when there’s a significant power asymmetry at play.

That didn't happen.

And if it did, it wasn't that bad.

And if it was, that's not a big deal.

And if it is, that's not my fault.

And if it was, I didn't mean it.

And if I did...

You deserved it.

All of this is usually applied to narcissists, psychopaths and sociopaths, but it works equally well for immoral corporations.
There's no "rights" at play here. It's just moral and social norms.

Black people took ownership of the word. White people using it is disrespectful to that fact, as well as to the complex, terrible history and large impacts that history is still having even today.
That recent macbooks are shit. Obviously.
Judging by the constant, intense crowding at the Genius Bar in my town I would say so
Except I've heard near copies of the exact line inside major corporations.
It really boggles my mind that a few actors were able to essentially lock down a federated protocol.
Just the opposite of serious for me.

Example: there's a website for all the weather radar stations in Canada that lets you see the last two hours of 10-minute radar snapshots. I wanted a dump of them to try some ML algorithms, but even after requests and emails there simply wasn't one.

So I set up a lambda to run every hour, load the website for all 31 weather stations and save all 6 images from the last hour to S3.

It took me an hour to setup. I've never gotten around to making that ML project, but lambda has kept on chugging away for me, GBs of data saved away. The only real cost is the s3 storage, still under $2/month.

Serverless is brilliant for little things like that.
> represents a long tail of real preferences among the population

The other problem with this long tail is that (like other long tails of, say, bandwidth or storage utilization) it has a disproportionate effect on the whole. If 60% of, say, 100k people in a metropolitan area prefer to live in urban, high-density housing at 20,000 people per square mile, and 20% prefer to live in low-density suburbs at 4,000 people per square mile, you have 3 square miles of urban housing and 10 square miles of suburbs. And the small number of rural folks on the outskirts who are living the American dream of having their own 40 acres (160 houses per square mile) have an even larger effect on average land usage.
Not so clear, because you see, that is another question. This is why we need to define things very explicitly and then accept the implications of those definitions or we’ll never get anywhere.

Now that you accepted that there is a paradox in the original question (“is there life after death?”) you reformulated it in a way the paradox is no longer present and your meaning is less ambiguous:

“Is there something not physical that continues to exists even after the physical body no longer does?”

And that is a very interesting question, but first we have to acknowledge that it is a different question and because you asked it in a non paradoxical way it opens up avenues for exploration unavailable to the original question. I would personally start simply by asking “is there something not physical, ie. a soul, “in” a being?” That is in itself is own can of worms because even if there are “souls” they might “die” when the body does so it is not as clear cut as one might initially think, but at least is a start. I’m sure there are other approaches, but at least we should all agree: it is a different question.

My point is only unparadoxical questions can have a shot at being answered. Most of the “great questions” are paradoxes; “what came before the beginning?” sounds very profound but it will never lead anywhere, as centuries pondering it have already proven.
Heh, thanks!

> Very excited to see what comes from that!

I am too :)

>once SBCs can handle heavy-duty machine learning

I think that day will come sooner than you think.
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NPR had a story where an NBA player described his finances. He is basically on an allowance and money shows up in his checking account each week.

His advisor seemed like a good guy and talked about the dangers of family asking for money and hangers on. His advisor acted like the bad cop and actually did the rejections for requests and even introduced the player to other players who made good choices and could be a mentor/friend.

Outside the allowance if he wants a new car or vacation he calls the advisor and they tell him yes or no or later and help him get a good deal if yes.

He talked about having no financial clue early on and straight up didn't know the value of say $20k because he had never been exposed to dealing with money in that way.

He also talked about teammates blowing through their money like crazy and meanwhile he saves.

He did a stint in the NBA d league for rehab at one point and bought a not so great car (relative) because he thought having his usual car there would be embarrassing as it was quite a contrast relative to his d league teammates. Finally one of his teammates asked why he was driving that boring old car, so he had his car brought to the local city so his teammates could drive it ;)

Granted this guy has several houses, bought stuff for family and can spend like crazy on his allowance, but within some level of reason.

Dude was lucky he got a good advisor and was smart enough to listen.
That may be technically correct, but that is unfortunately not the common usage. Regardless of how long you intend to stay in a country, people from the non white countries are almost always called immigrants. I've almost never heard an H1B worker called an expat instead of an immigrant.
Also, what exactly is it that we mean by "free will"? Even just that question can get ugly, fast. I think I've only ever heard one definition of the concept sufficiently precise to even have a meaningful answer.

(In short, it was this: If we our model of the material universe is essentially correct, and if we assume that it is closed and that the material that we see is all there is, or at least all that can ever influence us, then suppose we define free will as the inability of any real external predictor to ever perfectly predict our actions in advance. I emphasize the word real to highlight that we are emphatically not talking about some abstract god, or something vaguely sitting outside of time, but the ability of a real device constructed out of real materials in real spacetime to predict your actions. We assumed away hypothetical infinite beings or math games at the beginning. In that case, it can be mathematically shown that you are simply too complicated to be fully correctly simulated by any system that attempts to build a model of your actions simply by external observation of you; you do not produce enough bits in your external actions to uniquely identify the state space of the inside of your head, not even if you turn the entire rest of the universe to the task (literally!). By this definition, it can be concretely answered: Yes, you have free will. Interestingly, this turns out to be true even if the universe is 100% deterministic, which definitely conflicts with most people's ideas about "free will"... but then, there's another demonstration of how rare it is for anyone to carefully define it before endlessly pontificating about it.

Also, while I consider this a valuable contribution to the field that any interested philosopher should ruminate on, I am not claiming that I 100% believe it, nor that it "solves" the problem. It is simply as I said at the beginning, the only sufficiently careful treatment of the problem that one can actually say it has an answer. Personally I find the presuppositions it is based on to be highly questionable. But it is at least worth pondering for a bit.)
No flying experience will be correctly personalized to everyone's true preferences until we see attractive stewardesses sitting in a few laps.

Until then, it's just a harmless sham.
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I expect the flippant tone won't be generally well-received, but, fortunately, there aren't many eyes on this thread. Personally, I have no horse in the race, other than intellectual curiosity, so, everyone, please don't assume any particular position on any issue on my part.

> Turning your penis inside out doesn't make you a woman

I believe one of the contentions is that such a person doing so was already a woman, at least in terms of self-perception. This begs the question of what it means to be a woman.

Evan an answer relying strictly on biology is unsatisfying, since genetics don't necessarily match external genitals and/or hormone-producing gonads (and sometimes those don't function as expected). With over 7 billion persons, outliers are remarkably common.

> This is mental illness

If you're saying gender dysphoria is actually a different mental illness or caused by one, that's not clear

If you're merely labeling it as mental illness, there's not much meaning to that. It could still be that "transitioning" is the accepted best treatment.

> often stems from abuse during childhood

How is that relevant?
Fair enough. I think you're misrepresented a couple of my points, and inverted (my) causality suggestion on social convention -> word power, but here's the crux:

> But instead consider that the word, apart from any chosen modern social agenda, does represent a huge and unsolved systemic discrimination and repression towards black people.

Do you think that, for the nebulous entity that is 'America', resolution of this discrimination and repression problem is eased by offering racist people a very powerful language construct they can use to negative effect?
in other words, millions doesn't matter because they've become less than some small percentage? it's still millions.
I hear you, I’m just one of those pair programming zealots now. Whenever we work with clients who insist on PR workflow eventually we just bury them in PRs and it basically slows velocity to a crawl until we sort out the ownership and start committing to master and get proper piplined ci in place. Or we work with folks who have historically done PRs and think they are helping code quality but everything is a mess because there’s so much resistance to refactoring as part of normal work. No one wants to accept massive changes in PRs.
I bought a Fiskars hand axe, in part, because I liked the idea of having an axe that was the same brand as the dainty little shears we have in our "craft box". (It's also a nice hand axe, too!)
Yeah, I could drill it out, and replace with a bolt, compression washer, and cap nut. But that old "fake screw" rivet is stylish. Plus the age-polished handles, with just a little black paint left.
writing ten like 1111111111 seems obvious enough, dividing by 11111 being 11 is alsof easy... but how fractions? Say 1 divided by 11111? I cant even imagine.
> If a particular means consistently yields good results, is it bad means?

I think so. Here's an example: over 3/4ths of released prisoners are re-arrested within five years. Half are re-arrested within a year of release[1]. If my end is substantially reducing the crime rate, I could reasonably claim that mandatory lifelong sentences would achieve that end: recidivism would be eliminated, and there would be a strong disincentive for anybody to commit even minor crimes. But this is clearly a terrible means, both legally and morally: the punishment doesn't fit the crime, and we end up condemning 25% of the prison population to a life in jail because of a statistic.

[1]: https://www.nij.gov/topics/corrections/recidivism/Pages/welc...
Reminds me of:

>I have been thinking of how very gently I have always been dealt with. I have never so much as had a violent shove in my entire life

-Maxwell

Also: do we need monks in other places? In the courts--removed from the carrots and sticks society can throw at them?
Yes, exactly.

The problem is not the genetic characteristics of whiteness or maleness. It's that they grew up in a society that favors whiteness and maleness, and is much more accepting of the abuse of people who aren't so favored. If Twitter had started in China, where the Han are favored over ethnic minority groups like Tibetans and the Uyghur, it would be the same dynamic but with different ethnic groups.

Of course, tech is disproportionately white and male, so it's entirely unsurprising that HN readers have risen up en masse to defend the honor of white men. It exactly proves the point. White men will say that fighting abuse is important. But when they have to show their real priorities by how they allocate time and effort, actually understanding the abuse problem and how it disproportionately effects minorities comes well after defending their own interests.

(And: Yes yes, not all white men. Generalizations are general statements that may or may not apply to an individual.)
There's a marked ... level of association, at the very least, between major parts of the conservative and Rothbardian/Randian Libertarian movements, and straight-up fascist action or ideology.

The Daily Beast had an excellent article on this in August, 2017:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/the-insidious-libertarian-to-al...

Also The New Yorker, "Are Bosses Dictators? | The New Yorker":

https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/are-bosses-dicta...

And though a blog, this also cites Jane Meyer's Dark Money and the Kochs:

https://bennorton.com/the-libertarian-fascist-alliance/

Mark Ames has covered Reason Magazine's Holocaust denial:

https://pando.com/2014/07/24/as-reasons-editor-defends-its-r...

National Review:

https://www.nationalreview.com/2017/08/libertarians-sometime...

The case of William Regnery II, owner of Regnery Press, a libertarian and conservative publisher dating to the 1950s:

https://www.buzzfeed.com/aramroston/hes-spent-almost-20-year...

I suspect this gets a bit off track for the thread, but you asked an I answer.
Apparently Indonesia produces slightly more Vanilla than Madagascar --but maybe the political situation where the beans are grown is not conducive to foreign investment.