skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't really get that from his book -- I thought he was saying you pick the top 1500 words (actually I think its 600 in his book) and learn how to pronounce / spell / and memorize them using Anki, and then start speaking with someone on iTalki etc and go from there. I have used this method to learn Italian and now I am doing it with French. I think the method works. Fluency is a loaded term in my opinion - from this article it seems to be defined as C1/C2, but in reality you can get by with a lot less, you need a handful for verbs and a large amount of nouns
Many communist governments consider themselves "revolutionaries", so that is likely referring to people "martyred for communism".
It sounds like you're arguing from a very specific mental model of an ACL workflow.

In my CMS, I had support for granular permissions. So you could do this:

if ($user->can('update')) {
if ($postData) {
$this->processUpdate($postData);
}
// display edit form
} elseif ($user->can('read')) {
// read-only
} else {
return error_403_condition();
}

JWT wouldn't have helped much.
Sounds like a good way for job security.
Yes of course, but the reason I mentioned the hardware cost is because that scales linearly with demand and software cost does not. The market for these kind of security devices is tiny right now but has the potential to be huge in the future. It would make sense for Google to sell their hardware at the lowest price they can in order to get people on board, after which network effects will ensure people stick with Google's services.
> Like you said, we have a curious moral framework at play here. For instance, a highly paid person who has a job with a net negative impact on society is often considered more moral than a beggar on the street (and it should be noted that the former is going to be consuming more resources from society as well).

More than that, we also have very peculiar standards between jobs. I like to pick on marketing/advertising, because I'm absolutely baffled by it. Somehow the profession that often dabbles in lying, scamming and generally making other people's lives worse off (by dragging them towards suboptimal choices) became a respectable occupation, even though if a typical salesman applied their skills to their friends and family, he'd eventually end up punched in the face. It's not even an issue of impact on society at large - we've legitimized, and even glorified, acting maliciously towards random strangers.
Wildly unsourced? The person you're responding has a link right there in their comment with a government source.
It's the Divo that is sold out but that's an even more limited run.
This is possibly the biggest and most tragic case of Sunk-cost fallacy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk_cost

I honestly think the american defense contractor industry poses a national security risk. In time of war,the country needs efficiency as much as capability and how much cash you burn through(even if you just print more money) can also decide who wins the war.
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AFAIK, the only volunteering they offer is in person -- in classrooms, at hackathons, on field trips, hosting interns, etc.
It seems like there is a perfectly reasonable middle ground here — where households have the flexibility to rent out part of their primary residence, on a limited basis (either temporal or just part of the house), subject to clear and evenly enforced regulations. This is a pre-internet idea (e.g., casas particulares in Cuba in the 1990s) that becomes way easier/safer/better with a web-based platform. Personally, I find it massively more fun to stay in a typical home in a region that I'm visiting, and I can often find these on AirBnB.

Of course AirBnB is going to try to grow as much as possible to try to eat hotel revenues and develop new markets. But shouldn't communities have the right to combat the externalities that such growth entails?
Saying there is an issue with the pipeline is he same as saying “white applicants are just better candidates”.

Now, you may be right. It’s a hypothesis. But the other hypothesis is “standard admissions criteria are not adequately measuring how good candidates are.”

One way or the other, you have to make a presumption.

My presumption is that non-white people, as a group, are just as good as white people. That’s why I support continuing to experiment with admissions criteria until we find ones that give us close to equal representation (i.e. affirmative action.)

It sounds like you disagree, you think the tests are measuring reality accurately, and it’s the non-white applicants who need to be better. Why?

This isn’t a scientific debate, it’s a philosophical one. It’s two ways of interpreting the same data.
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Non-white people can go back to wherever they came from if they're so uncomfortable in the first world.
I think a lot of this boils down to where the problem can be solved.

With AA, universities and companies have decided that rather than wait for education reform to streak across the US and guarantee proper funding and adequate education regardless of income, they will seek out those with the potential to do great things regardless of their test scores etc.

They have decided to solve the problem in the portion that affects them: aka not solving the root but simply getting different types of applicants in that they think are valuable.

I think the grand solution is to go back and reform education, which I think most agree on. But for now, companies and universities are doing really the only thing they can, which is give students and applicants opportunities that they have not been given earlier in their lives.

Also in the end I believe that most people can do most jobs once you get training. Most jobs are specialized enough to train someone directly and college is meant to learn anyway so if Harvard wants to admit people of various socio economic backgrounds in favor of not admitting solely the top, I think that'd be better for them in the long run. Especially since the metrics for success are measured as if everyone is in the white top-middle class.
The parent comment seems to be emphasizing the point that bureaucrats who have never met/interviewed the students shouldn't be the ones deciding which students have the potential to develop positive people skills. Their alleged leaning on stereotypes to make those decisions is unsurprising given such constraints.
Really these sort of metrics are missing the point in my opinion along with "employee engagement" and "focus" tracking. What they should care about is the deliverables and not some puritan pennywise pound foolish get as much toil out per dollar.

IT is one classic example with the lazy sysadmin is a good sysadmin. If everything is secure and operational and all desired expansions are either met or properly analysed as not worth it then their slacking off doesn't matter.
I've been using it for about a year now. Works very well. Only gotcha is that it doesn't really have support for Windows (it's on the issue tracker, but progress has been slow). If you do your work on OS X or Linux you're fine, but if you're a Windows user you're in for a bumpy ride.
What? Did you even read the parent comment? It’s a legal contract.
...that does sound like a long-term decrease in the labor supply?
As a libertarian, Reason annoys the bejesus out of me. As a human, journalists annoy the bejesus out of me.

The real test here is, are drugs more efficacious then prior to the legislation. If not, we need to review it. I'd argue repeal, others would argue replace. I'd look forward to vigorous debate, but first we have to do some actual work to figure out if this legislation is effective. If it is leave it alone. There's probably lots of other stuff we can look at to review, much of which is nothing but drag on the system.

Journalists, of course, have no interest in the truth or doing work that doesn't involve twitter.
This doesn't make any sense. The F-35 program has no similarities to quantitative easing. First of all, I'm not sure how you even got the idea that Lockheed is too big to fail or that the F-35 program is supposed to be an economic stimulus. Second of all, quantitative easing doesn't cost the taxpayers any money, let alone hundreds of billions of dollars.

Most importantly, the quantitative easing arguably prevented the next Great Depression, so how's that for benefiting main street businesses and households? The economy is built on debt, which is a good thing because that means cash ends up with people who are spending it instead of sitting idly. If banks deem it too risky to lend out money, the world's economy would grind to a halt.
Does aneutronic p-b11 fission count as clean in California?
A popular but not entirely accurate Fox News talking point.
Airbnb is a zero sum game - what tourists win, locals lose.

Two of my coworkers are currently being forced to look for a new place to live in a tight housing market because their current landlord can make more money renting on Airbnb.

I've stayed in Airbnbs in the past (and appreciated the convenience), but I no longer will.
I am sure you've read before if all modern tools and factories were to disappear we would need to rebuild almost from scratch because you need more precise tools to build even more precise ones. In that vein:

> There was an extra electric screwdriver build to adjust the cylinder
pistons. It is made completely out of LEGO Technic pieces.
It was needed because an actual screwdriver has too much torque.
The LEGO one uses Power Functions motor, simple gearbox and
custom-designed switch.
California is at a bit of a tipping point. It has so much renewable energy, it has to pay other states to export their excessive energy because they don't have enough storage [1]. So you have to decide if you're going to subsidize utility scale energy storage to help drive it below the cost of fossil and peaker generators (which, it appears, California is prepared to do). It also helps that renewables are quickly approaching 1-2 cents/kwh at utility scale, as more of your cost can be storage (as your generation is almost free). China is ending subsidies of their solar manufacturing industry [2], which is going to push down the cost of panels, increasing the rate of uptake. You will see California meet their 100% renewable mandate much sooner than they're targeting.

A side effect is this is going to cause extensive losses to investor owned fossil generators. C'est la vie.

[1] https://www.zmescience.com/science/california-renewable-ener...

[2] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-solar/chinas-solar-su...
If your employer tracks you by the hour, then of course email while commuting is work. Also thinking about a design while taking a shower in the evening is work. Also waking up in the middle of the night and not being able to fall asleep because work issues are bothering you is work.

Why employers (in the knowledge business at least) track people by the hour is beyond my understanding.
https://nypost.com/2015/04/12/mindy-kalings-brother-explains...
This is such a well known fact that calling it unsourced is like calling a claim that the sun rises in the east unsourced.

https://datacenter.kidscount.org/data/tables/107-children-in...
Learning human languages is harder, because of grammar. Think about it this way, the US government says you can learn speak Spanish/Italian/French in 600 hours of practice. I'd argue you could be effective in Golang in < 40 hours of practice. Harder languages like Haskell would be a lot more hours but much less than 600.
Several of these flaws, like the lack of any means for a pilot to confirm a weapon’s target data before firing, and damage to the plane caused by the tailhook on the Air Force’s variant, have potentially serious implications for safety and combat effectiveness.

Tail hook? That 2nd one is pretty basic for a Navy carrier aircraft! Just how bad is it?

Reading again and further, it's the Air Force plane, not the Navy plane:

Testers have also identified an issue with the arresting hook on the Air Force’s F-35A conventional takeoff variant. The F-35A, like other Air Force aircraft, is equipped with a single-use tailhook for emergency-landing situations when the pilot suspects a braking failure. Testing on the F-35A’s tailhook began in 2016. Testing engineers found that the arresting hook is causing damage to the aircraft due to “up-swing.”

It's a "just in case" piece of emergency equipment for emergencies. Not nearly as serious. I wonder if this article is a bit of a hit piece?
OMG, where do people get this info? It's BS.

As an attacker, if I have successfully injected my JavaScript code into your webpage, I can make HTTP requests on your server to do whatever I want with that user's account (their cookie containing their Session ID will automatically be attached to those malicious requests; so they will look like real requests from that user).

And yes, this attack also works with httpOnly cookies; I don't need to be able to read the cookie in order to use it.

The httpOnly flag is practically useless; I don't think any hacker worth their salt would want to steal session IDs for later use (session IDs and JWTs have a way of expiring quite quickly); usually with an XSS attack, you want to do the attack in-place from inside the victim's own browser.
They should expose the switch to turn off Javascript... this should be table stakes for any browser. Yes I realize it can be accessed by a series of steps that include leaving the page you’re on, but there is too much friction in that interaction flow.
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About as confident as I can be without having insight into their perspective. I'm mostly referring to right turn on red scenarios where I'm not comfortable with the risk. Although, the occasional honking immediately after a light turns green also occasionally happens.
I would assume it would be better to use 30%-40% effecient panels that will come out in 10 years than forcing everyone on the current 23% tech.
..How can anyone protect you against html5 canvas hashes? Seems like an impossible task.
According to the link, 65.3% of black kids live in single parent families vs 34.8% of all kids living in single parent families. This is for America only, which is the context of this story and this thread.
For me, it's not a convenience problem, it's a trust problem. After all the bad press I've read, I can never trust my family's data to Android. The premium I pay for Apple products lets me sleep at night.
It's just an object that lives on the stack, not the heap. In lots of languages when you create an object, it's pretty explicit where you're putting it. When Java was created, they wanted to get rid of that complexity, so primitives always go on the stack and objects always* go on the heap.

* I think Java has escape analysis, which means that if it can determine that an object you created doesn't leave its context, it will go on the stack and won't add work for the garbage collector.
Pffft, what are the odds that scrolling up will leave the text you were trying to read at the top of the screen?
sounds like your setup simply blackholes instead of returning blank resources, this might lead to retries and waiting for timeouts
Going to an income basis would make me go from 100% opposed to AA to 100% supportive.
They left out the demoscene :(

I mean, it's not generative art (with a few exceptions) but it definitely is computer art. In the early 2000s I went to demoparties that had over 2000 attendees. These were combined showcase/gallery events with competitions and live art. Imagine a LAN-party where no one's gaming, but instead coding, drawing or producing music (and socialising--because "real party is outside"). And when I go to check, the scene is still active today. That's gotta count for something, right? :)
This was my thought. Fully clean power by any deadline is great, but I would’ve expected something more aggressive from CA. This seems rather tame.
Okay, you're our expert on this thread.

But note that the question is not if 3 kids are harder. They're obviously harder than 2.

The question is (for the sake of the analogy), if going from 2 to 3 is harder than going from 1 to 2 or 0 to 1.

We are talking strictly about incremental difficulty here.
oh I must have, I read this sentence "The state currently gets about 44 percent of its power from renewables and hydropower." as continuing with the current thought that hydro wasn't 100% clean.

Pump it up then.
The ACLU has historically taken the philosophy of defending fundemental rights by defending them for unpopular people (eg. they would defend the right of Nazi's to march in a Jewish neighboorhood).

I don't know if I am looking at their past through rose colored glasses, but their new direction is disturbing. It seems like they are increasingly okay with sacrifing our fundemental rights in favor of short term expediancy.

Having said that, this is still just the start of a change in course. They still do a lot of good work, and they might find their way again.

The bigger problem is that liberalism is dying in the US. The ACLU is the last major liberal public group/movement and they seem to be turning away from it.
Baloney.
https://www.google.com/search?q=economics+of+clean+energy+ca...
It is my duty to inform you that the musicians in Band Of Horses are not actually horses.
Here is where the rubber of “corporate responsibility” meets the road. So far AB&B has looked askance to the issues they bring to the table and have only taken token steps to mitigate what they have wrought on communities. They talk the talk all day long about inclusivity, implicit bias and any other terms du jour to shirk from confronting the gigantic mastodon in the room —the one sided effects their services have on lower and middle income shoppers of housing. Yet, where it matters, they fail to walk the walk.

Their inaction and continued ignorance of these issues does magnitudes more harm than their progressive efforts in their corp HQ which benefits very few people in comparison.
I know plenty of people who would rather live as we did back in the 1950s than as we live today. I happen to disagree, but there is a growing pervasive sense that society (at least the US) peaked decades ago, and our best days are solidly behind us.
In general, school districts in poorer neighborhoods need to spend more money on things like subsidizing lunches and before/after-school child care. Bad school districts also can have a spiral effect where parents with means take their children out of public schools and put them in other schools, leaving the public school with a higher baseline of children with learning disabilities or other adverse conditions for learning.
Your "ergo" is only seeing in black and white (pun not intended).

We do not need affirmative action in its current form, as it actually is not fair or an actual equalizing platform.

We do need a form of it that looks at ability and opportunity the child and the family have, and makes sure everybody at least has the same baseline of opportunities and skills they can work from.

Growing up as a 2nd generation child from immigrant parents, you hear about all of the opportunities your father sees you have that he did not. I think many times there are cases of people being blind to what's always around them ... ability to start a business, work for a better life, provide an even better future for your child than you had.

Malnutrition is a staggering problem for children that many people do not understand the severity of. It is much cheaper and convenient for a poor family to buy unhealthy food than healthy food. If a developing child does not have a good foundation to grow from, then that impacts their entire life.

I think better education is the key to a better society. But that requires actual education and understanding. In my college in the USA, I saw forms of affirmative action where certain students who belonged to groups (usually divided by race) were allowed to continue with lower grades. This is a terrible idea, as it only promotes under education of these students, and actually hinders their understanding of the topics, and limits their real world opportunities in the future.

Building a carriage is not the solution to flying to the moon. And right now we have a very poor carriage.
To put it bluntly, I don't like competing with the entire rest of the world for housing in my city, and I'm pretty sure most other people don't either.
Your race
Is a thing of the past. In Spain is currently illegal to register a baby with more than two first names, except if she/he belongs to the royal family.

The last name's list on the other hand can be technically infinite but only the first two (from both: father and mother) are used normally.

You can have also as many pseudonyms as you want of course, but they aren't official names.
I took VC for my last company. I'm choosing not to do it this time around. What I'm working on has at least a planned ten year horizon at the outset, hopefully it extends beyond that (the cost is so low to do it, I can stay in it perpetually without concern, and have decided the end goal is worth it). It requires long-term planning and thinking, there will be no exit pursued. Venture capital is a mediocre option in that environment, they almost always need an exit (there are some prominent angels that will stay in long-term, be sure to filter for that upfront). Most venture capitalists will burn your corporate house down or drive you into a wall at 120mph in the pursuit of their homerun, whereas I'm willing to eat my time in the pursuit of getting where I want to go with it. If it takes years to get it right, that's ok. The other reason: I won't allow liquidity preferences, VC gets to ride in the same boat as every other share owner (or not at all). The last VC I took on met those terms, it's very difficult to find however.

If there's one thing all start-ups should conspire to abolish, it's liquidity preferences. Somewhere along the line, they all decided that putting their capital at risk in exchange for a potentially large return, wasn't a good enough arrangement. At that point they stopped being real investors and became financial engineers looking to play the angles to remove risk from their position and shift their risk to everyone else. You don't need venture capital that bad, such that shooting yourself in the face is the only way to go. Just say no.
Damn right I’ll fight tooth and nail any policy which aims to make my child’s school worse to make a different child’s school better. Selfish? Hell yes.
Because he/she doesn't know what he's talking about. Jets will always cruise at their maximum allowed altitude except for some really short flights. In cruise the only thing you're fighting is aerodynamic drag (no ground friction) and climbing is the best way to reduce that.

If anything electric planes using their higher thrust will even climb quicker.
Ya, I eventually figured out they were referring to people like Mao. But is Mao a typical rumor topic?? Honest question
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With generational GC, does this even matter? Generation 0 is pretty much a stack as far as performance and operation go.
>> how many people do you know bought their house because of the school district

Everyone I know, this is in the South Bay part of the SFBA
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