skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Naively, globalism seems to benefit the ultra wealthy but this seems to be at the cost of the middle class.

True free trade benefits the ultra wealthy and the middle class as well everyone else. Everyone has more buying power as the cost of goods and services are lower. Others make money by trading with new partners and markets.

Our free trade deals are not true free trade as they just establish new kinds of winners and losers through government control.

In fact, you don't need any kind of deal for free trade to work, just let people trade what they want to trade without restriction.

> Could somebody explain to me why trying to effect the US's stance as an economic leader using tariffs is a bad idea?

As the article mentions, this is what TPP was intended to do by strengthening non-chinese trading partners in Asian region.

IMO, tariffs to protect US economy are more like tariffs or other government rules that protect any other industry - they make the pain less in the moment, but ultimately weaken the subject of the protection as they are not forced to compete on merit. This leads to a more dramatic crash when competition finally comes.. there is analogy to this in theory of disruptive innovation in tech.
I agree - I live in a suburb outside of Philly, King of Prussia, where I get EVERYTHING I need, and more, within a 5-10 minute drive. In fact per capita there's an excess of options.
Interesting to see Intel boosting ISPC again. My impression had been that it was a skunkworks project they never really supported or accepted.

See Matt Pharr's very interesting blog posts on the development and open-sourcing of ISPC.

[1] https://pharr.org/matt/blog/2018/04/30/ispc-all.html
And it seems those bailouts to farmers are in excess of any projected tariff revenue. At the same time that China, purchasing elsewhere, pays a higher price than pre-tariffs. Everyone loses, a negative sum situation.
In some places you could make money trucking electricity in tankers or shipping it.

> From a grid storage standpoint longer energy storage just means you have fewer cycles to make up your investment.

Only true if you are selling on the spot market.

You can also get paid for grid security - your ability to potentially deliver power during extreme load or deliver power to constrained nodes.

For example, you may be paid to install and maintain a whole power station that is only expected to be used rarely (or ideally not at all if designed for emergency loads!)
I read Why We Sleep and it's eye opening to discover the crucial part of us we take for granted.

I also recently bought Oura Ring to track my sleep and it has been great to see the analysis of my sleep.

I used to wake up at 4:30AM with an alarm now I wake up around 8:00AM without an alarm.

No coffee or nap required throughout the day.
As for me, I was quite a 'hardcore' gamer in the late 90s early 2000s. So it was interesting to read where the games that I've played came from, because they owe a lot to DOOM.

The first game I remember playing was Wolfenstein 3-D. Or well, my father played it mainly and I watched, and only occasionally dared to play it myself. So perhaps for me it was more the nostalgia of Wolfenstein rather than DOOM that did it :)

I always admired Carmack, even before reading the book. I could agree with the 'sociopath' sentiment though, but that doesn't diminish his genius in my opinion :)
Maybe Sugarizer? Looks like the easiest Linux install is going to be as a Chrome web app:

https://github.com/llaske/sugarizer/blob/master/README.md
> A legitimate business that when left alone has no problem doing perfectly fine

There's a hidden assumption here: they're doing fine when doing business with China is cheap. That comes with a cost (especially when China is not willing to play fair w.r.t. IP law and gov intervention). I'm not worried about soybeans, I'm worried about the cost in terms of American jobs of keeping soybean farmers in business.
I feel this is true only at an individual level, but is not true for a collective level.

Take two choices, you can either buy a 15$ tshirt in your local country, or a 10$ tshirt from another country. At an individual level it makes sense to buy the cheaper one.

But from a country's perspective, those 15$ spent in the economy are earned by someone in the economy to be spent again. On the other hand, the 10$ sent overseas have no effect of money circulation. Saving those 5$ over a t-shirt might cost 20$ in GDP. The calculations need to be done regarding velocity of money, taxation rate, and savings. But I do think that not all money is equal. 10$ spent overseas and 5$ spent domestically is less favorable than 15$ spent domestically.

I think protectionism and tariffs cannot be cast as inherently failures, and are necessary to build an economy.
So businesses that were doing fine until heavy handed government intervention represent "fat" to be trimmed? I don't follow that line of thinking.
Until the people in corrupt countries are storing their wealth in Yuan and not dollars, the US is still in control of the biggest prize. There is a reason that the richest people in the world (especially the Chinese) spend a lot of time and effort getting some large fraction of their wealth into western jurisdictions, and in particular Anglo-Saxon jurisdictions (UK, USA, Canada, Australia). Those places have the longest history of respecting the rule of law and property rights(Switzerland excepted). How long can a political system last when a huge fraction of the wealthiest people living in it are afraid of it?
> Blender has all the features I want for amature 3d work.

What about non amateur work - what's missing? Asking as a curious amateur.
A giant dam is part of a national scandal in Ecuador
Ha, I was making a joke but that is an excellent real world example!
> Software is our modern day alchemy.

I rather think it is software combined with material science ... and 3D printer etc.
If you build an app for advertisement purpose, call it an Advertising App, not Social Network.
It could be that more jobs are created than there are lost. Your link doesn't show the opposite (and I don't have a link at all).
> This is by design.

Oh god, why?
I personally don't like the idea of FreeBSD being downstream from a project that can't even be included with the OS it is being designed for.
When is it OK to use goto?
If I owe you $1,000,000, I've got a problem.
If I owe you $1,000,000,000,000, you've got a problem.

Or however the quote goes. China is not the majority debt holder for any country that I know of, even though they might be substantial ones. I don't see this strategy working if they tried it.
For some in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, a ghost town is home
Flex seems more flexible to me than CSS Grid.
Then it's a good thing that globalization has lifted the vast majority of people out of abject poverty and most of the world is considered to be middle income now. Source: Factfullness
Then you accept the risk associated with it. For people who need anonymity,I'd say a TLS vpn which isn't publicly listed as such would be ideal imo. My opinion is that anonymity isn't absolute and if you care about your use of anonymozing services to remain unknown as much as you want the resources you access with them to remain a secrect then the protocol should blend in with normal traffic.

Consider a place like n korea,if they see someone connectig to a Tor node,that person is screwed even if he only watched cat videos with it. Or maybe even in the US,imagine a court case where your innocent usage of Tor is used to into question the legitimacy of your private activities.
I haven't really followed the details. But if there is someone stirring up trouble, then that's what the new CoC is there to address.
They can claim is the same motivation, but my mockery is based on reason, like when I mock anti-vaxers telling them their child will die because his mum trusted his facebook friends a bit too much instead of doctors, or when I mock the catholic church because a pedophile scandal on any other organization would make the organization dissappear.
Not sure if that’s intended to be taken sarcastically or not but some of those things do already happen like reading your emails/instant messages and tracking your financial transactions.
Has anyone developed commercial applications based on word embeddings?

It's clear that people are putting up better and better numbers on certain tasks that are widely shared, but for all I know these will always be a bridesmaid and never a bride when it comes to being useful for something.

Back in the 1970s it was clear that it wasn't going to be easy to make rule-based parsers that were "good enough" but it seems that now the task has been defined down so that if you can do better than chance that's a miracle. Thus people can kid themselves into thinking they are practicing what Thomas Kuhn called "normal science" since they are in the same shared reality even if it is a delusion.
Same here, I don’t even remember there being any images!
The primary advantage of ISPC over the GPU is latency. If you issue a small amount of parallizeable work to the GPU you are still likely waiting ~500 microseconds for the result.
I don't think that was really the main problem in this case. Hardcoding any address (DNS or IP) that you do not control is always a horrible idea.
Presumably the customers were SoL. That’s the problem with everything being run “in the cloud.”
5 Things I Won't Tell You About Algorithms, Part I
Perhaps they had no choice once their names were leaked.

Better to have publications about your vindication instead of just your arrest.

And BBC should have enough SEO to bury the arrest stories.
https://re-find.it ?
Eh it’s better, but don’t kid yourself, it’s still pretty terrible.

Still too aggressive, still too personal. The reprimand part of this email really shouldn’t have been made public. The tone used was not necessary to convey the ideas he was trying to communicate.

Don’t get me wrong, the lack of direct insults/namecalling is definitely an improvement, but I’d personally still hate to work with someone who chooses to communicate to their subordinates this way.
This describes roughly my experience with small mastodon instances right now. It has been called "twitter like it was in the early days". Mostly pseudonyms, feeling of anonymity and being part of a small group. No algorithmic selection of content. Liking a post doesn't even affect its visibility. People are less afraid to post unpolished content, e.g. artists I follow report they feel less pressure when posting a rough sketch or personal stuff that doesn't fit into their portfolio. The flip side: there is no way to filter all the trivialities and show only the "best" posts.
We have record unemployment and until the market fluctuations of these past few weeks, arguably the strongest economy ever and the biggest in the world. I don't know what loses you mean. That fewer people spend their career in a factory? There's disruption yes as our economy transitions to other jobs, but the net trend for everyone is upwards.
While it has a learning curve I think the UI is one of the best I ever used.

And I am not sure about your statement that everything is wrong and backwards. I think it's the result of thinking how to do things right so the user can be productive.

Also: Ton has a very strong voice in the project. I don't think it's all undirected community work.
Attempting to use grid-column-end: -1 works visually in the watering example, but won't let me move forward.

EDIT: Oh, I see. -3 worked.
Nope. They’ll resent it and do the opposite.
The writing style, yes. The gifs, not really.
I'am not sure that you can break facebook up without very far reaching consequences for US market and economy in general.

This is half a trillion company, after all. The cascade of margin calls will remind you about bear sterns in 2008.
For me, the prospect of $500B costs in just one sector (coastal property damage), which will be in effect transferred to the major stockholders in oil/coal companies, is maddening.
It's not favorable

It's just that these statements are taught to students, but they are not following the spirit of these statements either.

Do what I do, not what I say. And people are not really having the mentality of behave according to rules and laws.

I just point out that OP should not be down voted, as what op stared is universally known as a fact, it's just not only apply to government or rich and powerful.
All Linux distributions and MacOS ship with Python, and many users of Python stick to the OS-provided version without installing the latest and greatest on their own.

For example, they might only upgrade major Python versions (3.x) once they migrate from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS to 18.04 LTS or even directly four years to 20.04 LTS. Whichever Python version is available by default there becomes the next Python LTS for them.

For now, all versions since 3.4 receive occasional security and bug fixes to make all of them are "stable". New features are only adopted with a major version (3.x) bump.

I have not heard of the Python community complaining about this being too much work - after all improvement work is only done in the latest version, old versions just get backported bug fixes.
Tariffs have benefits that are easy to imagine but costs that are hard to trace.

When economists do the full analysis, the cost per job saved usually ends up being many multiples of the yearly salary:

http://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/MFG-1.png

If you really want to understand the impact of tariffs, start by learning how to calculate "deadweight loss" and consumer and producer surpluses. There are a million YouTube videos on the subject, I think Kahn has one.

It's not something most people can grok in the time it takes to read a comment. Might take thirty minutes, or learning and thinking about it over the course of a week.

But it lead to a pretty profound eureka moment for me, I think it's worth understanding.
Thanks for the response. If you are still interested in this, there's an useful link on the second page of this thread to a discussion of the same question: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/370446/is-randal.... If you expand the comments on the answer, the back and forth presents most of the argument I would make, in a clearer form than I could muster.
I don't understand why you think tariffs are likely to create a net positive in American jobs. That certainly has not been the case so far, and would have been even worse without the US government now using taxes to subsidize businesses that the tariffs are screwing over.

If curbing China's loose interpretation of intellection property rights was a goal, then withdrawing from the TPP makes zero sense, because a huge portion of the deal was limiting Chinese trade influence in the rest of Asia and providing a coalition to combat Chinese IP theft.

We passed up a strategy that had a good chance of resulting in a checkmate for one where we're sacrificing knights and bishops to take pawns. Or at this point, maybe we've enabled friendly fire for chess somehow and are now taking our own pawns. Like I said before: None of this makes sense. Actual economists are baffled.
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I really wonder how that must have felt to watch it as it was happening at the time. It was incredible seeing Spacex land their first rocket back.
> I can understand keeping one stable LTS branch and one "up to date" branch

If you did that then lots of distro packagers would just stay on the LTS until the next one comes along, and so you'd increase the number of users that are on older versions. With the selected approach, there is more work involved to backport a fix to the 4-5 supported versions, but this gives the benefit that OS distros can bump their Python versions more frequently, and so end users get updated Python3 features more often.
Just to put a plug in for Simon Winchester's book, Krakatoa: the Day the World Exploded. If anyone wants to dive deeper in this topic.
Debian Stretch was released June 2017 and Ubuntu 18.04, well, in April 2018, so its not too surprising that they ship with different Python versions.

I do find it surprising that Linux distributions don’t always choose upstream LTS versions for their releases, it just feels like a big waste of effort to backport fixes across many versions.
I built the T with Python (and revamped it)
The writing was good, but I honestly found the gifs as irritating as ads. They were just irrelevant meme content, and were just extra crap to scroll past.

Keep writing, it was an excellent post, but only include pictures if they are relevant.
Lets just simplify "x is cancer" to simply mean "x is bad". Now, you think that calling something "bad" on its face with arguments is something to be ignored or that it is always BS?

I hate to say it but you sound "IGNORANT" ; )
Maybe design-wise, but the principles such as pseudonymity haven’t changed and that’s far more important in the long run.
Yes, and no doubt homophobes, islamophobes, etc. see the reason in their mockery with the same conviction as you see in yours. Just as you mock churches for pedophile scandals, they mock pro immigration for mass sexual assaults[1]. It seems like your rationale boils down to saying, "it's okay when I do it because I'm right", while failing to see that plenty of other people with conflicting views see themselves in the right.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015%E2%80%9316_New_Year's_E...
The best way to explore solution space I've found is to make the simplest thing that works end to end then add addional cases. The reason that TDD doesn't work well is that it tends to be done bottom up which often has you building things you don't need, use, or worse use but with a poor fit.

So skip TDD if you know exactly what you're doing or have little clue. Use it if you want dopamine hits to motivate continuous progress on average complexity tasks. If it comes out wrong, commit a checkpoint locally, but attempt a refractor now rather than repeatedly paying the debt.
Google partners with the NHS to get medical data.
Device fleets are incredibly hard to get right, and if you have no updateability, you have to nail them the first time. For someone coming from a cloud background, it's a jungle out there, where all sorts of "easy" or "solved" problems are nothing of the sort.

As a sort of PSA, I want to plug the work that we have done at balena.io (formerly known as resin.io) to solve problems like these for everyone deploying Linux IoT devices, including open source / non-paying users.

We've built the open source balenaOS[1] and the (newly) open sourced openBalena[2][3] management server that anyone can use without paying us a penny. If you're about to manufacture a fleet of linux devices, and are about to put them out there, and don't want to pay for a service (so you're not using balenaCloud) but also don't want to solve problems we've spent years already finetuning, (such as ntp, dns, cellular modem support, read-only filesystem, host updates, etc etc) use the above projects and save yourself a mountain of pain in the ensuing years.

I hate being alarmist, but working with device fleets over the last 7 years, I've seen things you wouldn't believe. I've seen devices catch on fire, drown in storms, launch DDoS attacks, and everything in between. It's incredibly hard to underestimate how bad things can get when you put your devices out there with no ability to find them and update them if push comes to shove.

[1] balenaOS: https://www.balena.io/os/
[2] openBalena: https://www.balena.io/open/
[3] openBalena github: https://github.com/balena-io/open-balena
A applaud your repertoire of OS experience.

Perhaps because HAMMER (+HAMMER2) is BSD licenced, it might have better potential as a Linux kernel module.

I also recommend trying out Bcachefs. It's developed on Debian so that's your best bet to give it a shot.
But it seems to be weirder than that, according to the game (can someone explain this to me?):

start:1, end:4 = 1,2,3 (start-inclusive, end-exclusive)

start:5, end:2 = 2,3,4 (I guess this means right-exclusive, whether it's 'start' or 'end'?)

start:1, end:-2 = 1,2,3,4 (the puzzle text says -1 is the first grid-line from the right, i.e. 5, but that doesn't follow, because now it's right-inclusive)

start:-3 = 4 (so -1 is grid count+1, which explains the above?)
They said the same thing about Standard Oil, except after it was broken up there were a bunch of new companies to invest in and make money from.
No. The removed that in the low 40s versions.
It is not naive, but is wrong think because that view could affect the bottom line of the ultra-wealthy. There is one tariff that is currently missing. Services, such as software development performed overseas. Globalism is a form of labor arbitrage that benefits the ultra wealthy at the cost of the middle class.

Americans got fat, dumb and happy which is what allowed this to happen. As a result to wealthy pillaged the country and handed it to foreign adversaries. Americans have seen their standard of living go down while some people in other countries see theirs go up.

Both parties in the US have been responsible for this because they are both for sale to the highest bidder. What is amazing about the discussion today is that for many, talking negatively about globalism is akin to a disrespecting the God of a deeply religious person.
You should try gimp. Same story.
Tl;dr: dude works in school where they use Google Docs, which run better in a desktop web browser than the corresponding iOS app.
I found that the gifs added to the article’s entertainment value. I’d find them annoying if used in a more serious article, though.
It could be one of those "off the shelf" companies. Rather than incorporating one's own company one can buy an already existing company and change the name. Given how easy it is to incorporate in Hong Kong I wouldn't recommend that.

Also, those name changes are done through Companies Registry and part of public record. I wouldn't necessarily brush it up as shady.
The ads say “PROMOTED” in capital blue letters and Adblockers still work. Is it really so bad?
Python 3.7.2 is now available
Microsoft was worth approximately 1 trillion dollars in 1999 (adjusted for inflation).

There was a plan in place to split them up, which was only scuttled because Pres. Bush won the election.
You don’t have to do anything, I’ve taught several people how to use Blender and the right click to select thing wasn’t an issue.

I won’t deny that it’s complex software but so are all professional 3D applications. Try and use Solidworks or (shudder) Creo/ProE or Maya or Max and selecting a cube will be the least of your issues.

All of these tools require some degree of training that’s part of the landscape.
Or a great avenue for just skipping the bullshit when a supplier requires 5 years of some administrative nuance that a new company would never have
This.

ZoL may have more development activity behind it, but due to licencing, it will never be a first-class citizen in Linux like it is on FreeBSD/Illumos. That limitation makes the decision to turn OpenZFS (essentially, ZoL) into the upstream seem unwise.
Having just written this, I can recall a number of times I've pushed the debt rather than follow my own advice. It's due to having written tests that must also be refactored (i. e. debt) and pairing where I don't apply as high a standard to keep moving forward.
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I was also a little sad that Apple withdrew Safari from Windows. How does Apple envision bookmark sharing happen for a Windows user who buys an iPhone?
Asking Facebook to stop authoritarianism is authoritarianism. It's incredible that such an absurd headline or concept isn't outright mocked.
Most modern NLP methods are built on top of word embeddings, things like Neural Machine Translation, text classification and etc all convert input words into word embeddings then stack a neural networks on top of it.
One trick with the AMEX Gold/Platinum is that certain airline e-giftcards under certain dollar amounts trigger the airline incidental credits: https://thepointsguy.com/guide/airline-gift-cards-amex-incid...