skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dunno man. I used MATLAB for most of my thesis, and once I discovered NumPy, I switched all my code to it in a heartbeat. Yes, MATLAB is better for matrix manipulation. For everything else, Python is better. My productivity went up quite a bit.
Hopefully Google doesn't abandon human civilization, and choose intelligent machines over biological ones!
She's going to rent rooms out, and in a prime location in California she will have no trouble setting rent high enough to cover the mortgage and then some.

This is a pretty unusual situation, hardly indicative of any trend.
I hate to be under the thrall of Elsevier software. But the shitty tactics would force me to switch to Zotero anyways.
I just wish Zotero packed in a consistent cross-platform pdf annotation tool and a mobile app. I wouldn't mind paying for these.
I agree. I’m certainly holding out lots of hope. It would be interesting to survey people who recently moved to or within LA, and figure out what % moved to anticipated subway accessible locations — that should at least be a leading indicator of willingness to use transit.
Good thing is that we also have pruth. It is similar to truth. It consists of the most accurate description of reality that can be known.

> Is it right to suppress all antivax news as fake?

pruth requires any intrinsic context, so it would be fake if you look at the rate of occurrences.

I agree with you statement about journalism but don't see any reactionaries as guilty. To me, it is a story about money. Can't say if that is the pruth though. And no, more censorship wouldn't be good since the pruth will come out eventually and any trust would be further eradicated.
A better way to start combatting inequality through the education system would be to outlaw private schools, end the funding of public schools through property (or any other local) tax, allow any kid to go to any public school anywhere, make public college free and make legacy admissions illegal.

In order to fight inequality we must be willing to place ourselves in the same bucket as poor people. However policies like the ones I mentioned are hated exactly because they do that and so we look to other, more technocratic methods which only serve to triangulate us closer to 'separate but equal.' It's a sham and we should pull the band-aid off.
> The problem with 2008/2009 was that subprime loans were being marked as AAA, because that was the fraudulent part of it

Not quite. Suppose I take a million subprime mortgages and say “I’ll pay you the first dollar any of these mortgages pay”. The probability that all of those mortgages default is slim. So this particular top-of-the-stack claim is, indeed, a quality one.

This is what people mean when they say “top tranche” of a CDO. The CDO is the pile. The tranche is the priority. The top tranches were rated AAA. Looking back, they pretty much all paid as expected.

The problem is a AAA rating means the security will pay out. Not that it will be able to be sold like a Treasury. So due to a confluence of things, many institutions needed liquidity, and when they tried to sell these instruments found there weren’t enough buyers. The desperate fire sold, thereby requiring others to mark down their holdings, and behold: crisis.

There was also fraud in origination. And fraud elsewhere largely unrelated to the proximate causes of the crisis. But the proximate element was a classic one: a liquidity crisis. (The root element was over-leveraging.)
>, but makes no suggestion of how we can curb inequality

Fred's version of "curb inequality" is different than yours.

He's saying there's moral vs immoral inequality:

- immoral inequality: billionaires exist while poor people don't have basic needs met

- moral inequality: billionaires are ok if the poorest people have adequate healthcare, education, and some UBI

His blog post is about moving the narrative towards the 2nd scenario of inequality. One can also disagree with Fred's 2nd scenario. I'm just pointing out the nuance in his essay.
uhh, in 2015 a i7 had 4cores, boost of around 3.4

in 2018 a mobile i9 had 6cores/12threads, bost of around 4.8 (so lets be reasonable, thermals might let us keep 3.6).

For a super optimized parallel load you could totally see more than 2x speed up.

But yeah... why do that on your laptop?
I took that as GP's point.
Sell 10% of stocks in a day and the price will dive 100x too.
Bigger, better monitors are important accessories for the productive developer. Integrated graphics can't power those monitors. Most laptops sport only integrated graphics. Therefore most laptops are insufficient for the productive developer nowadays. There are a few scenarios where the developer's hardware should certainly be better than the user's, and screen space is one of them. Old hardware is not an excuse to stick to 1080p. Every developer should have moved to the much more spacious 1440p or 4K by now.
you just described the system of the scandinavian countries
Thanks for posting this. For myself, as an aging coder who has zero plans of moving into management, I find his story inspiring.
Or if you have some spare basement space, pick up an old Dell PowerEdge or some HP equivalent from eBay and slap ESXi on it. Works well for me, and I use my PowerEdge T410 for some other home services. 12 cores, 24 threads and 64GB DDR3 ECC RAM goes a pretty long way.
It's all so disappointing because there are straightforward, objective rules that could dismiss a lot of these sites. Inform readers if the site was registered in the last 3 months, or claims to be Colorado-based but has a Bulgarian IP address, or plagiarized a bunch of articles from a different source.

It may not shut down all forms of manipulated information, but it can stymie the flow of procedurally-generated blogs that are triggering so much confusion.
Ah yes, its about parsing a midi SMF file. Wasn't aware there is such a large difference between that and midi-the-wire-protocol.
The Hot Take is that this is computers breeding humans.
I love the perspective of the author. Beautifully tuned pragmatism and humility.
Concentration of wealth is the price we pay as a society for having a system where we pay people to give us what we want. It's extraordinarily difficult to have an Amazon without a Bezos, or a Microsoft without a Gates, or a Walmart without a Walton.

This isn't to say that we should ignore concentration of wealth, or that we shouldn't ensure that wealth generation produces positive externalities. Rather, we should remain aware of the tradeoffs we're necessarily making when we tamp down on inequality.
While I do believe our knowledge of particle physics is still incomplete, the money spent plumbing its depths seems disproportionately high. When was fusion energy meant to be produced again?
Pretty sure managing annoying garbage like OKCupid is not a part of "self development."

The fact that services like "Pay someone to get you a date on the internet" have a market and seem to be necessary says something pretty awful about our culture. Technology is supposed to make things easier, not be something that needs to be managed by experts.
Also not strictly true - this is enough for some version of PHP development.

The last PHP app I was developing was running in the same mode as the whole company's infrastructure was developed and running - one puppetized Vagrant VM for the code and one for mysql, and sometimes a few more for other services.

Sure, even if you just want to abstract the stuff away from your host machine you could reconfigure stuff to run on one VM - but that's again diverging from production. And in the grand scheme of things we were working on several different vm types a lot more than only on this PHP app...
We call them yoda conditions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoda_conditions
AWS releases tool to create Lambda layers from Docker images
It's quite hard to find finance software that isn't subscription based now.
What a nonsensical conclusion. Here's the crux:

> Demographically, the average Measure M supporter resembled someone with a very high likelihood of driving: They owned cars, enjoyed free parking at home and work, and had higher incomes.

Most people in LA drive. They own at least one car, and parking is not scarce. Are we supposed to be shocked and dismayed that people who want to fund competent mass transit don't use a system that fails to meet their needs?

> So party identity strongly swayed voters.

It might be fun to call transit supporters a bunch of party-first limousine liberals, but the dull conclusion is that Republicans reflexively vote against taxation measures.

The article does get at that, but the headline is clickbait and consideration of "likelihood to use transit" in a place with mass transit as messed up as LA is a red herring.
I recently upgraded from a 2013 MBP to a 2018 MBP. The time to do a simple development recompile of our big monolithic web application dropped from ~1 minute to ~10 seconds. This is a process that is done about 20 times every day.

Over the course of the year, this will save ~72 hours in development time. Of course, it's not a strict comparison because I would always do other things while waiting for it to compile, but it's still a massive boon to productivity.

I understand that we want to live in this perfect world where all software is designed to run on 2008 era laptops. That's not the world we live in. It's Fantasy. I implore everyone to keep fighting for it, but Reality is what matters to businesses, and the reality of most businesses is that software is insanely complex, poorly designed, and it still generates revenue; more often than not enough revenue to afford the best machines to support running it.
It makes me think of how successful someone can be at getting a job interview if they use someone else's resume. Will they be ready for that next step, whether an interview or a date? I assume they won't, but I'm not sold on specific cases where someone is only bad at digital flirtation. To your point, they'll have to figure it out to keep the success (of more dates) moving forward.
Why are we relying on tech overlords like Microsoft for affordable housing?
Given that microsoft has itself a long history of propaganda, I'm extra suspicious.
> Is it a better language, from a pure CS perspective, than Python/Scheme/pickyourfavorite? No, not really.

Could you be thinking more of a "pure developer perspective" than "pure CS perspective" perhaps? Because if anything I find Julia's type system a lot more interesting from a computer science point of view than Python or Scheme.

If I want to get things done, I'd stick to Python for now though due to sheer momentum.
Carving out the government.

The US government today spends 23k per person/year. https://www.usgovernmentspending.com/per_capita
But a nursing student is not a nurse; you don't start making the nurse salary [1] until graduating and then probably some time on the job. And, on top of that, being a student, you probably work reduced hours at your normal job and are accumulating more debt on top of the mortgage.

[1] Memorable reddit comment about the difference between "nursing student" and "nurse"; it's about the UK, but the same points apply. https://www.reddit.com/r/AdviceAnimals/comments/2kbxs2/stude...
I know someone who had an issue with 1099 but it was with the lender. They didn’t want to shop around.

Here’s a useful article where people were able to get loans on 1099, including VA loans. It seems 24 months is required.[1]

[1]https://www.trulia.com/voices/Home_Buying/I_am_a_contractor_...
Read to the end.

She used the money to fully buy out her grandfather’s house in San Clemente, Calif. She jointly inherited it with other relatives and said she needed a loan to pay them for their shares of the property.

This is a highly unusual situation. She got a great deal on prime beach front Orange County property and could easily charge high rents to cover the mortgage and then some. The property will continue to grow in value. If she were really in a situation where she might default, her family would help her. This is not representative of any trend.

Hardly predatory. Hardly a "high risk" situation for either the bank or the borrower.
> how well it works versus Ublock Origin on Chrome? I'm skeptical that a static list would match up to the ability to dynamically make decisions.

The Safari content blocker is better than nothing, but it's extremely simplistic compared to uBlock Origin. It can't even block YouTube ads properly.
Yeah, that's the stuff right there!

Well to distinguish covectors you need to define something like a manifold or just any canonical mapping between the tangent and cotangent space and then when you define your first few tensors you define them in the scope of that mapping.

There is some generalization to gauge fields where a bijective canonical mapping may not be possible in general, but I never studied that extensively.
I have some friends who started working on interesting projects in the crypto space after Bitcoin 'died'. It seems to me there is still some potential for innovation in this area, as evidenced by the market sizing. Just need to cut some of the ICO/marketing cruft away and be realistic about its usecases.
So many people think that capitalism and socialism are the only economic systems -- two ends of a spectrum, and society needs to decide where on that spectrum it falls.

The English writer G.K. Chesterton, who popularized the idea of distributist economics, calls distributism a "third way" that doesn't fall on the spectrum, but sits outside the line entirely.

Chesterton pointed out that both capitalism and socialism entail consolidation of ownership of productive property. Under capitalism, you end up with Big Business, and under socialism you end up with Big Government.

Chesterton advocated for distributism, where the ideal is that the ownership of productive property should be as widely distributed as possible. Note that distributism does not advocate for a redistribution of wealth, but rather economic policies that make widespread ownership possible, such as those that help address some of the disadvantages that small businesses and worker- and consumer-owned cooperatives face when it comes to competing against megacorps.
> By that logic a laptop is never big enough, as you can always cram more and more into it, until you end up with a desktop workstation.

That's right on the nose. The tradeoff is portability. You sacrifice performance to make it easier to carry around. Sometimes people are ok with something that's harder to transport to have more power.
Energy efficiency gains mean that usually a new computer can pay for itself after a certain number of years or months, in terms of electricity savings.

And fast hardware is key for performance in certain careers, such as software engineering.

Even for a working class casual user, it would make a lot of sense to upgrade an old power hogging computer to a new netbook. It would be better in every way, and still likely save money in the long run. Not to mention time.
All my ex coworkers at Sencha have been "promoted" then immediately laid off after the acquisition (2-3 months). Their business model is to milk long term support contracts, I wouldn't expect Travis to be relevant anymore (if it was before).
Am I the only one that likes the "Hey, you have an AdBlock" popups?

They come up and I spend a few seconds deciding if it's important to me to read what is behind it, and 95% of the time that answer is "no". Saves me a TON of time. :-)
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Here's the problem, though: what do you do about individuals with a low IQ? Not even crazy low, but low enough that STEM fields are out of their grasp? There's little evidence that IQ can be substantially increased through education... and I think those of us who pursued that path tend to incorrectly assume it's open to anyone if they just had a better school.
I see where you're coming from. The description already gave me nightmares.
Exploitation of the worker is the main driver of I equality. People don’t become billionaires without exploiting workers. Perhaps this person should look at higher taxes on the rich as redistributing resources in a more fair way. Fighting the wrong on exploitation. Also, I hope his kids laughed in his face. What a chud.
What's ridiculous is condemning something based on your own ignorance. The keyboard shortcut is Cmd-Backtick ("Cycle Through Windows") and it works in all macOS applications.

There's simply a more sharply defined distinction between applications and windows. Cmd-Tab is for application switching.
Its also one hack away from a city filled with cruise missiles..
It seems very strange to say that "particle physics may be done", given that are several enormous mysteries and problems in physics that clearly indicate our knowledge is incomplete.

A few examples: QFT and GR are not integrated, dark matter, dark energy, the vacuum catastrophe, and so on...

One could make the argument that a larger collider is not the best way to attack these (I have no idea), but that is a different statement.
> It's extraordinarily difficult to have an Amazon without a Bezos, or a Microsoft without a Gates, or a Walmart without a Walton.

This presupposes that any of these are desirable.
That headline from The Hill seems a bit disingenuous. The full quote was:

> “I do think that a system that allows billionaires to exist when there are parts of Alabama where people are still getting ringworm because they don’t have access to public health is wrong”

And also:

> “It’s not to say someone like Bill Gates or Warren Buffet are immoral people,” she said. “I don’t believe that.”

Both of which seem basically in agreement with Fred's response to the quote.
> However saying: "they have it in their country, why don't I have it yet?" is a bit like saying "they've made a final cut of the film, why can't I watch it yet?". They have this incredibly expensive asset that they're trying to maximize revenue on.

IMO it's very clear they are overdoing it. And their profits suffer from it. Nobody in that area likes losing business to torrents. But they keep pushing their luck and the result is very predictable.

> Lots of strategic, logistical, and legal stuff.

This goes exactly as well as "I want 2 months to refactor stuff so the code is beautiful". Not saying it's the same thing -- but it gets perceived the same. Basically: "lawyer crap".

These businesses are losing touch with reality. Distribution and geofencing are artificially created problems. This gives them much less credibility compared to the very simple and logical desire for convenience that the wide public exercises by going for torrents.
This is really the worst externality of "flying cars," or whatever you want to call short-range commuter aircraft. In absence of some exotic propulsion technology (what usually powers flying cars in science fiction), the amount of air that must be displaced to loft a vehicle carrying one to four people will always be orders of magnitude louder than a land vehicle.
A lot of people wants to cut a lot of spending!!

It is politically impossible because the spending has very strong political power behind it. That's why it exists in the first place.
I'd say it depends on what you're programming, but for most programmers they indeed don't need that much.

If you force your devs to use inefficient tools it might be necessary though. Like our customized Eclipse that needs 8GB RAM. It starts page swapping if you have only 8GB.

Other than that I'd say you need good keyboards and good screens. The processing power usually doesn't make you better.
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There’s also the problem of people sharing meme content ontaining obviously misleading information, like in big anti-vax groups. I don’t think you can run a NewsGuard for badly compressed JPEGs.

More to the point, I think the issue goes beyond media and into culture. People want to be outraged and the media is happy to oblige. Something in that equation needs to change.
My former boss (front end web) had a similar rationale for forcing the team to use old MacBook airs.

I think it’s reasonable if you have cloud everything. We did not. We had to deploy directly from our machines, which basically made the laptop unusable for 12 minutes on every deploy. Also, sketch + slack + chrome + dev env basically meant swap was the normal state of affairs (random 10 second hangs all day every day). But at least I could talk to other people and decrease their productivity while I was waiting to be able to work.

On the plus side I was very motivated to optimize our build system.
I was playing around at work with some galois field stuff (very cs) and was very pleased to find that the lu decomposition for Julia "just worked" with the custom galois field type that I implemented. All in all about 75 lines of highly performant code, which is what I needed because I was conducting searches over 2^32 elements.
That just added the ability to save a copy of the encrypted database. It did not remove the encryption.
They jumped around in mock tribal dance, doing mock chants, while laughing and jeering. They were quite obviously mocking his heritage, his culture and his religion, adding to a long history of oppression that includes literal genocide.

No matter what these kids heard from the black Hebrew israelites, there is no excuse for their behavior.

Add to this the videos that have surfaced of these kids (including many of the same kids from the first video) unprovokedly jeering at young women that "rape doesn't count if you like it" and similar misogynistic statements, it is abundantly clear that these kids are indeed bigots and should be strongly reprimanded for their behavior, not given speaking time on national TV.
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They use electricity, so cheaper is highly likely. Also 50 mile (80 km) range is pretty short, so very short-haul... probably initially good for VIPs who just want to avoid big city traffic. Also it looks somewhat smaller and lighter than a regular helicopter, so perhaps it could land in places where helicopters aren't normally allowed?
of course you can, it's just another hotkey.
It's not about the weight, it is that a piece like doesn't really work at its current size.
I really like the multiple dispatch design.
I recently subscribed to Mubi. They have a curated selection of movies in a list of 30 movies, every day a movie gets out and another one gets in. I think it's around 8-9 USD per month and there's a week trial. I like revisiting classic or arthouse movies so I naturally like their selection but I doubt this is for everyone. The model however, could work with different audiences.
Wish advocates of all new languages stuck with this principle.
>Over the course of the year, this will save ~72 hours in development time. Of course, it's not a strict comparison because I would always do other things while waiting for it to compile

That, in my experience, actually makes it worse. As soon as you start doing other things you multitask, forget where you were at, lose the zone, and lose much more developer time than that 1 minute.
Both are below IT Commodore, which reports to the IT King, below IT Emperor.

Seriously, titles have little to do with hierarchy or job duties, and vary wildly across organizations. In an industry that employs ninjas and rockstars why would you expect standard titles that mean anything?
I wholeheartedly agree. I was lucky enough to chance into a "project-based learning" alternative program in Jr. High, where we had fewer, longer class periods and freewheeling, long-term multi-discipline assignments.

Although I performed poorly in traditional academics, my belief in my creative capacity and industriousness—acquired during this period—has never left me, and forms the basis of the autodidactism that has facilitated my career.
It isn’t hard to have an amazon without a Bezos. The cult of “genius” that surrounds these people is exactly that. A cult. Self-fulfilling prophecies based on hot air. Don’t tell me this is the price we pay. What a load of specious, but all too common, propaganda.