skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember reading that it was proven that the more basic subject the more structured educational methods are beneficial (i.e., an ability to teach is more important than how well you know the subject at earlier stages) — you are not a special snowflake.

I would heartily recommend "Learning how to learn" course (free) and the corresponding books.
Nasty security bug found and fixed in Linux apt
Upside-Down World of Modern Monetary Theory
I'm not averse to raising taxes, i was commenting on the authors aversion to raising taxes, it was a question directed at him or anyone who might give a good answer to "how can we achieve a social safety net for the masses without taxing corps or people?"
I see nothing wrong with it - and it does not signal the end of Tesla...at all.

TLRD: Cutting some jobs, asking employees to work harder than competitors, same old same old from Elon
The $5 billion is only a down payment on the wall. The total cost is estimated at $15-25 billion https://www.cnbc.com/2015/10/09/this-is-what-trumps-border-w...
Note that `opt_einsum` is no longer fully merged with NumPy (and likely will not be) as we now support a wider range of inputs, backends (TensorFlow, Dask, etc), and more powerful optimization algorithms for expressions with hundreds of tensors.

Disclaimer: I am the author of the `opt_einsum` package.
More often than not, it's cleaning up someone else's mess.
I am tired of this shtick where when companies fail, it is a beauty of free market at work, but when government projects do, it is because government is inefficient and same people who keep expounding how you have to put money into all sorts of ridiculous ideas because you can't tell which one will work, turn around, lose all humility and just know how they could do better governing.
Small world indeed. I'm currently urinating on the bus stop outside of that starbucks.
Exactly. This is what foster inequality among individuals doesn't go away with a different economic system.
There used to be a catch, though, don't know if it's already fixed. If you use this ssh debugging feature you make your secrets world-accessible (anyone can connect to ssh and grab them). This was one of the reasons why I switched to CicleCI, actually (besides their Workflows).
That's still pretty minor compared to the energy and environmental costs of anything else.
I propose we give every front end dev at _most_ 4GB RAM for awhile and see if web bloat stops inflating.
That figure mostly shows how little wiggle room to create a UBI exists. I have a feeling that eliminating all funding for education and healthcare to create a new $12k pa handout for people not currently entitled to welfare or social security might not be a universally popular move...
The problem isn't necessarily that / does integer division: it's that it ONLY SOMETIMES does integer division. It should either always do proper division, or always do integer division, but not try and guess what the programmer wants.

An example from C#: when I was a Unity developer, I frequently needed to figure out what the aspect ratio of the screen is. You'd think this would work:

float aspect = Screen.width / Screen.height;

since 99% of all parameters in Unity are 32 bit floats (common in gamedev). But no! Screen.width and Screen.height happen to be integers, so this particular line silently returns that the screen is actually square. I've literally run into this exact bug with Screen.width/height three or four different times. Every time I feel like an idiot, even though it's not my fault that C# inherited C's dumb division operator.

Python does it correctly, and C-like languages should as well. Division used with two integers should always return a floating point number, and there should be a separate operator for integer division. It makes no sense the way it's done now.
This is correct; this is even what the socialists argued for[0] and at least according to SEP[1] there is only one identifiable proposal of a "perfect" equality (as some in this thread have taken it to be) in the history of philosophy. The confusion over what [in]equality means and what can or should be reduced is a sticking point in a lot of political debates.

[0] "When we say that experience and reason prove that men are not equal, we mean by equality, equality in abilities or similarity in physical strength and mental ability. [...] It goes without saying that in this respect men are not equal. No sensible person and no socialist forgets this. But this kind of equality has nothing whatever to do with socialism. In brief, when socialists speak of equality they always mean social equality, equality of social status, and not by any means the physical and mental equality of individuals." - V.I. Lenin, "A Liberal Professor on Equality" (1914)

[1] "Simple equality, meaning everyone being furnished with the same material level of goods and services, represents a strict position as far as distributive justice is concerned. It is generally rejected as untenable. Hence with the possible exception of Barbeuf (1796), no prominent author or movement has demanded strict equality."
I'm sure this woman's clients see lots of success, because I'm guessing she probably screens them based on whether they're actually dateable or not from a female point of view. (Similar to the way that if Eharmony thinks you're a sociopath they will straight up refuse your money.) If it works for them and they end up in good relationships, great. But I think for a majority of people who have trouble dating, it's not just "getting past the first few messages and onto a date." But if she helps people, more power to her.
I fire up a suitable instance when I need it rather than leave one running. I have an AMI ready to roll with tools on it.

Average about $7-25 a month depending on what I’m doing.
The argument the article is trying to make is that as bets go, it's actually not a good one. It's not obvious we should spend the money on a larger collider for no other reason than "because scientific progress." There is much more nuance to it than that.
Inequality is a consequence of technological progress and barriers to entry.

Some human activities today have high level of productivity.

A doctor can only serve one patient at a time. Top tier athletes or actors can serve millions of people simultaneously.

Local bar can serve fewer people than Facebook and those who own a local bar will be much poorer than those who own Facebook.

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Another component are barriers to entry.

Some professions are relying on brand power (acting) and others on credentials (surgeons). Anyone can do a job of a janitor, but not everyone can be a highly skilled engineer or surgeon or be highly recognizable name in entertainment.

Some businesses have barriers to entry (economy of scale, networks effects) while others are in fierce competition.

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People who are poor are doing relatively unskilled, low productivity work (service industry professions). People who are wealthy are relying on high productivity and barriers to entry.

Why is Zuckerberg so wealthy? Because Zuckerberg's business can serve billions of people every day directly and has monopoly power due to network effects. Some low level Facebook employee is selling his services to one company which is a low productivity activity (they are not selling anything directly to billions of people, but selling services to one company) and those services can probably be done by millions of people around the world so the barriers to entry are low.

Once you understand this, you will realize that inequality is a structural thing.
would the BuzzFeed story that the Special Council discredited be considered "fake news?"

For better or worse, this product judges sources, not individual stories. FWIW, Buzzfeed News lets their readers know, right in the lede, that this particular story is disputed by Mueller. As others have mentioned in this thread, a hard definition for "fake news" is hard to pinpoint, but disreputable sources certainly don't own up to mistakes like this.
Leading the Credit Union Way in 2019
This is one of the users for whom I optimize my software, folks :)
The newer macbooks also have significantly better I/O performance, which together with the faster CPUs and more cores might add up to a 4x difference.

It's a pity they are otherwise crappy for my work (I need a reliable keyboard, I do not want a "touch bar", I do want USB-A ports).
Just because the public can't come to a definition, doesn't mean that a small group can't come to consensus about what it is with regard to what they can police. It may not match your definition, but it could be well defined.

That said, I have no idea if they have done so.
I feel like this point should be much higher than it is, and should be highlighted more clearly in the article. And the article doesn't even make it clear if this is a 5/1 or a 5/5, but it also absolutely leaves out the point that the rate won't just change after the initial 5 year period.

Non-conforming and no-doc loans weren't the only problem in the 2007s. ARMs were a big issue too because everyone thought they could refi before the initial period was up and that ended up not being true.
Ask HN: How do GitHub and similar sites use React with server rendered pages
We use a fair amount of React at my current job but it tends to be either a page fully built in React or a page rendered by Rails using ERB. I am curious how some sites like GitHub mix the two and what benefits or drawbacks there are to the approaches.
It could be software too: Employee 2 launches a build before going on a break, or a GPU-intensive screensaver that starts up.
That would explain the ~50% occurrence.
Singularity: Pattern Fuzzing for Worst-Case Algorithmic Complexity
Agreed, but good luck convincing Congress. You have to deal with the reality of the situation. Sure, the money exists, but you won't get it. So what do you do with the money you _can_ get?
This exactly describes LA compared to places like Munich or Paris. In Munich I can easily get to most places using public transport without much planning and it will overall be competitive with driving time in a car. In Los Angeles there are a few lines here and there but it requires a ton of planning and often takes three times as long as a drive would take. My commute takes 35 minutes by car and would take more than 3 hours with public transport.
"There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement."

- Kelvin, 1900

Prof. Stephen Hawking mentions this in general context that, 'they thought physics was a closed subject in early 20th century' & proceeds to state how the universe was unfolded in theoretical physics in 'Brief Answers to the Big Questions'.
Particle Physicists are going nuts in the comments.
Twitter got their first users 🧐
I’m not a millennial but I’m with his kids. Tax the wealthy. Rebalance directly. Any notion of trickledown and secondary effect rebalancing is fraught with complexities and conditionalities. It would also take an entire generation to figure out whether the approach worked or not.
That's the email I get. I had 1 in 2018 but it was 4 weeks from the received date, not 2. Only a couple of our servers are older than 12 months tho, we usually generate new AMI's roll them out to keep them up to date.
Re safe navigation operator... the idea is to basically port lodash's _.get into an operator, right?
The thing is it's not just money and power that motivate inequality, it's freedom. In a truly free society, some people will turn out to be particularly talented, or motivated, or hard working, or lucky and will end up benefiting from those things. Other people will choose to do things of limited or no economic benefit, or choose or only show any ability at undemanding jobs, or be the victims of illness, accidents or other obstacles. Then there's always a few people who are criminal, or will cheat the system.

The thing is we do need to encourage people to want to work hard, find something they are talented at and do jobs that have large economic returns for themselves and society. We all benefit from this.

People who work hard, take risks, build business, employ lots of people and provide valuable goods and services to their customers deserve to be well compensated. If they are to grow their business and employ people, how are they going to do that if they are not well compensated?

I do believe in a fair and progressive society. I live in the Uk and I think on balance we get this about right. We have a functioning social safety net, including a world class health service that's free at the point of use. We have a decent education system that's free for all up to secondary level. I wish we had free university education, but that would be tough to find the funds for. Yet we also have a dynamic and productive economy that funds all of that.

The thing is you can't have the social safety net and free health and education without a well functioning economy. The resources have to come from somewhere. It's not perfect by a long shot, but not everyone that is wealthy got there by cheating.
While I totally agree with how obsolete is the current education system, as a person who has worked in several experimental education projects I still have my doubts that semester/year long projects work well.

Kids and teens have very short attention span, when you say let's create a space shuttle they want to do it ASAP. After few days working on the same project they usually get very tired and the supercool subject becomes another "normal subject".
Furthermore, not every kid wants to design a space shuttle, some wants just to dance, others draw graffiti, some others just sing or even reading a book might be more satisfying for some.
What I want to say is that education is a quite complicated task. Parents and their contexts play gigantic roles that superfun and shinny activities at school cannot replace.

I think inequality have to be fight from many angles, better jobs, universal health systems, investing in 3rd tier neighborhoods, less taxes for people who have less, helping people who have shi jobs and cannot afford to even search for new ones to have better ones, better integration of immigrants in the cities, etc, etc, etc

Some examples of some of those projects

http://victordiazbarrales.com/workshops/the-patching-zone---...

http://victordiazbarrales.com/workshops/circolab/

edit: format
I'm not an expert on Python by any means, but if I understand correctly, the end of the indent level is the only way you know that the block ended. That seems to me to make it impossible to write semantics-aware merging (presuming I understood what you meant by the term).
As a reasonably productive developer who has used both 4K and 1080p displays regularly, 4K has done very little for my productivity. It just looks good.
Cleveland Museum of Art Advances Open Access Movement
Any ideas on how to get it to work on MacOS ? On High Sierra the browser seems to ignore the /etc/hosts file.
Completely unrelated to the content of your post, but I find it interesting that you lowercase the o in AOC as if it's a technology like IoT.
Well yeah, when there's never any cops to kick off the homeless insane, people are going to prefer the privacy of their own car.
Creating the middle class was a deliberate policy choice [1]. Hard fought and narrowly won.

That the rich get richer is just math. It's not a value statement.

Without active wealth redistribution, accelerating inequity is inevitable.

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I personally don't care how we do it. UBI, cashectomies of windfall profits, restoring progressive taxation to subsidize the safety net. Whatever.

I am tired, however, of the bickering over the details. As though the primary issue at hand is tax brackets and capital gains. These food fights just muddy the core conundrum.

The trick is balancing capitalism with democracy, lifting the floor without lowering the ceiling.

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[1] Kevin Phillips, Reagan's conservative economist, detailed our history of purposefully creating a middle class and the upper class' efforts to thwart such efforts:

Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich Paperback [2003]
https://www.amazon.com/Wealth-Democracy-Political-History-Am...
I definitely think so from my limited experience. I ate what seemed like normal meals in bars and ethnic restaurants in NYC, but in other areas we'd go to some place like Chilli's were the calories are insane - most appetizers are over 1000kcal, and most single courses 1500-2000kcal.
We use us-west-2, but I'm touching wood non-the-less.
>Ever go out to try and meet women? I'm comfortable enough with it that I've gone to bars alone just to do it, yet I'd still call it uncomfortable at best. You're essentially cold-approaching strangers and don't know if they're single much less if they even find you attractive. Sometimes you hit it off like a romcom which is rewarding, but everything that's not that is a crapshoot. Certainly doesn't feel "humanizing".

Pretty much any sort of sales job has this sort of learning curve. The part where you either hit it off or it's obvious that this is a waste of both your time reminds me a lot of selling used cars on the side. You usually know pretty quick whether your chances of making a sale are <10% or >90%.
This quote has nothing to do with the article's point. The article is not making a claim that there are no open questions remaining in particle physics.
I really dislike generalizations.

If you can use an old computer for development — great, I'm happy for you. But please don't assume everyone can, or wants to. For my type of work, no CPU has enough single-core performance (I need quick bursts). And since programming is what I do several hours every day, it is quite an important part of my life, so I'm not willing to torture myself on old hardware just for the sake of it.
Corporate Thought police
Clever. I circumvented it by not going to Facebook.
>This is a highly unusual situation.

Agreed.

>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.

So is she a private homeowner or a business? Is it legal for her to rent? Given that the bank accepts letters from old ladies describing casual labor as proof of income, who knows.

I own investment property that is mortgaged and attracts high rents. The underwriting standards for that property were higher, and required 20% money down for a similar rate premium.

>The property will continue to grow in value.

That has little to do with qualification for the loan. Kind of makes my point -- it's in the banks interest to write a shitty loan to repo this house on default. (ie. predatory behavior)

>If she were really in a situation where she might default, her family would help her.

Are they cosigners?

"Wink and nod" underwriting in banking is a bad thing.
Ringworm is an odd disease to pick out. It's not a parasite, it's a fungal infection of the skin and quite common. Even if people have access to quality healthcare, they can still get ringworm.

And in fact, you can self-treat with over the counter anti-fungals.

I think the author of that quote doesn't know what ringworm is.
Online advertising can be very good for quick hypothesis testing, getting alpha users, and can help you figure out your customer acquisition cost. These can help you move quickly. I don’t see the problem if you have the budget as it doesn’t need to be either or.
Suppose I have to compute sum for array of length N. In python it is something like

s = 0
for k in range(0, N):
s += a[k]

Ok, I have more cores/CPUs, could I do it in parallel? Sure

v1 = Sum(0, N/2)
v2 = Sum(N/2, N)
s = v1 + v2

I even could do it on asymmetric cores (like most phone CPUs today)

v1 = Sum(0, K)
v2 = Sum(K, N)
s = v1 + v2

I could do a bit more complicated things, like calculating means. For that, I have to make a monoid

def mean(from, to, a):
m = 0
for k in range(from, to):
m += a[k]
N = to - from
return (m/N, N)

Here I'm returning tuple, and for that to be a monoid I have to state composition law:

def compose(M1, M2):
A1, N1 = M1
A2, N2 = M2
N = N1+N2
return ((A1N1 + A2N2)/N, N)

If my identity is (0,0) tuple, it is quite easy to verify that indeed I have a monoid. Nice, simple, composable ranges.

For closed [1...N] ranges this is NOT nice, NOT simple, just plain fugly exercise. Sorry, looks like code samples are screwed up a bit, don't know how to fix it
With multiple dispatch, if a library has a function that just works on abstract array types, then you as the user could write your own sub-type of the abstract array and it will still work with the library function.
The author doesn't back up anything, quotes no theory on either side, no history or economic data. It contains killer anecdotes and gut feelings though - a ratio of about 100%-0% between navel gazing and chin scratching VS reading Marxist theory where people have, you know, talked about the thing you're talking about for over a century. It's particularly stunning that an essay on inequality does not mention the word "profit".

My favorite part is the killer anecdote that seals the deal at the end, which is basically the equivalent of "You dislike Wall St but you own an iPhone? Interesting". It may as well have been pulled from a boomer Facebook meme.
We are talking about opinions here, tips of extremely vast icebergs, so I'll try to be careful. Disclaimer is that I disagree with Fred, agree with AOC.

I can agree with Fred that the bottom should have the basics covered, and that's the most important point here. That is, we want an economic system that allocates more resources to those at the bottom than we currently have.

Where do these resources come from? I think that the presence of billionaires is simply the other side of the mathematical equation here. Assume with me that wealth follows a power law distribution. Presumably we have the ability to adjust the shape of that distribution (as AOC advocates in some way). The outcome of shifting the power law from, for example, alpha=1.5 to alpha=3.5 is a dramatic evening out of the distribution. The curve is flatter and the top earners will have less relative to the average. So you would have fewer billionaires.

OK- instead of flattening out the overall curve, maybe you put a floor instead, as Fred argues for. What part of the distribution would you have to take from to add the extra tail weight? Most of the weight in the distribution is at the head, where the billionaires are... so I would assume it would come from there. Hence, no/fewer billionaires, no?

I think Fred's and others' broader point is that we should continue having incentives for success. I agree. Maybe a little less incentive, though.

I'm glad we have the opportunity to start discussing this topic on a national stage.

EDIT: grammar
In California, Gender Can No Longer Be Considered in Setting Car Insurance Rates
I note that another site [0] _does_ see them as distinct. Also the article you refer to [1] shows no examples of the Irish Uncial writing system. I make the point to suggest that other significant writing systems may also have been omitted. [0]http://www.omniglot.com/writing/clogaelach.htm [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_script
Haha yea wow I didn't even realize I was doing that.
I love the ending... just goes to show that anything you build may be around for years longer than you expect.
I used to inherit computers for free from friends and relatives who were "upgrading" their Windows systems and turn them into servers or workstations at my company. I hadn't bought hardware in many years as I was getting off the ground.

Nowadays, I guess most people have laptops or use mobile cause I haven't gotten one of those in quite a while.
> on mirrorless you get digital vs analog on dslr

There’s plenty of dSLRs with digital viewfinders at all price points in virtually all brands.
> The moon blew up without warning and for no apparent reason. It was waxing, only one day short of full. The time was 05:03:12 UTC. Later it would be designated A+0.0.0, or simply Zero.

These are the first few sentences of the book. The rest of the comment are spoilers though.
It was definitely the other way round.