skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the biggest ways to lift marginalized groups out of poverty would be to provide speech therapy. This needs to be as universal as teaching history, math, and science. We're choosing to leave people with a huge disadvantage when we pretend that dialects aren't a problem that can and should be fixed.
Even if RustPython is faster at the architectural level (which it probably does, CPython is infamously slow), CPython has the advantage of a mature codebase and two and a half decades of accumulated performance tuning.
I'd say it's more practical to do it on the iPad, but I haven't tried.
Here are a few insights on the rentech process from Nick Patterson, one of their senior statisticians there for a decade:

[...I joined a hedged fund, Renaissance Technologies, I'll make a comment about that. It's funny that I think the most important thing to do on data analysis is to do the simple things right. So, here's a kind of non-secret about what we did at renaissance: in my opinion, our most important statistical tool was simple regression with one target and one independent variable. It's the simplest statistical model you can imagine. Any reasonably smart high school student could do it. Now we have some of the smartest people around, working in our hedge fund, we have string theorists we recruited from Harvard, and they're doing simple regression. Is this stupid and pointless? Should we be hiring stupider people and paying them less? And the answer is no. And the reason is nobody tells you what the variables you should be regressing [are]. What's the target. Should you do a nonlinear transform before you regress? What's the source? Should you clean your data? Do you notice when your results are obviously rubbish? And so on. And the smarter you are the less likely you are to make a stupid mistake. And that's why I think you often need smart people who appear to be doing something technically very easy, but actually usually not so easy.]

[[at] my hedge fund, which was not a very big company, we had 7 Phd's just cleaning data and organizing the databases]

http://www.thetalkingmachines.com/episodes/ai-safety-and-leg...

quotes from ~30:06 & ~38:03
I think you have captured the essence of it. What I wonder though: have systems before been without bias? Is the DL/ML bias worse than the one we had before?
Most smaller funds only average that much, yes. But there are outliers.
I think serious topics need to be discussed a lot more because the things that cost Americans the most day-to-day are housing, healthcare, and arguably insurance (when it doesn't work for them) - all of these things are "complicated" and it's as if we stop being able to talk about anything substantive anymore as a society. Forget the death of long form journalism, how about longer, serious discussions? Every other person I talk to about these things just doesn't seem to care and it's pretty much "X is hard, let's go shopping" left and right, including from people that are otherwise rather educated and smart. We seem to be too exhausted for whatever reason to learn enough to act rationally, which is rather important for a capitalist system like we have. This tendency goes all sorts of ways from political topics to nonsense like anti-vaxxers and so forth.
A daemon with a CLI and a programmatic interface, backed by a SQLite store, hooked into Linux audit and perhaps an LD_PRELOAD?
Sometimes that's very true. The problem is, it's usually some time into their employment before you know which side they fall on.

This reinforces my opinion that companies probably are better off on average by choosing younger (and cheaper) candidates. I'm not the younger/cheaper candidate, so I'm not being biased.
>“Why don’t you just give me a lawyer, dog?” Warren Demesme asked the police when accused of sexual assault in 2017. The statements one makes to law enforcement after requesting a lawyer are inadmissible—but Demesme’s rights were ignored because, it was argued, he’d requested a “lawyer dog,” not an actual attorney.

No one _actually_ thinks that was a misunderstanding, right?
In addition, the home directory on Windows is now populated with every kind of config file from linters to .gitconfig to .bash_history, etc...
Be careful. Some programs terminate when sent USR1.
If you are ever in a court that is being conducted in a language which is not your native language, request a translator, regardless of how well you think you know the language. There is simply too much risk of mis-communication. The problem that speakers of Black English (or any other non-standard dialect) is that they can't just get a translator because their native language is "English".

As an aside, the fact that AAVE and "standard" English are considered the same language is a political decision, not a linguistic one.
Pattern Matching Custom Data Types in TypeScript
It's not read-only, but you need to reset the rights on it if you delete and rebuild it (chown probably can be put here https://nixos.org/nixos/options.html#activationscripts)

I haven't used home-manager, but it looks like a bloated thing that I don't need in my life.
If you don't own your keys, you don't own your crypto.
Dissection Font
I work with an aging boomers who complains about ageism all the time. He wanted an outrage salary which our employer couldn't afford. He asks for help but then insults everyone who tries to explain what ever concept it is he isn't understanding. He talks down to everyone and gets upset the second someone suggests he does something in a way he hasn't done before, don't suggest he use a framework or library ever because he will rant about how he never uses them and doesn't need anything new. He makes fun of anyone who threatens him. Anything newer than C is is a waste. Maybe this is 10% of Boomers but this is the experience I remember when I think of older programmers.
The Platform Wars: competing software, hardware and political ideology
Can you expand on why plea bargains are bad?
Exactly. We really want to make it easier to return to that way of thinking, let alone actually restart building it?
It’s up to opinion whether discussion of racial issues is political, but if I want to read about racial issues, Hacker News is not the top of my list.
Why do we always ignore/forget LinkedIn?
XDG has different roots for configuration, cache, and data files.
I firmly believe no one will care for your money than you. In that sense I don’t trust financial advisors fully. I would use them the get knowledge on options I have for a specific scenario.

To have a large amount of money in the first place I would need to make a living and when I get good at it I would be able to (hopefully) green rate the large amount of money. I want to be able to make a living by avoiding the 9-5 which have too many variables for me to make a large amount of money- promotions; working on right project ; find a diff project cos this one didn’t have the right growth opportunity. I would much rather focus on one thing and compound my knowledge,skills and abilities. Hence the investing/trading route.
customs. i'm in serbia but i can get anything from hungary via a friend.
What We Wrote About Facebook 12 Years Ago
I mean, it's kind of ridiculous to just make blanket statements like that. This is a hedge fund that has a long history of good performance. The whole point of a ponzi scheme is that you have to keep getting more money from outside investors to pay the original investors. Rentec does the exact opposite. They refuse outside money and keep their employees from investing too much in it.

With that out of the way, obviously no one except those who work for them knows what they actually do. What we do know for sure if that they are highly levered, use an entirely systematic/algorithmic investment process, and do a shit load of trading. So even if they don't earn a lot on each trade, they do so many that are just barely profitable and highly levered that it ends up being a lot of money.
Maybe. But the immediately apparent, world changing utility of the internet couldn’t be denied. It didn’t need “evangelizers”, it took off because it was a useful technology.
I’ve yet to be convinced in the same way of a single legitimate non-speculatory use for crypto.
> I'd love to see a better separation of language and VMs. I think it's a bit sad that a language designer has to either implement their runtime system from scratch, or has to run it on top of a VM that was designed for another language (Java in the case of Jython).

Wasn't Perl 6's Parrot kind of meant to fulfil that role?
I've implemented the above in userspace for my own experimentation (not yet ready for public release, but maybe soon.) Nearly everything I've described above can be implemented with relatively straight forward SQL queries and SQLites performance has been everything I could have asked from it (in the neighborhood of ten thousand tags and hundreds of thousands of files.)

Getting file tagging into the kernel level to replace directory hierarchies would be a huge paradigm shift, a very dramatic departure from Unix. To be honest I'm not sure whether or not getting such a system into a kernel would be appropriate or not. Traditional hierarchical file management seems more than sufficient for "system files". But I'm really interested in replacing hierarchical file management from the users' perspective. More or less, put ~/Documents, ~/Downloads, ~/Desktop, etc under control of the tagging system but leave the rest of the system as-is. At least for the proof of concept.

I think a demonstration system could be implemented as a custom desktop environment running on regular old linux, where the open and save dialogs of GUI applications have been replaced with tagging/querying windows. Instead of the user clicking through a few directories to find a file to open or find a directory to save something, they would instead click or type in tags to add or query. The GUI file manager would likewise be replaced with the GUI frontend to the tagging system.
In some places if they run out of public defenders they hire a private attorney to act as one and they get paid a straight fee per case, no matter if the defendant pleads guilty on day one or it takes years. There is no better way to incentivize a public defender to push for a plea bargain.
It’s can be a good idea to bookmark my wishes
That’s a false dilemma. We’ve had almost three decades to optimize CPython. It will take a while to catch up.
A Brief Introduction to Type Theory and the Univalence Axiom [pdf]
It’s quite simple: The article discusses a group’s relation to the government, which holds power over that group. You can read up on the concept of politics on Wikipedia if you are having trouble.
It's not even 1%. What you have there is an A grade, certified asshole. Age has nothing to do with it.
How fossil fuel corporations built the climate denialism movement [pdf]
This is just the normal issue that it is hard to find good people. Having lots of experience doesn't change this as there are plenty of idiots out there at every experience level. It is just harder to come up with a FizzBuzz test for this.
I think the author of this article says it well...

"In fact, Black English is not deficient but alternate. There is no scientific basis for judging Black English grammatical structures as faulty or unclear"
Not just "people", but "journalists" who see their own field collapsing and attribute a combination of blame and envy to tech.
From the blurb on the Amazon page https://www.amazon.com/Aztec-Philosophy-Understanding-World-...

> In Aztec Philosophy, James Maffie shows the Aztecs advanced a highly sophisticated and internally coherent systematic philosophy worthy of consideration alongside other philosophies from around the world. [...]

>

> Aztec Philosophy focuses on the ways Aztec metaphysics—the Aztecs’ understanding of the nature, structure and constitution of reality—underpinned Aztec thinking about wisdom, ethics, politics, and aesthetics, and served as a backdrop for Aztec religious practices as well as everyday activities such as weaving, farming, and warfare. Aztec metaphysicians conceived reality and cosmos as a grand, ongoing process of weaving—theirs was a world in motion. [...] Maffie argues that Aztec metaphysics maintained a processive, transformational, and non-hierarchical view of reality, time, and existence along with a pantheistic theology.
Roma can trace heritage back to India, correct? I don’t see the problem - lots of Indian families have integrated quite well in Europe. But I admit I was wrong about comparing to other Eastern Europeans. At the end it’s still a lifestyle/ culture difference that leads to animosities IMO, not anything related to their genes.
This is the reverse of the "millennials are all snowflakes" style of thinking.

The guy's probably just an arse.
The article very specifically addresses the distinction between Black English and "slang".

I also strongly disagree with the notion that someone's _rights_ should be tied to whether or not a cop feels they were sufficiently respectful.
I don't know Ubuntu MATE specifically, and it's been a long time since I used Linux on the desktop, but I'm surprised that "apt install foo" has more friction than "brew install foo". Both work very nicely in my experience.

What is the hassle you saw with Ubuntu MATE?
Not sure what the problem is -- dotfiles or other application files need to be somewhere, whether in the home directory or somewhere else (that the OS doesn't enforce but just requires by convention) makes no difference. What would really help is what another comment mentioned -- the ability to tell which modules owns a particular file -- that would be really cool.
I hear yea on the microseconds but I am not thinking about hft or algo trading. I am more inspired by warren Buffett’s way and that’s what I would like to do.

Play money is a good idea. Any sites you recommend for this?
For the most part, snacking on fun size computer related infotainment factoids has been plumbed to a depth beyond originally predicted limits, and we've already cycled past buffer overflow multiple times, which is why the cloud has virtualized nearly all abstractions away, to the point that we print cryptography and call it money.

The fabric of society is now this nearly archeological, tattered, stained, badly degraded gauze pad hearkening to antiquity, left over from battlefield effort to stanch some sucking chest wound that obliterated familial and tribal structures during the nineteenth century, amid industrialization.

We talk about politics now, because interloping, invasive, psychologically scrutinizing, behavioral skinner box cloud services and glass slabs of pixel art controlled by theremin UI gestures (we call them "smart phones" even though they aren't really phones anymore) have pretty much ruined what we once called general purpose computing.

Even gaming has been converted to social media by webcamming yourself as you play skit-like bursts of miniature first person shooters in multiplayer arenas, and think of little else but whether people are entertained by your quips and banter.

Soon we'll be filling our bathtubs with nutritious oxygenated slurry, and donning waterproof VR SCUBA gear, in order to literally immerse ourselves into virtualized audience participation platforms, that guide our happy thoughts, as we modulate our brainwaves, in order to earn credits that satisfy the balance of our slurry bill, electric bill and rent, so that we never have to leave the house, not even to ride in self driving cars.

On the bright side, that will very likely bring an end to politics as we know it, since no one will need to leave their bath tubs, as this new model of civilization progresses.
Tcl is definitely not like Fortran. Everything is a string.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tcl
I suppose you also hate this article that's been posted here all the time, because it mentions that people with different ethnicities have different naming traditions?

https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...

You can't escape this stuff and, I submit, you shouldn't want to. Even in tech. Heck, especially in tech.
BuzzFeed in trouble is not a good sign for online publications
I think everything in the Universe is useful for some purpose. Can you name anything that is completely useless?
I've always wondered why they inclued it. There seems to be literally no uses for it, even no case where it is anything but dangerous. Even when shutting down the system, init needs to run. Can anybody enlighten me?
Exactly, I know 20 year olds who act the same.
The 64GB card costs 145€. For 26€ you can get a 128GB SSD that is more reliable than any SD card on the market.
The house always wins.

In the long run, all things being equal, it's cheaper to never insure and instead pay out of pocket for your losses.

I'd only insure for truly financially ruinous scenarios. Not for material goods or airfare, etc.
> A good place to start is to shift the very conception of "justice" from "make the bad guy pay" to "make the victim whole."

I'm a full supporter of the eye-for-an-eye school of justice as retribution, and I still find the US system far too severe and unfair (other countries' too, but less so).

I think people just have the wrong idea about how the system works (or doesn't), how terrifying it must be to be tried for a felony even if you're innocent. And for most felonies, with the exception of rape and (attempted) murder, even eye-for-an-eye would prescribe a far lower sentence.

What's needed isn't for the conception of justice to change, but for people to realize how broken the current system is.
All that new construction is constructed to the appropriate seismic standards and they've been doing a good amount to strengthen other infrastructure. They could do more, of course.

https://www.pdxmonthly.com/articles/2018/2/2/the-big-one-is-...

To be clear, a giant earthquake centered on Portland would still be absolutely devastating. But that is a risk shared by most of the West Coast.
"It provides a formal description of Aztec metaphysics using the vocabulary of Western philosophy: Aztec metaphysics are monistic, non-hierarchical and process-oriented (pretty much the opposite of the ways that we think about reality). It explores different kinds of motion and oppositions that structure the Aztec universe, as well as an overarching metaphor of weaving that provides a model for thinking about the cosmos. Usefully mind-bending."
I m willing to bet hard currency that the fields they graduated in have currently a replication crisis?
I ditched NoScript when I realised that it wasn't blocking inline JS. I landed on uBlock with Advanced Mode, which allows quick toggling of inline, 1st-3rd party and a few other things. uMatrix deserves an honourable mention also; it's been illuminating to see the sheer scale of trackers that are loaded on certain pages.
It's not old school, it's what every web company is. A few load balancers, a few apps and a few databases.
>And tens of thousands of dollars of professional lighting.

There have been great (and even award winning videos) shot on iPhones (or even cheapo dslrs/compacts) with no "professional lighting" or just natural light.

A random example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eyr9NwyszNY
Exactly. 23 and me helped find an older half sister, but the health stuff? Eh...
> Oh 20-somethings need money; it just hasn't occurred to them.

Yes but software engineering pays enough that you don't need to go to Google or Facebook or other unethical ad companies to live decently. My salary is probably below market rate (which itself is way below google-level pay) and can still buy pretty much anything I want while having enough left at the end of the month to have near-0 concern about my future.

(Not living in the US, so not worried about a health problem bankrupting me or having to pay ~100k for my kids college)
Yes, as part of the Certified Kubernetes Administrator exam, you spin up, configure, and debug 7 clusters.

https://www.cncf.io/certification/training/

(Disclosure: I helped develop the exam.)
Interestingly, this private, closed fund constantly has its returns leaked, PR articles about it, etc. You are welcome to invest in their open, and very mediocre, funds though.
Because the accused thinks he doesn’t have a chance at trial with an overworked public defender, he takes the plea and is - for all intents and purposes - denied due process. If plea bargains were harder to execute, then DAs would be forced to be more choosey about the cases they decide to prosecute, knowing that flimsy cases would clog the system and cause many cases to be stayed due to the unreasonable passage of time...
What are developer community projects?
Lol at mobile AI chatbot...

That ruined the entire article for me, might have as well said machine learning on the blockchain ...
Just ordered The Age of Surveillance Capitalism based on your appraisal. Thank you.
> Python with Rust as its foundation sounds like the best idea ever.

Why do you think it's the "best idea ever"? What are the benefits over any other Python implementation?
There's a lot of interesting stuff going on with computational blockchain platforms (Ethereum, Stellar, EOS). Basically they make it possible to write and deploy code - with nobody's permission, no approvals or policies or corporation necessary - that can ensure that when a user performs an action, they receive something of value. And they can do this without the user needing to trust that the terms of the transaction won't change later.

One of the hardest parts in many software markets is in designing incentives, making sure that the user has a reason to perform the action you want them to perform. And for startups, there's the added problem of getting users to trust that the incentives you advertise will actually hold. I might trust Stripe or Google to actually deliver the money they say they are collecting on my behalf to me because they are big established companies, but I'm certainly not going to trust a random payment processor who just started up and is advertising on a forum somewhere. But once platforms like Ethereum actually have decent UIs and reasonable transaction processing rates, you can just inspect the code of the smart contract that collects Ether (or Dai is the new payment hotness, now) from users and disburses it to the parties that were involved in producing whatever service they use.

The permissionless aspect of this whole system is very similar to the early WWW, where you could just stand up a website to do something useful and if it was good users would flock to it. That's why I'm excited. The cryptocurrency world gets a lot of bad press because a lot of the early users were quite gullible and a lot of the early use cases were in finding better ways to scam them, but there's real, fundamental technological innovation behind it.
PyPy dev here. Yes to both - all of them and it was a right slog. If it doesn’t work report an issue. We have a proposal looking for funding to make it fast.