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> Almost everything in your comment is factually wrong

That is, in itself, incorrect.

> Reagan passed landmark immigration liberalization in 1986

Yes, bringing it to the forefront, but without a way to communicate effectively, the party in power passed landmark legislation without a national consensus. Most people were unaware, until it passed and had no recourse after.

> Clinton was an immigration hawk.

I'm not sure what you believe, but that's incorrect, imo. He gave strong lip service in "securing borders" but was instrumental in toothless legislation that paved the way for the current passive acceptance alongside the tripling (ish) of the illegal immigration. The insistence that legal immigration continued to outpace illegal immigration year-over-year before and after his presidency is classic Clinton doublespeak meant to push an agenda by interpretation, which he maintained after his presidency. See his last John Stewart Daily Show appearance. Winners write the stories, so this will likely just be forgotten by the future.

> Migration is the other way round: most people don't give a fuck, but have a loud vocal base that will even hurt themselves to make a point and you will be heard.

GWB's reforms were not well supported, so the initial point I made stands, regardless of what was reported. The idea that GWB was doing anything but appealing to a wider base. What he did, was speed up deportations (ending catch and release) and stopped talking about it after his election. So you can interpret that how you will, but it certainly wasn't "fighting hard".
But if the panel doesn't increase the sale price, then you've effectively lost three investment in them when selling.
Agreed, the transformer's approach to memory/attention is certainly novel and a non-trivial departure from RNNs. It's also questionable the extent to which this is not over-fitting. Some are already finding phrases on the web the model is clearly stitching together. This is not to underplay the impressiveness of stitching the correct phrases and n-grams in a thematically coherent way for paragraphs at a time, it's still very impressive (this transformer should be nicknamed Bumblebee).

Rather than under-fitting, I'd consider this diminishing returns in the model's ability to make use of the available information. You can get within 10% of it on the challenging winograd schema task using only 2%-5% of the used data. Many here are programmers and computer scientists, rather than stoop to hyperbole we should try to understand. What class of automata can this model learn? Finite state machines, push down automata? Transformer has memory but no loops so I very strongly doubt them to be more than that and yet they perform so well on language (but then again, not simple program learning) tasks.
"Even if nuclear power were clean, safe, economic, assured of ample fuel, and socially benign,” said the god head of renewables, Amory Lovins, in 1977, “it would still be unattractive because of the political implications of the kind of energy economy it would lock us into."

Namely, the status quo. Cheaper energy will tend to pacify the masses. If you want big changes to the power structure, pacific masses are a bug.

And ecologically, wealthier people with time on their hands playing with their nuclear powered electric ATVs and boats and whatnot will occupy and damage more ecosystems. They'll consume more of all sorts of resources.

The increase in human energy use by itself, clean or not, works against many popular ecological and political goals.
Depends which part of Europe. My friends in UK have nothing but praise for their socialism.

But I think it works well for the people who plan to live and grow up there, no so much for the people who can get a $100k job in Seoul lol.
The point about Lean Startup is close, but ultimately incorrect. The whole idea behind pivoting is to make a dramatic change when iteration starts to put you into a local maximum. Eric Ries explains it exactly in this way: when each additional iteration leads to less and less improvement, that is when it is time to pivot. Pivoting is not A/B Testing, it is not iterating. It's making a leap in a new direction.
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Just about every builder and operator of large nuclear fleets of reactors have all outright said or implied by their actions that nuclear is uneconomical vs renewable power options. The massive bulge of capital and scheduling needed points to humans not being able to build a next generation of nuclear plants in time to head off the worst climate change, and renewable energy sources being both faster and cheaper to build.

France: 44 Billion would be saved by investing in rewables instead of nuclear

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-10/french-po...

Private operators in the US have said new plants are unlikely due to the economics of nuclear:

https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2018-04-1...

The last few completed plants in the US (that didn't get canceled) were 20-30 years in the making - and typically over budget and schedule by more than 2x. With some of the cancelled projects over budget by 3-4x.

Even China, which embarked on building it's own fleet of nuclear plants, and has all sorts of regulatory advantages found that construction was slow and overbudget:

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612564/chinas-losing-its-...
Apparently he only worked one hour a day on it after working hours everyday. And by one hour, he meant proper one hour, without any distractions.
Hmm, I don't know about this. VS Code is an Electron app and I'm not sure if it would benefit that much from being a "real" Mac app. I much prefer that is it consistent across platforms. I do prefer Terminal.app to Hyper though.

I wouldn't mind if Slack had a native app but I'm not too bothered by it.
The tool that exists today is more useful than the technically superior tool that doesn't exist at all.

It's all just trade-offs.
Gender is cultural, so these scientific facts must be fake news.
>Nor do I want a single entity (as Facebook/Twitter exist today) to have that control.

If you're operating a business you fundamentally need that control.

The platform you're talking about it the internet. It already exists. You can use it to say whatever you want within law. If you use someone else's servers to do so they can boot you, just like I can kick someone out of my house.
If your workplace is optimizing for your enjoyment, there is probably a serious problem afoot. The value of thinking ahead, to be clear, is that it enables you to "actually create" something that isn't ill thought out, or worse, of no actual use to any person. It also allows your work to be understood by other people, who might have to duplicate it, review it, or extend it in the future. It is indeed unfortunate that all of these legitimate demands should intrude on your time that could instead be spent spewing out code.
All tradeoffs indeed. Which is why that blanket statement just doesn't work.

No one ever implemented a serious compiler/OS/3D game in Ruby.
When I evangelize for an open-source project, I tell a company that they need to do two things to make Free/Libre/Open-Source Software work Really Well:

1 - hire an engineer on your payroll give to this one project (maybe two, if theyre both small). Their role is to join the software project, and ensure that your usecase remains viable. That last bit is where your engineer will pay for theirself.

2 - give them a giant novelty check once a year at a conference. It doesnt need to be $100,000 - just give something back, and you may as well do it where engineers will see you do it.

Does your company have to be a software company to do these things? No. Just like you dont need to be a software company to need your own social media, your own website,... But those arent quite like. . .

Your Own App. Your own servers, or cloud presence. Your own in-house software. These things dont run in a vacuum. Even the proprietary software you run depends on open-source projects.
>Societies based on Marxism - are they not based on superstition and theocratic authoritarianism?

Neither my comment or the quote by Marx were referring to Marxism or advocating a society based on Marxism.

And no, a philosophy that rejects religion can't be based on theocratic authoritarianism, because theocratic authoritarianism draws its claim of authority from divine right.

>The Bible makes certain truth claims that make science possible, such as the claim that there is a physical universe that is worth studying in its own right.

The Bible claims that God created the earth and the universe in seven days, man directly from the dust of the earth, and woman from the rib of the first man. The Bible's claims certainly do not make science possible. No one needs the Bible to claim that there is a physical universe worth studying, to see that this is the case.

On the other hand, people still believe evolution is heresy because of Genesis, and will pray themselves and their children to death believing God will cure them and that modern medical science is sinful. Belief in miasma theory and Platonism, while not Christian, were religious in nature and held back progress in various scientific fields and public health.

Religion may hold value in society as a medium for spreading cultural identity and moral teachings, but deserves no credit for the cause of science, except perhaps as the means by which early scientists and philosophers approached inquiry (as a means of better understanding God's creation.)

But even then, the inevitable result was not to understand God, but to expose and dismantle the facade of religion, claim by spurious claim.
> One thing to keep in mind can you really call it a "negotiation" when one of the parties represents a sovereign entity?

Yes, sovereign entities negotiate all the time; being a monopsony is probably more relevant than being sovereign, but arguably only a monopsony can negotiate on fair terms with a monopoly supplier.
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HTML DOM is described in terms of IDL interfaces, complete with types. I wouldn't say that it's optimized for JS - indeed, that's why jQuery and similar were introduced. When WHATWG took over, they improved it specifically for better JS interop, but it's still straightforward to map to most statically typed languages.

https://dom.spec.whatwg.org/#infrastructure

https://heycam.github.io/webidl/
There's nothing to built... 1. `git clone ethereum jpmorgancoin` 2. profit
I'm also a maker and I'm currently working on a zine series. I commute 1.5 hours a day and take a lunch break, bringing my total "at work" hours to 10.5. It's difficult to stay focused but most days it works out, at least for a few hours. I go in and out of creative periods.

I learned to program by typing someone else's code. My zine series is designed to teach you as you create computer art.

https://gum.co/splashofcode/hn
That's a great level of training. I guess if you're focused on your health, and building on it a lot, by doing nearly two hours of training per day, 365 days per year, then it makes sense it takes so long... it's almost as if you're trying to improve in some regard by planning out your time and focusing on that goal and allocating time to it daily.
Fair enough. I felt the same way about JSX when it came out so maybe I need to give it another look. :)
Wonderful results. I Don’t think I will experiment with the smaller available model, at least right now. I am still happy with BERT, especially for basically solving anaphora resolution (coreference of pronouns, etc.)
You have a poor understanding of free speech. If you use someone else's service/platform, you have zero right to free speech (certain speech is protected, but it's very limited).

The freedom of speech is specifically protection from government censorship. E.G., If you're publishing a newspaper the government can't come by and tell you what to say in it. The newspaper can publish (or not publish) anything they want.
But... it does work.
What's needed is not antitrust laws, but interoperability laws (or, construe them as antitrust laws).

If there's interoperability between networks, then no one network can become dominant via momentum only, and has to actually provide value to users, and prevents lock-in.
> This isn't a company offering you something you really want.

That is completely irrelevant in my opinion. The question is would you have have $300 insulin or none ? That is the choice consumer has unless of course someone (like government) can use coercive force against the company. In that case less companies would be willing to even enter the market.

Yes, expensive health treatment leads to death. There is nothing surprising about it. It is the way of life. But to avoid that death you can not steal from others or force others to work against their will.
Virtualenv is not the same thing as venv, but you are correct that package isolation is now part of “core python” - as of 3.3.
Looking at their price / feature matrix, they are running this platform like it's still 1999. The cheapest option is outrageous, and has no client/server DB support. So that means spending at least $3,600 (on sale!) for a usable development platform. Batshit crazy.
> Before enlightenment: chop wood, carry water.

> After enlightenment: chop wood, carry water.

-- Zen Proverb
NYC schools are pretty aweful unless you live on the upper west side. The few years of his life my son was in a Montessori school, but the cost was more then my rent, so I decided to enroll him in a public school - it was a block away from me so I saved four hours of commuting and a couple grand a month. He walked in the door with basic reading, writing, and simple math skills. The receptionist looked up his birth year on a chart, and informed me my son would be placed in kindergarten where they were learning colors - no possibility of him testing out, no possibility of sitting in with a 1st grade class, he was born in year X so the chart says he is in kindergarten. So he spent two days doing colors, on the third day his name came up in a lottery for a charter school, and I started getting up everyday at 4am to take him to Brooklynn where he was doing 1st grade work again. The charter schools are unique to New York City I believe, they are publicly funded but have a lot more discretion in everything they do. Whereas the dropout rate in NYC is around 30%, and of the 70% that do graduate only 48% graduate on time. For the charter schools it’s closer to 90% graduate on time. When you factor in races - the NYC public schools have their worst stats in black and Hispanic neighborhoods - no shortage of data to back that up in Google - whereas the charter school stats in the same neighborhoods equal or exceed the stats in the wealthiest Caucasian neighborhoods.
Catherine West's RustConf keynote provides a good discussion about why you might want to organise "a program where objects interact" using an ECS system. She discusses the "how you might write it with standard-OOP", some drawbacks to this, and iterates this towards using an ECS system.
https://kyren.github.io/2018/09/14/rustconf-talk.html

I like that both this and TFA mention a focus on the data, and "row"/"column" roughly compares to (say) an SQL table. - It's an interesting way of thinking about objects/entities.
apparently it's not gonna converge so rubyists be warned
Figma gets $40M Series C to put design tools in the cloud
Nuclear energy would at least stop additional solar waste from accumulating. So that would be a big plus.
I can vouch that they're terrible on Linux, too.

It's a lazy, corner cutting way to build a cross platform app, and it shows.
Conscious processes are estimated to work on the order of 10^2 bits. Vision, at the retina, is estimated at 10^7 bits/sec. It drops another order of magnitude by V1. Also note that long as they're not isolated, a deaf and blind person has no trouble getting to full human reasoning ability despite being vastly more impoverished in available data compared to the average person.

A human will also be learning vision, hearing, walking, physics, causal reasoning, and much more. This comparison just isn't well grounded. Task specific is how much training does a young brain require to learn to produce language? If the brain comes with innate advantages then rather than be resort to inefficiency and excusing our models, we should try to see if they can be bettered.
So I meant that people could deny that there was any need to control the number of people who entered the country. That is, that there was no need to control the border. But as you point out, that position would probably require you to abolish "illegal" as a status. That is, if you're here, you're just like a citizen.
Does this support code blocks and syntax highlighting?
Haven spoken with a few friends of mine who are in the position to know better I guess I can answer part of my own question. Apparently if a law exists that is obviously broken it's usually because there are vested interests interested in keeping things that way. Since virtually every large tech company from Samsung to Facebook and now Cloudflare has had to fight patent trolls, the reason the system remains broken is probably that these companies themselves benefit from the current brokenness of the system and the benefits they get far outweigh the costs of fending off the occasional troll. It won't surprise me if these companies themselves sit on large portfolios of overly broad patents they never intend to use except to fend off competition or initiate their own patent litigation. OP sort of hints at this in another post on this thread.
what's the point of the internet if, due to network effects, everyone is using the facebook app?
WHAT PostgreSQL IS DOING TO WINDOW FUNCTIONS, WILL SHAKE YOU TO YOUR CORE!

On a serious note, PostgreSQL is the epitome, IMHO, of an open-source project that is tightly managed, but still able to change with the times and the user-bases changing needs. Really Postgres and Redis are the two projects that I think of when I think about "great" open-source projects.
Sample cloud-native application with microservices
To add a quick summary to the given acronym expansion, I think of Entity-Components as a native, in-memory database where Entities are your Primary Keys and Components are your Tables. Systems are a way of organizing and running operations on your entities over time.

native: native to your programming language, ie no serializing / deserializing types
Interesting timing on this. However, I just got org mode and reveal humming together using org-re-reveal and couldn’t be happier.
When I learned about Chernobyl reactor, I was surprised how bad the design decisions were. Casing the reactor core in wooden housing?
I intentionally geofence most countries for certain initiatives where the high probability audience is in my country, U.S. (for cybersecurity reasons). Choosing a "deny" rule keeps out a lot of the crap one otherwise has to deal with (probes, scans, connections, DDOS, etc.
> > The most jarring incentive reportedly comes out of Chicago, which, under state law, could redirect between 50 and 100 percent of the income taxes incurred by Amazon employees right back to Amazon

Stealing the worker's surplus labor value isn't enough?
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Because public traded business must be greedy in America.
They will be sued by share holder of they are not greedy.
> RISC-V allows classic embrace and extend tactics. RISC-V for Microsoft surface and RISC-V for Google Chrome may not be fully compatible with each other and RISC-V AWS cloud processors.

The zoo of endianness, and extensions support did not do anything to ARM's rise.
Many people strive to achieve which leads to a greater satisfaction than anything else. Of course it all sounds bad when you completely take away accomplishments and fulfilment.
I seem to remember France burning
Yeah. Recently (past half year) GitHub enabled a feature where duplicate comments are automatically edited to be hidden comments. I think it's a continuation of the GitHub feature that allows repository owners to hide a comment. Two caveats: (1) you can't hide a comment using the GitHub API; (2) I haven't tested whether duplicate comments trigger an email notification. Ideally they would not trigger notification.
Thanks for making it :)
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You're not the market for these tools. There are loads of enterprise systems built on top of this which need development and yes, they're still bought and sold like it's 1999. A lot of enterprise systems haven't been 'disrupted' yet and as long as Embarcadero is kicking then there is still a market for them. Oh, you've got this early 2000's system written in Delphi which you need to continue supporting, way too expensive to rewrite (think of the auditing and the requirement gathering, oh my.. this is gonna take years!) and now it needs to run on the latest version of Windows because of security constraints? Yup, you pay top dollar for that.
I can get the "We cannot build them in time" part but the whole "It is not economical to build them" strikes me as a pretty crazy position to take.

Uneconomical compared to the massive disruption that climate change will bring to our civilization? Are we fighting to save our future or not?

Discarding a proven technology that will massively reduce our carbon emission for an unproven "We still have problems to solve around wide-scale baseload" seems to be ass-backwards to me and pinning more on hope than common sense.
To be more specific, this part of the deal is called the Excelsior Jobs program. It rebates to Amazon 6.85% [0] of the wages earned by the company's employees, which effectively does mean that income taxes get paid out to Amazon (in reality, the income taxes paid plus a little more due to the NYS tax brackets [1]).

That being said, there's no city-level income tax rebate. Assuming the tax brackets currently in effect hold steady until the full 25k jobs promise was fulfilled, the city of New York would get ~3.8% of $150k * 25k jobs = ~$142.5 million/year once the 25k job mark is reached [2].

[0]: https://esd.ny.gov/excelsior-jobs-program

[1]: Note how the 6.85% bracket only applies to income above $215.4k; income above $1.08 million gets taxed at 8.82%; consequently Amazon will get more rebated than employees paid in income tax the vast majority of the time. See the second table of page 57: https://www.tax.ny.gov/pdf/current_forms/it/it201i.pdf#page=...

[2]: The ~3.8% is approximated based off of page 69 of https://www.tax.ny.gov/pdf/current_forms/it/it201i.pdf#page=...
That was actually the one line in the article that got me riled up and caused me to start digging.

>Is there evidence of actual favoritism in Google’s search engine? Well, the European Union certainly thinks so, having fined Google $2.7 billion last year for having biased search results.

The fine was for an anti-trust ruling, where it was determined Google was promoting their own shopping results (showing them at the top of the page) over organic shopping sites, stifling competition. Favoritism for their own service, maybe, but nothing to do with pushing or manipulating results.

So that's why I suspected he had an agenda to push and was willing to spin the truth to argue for it.

You can argue that study [4] showed Google tended to have more Clinton-favorable results, but I don't personally think that shows manual manipulation. It's worth a critical read--in Issue 7, he seriously alleges that Google somehow realized this study was being conducted halfway through, and started serving unbiased results to subjects with Gmail accounts. If you accept that conclusion, okay, but I'd tend to believe that the results aren't as statistically significant as claimed.
- dudes finds an online db which leaks some customer from Xinjiang

- Chinese muslim-tracking scheme exposed!