skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of the interesting economic questions are inference problems, not prediction problems The question is not "what is the best guess of y[i] given these values of x[i]'s", but what would y[i] have been for this very individual i (or country in macro-economics) if we could have wound back the clock and change the values of x[i]'s for this individual. The methods that economists know and use may not be the best, but the standard ML prediction methods do not address the same questions, and data scientists without a social / economic / medical background are often not even aware of the distinction.

Economists and social scientists try to do non-experimental causal inference. Maybe they're not good at it, maybe the very problem is unsolvable, but it's not because they don't know how Random Forests or RNNs work. Economists already know that students from single parent families do worse at school than from married families. If the problem is just to predict individual student results, number of parents in the household is certainly a good predictor. The problem facing economists is, would encouraging marriage or discouraging diveroce improve student results? Nothing in PyTorch or Tensorflow will help with the answer..
It's kind of like marijuana, except it will soon be illegal.
Note that the first example relies on multiple GCC-only features, one of which is the atrocity that is nested functions, and even then technically invokes undefined behavior.
House hearing on reparations for slavery set for next week
Thanks for your highly affirmation!
This article from 2008 seems to predate it. It also talked about sensimilla crops (separating males from females for cultivation).

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/28034925/ns/technology_and_science...
Firstly, we had an exciting product to work on. Also, for selfish and foolish and stupid reasons? First of all, I was young. This was my first big gig. Most of all, it was fun. It was fun to keep winning against a determined enemy. At the time in the area I was in, we were considered to be one of the best software groups in our geographical locality. There wasn't really anywhere to go. The employer always ranked as one of the best in the county. Lacking humility, I thought it was simply my intelligence that brought the wins, not a mixture of my intelligence and mostly good luck. I can't imagine how many times I almost got fired but didn't for some reason.

To look on the bright side, my boss was amazing, a truly unique individual whom I thought so much of, I asked to be the godfather of my child.

Despite the chaos of the IT team, almost everyone I worked with was great. Everyone I met was really good at something, but I learned a lot from the people around me and had the opportunity to mentor a young engineer who ended up far exceeded me, which was rewarding in itself. I have several life-long friends from that company. People who have been with me through a messy divorce. A particular friend, when my wife left, called or texted every single day for six months-- just out of the goodness of her heart. The text was always the same, "Hey, wanna get some coffee? How are you doing today?" There are beautiful people working in even the most toxic places.

When I wasn't learning about engineering, I was learning about optics, about politics, and about the real world, and once again, I was winning, which was intoxicating.

So why ultimately did I stay? Because it was comfortable being the smartest person in the room. Because it was fun having latitude enough to start my own department? Because it was fun being engaged in this real-life game and winning? Because I'm crazy?

Things got far nastier than I went into. Once the IT department was openly trying to get me fired, things got personal. Really personal. It would have been easier to move on, but, I hate being bullied. Allow me to repeat myself, I HATE being bullied, and that's what this was in the end, organized harassment.

Through a set of unusual circumstances, I ended up befriending the main IT guys wife-- the man who decided he could play with my life for no reason at all, and his wife had a crush on me. So I and slept with her, and I am still sleeping with her four years later. To quote that great boss of mine, "Revenge is a dish best served every day."
This step was necessary. Both Drive and Photos was using to save photos and docs. So its good they are actually making it separate.
Formatting Floating Point Numbers
Sorry, what did you mean?
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Disaster possibility 1 is that nobody bids on the project. It is too risky.

Disaster possibility 2 is that the original bid is met... but one critical feature is left out of the contract (overlooked) and is thus not in the result.

Disaster possibility 3 is that the company does go bankrupt. Uh, oops, we needed that company. Now we can't get parts for other products. This could be fixed via a huge bailout.
I assure you it wasn't a personal attack anymore than gerbilly's "obtuse" comment (and again, giving that person the benefit of the doubt, as I have throughout this thread). You and I are definitely on different wavelengths, but ignoring for a moment that someone flagged multiple of my comments (and not making any assumptions about that), nothing approaching spite or malice went into this thread.
It looks like virtualbox 6 supports using hyper-v as the virtualization engine: https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E97728_01/F12470/html/hyperv-inte...
This idea is awesome! Thanks a lot. We may add it to our features in the future!
To piggyback this comment, does anyone know of any co's building something interesting mainly w/ the C programming language (and maybe even w/ Rust)? Also, that are usually open to interns/entry level programmers?
there are all over our streets, look outside your window. Your city has been designed so that huge cars can ride around. Don't you wonder why you have to walk so much to get from point A to point B? And risk your life every time you cross the street at specific crossing points?
Yes. Instagram has proposed "flappy bird" not long before. We though that we can use the same technique to launch a mobile version.
sure it does, you just need a proper volume driver like rexray AWS EFS
I feel like Harvard Business Review articles are a form of keyword stuffing. Combinations of buzzwords when googled bring up a bunch of big consultancy websites.
I really, really, really wanted one of these when they first came out and my stepdad laughed in my face when I asked to borrow that much money for a computer "for college" when we had a perfectly functional Apple IIe at home.
In about the same year, my dad brought home a Macintosh SE for the family. I was very young and remember only a few things: it ran the game Dark Castle in b&w from a hard drive, and my father had pulled the entire system out of a dumpster at work(!). The machine had been used in some way on a defense or NRO contract, and when the project was cancelled, the entire thing was simply discarded. If I recall, one of the back corners of the case was slightly dented from its unceremonious toss into the dumpster.

As a kid I took it all for granted, but we never would have been able to afford such hardware on my dad's engineering salary at the time. The price for a new one adjusted for inflation today is jaw dropping.
Actually, the Indian Moon Mission is more than just a moon landing. It'll be the first time that any vehicle lands on the south polar region of the Moon. Find out more here on the scientific objectives for the mission - https://www.isro.gov.in/chandrayaan2-mission
The surprise is that hospitals are allowed to act this way. Patient privacy is one thing, but this is attempting to suppress information to the public about deadly infections.
Helm from basics to advanced –- part II
Of course, almost every high-level language that compiles to native code ends up doing something that looks like sugared C for many of their features.
I'm pretty sure you need to be "pre-wired" in order to learn advanced language in an acceptable timespan.

Even the prime examples of primates we taught sign language to weren't very impressive next to a human.

So it's probably not just about vocal cords or having hands to wave around.
The detector model now is not strong enough. It uses traditional computer vision concept to detect the blinking. We plan to combine deep learning to develop a more robust detector model in the future.
That's not publishing man.

It is quite obvious what I meant when I said publishing. Not really sure why you are acting in bad faith by purposefully misinterpreting what I said.

But to give a clear definition of what publishing means, that any non idiot, non bad faith actor would have already known, what I meant by publishing is when I take some media and put it in a place where any large amount of people could access it.

And if I publish something, then no, I have no problem with anyone accessing the information that I released for the purpose of a large amount of people to see.
Yes we will think about it. Thx.
IPv6 is largely doomed and that it will be usurped by IPv4 NATs/CGNATs...

This argument could have worked ten years ago but now it has been falsified. Cellular carriers have already deployed IPv6 and there's no motivation for them to switch back to IPv4, especially given the high cost of CGN.
Schools like Harvard don’t teach from a book.
Great tool - do you have a docker image pre-made for this? This would be perfect to run directly off a NAS such as a QNAP so it is set and forget :)
This is a growing space. Besides WildType[0] (mentioned in the article), there are at least 2 other companies working on lab grown fish: Finless Foods[1] and BlueNalu[2]. None of these companies have a product in the market yet, but things appear to be moving fast.

[0] https://www.thewildtype.com/

[1] https://finlessfoods.com/

[2] https://www.bluenalu.com/
That first class functions are passed by reference can be verified at the high level; e.g. with the eq function in Common Lisp.
Humans mostly synthesise Vitamin D. Plus foods like eggs contain them and milk in a lot of countries is fortified with vitamin d. Seafood is not the only source of that essential vitamin.
It's fairly common for folks doing embedded work. What are you interested in?
The author Anna Goldfield also has a pretty cool podcast about archaeology and anthropology called The Dirt which I can recommend to anyone interested in stuff like this.
TIGER's great, but if you're going to use it you might as well just use OpenStreetMap in the end; a lot of the data in the US is based on TIGER data and then reviewed, as TIGER has had a lot of issues with things like misnamed roads and misalignments of roads.
Yeah, "and such" is often bartenders giving out free drinks
I've been reading up on it more since commenting. I'm really impressed by the ambitiousness of the project.

I am excited to hear that they plan on sending people soon.
Additionally, the Lisa Desktop Library contains many similarly named routines to the Mac Toolbox. The Lisa Desktop Library was never directly exposed to third-party applications though. (The Lisa Toolkit exposed it indirectly.)

Lisa Desktop Library: https://www.apple.asimov.net/documentation/applelisa/AppleLi...

As an example, the Lisa Desktop Library has

PROCEDURE HiLiteMenu(menuId: INTEGER);

The Xcode 11 beta that just came out this year still has <Menus.h> which includes...

extern void
HiliteMenu(MenuID menuID) AVAILABLE_MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_0_AND_LATER;
It depends what you can do with it. Downloading a full 5MB app just to be able to scroll down and show text and a few images can be seen at big. Why not use a webpage ?
Yes, that's true. Rust is good alternative to Go, and probably the closet to Go in terms of feature parity. Definitely worth checking out.
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Some while back Seafile looked more promising than Nextcloud to me. Never got around to actually using either though. Not sure how things shape up now.
>The mere threat is sufficient.

And of course completely illegal under the 1977 Gevena Convention.
No, I don't think so, not specifically, but it could be casually possible. I just mean for example: the standard 3-hut configuration triangle with a central open air common area (the triangle).

You can have much bigger graphs too, it is common traditionally to have the chief in the middle and the tribe living around him, but I can imagine that there could be fractals.
There is a new trend on games – they are implementing "battle royale" genre where multiple gamers play against everyone at once and every "killed" player will leave the arena. Winner is who stayed as the last "alive" person.

PUBG probably was the first popular PC game that was battle royale.
Fortnite is currently most played battle royale
Also see Dashing D3 (how I learned).

https://www.dashingd3js.com/
> Same game, many more players at one time.

Instead of two players competing head-to-head, you could have many players connected to the same page, all competing.
Probably from the newly hired people (you remember, those 7.8% under the previous administration who were unemployed) who now have taxable income.
NOAA upgrades the U.S. global weather forecast model
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Human_Spaceflight_Pro...
No. If you sold cars and realized that there were some buttons you could push on the AC unit that would cause it to catch fire, you wouldn’t remotely shut off my car to perform the repairs while I was driving down the highway.

The customers who “need” patches have a business to run, and forcing their computer to reboot in the middle of the workday for some service that may not be exposed at all on their network would be a good reason to avoid Microsoft products for said customer.
A true power move. Not something everyone could do if they were threatened with the same, though.
All we have to do is figure out warp drive and then Starfleet will make first contact.
It does. Touch ID is just disabled and a message pops up saying that the display key doesn't match the Secure Enclave and that Touch ID has been disabled.
My observation was Meteor development really slowed down when Galaxy was ramping up. That doesn't necessarily imply that investors forced anyone to do anything, but as an external observer it appeared that resources were substantially re-prioritized, whatever the reason could be. Maybe it wasn't the investors, but someone led that re-prioritization. Maybe there were things going on with Galaxy that required immediate attention, and the team only had so many engineers / devops / testers, etc. It could have been a lot of things.
Can you give an example of such complexity?
I agree, but even the younger generation of nerds seem to not care as much about privacy issues, Free software, and other social/societal implications of computing, the same way that we used to in the Slashdot era. Seems like a cultural shift.

But how have I formed this perspective, about a social trend? It's my own extrapolation based on... anecdotes and social media, I guess. So it's hard to know if that picture (the before, after, or how things may have changed) is accurate.
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This is a really underrated comment. I was gung ho about weakly-hierarchical organization in the workplace until I worked for a very talented manager with lots of experience who worked hard to facilitate his team, in a company run by a ruthless dictator. One of the most oft-repeated mantras overheard in the army is "Shit rolls downhill" and this guy seemed to concern himself solely with shielding the team from the frequent bloodbaths happening elsewhere in the company while also sweating hard to chase down the things each one of us needed to excel.
Show HN: A free private journaling app
https://github.com/inoda/private_journal

Built this to use myself, and I'm curious if anybody would be interested in using it. I'm also wondering if anybody has tips to make it more secure (I'm super super new to encryption and whatnot). The security is probably a bit overkill since chances are that nobody cares about what I'm journaling, but it is fun to implement from a code standpoint.
My programming journey went roughly:

* ZX Spectrum BASIC

* Assembly language (Z80)

* FORTH

* C

* ..

Learning C when I already knew assembly language made it obvious what pointers were. I suspect a programmer these days might start with javascript then jump to C and be a little mystified.
I hardly think the Office of the Director, Operational Test & Evaluation counts as an "anti-fanboy". And their reviews of F-35 progress of been the bureaucratic equivalent of damning.

Full report here: https://www.dote.osd.mil/pub/reports/FY2018/pdf/dod/2018f35j...

Article summarizing it here:
https://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/dote-delivers-ano...
Google moving hardware production out of China
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You don't have to land in HK to be extradited. You can simply be extradited in transit through HK.

https://www.hongkongfp.com/2019/06/07/hkfp-voices-hong-kongs...
I don't see how this could even possibly encourage the CCP to capitulate in the trade war.
I'm surprised no Catch-22-style comedies have come out about contemporary military boondoggles.
In California last I checked you need an M1 for a 150cc scooter. But not for the genze stuff I guess.
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You appear to be arguing against monthly "patch Tuesday". The reason that exists is for their enterprise customers. They used to release patches as they were ready, but it got to the point where there were patches every day, and corporate IT became a huge mess because every computer had different patches. Also, IT could never certify if a particular patch would break their internal apps.

By having patch Tuesday, it lets the IT department accept the patch only on their test machines, certify their internal apps, and then push out the patch to their other hosts in a controlled fashion, while auditing that everyone actually got the patch.

So while it's annoying, it was necessary to support enterprise IT.
Amazing and educative article! Thank you Gidi!
Porn sites are joining in Hong Kong’s fight against a hated extradition law
True its very educative
Not sure why this is downvoted.
The nature of conflict has changed many times through history, obsoleting state-of-the-art technologies (which arguably the F-35 is unconvincing at) from a bygone era.
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The biggest problem is with the supply curve, really. Economics tends to pretend that more supply requires a higher price. In reality, more supply very often leads to a lower price due to economies of scale.

This is a fundamental problem because it means that even if you assume fixed supply and demand curves (which is very dubious), there can be more than one equilibrium. That in itself pretty much invalidates most of the standard subsequent analysis.

The other big problem is that it assumes too much that all economic actors are price takers. In reality, prices are largely administered via cost-plus pricing, and advertisement and related tricks are used extensively to subvert the basic principles of supply and demand.

Another problem specific to macroeconomics is that it largely ignored the effect of demand. Increased demand very often leads to an increase in production rather than an increase of prices, a fact that was largely ignored in decades of supply-centred thinking. This has led to bad policies in response to the global financial crisis, for example.

I agree though that it makes no sense to throw out supply and demand as concepts entirely.
Reading this post just concerns me more than anything.

DDoS protection is pretty much vital infrastructure for any web site, and Cloudflare is one of the first and largest organisations that provides this service. Infrastructure of this scale and this importance should be impartial, but this is more evidence that CloudFlare isn't.

For example, Cloudflare at the whim of Mathew Prince pulled service for white supremacist site "Daily Stormer" [1] - because they made claims of support and their content "made him angry".

The message is clear, if your content makes a CEO angry your site may be DDoS'd off the internet (eg. Daily Stormer), if your content getting DDoS'd off the internet makes a CEO "sick", then you'll get special treatment (eg. Ukranian Newspaper).

Would this blog post be as warming to people, if Cloudflare didn't help the newspaper because it supported Russian claims over Crimea?

Regardless of your content, if your content is legal, the political whims of tech CEOs shouldn't be what ensures you have consumer rights.

[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/why-we-terminated-daily-stormer/
Is there a tutorial somewhere that goes over how to make the interactive editor on the right of the blog post? That is super cool!
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It should be illegal to use fungicides or bactericides with medicinal value in non-human applications, especially on crops. I'm feeling hopeless regarding what our future chances are in fighting super-bugs. Could you elaborate more on why using tea tree oil contributes to drug-resistant Candida?
Except the change to XCode is a direct conflict of interest with moving MacBooks to ARM platform. If they are moving to ARM soon, there is no point in adding a brand new feature to the IDE that helps convert ARM apps to x86 apps. The reason Apple is doing so is due to the new Ipad OS that resembles desktop interface.
> This really belongs in Harvard's "JFK School of Government", not economics.

From the PDF you linked:

> ECON 1152 and HKS SUP 135

(HKS is Harvard Kennedy School)

> Sections: 1 per week at times to be arranged. Sections will be divided into two groups: one for students with no prior coursework in statistics/econometrics and another intended for those who have taken courses in statistics/econometrics. You may choose which type of section you would like to attend depending upon your background.

> Kennedy School students must enroll in the more advanced section.

So it looks to be a joint class between Econ and the Kennedy school, with the Kennedy school students required to take the class on "hard mode".
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OMG That is so cool!!
It is a really great idea!
Points taken. I am full time on Go since few years ago and before that I was 100% Java. Haven't really kept myself up-to-date with the Java land.

But from my experience with Java, Go, and Python, I find Go a very versatile programming language. Being able to compile binaries means it's great for infrastructure deployments and CLI tools. Goroutines, concurrency, and etc make it a great choice for server/micro service use cases as well. Some can say that not having a JVM is a plus as well.

However, developers do have to be disciplined with error handling and dependency management. But one can argue that this is the case for software development in general.
Cute that they were worried back then about an expenditure of $4B.
>That shift could change economics itself, by attracting a new breed of students who are intrigued by the field’s new empiricism, not put off by its mathiness and high theory. It could make economics departments more diverse, and more open to new perspectives from women and students of color.

>He also gives Mankiw credit for moving the curve of Ec 10 to match the curves of other large Harvard classes, based on research showing that unnecessarily tough grading of economics classes disproportionately discourages women from taking them.

I do not understand how attracting members of underrepresented classes benefits them when standards need to be lowered to do so. Sure, the practice opens up opportunities to a more diverse sampling of individuals in the short term, but in the long term you devalue the credentials and, as bad or worse, you risk churning out graduates who are more qualified on paper than in reality.

I feel like this is a dangerous, growing trend in modern Western society and I do not understand how nobody seems to see it as a problem.