skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Uh no it is not. I can wiggle my ears and I'm double jointed. That makes me and those features a biological anomaly because these feature are rare. There is no racism going on here because I am a statistical anomaly.

Let me be utterly clear again. In the real world, in reality as we know it. There will ALWAYS exist things that are outside of the norm. Things that are "anomalous." To deny the existence of anomalies, or to deny the existence of REALITY is WRONG. This is not racism. To let political correctness control your dialogue and beliefs is as ignorant as letting religion do the same.

You are making two grave errors in your interpretation of reality.

First, what part of nature says EVERYTHING human must be a spectrum? There is no hard rule about this AT all. Things can have binary states, trinary states OR CAN exist in a spectrum. For example. I have a penis. Many people do not. That is binary. Perhaps a hermaphrodite lives on a spectrum but the scientific reality is, that the hermaphrodite is so few in number that it is in actuality a statistical anomaly. Lets get even deeper. Your DNA has 2 types of chromosomes. An X and a Y chromosome. There is no W chromosome and therefore these two chromosomes are binary DO NOT exist in a SPECTRUM. Get it?

Second, you don't even know what a "spectrum" really is. Even in a "spectrum" there can be anomalies. If you know about statistics you'd know that spectrums are usually bell curves: A hump in the middle with two tails on both sides.... The hump in the middle of the bell curve is the most populous and most "normal" part of the spectrum and the tail ends are the most rare and therefore "anomalous."

What disgust me is the twisting of words by people who are ignorant. There is NOTHING wrong with being anomalous... an anomaly is neither wrong or right it is just a word that illustrates rarity. A person with an IQ of 342 is an anomaly on the tail tail end of the bell curve and while it is an anomaly there is nothing wrong with being crazy smart.

This accusatory BS of calling me a racist is disgusting and vile and gravely serious. You better take back your statements, what your saying is not trivial or true and is a deeply personal insult. My ancestors were asian americans and victims of white supremacy and racism. If you're white and calling me racist well...
Rust AWS Lambda Runtime author here: while the Rust runtime tends to beat all other runtimes, Go is _very_ close in terms of startup times.
The article doesn't mention all the programmers being (forcibly) introduced to functional programming concepts by using React and Redux.

Perhaps this is another possible way to jump the chasm?
I have a backup phone...
> relax, you'll be dead by then

This is part of the reason so little is being done to combat climate change now. If we don't act now though, the future generations will definitely drown. It will be too late for them to do anything.

> That's one of the few countries likely to benefit from climate change.

This is one of the most dangerous delusions. In our globalised interconnected world nobody will benefit. Just think about the last financial crisis. Mortgage crisis in the US caused chaos in the whole world.
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I was not aware Netflix had significant debt.
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You're also paying for 12 Thunderbolt 3 ports. They really could have made some of those optional since there's PCIe slots too. In addition to expensive parts I believe TB3 requires licensing costs too but I'm not sure if Apple has to because I think it was partially created by them.
Moreover, I would actually argue that the only way we're going to affect climate change is if we find at least one big slice of emissions that can be reduced without having to change habits or going against engrained values too much.

In order of what will probably work best:

* Something barely noticeable (eg: any improvement in electricity production that does not make the customer's price skyrocket.)

* Something noticeable but not fundamentally annoying (Pay people to get electric vehicles, Norway-style. Make a large part of your transportation public and electric.)

* Something noticeable, but fun . I don't have a big idea on this one, and it kinda sucks.

* Something noticeable, and that "gets you laid" (tm). Something along the lines of "I have a Tesla. You should have sex with me.", but scalable. If someone finds this, we're saved.

The last one would be even more powerful as it could reshape at least some people's identity into "I'm the kind of person who care about climate change", so all the other changes that actually require discomfort could get rationalized away (apparently, we're pretty good at this as a species.)

So maybe someone needs to organize Vegan Supermodel Orgies as well as marching in NY. Just saying.
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>The government cannot create wealth "for free". It can print more dollars, but in doing so it makes each dollar worth less. No wealth is actually gained.

That's the point. The government isn't on the hook for wealth. They are on the hook for dollars. And dollars, to the US government, are "free".

>Doing that is impossible, though. Reducing the value of a dollar means that you'll need even more dollars to repay that debt than you would have needed otherwise. There is no net gain here.

The amount of debt doesn't go up if the value of the dollar goes down.
That article about Florida's reefs is interesting. But reefs are dying due to coral bleaching all over the planet, even in areas with no fertilizer such as the Maldives. And rising temperatures are the leading cause (source: https://ocean.si.edu/ocean-life/invertebrates/corals-and-cor... )

> the world becomes greener and more fertile

That's not what the science says. Some areas may see improvements, but globally harvests will go down and we will see a lot of refugees and hunger as a result.
Isn’t that just cooking the books though? I mean if the rump of manufacturing gets done in a low cost economy, and mere assembly is performed onshore, what kind of manufacturing is that really
Just a quick question: why Greta is not talking about world overpopulation? I think it's a huge problem. The more we are on this planet, the more mess we make. And by the way, it's too easy to shame western countries to be the root of all evil in this world.
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There's a lot more to immune response than "does this look like a human cell?"

See, for example, blood types, where giving an A type person B type blood will cause serious issues.

Each human has a largely unique signature of HLAs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_leukocyte_antigen).
No, It isn't.

The company job is doing well their core business.

Mafia's job is to be anti competitive.
You're using Lambda because you haven't figured out how to enable cgi-bin in Nginx?
> They've been wildly successful at breaking the Paris agreement?

Would you kindly elaborate on that, what exactly did "they" break? Can you point me to some TV interviews or documentaries on MSM showing their superior influence compared to "climate change activists"?
I don't know why, I barely document anything when I travel. maybe it's because I go to places where I can go anytime later with ease. Maybe if I travel long and rare places I would change this behavior. I think I've been in 5 european countries and I barely have pictures from these places. Having a crapy phone also helps. I only use it for Maps, ops, etc.
That was the main problem. The project was always based on a colonial and patronizing attitude. Don't give kids the real thing, so they can learn how to use Excel spreadsheet (some real CV item), but rather give them custom hardware and custom software that nobody would want to buy somewhere else. God forbid some kid could accidentally learn how to use some proprietary software.

Instead, they could have just put their PixelQ displays on some ruggedized X86 laptops produced in China or Taiwan and put some good Linux and tons of books on it.

The ironic thing is that it's still near impossible to get a laptop with a fully sun-readable screen anywhere, neither in developing nor in industrialized countries.
> Poverty, hunger, addiction, homelessness

Most of which get worse w/climate change
And this is in Austin, which used to be the ideal place to make PCs only 15 years ago because of DELL and its famous “just in time” suppliers.
Regarding objections 5 and 6, Snowden distributed documents to the Guardian, Washington Post, and Der Spiegel - not Wikileaks. He did insist that these newspapers only publish information that is in public interest, and warn the government according to correct whistleblower protocol [1].

The Wikileaks legal team helped Snowden once he was already in trouble.

He also said that "Even the NSA admits that Russia wasn't my intended destination." [2] so objection 4 is also moot.

[1] "the journalists would then in advance of publication, warn the government about the story they were about to break."
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/edward-snowden-nsa-cbs-this-mor...

[2] https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/interview-with-ed...
And they're probably going to need it? Well, when is Social Security projected to run out of money? I think they're going to need all of it by then. (Yeah, I know, some is Medicare. It's also projected to run out of money, just a bit later.)
Working with SQL was nicer in PHP. It gets more difficult for some reason in Node/JS. SQL injection would always be a concern by default when writing raw queries. Though I think I could avoid writing flawed queries/endpoints, it's harder to expect that from a team at scale. #foodforthot
Carol needs to raise her hand when Bob moves to topic 3. A raised hand signal seems to transcend cultures, and it lets the speakers and all listeners know you have something important to say but you're being polite and letting them finish.

And if the speaker/chair ignores you, it makes them look rude.
Ironically, I felt this way during a recent rock concert. So many of the people around us were spending more time watching the recording of the concert they were filming, or with their backs turned to the band for selfies, than they were watching the actual concert.

I mean, to each his own, but I had a lot of fun being involved in the concert. I can't imagine it being as much fun being tethered to the ground while ensuring that my video is properly framed and free of the hands.
Agree with this idea or not, Derek is an amazing person and a great inspiration. I always appreciate his ideas and his book list is amazing. I highly recommend it.
> That's why initiatives like those of the winners of the Global Learning X-Prize[1] have shown measurable impact on learning outcomes.

[1] https://www.xprize.org/prizes/global-learning

Sorry, but I have to challenge your authority. You're saying "measurable impact on learning outcomes" and then linking to same site which doesn't give any evidence of this. As far as I can tell, these prizes are being awarded by people who are all in the same social circles and even their peer reviewed papers don't seem to carry serious outcome analysis. The whole Nicholas Negroponte-Epstein-Ito scandal just shows these people are not interested in the outcome. Again, as he self-described himself "a rich white guy", Negroponte didn't suddenly wake up and care about the welfare and education of children in the third world, nope, not believable, as shown by his subsequent actions.

Negroponte's OLPC wasn't his first debacle either.
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/71fe/5e987a89dfb7a6e7dbb3dd...

Negroponte and his gang of destroyers went from developing country to developing country intent on destroying simple proven-to-work schemes and replacing them with his costly OLPC. He knew that local NGOs desperate requests for funding would be bypassed in favor of his large contracts which could be utilized by bureaucrats to hide corruption.

I'm sorry that you wasted your time working on the software. I was tasked to work with the XO-1 and it was an utter waste of our time. We'd have been far better off if those funds had been spent on providing vaccinations, and lunches at school which have been proven to have a vastly better long term outcomes than a underpowered unconnectable amd-geode board with a wonky unusable pixelqi LCD.

Honestly, when I first heard of OLPC, I was so excited by all the claims. I remember they sent us screenshots of MIT engineers designing a pulley type charger and they told us the OLPC would run for hours from a few minutes of pulling. It was all fake and total marketing BS. Honestly, after the OLPC, my respect level for MIT Media Lab went down the drain. I realized these people aren't really significantly different than a reasonably educated grad student in a developing country. They just use their accents and mannerisms and social circles to get themselves perceived as being capable of delivering something superior, when in reality they delivered a barely passable netbook. The whole Joi Ito-Epstein pedo scandal has further reinforced my opinion. Developing countries would be better off not buying into the whole MIT aura as it does not seem deserved. It is sad that MIT continues slurping funds from developing countries to do jobs-for-the-boys club type projects. I had thought better of such an institution but I was completely wrong.
That depends on what part of the manufacturing stage you're talking about. Will the MBP in TX have its printed circuit boards made there? Or will this just be a final-assembly plant, where they ship in the completed components and have some laborers screw them together so that they can claim "assembled in USA!!!"?

The final assembly is likely mostly by hand, maybe using some fixtures to speed things up. PC board assembly, however, is usually automated except perhaps for larger connectors which may be hand-placed before reflow soldering. Those machines, however, cost an absolute fortune (the ones capable of the very high volume needed for consumer electronics), and are usually made in Japan or Germany, and then shipped to China or Taiwan where they're used by contract manufacturers. I would honestly be surprised if Apple actually made the MBP PCBs themselves instead of just outsourcing it to a CM like FlexTronics.
The school is quite important depending on the fraud being perpetrated. Holmes doesn't get nearly so far without the Stanford (or equivalent) tag on every propaganda puff piece the media wrote to promote her.

Elizabeth Holmes, genius dropout of Marshall University - it just doesn't raise a billion dollars in venture capital quite the same way (even with her connections to people like Draper). She was sold as the next Bill Gates (or Zuckerberg), and the next Bill Gates must drop out of a prestigious school too, because she's so brilliant and her mission is so important she must be getting on to The Big Thing. Even Stanford could not contain her. The elite school is required to sell that fraud.

WeWork by comparison is an actual company with actual revenue ($3 billion for 2019 perhaps). It's just not worth anywhere near what the pumped up VC numbers were attempting to keep inflated. Maybe in liquidation its worth $500m, maybe it's worth $3b. Theranos was not a real company, it had no real products (going by the book Bad Blood), it had no consequential sales. Neumann was selling a different sort of fiction than Holmes (both were fiction mind you).
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What am I writing that's false?

* Minsky went to Jeffrey Epstein's pedo island.
* Everyone agrees he was offered a 17 year old girl
* Someone else, who was also on pedo island for some reason, says he didn't take the offer, even though they were on pedo island
* RMS described the trafficked child as "willing"
* RMS has also made public arguments for legalizing pedophilia
* People somehow still take RMS seriously
The US debt is a problem in the same way that the earth constantly falling into the sun is a problem.

You've missed a velocity vector in your analysis.

Ask yourself this: if you get dollars for your maturing Treasury, where do those dollars end up in aggregate? They are either taxed away due to them circulating past tax points as they are spent and respent, which eliminates the need for a bond, or they are saved which increases the demand for a new bond from the individual, the deposit holding bank and the central bank (on the same dollar due to the hierarchy of money).

Where's the problem?
Judging be the number of Hilux's sold globally, cosplay (cowboy and otherwise) is alive and well outside of the USA too.
There's a downside too.

Royalty doesn't cook their own meals. Their time is more valuable than that.

Likewise, America doesn't make it's own underwear. We have China to do that. Similarly, they have us to make safe airplanes and complex satellite equipment.

Closing trade to the extent that we're making our own underwear INSTEAD of satellite parts can't really be chocked up as a win. It just promotes the notion that China should build their own satellite parts and we should make our own underwear.

If making underwear isn't enough to feed a Chinese family, why would we with that destiny upon American families?

Tl;Dr, America makes complex, high quality machines and equipment. Refined oil products. Things that require quality over quantity. Things that you can't substitute a generic for. Those are our bread and butter exports. Cheap crap that gets thrown away, like Apple computers, are China's bread and butter. We can either accept these facts and balance markets accordingly (and stay on top at the same time) or we can compartmentalize the world and all be stuck spinning our wheels and duplicating lots of effort, cold-war style, but with stupid-crap like personal computers instead of nuclear weapons and spaceships.
Uses https://uncomplicate.org/clojurecuda but the text relates to CUDA in general whether used from C++ or from a Python, Java, Clojure wrapper...
Because it's part of the arms race with pathogens that has been going on for a billion years since multi-cellular life first appeared. Pathogens do lots of very clever things to hide from the immune system, so the immune system is tuned to detect very subtle changes. The body largely operates on zero-trust network models, except for a few locations where the benefit of a too-active immune system has serious consequences to the fitness of the organism. The eyes and the testicles are good examples of that in humans.
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Yeah, this is one tired trope. I'm especially bored of the "Facebook causes the rise of nationalism/fascism" rhetoric - I think it's pretty convenient to scapegoat the Zuck (who is an asshole, oblivious, naive, etc.) with something so complex and fueled by so many factors outside of the internet. "Russians made us do it because Facebook" is such a wonderful cop out because it means we can't really do anything to fix it, and it's totally not our fault. And we're addicted to such messages - that the terrorists hate our freedom, that poor people are just jealous losers, that scientists are moralizing assholes for telling us not to eat steak every day - and we even prefer these messages because they let us be the victim of the cruel outside world, rather than understanding how our own complacency, ignorance, or greed has worsened situations.

None of these articles place as much emphasis on the selling-off of our regulatory systems, the dismantling of election law, the homogenization of American thought in the televisual era, or the truly rampant epidemics of complacency, addiction, hedonism, and consumerism as possible catalysts behind a nation rapidly declining into total social schism.
I think I've finished like 5% of the games I played with. Even counting ones on which I spent more than 10 hours, I don't think it would be more than 10%. Hell, I'm 241 hours into Stellaris and haven't even won one game yet; my Kerbal Space Program hour count is four digit and you can't even win that game :).

Point being, people don't finish games because they get their fill of enjoyment before then. Many games I know start to feel like a chore after a time; some early on, others near the end. Unless there's a story you desperately want to see resolved - and many games these days ship without one - there's little reason to play a game once you mastered all the different mechanics it offered and seen most of the variety it featured. And then there's multiplayer, which wouldn't even count under this metric.

I propose a different one: people who play a game with nontrivial UI for more than 2 hours are evidence in favor. If the UI was a problem, they'd drop out sooner. After all, unlike software used at work, nobody forces you to play a game.
It's difficult to impose sanctions without having control of waterways. The US can enforce sanctions against Iran and Russia, but the reverse is not true. This puts the former is a position of advantage. True, aircraft carrier diplomacy is a bit more subtle than the the "sign this treaty or we'll blow up your harbor" gunboat diplomacy of old. But it's still the application of force to put the nation at a diplomatic and economic advantage.
$100k/year is way above what most people will ever make. The average person will peak in the $50-60k/year range. If you exclude the top percent or two as extreme outliers, it's even lower.

Ref: https://smartasset.com/retirement/the-average-salary-by-age
Poverty, hunger, homelessness are all going to get worse in a warming world. Either due to houses being wiped out (e.e Florida). Loss of arable land and consequent food price increases. Or loss of entire industries (fishing). But sure. Global warming is about saving humpback whales...
It’s a form of wealth distribution that’s morally more palatable than putting all these guys on welfare, though perhaps not as cost effective
The authors of the articles likely weren't anticipating the U.S. to start a trade war with China and implement protectionist measures that involve waiving tariffs to specifically incentivize Apple to maintain manufacturing in the USA:

"The US manufacturing of Mac Pro is made possible following a federal product exclusion Apple is receiving for certain necessary components."

What I wonder is whether or not this is sustainable moving forward or only intended to be a temporary "win" to create headlines. And can any company that wants to manufacture in the U.S. avail themselves of "federal product exclusions"?
>There's a lot of snobbery, marketing and heavy-handed "evangelism" about using Apple products.

I think I covered this with:

>It's always been confident, others would say arrogant about its products.

They've always used effusive marketing about their products but I just think that makes them good at marketing. If the products weren't good they'd never have had any success, especially over a sustained multi decade period. Even tech people who have an aversion to the proprietary, appliance-like nature of their products started using them in the early 2000s because it was UNIXy and they realized what a pain in the ass it was to use something like Linux on their laptop or desktop. My point is that the fundamental relationship between Apple and the tech industry was honest. You might not like what Apple represents but you bought the products because you liked them because of its inherent qualities.

All the people that go to work at Apple are there because they probably used Apple products as a child/teen and they want to work on them. Apple didn't court them with a con.
I'm surprised that the cost of living is that high in China, to be honest. I would've expected the differences in prices to be greater.

I also wonder what it is that makes milk (and cheese) more expensive when everything else is less so there.