skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd recommend Elements of Statistical Learning or ISLR instead, if you want to start with a theory-heavy introduction. Most of what you need for DS you'd I think better learn through projects or on-the-job.

Also, as others have mentioned, some of the most important skills for DS are data munging, data "presentation", and soft skills like managing expectations / relationships / etc.

I would not recommend this book if you want to get into DS with the idea that, "I'll read this and then I'll know everything I need to." It's too dense and academically-focused, and it would probably be discouraging if you try to read this all without getting your feet wet.
> there is no universally agreed on definition of "progressive"

"Progressive" is being used here as a technical term with a specific, greed-upon definition[1], not as a description for the leftist political movement that shares the term.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_tax
Absolutely a lie, because it's predicated on the false belief that we all start from the same point.

Most of the accrual of wealth in the 'meritocratic' system also goes to the inheritance class - in your example, see a shitty sword and think you can do better? Get a world-renowned swordsmithing coach, have the finances to work at it all day for however long it takes, import the best materials, buy the best workshop, then reap the rewards - all while talking about "your hard work and dedication" and claim everyone else could do it too.

It's total, and utter, bullshit.
> Deductions abound that have since been eliminated.

Yep, and those "deductions" are now referred to as "tax shelters" (post-1986). Basically, high-earners could invest a relatively small amount of capital into a "business" that was certain to generate large tax losses. These were things like llama farms or avocado farms. The entire purpose was to generate deductions, since the capital invested was smaller than the tax losses generated. The "investor" literally didn't care if he ever got his money back, since the deductions alone were worth the "investment".

Pretty much no one paid the highest rates of the past, because people who have that much money are well-advised, and it was very easy to avoid having that much taxable income.
iunno, listening to the whole team and knowing what people are working on was wildly helpful when I was a junior. Mentoring is important but so is knowing how the team actually tackles the problems.

Especially for juniors who are worried about seeming dumb when they have a blocker/problem. Having that space to hear Seniors say they're stuck makes em talk more.

I'm a consultant so I get to see all the wide wide varieties of standups and the short sweet ones just make things hum so much nicer than a 30 minute morning meeting.
>> Why do you think this is short sighted?

Because I do think my job is creative and social, and she just decided that my job wasn't, without trying to understand what I was really doing.

>> The thing is... I don't find it creative.

Well, the weird thing, is that I do not have a CS background, I have an Art background of all things, I choose to change careers. Perhaps from that perspective I definitely see all the creative decisions I have to make. Thinking about maintainability, solving technical puzzles, understand really what the customer wants challenging and supporting the product owner. I think creativity is more than deciding something needs to be red. Don't underestimate the amount of systems and process in "creative" design work. The "real" creative jobs are very rare. I was freelancing and at one point I was making a pack of rice dance for a fortune 500 company, I hated it.

Sure, I understand there are Elitists CS students, but I don't think companies will enjoy working with them. If they stay that way I really think they get a rude awakening at the end of the day, perhaps they can hide in their dynamic programming at Facebook.

I know this is N of 1, but a recent CS grad just left the company I was working for. He fled back the the academic CS world, not able to function that well in a company that also required engineers to understand and communicate with other people.

>> I'm very much an extroverted "people person"

There are plenty of places where extraverted engineers have a place. Perhaps go to a few technical meetups to get a different view of the work-field.
Same with Hungarian (Magyar). Spelling is over by grade 2.
> 10 minutes before the standup you are not really working full steam, right?

Some colleagues don't 'work' at all between getting to work and standup (opting for soft tasks like email).

Wasting 15 minutes for 5 people a day costs the company almost 6 man-weeks a year, or really a week per person. Providing that week as PTO/leave would probably result in tangible productivity improvements.
1. You can turn it off and on fresh install it even asks you for permission to upload unknown executables

2. In business/corporate environments especially, there are many options that should be group policied by a proper functioning IT team as one of their many tasks.
Open source is better for libraries than applications. I’m happy to pay for software written with open source libraries that works well so I can support developers like myself.
So what's the problem with taxing them for egregiously more but ineffectively? What if we kept the current effectiveness but imposed, say, a 120% rate on the ultra-wealthy? Maybe they would end up needing to pay 40% of this but at least it would be a lot better than we are doing now.
Explicitly not the reason tonyedgecomb gave and not the topic of this subthread.
Which taxes are you counting there? Including sales taxes?

And I take with a huge block of salt any tax article with phrases like "These charts don’t tell us whether the top 1 percent contains the same people year after year, experiences a complete turnover annually, or something in between." Good heavens, I hadn't realized that a 100% turnover in the top 1% of earners was possible! Those investments must be doing terribly.
They are, but they are no longer being manufactured. They have the Clip Zip/Sport, and Rockbox is no longer supported on them.

I use a CLip Sport for workouts, but they are not nearly as good as the Clip+
>It makes all the sense in the world when you compare it to any other business. You wouldn't expect for someone who paid $1M to get the same level of treatment as someone who paid $100.

Currently, society does not find it acceptable for someone to die from a heart attack if they cannot pay for healthcare. And people already get different levels of care.
I don't know. How many? The fireworks shows I have been to have assigned places where people throw away their rubbish.
There's always stragglers, hold outs, conscientious objectors, cheats, freeloaders, randos, or whatever.

Just think of them as "overhead".

Spend a little on "enforcement", because rules are important. Call it audits, compliance, metrics, or whatever.

But not more than would be saved without enforcement. Because diminishing returns.

And at some tipping point, ratcheting up cost of compliance backfires, leading to more cheating.

So strive for some happy equilibrium. So that the general population (taxpayers) feel the system is reasonable, if not exactly fair, and overall friction is minimized.
Nice, china is glad to hear that
This is the site of a tech investment company. Its full of the rich and powerful who are protecting themselves.
Being upset by "alarmism" when you haven't learned the facts and why it's worth being alarmed about is a disturbing trend.
He went on a ride along with them. But, they basically went around the block and it was fairly smooth. He said the AC vent was more noticeable at highway speeds, but they didn't want to go on the highway as they had their "own route".

Additionally, the screen was working when they were there.
Makes sense since electric cars has no engine, leaving more room for the crumble zone. On top of the center of gravity with the battery pack.
> I'm sure Microsoft is keeping a very close eye on what they are actually doing.

This seems like a questionable assumption. Microsoft is in the media for being "better" these days, but doing this at all seems like bad judgement. MSFT has lawyers to win a fair use case, I'll agree to that, but large corporations don't have a lot of incentive to minimize negative externalities, because of the lawyers and money for lawyers.
How do you pronounce that word?

I worked at intel in the 90s, and they put malformed cpus in key chains.

But what will be interesting to see will be is when they build a library of Devices where they can quickly ID Trojans
Agree with this! Standups are so much worse when you're remote and working different timezones too. It's so disruptive knowing you've got to set up a voice call at a certain time most days. It's completely against async working and takes away your freedom to work the hours that work best for you.
Indeed, Perl does have named function parameters, the same as almost all modern languages - and I highly recommend using them.

(I use them throughout my code, except for modules that should stay compatible with very old versions of Perl.)

But folklore is a thing. Many people learned Perl before named parameters, and to be fair they took about 20 years to arrive (and are still called "experimental"!). People don't like to change now.

I think most people writing new Perl code still use the no-named-arguments idiom, just because it's old and familiar. Which makes code look more arcane than it needs to, to outsiders, unfortunately.
Piketty would claim that wealth accumulation has reached a maxima. Return on investment is, after all, wealth being concentrated into fewer and fewer richer and richer individuals. If wealth can't be concentrated further then return on investment can't happen either. We might have reached such a state in which the rich, relatively speaking, can't get richer and the masses of poor, relatively speaking, can't get poorer. You can't squeeze water out of a stone.
Perl is by far the most 'fun' language I've ever programmed. Once you get familiar with a lot of the idioms, it is extremely powerful, and the amount of processing you can do in a line or two of perl would take 10 lines in Java and 20 in C. And 15 years ago, these were the languages it was competing against.

That being said, I rarely use it anymore, and the reason is that once you stop using it daily, you quickly forget all the quirks of its syntax and its powerful idioms, and often I can't even read it without having to Google for help. And that is why it is dying - there are too many ways to do things.

Compare this with Python, which I've never really used as a day to day language, but every few months have to deal with some smaller project written in Python. I can jump in and get work done immediately because there are so few ways to do things. It is mostly just iterating through dictionaries, whereas Perl pushes you to think of everything as a regex or text.
Time for a silicon easter egg hunt!
My outsider impression of Tesla is that while they are not profitable most quarters, they at least have a clear path to profitability.

Before they ramped up their Model 3 production, they could have become profitable just manufacturing and selling Model S.

Instead they invested in a new model and its production lines.

If they need to become profitable at some point (because they run out of investors), it seems plausible that they could do that simply by producing and selling their existing models, and not come out with a new model for a while.

(I realize this hinges on a lot of assumption, like continued demand, stable margins etc., hence I don't think it's automatic that they will be profitable, but still plausible.)
Dismissing information you don't like as anecdote is not a healthy thing to do. Making up things to argue against is also not a healthy thing to do. No one in this thread even mentioned drivetrain. The issues with Tesla service wait times and reliability are well-publicized and mostly revolve around things that have nothing to do with the motor or battery [1][2][3]. Tesla just sucks at quality control and has a really bad service parts supply chain + network.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-16/tesla-ord...

[2] https://www.businessinsider.com/some-tesla-customers-experie...

[3] https://www.thedrive.com/tech/27989/teslas-screen-saga-shows...
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Automobiles. Electronic devices. Manufacturing. Food production. Packaging. Bullet trains. Cleanliness. Buildings that don't collapse on themselves in a quake. Etc.

The list is not too shabby.
> The administration costs of 401k's make it more challenging for small companies to offer.

It's not at all clear to me that 401Ks need to exist when we already have IRAs. Why not just increase the contribution limits on traditional IRAs to 401K levels? It gives everyone access to the same savings options, employees aren't tied to a single 401K provider that can gouge them on fees, employers don't have to administer anything.
My point is that this particular technology is very much worthwhile, even if some of the startups are making annoying and misleading claims (DWave for instance, which indeed sells expensive devices that are not quantum computers and do not seem to be that useful). As the technology is developed, the misleading claims will simply fall behind and be forgotten.
...which says

> Warning you probably don’t want to use CGI for modern web development, see Why Not to Use CGI.
Thanks! I hadn't heard of #hacktoberfest: https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com
I... think you're almost making the point to lower taxes on the bottom 50%, but increase taxes on the top 1%? Is that what you meant to indicate?
Some background on this btw:

Installed casks didn't used to be quarantined at all. Quarantining installed casks was actually a Homebrew cask feature introduced in 2016:
https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask/issues/22388

Quarantining files is opt-in from the app perspective. Apps and programs (like Chrome and cask) have to explicitly support setting the quarantine bits on things they consider downloads. Apps and command-line programs create files all the time for all sorts of purposes, and without app cooperation, macOS has no idea whether each file is something potentially unsafe downloaded from the internet.

So hopefully this shifts the perspective a little. Makers of apps that download things _like_ quarantining because it distances them from the responsibility of ensuring the quality of each download, so much so that they will spend time to implement support for it. If quarantining isn't a good feature, apps like Chrome and cask wouldn't use it or would stop using it. This provides a great check and balance in the system imo.

--

Btw, there are two separate Homebrew projects that are unfortunately named -- one of them is named like a subset of the other. Here are some clarifications for people unfamiliar with this:

- `brew install` builds apps and programs from source, or downloads binaries built from source ("bottled") by machines maintained by the Homebrew project. Neither of these are quarantined, I think.

- `brew cask install` downloads and installs apps similarly to how you would install them manually, but in an automated way. (For example, it will download a dmg, mount it, copy the app to apps, and unmount the dmg.) My comment above is only about this option, and not the other one.
Seattle looks to rein in state policy used to push back on big projects
Politics is a mind-killer

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/9weLK2AJ9JEt2Tt8f/politics-i...
I avoid this slowdown by mapping every single app I use to a two key binding.

https://github.com/nikitavoloboev/dotfiles/blob/master/karab...

i.e. w+l opens VS Code. w+k opens Safari and so on. It's instant, no lag at all.

I also bind four finger swipes to open top apps with BetterTouchTool.

i.e. four finger swipe up opens Safari, swipe right = VS Code, swipe left = iTerm.
So you're telling me there's a dude named Dang out there with an incredible wealth of porn knowledge? That's really cool in the weirdest way and I bet you he can't even tell anyone about it for the rest of his life
I lived in Los Angeles for 6.5 years, where people are utter nightmares on the highway. You have to be very aggressive in traffic. Not because I want to be, but because I would put on a blinker and someone would speed up just because I was trying to get over.
That has to be the worst x-axis on a graph I've seen in a long time. The grid lines measure 0-10th, 20-30th, 40-50th, 60-70th, 80-90th, 95-99th, 99.99th, Top 400? That's atrocious, not only is it non-linear, not only does it have a line with regularly spaced dots giving the impression of continuity, but it skips from percent groups to absolute numbers?

If we're talking about historical taxes why are we looking at tax rates and not taxes paid? Taxes paid by percentage income would be a huge improvement, and absolute taxes seems like an essential number for this conversation.

I'm stunned when I see things like this associated with major universities and newspapers.

edit: The y-axis also goes from 10-70% instead of 0-100%. So both axes are suspicious and the numbers being presented are known for their inaccuracy.
Great software should be paid AND respect your freedom:

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.en.html

Conflating freeware and free software is a really annoying flaw of the English language.
We visited Philly and Baltimore for Army-Navy Football games. When in Philly, the Reading Terminal market was our favorite and primary food source.

It was interesting that while there certainly were a lot of tourists there, you still enjoyed meals elbow to elbow with locals.

I can't remember if we went to the Lexington Market in Baltimore, (we stayed near the inner harbor area) kind of bummed we didn't check it out when we had the chance.
I would quite like to do more Perl, but here in Europe I always find the salaries lower than for Python, which is my main language these days.
Despite all our democratic and republican[0] efforts, we still wound up with a ruling class. Ruling classes aren't necessarily bad, but in order for that to work, the ruling class need to care about the welfare of the people they rule. That is not the case in the US right now. Our ruling class has turned parasitic and doesn't care that they are killing their constituents. The opioid crisis proves that.

[0]: the political systems, not the political parties
I have no idea what the economics of the European ones are, but there sure are a lot of very old "food halls" (usually combined with markets) in European countries. Presumably they have the economics figured out, since they've been there for a long time.
Yup, moved back to one of those countries from a 20%-ish country and since I'm still not rich enough to have tons of deductions I'm really getting squeezed out of about half what I earn.
Amazon corporate offices are extremely cheap. Absolutely shitty coffee and enough snacks for 10 people in an office floor that sits 100.

It's pretty much a factory for software developers.

A live-able salary is the only perk of being an Amazon corporate employee.
How does one tell if this commit had been included in the daily live builds? I just pulled both the server and desktop ISOs and zfs is not yet appearing as an option. Eager to give it a spin.
My perspective may be skewed as a Westerner, but it seems to me that the Chinese writing system is too difficult for it to be effective as a lingua franca. To be fair (and as the article points out) English has a lot of non-phonetic spellings, but you still only need to know 26 characters have some idea of how a word is pronounced. But you are right, if we were choosing a language based solely on its objective qualities, we would probably have to choose Spanish or something like Esperanto.
The lie is it will fundamentally and universally replace everything we have in now. That's the sale.

Nope.
I'm not really contesting that security screening might be a necessary part of the job just that it's incredible that they're not getting paid for it.
CSS Houdini and the future of front end development
Hopefully MS block their sandboxes from contacting known ports, e.g. < 1024, so it would be difficult to attack common services, but who knows?
Will be overturned. Commerce Clause.
I have to say if anyone are in doubt about getting one, for me personally the experience of driving the car trumps all other issues I've had with Tesla. I used to be a A to B car person, now I drive for fun all the time. I make up excuses just to drive.

Tesla is a startup company and can be a bit difficult to deal with but I will repeat what John Carmac said about his Tesla [1], "It's my happiness machine".

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ua-ikbZVofc [VIDEO]
> But imagine the riots in France as the price of gas goes up.

Most of the gas price in France is taxes, so a carbon tax on gas wouldn't change much. On the other, a carbon tax on imported Chinese crap and American junk food, why not...
yes but i'm asking about what you were really trying to say - are you trying to say one can generate these textures by specifying a filter (transfer function or whatever you want to call it) with a random phase component? and then take ifft to get the definition in space?
Yes of course, but that's beyond the point. Americans cannot argue that mandatory healthcare couldn't work in a multi-payer, private system.
I had no idea that Inuktitut had more than one writing system. For a language with such a small population, that's a surprising and serious pain-point.

The Inuit are one of the few indigenous groups in Canada that managed to keep their culture relatively intact - most other groups have lost much of it through centuries of colonial rule and ultimately with residential schools, while the Inuit were comparatively neglected - both in positive and negative terms.

Good to hear steps being taken to protect the language.
That startablog.com thing is terrible does bad and very expensive recommendations, recommend expensive services, and then asks you to pay themselves to build a blog for you that will rely on all these services with no guarantee for a large price.

If that's what starting a blog looks like I think I'll start recommending people to Medium or Able now.
I'm not dismissing it, I'm highlighting the fact that these are a few datapoints and not a real study. You have yet to link to a real scientific study.

Propaganda, pure and simple. Those articles are paid for by the oil/gas/automobile companies.

Can you point to one major issue that they cover? No, they are all written with a negative tone, highlighting small things and blowing them into a big deal.

> from scratched bumpers to moisture trapped behind the headlights -- the order of the remaining 85 Model 3s was called off.

Big deal, and the 85 were supposedly called off for other reasons. Depends who you believe.

> “I’m still thrilled by the car, because it’s just so much better than anything I’ve driven before, but the quality of the service and some technical parts are seriously worrying,” Rouven Volk, who said by email that he ordered his Model 3 in February and was slated to take delivery less than a month later.

Fair enough, but the first part is important. Also, just one data point. All these articles just cover a few people. There is no big study to indicate reliability. And the overall reports indicate Tesla owners love their cars.