skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Newspapers were at least, historically at least in the 20th century, were expected to inform and keep a separation between opinion and news. They clearly had a political slant, but they couldn't just ignore facts that they found inconvenient, or only mention them in hit pieces meant to discredit them. Exceptions to this, like Yellow Journalism and Hearst's use of his papers for personal and political ends were at least considered failures of journalism in hindsight.

This is part of the myth making that took hold after the New Deal, when the Establishment decided how things were going to be and made it so. If you have licensing powers over broadcast media you can use this to ensure that discussion stays inside the bounds of discourse you deem acceptable. Because these local media companies often had both broadcast and publishing arms they had a strong incentive not to piss off the regulators who could take away their broadcasting licenses.

This long period of manufactured consent lasted until the people who realised it was artificial retired or died and then technology allowed more diversity of opinion. Cable and talk radio allowed many, many more voices to be heard and expanded the Overton window, bringing the US back to normal politics where people really, really hate each other unless there’s an external enemy to hate more.

In the immediate post colonial period Aaron Burr killed Hamilton in a duel. In 1856 Preston Brooks beat Charles Sumner with a cane on the floor of Congress. Andrew Jackson was held in much the same esteem by large swathes of the US population as Trump is now. In the 1960s there were over 3,000 domestic bombings and riots and demonstrations aplenty.

The media being hyper partisan is not new. What’s new is how obvious it is. It took decades for Walter Duranty’s lies about the Holodmor, the Ukrainian Holocaust to be exposed, and the Pulitzer Prize Committee still hasn’t revoked it. This for a cover up of millions of deaths in the pages of the NYT.

The prestige press is no more unbiased than Mother Jones or Breitbart.

https://deadline.com/2016/11/shocked-by-trump-new-york-times...

> For starters, it’s important to accept that the New York Times has always — or at least for many decades — been a far more editor-driven, and self-conscious, publication than many of those with which it competes. Historically, the Los Angeles Times, where I worked twice, for instance, was a reporter-driven, bottom-up newspaper. Most editors wanted to know, every day, before the first morning meeting: “What are you hearing? What have you got?”

> It was a shock on arriving at the New York Times in 2004, as the paper’s movie editor, to realize that its editorial dynamic was essentially the reverse. By and large, talented reporters scrambled to match stories with what internally was often called “the narrative.” We were occasionally asked to map a narrative for our various beats a year in advance, square the plan with editors, then generate stories that fit the pre-designated line.
As a non-Texan, I would like to ask more about point B.

I myself am increasingly of the opinion that while government, national and State (I’m a Californian) has a role, it has unfortunately carved out too big of a chunk and allocated itself too many roles, often on the most specious of arguments.

The idea of a legislature that meets infrequently, and where politician is a hat, not a job title, actually looks pretty ideal from where I’m standing. Why should I be disabused from this notion?
This sounds redolent of the saga of (recently revived by court order) Damascus, OR.
Just an idea: Maybe you could either train a model or use heuristics to translate from keywordese to English?
Curious why you think that. From my POV, they are all very "Christian".
That's ok. But it was possible to do it if you wanted.
It's a common misconception
Buzz Aldrin Took Holy Communion on the Moon. NASA Kept It Quiet
Hopefully both sides learn from the long-term downward spiral of HP's contract with the Navy.

https://www.wired.com/2010/08/hp-holds-navy-network-hostage/
No. (and I feel there is no justification for downvoting requested sources).
> Turns out that it's hard to build an aircraft that is resistant to abuse by pilots with grossly inadequate flying skills.

This red herring has been thoroughly refuted and discredited. It saddens me how some people keep parroting this nonsense hoping to brush off Boeing's gross negligence, specially when they resort to thinly veiled racism.
SoftBank Next 30-Year Vision [pdf]
I hope you used genuine honda parts and didn't use a piece of beer can to shim anything.
Investment for Makers and Product Management
Dumbest headline ever. I sincerely wish people would stop voting this clickbait rag Mercury News in Hacker News. It says Uber received 299 approvals for the year. First, this is a miniscule number. Second, H1b approval is rolling. So I assume they would have gotten these approvals throughout the year. But the article, with its ignorance goes on to claim that it is unclear when they will start. That makes no sense. Finally, they don’t make any mention of comp.Pretty sure these are at least >$200k per position
(I'm the author of the paper BTW.) Regarding TLA+ and CakeML: TLA+ seems like a good idea, Leslie Lamport talks a lot of sense in most of his papers. I especially recommend "Composition: A Way to Make Proofs Harder" (https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/lamport-composition.p...). It sums up a lot of my feelings about "simplifying" a problem by adding more layers and generalizing the layers so that they have more work to do individually. I'm not sure I'm totally on board the idea of using temporal logic; my plan is to just use plain first order logic to talk about the states of a computer.

Regarding CakeML, I'm really impressed by the work they've done, and I think they more than anyone else are leading the charge on getting verification as pervasive as possible at every level (especially the low levels, where historically it has been difficult to get past the closed source barrier). That said, I think they are not doing an optimal job at being a bootstrap. They have a system that does that and so much more that if you just want a bootstrap it's way overkill. And you pay for that overkill - 14 hour compilation per target (see https://cakeml.org/regression.cgi).
It may be intentional. Not just the pictures, but the essay itself I found disorienting, jumping around and repeating. Perhaps I'm being generous, but I feel the style reinforces the thesis that the way we consume content in the last decade 'melts' our perception of time.
Taking government money is taking blood money. I'm glad I'm on a trajectory of getting rid of Microsoft tech in my life.
This situation has been used as a DWI/DUI defense
since the early 1990s - search for “candidiasis”
in https://spaf.cerias.purdue.edu/Yucks/V1/msg00034.html .
It is good to see both a differential test procedure,
and a treatment regime.
Same thing where I work. The last H1B notice I saw was for a junior web developer. It's pretty simple work, but the pay wasn't any better than what you'd get taking a government job that requires similar experience. The work is remote as well, so there's no excuse for not being able to find a junior web developer in the entire country.
If the Soviet Union did one thing right, Mir was it. I owe my love to applied math to it.
Is this why Bitcoin shot up 24% in the last 24 hours?
This is categorically incorrect and you should probably spend 5 mins researching before labeling others as indentured servants. H1B holders have 100% mobility, as it takes <15 days to transfer your visa via premium processing.
Many is a stretch.

It's a running joke for sure, but being fiercely independent does not mean we actually want to secede from the Union.
You seem to be deliberately distracting and misinterpreting my point. Something Chinese censors would be doing today.

You have only given a half-pinion because we are still waiting for a number. How many deaths are acceptable?

China makes fake pills from fentanyl:
https://www.dea.gov/press-releases/2016/07/22/dea-report-cou...

Fentanyl is a national security threat:
https://m.theepochtimes.com/china-is-deliberately-using-fent...

Carfentanyl is a WMD:
https://globalnews.ca/news/3108514/lethal-carfentanil-could-...
Specialization is crazy rampant these days. I can't, for example, afford most of our "cloud architect" or "security architect" candidates. Most of them are asking for bigger numbers than I make, two levels above. Maybe time to ask for a raise? :)
Another is Randy Pitchford.
Def the same in NYC
Do most VC companies provide training or mentorship like YC? What if you're a sole engineer with a good product and a patent but no idea how to turn that into a business. Do you even need venture capital if you're just selling one thing? I don't even know how to spend $1000.
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Upthread I see that you are correctly writing about the different ways you can model Monty's behaviour, and how each different way changes the nature of the problem, the outcomes, and the odds of switching vs. staying.

So I don't understand what you are arguing against right now?

I'm saying that "Monty reveals a goat" is what happens in the correct interpretation of the problem, i.e. Monty knows where the car is, and always chooses a door with a goat in every single instance of game play. In this case switching gives you 2/3 odds of winning the car.

And I'm saying that "Monty revealed a goat" is what happens in the incorrect interpretation of the problem, i.e. Monty does not know where the car is, and in this single instance of game play that you happen to be participating in, he happened to pick a door with a goat. And if you have gotten to this point, switching is 50/50. Just like you say.

Do you understand my way of describing these two different models of Monty?
So I take you approve of Trump's decision on Syria?
There is no legal requirement like that. H1 has a simple rule - that you should have a degree and work on a field that USCIS considers specialized. Comp engineering is one of them
Not exactly the same kind of thing, maybe, but I love London's accidental solar furnace.

"This London skyscraper can melt cars and set buildings on fire"

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/london-skyscrap...
I recommend "The Mechanical Universe" TV program, produced by Caltech with the Annenberg foundation.

Although it's not about calculus per se, it shows how it is used with physics. Newton having invented calculus in order to describe physics. However, they use the more standard Leibniz's notation on the program.

You probably won't be able to sit down and solve integrals after the show, but the program helps to take a practical and beautiful mathematics branch and gives viewers an intuition to its application that I didn't find in an actual math course.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8_xPU5epJddRABXqJ5h5...
Not really the case at mine. They COULD pay and the amt would be justified.
No. It just had the announcement and was only a paragraph long with a "This is a developing story, more to come soon" at the bottom."
How is that non-sensical? The entire purpose of states is to be independent. Texas just actually takes it to heart to act like an actual separate entity wherever it can.
When he sent the email. Who was CEO when the sprawling mess he was complaining about was planned and implemented?
The Gutenberg Press led to the Protestant Reformation.
It seems like the issue is that this is just a systemic abuse, so it's easy to say "everyone else is doing it".

I have a feeling the reason it is tolerated is because some people are genuinely uncertain about what the right thing to do is. In other words, there are business people in government who are saying to themselves, "well, if foreign workers are willing to do the same jobs for less money in exchange for being able to move to a wealthy country, who are we to stop them?"

So I think that side of it needs to be out in the open because I have a feeling a lot of people feel very strongly the other way. And just leaving it as a sort of lax policy without discussion is probably not going to be ideal for anyone.
Nope. Monty still reveals a door even if your planned pick was correct.

The entire gain in odds is predicated on Monty being forced to reveal a bad choice after you have chosen.

Monty knowing ahead of time has absolutely no impact on the outcome.
Only to someone else willing to sponsor them, and timelines can be tight. I might have over exaggerated with “no mobility” but it is frequently shown that their employment status is used to control.
Single supplier has worked out so well for the pentagon so far it’s a relief they did this for cloud computing too. In fact they’ve worked so hard to reduce competition in major suppliers (e.g. aircraft manufacturer consolidation, ULA) I imagine they’ll want to do the same in computing.

/s
I also got my Kindle around then and have never felt the need to upgrade. It works like a charm and I can read for weeks without recharging. I have hundreds of books on it and have never needed to remove any for lack of space.

The only thing that tempts me to upgrade is the new water-proof version so I finally can comfortably read while in the bath...
Cash or credit. Doesn't matter there's always opportunity/alternative cost. If you have a bag of resources you have to decide what to do with it, and for that usually you need to evaluate a bunch of possibilities. This is the same as ranking them by utility.

ROI is just one kind of utility function, but converting everything to said resource-equivalent works pretty well.

It's always a nasty burden to decide between hospitals and roads, but it's a neccesity also, because building just hospitals without roads doesn't help much, because ambulances can't get to them. And vice versa.

Sure, ROI in itself is a bad metric, and the problem is that developed nations are frequently get caught in an overly simplistic financial modelling situation. Because politically a more complex model is very hard to defend and the simple model gives simple answers, which are usually not optimal.

As you said, creative solutions are what's needed, but they are harder to quantify.
Can you elaborate your answer? I wonder how the second approach works, a link to an implementation would be helpful.
Contacts still has this.
>> And he considers Post political stance against him a directive from Bezos himself.

Which, to be fair, it very likely is. I just can't see Jeff _not_ exercising any editorial control. Post also doesn't shit on Amazon ever since he bought it, even when it's deserved.
It doesn't have any marquee products using it since, Blender, IIRC, dumped it.

For auxiliary things that you don't become expert in like source control, build systems, etc., it's vitally important to have a vibrant community around it so you can simply look up the answer and get back to your job. Or, you can have an emergent AI robot like Randal Schwartz, Wietse Venema, or Armin Rigo handle that support (seriously, do those guys ever sleep?). But you need to have one or the other, and Scons never seemed to.

I really don't understand why Scons never took off. I think it was simply that it was too early. Nobody actually cared about cross-platform in the sense of Windows/OS X/ Linux. Of course, Blender did care about that, and still dumped it. So, YMMV.

I think people only started to genuinely care about "cross platform" when developing both cloud code and client code simultaneously became a thing. And then that accelerated with the polyglot of languages layered on top of Javascript.
Firefox on Android has an accessibility setting named "Always enable zoom".

With this feature enabled, I can zoom in on this site.

With this feature disabled, I can not zoom in on this site.
> need vet the entire supply chain of every product.

Nah. You outsource that job to the store carrying the product.
People shop at REI and whole foods for this precise reason.
Azure has evolved into a mature cloud provider, definently not a bad decision. Although, a bit unusual as we typically see the "noone ever got fired for buying IBM" mentality usually.

It shows that Azure is moving up to challenge AWS's throne. Interesting times to come!
Nope. Taxes are treated equally as every other cost. Any opportunity to eliminate is treated just as seriously as anything else.
Recommend Project Management (Game Development) Software for a Solo Founder
I've been developing in the Unreal engine (VR) part time for the past three years. I'm at the point where my startup needs to have something to transition to where other developers can jump on board and work on it.

When it was me just learning, it didn't matter if no one else could decipher my code/blueprints. I didn't need to have a design/spec because I knew what needed to be done. But now I'm building a very complex framework that even I have trouble keeping up with. Having something that can function as a work log and plan that is organized better than my specs simply written down on excel/word.

This is an area I'm completely ignorant in, so please risk redundancy --I've googled this a bit but I'd rather have someone weigh in and not just trust some SEO-delivered recommendation. I don't have enough money for an enterprise solution but most of the products I see I could afford a single seat license.
It was the case 5 years ago when I was in SV. Source: multiple people I worked with and spoke to in person told me so.
Pretty Neat, flooded my browser history which may be good or bad, not too sure.
No, because people know that at this point.
The design and usability history of OS X is actually a bit more diverse. The first iterations ("lickable" Aqua) had serious issues, favoring buyability and wow-effects over everyday usability. (E.g., as Doc icons increased in shape on pointer proximity, they also dodged the pointer as the intended drop target in default settings.) This consolidated with 10.3 and 10.4 was the first real usable version of OS X, leading to 10.6, Snow Leopard (2009), Apple's study in excellence. From there on things come a bit more in flux however, with increasing inconsistencies, until the Jony Ive era gradually introduced what may be considered a new interface. (If you compare the current UI to early iterations of OS X side by side, they are probably further apart than these earlier revisions from the Classic UI, which were at least sharing the same Hunan interface guidelines.)
Must have missed it. Actually, this contract was tailored for AWS so it is refreshing to see it go this way
This is a special case; the default behavior is to scroll to the top.
US East is in NoVA I think? Basically, the defacto HQ for AWS. Why would Amazon have a second HQ anyplace else was always the real question?

(They seemed to like the idea of New York a little bit. Probably because of multimodal transport connections to NoVA and the Europe/Africa side of the world. But even that fell through. And as far as I can understand, that too was because of politics.)
This is the exact position i am in right now. I crave the outside world and human contact like a drug. I am not clinically depressed, just in a state of constant longing for social interaction. I keep telling myself my work will allow me to one day enjoy the outside, ironic really.
I remember that in my Econ class, so many years, the idea that we could close manufacturing plants and transfer them to low cost labor countries and not have a replacement job in the US was a very big discussion that my professor could never answer with clarity. He would always say that the US economy would develop other ways to employ the people that lost their jobs. So even then there was a lot of dought on the idea of globalization.

Ok fine, there was a mistake in thinking but there's no one that has a satisfactory answer on what to do to fix the problem.

I for one think that we can't go back to the way things were so we need to start by separating benefits, health care ins. and such, from employment. Once that's done people will be freer to take on jobs that are not high paying but are being created by the gig economy. We also need to cut the workweek to fewer hours lets say 30hrs vs 40hrs now.

The last part is automation. As a country we need to embrace it. They say that automation brings on more jobs than it destroys but nothing says that those jobs will be in the US. Whether we like it or not it's coming so we need to be the country that controls it.
>> He's not anti war

One of his main campaign promises was that he would withdraw from all the ill-conceived multi-trillion dollar wars in the Middle East. And unlike Obama he's actually keeping his promises. Give credit where credit is due. Even if it is due to Trump.
Ok, if I could trust that those images are accurate then I am wrong. But if they are accurate you could read that graph as a population has just hit some kind of resource limit.
They should just expand the definition of monopoly a bit and then regulate the monopoly.
I feel like this is a very narrow, elitist view of the world. Even folks who are not “foodie” in this definition given the opportunity to try new foods, they will.

There is something about the term “Foodie” that bothers me because it’s such a general thing that applies to 7 billion people in the world.

I can understand if a person is a musician or a doctor or something substantial they’d have to do to attain that title. What do you think of the term “Chef” or a “Cook” or a “Restaurant critic”? There is definitely more specificity.

Foodie is a bullshit term for people that like to eat good food - basically all 7 billion people. It bothers me because I am an air-breathing enthusiast or as they say it a “Breathie”. I have a discerning smell for breathing air from various countries.
New gene editing technique more accurate than CRISPR
Clever & greedy strategy. H1Bs are often paid a lower salary with 0 stock options. H1Bs are brainwashed into thinking this is their breakout. Grass is greener nonsense. Locked in by H1B from jumping ship. Even if a company agrees to a Green Card they often tie the employee for few more years through payback of fees should they exit early. At will employment can’t exempt one from this. It’s a dirty process and most stay quiet in fear of having their visa terminated.
You might try vector quantization (instead of PCA) if you just need your 768 features to be smaller. ML features tend to be robust to some perturbation.
We have a similar thing here ('skilled worker visa') and I've seen families kicked out of the country because they couldn't find a new sponsor quick enough.
Ask HN: How do you start angel investing?
I have around ~$250k that I would be interested in investing with in seed/pre-seed companies. What's the best way to find companies that are in that stage/looking for investment?

I'm SF based but I wouldn't consider myself very well-networked.
Premium processing is available today as it was 5 years ago. Here's the USCIS link https://www.uscis.gov/forms/how-do-i-use-premium-processing-...
I was just thinking about this the other day. OS X, in its earlier days, as a marvel of usability. Every last thing was seemingly crafted with utmost attention to ergonomics (e.g. the omnipresent menu bar is on the edge of the screen so it's easier to hit with the cursor), consistency, and intuitive discoverability. Again, the menu bar is a good example of this: it's always there, actions are laid out in a way that you can browse them to look for functions, and each item has the associated keyboard shortcut shown. The old HIG document was pretty well thought out.

iOS, on the other hand, is a byzantine mess of nondiscoverable gestures, meaningless hieroglyphic buttons that you have to blindly press to see what they're supposed to do, and general UI antipatterns. This isn't the only post on HN today about modern UIs, prompted by phonisms, regressing functionality. There's one about scrollbars too, which is another area that Apple has lead the charge on messing up.
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