skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
sure.

while working on a project intended for a government institution, a team at mckinsey hired a digital illustrator to create a handful of beautiful scenes from a high middle ages fantasy world.

i have to say, the illustrations weren't relevant to the project, but they really made the powerpoint deck look utterly gorgeous. the content of the powerpoint, intended to be highly insightful and fuel for decisionmakers, had about three paragraphs of written content across ~50 slides.

the rationale for this very light amount of information was that the intended audience of the presentation would have their eyes glaze over if they saw anything with more than one sentence's worth of exposition. the audience -- government decisionmakers -- needed to be drip-fed the content they'd paid for, or else they wouldn't understand it.

at the time, i thought it was incredibly limiting for the client, even if the mckinseyites were correct about the client's poor ability to digest material -- which was no sure bet. of course, in retrospect this entire rationale was just a cover for the utter lack of insightfulness/knowledge/competency brough to the table by the mckinsey team. the project was light on information and heavy on illustration because the team hadn't ever had a clue about the substance of what they were trying to do.

the lesson here -- and there are other anecdotes in this vein too -- is that the mckinseyites are adept at gaslighting both themselves and their clients such that the innumerable shortcomings of their output are slickly presented as features.
ISPs have those too (ISO 27001 is common). Again, why trust Cloudflare?
Yandex could be a reasonable alternative to GMail for anyone who's much more likely to quarrel with the US government than with the Russian. Which probably applies to most denizens of the West. Sure, it's not the best opsec, but at least you know that unlike Google, when the DoJ says "jump!" Yandex is not going to say "how high?"
If I'm in non-bold mode and I click in the middle of a bold word/sentence to make edits, do I automatically start typing in non-bold? That sounds much more annoying than helpful.
No.

You run into the same problem if you are writing something like the C 'itoa' function (integer to ascii); if you want to write the digits out front to back you need to know what divisor to use for the leading digit so you need to either look it up in a table or take the log.

Taking the log is a lot slower than the table lookup, I found that out the hard way.

People convert so many integers to ascii and it is shocking how slow ascii <-> binary numeric conversions are compared to binary numeric operations, so it's not a matter of "premature optimizations".

Now you can write an itoa which generates the digits from back to front and not have to worry about copying the results because you return a pointer to the middle of the result buffer but then memory management gets more complex...
It could, if union members didn't take active interest in the activities of the union, since union leadership is generally beholden to them. This is true of any body politic that elects leadership.

I find myself wondering (from the aggregate of posts in this topic) how many people actually have union experience. Unions are highly political creatures. In my state, at least one of the unions requires during election seasons that their membership take time out of their personal lives (time the union knows they have because they've held hours and overtime standards for over a century) to work the phones to stump for political candidates the union supports.
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>Do we really want an ally that has proven them selves as totalitarian as China and is determined to spy on us?

The US went through a judicial process and didn't just imprison or delete this person's account ( I know this isn't a US national), but this is a false equivalency to say that this process is even close to China when China currently has over a million prisoners in concentration camps.
It's been a while since I read this, but IIRC this article describes that bugs like these are exactly the reason why CodeMirror doesn't rely on contentEditable: https://codemirror.net/doc/internals.html

> CodeMirror 1 was heavily reliant on designMode or contentEditable (depending on the browser). Neither of these are well specified (HTML5 tries to specify their basics), and, more importantly, they tend to be one of the more obscure and buggy areas of browser functionality—CodeMirror, by using this functionality in a non-typical way, was constantly running up against browser bugs.
Taxing capital incentivizes putting it to work. If you only tax gains then people can endlessly horde wealth. Taxing the wealth itself makes hording unappealing... I think.
> note that i'm not taking a position on the conclusions of Piketty and Saez, just pointing out that re-stating their claims does not say anything about the papers that argue against them and calling such papers nitpicky seems like a particularly weak critique in this instance.

There's another angle: in a general-interest publication like the Economist, over-emphasizing nit-picky flaws that fail to effect the core arguments of a work can have the effect of giving general-interest readers the impression the work has more serious flaws than it actually has.
This was a brilliant logistical move.
PyCharm, Stallion, Anaconda Navigator, etc...

You don’t need to copy and paste it, or go to pypi, since there are commonly used ways to install packages by clicking on the name.
I noticed this too.

In addition to planting forests that we then harvest and convert to biochar at peak rather than letting them decay and release carbon back to the cycle, we need to use energy intensive means to capture carbon.

I have seen one proposal linked on HN that suggested direct use of a nuclear reactor's energy to do it... something like that would have the necessary power (pardon the expression) to make a dent in atmospheric CO2.

Essentially, we need to build machines like the ones on LV427 in the movie "Aliens"...large structures that are essentially nuclear reactors with some extra equipment to use all their energy to terraform.... Terra.
An alternative solution is just sandboxing of user processes ala containers. Something kind of like what Qubes does: https://www.qubes-os.org/

With a bit of work, the tech behind that could be made to work reasonably well in a general purpose linux distribution like say Fedora.
> for some perceived violation

This is the fundamental problem with this sort of crowdsourced censorship - there's no accountability on the reporters and no repercussions for bad faith.
> The second graph shows that the warming/cooling is seasonal

The second graph shows no temperatures at all, it's CO2 ppm / year.

> the overall trend has been up, in-line with CO2 levels.

That's simply not true. If you have more than a decade of cooling with steady increase of CO2 and recently more than a decade of steady temperatures with sharp increase of CO2, it's obvious that there are other factors involved.

> I don't understand what you don't understand about the second graph

You should take a closer look at it.
Deliberate attacks against a country’s economy would probably be handled on a case by case basis through diplomatic channels.

E.g. I’d argue that if China announced it would not repay its massive Treasury debts to the US, that would basically be an act of war even if no aggression was used, just due to the extreme destructive effects. And the reaction would be similarly upsetting, although not quite on the level of an unprovoked, large-scale military action.

But it quickly becomes a discussion of semantics at that point ;)
Of course. Matchmaking is another issue. Even the new call of duty has had issues with its Super Balanced Matchmaking (SBMM).

However I disagree that people don't get a chance to learn. Unlike chess, tf2 is a team game, so even if the teams aren't super balanced it's still possible to play. Unless one team is absolutely stomping the other, which happens more frequently ever since tf2 made some matchmaking changes in the Meet Your Match update- that's a different can of worms.
Most places in France think that when you order a Martini you want a glass of vermouth, not a cocktail. And if you give them the ingredients they will say "ah like a vodka martini but with gin?" ...
This shows the inadequacy of thinking “open source makes all bugs shallow”.
Sounds like you have some more reading to do about the basics of iron fertilization and shipping, but you're off to a good start by having calculated that the carbon emissions from the shipping would be insignificant—even if the ships were powered from fossil fuels rather than kites, PV, and Fischer–Tropsch. Wikipedia is a good place to start reading, and most of the papers are on sci-hub. Good luck!
I hear your points, lets add two minor nitpicks:

>a lot of what we do as humans—at our best—is frankly irresponsible

There's no responsibility without risks. If anything, responsibility is in the conscious & reasoned risk-taking, having prepared to clean up or nullify any negative side-effects.

>obeying all the laws of their local jurisdiction

Speed limits are set at 85 percentile of traffic's speed[1]. Without the speeders we'd be having even more regressive speed limits.

The run was a good idea, and I am looking forward for the next attempt.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_limit#Maximum_speed_limi...
I am one of them. I have no college degree of any kind and bested CS grads in an interview.
Assange isn't a whistle-blower. He is a third party that was given classified information.

Manning wasn't a whistle-blower either, he (at the time) was a leaker and didn't go through any of the official whistle-blower procedures to shield himself from prosecution. He also just data dumped everything he could find instead of leaking specific things.
More than once in Texas I've seen situations like the above-described in which the waving man was a civilian, no police involvement at all.

I think that's the point of self-driving's limitations. There are many, many ways in which human drivers fail, to the tune of 35k dead per year. But there are also many, many, many ways in which human drivers handle situations safely that would result in self-driving cars either plowing straight ahead or stopping confused, either situation being worse than what happens today. I think these latter situations affect far more than 35k people per year. They might affect more than 35k people per day.

Death vs inconvenience is an obvious trade, self-driving isn't all or nothing. Safety features like auto-stopping and lane-keeping probably reduce that 35k number dramatically if they're more widespread, without taking human hands off the wheel for the other situations.
> I used to get sub-10ms to us-east when I lived in Fairfax County, VA.

AWS East is in Ashburn, VA, just up Route 28 -- a stones throw from Dulles Airport. Not sure if they're still in the Dupont Fabros buildings or the Equinix campus.
It's the same it's just overt (China) vs covert (the West). That you don't see it is the point.

combine that with anti China Western propaganda and it's no surprise that you can't assess accurately. Just look at the complete failure of the Australian intelligence community in their bulshit assessment of that fraudulent fake spy. The people who are supposed to be able to provide accurate assessments. Completely making fools of themselves. played by China. In front of the whole world.

Just sad. Very sad. But they're not going to learn they're just going to get defensive stay in their arrogance and blame someone else rather than reflecting how they can improve.
I think the main thing you can take from the language/framework descriptions above is that you should outright ignore what people say about tools they don't actively use.

Java and C# absolutely do NOT lack a third-party ecosystem. If anything, both have immensely powerful frameworks behind them and thriving package ecosystems.

IMO, your choice only matters if the product you're building is tied to a given library. For example, you might have more luck doing ML in Python/Java than in Ruby, although there is no reason why you can't mix and match depending on what you need to do and what you're trying to accomplish with each.
Oh, for sure. I just took the first study. And it's a good example of how big the leaps are in our thinking and communication around these topics.

It's possible the others are all stellar, but my experience says it's not likely. Because we aren't very good at thinking.

Lucid, complete thinking about even fairly simple things--as I imagine most if not all successful programmers have learned--is difficult.

Complex adaptive social systems, which can have the effects of events that happened thousands of years ago still rippling through them, have deep wells of unknown state and dynamics.

The only honest way to reason about them is with epistemic humility.
I absolutely agree. However I'm not at all sure Piketty's ideas are dogma. If anything he's the challenger to the neoliberal dogma.

Secondly, the fact that there are diverging sides to an issue doesn't mean those sides have the same likelihood of being true. To take a trivial example, flat-earthers are challenging the dogma that the Earth is round (spherical to be more precise) - should this mean that their position should be taken seriously?
I think it is worth letting them know.
The abstract of the paper (https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.00309) says

> Let P1, … , Pm ∈ Z[y] be polynomials with distinct degrees ... progressions of the form x, x+P1(y), … , x+Pm(y)

Such progressions are a generalization of the "shifted geometric" progressions described in the article.

In particular, let P1 to Pm be y^i for i=1,...,m. Consider, say, x=0 and y = 3. Then the above gives us:

0, 3, 9, 27, ... , 3^m

Which is (almost) a geometric progression.

We can "shift" it by setting e.g. x = 1.

Though of course the polynomials can be much more general than just y^i.

The article says:
> In the type of polynomial progressions studied by Peluse, you still pick a starting value, but now you add powers of another number. For example: 2, 2 + 3^1, 2 + 3^2, 2 + 3^3, 2 + 3^4. Or 2, 5, 11, 29, 83. (Her progressions also had only one term for each power, a requirement that makes them more manageable.)

I'm not entirely sure how to interpret that, since I don't see any reference to "one term for each power" in the abstract of the paper, nor in a quick glance through it.
Arguably, almost everybody in the Western world has gotten rich.

Go visit a medieval castle sometime. The standards that now everybody has required an army of servants in the old days.

It is just a hateful lie of the left to claim "being rich" is dependent on exploiting poor people.
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Education just isn't a priority for Americans, it's not about partisan anger and vitriol --both sides don't prioritize educations. Polls of both parties' voters show that education is not a top issue, but rather social concerns, the economy, guns, immigration, trade, climate change, these are all given as much if not more political oxygen than education.
Not a Settler of Catan fan, then?
> So where's the adverse effect from reducing the ppm by 10 a year - or month (hah, unlikely), until we hit target?

Apart from reversing the recently observed greening of the planet, it will be dangerous if we have built all our infrastructure around zero/negative CO2 and are not able to stop removing CO2 just like now we don't seem to be able to limit the increase quickly enough.
Yeah, I play on a couple APA pool leagues and the handicap system for 8-ball and 9-ball makes it so pros and beginners can play against each other and mostly have a good time.
I think the population density was one of the points. The current system allows countries to pick the schools within a selected region, and in a high population region they can focus on top performing schools.

> that the sampling done on mainland China (Beijing, Jiangsu, Guangdong and Shanghai) and other cities was not taken from a wide variety of schools. Rather, the very best schools were chosen and the very best students were cherry-picked from those schools.

So this is more than just focusing on Massachusetts, this is picking only the best students from the best schools in Massachusetts.
But hoarding wealth isn't a problem for inequality. It is that capital can be used to generate income.

Inflation is the process that incentivizes capital to be put to work.
>in complex systems the devil is most often in the details.

In economics the devil often uses the details to bury larger issues (losing the forrest for the trees).
My (state) university abandoned cards and scrapped its mainframe and punches in 1980. The punches were unwanted anywhere. The most prized parts of the mainframe, a CDC 6600, were the smoked-glass doors.
> Namely, that inflation (primarily hyper inflation) has been the only force to reduce income inequality.

Inflation, and war.
Everyone speeds. Everyone. Everyone breaks traffic laws. Most see traffic enforcement where there are no victims as heavy-handed. Comparing that with a robbery is specious.

"But they could have..."

But they didn't. Nor have the many who came before. The risk profile of these guys is less than someone who is checking a text while driving.

(Okay, a tiny, tiny minority of drivers never break the law. They are the extreme exception)
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I don't actually think mass confiscation would be necessary. Offer nationwide buyback and severely curtail manufacture and first-sale, and the equations change wildly. America is hyper-capitalist and capitalist incentives tend to work on people.

It's win-win; those who want their guns more than the money can keep their guns.
Before income tax, nobody had any idea about who was making what. Fast forward 100 years and we still have no idea about who holds how much capital. Even if you disagree on a universal wealth tax (just like we have for income) there is an argument to be made that it is important information to policymakers.

Other than that Piketty argues that larger wealth means larger returns (per unit capital) and that is a very strong argument against a flat capital gains tax.

Moreover I think wealth can be used in ways which don't necessarily produce an income: for influence, as collateral...
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> SELinux has been able to solve the problem of "if a policy says X can't get to Y, prevent X from getting to Y" for years. Regular UNIX permissions have been doing the same for decades. (Yes, SELinux and regular UNIX permissions take a different approach / let you write the policy differently, but that's the problem they're fundamentally solving; given a clear description of who to deny access to, deny this access.) Neither SELinux nor UNIX permissions nor anything else has solved the problem of "Actually, in this circumstance I mean for X to get to Y, but in that circumstance I don't, and this is obvious to a human but there's no clear programmable distinction between the cases."

I don't think even your examples are obvious to everyone. For example, if paramiko is installed as a dependency of something else, it's not clear that you want to grant it access to your keys. Further, you might want to grant access to some but not all keys. There are many nuances that are unique to the particular use case which I don't think are obvious. However, that doesn't explain the inability of tools to allow us to describe these relationships.
We should listen to everyone in a democracy. But France is not in the mood for what the yellow vests are selling. In the 2017 first round, 70% of votes went to center-left Macron (a banker who promised economic liberalization) or center-right or far-right candidates. Yellow vests are protesting because voters are rejecting their policy preferences.
I can't say for sure, but I think it is using a conformal mapping.
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I used to work at the company (Mokriya) that had previously released an "official" CL app. CL's attitude towards apps was funny. I never got it. The lead dev told me they were hard to work with and were against providing APIs. No wonder they got their lunch eaten by facebook and other marketplaces.
That seems like a huge problem. Even places with idyllic weather like California can have bad days. I'm skeptical of anything purporting to be a revolution in transportation when it will largely limited to a few select areas and is prone to catastrophic failure based on something as common as snow or rain.
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See my other response to rini17 for more info.

But yeah, seems to me these "shifted geometric progressions" are actually just a special case of a more general concept of a "polynomial progression".
I guess law enforcement and we as a society should now be scratching our heads wondering how this is possible in 2019. If speeding laws were truly enforced they wouldn’t have gotten out of NY/NJ without getting pulled over :)
This is how:

To "blow the whistle" is an idiom meaning to expose wrongdoing, usually from a position of privileged access to the information. See: https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/blow+the+whistle

This requires that the thing being reported is in fact wrongdoing. If you expose something that is innocent and innocuous, then you are - by definition - not a whistle-blower.

So when a person is called "a whistle-blower" the person using that term is expressing the opinion that the subject of the exposure is in fact 1) did occur, and 2) an act of wrongdoing.
I'm pretty sure that the guy who was watching a Harry Potter movie in his car and was decapitated for his troubles[0] would have been happy to send a baby alone in the same car.

Not everybody does risk-assessment the same way, and humans are really, really bad at risk assessment.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jul/01/tesla-dri...
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>https://noyb.eu/privacy-kickstarter-first-100k-for-noyb/
Mozilla supported them with €10,000 when they were starting out.
Projection of the cells to the hyperbolic disk is in https://github.com/dmishin/hyperbolic-ca-simulator/blob/mast...
A roof over you head can be very useful in the rain.
Blaming the dictator doesn't solve the problem. Sure, you could try to overthrow a dictator, but you can also try to fix a system, by talking to any of the people involved in it (or if there are no people involved, try to modify the system yourself, since there's no one to stop you).
ESR releases get minor version bumps. Eg 68.3 got released at the same time as 71.
US has about 5 times as many people locked up, proportionally, as China.
Nah, Verizon customer (well, T-Mobile now, but that changed a couple weeks ago, my last flight was over a month ago).

One trick that you can do if you want a free hour of GoGo WiFi is try numbers until you land on a T-Mobile subscriber number. Not exactly ethical, but neither is the price they charge for a cross-country flight of WiFi ;-)
There's certainly a risk difference with code that runs in a reasonably well thought out sandbox.
Google kills so many projects that they killed their own holding company.
In the Netherlands (where I currently reside as well) I think this tax can easily be avoided by placing your assets in some sort of shell company. When the startup I used to work for IPO'd I was not surprised to find that most of the important stockholders were using such companies (presumably) to avoid being taxed on their hundreds of millions/billions of euros.
Is there a reason to use this over DVC[1] which is language and framework agnostic and supports a large number of storage backends? It works with any git repo and even polyglot implementations and can run the DAG on any system.

Currently using DVC, MLflow just for metadata visualization and notes on experiments, and Anaconda for (python) dependency management. We are an embedded shop so we don't deploy to the "cloud."

[1]: https://dvc.org/