skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tensorflow serving, or whatever name Google cloud has given their managed version.
Retail investors don’t drive stock market trends. It’s the Fed, institutions, and companies themselves.

Well known the Fed is pumping liquidity into the market for last few months through the Repo market. Plus cutting the Fed rate twice last year since the recession.

Companies are engaging in stock buybacks. When there’s fewer shares in the market the share price goes up.
7 seaters are intended for those who frequently do pooled trips with friends or family -- and won't buy a minivan. They're not necessarily much larger than 5-seaters, the extra seats fold down when not needed and use up the boot space.

As you say, 5 seaters are probably fine for most people.
> I'd move the lifetime into the `Row` type instead of returning a reference

I'm afraid i don't understand; which lifetime, and which returned reference?

> Unfortunately you don't totally escape the runtime check, since you still need to check if the column and row come from the same RowSet.

True, but at that point it's a programmer error, so at least you can panic rather than returning a Result!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trickle-down_economics#Critici...
I think you know, hence the wink, but usually what happens here is the local copy is lost and the backup has been bad for ages, but never was identified. The lesson learned is to test your backups, which is kind of a pain.

While I do keep a single drive backup, to restore my entire drive from, but I do not test this backup. If it doesn't work, it's not that big of a deal. I cherry pick what I really find important and burn it to M-DISCs. Very little content is actually that important, baby photos and things like this.
It might be good to understand how changing the hop and window size affect the analysis so you're not blindly changing settings.

The trade off for window size is frequency resolution and time resolution. A bigger window gives you narrower bands, so more frequency resolution while giving you less temporal resolution where an onset of transient is significant in the analysis. Similarly, hop size will determine how 'leaky' the process is and how fine grained the windows will be. This can effect detecting quick peaks or changes while possibly smearing them across a few windows.
I am one that actually agrees with the spirit of what you're saying. Unfortunately, where I have to admit shortcomings with that philosophy is that there's no evidence that the government of the United States can reliably yield good education for students. My own public schooling was a nightmare, and I know many who had an equally bad experience.

Part of this is due to the fact that there isn't (and probably shouldn't be) a singular national system for education. Another part is the fact that quality education is insanely high-priced because a parent has to pay for the public and the private system concurrently. This pressure pushes private tuitions upward and makes the private schools more exclusive because they can't take on kids below certain income thresholds at all.

This is one case where I believe regulation has actually hurt the US citizens a lot. No child left behind was a staggering failure, and most people would be better off making their educational choices for their children based on what makes the most sense for them, not based on a legislated prescription of certain topics (or the intentional avoidance of others, namely human health and biology...)
Dying Fish Revealed Congo Is World's Deepest River
Well, the current ecosystem would be destroyed, but it would be replaced with one a 1000 times richer.

It would also give millions of people in one of the most densely populated poor countries in the world a new place to live.

To me, that's an easy tradeoff. But I can see the other side of the argument.
>I am saying that adversity also creates opportunity.

But it doesn't. Occasionally it spurs on action, but just as often, it traumatizes.

>This doesn't mean 'make things really bad it's motivating'.

That's just what you said, it's simply the flipside of the following sentence, and it's untrue. If we have limited time and energy on this planet, every moment in the work you describe is wasted.
No. Tolerating intolerance isn’t the same as tolerance.
This is quite interesting philosophical question. We usually don't bring attention to the end of imagined entities because that is what they are... Imagined entities that did not have a body. But then some people got into the story so much that this entity was like a real person for them. It made impact on their lives, one way or another. So is that entity just an idea, or we all are bunch of ideas?

I have to google that up because probably someone already came up with such way of thinking I am quite sure:)
I can second this. Even though I stumbled upon this podcast only 2 weeks ago. Just after the first episode I knew I had to hear more stories, so I started listening these back to back from the start. I can highly recommend this.
Wow, thanks for this PDF. Can't believe this is freely available... IMO they could easily charge for this and I'd gladly pay...
^

To be fair, though, the flag button is hidden. You have to click on the comment time stamp to find it. Some people seem unaware of this. It appears to be a minor source of confusion around here.
If you need a portable replacement, there is Perl. Available since the last century. If you don't care about obscure Unixes, there is also Python and a whole bunch of other scripting languages on more modern systems.
I think he had the wrong reaction, I think he could have implemented some of the more reasonable suggestions easily, but some of that stuff is really nuts. "The addition of an indigenous land acknowledgement to the syllabus." I would have wtf'ed at too -- it's a CS class. If you mix in that stuff with reasonable suggestions like avoiding references that require cultural knowledge or just using different names in examples I can see how someone would just throw the whole thing out after getting exasperated with the whole process and some of the "best practices".

The suggestions included some that just seemed like "make your class easier", I can see how a diversity panel telling him how to grade his class would be annoying.

> A relaxation of grading on coding style.

> Allowing students to work together in a group for part of their grade instead of requiring them to complete all graded work individually.

> A reduction in the amount of effort expended pursuing cheating cases by 50 percent even though there has been no reduction in cheating cases.

There were some that he easily could have done, like just buying some seminar for his TAs and using a different problem:

> Training for TAs in inclusion and implicit bias.

> Review of all course materials for inclusiveness. For instance, of a lecture that involves calculating body mass index (BMI) using guidelines from the National Institutes of Health, the report noted that it “seems insensitive to present students with a program that would print out that some of them are ‘obese’ while others are ‘normal.’”

There's no reason not to make an effort to use more names in examples and even just a quick "I've always said you guys, I'm making an effort to say folks but old habits die hard" probably would have at least shown he cared enough to make people happy.
The first thing that comes to my mind is lock-in. if you push the application to Heroku and "it just works" then when you need to deploy it somewhere else you still have that hurdle to cross. Heroku's pricing adds up quickly.
He's not a professor in the classical definition, he's a lecturer. (Both from his title on paper - Principal Lecturer - and from his actual work - teaching intro CS classes for the purpose of training students to work in wage labor, not guiding researchers.) He's an employee just as much as I am. It's true that professors should have independence from those who oversee them, and there's a mechanism for that: it's called tenure, and he doesn't have it.

It's certainly reasonable for him to want to be a "professional," and from his teaching statement and his desire to teach honors classes about Haidt instead of intro classes about programming, that seems like exactly what he wants. I, too, would like to be a "professional." But he doesn't get to just be one merely because he wants to be one, any more than I can.
Curious to know how you would distinguish between unemployed, volunteer, and self-employed.
that’s really cool, thanks for the link
Sure. Wikiprojects (admin), cryptocurrency (exchange architect), open source (contributor/maintainer), currently working on kiosk format automated fulfillment of personalized meals directly from fresh ingredients (as an entrepreneur with my own money on the line) to contribute to food safety/security challenges (and hopefully recover costs). What about you?
“tax cuts automatically generating enough economic growth”

This one is easy to debunk. Deficits have gone up with every tax cut since Reagan and they never came down much. Trickle down also doesn’t seem to work with upper incomes rising while lower incomes are stagnating.
How do you tell the difference between civilians and combatants?
How did you come to the conclusion that the phenomenon you are describing is hovering above all of us, instead of resting comfortably inside our brains in the form of neurons?
Me too. Then I got a dog. Now I can't believe it took me so long to get on board.
super interesting, appreciate the link
Most sites will block articles like this because they're so much effort to moderate as they're an opening for the trolls to shout down dissent.

> His story about being gay seems to me an example of that.

In my experience as a queer woman, there are a lot of extremely misogynistic gay men, so I'm not sure that excuses anything.
> Those evil fat cats simply hoard stolen money and don't interact with greater society in any other way, right? Nevermind driving social policy, producing jobs, and building indirect relationships where large and small actors do benefit from cooperation.

The fact that fat cats drive social policy is the largest problem, since they have always driven social policy only towards their own interests. Job creation can happen without capitalists (look at large co-ops, like the Spanish Mondragon).

Also, note that this article is on the fringes of modern economics. Most modern economics absolutely supports the fat cats and their preferred models.
so are you a believer in non-modern economics (whatever that means)? because i'm getting a sense from your post that you to some extent ascribe to what seem to be some shades of economics e.g. capital offers jobs, capital trickles down to labor, etc.

if i'm right, where would you draw that line, between modern and non-modern economics?
The smaller class of SUVs are still smaller than the station wagons and large sedans they replaced. And the larger SUVs have mostly replaced minivans, which have curiously disappeared from the roads. It's kind of a wash, if you look a little closer.
I'm really glad that we have a presidential candidate (Yang) sophisticated enough to run on UBI. I've never voted before but I finally have hope that the government might make structural adjustments to the changing realities of our world.
How do fruit flies see in color?
What do didn't see mentioned is the latency for the first request when it's effectively dealer to zero. To get initial traffic/customers this is very important.
There aren't that many billionaires. How many more sons do they have, exactly?
Maybe it's a lazy simulation... the atoms and subatomic particles are only simulated once someone is looking at it.
On my Android I've turned off everything in the emergency alerts section but they still go through. I think that you aren't able to disable presidential alerts on Android, which happens to be the only alert level Ontario uses.
Well, the RSS does, but LRO does not.
shellcheck /scriptsdir/script

I noticed this in the output.

^-- SC2148: Tips depend on target shell and yours is unknown. Add a shebang.

Being new to shellcheck, not familar with options or what it does, so I hastily and erroneously typed:

shellcheck -shell=bash script

Note I learned UNIX via NetBSD. I prefer and use their version of ash for both interactive and scripting use.1 I never got used to "--" GNU-style long options. I sometimes type a single "-" out of habit. Anyway, here is the output I got from shellcheck:

Unknown shell: hell=bash

I agree with shellcheck.

Although there may be some irony in the fact it cannot sort out it own argument parsing.

1. I do not use other scripting languages such as Python, Perl, Ruby, etc. That means, e.g., for quick and dirty one-offs and prototyping, I can omit the shebang. Debian's "dash" scripting shell is derived from NetBSD's ash, the one I choose for interactive use.
woot, this is definitely wrong in my experience. Most people can read/write python to some degree, and even if you don't know python you can quickly ramp up to understand a config file or a simple program.

On the other hand most people don't write bash scripts and usually have to deal with them when encountering legacy systems or languages.
a16z Podcast: The Environment, Capitalism, Technology, where Marc Andreessen and Andrew McAfee, author of More from Less: The Surprising Story of How We Learned to Prosper Using Fewer Resources — and What Happens Next is participating.

https://a16z.com/2019/10/03/the-environment-capitalism-techn...
Is this project intentionally leaving out political organizations? Fighting the politics of austerity and capitalist oligarchy is more important than evaluating photovoltaic efficiency/viability.
Motherboard's interview with thegrugq: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qv7wmv/former-exploit-bro...

The podcast is otherwise rather unremarkable (I've listened to maybe 10 episodes) but that episode is a real gem.
> Its astounding how quickly people can forget the mistakes of the past, or pretend that they didn't happen.

> This is what makes me especially excited for the possibility of a Warrens/Sanders...

My friend, I’d like to suggest some historical reading about the dangers of central planning, socialist/communist governments....
If you're a history geek you should definitly check out Dan Carlin's Hardcore History. This year he only made 2 episodes. 'Supernova in the east' II & III. At a whopping 4 hours each these feel more like an audiobook crammed with history rather than a Podcast. But I can definitly recommend them both & the complete works of him of course.
It never matters in practice, just bootstrap your environment by installing python and use a python script.
Do you have any data to support this? I ask, not to challenge the idea, but because I share the same suspicion - that the supply of investment dollars that go into the market independent of its underlying fundamentals continues to keep prices strong (particularly now that 401K plans have replaced pensions so a lot of dollars go into the stock market each pay period automatically). If everyone views the stock market as the place to save for retirement, rather than evaluating it as an investment per se (relative to other asset classes), then the overall stock market will continue to perform well, even if the active trading of mutual fund managers causes certain stocks to rise or fall relative to one another. I haven't, however, seen any hard data to support that suspicion.
I need machines for everything. I need a machine for cooking, for cleaning, for making medicine. For making money. I want to press a button and fix a problem.
I understand that you are not aware of this, but freedom of inquiry protects non-tenured lecturers and even, thanks to Humboldt, students. I suggest that you read at least the introductory section of https://www.britannica.com/topic/academic-freedom so that your opinions are no longer based on complete ignorance of the issues at hand.

It is true that tenure is a much more effective protection, and this is perhaps a major reason that managerialists have shifted more and more of the teaching load to adjunct faculty over the last four decades. Unquestionably someone designing a new introductory course, as the author claims to have done, would have been tenured or tenure-track faculty at any US University in the 1950s, 60s, or 70s. That is, as defined by his teaching responsibilities, he is very much a professor or assistant professor according to the traditional definition.

It does seem to be correct that he is in fact vulnerable to political interference with his freedom to teach. But what we are debating is whether it would be better if he were more vulnerable to it or less so. Your position seems to be that it would be better if he were more vulnerable to it because that would make him more like you. My position is that it would be better if he were less vulnerable to it because historically that kind of thing has led to disasters like Lysenkoism and the failure of the Nazi atomic bomb program.
I love podcasts but lately I feel I've got too many to listen to. I unsubscribe only to find I missed an episode. That FOMO coupled with an almost obsessive need to reach podcast "inbox zero" is becoming a problem.

This looks like the kinda platform that could curb that with focus on individual episodes rather than the Podcast itself.
Auto Industry Shifts Gears on Where Data Gets Processed
You are not ready be an entrepreneur if your problem is financing
If you don’t mind me asking, what sort of sleep device did you get and what has it done for you?
You underestimate the cruelty of a hardware team intent on cost reduction. They knew perfectly well what they were asking. IIRC the showstopper was that the CPU wouldn't be able to handle interrupts.
Not replying but questioning your question - why isn't the results of multiple attempts at tax cuts at state (Kansas) and federal level(Reagan/Bush/Trump in USA) enough evidence, would someone in favor of such tax cuts be coming at the facts with something like "No true Scotsman"? All of the top matches for stories about tax cut results end up on progressive or non libertarian sites. The architect (maybe the author for the textbook on Reaganomics) for trickle down tax cuts wrote an editorial which is not academic but still:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/09/27/tax-cut-fe...
Yeah that's pretty much the design of French cities (and maybe European cities to an extent). The center is great, around the center is meh, suburbs are to be avoided. Very different from the typical American city.
Obviously, but then the answer is, why? What the hell is our problem?

Even if you think shell scripting is a good idea (which I don’t), just fix all the obviously dumb toxic stuff like this and put out a shell that is minimally different with only semantic fixes. Emit warnings now for toxic semantics but still support them, and in a couple of years, turn off that support for good.
This is one of the most ideological interviews I have ever read with an economist. Economists are unusually unaware of ideology, this is extraordinary: conducts limited research with limited applications (i.e. how people behave in lab conditions under unequal endowments), makes sweeping conclusions about tangentially related areas, makes sweeping conclusions about unrelated areas (most of the questions are unrelated to his research), and most of what he says just appears to totally random ideological musings about who adds value in society (this isn't even a question that economics can answer).

You see this from economists who fail out of physics close to 100% of the time. They don't really understand anything about the private sector, they understand even less about the economy (they just want to do things that they enjoy rather than produce things for others), and they often have these very strong feelings about capitalism...without really having any evidence for these views (or any awareness of the trade-offs...again, this is the kind of thing you don't learn in physics/math class).
Think about it: Walter White never died. He just moved on and became Malcom's father Hal. Hal told in one of the episodes that he had a past related to meth. So there's that.
Why not allow people to set a cap that disables everything set to that billing method once it's been reached? That seems to be the use case that people are saying is missing from cloud offerings.
Regulation? Decent waste retrieval and processing. Plenty of trash bins and pay people (you know, employees) to pick up what others don't.

And remember that most plastics that end up in the ocean are from south-east Asia. Part of which are likely exported from Europe and / or the US.
I think it's another twist on John Locke's idea of perception in essays on human understanding. Basically, humans are the product of our sensors (vision, hearing, touch, emotion, etc).

I'm going to butcher the explanation here, but IIRC in this view, everything is imaginary because we have no way of validating our sensors without using the sensors and we process the world entirely through them.
leetcode by day, joe rogan podcast by night. all day!!
the relentless picnic

episode 21

no world

https://soundcloud.com/relentless-picnic/ep-21-no-world
> Right. I don't think that proponents of universal income really 'get'
this.

:-) FWIW, I'm a proponent of UBI, and I get it. (But as I said in a sib
comment, to me UBI is an alternative to mass unemployability due to
rampant automation, it's not about ideology or utopian dreams.)

> They seem to have the idea that people will just accept their lot,
forever. Personally I'd find that utterly soul destroying. Almost no-one
is on top, and a good percentage of people are in tiny flats.

That's sounds to me like what we have now. I worked on the Google campus
as a contractor, and two things (at least) seem relevant to this thread:

First, early on I realized that this was a model for what I called
"secular utopia": the Quality of Life of a Googler is IMO the baseline
for what a human should expect on Earth. (Given the physical conditions:
the Sun and the differential between it and the rest of the sky; 4By-old
self-improving self-replicating nanotechnology; and approx. 2.25 acres
per human arable land surface; ...modulus psychosis (what most people
call politics) and ignorance. We have knowledge to dispel ignorance and
tools to cure psychosis. So really, it's just a matter of getting in the
right place and putting one's back into it.)

Er, anyway, cheap and healthy food, ready transport, freedom from
avoidable BS, etc.: it's a baseline. If we can get the seven or eight
billion humans to a Googleplex level of QoL I would be sooooooo happy.
All the other BS can be sorted out orthogonally to that simple, easy,
cheap baseline (I'm factoring in Permaculture, et. al. Given land, even
desert, it is not hard to bootstrap economically to this baseline.)

Second, a lot of people really are happy in lives that might seem to
others to be trite or "utterly soul destroying". It's subjective. The
Googleplex was the first place in my life I encountered true "jobbers":
people who are totally content (as far as I can tell from external cues)
to get up every day, grind out the 9-to-5, go home, and do the whole da,n
thing all over again the next day.

One of my co-workers had a stroke. It was in the evening, so most of the
cubicles were empty, but even so, nobody noticed and nobody said
anything. It was ten days before I realized I hadn't seen him and
asked our supervisor what had happened to him. But the most disturbing
thing to me was, when he got better he came right back to work.

Different strokes for different folks, eh? (Morbid humor, lol.)

I didn't mean to rant at you. I've had a cold and been stuck inside.
You're right. I've went with the $100k assumption from the other comment.