skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> History is important because it lets us see ourselves in the arc of time and be more cognizant of how and why we arrived at the present moment.

I think that framing minimizes the extent to which we can and do choose how we portray history in order to choose how we see ourselves.
Super excited about all the new possibilities we have for designing buildings! Algorithms for the win!
Koalas, or PySpark Disguised as Pandas
All other things being equal, happiness is 100% chemical.

Either you're naturally happy, or you're not. Additional chemicals (natural or artificial) can help adjust the dopamine, seratonin and norepinephrine levels that we sense as pleasure for a short time, but that's not happiness.

You can be an unhappy rich person, a poor happy one. You can be a happy paraplegic, or an unhappy Olympic level athlete. You can be happy while in prison, or unhappy while free. You can be happy in chronic pain and happy under intense stress. Or the opposite. Hell could be lonliness, or hell could be other people. It's 100% individual.

Accepting your natural state resets the bar, and lets you live peacefully. Everything else is just trying to be something you're not.
I didn't mean they would lose 20k in health and housing. They would still have that plus 20k. I was just simply explaining a different perspective.

Also I don't think dismissing something that differs from your ideas is a good way of going about things. Regardless if it is right or not theres a reason why those idea subsist. I don't think that there is a mistake that cultures with both right and left ideas seem to thrive. I don't think our ancestors were dumb
If being the 5th largest economy in the world and contributing more tax dollars to the Federal government than it receives is largely dysfunctional, that sounds pretty awesome. California has tons of problems but I can't think of many less dysfunctional states.

For example, Texas has the second largest economy amongst the states, and would be the world's 10th largest economy, but IMO it's more dysfunctional than California because it's on the dole for $50bil annually from the rest of the country. They subsidize their low taxes by sponging off the other states, including California and New York. Also, Ted Cruz.
Those companies do have to convince people to keep paying them money, otherwise they would cease to exist. The government is unconstrained by even that requirement.
I checked out the Fog Creek description, and found this:

Penalty:

Low level / highly repetitive tasks (rote tech support, manual black box testing) are collapsed into one year. (You don’t have three years of experience, you have the same year experience three times over).

I'm sorry, but this is just such a generalization that it should be stricken. Yes - I understand that this is his view, but especially the last line can be off-the-charts wrong.

I've worked with people doing this kind of work, and the competency is all over the spectrum. Even at those low levels, you have people that become good / intimate enough with the systems, that they can advance to more technical positions. It COMPLETELY depends on how motivated one is - some "rock star" tech supports and testers actually take the time to read technical documents, review code, analyze the systems, etc. While others will do the absolute minimum.

EDIT: Also, not considering non-professional experience as experience is highly individual / something you need to look at one a case-b-case basis. If some dev. with xx years of daily open-source (or similar) applies, you absolutely should take a look at his work.

One anecdote: One of the best software engineers I personally know had a huge problem breaking into the industry, for years. He had no formal education, or professional SE experience, but spent all his spare time working on his own projects, or doing open-source projects.

When some big-name software company finally took a chance on him, he practically flew through the ranks - because he had a solid 20 years of "experience", compared to his colleagues - most fresh grads, or even managers.
Hopefully this will help: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23648890
So maybe we ban all references to nations of individuals that have in the past committed war crimes? Even the limited to recent history, the list is sort of long[1], but African nations seem to be well represented. As a convenient shorthand, maybe we just ban the African continent altogether?

/sarc

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_indicted_in_t...
Cool idea! Took me a few scans to realize ETH is unrelated to blockchain tech in this article...
rhetoric + retort = retortic
His work personally started everything else. Without him, there wouldn't be an Amazon, and none of those other jobs would exist, and trillions less value would exist in the world.

Though to be fair, a good counterargument to what I just said is that likely something else would've existed, so it's not true that trillions wouldn't exist, just the difference between Amazon and the next best thing. And there are still plenty of good reason to tax Jeff Bezos heavily enough to make sure there is less disparity, or organize society differently to not allow such a large difference in wealth. I mostly don't agree with those arguments, but obviously there are some good ones.
I don't feel like they're the first, and I doubt they're the last.
So you're in favor of suppression of free speech so as to enhance the stability of society? If so, we disagree.
I think you're missing the angle the parents bringing to the table:

The flag was flown as the symbol of the actual Confederacy for a short time sure, because the Confederacy itself was short lived. But it's been flown as a symbol of southern pride for a long time since then.

And traditions need only span one's own lifetime to be meaningful.
I don't actually think you want to mirror the natural data distribution, but rather to provide a distribution which has a sufficiently high variance in the right directions so that the resulting NN polytope has a chance of being approximately 'correct'.

Because you have this piecewise-linear sort of warping of the feature space going on, the NN is basically a whole bunch of lever-arms. The broader the support that you can give those lever arms, the less they will be influenced by noise and randomness ... hence my obsession with putting enough variance into the dataset along relevant dimensions.

To put this another way, I think that the synthetic data manifold has to be 'fat' in all the right places.
When I worked in an art gallery in Union Square in SF, we had a client coming in from China to look at an original Chagall. The problem: the crate was arriving from Switzerland only an hour before the client. When it got there we raced to unpack everything. The piece was huge - the extremely ornate gold frame must have weighed 80 pounds. And there was a stray nail sticking out of it! We only had a few minutes so I laid it down flat on the floor and unscrewed the back to take out the art.

I'll never forget the feeling - when I lifted the canvas out of the frame, it was as light as air. All those millions for this piece and it could have floated out of my hands. It was a beautiful feeling I've never forgotten.

We got the nail out out of the frame, patched it up, put the art back in, and sweated through the client viewing. They bought it, of course. It wasn't even that great of a painting. But somehow the framing adds so much to the aura of the piece. It's more than an art form to be honest - for most art out there it's the one thing that adds weight. For art that is valued at whatever someone will pay for it... the framing is everything.
Shutting Down Patreon for Support
Or, they could just stop the advertising because of budget issues.

Supporting the boycott may be unpopular with some demographics. So maybe, just maybe, there's something to it.
Putting aside philosophical discussions around what art is, I feel like frames are much like many other things recognized as art in museums, including Smithsonian museums.

While four pieces of wood would suffice for security, frame makers delighted in the gilded and polychrome curves of Baroque frames, the asymmetrical Rococo peak and the stepped geometry of Art Deco casing.

You can say the same things about furniture or even fashion. Not every frame is art, sure, but you also won't see a Raymour & Flannigan sofa in a museum any time soon either.
It was the cause.

The election of Lincoln and John Browns raid were threatening to the south exactly because of their threat to slavery. The south was not only paranoid of a slave uprising, but also owned people was the bulk of their wealth.

I think this skeptics SE is pretty good summary:

https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/16275/was-slave...

And the Cornerstone Speech by the VP of the confederacy:

> Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner- stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition.
to put it back in the context of the article...I have (personally, and there is certainly elements of my own projection in here) always interpreted Matt and Trey's perspective as 'we need to change grow and improve as a society but stop doing it in the the most self important and reactionary way possible. I place them as left-leaning libertarians in part based on their 'hate liberals even more'. They believe in people not performance. I look at the episodes post Obama being elected as the height of satire of both sides and quite profoundly insightful for what came next.
Well, that is certainly a major difference between our points of view. I'm not going to say that you're wrong. Global labor arbitrage is an expected byproduct of Capitalism. There is no easy fix for that. Economies will have to transform as the requirements of the workforce change. The trend is certainly towards more automation and off-shoring, and just like we don't expect people to be ditch-diggers anymore, maybe we won't expect them to do menial jobs too. And on top of that the current population of the world is simply not sustainable, doesn't matter where you live.
I'm curious if you have a source for the claims on movies or gaming. I couldn't find anything conclusive.

It is true that revenue in the music industry dropped substantially over time, although I am not sure about profitability. The music industry has moved to digital, so wouldn't that imply that the margins are better therefore potentially more profitable? Or is streaming more expensive than pressing physical cds?

On a personal note, I think Spotify is freaking incompetent as hell, as I constantly have issues with basic shit like their Shuffle feature. I'm close to unsubscribing with them.
That kind of AI has been tried, 30 years ago, and it doesn't go far enough. It's really difficult to get that out of the toy domains.
Last fall I had the chance to fly SFO to LHR on an A380 and return trip on a 747. Such a smooth journey. Post COVID, I strongly suggest finding one of these for a future flight, if there are any left flying post COVID that is...
Have you never been to rural NY? The Confederate flag flies all over the place there, and I rather suspect that very few of those flying it are doing so because of Southern heritage.
Fun stuff! Master masons would 'tune' walls to specific applications (more load, better aesthetics Etc, and this can make that possible by non-masters. But more interesting to me is that places that previously were too cost sensitive to afford clever masonry might benefit.

The canonical example in California are acoustic "freeway walls" which are block walls that line the freeways as a mechanism for minimizing noise in the surrounding neighborhoods. The "simple" way these are build tends to just reflect the noise somewhere else, and has some really interesting effects with low clouds.

If on the other hand you could mathematically design an audio 'notch' filter out of the walls using a precise set of openings that would absorb sound and dissipate its energy into the wall, you could create much more effective sound walls. And if you could do this so that anyone working on the wall has a good chance of successfully laying out the wall correctly, then you could apply it to the miles and miles of walls that Caltrans builds every year. That would be pretty neat.
Seems rather disrespectful to be making this kind of argument considering the scale involved. Roughly 22 million people died in Asia as a result of the Japanese occupation preceding and during the Second World War. That's just shy of triple the dead of the Holocaust and 4.5 times the number of slaves in the US in 1860.
There's also some really interesting research from last year on local dimensionality of a manifold that I really really want to try out.
This should be your default :)
There's the old saying that if you know nothing about it, the Civil War was about slavery; if you know a little about it, it was about state's rights; and if you know a lot about it, it was about slavery.

The "states rights" trope was a deliberate attempt of a few Southern, revisionist historians to blunt their racist past. The truth is that the South seceded because their states wanted the right to hold slaves.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Cause_of_the_Confederacy
Maybe, but I don't think so. Before this interview, Moore shows a number of clips from news networks and other talking heads blaming the crime on all sorts of things -- video games, music, etc. Then later Moore interviews the very level-headed parent of a victim who says nobody from any news organization tried to talk to him or listen to what he had to say.

The idea I believe Moore is trying to convey is that news people told the community & survivors why this happened, placing blame according to their own biases (or those of their corporation), instead of asking and investigating and listening. This ties into the title of the film and the result of the next interview with the two survivors: the perpetrators were also heavily into bowling, so how come nobody was blaming that?

Manson may still have misinterpreted the question but his answer does make sense in the context of what Moore shows -- that nobody went and actually listened to the people in the community.
Sorry, I was vague on that term. By open-ended, I meant recurring and without a goal; maybe there’s a better descriptive term for it.
You say read-committed, I say buggy-code
Somehow this reminds me a lot of the "don't stuff beans up your nose" rule on Wikipedia.
Well, you still need to prevent it from melting. Coefficients of heat transfer are not infinite.
> I think a lot of people are smart enough to know that there is a difference between representing "an ideal version of America," and specific ideals that individuals represented. Washington for example largely representing the fight for independence; Roosevelt standing for social justice; Lincoln for freedom and equality - not American utopia.

There are mainstream politicians and political commentators who explicitly say that racism used to be a big problem in the United States but that it simply does not exist any more. I suspect it's a very common belief.
Yeah, there are a couple of tipis that go up every year that get comments from the damn ignorant. What can I expect from people looking for outrage?
Archived version is here; snapshot taken before the ACM's COVID-era relaxation of its paywall policy expired:

https://web.archive.org/web/20200630042233/https://dl.acm.or...
Sure, and if the moon was made of cheese, it would still be a sphere lighting up the night sky.

The fact that the go designers prioritize things like statically compiled binaries is the whole magic of Go in the first place. The language is whatever, it's fine, it's cool. But like the article says, the magic is in its holistic attitude towards process, tooling, and distribution.
Good riddance- with any luck the post COVID-19 world will be one with less reliance on air travel for the atmosphere's sake. Especially in the numbers that once made airplane designers believe the 747 and A380 could be economically viable.
This was known at the dawn of python and before, though. For example lisps in various flavors were doing this high-and-low very well decades earlier; arguably nothing has done it radically better since.

So it's worth asking why that never took over the world as a counter to why python exploded.

It's tempting as a technology person to wish a "better python" had been the one to gain that sort of market impact. However, we have to at least ask the question if some of its technical flaws actually contributed to its success....
No I think it's clear I'm talking about allocation, I.E. if they didn't have those engineers wasting time on Pocket, they could have been assigned to work on the engine team.
One look at "Apple Design Award trophy, created by the Apple Design team" [0] makes me cringe: awful outline, botched perspective, weirdly rotated text...

Is this some kind of internal joke?

[0] https://www.apple.com/newsroom/images/product/os/ios/lifesty...
suffering can be deeper, but that's also probably stepping into psychiatry territory.. my point is you cannot reason or meditate everything away
They have the right to not do business with Facebook. This is massively more power than a citizen has over it's government. If I had the right to not pay my taxes if I was unsatisfied with government services (not actually saying this is reasonable) then the government would be a lot more responsive to my needs.
Tooling and libraries mostly. In python the ideal is there "should be one, and preferably only one, obvious way to do things". This makes it a lot easier for me to reason about other people's code. The tooling is also an issue, with how much it can take to get started coding.

There's also stuff that surprises me around variable scoping, I imagine I'd get used to it but...

There are also just a bunch of foot guns I have to re-learn, like the comparisons often being bizarre, it's easy to work around all those when you're aware of them but there are a lot of those little eccentricities.
A few years ago, linkedin purposefully changed their notification emails to have less information so you're forced to log in and read the notification on their platform. Linkedin is also widely known for when they scraped users contacts and then spammed them.

Call it incompetence if you want, but there's a certain flavor of evil incompetence here.
A bit changed in AI since 30 years ago. The way we use Internet changed as well. Perhaps if we had a better semantic network and today's algorithms, we could go further?
I realize you've made a weak straw man argument here, but there are important distinctions that need to be made in discussions about platform/user base moderation. While there are classes of people protected from discrimination by civil rights laws, what is not protected is discrimination or refusal of service for customers based on what they do rather than who they are. Banning someone for cheating, harassment, circumventing moderation, etc is not comparable for banning users of a certain race, and even attempting to equivocate them is a weak argument.
Kudos for looking up real data - but it's hard to say how much of these numbers are for manufacturing.
GP didn't place their comment in a time-period context, but I think it's safe to say they're referencing 1940s-1960 Hollywood censors.
I mean, there just aren't any constitutional implications - it happened in 1992 with no lasting repercussions.
Comparing governments to companies is like comparing sports teams to referees. Referees have scored zero points since the inception of the game. They must suck!!!
I feel like I'm reading my own words right now. Since I currently have a job at a company that pays slightly below average, but other than that is pretty amazing (I have no stress there and partially get to work on open-source), I'll give you some pro's as to why you have your degree:

1. It's easy to get up to speed. This has 2 consequences (see 2 and 3).

2. It doesn't feel particurlarly challenging, so you can focus on having a chill life.

An aside: if you live in a country where you're taxed highly, then I definitely recommend taking a 4 day work week as free days don't get taxed. To me, it almost strikes the right balance. I'm learning that I want a mix between a 4 day work weeks and 8 to 12 week vacations per year. I'd get there if I'd go to 3.5 days per week and use 26 free days as vacation days. For me, being able to work 3.5 days per week is similar to being rich and doing whatever the hell you want. Career progress is tougher (depending on what you do in your free time), but you're living life right now instead of later.

3. If it does feel challenging (had this with a previous gig before the 12 months), you have the confidence of having been through something much more grueling before.

Is that worth 4 years of your life? Probably not, but it's better than the psychology degree that I also happen to have :P
> people have been largely unsuccessful in keeping the iconography from becoming a racist dogwhistle

The Confederate flag has always been a racist dogwhistle. Right from day 1.
I've always struggled with what to think about how companies have recently jumped on the mindfulness bandwagon. I appreciate the support but the cynical side of me still feels like it is an attempt to keep employees complacent with the growing decrease in a positive work environment.
Worldwide Music Conference – Scientific World Explores Music – Prague 2021
I’d argue don’t read any analysis on it. It’s not ancient text, the source material is pretty available and relevant. Watch it, come to your own conclusions.
GCHQ were involved which means the NSa would have known about it since they're not really separate organizations. I believe they would refrain from briefing the president on something which was important to keep secret.
Going to point out the irony of writing that the poor US Government is the victim of a "war."
I don't think individual anecdotes really serve the argument. We need data.
Google: A DomainSpecific Supercomputer for Training Deep Neural Networks
Could you elaborate on the "interesting effects with low clouds" caused by the walls? I've never heard of that before, sounds interesting
Many many years ago In college,
SQL sounded hard.

So I built my own database in PHP.

Enough said
There is a huge difference between thinking bad thoughts and expressing or acting on them.

You can be as racist as you want in your own head. No one is stopping that. You can express those racist thoughts all you want on your own property.

But you have absolutely no right to express or act on those racist thoughts on someone else's property.
The second and third (final) confederate national flags were white to represent the supremacy of the white race:

> In explaining the white background, Thompson wrote, "As a people we are fighting to maintain the Heaven-ordained supremacy of the white man over the inferior or colored race; a white flag would thus be emblematical of our cause."

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flags_of_the_Confederate_State...)

It's absolutely clear that the confederate was about white supremacy.

It's also hard to argue that the confederate was about self-determination in any way when their very constitution is a litany of laws banning things, like a state's rights to regulating slave ownership.

> No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law denying or impairing the right of property in negro slaves shall be passed.

This idea that the confederacy was founded for any other reason than slave ownership is absurd and a complete fabrication, unfortunately perpetuated by Texas school books used throughout the United States public schools.
You're making a lot of very strong and unsupported statements.

> Accepting your natural state resets the bar, and lets you live peacefully.

"Just accept... that you will always be miserable... and you can live peacefully."