skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Again, you're misunderstanding the difference between GDP and foreign policy. China has a low GDP, which I mentioned but a giant economy. Think of it like Apple has a $1.9T market cap and 130,000 employees and Amazon has a $1.6T market cap with 800,000 employees. From a foreign policy perspective, the number of employees doesn't matter. It's only the ability to project power into other countries. China is not a developing country. It only feigns to be.

"Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak" — Sun Tzu

The problem with China, again to repeat myself, is that there is significant overlap between the economic and foreign policy interests of China. Whereas American companies only care about making more money, Chinese companies want to both make money and extend Chinese influence.

This is terrible for democracies so easily swayed by unregulated emergent technologies like social media. If all you think Russia did was leak documents, I think you far underestimate their impact. An underdog candidate without majority popular support became president by the smallest margins. Democracy only works if its influenced by people who actually care if it succeeds. Foreign influence of any kind rots it at its core. This is the goal of China and Russia (although they may approve of different candidates).

This isn't a problem of America losing its hegemony in the world. It's a problem where foreign influences help elect a leader that has led to the unnecessary deaths of more than 100K Americans. The USA is no saint but China and Russia literally seek to elevate themselves at any cost. Allowing any Chinese companies influence over American citizens is an absolute disaster. They won't simply seek to make money in the USA, they will try to extend Chinese national interests at the cost of American lives.

I'm not sure if you're the type of person simply trying to seem intelligent by arguing against the popular stance or if you truly believe what you say. In either case, I don't see why a smart person such as yourself would defend the reputation of such a country. The future will judge us based on our inaction towards the suffering of the Uighurs and Tibetans.
You will have to do business elsewhere.

I don't mean that entirely, but understand the position from which you negotiate. I'm sure someone who abstains can do well, but I will say that many business relationships are formed from having some drinks and feeling friendly/chatting/etc.
The benefit of zero cost is creating types that are not native, yet have the speed of native types.

Eg, I do a lot of financial programming, so I need a decimal type, which is like a float, but base 10 so math with no floating point errors.

When I turn on compiler optimizations on zero cost languages, I get roughly a 15-20x speedup, depending on what it is. Interestingly, languages without zero cost abstractions, but are still quite fast, eg Java, run at the speed of the zero cost languages with optimizations turned off.

Zero cost is not helpful in most use cases, but in my situation it gives quite a large speed boost. Sadly, I feel like I'm locked in to using Rust (or C++) and don't have much of a choice. I suspect Haskell is going to be quite a bit slower for creating custom types unfortunately.
There is a lot to be said for the effects of drunkenness and the effect on honesty it has.
Carroll as an intro to general relativity is a great recommendation from the OP. I have been learning it (albeit with preexisting differential geometry knowledge) from Carroll and MTW.

An unmentioned benefit of MTW is that, because it is so heavy, it is perfect for placing on my forehead while lying down with a migraine.
It's not public yet. But it's so useful for new employees, also for large companies that has a lot of employees and no one could be aware of others' capabilities and expertise.
what do you think?
I agree with you in the long term, but in the short term, it will be quite the opposite, given the level of control his platform currently enjoys.
Can someone explain to me why this is downvoted? The examples seem to support OPs point and seem pretty damning to me.
Since half of the US pays 95% of the US taxes, with the top 5% paying almost 60% alone, it would appear that the poor need the rich much more than the other way around, and that capitalism is a great boon to them.

It would behoove them not to scare away the tax cows that pay for their schools, medical care, infrastructure, and create the economy that allows even the very poor to enjoy lives that are the envy of much of the rest of the world.
It's funny how things makes sense when you are under influence, but it is less usual it becomes real. I guess drugs helps you to let go and be more imaginative. But, it does not mean you need to take LSD to have brilliant ideas.
A depressing sentence
Maybe it was based on seeing what happened in other countries, ie. Spain and Italy? I can say for sure that the impact in the health care system here in Spain was very significant.
I have refactored the prototype, and it's easy to carry now.
From what I have seen, its hard to make a fluid team without an extraordinary amount of effort in communication. This is quite tiring for a lot of people and they need specific training.
It's not public yet. But if you want to access the beta version please send me an email to royanpc@gmail.com
Not OP, but my story is I was living in a Middle Eastern country for a few years - although you could get alcohol at hotels it was expensive and there was basically no selection (usually only Carlsberg on tap, and similar beers in bottles). So I didn't bother drinking when I was there. It made me realise that I could have fun and socialise without alcohol.

When I came back to Europe I tried drinking a few times, but I didn't really like it. As I hadn't been drinking, even one beer would make me feel so bad and dehydrated the next day (certain non-alcoholic beers do the same, so I don't think it is necessarily the alcohol). My wife was in the same situation, and then got pregnant so she also wasn't drinking. In the end I drifted away from my old friends who I would drink with, and made new friends who were happy to do things other than drinking.

Admittedly it does make certain social situations a bit awkward (my co-working space has a weekly beer night, although I'm usually not the only one who doesn't drink), but overall I don't miss drinking. Looking back the only reason I drank before was due to peer pressure; I never felt having a cold beer after work was a very effective relaxation technique.
They are the same.

Suppose you're the founder of your company. You sold a 40% stake to investors to raise capital to get started, but it's still 60% yours, so you have control of the company.

If you're required to liquidate your shares to pay the tax on them, you lose control of the company -- which in turn could cause the stock to crash because investors trust the founder more than the random MBA they can expect mutual funds to install.

And stocks can be volatile. If the company is worth $50B in June, $100B in December and then $50B again in January, did the owner ever really have that much wealth? Do they get the money back from the government next year? Do they get the shares back?

Meanwhile nobody is even bothering to do the math on this from the perspective of the government. Because the government can borrow money at close to 0% interest, while index funds have been giving >4% average annual returns, which means taking the money today instead of borrowing it today and taking it whenever they actually sell the shares (including the share appreciation in the meantime) would require the other taxpayers to pay more to make up for the loss of government revenue that would cause.
Wtf are you talking about. All the recommendations here are look at what physics departments teach and do that. Instead of listening to some Jack ass who thinks the only real physics is theoretical physics.
Yes, my first laptop was a 320CDT which I bought when I started contracting. The first thing I did was format it and install Windows NT on it.

I had a couple of Dells after that but they never felt as robust as the Toshiba.
Hi Clay, I saw -- thanks. I refactored it, and it's simple to carry now. I've posted an update with a pic, I think you are receiving those.
Come on, Sanders, don't puss out and stop there. How about: a 100% marginal tax rate on any wealth earned after personal wealth exceeds 1 billion dollars.
This is an old trope, and only half true. You only have to look at the Bible to see that some figures who absolutely won in their lifetimes and for many years afterwards can nevertheless ultimately be remembered as demons - King Herod and Pontius Pilate being good examples here.
What a defeatist attitude. Instead of snarkily poking holes, where's your better solution?

Because there has to be a solution. Inequality is reaching levels where it's dangerous. No, it is not good nor stable for 1% of the population to control 99% of the assets, and we'll get there soon enough.

Redistribution will happen either by law or by knife and gun. This is not about who earned what or what was inconvenient for XYZ person. This is about the citizens of the country, supposedly equal under law, having no chance whatsoever of ever owning an equal part. It's about aristocracy, basically. And do we all remember how aristocracies end?

Real life is not some computer model. In real life, if a father of 6 cannot feed or house his children he will not be satisfied by you saying that "well, Jeff Bezos outcompeted you!". There will be a redistribution. Our only choice is how it happens. This is an attempt.
The project was mostly about creating an end-to-end web app,
so right now we have no intentions providing a SQLite interface.

That being said, the recipes API which the frontend client consumes is open and allows you to query our ElasticSearch cluster. You can have a look at the API in the repo (We will be adding some documentation today or tomorrow) and of course we are open for pull requests if you wish to implement such an interface..
>Fun fact: You cannot get emergency FDA approval for a vaccine (Remdesivir) if another effective drug exists (HCQ).

Remdesivir is not a vaccine, it is an anti-viral, which is not the same thing. Moreover, the FDA is not going to block emergency approval for a vaccine with radically greater efficacy than an approved medicine used in an off-label manner. There are no approved drugs for COVID-19. There drugs approved for other illnesses that are used in an _off-label_ manner for COVI-19.
I'm skeptical that giving someone that doesn't understand databases a tool to automate their use will result in a better situation long term. A determined programmer can always make a huge mess.

I will admit: I'm an ORM disliker, preferring to write all my SQL by hand. SQL is a wonderful language and it's often far easier to do things in SQL than in whatever imperative language you happen to be using. I also enjoy far better performance than most (any?) ORMs can offer, simply by using prepared statements. I have far greater control over batching, should I wish to employ it.

When things are going wrong, it's simpler in my experience to audit human-written SQL than it is to audit whatever stuff an ORM decides to emit for a given situation.

I agree with ignoring cross-database concerns, as I feel that you will be leaving the finer features of your database on the table if you stick to the basics. Here's the real counterpoint though. If you write SQL, then you can swap out your slow, single-threaded, interpreted programming language for one with a bit more punch. And you can even do it piecemeal. To me, that's a much more compelling hedge than swapping out a DBMS.
> The problem with China, again to repeat myself, is that there is significant overlap between the economic and foreign policy interests of China.

As is the case for every country. Do you seriously believe that US foreign policy is agnostic about US companies' economic interests?

> foreign influences help elect a leader

Blaming your problems on malign foreign powers is something Trump would do. The US elected Trump. Blaming his election on Russia is ridiculous.

This really sounds like a new Red Scare. The Democrats tried it with Russia after the 2016 election, and the Republicans are trying it with China now. The US has plenty of its own problems. Blaming foreign influence is ridiculous.

> The future will judge us based on our inaction towards the suffering of the Uighurs and Tibetans.

Or on the destructive actions we were manipulated into supporting through atrocity propaganda. Every few years, the US public is told about some new ultimate evil it must face. How many times will this pattern be repeated before people learn? Iraqi society destroyed. Libyan society destroyed. Syrian society destroyed.
Amazon has advanced the efficient distribution of goods more than any company in the last 20 years. One day shipping, easy returns, subscribe and save, photos of the delivery, shipment tracking, etc... The reality is that it is just a lot better run than it’s competition.
Is there a citation for herd immunity and the UK? It was bandied around by the left wing press when they were looking for blood but I never saw any concrete evidence beyond it apparently being mentioned in passing.
It seems one of the major downfalls is that the user has to define all sources and sinks. I might have missed it but how do you systematically define/find these? Personally was interested in a similar topic for a thesis and stumbled upon deepcode.ai which started out of ETH Zurich (https://files.sri.inf.ethz.ch/website/papers/scalable-taint-...). Are there any plans or reasons why you would not want such a system?
I refactored it and posted a pic. It's simple to carry now. (You were right.) The final product will be even better (would pack smaller, and will be lighter. That's because I'm planning to use thin aluminium for the table too, not wood.)
According to the author, it’s not just to keep paying the bills. It seems like a lack of self-awareness (or maybe courage) prevents them from realizing that avoiding risks results in self loathing.
I know exactly what you mean! This is even more annoying in German, where every noun is capitalised.
You are the person speaking truth in this thread.
Thanks for this, it is a new observation for me

I was looking at God's punishment the other day, and realized it was actually for the benefit of the one who received it

Even though it seemed extreme and other people died, actually we all die anyway; and so the value of life to God must stretch beyond death, and the punishment actually ensures their best outcome!

Without it they would all of walked far away from God. So just like we punish children and they hate it -- actually it is for their best

And if we give up on God at the point of seeing death, then we are rejecting the point of view from eternal life

Just my two cents

Thanks for this, it was useful :)
> [...] from time to time I need to write a script or use a popular python library like pygments and I used to hate having to do anything with python because of how difficult it seemed to install anything

Not sure I understand why you're having so much trouble. It's literally two commands:

$ python3 -m venv venv # Create virtualenv
$ ./venv/bin/pip install pygments

However! One unfortunate thing with this is that `python3 -m venv` doesn't include the 'wheel' package in the virtualenv out-of-the-box. So it's often a good idea to install/upgrade pip, setuptools and wheel after creating the virtualenv:

$ ./venv/bin/pip install -U pip setuptools wheel
Given my experience with masks while walking through a supermarket on a hot day, I can't say that doing anything vaguely sportlike with a mask seems extremely unappealing to me. I figured this was some special kind of mask but it sounds like one meant to catch extremely small particles rather than have some special airflow feature.

But perhaps it doesn't seem worth it to me because the smog here isn't as bad as where GP is? I've never really seen a haze in cities like Aachen or Eindhoven the way TV shows it is abroad (particularly China comes to mind, but probably car-oriented USA also?).
As I understand it, the "promotion through seniority" thing isn't always a huge issue.

It's basically a way to create less risk and stress for employees. As long as they put in the work (and yeah, they're ALL expected to work) they get job security and get promoted in a predictable way.

If they show that they're actually good at their jobs, they don't get more (or less!) promotions, they just get to work on the more interesting projects and are given more free reign.

Of course, I expect this would only be true in the companies that are not sinking. And it's not like the USA doesn't have its share of former tech giants getting torn apart by more competent competitors (anyone remember Yahoo? HP? Is IBM on the upswing or downswing right now?).
IIRC, for example phone keyboards use federated learning, where the model is further trained locally. You don't want to send every word the user types, for privacy reasons and others. Some kind of "diff" of the local model can then be sent to the cloud at some time to add up to the base model.

There is still an attack vector, you can infer a bit from the "diff", but you probably can't tell exactly what the user wrote.
This class has been superseded and practically meaningless for 20 years.

You’re obviously posting nothing but random Java classes.
that sounds like a good thing.

It might have been good if the rust team themseleves had pre-squated

get rid of all the common names arguments and have everyone use prefixed or unique names
That is a geopolitical subcultural anomoly. Where I live, over the course of my corporate career, virtually nobody has communal drinks after work. There is a combination of driving commute and family obligations that eliminates that possiblity.
I used to always use the floppy net install image for Debian. Was magic to me that a single disk could bootstrap so much amazing stuff.
> Leonard Susskind's video lectures called as "the theoretical minimum"

This is apparently a book too, co-authored by Susskind and Hrabovsky [1].

[1]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Theoretical_Minimum
well, in theory they can hand their share in company stock to the govt, adjusted for any taxes or whatever. Based on the stock price of the days the bill is passed for example, or x days before. The government then sells or holds it, as it sees fit. That is not a problem, whether it should be passed it is.

(I agree that this is a dumb law, taxes should not be a one off thing. If they need to be raised, do it but for all)
But that would be wasteful and needlessly noisy. The point was that there is no need.
This whole thing is just insane. Facebook, as a platform, has enabled mass amounts of misinformation, hatred, and groupthink, to the point of becoming a serious concern for our democracy. It is fundamentally designed into the platform to give more exposure to provocative, polarizing content. And somehow, people think the solution to this problem is to give Facebook the explicit job of deciding what is true and what is not.

The answer to the problem is simple. Facebook should not exist. This is a service that handles a significant percentage of the information flow in the world, and yet it's fundamental goal is to optimize for ad spending. Which means it needs to keep people using it as much as possible and as engaged as possible. Your text messaging service doesn't care if you use it or not, and it doesn't care what information to send or receive from other people. Facebook uses everything at it's disposal to keep you addicted to it, and that comes at the cost of being a balanced, thoughtful way of communicating. The model is broken and it is not going to be fixed.
How to Make Lighthouse Analysis on Google Chrome Browser?
It would make good history: A novel tree-based data structure invented while working on a tree table.
>>>f Joe Biden wins the presidency, he is going to be busy meeting leaders of the world apologizing the mess Trump has created.

Assuming a future President Biden even knows where he is when he meets those world leaders.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/03/12/its-fair-...

Really interesting see how the Bernie Bros felt on the subject:
https://www.reddit.com/r/WayOfTheBern/comments/cpfrfg/if_dem...
You're right; my apologies.
Low grade? Trump came to power through populism, so I wouldn't call that low grade.
Re: Vox (and allegedly BuzzFeed [I assume News], etc.), there was an interesting discussion about them last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18895136
sure but who is going to steal it?

it seems easier to do that for the common case then deal with the complexity of namespaces
Much of the stock market rally was created by this "create money out of thin air" scheme, it all usually finds it's way to the stock market since you have to park all the extra money somewhere. And due to interests being at zero or in some cases negative, only safe places to park all that new money is either stocks or metals which again rises their stock markets and the price of commodities, making large stock holders gain even more. The current financial system is just broken.
That’s an interesting take. Does Apple really lag? I think quote-unquote AI in SV has pretty much stalled in the past 3-4 years. There’s been a lot of volume in ML but nothing groundbreaking.
I moved back to Europe from SV for a lesser paying job (not 1/6th though) because I thoroughly hated the bay area / US. I got a way better quality of life here (Belgium).
It is not snarky to poke holes. It is snarky to call someone snarky for pointing out issues. You don’t always have to come up with a solution immediately. That would be stupid.

Basic income via the printing of money. What do you think those $600 checks were?

Inheritance tax. Make education at public schools and universities free. Reform government for greater efficiency.
Because people like other things than just money? Once you have the safety network of a european state, have upper middle class income, there is very little to gain in quality of life by increase in pay.
This isn't an attempt to fix that. This isn't an attempt to fix anything at all. The government can just pay people's out of pocket expenses if it wanted to, it doesn't need to tax anyone to do it. This law doesn't even address inequality in any material way - it's a one time tax. It's a vapid political stunt, nothing more.
A lot of people flag according to their own political position, not the quality or validity of the content.
Double spending is nothing like printing money

And it would be trivial to convict on this - they deposited huge sums into exchanges, traded them for another currency, then double spent the deposit

It's just theft
Someone downvoted you for this comment, but that was the wrong action. I am personally skeptical you are right about digital change exposing bad leadership. But I value your ideas here and think it is a shame to see them obscured because they appear controversial to others.
My dad was telling us how, given that my spouse drives a lot of highway kilometers to work, we should totally get some air filter. A few days later I randomly realized: why don't we put that filter on the exhaust if it's so bad?!
All excellent ideas, and inevitable, IMO.
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The way I understand it, they object to the "CNN did a poll" part. There's one poll that exists with a close result, but it's not a CNN poll. It means we don't even know if he got lucky with a lie, or did he know about that poll and made a mistake about the source.

(Fwiw, I agree it's not a pants on fire situation. (Mostly) false, sure.)
He doesn't understand what wealth means or he does but he doesn't care and proposes stuff like this to gain votes.
Yes, in the developing world it is the source of most of the hate campaign.

It was okay when we could just see our friends activities now it's just a hate wagon
Yeah, it doesn't fix everything perfectly forever. But it's a shot across the bow.