skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I should add:

You can 'massively decreasing returns to complexity' in these domains.

Meaning that you can do 'pretty good' with some basic algorithms.

For the next 'bump in performance' you need some complex code.

After that - you really start to have 10x larger models, or crazy complex engineering just to move the needle.

It creates a completely different set of 'Product Management' rules. It's kind of fun, unless you're a struggling startup trying to figure this out on the fly :)

Usually, someone comes along with a new approach which changes the games.

As I understand it 'Neural Networks' i.e. 'Deep Learning' style AI has changed everything voice related quite a lot.

And also - different business approaches can change the game. Google has access to zillions of phrases for properly transcribed audio phrases. This is the 'golden asset' that can underpin a really great voice recognition engine. Google voice is even better than the old industry standard - Nuance - in many scenarios and my hunch is that it's the size of their training data that has given them an edge - at least that.
True, but Google has Billions of customers per day whose margin is in the pennies, and a few hundred thousand significant account holders.

An account holder chosen at random is most likely to be in the former category, unlike klm where a customer chosen at random is likely to have a much higher margin worthy of a few dollars of support costs.

Some might argue a company should support a customer well even if doing so puts that customer as a lifetime lossmaker though.
We're already getting a serious taste of this through social media outrage culture....
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The knee-jerk outrage and intolerance for people who disagree with you.
Presumably the system is mostly based on executive actions, not laws. Thus, he could shut it down.

To stop it from just continuing come January, it is well within his authority to instruct them to delete data.
It's a classic case of environmentalist authoritarianism backed up by emotional arguments from bored politicians. That's why I oppose green parties so harshly despite caring a lot about nature and environment.
While Arrival is emotionally complex, it's also not very original or "sensical" with cliches and the overblown importance of Amy Adams' character - a couple other countries arrive at the same conversational point first with their linguists and the whole mahjong thread is both wrongly simplified (it's a game of win/lose) and impractical. The immersion in a language giving you superpowers? The reuse of the final shot of (the movie) Enemy midway in the film? The purpose of the other ships (oh, earth distraction?). The implication you can have the concept of weapon without the concept of tool...it's fundamentally broken storytelling. The attempt at realism (a la Close Encounters) but with a demonization of the military and mischaracterization of breaking quarantine rules (taking off the suit initially would have gotten her removed, obviously and limiting a word list wouldn't be a concern and is forgotten quickly as the herring it is). Just a sloppy movie that's a vehicle for an M Night Shyamalan trick. It might as well all have been a dream sequence and it's the exact same movie.
The author mentions being plagued by crashes/corruption, but I've never experienced this and I've been running a full node for a few years. Other than the large (well, not _that_ large) storage requirements (.bitcoin is currently 101G) I've not got any complaints...

Unless there's a bug in a recent version of bitcoind which causes it to crap out when initially catching up with the network?
You're creating a false dichotomy. No plausible copyright reform requires filing notices for every forum comment or line of code.

Lines of code : Form a corporation, non profit entity or business, then pay a yearly copyright fee and transfer all code written to the business. The cost is proportional to the value of the copyright; if it's a small or unprofitable business the fee could be waived.

HN comments : the copyright is worthless anyway, people repost content all the time. To my knowledge no one has ever been sued over it.

Books and other publications : The publishers will pay for the copyright fee. Writers could be automatically covered for a grace period before publication with no fee, say one year.

These are all hypothetical,the point is you are immediately going to an extreme without considering what actual, plausible reform would entail.
> Just as entropy increases over time, adaptability to change decreases significantly over a person's lifetime

There is no evidence for this what so ever.
I'm pretty sure it was always an accordion, but you had to fold it in half first (or quarters, depending on size of map) before folding according style. And I believe many folks didn't realize this or forgot this step.
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This request handler, in particular, produces HTML/CSS and Javascript in the same scope:
https://bitbucket.org/tux_/rssparser.lisp/src/7a9f5ed45aca8b...
The sharing economy started as a monetization of underutilized assets, which is different and useful.

Then through economies of scale people became dedicated suppliers with dedicated assets, and it's now no longer that unique or altruistic.
While I'm personally fine with the $20 price tag, it does seem a bit steep for more casual users (ignoring the fact that they can also get it for free if they compile it for themselves). I wonder if this might hinder adoption. On the other hand, I think the value that Blink provides is potentially so large that it might make sense to get revenue also from donations (one-time or recurring).

Blink's value derives not just from the excellent design of the app, with highly accurate and fast rendering, or it's features (mosh, most importantly). To me, the way in which Blink really blows the competition (e.g. Prompt) out of the water its open source development process. As a beta tester, I have found Carlos to be highly responsive to feature requests and bug reports on Github. This gives me the feeling that as a user, I actually have influence over the features of Blink, unlike other software, where maybe I can beg Panic Inc via a tweet to implement port forwarding. I would be happy to donate something like $5/month to the continued and highly responsive development of Blink. I think true open source on iOS is so rare that we should make a point of proving that it can be commercially viable.
There's en ex-con artist working on decentralized ride sharing: https://arcade.city/
My thought for people who say that is "Sad that you either don't have any or are unable to pursue your passion(s) and instead waste your time, on what? Being productive?"
A more accurate description would probably be "pretending to monetize surplus capacity while actually enabling misallocation of scarce resources"
> I could have made money this way, and perhaps amused myself writing code. But I knew that at the end of my career, I would look back on years of building walls to divide people, and feel I had spent my life making the world a worse place.

One of my favorite RMS quotes. We need people like him to fill out the spectrum.
In L.A. we've had a ban for a long time. The thin bags are banned, so they are all thick bags now. And stores are also required to charge at least $0.10 per bag.

Everyone I know just pays for the new thicker bags. It's $0.30 for three bags on a $100 grocery bill.

The real annoyance comes from people not knowing exactly how many bags they need, and usually guessing too low (not wanting to be wasteful), so the baggers take longer trying to figure out how to squish everything in the bags... and sometimes the customer has to pay an extra $0.10 if they need another bag. Which gets them to dig around for a dime. This probably slows down checkout lines by a significant amount (10% or so?).
How about safety? I wouldn't get into a vehicle (esp. at night and / or in a dodgy neighborhood) driven by a stranger without any record, vetting, or background checks and where the premise of our interaction was that no one would know they had picked me up, and no one would be able to track me from there.

And I'm a man; I can imagine many women would be even more skeptical.
Ask HN: What's your favorite way to orchestrate AWS?
Specifically the creation and deletion of things like Security Groups, Subnets, etc.

NOT the managing of packages and configuration of the servers themselves (although a good all-in-one solution is even better, I haven't seen one).

I currently use Salt with Salt-Cloud but Salt-Cloud doesn't seem to have all the features CloudFormation does. I wondered if there was something better or all-in-one besides CloudFormation.
Anachronistic: the electoral college arose on account of a number of factors. Consider that the biggest challenger was Congress electing the President, which faces obvious flaws. One of the advantages suggested for the electoral college system was that the single-purpose entity would be less prone to the politics and intrigue of a standing body. Hamilton also argued that the distributed nature of the electoral college would insulate the decision-making process from potential outside influence. It was also seen as an advantage to build a firewall from one state to the next, so that issues in one state would not unduly influence the election. But there was also a measure of elitism to the electoral college, the idea that the political class had more information and greater faculties with which to make the difficult decision.

It's useful to note that Hamilton and Madison argued forcefully against states binding their electors to a single candidate. The assumption previously was that electors would be a respected local figure who could then deliberate thoughtfully, rather than being bound to a particular political party. Maine and Nebraska are the only states still living up to the framers' original intent.

Hair-brained: the previous discussion of the unexpected political effects of the electoral college should be enough to prove this point.

Undemocratic: this is a tough one, since as you pointed out, "democracy isn't some magical pixie dust." However, I think it's fair (at least when discussing the American political system), to situate our various institutions along an axis of democratic to republican. To the democratic end of the spectrum are institutions that provide a direct role for citizens in politics, such as caucuses, referenda, and (ostensibly) the presidency. To the republican end are the representative institutions. Given that the presidency was intended as and is best seen as the most democratic federal institution, it is unfortunate that the manner of election still has this one wrench, where the vast majority of citizens have zero practical impact on the result.
"...how many people still use RSS?"

+1
The corner cases are not significant in comparison to the majority cases, and it is not rational to pretend otherwise.
TL;DR: Banning bags has no measurable benefit.

Conclusions

Proponents claim that banning plastic shopping bags will benefit the environment. Yet, as this study has shown, there is very little empirical support for such claims. Indeed, the evidence seems to point in the other direction for most environmental effects. Some of the alleged benefits are simply false, such as the claim that eliminating plastic bags will reduce oil consumption. An assessment of the San Francisco ban on plastic bags suggests that while there may have been a very small reduction in the amount of litter generated, some emissions—such those of greenhouse gases—may well have increased as a result of the ban.

At the same time, concern about the environment is only one of many issues affecting consumption choices. When it comes to shopping bags, the look, feel, and—likely most important for the majority of consumers—function are very important. HDPE plastic bags are strong, light and highly convenient (there is no need to remember to take them along when shopping, since they are supplied by the store). Also, they are typically reused for various purposes. These features have made them very attractive to consumers. By contrast, reusable NWPP bags are bulky (causing inconvenience when shopping), must be washed between shops if they may have come into contact with harmful bacteria, and must be remembered prior to going shopping (making them far less convenient); moreover, households using NWPP bags will typically purchase more garbage bin liners.

In spite of widespread media attention to the largely false claim that plastic bags are environmentally harmful, bans on the use of plastic bags are not popular: A recent Reason-Rupe poll showed that 60% of Americans oppose plastic bag bans, while only 37% are in favor. Opposition is non-partisan, though it is stronger among independents (64%) and Republicans (71%) than Democrats (52%).

Environmental groups that really care about the problem of litter, such as Keep America Beautiful, have generally promoted solutions that substantially reduce the amount of litter generated, such as public information campaigns focused on litter reduction, and facilitating clean-up operations. In other words, they target littering behavior, which is the actual cause of litter, rather than opposing the existence of certain types of product that might become litter. Meanwhile, environmental groups that really care about the protection of marine animals know that litter is not the prime culprit of diminished marine life and generally focus on other issues, such as policies that promote overfishing.

Unfortunately, policymakers have been cajoled into passing ordinances that ban plastic bags. That is bad news for consumers. It is also bad news for the environment, since the public has been misled into believing that by restricting the use of plastic bags, the problems for which those bags are allegedly responsible will be dramatically reduced. As a result, they are less likely to undertake activities—such as reducing littering and supporting policies that would lead to better protection for marine animals—that would actually benefit the environment.
Ok then, you valued your free speech more than the rights of those whose speech you think shouldn't be so free. There isn't anything more to say here.
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The difference is that, any time you check your email, a basic TLS MitM could exfiltrate your entire inbox without your or ProtonMail's knowledge — exactly the same threat model as Gmail or any other webmail provider.

Further to that, I'd trust Google's infrastructure to withstand compromise much more than I'd trust a datacenter run by a small company that I know much less about. (Tinfoil hat: sure, I have to assume that the NSA has a copy of my Gmail inbox, but god knows who else may have owned ProtonMail.)
I don't know if its possible. My experience taking a meditation class was that I would visualize things while meditating (annoyingly since the class was going for no visualizations at all). But two things came out of that experience, one was that other thoughts going on in my head interfered with visualization (meditating reduced other thoughts and so visualization happened) and second I could access the visualizations more easily in the context of "a memory of a visualization" rather than trying to see them as present.

To improve the latter I have an informal exercise where I'll sometimes sit down in a room and try to itemize everything I saw in a different room. It is a "no equipment required and externally non visible" way to combat boring situations like waiting to get on a plane or sitting in the dentists chair waiting for anesthetic to kick in. Can I remember what magazines were on the coffee table, how many? how many on other tables? etc. Basically practicing remembering scenes that I have seen recently.
I understood the "great garbage patch" is not an actual island, but more of a vast stew of what is essentially plastic plankton. Mostly invisible to the naked eye, certainly not solid, but probably more environmental toxic than a mythical plastic island.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_garbage_patch
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Evan and FFTF have been actively working against NSA spying under the Obama administration.

The EFF and EPIC, which have been around longer, has worked against NSA spying under the Obama, Bush II, Clinton, and Bush I organizations; the ACLU, all of the above and more.

What about you?
He's egotistic and wants to be the best. Which is great, it means he'll try to be the best President that he can be.
> The taxi company's lobbying efforts had two main points:
> 1. public safety. 2. fairness

Denying that taxicab companies lobby their own self-interest is completely unbelievable. All that is missing is to get "for the children" in there somehow and it'd be a perfect political BS speech.

No, I mean I get the point where taxicabs, being regulated up the wazoo, think that if they have to del with all that, why competition hasn't. But trying to sell the idea they are just saints looking for public's good and it has nothing to do with their own interest... right. Not buying that bridge.
Keep your job and fund a company on the side hiring people to do the hands-on stuff your dreaming about. The software industry is full of challenges and tech so it's endless and extremely diverse. You could spend the rest of your life on deep learning or whatever discipline. Today your just another drone PM, if you want to make a difference build a company, don't be another drone techy dude.
I have seen Uber's commission misstated in a few posts: Uber takes $1.55 off the top of each ride for a booking fee and then 28% of the remaining amount. This means for short rides Uber takes 40%+ of the fare, depending on the city.

I would love to see a drivers guild get formed, maybe structured as an employee owned company.
Do not pretend that you have made any attempt to find answers to these questions.
My hands are screwed from RSI. If I had to use a normal keyboard I would not be able to type. Period.
Both parties have been complicit in creating the power structure that enables surveillance - it's certainly is not something new. It has been growing ever since WWII and supported by both parties. Neither party wants to be seen as anti-military, and a lot of the technology used for domestic spying originated in the military (or as off shoots of the military). Saying that liberals created that power structure is disingenuous.
Lower gas prices certainly did not help, but if not for regulations introduced during the Obama administration, many coal plants would still be running. I worked, as an engineer, for a company that made equipment pretty much just for coal fired power plants from 2002-2014. Starting with the ammendments to the Clean Air Act in 2009, then the CSAPR, then MATS, we watched utility after utility make the decision to close plants rather than install the required emissions control equipment. So maybe if natural gas was more expensive they would have chosen to install the equipment, but if not for those regulations they would have just kept running.
Black money is like a weed. Demonetising currency is like deweeding. You pull weeds out from your lawn, your lawn looks good, for sometime. The weeds will grow again! If you don't want the weeds to grow, you must use weedicide at regular intervals. The idea of having expiry dates for currency is like using weedicide at regular intervals. The weeds can't grow so much as to deface your lawn.
I wonder. If the universe is deterministic, and nothing is random, then Time could be thought of as a vector whose values encompass all the properties of everything in existence and the direction of changes in each of them. If we knew all the "rules" that govern those changes and could make a simulation that captured the current state of everything, we could traverse back and forth along that vector (but probably not beyond the instant when that simulation was turned on, because then it would have to simulate itself...)
> According to [0] the clock drift due to relativistic effects would be over 45000 nanoseconds per day.

Between an uncorrected satellite and the receiver. This error is already removed through the fourth variable, only the average error of the satellites used for this remains (assuming perfect receiver etc.). So even if the satellites where not corrected the positioning error would not be "XY kilometers per day and climbing", the much smaller difference in time dilation between satellites would remain though.
In the 9years I have been on HN I have up voted 3 really good jokes and downvoted thousands of so so ones. Before you post a joke think is it that good. Because, jokes are like spam on message boards they add clutter without aiding the discussion.
Does anyone have a link to the full study they cite about litter? They only citation they have is a memo brief, and that graph raises some serious questions about methodology. Namely, tobacco products accounting for 32% of all litter. It seems like they made a cigarette butt equivalent to one plastic bag, which is not a fair comparison environmentally or visually.
And that is relevant because...?
So that means Blink is actually dual-license? I was actually a little bit confused about how Blink makes the GPL App-store compatible. It would be interesting to see a blog post or some extended discussion on the website about the licensing issue, both to assure users that Blink is "safe" from being kicked out of the store, and to give some discussion on how GPL can actually make it into the App store. It would certainly be nice to have more iOS software follow Blink's example.
By PM do you mean product or project manager? If you're a project manager can you move over to the product side? That way you'll be able to leverage your MBA by learning a new set of skills. These will include SQL and data analysis, whatever field your product serves, and I even knew a couple of product managers who would occasionally sling code, write copy or design mockups when the project deadline was slipping. I feel that coding is going to be a dead end career field in 10-20 years, because everyone will simply do it as part of their job. Better to work on those soft skills, rather than just a pure technical skill.