skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I think "undemocratic", I think about the EU Constitution being rejected in a vote. Oh, OK, we'll just come back with the Lisbon Treaty, which you won't get to vote on.

Somebody (Netherlands or Ireland, I think, but I forget which) has an election about an EU matter, and it goes "the wrong way". The EU's response: Well, they'll just have to vote again.

Forgive me if the details are wrong (I'm writing from memory, and I'm not even in the EU). But that kind of thing has happened more than once - "the EU" has decided on a direction, and democracy is not going to be allowed to change it. That is why people feel the EU is undemocratic (as I understand it). The structure of the EU Parliament has nothing to do with it.
Just for thought: suppose the tax system became so simplified that only goods X, Y,and Z were taxed at rates a,b,c. You pay aX+bY+cZ in taxes per year. It would be easy for voters to campaign their politicians to lower tax rates and easily verify.

Obviously in the real world there aren't 3 levers to adjust: there are probably thousands or tens of thousands. Apart from the lobbying, politicians may themselves desire this, because it would allow them to lower those 3 very-public levers to claim they lowered taxes, while at the end of the day maintaining the same level of spending because they just offset those losses over thousands of other levers. After all, things have to get paid for.

Then at least they can tell the public: "Hey, I lowered tax rates." And when the public's wallet doesn't feel the savings, the politician still wins votes because as far as the public can see, they lowered those tax rate levers. Compare that to a politician under the 3-lever system. Either they lowered taxes or they didn't.

What I'm suggesting is that a complex tax system allows politicians to take the heat off themselves when the public demands lowered taxes, while still maintaining the amount of money the government takes in to cover the budget.
How do we "fix money in politics" without chilling free speech?
TI-BASIC and z80 assembly (TI-86) helped me get my programming fix during the day in high school since we had no programming classes.
As a reference example, Rockefeller was worth over $300 billion in 2007 dollars:

https://www.google.com/search?q=Rockefeller&oq=Rockefeller&a...
Thanks for posting all this info. In the youtube video, I liked the end where you talked about an objective satisfaction measure for these systems. For someone who wants to be able to provide more preference information at the ballot, and is not married to any particular method, it does make you wonder, why not directly use the objective measure for voting? You'd get a 1-1 correspondence. Wouldn't that maximize satisfaction and the voting method objective function?
In new zealand, we got rid of having to do tax returns for salaried/wage earners a number of years ago. Makes life easy for a vast majority of people. You can still do a return if you want to though. For the tax department it cuts down on how much infrastructure they need.
If you are going that route, check into the FairTax idea. Basically, replace income tax (and others) with a simple federal sales tax system in the 30% range. Enforcement narrows to businesses and rates aren't determined by income. States get a portion of the tax in exchange for enforcement. Poverty level spending gets a tax rebate (prebate in that plan) to not tax a certain amount. Interesting ideas from my POV, but I'm not an economist.
There is no shortsightedness involved, it's just a false positive from one of the filter lists. When false positives are reported, they get fixed. This fixes the false positive:

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That's a very solid list of submissions. Every fourth-or-so submission has hundreds or thousands of points. If you feel that's not great... Dunno. You're using a different yardstick than I am. That looks a lot like people consider his name to add credibility.
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That would be entirely true if equity were handled the same way as it was in 1999. To be fair, I wasn't there to know for sure and can only base this off what I've read. As I understand it equity has changed, almost in the opposite direction of the "free lunch" equation. Equity values are frequently hidden from employees to mask how low value they are, VCs now figured out how to ratchet and protect themselves at the expense of the rank-and-file options holders, and so forth.
Consider a paid database if that's what you need. It's not new that postgre has some limitations compared to the SQL servers/Oracle.
Good point. I wonder if the omission was an oversight or intentional (his name would make finding an alternative source trivial).
Hotel?
I was pretty surprised to see Zoe Lofgren's name pop up as an anti tax filing simplification advocate. She's the rep from CA's 19th District which covers San Jose (but not the rest of Silicon Valley) and generally a straight down the line liberal. This is not even Intuit's core district -- that would Anna Eshoo's 17th (previously 14th) district which covers Mountain View and Palo Alto. As a resident of this district, I guess I have something to write in about.
Thank you for that information.

I've relayed it to my wife, and hopefully that's all this is. She's seeing a doctor today, so the timing couldn't have been better.

Edit: I would reply to your below comment, but I can't for some reason. But, just wanted to say, thank you.
Every sentence you wrote contains the word 'will', so they are 'forward looking statements' and evidence free. I understand that we'd like this to be so but there is no guarantee that it will be the case and a single, non-redundant sensor going down could have immediate impact on the cars ability to get itself off the road in a safe way.

This wasn't about opinions but about the state-of-the-art and the facts as we know them today. What will happen in the future is anybody's guess, my guess is that before long there will be a couple of major crashes involving self driving cars resulting in mandatory redundant systems and redundant (quorum based, see Animats' comment) processing units. Otherwise self driving cars will end up with a bad reputation, even if the chances of failure with any individual vehicle are small.

Statistically speaking the number of components and the their internal complexity are good indicators of how frequently you can expect such a system to fail. Self driving cars are sufficiently complex that these are legitimate sources of worry and simply waving those worries away with what 'will' happen does nothing for me, it is the how that interests me.
Wasn't Microsoft founded in Albuquerque?
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Is React slow for people? Maybe I haven't pushed it to any limits performance-wise yet, but I don't think I clearly understand the use case for breaking out of the ecosystem for an alternative virtual DOM implementation.
Interesting objection. To me simplify taxes == simplify filing taxes. "I'm doing my taxes" does not mean I'm doing my tax code, but I am preparing and filing my taxes.

As a lawyer and tax accountant, do you see a flaw in the professor's approach? Any domain expert insight here?
Yes, and even in smaller org's (above 20) the employees are able to setup an employee council that helps management steer the company.

It's not something that can be rejected by management.

For someone from North America it can be a challenge to accept but does work quite well once you get over it.
How coincidental — I wrote a visual analysis of the TI-84 just a few weeks ago for my AP English class: https://nathanapenglish.blogspot.com/2017/02/tow-20-ti-84-vi...
Sounds similar to my experience. My first exposure to programming was automating repetitive homework assignments and building simple games on the TI-83 Plus.

Typing code using calculator buttons was pretty tedious.
Flat rate tax. Across the board rebate on a set level of spending. Mischief managed.
Most of the tax code addresses what is defined as income. The part that figures out what the rate is, is very simple. The deductions and loopholes in the tax code exist to incentivize many activities, and it would be politically difficult to change that
Might be good to get that "read+append only" message more upfront. Redshift has update, delete, etc, and you're making direct comparisons.

You do push the "data warehouse" message, but it may not be clear that anything other than append would require reloading the entire database.
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With a little math, we are not-too-many years from the world's first US$ trillionaire.

Using Mr. Bezos as the example:

US$ 72,000,000,000

Annualized gain of, say, 10% on AMZN stock

Over a period of 27.6 years

1.1^27.6 * US$72,000,000,000 = ~US$ 1,000,000,000,000

Just in time for his 80th birthday.
Honest question, why is it batshit-crazy?
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It's only by choice that Amazon doesn't generate dividends.
what do you think is missing in the comparisons?
Good point. One family that is directly measurable however: offspring of Sam Walton. Bill G is a distant second by that yard stick: https://www.forbes.com/profile/walton-1/
Or they're just not as wealthy as conspiracy theorists say they are.
In other words they rely on tax code being complex or their reason to exist ceases.
That's the thing though - your example of an oil-changing robot could be automated today - if we had standard placement of components.

It's strange - our input controls are all pretty much the same from car to car. But everything else, from under the hood to elsewhere, is completely and randomly different - not just from car model to model, or manufacturer to manufacture, but even year to year on the same model of car from the same manufacturer! This frustrates mechanics and anyone who works on their own cars to no end.

In short, if we wanted to solve these problems, we could solve them today, much like we solved the automation problems in manufacturing - by standardizing things, from sizes, to placement, to speeds and whatever else. We didn't try to replace people with robots that looked like people, but rather we designed machines to the task as hand, and made what they interacted with homogenous.
FTA: "Amazon’s founder has added $10.2 billion this year to his wealth and $7 billion since [Nov 8th]" - I'm going to interpret that as meaning that it's 10 billion over the course of a full year, which makes more sense than making losing 3 billion in December and making 10 billion in Q1/Q2 which would be necessary for your interpretation (of 10 billion in Q1/Q2) to make those numbers make sense.
Whether having multiple sensors guarantees redundancy depends on what they are hooked up to, and how.

If the software they are connected to doesn't know what to do when the camera fails or starts sending bogus data or even to detect that it happens you still may have a lidar, radar, etc. but it doesn't make the system fail-safe.
> If someone is serious about music/audio editing, he will eventually want to use a professional tool.

Perhaps, but there are a good number of people that need to do very basic audio editing frequently and don't really need something with more features than this.

An example: I'm part of an online community that focuses on video and film preservation and a good number of its members spend time capturing commentaries from Laserdiscs that haven't made it to DVD or BD. These captures need to be synchronized to the track on the target release in order to be enjoyed. Only very basic tools are needed for this work.
Sure, the president has the authority to impose restrictions on immigration, but not by imposing a religious test, which would violate the establishment clause.
TP-Link Archer C7 can do up to 1300 Mbps over 802.11ac, and costs about $85.

No university research equipment required.
I'm saying that the EU is not sufficiently democratic because its executive bodies are not elected by the people whereas in national parliaments they are.

I'm not saying that national governments should give up sovereignty. I'm saying that what powers the EU already has should be more directly democratic.
Seattle has one of the lowest amounts of sun per year of all metros in the USA. It selects for those who are serious about work, more than weather.
I was confused as well for a second before remembering my coworker talking about buying a Nintendo switch from best buy at opening.
They didn't need to create it too perpetuate it for their own self interest.
Ahh, I see you haven't been to LA.
I think the GP mentioned that because this subthread discussed a "permanent" solution for men. Storing sperm might be a workaround for future "wouldn't it be nice.." regrets. An insurance.

I'm not aware of mainstream (or any, really) permanent solutions for women, at least not to replace contraceptives (medical reasons - like cancer - for an invasive surgery don't count).

So, if women usually don't decide to become sterile (?), the process to collect and store eggs seems less relevant.
>Germany has a lot of govt. financed/controlled businesses.

Examples, apart from VW and Deutsche Bahn? After privatization of the Kohl era there shouldn't be much left. When I was a kid I even drank milk from a state-owned dairy plant.
Yes, but Bill Gates grew up in and returned to Seattle to build the company up
maybe they should.
This is just a visualizer ontop of the Ohm library. I have played around with it some and it is excellent:

https://github.com/harc/ohm
Seems like fixing the tax system would go a long way towards fixing money in politics. What are lobbyists buying from politicians? Tax breaks and tax subsidies.
I think that's the point....for all the hype SV gets, Seattle should get some too....
It works with intent but "intent" is really only available to Bing, Google, etc. where the user is searching for something _specific_ to purchase.

For instance someone googling reviews of Samsung Dryers probably is considering buying a dryer of some kind.

The further you get from that initial intent the less valuable your ads are until they are basically worthless.
In this case it is actually released and you can run this tool, and it is actually pretty awesome:

https://github.com/harc/ohm
Oh, yeah fair enough, I misunderstood at first.
github needs to read this article. I've seen some pretty awful diffs on github and have had to resort to using CLI diffs which tend to be superior. For a company that's bread and butter is code, vcs, committs, PR's, etc you would think their diffs wouldn't be scraping the bottom of the barrel.
Perhaps you've never studied chaos theory? Complex systems are notoriously hard to model despite the underlying process being deterministic.

Why do you think we keep having recessions? We know where every dollar is at every point in time, the equivalence would be your atoms in liquid flow.

It's also interesting you point to liquid flow, that is a counter-example of what you're trying to say, as the navier stokes fluid dynamics equations that we use to model liquid flows are chaotic..
The entire tax-prep industry generates about the same revenues as Dunkin Donuts. The idea that it is a significant causal factor in keeping taxes complicated is preposterous.
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One variable is missing from your math - the inevitable stock market crash.
The first in that line with an integrated monitor was a Model III. It was gray and smooth. The Model 4 looked practically identical but was white and textured.

I had both a III and a 4.
I am not sure I see what you mean with "merely" it's quite a big thing not to have to deal with it every year.

In Denmark and many other countries this is a non-issue. The US should be too but too many interest from the lobbying of people like Intuit.
I've never heard someone say SV to include Washington.

Though now that you mention it, I have heard that commute times around the valley are terrible....
Kite address this below, they said they're working on adding:

"Fine-grained privacy controls modeled after the .gitignore file format means that you can selectively and precisely decide which files and folders Kite indexes"
i wasn't talking about the launch, but that's a valid reason, sure.

that means last tuesday at 8pm i said to myself, "i want a playstation". and best buy allows people to indulge in that kind of behavior (the reason i was there, and the reason i saw the calculator).
I loath comcast but still have them as an ISP. If there was better available, I'd be using it. There isn't.
This seems to fit the narrative of a broader wave of consolidation hitting the old-school web.

Like it or not, there are real advantages to walled gardens like facebook. To ad buyers, it's a single platform where one can target the entire world person-by-person -- even across multiple devices (iPad, phone, laptop), with hyper-accurate segmentation and user tracking, strong identity services with all the abuse/spam prevention and payment capability that enables, multi-lingual, optimized CDN-based distribution to ensure all content is fast and cheaply delivered to every corner of the globe (an especially big deal given the rise of video ads), mobile-first UX that works across every conceivable handset including iOS and every esoteric variant of Android, etc.

I'm not pleased about a lot of this, but it's a mistake to deny what's happening.
It's worth pointing out that Verizon has abandoned Fios expansion. Most of their build-out was to low hanging fruit like new residential communities where they laid fiber instead of copper.

So there's no simple cause+effect here related to unbundling. And even with unbundling it's not like a company loses money; they just lose monopoly rents but are guaranteed some profit whether or not they have to share.

Really the issue is about opportunity cost and financing: Verizon would rather invest in endeavors with a higher return than what they'd get with copper or even fiber. That higher return is wireless.

But there's so much cash available, or at least there has been for the past 10 years, that theoretically somebody could have stepped in to invest in these projects. Google was tentatively one of those people--initially it was enough for them to break even--but it looks like the only entity capable of committing for the long haul will be a non-profit or government entity. More so as the era of freakishly low capital costs slowly comes to an end.
Not quite the same thing, but it is sort of heartening that Marco Arment -- of Tumblr, Instapaper, and now Overcast fame -- was able to build out his own non-scummy ad buying platform for his Overcast app. It seems to be doing quite well.

https://overcast.fm/account/buy_ad
So we're all going to support ourselves as Lamborghini mechanics then?

I hope there's enough Lamborghinis to go around then...
Why is there a need for human touch for high-quality products ?

Machines can make perfectly fine products, and if they fail, you usually see it right after purchase while the warranty is on.

The more annoying issue is of shitty design, sometime to save a few cents(shitty motherboard capacitors, shitty earphone hinge), sometimes intentionally - like toyota seeing some model getting to a 300K-1M miles lifetime - and changing a chain to make it 100K, i think.

>> no-one's got the time to figure out how to evaluate quality in more than a small fraction of what they buy

Why should that be hard ? why can't i go to some e-commerce site, and see a reliable evaluation of the lifetime of a product ? of the quality of the main parameters ? With some option to comparison shop on those ?
Nice work, could have a better mobile layout, though
And that's why the individual Walton's are usually on the list. They usually occupy around 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th places.
Why limit yourself to on-job?

You might be 1% likely to die working software, but 20% more likely to lose 1 year of life due to inactivity. Different people might choose differently.
The Rothschilds aren't that rich, and there's a lot of them. Old money may prefer obscurity, but it also doesn't go that far anymore.
How is the proposal different than California's current online filing?

https://www.ftb.ca.gov/online/calfile/index.asp
We put all candidates online, for free. They are not allowed to spend money on getting elected - although they can spend their time (generally speaking, sometimes studying, a particular problem, history, how other countries do it, etc).

Citizens subscribe to individuals, and groups of individuals, that best reflect their views. Additionally, citizens will be exposed to views that are slightly or significantly different based on an algorithm.

On voting day they can print out their vote and either mail it or bring it to the polling place with their ID.

While I like the idea of short races (1 or 2 months) this system could easily be a constant presence in people's lives; and a constant presence in the elected official's life, as their decisions are recorded and weighed against their stated principles. This would force pols to be explicit about any horse-trading.

Ultimately such a thing is a specialization of social media in the same way the liver is a specialization of muscle. Note that there is no place for "party" in this system, except insofar as it defines a grouping.
CTR isn't the only KPI by which ads are sold. These days, publishers understand that ads still influence even if normal users don't actually click. When a purchase is preceded by an impression from my ad network, in some cases I can get credit for a portion of it.
Don't worry, I don't think anyone is asking you to do anything, and I really doubt anyone would mistake you for any sort of saviour.
When we think about TB of data we do not want to store that in RAM. So if you are looking at a 10TB dataset. You may be willing to have 10TB of ram to fit it in but we aren't trying to solve that problem. We try to solve the problem of reducing the amount of information that has to be pulled from disk to be analyzed by having fine grain partitioning and using data skipping. We are optimizing the compression and decompression of the data to reduce file i/o bottleknecks. So your 10TB dataset can be analyzed with a 100GB of RAM. I agree that video is not very compelling. We are giving a talk at GTC that will show you something 3 orders of magnitude more interesting than that. https://gputechconf2017.smarteventscloud.com/connect/search....
We used to routinely describe our school with 37047734.

Then I got my HP graphing calculator in university and lesser (non-RPN) calculators have now been ruined for me.
OLAP is implied as a catch-all for analytics in this case
What's preposterous about it? You can buy a lot of influence for a couple million a year. Are you saying they're wasting their money and might as well just redistribute it to shareholders? If not, then presumably they think it a worthwhile expense or they wouldn't spend it.
In the United States yes that is one of the consequences of running a business. In the states you legally cannot deny service on the basis of any protected class. Protected classes include Race, Color, Religion, National Origin, Age (40+), Sex, Pregnancy, Citizenship, Familial Status, Disability Status, Veteran status, and Genetic information. This is because forcing him to accept tenants he doesn't want is a much smaller injustice than people being unable to get serviced because of something they cannot help. I hope this helps you understand that nobody's rights are more important than anyone else's.
That's speculation. Maybe the low prices are the real reason why Amazon is doing so well.
I love my TI-34. I still prefer to use it over an on-screen calculator when I'm doing reverse engineering or assembler programming. I got mine in 92 or 93 and it's still going strong.