skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agafia is a hermit surviving in the Russian wilderness for 70 years. I recommend the RT report on her because they do not try to force a conclusion to the contact. She is afraid of barcodes even though she barely has any contact with other people. During the last world war humans were assigned serial numbers for efficient tracking and resource allocation and extermination. Agafia and her people ran away from several regimes that were set on extermination of her people because of their beliefs. All food she comes in contact with must have barcodes removed because to her, barcodes are a sign of the devil. She will not accept anything with barcodes on it. All aid packages must have barcodes removed from them before she will accept them. According to her the next logical step will be to microchip/barcode all humans and track their activities. Then humans will be treated like cattle and easily controllable assets. Sounds familiar?
> Remote (must be Bay Area)

What does this mean?? What's the point?
I thought we had already moved on to the next big scandal.
Google's Perspective API is a bigot
The point is that without the discount there is no lost tax revenue that needs to be made up by a reduction in spending, because without the discount the facility gets built in another state and Iowa gets no taxes from it.

Offering the discount gets an increase in total tax revenue for Iowa and its residents, since it allows it to get something instead of nothing.

However, your argument certainly applies in a wider context - from the perspective of all states together it would make sense to not offer the discount and avoid the race to the bottom, but as they're not coordinated and each care about their own interests, then it makes sense for them to "defect" and offer such discounts to ensure that the facility gets built at their site.
Instagram Hacker Puts 6MM Celebrities Personal Data Up for Sale on DoxaGram
Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) Implementation in Java
If you're interested I've written some stuff on property testing with oracle functions: https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/hypothesis-oracles/
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For many of my apps, the main reason the core isn't open source is simply because there is too much stuff specific to how we deploy, our deploy target, and specific workflows in the app to be generally useful.

It's pretty understandable that reddit as it scales would have to start making choices between making reddit the site better and making reddit the app usable.
Insightful article, but a bit hard to distill the distinct points. From my own experience at an Uber for X, there is one overarching theme that dictates the whole dynamic that I think isn't addressed. The article makes the following points.

1. "The more skilled the service, the harder is to gain traction, because quality in service isn't
reliable." This is true to some extent, but there is a bigger underlying dynamic, namely that the fewer people can offer that service, the harder it is to gain traction, because it takes longer to get that service on demand (e.g. 20 mins instead of 1 min), which decreases the user experience.

2. "There are services that require more time for
for scheduling and some require less." The article doesn't really say which one is better, but the latter is better, because it makes it more spontaneous, people can make the decision to demand the service easier and do it
more often.

3. "Maximizing conversion through services where no sales pitch is required, because quality is almost always the same (taxi)." This goes back into point 1, where low skill all have the same
quality. It adds the factor that when quality is the same, people are less picky and make more
purchases.

4." Maximizing profits through retention to get repeat customers." I didn't understand this point, since critique for Uber for X is that repeat customers would bypass Uber for X, in order to avoid fees, such as it happened with Homejoy, Plumbers etc. This can be prevented through making ratings valuable, i.e. giving pros incentives to not bypass the platform.

The overarching themse is critical mass. All of the mentioned points explain what factors prevent critical mass form being accomplished. Summing up these are

1. The more skill you need, the less service providers you can get per square mile, the longer it takes to fulfill a service, the harder this makes it to get traction.

2. The shorter it takes to schedule the service, the more people will make the decision and book the service.

3. The less the quality is a factor, the less people will worry about making the purchase.

4. Repeat customers is where the money is. Make it easy for the consumer and pro to maintain these relationships, BUT, keep them on the platform.

5. This point I add myself, it is locality and it is the most important point. It means that you have to figure out a way to get traction in a new city in a scalable way, because you can get traction in SF with masseurs and clients, but you need to do it all over again in Fresno, Seattle, London, etc. There is some traction that comes from other cities, but it is little. For some services, traction in a handful city is enough and you cna be a $100m company, but for most, you need to be able to get traction in several dozens of cities quickly.
Google and FB know this, the problem is that its far too inefficient for them to screen for those hard earned skills. The algorithms tests are pretty close to IQ tests that you can study for. For mass hiring of decently intelligent employees, they are actually very effective. Worst comes to worst, you put the bad employee on a PIP or boring project and just hire someone else. Large corporations have definitely thought through this.
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Adguard is nonfree software that intercepts and modifies TLS connections locally. Not my cup of tea at all. Maybe if it was free and open source software...
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Re: 7: I loved that show, and don't recall an episode similar to what the OP describes, so I think he's clear there. The only similarities between the two is the parallel-universe concept, which is a longstanding topic of science fiction.
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Yep, hence node's advantage of offering much higher concurrency for the same memory usage.
Arianna Huffington deletes email her employees receive while they’re on vacation
In response to your previous comment, my impression is that this may have come up due to a recent Medium article that was killed on HN.[1]

In response to your last remarks, the gist of the claim in the Medium article is that state agencies already know Satoshi's identity, and the method used was stylometric analysis of his prose (not code) cross-referenced with personal communications that NSA is purported to have access to. That's the claim, at least.

1. http://hn.0x2237.club/post/15116222
This is a great Ask HN, and it would be even better to specify whether $500+/month is in revenue or profit. I can't imagine most of these things listed so far could actually make $500 in profit a month!
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I challenge y'all to take two copies of the same professionally mastered track, 16 vs 24 bit... and phase invert one, and put them on top of each other. What you can then hear is basically like an auditory diff.

Do you not hear anything? Yeah... all that sound is what amounts to lost fidelity when you down-sample. You can't just argue on bit-rates alone... It's about having head room in the mix and room for more fidelity. Sure, if you mix shit badly, you can't hear the difference, but that's missing the point entirely.

It's not nearly as bad as the time someone tried to tell me that Opus was an adequate audio file format for music, but still... frustrating.

I know I don't have super-human hearing, and I can easily hear the difference. Just because everyone can't hear the difference, or can't tell that they can hear the difference, doesn't negate the fidelity loss of lower bitrates.

Further, given a large enough speaker stack, it's not about what you can hear any more, it's about what you can feel.

And never-mind the benefits of a 24bit DAW pipeline... Hello, low latency?
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Nice, that's awesome you were able to save so much. What expenses did you cut to be able to save like that? What are your non-negotiable expenses?
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I think google might be the only people to do monorepo (and even they don't - for example, Android and Chrome are different repos), but they have built massive internal tooling to support this. For everyone else, once you get past a certain size, it's much much easier to do multi-repo than monorepo.
Well, have any two parties ever switched from transferring money via bank to sending each other Bitcoin in the history of mankind?

Have any people switched from using Skype to using a p2p webrtc video chat service in the history of mankind?

Have any people switched from using a proprietary network service like Prodigy to using the internet in the history of mankind?
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> Macros in CL are just functions that run at compile time

Macros work fine in a Common Lisp interpreter at runtime.

Here we use an interpreter:

Define a macro, which prints a message when it is running.

CL-USER 13 > (defmacro swap (x y)
(print '(> running the swap macro function))
(let ((tmp-sym (gensym)))
`(let ((,tmp-sym ,x))
(setf ,x ,y)
(setf ,y ,tmp-sym))))
SWAP

Use it:

CL-USER 14 > (defun foo (a b)
(let ((a1 a)
(b1 b))
(print (list a1 b1))
(swap a1 b1)
(print (list a1 b1))
(values)))
FOO

The macro function wasn't running, otherwise we had it print something.

Run the code. The macro is run, too.

CL-USER 15 > (foo 20 30)

(20 30)
(> RUNNING THE SWAP MACRO FUNCTION)
(30 20)

Run the code again. The macro is run, too.

CL-USER 16 > (foo 10 40)

(10 40)
(> RUNNING THE SWAP MACRO FUNCTION)
(40 10)

Compile the code, the macro now runs, too.

CL-USER 17 > (compile 'foo)

(> RUNNING THE SWAP MACRO FUNCTION)
FOO
NIL
NIL

In compiled code the macro is no longer needed to run:

CL-USER 18 > (foo 10 40)

(10 40)
(40 10)

Note also what pkhuong said, the SWAP macro will run the place forms twice.

Additionally it's possible to observe the change:

CL-USER 25 > (let ((a (vector 10))
(b (vector 20)))
(swap (aref a (progn (print (list :a a)) 0))
(aref b (progn (print (list :b a)) 0)))
(values a b))

(:A #(10))
(:A #(10))
(:B #(10))
(:B #(20)) ; <- here a is already changed when we get the place value for b
#(20)
#(10)

Common Lisp has a built-in ROTATEF, which takes care of that and which we can use as a replacement for SWAP:

CL-USER 27 > (let ((a (vector 10))
(b (vector 20)))
(rotatef (aref a (progn (print (list :a a)) 0))
(aref b (progn (print (list :b a)) 0)))
(values a b))

(:A #(10)) ; <- only once computed in the first subform to ROTATEF
(:B #(10)) ; <- only once computed in the second subform to ROTATEF
; also the computation of the new value for B does not observe
; the new value of A

#(20)
#(10)

Thus a 'real' SWAP macro will need to look to be different from what the article presents. Otherwise it will not play nicely with the rest of the language: multiple evaluations and side effects are the problems to address.
Only if you accidentally pierce the corporate veil [1], but that's pretty hard for one person to do with their bare hands.

[1]: Much as I hate to explain a pun: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piercing_the_corporate_veil
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I'm surprised at the downvotes. Comments seem focused on the differences between the two and not the similarities. If they were exactly the same, there'd be no reason to combine them.

It's a crazy idea. I don't know if it's crazy good or crazy silly. But I think it merits some consideration.

Personally, I use twitter to keep up with very narrow niche news (like subfields within AI or the private space industry), and guess what, I use Reddit to keep up with targeted interests. That both are public by default is fascinating. For one thing, Reddit integration might make it easier to find people to follow.

Or maybe it's a bad idea, I don't know, but it seems original and worth considering, and might lead to interesting improvements for either system.
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Exactly. This is why Homejoy and every other "repeat by the same contractor" business in this market fails.

The savvy players on the provider side use these companies as a lead generator. Once they've got a new lead, they switch to their private services and they've got a 30% price advantage by cutting out the middleman.

Throw in cash / under the table billing and there's no way to compete against the direct provider. The best part for the providers is they don't even have to advertise the "off the books" offer. Every consumer knows it's there and they seek it themselves.