skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps some people thought you were only nitpicking but I agree and I think it was useful that you asked about this so that we got the discussion leading to a better answer.
Vendor lock-in? That's a problem with Google much more so than Amazon.
Wrong terminology, my bad. I meant adding a rule for MailChimp origin emails that increases spam score but doesn't necessarily doom the message alone. Dropping their mail altogether would definitely cause some legitimate messages to be lost.
> And yes, the carbon tax is a libertarian concept.

Actually, it's not.

Pretty much everything I've read by the libertarians (Rothbardians really) about carbon taxes either call it a wealth redistribution scheme (which the original inventor[0] intended it to be) or a case illustrating how the true tragedy of the commons is the fact that the commons exist at all.

So, for your mercury example, the libertarian solution would be for the owner of the polluted water supply to hunt down the source of the contamination and seek restitution for the damaged caused.

As far as I can tell No True Libertarian has ever conceded that The State has the legal or ethical right to tax or outlaw anything (other than theft, fraud and coercion), ever.

[0] https://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2014/08/09/the-unsung-inve...
Vendor lock-in is most certainly not the only competing point we have against AWS. From BigQuery, to BigTable, to Spanner, to our private network, to our live migration of compute, to our hosted Kubernetes, the list goes on and on.

AWS does a lot of things right, and we're more than happy to go toe-to-toe with them in the areas they have us beat. Competition is a sign of a healthy economy where everyone benefits. How can you compete if you don't even try to match the people you are competing against?

Disclaimer: I work for Google Cloud.
The article discussed in the review is "Dynamic Routing Between Capsules": https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.09829
It doesn't make sense for institutional investors to hedge against "fiat". Because the failure of the current financial system would be catastrophic event for any such investor, at which point his hedging wouldn't help. I. e. the exchange where these futures are traded would no longer be operational.

There's a name for this effect which I've forgotten. But it can be seen, for example, in the markets ignoring the risk of nuclear war during the Cuban Missile Crisis. The reason is the same: there's no use in considering nuclear war in your decision-making, because you'd be dead anyway.
No worse feeling than typing out a status update without any idea of what's going on.
I would assume that this freezing of documents means this is already happening from Googles side, with them applying variations of the filtering they use on their other publishing platforms to answer these issues.
Oh, give me a break... where did Kubernetes come from? Whose LB solution relies on DNS and whose uses BGP/ECMP for regional routing and failover? Who offered HIPPA compliance without dedicated hosts and stupid markups first? Who created BigQuery?

Look, both Google and AWS have areas where each excels over the other, but to say that Google isn’t innovating is to say you are basically ignorant of their offering.
I'm sure you rely on the government to keep your fortune safe.
IT companies are no better from my experience.
I used to use Matrix but stopped using it after finding that a lot of the time it doesn't actually catch certain deals available only on airline websites themselves. Now I'm back to individually searching every airline website.
SCO DELENDA EST.
How is "all time high" income surprising, given that inflation essentially guarantees perpetually increasing dollar amounts of everything?
He's just pointing out that more innovation happens when people don't have to seek permission (from the government or from other companies) in order to innovate, and uses some examples to illustrate the point.

Twitter is just one valid example among many that have emerged in the internet era; the whole reason we've seen so much innovation in internet-related technologies in the past 20 years is that the innovation could be done without asking anyone's permission.

Concerns are now growing that with Google, Amazon, Facebook etc are becoming such powerful gatekeepers that the freedom to innovate is declining. You'd likely find he'd support government actions to reverse that trend.

There's no grand anti-government agenda in this or any other of Munger's work [1]. As an economist and political scientist, he repeatedly makes the sensible point that government should limit its activities to what helps society and avoid doing things that harm society. Obviously there's vast scope for debate about what that really means, which is why he writes articles like this one, to examine the issues in detail.

On this point:

Instead of railing against solar power maybe he should also rail against the massive subsidies the oil industry gets through decades long military intervention in the Middle East and elsewhere.

He's not railing, just commenting. And in his other work he's extremely critical of the US government's interventions in the Middle East. But this article isn't about that.

[1] He's highly critical of both the Republicans and the Democrats due to their corporate cronyism and militarism, but that's very different to being critical of government altogether.
Im infering that the chemistry of said oils vary enough between the two temps to matter

Its the implication
Facebook notifications come from facebookmail.com, CarMax spams from email-carmax.com. AT&T uses att-mail.com. And so on.

They don't all do it, but many do.

And if they burn their main domain, it's an easy option.
Yeah and the IRC interface has been getting worse recently. When they added the shared channels across teams they completely broke being able to '@' a user from the IRC gateway. Support said something along the lines of 'yup and we're not planning on fixing it'.

I'm expecting them to completely turn off the IRC gateway in the next year or two.
is my iPhone is way too slow. These things are not discussed when they are sold. Is this not being forced to upgrade your phones indirectly when my hardware is well enough to work for most of my use cases. why OS is making my iPhone to go obsolete.
Thanks. The really fascinating thing is have a direct "stream of conscience" from our customers. With a 1000+ conversation a day you really get to see the problems they are having with our products, processes, UX etc As well as their responses to things in the news etc. Our product teams love it.
We pay off our debt constantly.
With debt it depends who the debt is owed to.
US owes a lot to other govts.
Greece owed it to bond buying private firms.
China's debt is owed by the people and local corporations to the local bank.
And debt is typically a problem when recession strikes.
When it leaves our server, the data is encrypted and not readable. To get your encryption key, they would need to execute code in your browser, and we describe how we protect against that at https://www.airbornos.com/docs/security.

Of course, we're only talking about when our server gets hacked. If your computer gets hacked, you have a problem regardless of whether you're using a web app or a native app.
I was talking about pollution in remote areas in general, not specifically about mining or oil. But this article about mercury from hydroelectric dams in Canada is a good example, where many Innuit now have elevated levels of mercury so can no longer eat the fish, which had been their main food source for thousands of years:

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/11/world/canada/clean-energy...
Using separate selectors.
I don't have a phone that can install the app. So I can't use it.
Your bank account says “find a better job”. In today’s job market there’s really no excuse for anyone who can understand at least half the news posted on this site to make less than six figures.
It's not so much proposing something new, but calling into question the assumption that this is desirable:

That way one can standardize on one interface for both small data and big data.

For big data, I believe you want a set of operations that are efficient for data extraction:

- Selecting and filtering.

- Explicit and efficient joins. Disallow pathological joins not related to data extraction!

- Sampling. Especially an efficient and accurate stratified sampling over groups. I believe this is missing from most databases, although I could be wrong since there are many of them I'm not familiar with. They typically have a fast inaccurate algorithm one, or a slow accurate one. Or they just allow you to sample an entire set of records from a table, not do "group by"-like semantics. I did what you would now call "data engineering" for many years and this was probably the #1 thing that came up over and over.

That's pretty much it as far as I can tell. The goal is just to cut your data down to manageable size, not do anything overly smart.

On the other hand, for small data, you want an expressive interface, not necessarily an efficient one. You want all the bells and whistles of R and dplyr (and I suppose Pandas, although I'm less familiar with it).

A lot of those things are hard to implement efficiently, but you need them for scripting. Moreover sometimes it's just a lot easier to use an inefficient algorithm on small data, since most of the code is throwaway.

I spent awhile looking at Apache Arrow a few weeks ago. I like the idea a lot. I feel like it may be trying to serve too many masters (but that's just a feeling). It definitely seems possible to underestimate the difference in requirements between small data and big data.

I'm saying those differences are fundamental and not accidental, and you want different APIs so that programs are aware of the differences.

Also, in most other domains there is a distinction between "interchange format" and "application format" (e.g. png/tiff files vs. photoshop files). It would be nice if that didn't exist, but it's there for a reason. This is a long argument, but some problems are more social than technical. Dumb, inefficient interchange formats solve a social problem.
Maybe Slack decided to give us all a break for Halloween :)

Also curious: why is this so low on the front page? 250 points, posted an hour ago...
> The U.S. Census Bureau announced today that real median household income

Real means the numbers are adjusted for inflation.
The first year of someone's term is very rarely affected by their policies. My particular pet hate is when politicians start bragging about how their policies are responsible for good economic news when they're still in the first three months.

Truth is that economies change slowly, and politicians have much less control over it than we all like to believe.
What I'm saying is that the user probably shouldn't have any keys at all, because they will end up losing their money to a phishing scam or something.
Looks like they are adjusting for inflation. I didn't have time to dig to deep but they are reporting real income, which should be inflation adjusted.
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Porting to FreeBSD, where new GPL2 code in base is verboten. Whether you consider FreeBSD non-free or not is a matter of opinion.

Even if the existing kernel implementation is highly tied to Linux, it is legally problematic for FreeBSD developers to reference GPL2 code while writing BSD-licensed code.
Anyway that isn't what they did. From the supplements:

"To identify the most discriminating concepts, a reiterative procedure analogous to stepwise regression was performed. In the first iteration, the group classification was performed using only one concept at a time, determining which single concept of the 30 resulted in the highest classification accuracy. In the second iteration, the classification was performed using pairs of concepts, namely the single concept that produced the highest accuracy in the first iteration as well as each of the 29 other concepts. All pairs that produced at least as high an accuracy as achieved on the previous iteration, were explored in the third iteration, where triplets of concepts were used, namely the pairs that produced the highest accuracy in the previous iteration, plus each of the remaining 28 concepts. Such stepwise addition of discriminating concepts continued until adding any one of the remaining concepts resulted in a decrease in accuracy. An analogous procedure identified the most discriminating locations."

But I still think even in your case they are doing:

train: abc; val: d -> score1/ features0 -> features1
train: abd; val: c -> score2/ features1 -> features2
...etc

score2/features1 would all contain info from c, etc.
And the Chinese government which is building a massive army for totally unknown reasons /s
We just pay it off with borrowed money.
That is why I almost exclusively tests against external interfaces, since those should be frozen anyway (so others can depend on it). If the system is a web service that means the HTTP API, if it is a JS library it is the public API etc.
And conversely almost no tests against internal interfaces, since internals don't matter and should be free to change.
The increase is measured in "real terms" which means things like CPI are taken in to account. Further this number does decrease, for example during the last recession, so household median income is not directly correlated with inflation -- especially in this era of low inflation (compared to the mid-to-late 20th century inflation) that we've been in for a while.
Um... Yahoo has nothing to do with HIPAA since they don't deal with medical information at all.

You don't email medical records or information in the first place, you "secure message" them through an encrypted channel. An example of such a service is RelayHealth.
It might not be about commercializing so much as including it in some of the *BSDs which don't allow for GPL code in the core. Otherwise, they'll probably have to write a new implementation. But yes, there is that risk.
Young people move out to the sticks in many industries, especially at the start of their careers (for example, teachers, doctors, nurses, and police often have to start out in small communities to build experience). I don't think age is going to be the limiting factor in attracting workers. I know lots of young people in technical fields with a similar view: they hate the expense of the city, but there is no way for them to move out to rural communities and still do the same type of work.

The limiting factors, I think, are more (1) lack of VC interest in funding something where the company is going to be based in the middle of nowhere, and (2) the lack of job security for tech workers who choose to live somewhere like that.

On the first point, VCs are very attached to the orbit of their cities. Silicon Valley is of course the big innovation centre, but basically any city above around 250k people now has at least a small tech industry with affiliated venture capital firms. Unfortunately, I can't see VCs interested in something where if they want to go see their investment they have to go get on a plane, then rent a car, and drive a couple of hours. So, any successful rural tech startup is going to need to be at least partially bootstrapped.

The second point is the inherent risk in moving somewhere like that for a job, especially a job as volatile as a tech startup. You move out there, buy a house, maybe start a family - and then the company folds or downsizes. You basically have no choice at that point but to uproot and move, leaving all your friends and your home behind.

Of course, you could also maybe spin this as a positive point: the "company man" is considered dead these days, especially so in high tech. Nobody sticks around anymore, there's very little loyalty on both the part of the employer and employee. However, in an environment where you're literally the only tech employer in town, you would probably get employees who actually stuck with the company and stayed committed.
Remember, what we are talking about is expressly using the features of quantum theory, superposition, entanglement, etc as a computing resource. This is not at all the same thing as when people say things like 'we design computers with quantum theory' or the like.
If by "always" you mean "as of a couple weeks ago, and with a small subset of the features".
Potentially melt up before melt down.
A CEO once told me, "If you owe someone $1 million, then they own you. If you owe someone $1 billion, then you own them." I think that the orgs who are owed by US are primarily concerned with maintaining the status quo, rather than gutting the golden goose.
Really? I thought that Gini is equally applicable to any type of underlying curve.
That was the most annoying scrolling experience I've ever had.
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Thanks for the explanation! For a layperson like myself in this field, this was not immediately obvious from the qualifier "real".
Side note: The 5.8% decline in poverty is not explicitly stated. Per the report, the number of persons in poverty dropped by 2.5 million to 40.6 million. I added the 2.5 million back to 40.6 million to get the 2015 number, then divided it back into 2.5 million to get the 5.8% YoY decline from 2015 - 2016:

2.5 / (40.6 + 2.5) = 5.8%
Trying to time the market is a well known suboptimal strategy. Just leave your money and try not to worry about it.
It recently received a slight update and has been working better. My understanding is that developers are still actively monitoring it.
I think this is a pretty good summary for an article.
I don't fundamentally disagree with the article but this is ridiculous:

> People sometimes ask me, “What is the most important concept in political economy?” The answer is easy, but subtle: permissionless innovation, a strong presumption in favor of allowing experimentation with new technologies and with new business platforms that use those technologies.

Surely the ideas of capital, labor, markets, property, etc. are more important concepts in political economy?
Did not know that, thanks for point it out.
cool, good to hear. with enough dedication and an eye for ui detail, i believe it is possible to make a custom-widget app feel like a good citizen -- the unity editor is a good example of this, imo. it's a ton of work tho!

(actually, i'm not sure if it's possible to make your app friendly to screen readers w/o using native widgets. maybe?)

if you do pull it off, you'll end up with a great ui toolkit for go. that would be a very interesting thing!
Libertarian is not the same thing as AnacroCapitalist.

A Randian objectivist is also not the same thing as a Libertarian.
You're not alone. I had the same thought.
Chained emails.
This, and typos from people who can't quite spell their email address. We don't call username + password "double login" and username without password "single login" for the same reason.
By pulling out do you mean liquidate existing holdings, stop increasing holdings, or something else?
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What are the strengths and weaknesses of each? I've been using keras but planning on diving into a real deal framework next. Tensorflow is appealing for the momentum it has in the community, but pytorch looks easier to learn.

Doing image classification, object localization, and homography (given an input image, which of my known template images is matches it and in what orientation).
3 months ago I made a shift of 1/3 of my retirement funds to cash. I took 90% of my taxable accounts to cash. It's a risk, of course, everything is, but the valuations of stocks and housing are as you note high. I normally hate holding cash, but I don't see anything I want to invest in. I'm sure that will change eventually.
I did. Lost 15% of possible gains. Back in for a bit. Have my inverse ETF ready for the crash. Until then XLK and the oil ETNs.
Dynamic Routing Between Capsules by Sabour, Frosst, Geoffrey E Hinton (CapsNet))
> No True Libertarian

No True Scotsman! Just like you are closely aligned with Fidel Castro and other autocrats on all issues, because you probably believe in socializing certain things, right? :)

Libertarians are extremely intellectually diverse in their politics -- anecdotally, much more so than conservatives and progressives combined (population size adjusted). Old school Libertarians -- the ones often associated with the birth of the movement (and the ones quoted by Democrats to avoid intellectual debate) -- tend to lean heavily conservative and have an oversimplified view of either the non-aggression principle, the imperfect nature of the world, or both. Milton Friedman is an example of one of the first prominent libertarians to start considering alternative approaches for externalities.

Do I care who first coined the term carbon tax? Nope; it's not about scoring points for your team. The fact of the matter is that the idea of a carbon/pollution/externality-offsetting tax arises naturally from the non-aggression principle, as I described.

> So, for your mercury example, the libertarian solution would be for the owner of the polluted water supply to hunt down the source of the contamination and seek restitution for the damaged caused.

I didn't realize you spoke on behalf of true libertarians!

Tell me, what would you do today if someone dumped mercury in your yard? The same thing -- just because there are laws, does not mean you don't have to deal with people breaking them. And regardless, no, mercury has non-localized and criminal effects (poisoning is a form of assault). If someone threw a couch or some other localized non-poisonous pollution in their neighbor's yard, then yes, that is generally a matter for the civil courts. As it is now, even though littering is illegal.
You're getting downvoted to hell. I think you should flip the tone:

Everyone in this booming economy should either go around interviewing and getting job offers until they are satisfied or start their own business.

There's not much sense in complaining about your situation if you've done neither of those.
Do these solutions have good mobile frontends?
I became a 'bear' after Trump election (I think unrealistic expectations) but I have been very wrong so far - and I don't work professional in finance so only a sample of one example. I sold off most of my play money and pulled down risk of long term holdings.

Lots of opportunity lost. I just can't get over the feeling of repetitious omens. My family (commercial real estate clan) says when new large office building construction goes up it tends to signal end of bull run. Where I live we are voting on a large bond on the back of HUGE growth in home values, last time we did this was 2007...
Thanks for the link. Definitely looks like a good alternative to QPX (and Skyscanner since they don’t like to respond to partner applications). There’s also https://www.kiwi.com, which seems to offer a nicely documented partner API.
what are the chances of smaller, non death of all mankind leaks that would damage the data center? likely higher than elsewhere, no? so that wouldn't an be amazing risk profile
The concept of Transparent Web Apps (TWA) is an interesting one - more so than AirbornOS itself. Any chance of packaging it (i.e. in the form of library, or make it as a SaaS) to promote adoption? This can enable more TWA and perhaps pivot yourself to become the TWA hub/directory.
With the length of the outage it seems more like a DB issue. And if this is still correct there look to be some fragile dependencies.

https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/slack/

The API isn't even returning valid error codes.

logging error: {"subtype":"api_call_error","message":"{\"ok\":false,\"error\":\"_http_error\",\"status\":0,\"retry_after\":null}","stack":"Error\n

As you can hit their api servers I am betting some replication error in mysql but that is just a guess based on that case study.

I am betting they are saying 'connectivity' because that is the error the client logs.
Yeah. I came to largely the same conclusion but used the 8% number for youth, given the current title.