skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Virtually everyone lobbies for tax policy, like most everyone the policy Apple lobbies for is not the policy in existence. Tax policy is generally a major election issue and politicians offer a wide variety of policies to attract votes.

However, what I have noticed is that like Apple those who lobby for a different policy do not pay what they advocate for but rather the minimum (like Apple).

I'm asking if anyone on this thread who thinks Apple should not avail themselves of these deductions or loopholes knows of deductions or loopholes available to them that they don't take because it doesn't represent their views on tax policy.

Given the predominant view amongst those that advocate for higher taxes that paying more tax improves their lot in life it surprises me that they don't take individual action to purchase more government. For instance I think technology improves my life so I purchase a lot more than the average person.

I always find what people do to be far more instructive as to their views than what they say, the general consensus seems to me to be that paying more tax generates poor returns on investment so people minimize these costs.

I'm also wondering due to people not purchasing much lobbying if it's really as effective as they say it is, surely if a few million dollars would result in drastically higher taxes that someone would make a kickstarter to lobby for more tax and then voila a year later they're paying more tax. Could it be that increased taxes is not something that is palatable to a large segment of the populace and thus it is the votes and not lobbying dollars that results in the current tax policy?

Just wondering... is purchasing the services of lobbyists something that is not available to regular citizens and only corporations may purchase?

I've also noticed the poor spend a lot of money on lottery tickets, cigarettes, and alcohol so I surmise there is available funding amongst the great unwashed masses to purchase lobbying, however they find lotteries and various vices to be a better way to utilize their capital.
What kinds of models have you been playing around with ?
Well, sure, but...

2009 "Though desktop PCs are still common for data storage, individuals primarily use portable devices for their computer-related tasks." sounds pretty realistic now.

So does 2019 "People experience 3-D virtual reality through glasses and contact lenses that beam images directly to their retinas (retinal display). Coupled with an auditory source (headphones), users can remotely communicate with other people and access the Internet." with the current progress of AR and VR (although it might be a few years late).

My point is, you've nitpicked this in a series of predictions which may or may not be true. Kurzweil's betting a lot on 2045 and AGI, and hoping that 2029 will help him reach that age. The rest is a mix of possibly true predictions that seem absurd, like the two I've pointed out.
You are correct. He didn't spend a single dollar on television (or radio) advertising (http://fortune.com/2016/08/09/donald-trump-tv-ads-clinton/). He relied on tweets, controversial statements, and third parties for all of his advertising. This was mentioned several times by at least NPR near the end of the 2016 campaign cycle, as I recall.
The standard text on the topic is the Hull book.

You can buy the 9th edition (I think the 10th is out) for about $100 used on Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/Options-Futures-Other-Derivatives-9th...
>That's pretty terrifying that it can't read street signs

Not sure how you arrived at that. There's nothing in the article or in the comment you were replying to that supports it.
I wondered why you didn't mention the maximum, and after checking their website found no other figures besides the $100 minimum.

They do state "Rewards over the minimum are at our discretion, but we will pay significantly more for particularly serious issues, i.e. that the identified issue could put a significant number of users at risk of severe damage, monetary or otherwise."

What they consider significant is anyone's guess. Given the stakes, even a 10000% increase would still be underwhelming for a high impact bug.
“Code is Law” fails again.
Not genetics then? The high number of homeless with mental disorders is entirely environmental?

Or do you tautologically include that as "luck" and/or "privilege"?
Fair point. What and how would you spend $ during your first year of trading?
Personally I think its extremely accessible, with the right mind-set.

I started sc2 in bronze (the lowest) since it was my first RTS. I was frustrated with all the cheese (all in, early rushes) but after watching replays and learning the tells and standard ways to stop it from happening it felt good. It was great to expect, defend, and win against something that made me so flustered in the past.

Using COD as an example, the progression system over time unlocks new guns, perks, and cosmetics for you. You can blame losses / deaths on "unavailable items" where in starcraft the progression system is purely about your experience and knowledge. After you learn and get better, you get rewarded with public badges.

"Being bad" in starcraft just means your inexperienced. Since being bad normally results in loses, it feels inaccessible. If I lost my first 10 matches in any game and didn't have a fun time I normally wouldn't continue. But if you have the drive to improve yourself you can find losses are the most information rich resources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal%E2%80%93agent_proble...
I think municipalities should be free to make the best deal they can with large employers like this. Chips fall where they may. They are all elected officials so therefore directly accountable. Seems like the system is working just fine here.

Doesn't seem like this is anyone else's business.
The whole point of this article appears to be fluff.
He did OK, but they were overlong, inconsistent, poorly paced, full of one-dimensional characters and set-piece battle scenes with deus ex machina outcomes, and so. much. exposition. You couldn't do a better job serving the books with more editing, but you could make three better movies by getting each (with the possible exception of Fellowship, which is a strong movie that just starts a little slow) down under 100 minutes.

But that's not a problem for a TV series, which is why GoT --- despite being categorically worse source material! --- is in the aggregate stronger than the LoTR films, even if you leave out the execrable Hobbit movies.
And the federal government finances all of the bidding.
Settings -> General -> Accessibility -> Reduce Motion on iOS is a really nice way to improve the subjective interface speed.
I mean if people start living forever we would have to start killing them. So it's kinda moot anyway.
I found SC2 multiplayer far more accessible than League/Dota multiplayer, simply because there are less rules (units with unique abilities) you need to learn, and no team mates to yell at you.

Like any game with proper matchmaking, you win ~50% of your games unless you are so good there don't exist better opponents (or I suppose so bad there don't exist worse opponents, but the bottom 0.1% is at a lot more similar of a skill level than the top 0.1%). I never reached diamond league but had tons of fun. Then my wrists started complaining and I had to stop :(.
Probably alert Google HQ, who will then send a human to pick it up in 10 minutes?

Or any number of other solutions, as I easily thought up that one in 5 seconds?
>it can't read street signs and is dependent on mapping.

Says who? The article didn't say anything about that.
As someone with a reasonable foundation in both the state of AI and the state of neuroscience research, I honestly have no idea why people give Kurzweil any attention. Just about nothing I have ever read from him is even remotely plausible, yet I've met intelligent people (usually mathematically oriented people) who think the detail-sparse garbage is gospel. It's a little infuriating, honestly. The details, which are always manifestly absent from his work, are literally the only things that do matter when evaluating their credibility.
Moreover, Intel could selectively release patches for only the newer chips, providing an incentive to upgrade.

Intel deliberately creating such holes and then only fixing them on more expensive models would be possible as well, but the PR from that one might be distasteful enough to hurt Intel.
> get good disability insurance, life insurance

The ability to afford those probably comes under "some privilege" since if you're in the lower economic stratas, those tend to be luxuries.
> "Since these rules govern composition at very abstract level, category theory is great at uncovering new ways of composing things."

I understood this much already prior. What I'd like next now are at least a handful (half-dozen-or-so) of concrete and truly compelling examples of such "uncoverings" ;)

OK, 1 or 2 would also be a start
> Cloudwatch logging is not great for Lambdas.

I run some Lambda systems at scale and CloudWatch Logs has worked excellent for me. It was completely painless and CloudWatch logs has a lot of tooling that comes with it (backups, streaming, indexing with Elastic Search, etc).

What part of it has not worked well for you?
One reason, mentioned, is in order to reserve premium features.

Others are to maintain control over user experience; to simplify QA (making it less expensive, and leading to faster release cycles); reduce support costs; and increase engineering flexibility, by reducing the size of the API surface that requires a deprecation policy in order to avoid disrupting users.
Pass a Constitutional amendment that states that corporations are not people. Then start passing laws that restrict the free speech of corporations and then pass more laws stating that money is speech. Then there can be fine tuned laws stating the max that a person can give to a candidate and start forcing all organizations that have anything to do with politics to register and state who is giving them money. Eliminate all anonymous donations.

It is highly unlikely this is going to happen.
And it can even see and understand the hand gestures (e.g. turn signs) of cyclists.
Let them free, let them fly. The power is in your eyes. - Trashy Neighborhood Band
Perhaps a little inland from the coast, but I was in Palm Springs 10 years ago, and then again this year and was struck by what seemed like a general deterioration in the town, as well as the number of homeless people - I don't remember seeing a single homeless person on my first trip. Very sad to see. These intertwined economic/social problems seem to be the most difficult to solve, or is it just lack of willingness to do something about it by elites or society as a whole?

An idea that has crossed my mind before is: how expensive would it be to provide the homeless the very bare minimum of survival i.e. food, shelter, most basic healthcare, even free alcohol? Why don't we just accept that some people are going to fall through the cracks and save ourselves the delusion that we are going to be able to get them off drugs/reintroduce them to employment etc., and take care of their needs in the simplest and cheapest way possible?

The current economy is pretty good at casting aside those it deems economically worthless. Is it really so tricky to just accept this and pay to look after them?
I hope these cars eventually drive more aggressively than the video shows. With zero traffic they seem to inch along.
How to store information in your clothes invisibly, without electronics
I had many friends who grinded from Bronze/Silver/Gold up to higher ranks playing thousands of hours. Frankly though, I think these players would've been better served with more fun casual time killing modes, but like I stated in my original post, the game was not released with this emphasised in the beginning.
> Most money offered gets to be president.

But even that doesn't work. In 2016 for the US presidency, Hillary Clinton's campaign had $790M USD versus Donald Trump's $408M USD.

She had double the money 'to buy the presidency' and she still lost.

https://www.opensecrets.org/pres16
It is an Ethereum vulnerability, not a vulnerability in Ethereum.

The current title 'A major vulnerability has frozen hundreds of millions of dollars of Ethereum' sounds perfectly accurate.
AMD processors now include PSP/TrustZone.
No worries, they won't put you in a self driving car that isn't perfectly safe. Considering Alphabet sold Boston Dynamics because of PR issues (remember kicking the robots) they won't allow any human losses.
Oh hey are we under a post about a guy running for president that he didn't pay for?
Good thing he is finally admitting reality. Did this guy regularly come on tv to bach Tesla?
Google is relatively good about filtering malicious submissions.
I'm really hoping they actually mean an adaption of some period from The Simarillion. Maybe Feanor's story? Something like that would be epic
Ask HN: What problem should I solve to establish myself as a Data Engineer?
I have built web backends extensively. I want to move towards data engineering which (in my opinion) means solving problems that involve high data volumes and building scalable data pipelines.

Can you suggest a problem that I can solve as a side project to claim that title?

[for context, some stuff I built in recent past: https://medium.com/@hrshasan]
Does that count the amount of free press Trump received during the campaign?
Reposting dead, but accurate comment:

“Code is Law” fails again.

There will probably be a hardfork and increased moral hazard for auditing contract code. Why spend money finding bugs if the "immutable" blockchain can be rolled back?
I dunno I can see this remaining small-scale for a while so Waymo can gather data about how people feel about the experience. I can see the backlash now if they were to suddenly unleash a battalion of fully autonomous vehicles on the unsuspecting public. I suspect keeping the numbers relatively low will be a good way to gather just how disturbing this is to the general populace without overwhelming people and ultimately causing an unnecessary uproar and rejection based on appearance, with no regard to quality.
I'm not sure what your point is. Are you saying that we should not heat our houses or move around?
the vast majority negative.

what it really shows that it takes an incredible level of personal wealth and fame to beat the two party system and even then he had to usurp one of parties to do it.

I have no problem with his wealth and fame, I have a problem of it being an example of how much it takes to break the stranglehold those two parties have on our system. worse they use people and wealth like his as the means to implement rules to prevent outsiders from rising
For all of human evolution except the last 50 years, so 6,997 out of the last 7,000 generations, the drive to have sex was synonymous with the drive to have children. Then we invented birth control. Now evolution will select for people who have a desire to have children, separate from their desire to have sex.

The idea that complex behavior can be caused by genes in animals, but somehow not in humans is incorrect. People point to culture as if it is some magical force that makes people do things, but the human ability to create and interact with culture is itself the result of genes. After all, zebras and lions don’t have culture.

And you missed my point: I grew up in a culture that did not value having children. Having children was considered an after thought, something to be done after you had attended to your career. Growing up, I only knew one family with 4 children. They were considered the weird religious family. Yet I have known since I was 12 or 13 that I wanted to have a large family, even though I grew up in a culture that would look down their noses at a family of 4 or more children.

And the argument that poor people have lots of children for financial reasons doesn’t hold up any more. It did when most people were farmers, but the poor in the developed world are no longer farmers and I don’t think there’s any way to argue that children are a net financial benefit to them.
A3C for now just to replicate the results in the paper. After that, I want to investigate more geometrically motivated methods like manifold learning and see if they can be adapted to processes.
Aren't all video game review sites like this? All AAA games get inflated scores to not offend the studios.
There is promising evidence about effective aging treatments : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjdpR-TY6QU

Still experimental though.
This is similar to the tactic used by Harvey Weinstein to discourage newspapers from reporting on rape allegations against him.

Journalists that participated in the cover-up got access to his film premieres, parties at award ceremonies, interviews with celebrities and so on. Turns out that was enough to get every entertainment journalist to cover up his crimes for years.

Apparently people in Hollywood don't see any problem with this!
Since contracts are immutable, you need modularity to be able to fix bugs like what happened with Parity. The problem is that Solidity libraries are also immutable, which means you can't fix them. The solution is easy: just use contract modules, not libraries.
> hey don't blame me I just used some library, it's the library's fault

Who really says that?
> SC2, on the other hand, is much easier to grok as a spectator. It's 1v1, so you know each army is controlled by 1 player, and the capabilities of the units are far more obvious as well, since a lot of them are based on pre-existing science fiction concepts.

The problem is that SC2 had very long periods of unwatchable metas. Twelve months of pro games consisting of two players building deathballs, having one battle (Where someone gets caught out of position, and loses their entire army in 5 seconds,) and the game ending was awful, as a spectator sport. (That was any Heart of the Swarm match involving Zerg in a nutshell.)

I was like watching a chess game, that, at turn 15, if one side didn't have a clear advantage, getting decided by a coin flip. This may be fun from a player's perspective, but is awful as a spectator sport.
Waymo and Cruise automation are building out call centres, where remote human monitors will be available to help out the vehicles when they get hung-up. The monitors won't be able to make safety-critical interventions, but they'll be able to give the cars and passengers instructions, kind of like a backseat driver, I guess.

So if there's an accident scene, for example, the human monitor will judge whether to stop and wait, navigate a path through, or turn around and find a detour.
Why bother with ride sharing when the cost per mile would be so cheap?
Are you paid for this opinion? I have to imagine yes.
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Below I've linked a few more. It's a bit of a prisoner's dilemma: whichever media outlets don't participate in the boycott will have a competitive advantage when they put out early reviews, but it hurts all outlets if Disney is able to pull off the intimidation power play.

http://flavorwire.com/611229/an-editorial-note-re-disney-and...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/act-four/wp/2017/11/06/w...

https://www.avclub.com/the-a-v-club-will-no-longer-attend-di...
From what I read recently, they're going to have basically a call center the car will connect to for an operator to drive it remotely.
until the next hard fork
>That is not true.

What are you basing this on? Personal experience? Speculation? Other?

>If a company does not follow the GPL and is called out, they can simply do what the GPL tells them to do and the case is done.

Ask Cisco if the lawsuit from the FSF was fictional.

I was involved with the GPL license a few years back when I was consulting on an embedded hardware device product. We wrote to the developer and requested them to re-license the software in exchange for a payment. They refused and we decided to use a differently licensed product in the end, based on legal advice.
He’s predicting that by 2029, we’ll start to add years to our lives. We will be at the beginning of extending life.

I think the idea is that if we can delay death long enough, the “exponential“ technology curve will eventually allow us to make ourselves “younger”. In the short-term, people will reach 75, for example, and we can address some of the rapid that occurs in your 80’s. You’ll be a healthier 85 year old, ready to get your next tuneup a decade later with more advanced technology.
You inspired me to look up how to turn off animations in MacOS; this has some answers: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/14001/how-to-turn-... although I can't vouch for their accuracy.
"Code is law" demands much better code. A language like Haskell is needed.
Trump had a real genius for getting free media attention (in return for giving the media good numbers of viewers with his antics).
I have always been interested in STEM, even growing up, but I was definitely more interested in just having fun and being cool all the way through college. I played sports my whole life at a pretty high level and basically did the bare minimum in school to get into an OK college for a degree. After I basically stopped playing competitive sports I started focusing all my efforts into programming and have completely switched. Still, I pride myself on my hand-eye coordination (I think those who are coordinated are more pre-disposed to like sports; wonder what the breakdown is there, like how many programmers are also coordinated?) and the fact that I'm still pretty good at sports and enjoy playing them. Maybe I (or people) just like to be good at things.

I think it's too bad that more coordinated nerds don't try sports. I was able to play at a much higher level than my physical abilities by simply out-thinking a lot of guys. I'd know the last 3 times I faced a certain defender, the things he tried to stop me with, and what he'd likely be expecting me to try the next time. I always had felt like this gave me a bit of an edge, even with freak athletes that should have crushed me.

If you can just learn the game and be reliable (don't make stupid mistakes) you can be an asset. You also get to feel the camaraderie that comes with winning and losing as a group, and why teamwork isn't just a buzzword that get's thrown around by recruiters.
> He didn't spend a single dollar on television (or radio) advertising

Before that August. He started spending after that.
Jobs after you're done in office?
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15644680
What if instead of the ridiculous situations you provided, you just found a human driven car on a desert road outside of the city, and then shot the driver with a firearm?

How does current society deal with THAT situation?
Ok. So I wonder what's the probability when police is doing fingerprint test. Is it way more?
I presume that most people discussing issues on HN can afford these things.

I'm not telling homeless people to go out and buy long term disability insurance.
> that low cost components

Do you mean devices with RFI-suppression components omitted to save cost? Those devices are subject to FCC part 15 rules just like devices manufactured domestically.

> from off-brand vendors

Again, who is supposed to enforce that these vendors comply with US laws? My point is that those laws are not enforced. The reason that look-alike Apple USB charger costs $3.99 is because it contains no RFI suppression parts and is probably made with toxic plastic.

It is the job of regulators to shut down firms importing this garbage. By failing to do so the regulators harm the people their regulations are supposed to protect. Meanwhile, US firms who comply with the rules can't sell their USB chargers for a competitive price so they go out of business.
Does it even matter, with respect to the problems with our plutocracy? Every election the same plutocrats win no matter what, for example: https://theintercept.com/2016/12/09/trump-makes-america-gold...