skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A cow for $100 seems extremely cheap. Either that or cows where I live are much too expensive.

The war horse seems about right to me though. For those times, it would be similar to a luxury car or a bulldozer.
> I used to order everything from them online - it was great, then I checked receipts and realized they were ripping me off.

What I usually do is go through their website for things I want to order, note their prices, and then go to the store. Anything on the list that's cheaper in the store I'll buy. I'll then purchase the remaining items from their website.

Given Discover's promotion of 5% back on online purchases from Walmart.com, it works out for me.
I'm amazed they can even tell. A lot of people who use adblocking also browse as ghost traffic that can't even be analyzed.
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Being beaten daily by my mother and stepfather until I was strong enough to stop them also had a lasting impact.
>the larger block size does mean it has higher chance of
being centralized.

Centralization already happened with BTC/BTC-CASH. ASICs are operated at scale in data centers with access to cheap electricity.

Hard drives are much simpler to acquire and maintain versus the already niche ASIC market and mining pools.

Also it's worth noting the BTC community used to praise microtransactions and digital cash payments for market goods, but now that the utility is clogged and combersome the goal posts have been shifted from "this software enables payments" to "this software shouldn't be used for payments except in rare cases".
You can use red diesel in a generator, I think the legality comes down to whether it's being used to power a vehicle on a public road.
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I'd say that's the appeal of Amazon prime - not Walmart. Amazon is much less affected by local market dynamics
This is extremely unsubtle payola. It reads like an infomercial. I figured slate was better than that.
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In my experience, Boston to Providence is pretty fast and pleasant. The issue is the rest of the way to NYC, which crawls through Connecticut at a snail's pace and takes something like 3.5 hours. It's a pretty brutal trip.
My issue is not with the 10-20% news and documentaries, but all the other stuff they do...
This isn't a partisan issue.
No, not yet. I am still waiting with a lot of hopes.
Actually I characterize it as opting out of newly-introduced madness, and using the techniques we used pre-madness. Not a “fix” so much.
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yes. really good point. I've seen that happen to a minor degree. I'd start by carefully documenting everything that's agreed and changed and then raising to issue to senior management on both teams so they can sit down and discuss it. Worse case you also flag this to HR and during the 360 review process but there's only so much you can do ....
yup. that's why I left corporate ;)
Whether it's worse or not doesn't change the fact that it's new and needs to be better understood. Misinformation isn't good for society, reasonable people should want it stopped or at least reduced.
That $100/month is what you'd have to get every household to pay to get rid of all advertisement. Just getting rid of banner ads on websites should be a lot cheaper.
Im not sure I've ever been to a Walmart, but isn't the appeal that it's a one stop shop (+ low prices)? That seems pretty damn useful and has approximately nothing to do with cross-region price differences.
I wish these sorts of things would come into focus more often in politics. This should get bipartisan support, this should bring equality in a way that every side should agree on.

I'm on the far right economically but really think tax law is not working, now that companies can distribute operations internationally. As such many of the benefits markets bring to the world are offset by global corporations skating the tax system and get advantages that are only due to their scale and do not add any efficiency. A country should have the ability to lower corporate rates so they attract more business. But they gain nothing if they're just attracting shell companies that simply stash money. They need business to move in that offer jobs and wealth creation.

I doubt those on the left would agree with me on the finer points, but I'm sure they want to see these companies paying their fair share. So why is this not being dealt with?
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They can set their prices as they see fit, and customers can be annoyed about it as they see fit. I don't understand why people think "free market" means no one's allowed to complain.
I like to watch informative videos with subtitles at 2x speed because the subtitles make it easy to follow and the increased speed smooths out the verbal tics and idiosyncrasies (less distracting).
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How do we know the money gained by these fixes is going to be used any better than had the government not gained them?
I'm quite intrigued that this essay pops up every few years. It seems to resonate deeply with certain people for some reason, like they've been searching for something and this essay unlocks it.
I have two cameras on me when I ride. One is the Fly6 rear cam shown in this article. The other is a helmet mounted GoPro. I would not ride without them for a lot of the reason brought up in the article. Not only were they helpful after the two accidents that I've had, but they also help out for everyday riding. As folks drive much better when they see a camera strapped to your head.
Aside from the fact that Matt Rutherford's story is well documented and consistent, that picture you linked to shows a boat that spent twice the time in the water, was crewed by a single person, is half the size of Appel's boat, and is supposed to have actually spent most of that time under sail and thus heeling over, getting a lot of the freeboard wet.
I agree, dashcams,have become very cheap, the main thing is people dont get around to it
The article didn’t mention new tracks. What do you think about the suggestions?
I think he was fine at communicating and not terrible to listen to. I just didn't find the talk that interesting or cover anything I didn't already know about quantum computing theory. I wish it did, because there's much I don't understand.
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> In order for democracy to actually work, you need a population that is educated enough to make the right choices for the country. You also need to fight corruption first, or else people will take advantage of the democratic system

I'm not sure what this means, given that the U.S. was uneducated and had massive, widespread corruption throughout the 19th century...but I've never heard anyone put forward the argument that democracy didn't work for the first 150 years of the U.S.
Isn't that obvious? How else would they pay for the "free shipping" if not in the profit they make on purchases?
Recall, Apple is also principle investor in Softbank Vision Fund. As Google recently made its own $1B deal with Lyft. Feels like lines already drawn in the sand, are turning into trenches.

Google’s Waymo passes milestone in driverless car race

https://www.ft.com/content/dc281ed2-c425-11e7-b2bb-322b2cb39...
Good question. I assume it would be proportionally spent as documented here: https://usafacts.org/
But the user does experience it. Even modern cell phone voice call lag is very noticeable.
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employees with options can sell, employees with RSUs cannot
And News Corp is a corporation too, so they can write articles about it. If the free market didn't demand articles like this then they wouldn't be written.
Rail service isn't practicable in most of the country, even at 200 miles an hour, NY to Chicago is still a long long trip.
What's wrong with Kafka? :-)
I follow the BikeCammers subreddit. Based on what I've read, it seems that in a lot of jurisdictions, police have to actually witness the offense in order to issue a citation.

But if the cyclist has video footage of the vehicle involved in the offense, and footage of the diver of the vehicle, then I don't see a reason a citation couldn't be issued if the cyclist was willing to testify as a witness/victim during the trial.
created a new fiddle taking various suggestions through the post...

https://jsfiddle.net/tj1zwqat/

interesting that it renders perfect ( for me ) in chrome, and a bit of an offset in firefox

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PMs aren't as technical as you might think, and the fact that he worked for facebook means he could have strong reasons to deny that they are listening.

My point was that technicality isn't what will get in the way of listening vs not listening. He's backing his claim by saying it's technically impossible but that's just weak defense.
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Are you against having TSA at train stations and mall entrances? Also against more bailouts for ultra-rich financial companies? tsk tsk.

/s
We fund our political campaigns by selling policy concessions. The result is an unintended but highly effective "mandatory bribery policy."

Campaign finance reform is a prerequisite for any policy that goes against the interest of any concentrated pool of wealth.
> So why is this not being dealt with?

I assume because people with money do not want to pay more taxes, and people with money find lobbying has an excellent ROI.
That seems pretty common with people inexperienced at lying to authorities. Cops let's say. People try to pre-emptively come up with explanations for things they think the cop is going to wonder and ask about. Which of course does nothing but reveal to the cop what issues are preoccupying the mind of the liar.

Also for whatever reason those stories always run to the extravagant and complicated, rather than simpler & more plausible explanations. (Or the obviously best policy of just S'ing TF U.)

If I had to speculate why that is, I'd say it's probably that whoever decides they need to intervene to shape the narrative, already has an overinflated sense of how valuable and beneficial their story (and their talking in general) is to the outcome. Once you've decided the thing that will set things right and save you, is your gums, flapping, then why not go whole-hog? Obviously more of a good thing is better! (They think.)
Convex: Bertsekas - Convex Optimization Theory, Convex Optimization Algorithms.
Nesterov - Lecture Notes (http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.693...)

Statistical/Theoretical: Shai Shalev-Schwartz & Shai Ben-David's Understanding Machine Learning (http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~shais/UnderstandingMachineLearning...)
Mohri's Foundations of Machine Learning (https://cs.nyu.edu/~mohri/mlbook/)

The two above courses could share SSS's Online Learning text (https://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~shais/papers/OLsurvey.pdf). To be fair, the stochastic variants of most optimization algorithms can be learned reasonably quickly off of a statistical machine learning/basic optimization background. There's the option of Spall's Intro to Stochastic Search and Optimization, which covers neural networks, reinforcement learning, annealing, MCMC, and a wide variety of other applicaitons and techniques. (http://www.jhuapl.edu/ISSO/)

Similar to what kxyvr said, I also don't know of any killer linear algebra text, which is why I think a course is so useful. The matrix cookbook is helpful along the way. kxyvr is also entirely right that general nonlinear optimization is important -- though perhaps less indispensable. (Going the other way, the Bertsimas linear optimization textbook I've had for years mostly gathers dust.)

For PGMs: I got Predicting Structured Data back when it was new (https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/predicting-structured-data), but I think that Chris Bishop's treatment in PRML is easier to follow. He has some lecture slides which expand on it quite well. (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/people/cmbishop/)

Bishop would also be my go-to intro ML book over Murphy.

I can't in fairness offer recommendations for the rest of the intermediate undergraduate math texts because I took them so long ago, but I can say that I have benefited from reviewing the MIT OCW courses from time to time.
It's not bad. EMUs are a net-new capex, though.
I think the important facts are that certain frequencies bounce off the ionosphere and others do not. And that 5W (arbitrarily) of power put into the antenna by an SSB radio will have much more modulation power than 5W put into an AM signal where the carrier is present.
I’ve looked into helmet cams since I had an accident that cost me a tooth (sideswiped by another cyclist). It seems that most of them only have about 2 or so hours of record time on a charge. That doesn’t seem sufficient. Don’t need the additional lights, though.
How long is it by car? If the only other option is by plane, I can imagine high speed rail being a good alternative, even if it takes longer than plane. See what long-distance rail looks like in places where it works, like Europe, China, even dare I say Canada.
Your bus solution ignores what makes transportation networks slow. It's the intersections, not the roads between them.

A dedicated bus lane wouldn't help anything if those buses are getting on and off every exit through regular traffic.
I said it in another comment, but ability to spoof source and identity at scale.

Last time I checked, the NY Times was still publishing as the NY Times and placing their writers' names on the byline. When someone catches them printing up counterfeit copies of the Wall Street Journal designed to discredit we can talk about some sort of equivalence.
That sounds like a content tax.

And is probably precisely how this should work, indexed to wealth / income.
>As long as "undesirables" can easily go to your town via public transportation, NIMBYs will shut it down. See the Red Line extension to Arlington. Those folks are regretting that now.

I live in Medford right now, near the border with Malden. The "undesirables" are already here. And by "undesirables", I mean holy hell the Boston area is racist as fuck. The rest of this area is fine with black people living on the Orange Line. Hell, we might as consolidate the southern end of the Red Line with the Orange Line into a brand new "Line of Color", with the Green being the Finance and Colleges Line, the Blue being the Outer Suburbs Line, and the Red being the Yuppies Line.

Boston: get over yourself and desegregate!

>Heck, they were even going to end weekend service for the commuter rail.

If the Commuter Rail ran more than once an hour or so on weekends, maybe people would use it, or even be ok with living far away from a non-Green train line and just using Commuter Rail instead.
I stopped the application process because of the last question... " Write some code, that will flatten an array of arbitrarily nested arrays of integers...."
I think you would agree with Deirdre N. McCloskey who, in her tome Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World[1], thoroughly thrashes out the idea that the thing that made the difference is the dignity of the middle class to be able to bring an innovation to market.

None of the items you've listed do it alone, but taken together and with the cultural idealisation of innovating and bringing to market a novel idea or product, we have been able to create the world as we know it today.

https://www.amazon.com/Bourgeois-Dignity-Economics-Explain-M...
He's also one of the preeminent minds in quantum computing. When Scott speaks he's worth listening to regardless of his mannerisms.
Battery life is definitely a challenge. At CES last year I saw a big brand demonstrating an action camera for bikes and it was also around 2h life. I just laughed at them. My bike trips usually consist of 5-6 hours of riding each day, and it's not always convenient to recharge overnight on multi-day treks.
This would be a good case for early stopping. Rather than assuming 10 epochs is the way to go, this gives you a rational way to choose the number of epochs, which in turn sets you up to look the hyperparameters.
The funny thing is, if the tax rate was much lower - say 15% - there would be no incentive for "tax planning" described in article (which is legal, of course). The expense for all those accountants, lawyers, lobbyist, and inefficiencies caused by artificially shuffling money around would outweigh just paying the 10-15% tax bill.

Semi-relatedly: Why do you think religions for eons have set the tithe rate to be approx 10%? Seems like history has worked out a rate that most people are comfortable paying.
Well, a former PM who thinks voice analysis is not possible on-device and puts out the red herring of bandwidth and storage capacity as the foundational argument of why he “knows” they’re not listening.

PS I don’t think “they” are listening and use other highly effective means to target ads. But I do think arguing such targeting is only possible in the cloud, and only after recording all the sound in your environment: the air conditioner, traffic, kids playing, etc. and let’s not forget ALL the silence in between, is intellectually dishonest. Especially when we all know that any always-listening device processes the signal locally, scanning for trigger words.
In that case, you're really going to love the blackletter block:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackletter#Unicode
If we were to move away from an income based tax system to a sales or VAT based tax system, would it address some of the issues noted in the article?

Edit: s/\./?/
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True story -- I was making a peanut butter sandwich the other night. I used Smuckers Natural peanut butter. Pulled out my phone to look something up, and right there staring back at me was an add for Jif peanut butter. I don't ever remember seeing a peanut butter add on my phone before. They must have used some undocumented sensor on the phone to detect the smell of peanut butter and selected an ad based on that. (/sarcasm)

Then again, maybe I've seen hundreds of peanut butter ads on my phone, mixed with the many thousands that come across, and I just hadn't paid any attention to them until something else happened at the same time to make the connection.
I used to be at importer/exporter equipment exhibitions when I was younger, the unfortunate truth is that a lot of products are assembled in other countries but that the materials made come from China or some cheap place for production and/or simply rebranded as made in a certain location to increase the prices. But yeah apple iphones etc are made in China since about 2012 or before.
The free shipping isn't from the profit they make from their products, it's from the extra cost added to all their products that are listed online. Their pre-shipping profit is greater than the profit of the items in the store. Once they spend the money to ship the items, it's roughly the same.

For example, let's say a widget costs $10 in Walmart stores and will cost $1 for walmart ship with their negotiated contracts. If I go to the store, I can pay $10 and buy the widget. However, if I go online, Walmart.com will say the item costs $11 with "free shipping", or I can pick it up in store for a $1 "discount" (so now I pay $10 for a "$11" item). So even though they get all the positive PR and subconscious biases associated with free shipping, they are not paying for it at all. They even pretend like you're getting a great deal by going and picking it up yourself, even though you're just paying what you otherwise would have if you skipped walmart.com entirely.
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I'll never understand why people with this mindset always seem to harp on the NY Times. Out of every other available option, the NY Times isn't really an outlet that has noticeable blemishes on its credibility.
At 200 miles an hour, NY to Chicago is less than four hours.

It takes about an hour total for transportation between downtowns and the airports; you need to be at the airport about an hour ahead of your flight; the flight itself is 2 and a half hours.

So, a 200mph train would be _faster_ for most travelers.
I somewhat disagree with your take on the "lines already drawn in the sand". The world is bigger than google and apple, lyft and uber. The ridesharing space in particular is fraught with seemingly strange investment partners. Here is a bloomberg article a week ago with more info:

https://www.bloomberg.com/gadfly/articles/2016-08-16/ride-ha....
My initial, poorly fleshed-out question was a measured response to your initial, poorly fleshed-out question. I was giving your question the response it deserved. If you wanted a more thoughtful response, you probably should've gone with something a bit more thoughtful than:

"I don't believe in objective morality."

"HA! WHAT ABOUT MURDER?! GOTCHA!"

What about murder? Explain, please. What about murder do you think so beautifully proves objective morality that you don't need to do anything except mention it? If anyone is trolling, if the burden of proof is on anyone, it's you. At the risk of "putting words in your mouth", you seem to be claiming that there is an objective morality. I am saying "I see no evidence to support that claim, and therefore reject it". My rejection does not then require evidence to support it.

If you really want me to spell it my thinking for you: I have no reason to believe in an objective morality, because the only things I think are objective in this universe are related to physical laws of nature, which happened by random chance. From there, I see no reason to link these physical and random laws with our human understanding of morality. If there was a prime mover that created these physical laws and ordered the universe, and was therefore "above" my conception of the universe, presumably any moral code this prime mover laid down would be "objective". However, I do not believe in such a being.

If you have a logical argument for objective morality without a higher power, lay it on me. But "what about murder?" is not an argument. I feel like I'm beating a dead horse here, but just to be clear: plenty of people and cultures have felt morally comfortable with what you probably think of as murder. Please stop wasting our time if that's all you have.
So how is Uber's runway looking now? This article [1] from August suggests they had just over three years of runway at the end of June ($6.6b burning at about $2b/yr). So this extends the runway by only six months? Are they going to survive long enough to see autonomous drivers? How will this deal affect future funding?

[1] https://venturebeat.com/2017/08/23/uber-is-still-burning-cas...