skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No way. It’s inefficent for a business trying to make money. As an individual, I don’t have to recognize depreciation nor do I get to deduct depreciation as a non taxable business expense.

If it were more cost effective to rent cars, we’d be going to Hertz every month. By the time you build in the overhead, profit, risk, etc, you always pay more. A middle of the road car costs <$0.60/mile to operate, insure, fuel and maintain. Uber is easily 10x that, even with Uber losing money on almost every ride.

I’ve been in the business of centralizing technology services for twenty years now. It’s a clear cost savings when you’re offering something that is a commodity that can obtained on the open market. It’s clearly cheaper to rent email. If you have the volume and capital, it’s clearly cheaper to own the fiber between facilities.

Outsourcing business process is only cheaper as long as your use profile is static — the change orders kill you. Transportation and people are similar to that. Taking the bus to work is often a money-saver. But paying a $30 uber tax or overpaying for Amazon groceries is just a drag. A family of 4 probably saves enough in paper towels alone to make 1 car payment.
Being able to transfer private keys between devices owned by a user might be a necessary feature. Otherwise accounts will be tied to a single device. Not sure what would be a good way to do this though.
Doesn't this attitude perpetuate the harmful stereotype that men are not in control of their own sexual urges? Shouldn't someone in a committed relationship be able to control themselves better? Do you really not trust yourself?
Would this have implications for using ANNs on recursive structures (trees and graphs)? Their "position encoding" seems a little contrived, but may be amenable to a more complex positioning scheme (e.g. paths from a root node).

Whilst there are "standard" approaches in computer vision ("CNNs applied to <foo>") and sequence processing ("LSTM RNNs applied to <foo>"), there doesn't seem to be any "standard" for variable-size, recursively-structured data. Sure there's recursive ANNs, backpropagation-through-structure, etc. but they all seem like one-off inventions, rather than accepted problem-solving tools.
Moving may help, unless you have other serious ties (like your spouse's dream job, etc). Just saying.
HTTP server following the spec can omit the body from a GET request.
Well, there are a couple of reasons they can make it work:

-Tax cars really highly.

-Have car quotas

-Suppress dissent and in practice a one party system

-Build out public transit

-Pop Density.

-No land for sprawl available.
It's called "strong opinions weakly held".

There are good scientific reasons to think cellphones don't cause cancer. However, if enough compelling evidence was found otherwise, then it would be important to update our understanding accordingly.
REST allows you to make decisions about the http interaction out-of-band, where SOAP provides (and often requires) the ability to describe all decisions about types and parameterization and exception cases in-band.

The REST way allowed one to get started with something small and simple that people could agree to just by talking it over together. With SOAP you had to make all those decisions up front and put it in the specification. I believe SOAP is so complex that it's an analog to CORBA/IDL.

REST is (at least initially) simpler and less specific than SOAP. That's its strength.
I wonder when the next article titled:

"GraphQL is the new REST"

or

"<Insert Tech Here> is the new <Old Tech Here>"

will hit top of HackerNews.
You totally should!
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You'd be wrong. First, light gases escape from the Earth's gravity, which is why there's no molecular hydrogen or almost any helium whatsoever. Second, the crust is not the same thing as the Earth, and the distribution of elements by depth depends a lot on the density and other properties of the material elements are chemically bonded into.
It would be really cool to get something like this that is run against all formats and their specific optimizers. I'd like to see how MozJPEG stands up against the best PNG optimizers or how everything compares to webp (which in my experience is the smallest)
The poverty in the cities is easy to see. But these people have services, unlike the Colonias:

> The majority of these communities have no water infrastructures and lack wastewater or sewage services [3][5] Where sewer systems do exist there are no treatment plants in the area, and untreated wastewater is dumped into arroyos and creeks that flow into the Rio Grande or the Gulf of Mexico.

> More than 2000 colonias are identified within the U.S....

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonia_(United_States)

Even the political articles about 'the wall' refuse to acknowledge this because it is so horrifying. The problem we (Americans) have allowed is far deeper than most anyone realizes.
> The author nicely preempts the debate about HATEOAS

What is the debate about HATEOAS?

What's the difference between an API with and without that quality?
> Generally speaking, people don't go around assaulting people, and so low rates of prosecution for assault is not really a problem in most cases. But, enough people sexually assault women that it is a common experience

That can't be the right distinction, because with that broad a definition of assault, people do go around assaulting each other all the time.
My SO was a PhD student at a large west coast university and TA'd. This was also the rule/guidelines for them and professors. The 'Pence Rule' has been in effect for a very long time, it turns out.

Not that it mattered in the end, this particular University has been embroiled with sexual harassment allegations for a long time too.
Lets pray that he is in a better place
> If you pitch a VC and throw in "btw, I'm a communist," or they find your online writings about being a communist, you aren't getting a check.

A friend of mine has had half a dozen startups funded in the Bay Area, and most of the books on show in his living room is Marx, Engels and Trotsky. He now runs a VC fund. One of the first things he told me when I met him was that he used to be a member of a communist party.

If you make a big deal of it in contexts where it would seem weird, like as part of a pitch, then yeah, because it'll make them question why. But the Bay Area is quite more tolerant of left wing views than the rest of the US.

That's not to say it will not affect you - said VC above did tell me he once lost a job over it, but the one time he knows of it was an "outsider" not someone from the Bay Area that prevented him from getting hired.
A GET request's body has no defined semantics, so your server is firmly in the realm of "nonstandard implementation detail" if you choose to take into account the body in your decision-making.
US Marshalls should just set up a mixer

In goes tainted coins, out comes cleam coins
> "Keep social distance around people you have power over" seems extreme (especially if you interpret it like many in this sub-thread do) and almost strawmannish: You could ask, if you're a person of some standing and seek a relationship who are you allowed to ask?

Anyone outside your field and/or occupation. It's that simple.

I actually don't understand this line of reasoning at all. You propose it as a bit of a strawman, but there's always at least one earnest comment in such threads to the effect of "well, now you can't flirt with ANYONE at work!"

That's correct. You can't flirt with anyone at work.

The problem isn't the set of social guidelines that say you don't try to fuck your colleagues. The problem is the people who seem to think that because their personal inclinations make it unpalatable to seek romantic encounters outside of work, that they're entitled to seek romantic encounters at work.

They/ you are not. Find hobbies; ask friends for friends-of-friends that are looking; hit up OKCupid or Tinder or what-have-you. There are any number of ways to seek romantic entanglements that completely divorce you from the issues of power dynamics that occur when courting professional colleagues.

Just stop.
It seems that in the UK income tax is around a third of all tax collected - https://www.ukpublicrevenue.co.uk
Ha, still not bad, kudos. 1:19 is further out on bell curve tail, enough to raise some doubt, at least on a geeky website . . . .
I wonder is it solvable without authoritarianism.
Anyone know why it isn't more successful?
I already choose Uber-like cars over owning my own car, since I only need it occasionally - I commute by bus or bicycle. If driverless cars mean Uber is much cheaper, then my choice will make sense for even more people living in cities.
No worries, Cyrpto will be their prison.
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Medium posters borrow clout from medium which makes their post have clout. If you think of medium posters as just bloggers with their own domain or blogspot, you'll see them differently.
When powerful people stop abusing their power.

A large majority of harassing is probably done by men, but it's not 100% men.
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I completely agree!

People will complain over a few hundred kb of JavaScript, but a 3mb unoptimized image will be ignored.

It drives me insane!
Yes you can drastically outperform the market

Im glad you put your own independent thought into it

Small scale is a much bigger scale than you might think

People have been taught to use asset managers and accept their underperformance.
I mainly use the algebraic mode

Just prefix every expression with '
While men are often perpetrators, and may have predisposition to do so, I believe a large driver of sexual harassment is power relationships. This means men over women, but increasingly,also power relationships involving a female over male subordinates. Sure some male subordinates might receive it gladly, and women often think that offering themselves sexually is doing a male a favor, not all male subordinates will perceive it this way. Anyway, I just wanted to chime in about how central power relationships are to these things, and how they often lead to abuse, and also abnormal behaviors in people with power.
Is "funicular" the name of some new neural network hill climbing technique?
Follow the money. If you look at who owns which news outlets, you'll find a connection between what those outlets choose to cover and what their owner's interests are.
You could also check out Sean Carroll's Spacetime and Geometry. It's my favorite textbook.

Supplement with the second half of Wald's book for exploring some concepts
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... because before the EU (i.e. all the treaties and "communities" that were set up piecemeal and then eventually coalesced into EU institutions), what was the premier instrument of dispute resolution in the European region?

War.
You might want to be more mindful of snarkiness, with Google's help you'll know why, I'd hope.
To get access to the huge US market a corporation must pay federal tax. A huge Chinese corporation is not able to to tell the states that if someone lets them avoid federal tax then the US headquarters will be built in their state. This is advantageous for all states.

The EU does not have something like that but they are able to say that while members can set their own tax code they cannot give preferential treatment to specific companies partly to avoid the scenario above. This forces them at least to pay the correct taxes in the little country they set up in in order to get access to the large countries.
Won't the Facebook usage block your software from working inside companies?
That is not correct. If an overreaction happens the blame would be on the person who overreacts. I do not think that even if we had evidence that disproportionately harsh consequences would prevent sexual misconduct, that the ends would justify the mean if we ruin someone's life by applying an unfair punishment for their wrongdoing outside the legal boundaries.

I would disagree that an isolate incident of inappropriate touch or a suggestive comment or attempt to initiate a sexual relationship with an underling would ruin the victim's life or career. It is a different story if it is proven that the harraser also ignored the rejection or if they used their position of power to pressure the victim for example by threatening to ruin their career. Not differentiating between these two scenarios would not be fair to the harraser in the first scenario and it wouldn't be fair to the victim in the second scenario.
I'm not that knowledgeable in this subject, but is it because wind farms provide dual land use? The footprint required to erect and maintain turbine is much smaller and allows existing farmland to continue operation.
most of the financial instruments expolited prior to the crash were completely legal even though they were "toxic".

Martha Stewart and Bernie Madoff are proof that actual crime can imply prison time
I think REST's ambiguity and arbitrary nature is a real thing for those that are opinionated. (not me so much) Strange but JSON RPC did away with those types of arguments but wasn't used maybe because the name sounds complicated (two acronyms too much)? Now we have GraphQL that seems to be the best answer in ease of use of consumption and design. Rest easy.
> I think we have an ambivalent relationship with the large corporation and with capitalism. It's a relationship that involves need and dependency and some level of celebration but also resentment, anger, and victimization.

Sounds like an abusive relationship to me.
There are some in Iceland, and one NASDAQ founder was jailed as well.
This suggestion keeps popping up as though 'do nothing' and 'destroy some randomly selected lives, at additional cost to society, by way of revenge' were an exhaustive list of options. I think a much more constructive response would be to claw back all the bonuses the bankers were awarded in the years leading up to the crash. If the losses must be socialized, the gains should not stay privatized.
I mean, his main argument is that costs that revolve around the TBM do not make up enough of the total cost of tunneling that TBM and tunnel diameter based cost savings can generate the costs savings that Musk wants to achieve. His primary data with regards to TBM and diameter costs comes from Europe (which ya, is not USA, but closer than Asian countries), and comes up with a rough upper bound of 50% of total tunneling costs in the LHC were associated with the TBM (this is bound to be lower for any transit application, that isn't a point to point tunnel due to additional group level access and extra boring).

If TBM costs are 50% of total cost, no amount of TBM cost reduction can achieve the 90% cost reduction goal - it clearly has to be combined with other strategies.

I believe it's clear that the author believes that these other strategies (all of which is probably project management based strategies) should be engaged with first, before falling down a path of throwing capital and R&D at cost reduction mechanisms (reduction of tunnel diameter for example) that may have significant technical and long-term short comings.

I mean, the entire blog post is just telling Americans what Americans kind of know - Large American government contracts are often poorly managed and executed (for whatever reason), and that reaching for a technological magic bullet is unlikely to achieve what we want.
Looking at an image in a Guardian article about it (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/15/world-steepest...) what is the purpose of those panels further up the mountain on either side of the tracks?

Is that to try to catch the train if it falls off the tracks?
I googled from incognito Mobile Firefox a specific brand's specific mattress cover, and visited its listing on the websites of various retailers. Since nobody had it in stock locally, the next day I ended up ordering the item from Amazon.

A day later, I was browsing Facebook on my home desktop and saw an ad for the exact same item in my feed.

It's likely they partner with data brokers of credit card companies for your purchase history. For me, this is the only explanation, as I did not talk about the item out loud, and have no mic-enabled Facebook-owned app on my phone in any case. As a low-tech solution, correlating IP addresses with "suspected companion device" is also likely.
They all work just like stock markets
This is what the whitepaper says:

> At install time, Alice's client performs remote attestation with its Mobile-Coin node, establishes a secure communication channel into the remote enclave, and transmits its keypair along with its recovery PIN.
Excellent series, though I'd not seen that one. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Christmas_(Black_Mirro...
Nobody seems to want to say it, but murder is a much more plausible explanation than suicide or accident.

It is scary to think so because the murderer and his accomplices remain free and in power.
They posted about it over a month ago (perhaps up to three), and if you used it you were getting regular pings about its upcoming demise.

As for ICQ, last I knew a Russian company bought it from AOL and it is still operational.
> Public transportation in the US sucks because the US, as a whole, wants it to suck.

Rather, public transportation sucks, so everyone who can afford a car (and some who can't) buy a car and use it, so they don't care very much that public transportation sucks; they instead are annoyed that private transportation sucks and want that to improve (e.g. by having an AI deal with driving). They don't see public transportation as a solution to the problem they experience, even if it would solve the problem that brought them into that situation.

FWIW, I have always relied on public transportation in any western country I have been to and while it could have been better sometimes (e.g. rural bus schedules requiring you to plan around them) I don't think it's too bad either. I don't know how Singapore compares, but usable public transportation is definitely also common elsewhere.
In his Christmas video this year, Donald Knuth says this is one of three sites that he always supports.

The other two are Wikipedia and the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
Here's another older one with sample of 12000 random images off the web http://www.phpied.com/give-png-a-chance/
This is not that special nor should it be unexpected. Uber's real problem here is that they were so careless about their operations. Like the rape victim health records incident. They sent their own VP over to go get these records? They should be using deniable intermediaries.

I feel it is rather naive to think that large companies don't have intelligence agents or other such things. The amounts it costs to spy and subvert people is just too small. The KGB was able to flip FBI and other agents for very small sums of money. So how much easier must it be for, say, Oracle, to flip a Google engineer? Or to simply support someone's career and get one of their people hired on an into relevant projects?

Some large companies certainly have Internal Affairs orgs that can go undercover to find out corruption in their org. (I've seen this happen in the case of overseas subsidiaries fudging numbers to steal from corp.) It's bizarre to think they wouldn't spend a small amount of money to obtain info worth thousands of times more.

I mean how much would you really bet that Oracle or Microsoft have never, ever, engaged in anything undercover?
> Many people currently drive daily just because the marginal costs are so low

You just answered my own question.

For a fixed cost of $400/year, insurance of $1000 year, I can be at any point on the east coast in <24 hours for like $0.25/mile + time.
NextGen proximity-based computer lock and key, Halberd
All it takes for a 22 year old to work for an unethical company, writing Linkedin style spamware, Facebook style ad tracking, etc., is around 120k combined compensation.
This comment only makes sense in an American context. Other developed and even developing countries do it much better, lacking the limitations you’ve described.
I'm not defending those actions. The "showing interest in someone" is something that happens daily in work environments everywhere and all it takes is for someone to feel jilted or have a bad day for an HR complaint to appear.

Frankly, you should just avoid interacting with women in a professional environment unless it's strictly about work.
or perhaps:

- Are concerned about potential damaging baseless accusations/rumors/gossip from third parties that you don't trust?

Necessary disclaimer, because internet discussions are great:

Do not interpret this as an endorsement of Pence's policy. I am not interested in arguing about the character of Pence. I am simply pointing out that there are other valid reasons that someone could adopt such a policy.
Predictably, I've offended you and you've downvoted. I win.
This article is also reminiscent of the case of Clive Wearing [1], who lost his memory to disease. His short term memory was reduced to seconds, and yet he remembers music he once played and conducted.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymEn_YxZqZw&index=2&list=PLA...
Liberals and conservatives can take a look at the same data about homelessness and poverty in the US and come to radically different policy conclusions. The liberals say: look at this terrible poverty! We need to raise taxes and provide more social services! The conservatives say: look at this terrible poverty, that still exists in spite of the fact that we spend VAST TRILLIONS of dollars on social services! Apparently the services have nearly zero benefit, so we might as well cut them and lower taxes.

If you think the conservative position is obviously wrong, study Hong Kong and Singapore. They have radically lower taxes than the US (14% and 17% of GDP vs 37% in the US), and yet exceed the US in every dimension of social welfare: better education, health, and infrastructure; lower crime, drug use, poverty and homelessness.
Should we conclude that Amazon does not have sufficient incentive to remove these fake reviews? Surely they could, when third-party sites easily detect them...
komali2's point is that the phrase is self-referential: someone saying "only a sith deals in absolutes" implies that they're also a sith, even though presumably being a sith is a bad thing here.
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It's certainly a competition. It's why Ireland (12.5%) and the UK (19%; 17% in 2020) have two of the lowest corporate income tax rates on the planet. It worked extremely well for Ireland, I've seen little evidence that it has worked for the UK so far. The UK's economy is net the same size it was in 2005, before adjusting for inflation, despite growing their population by about 10%. Ireland's economy by contrast is nearly 50% larger than it was in 2005.
I'm born and raised in Los Angeles, and it's a homophone for me; you can add me as a data point to your pool.
Unless they did something illegal, or took taxpayer money illegally, why would they be? We choose to use their services. If you don't like it, start paying cash (or Bitcoin).
Thanks, I probably misread US electric as something more. Sorry.

If it's national, the 36x isn't that big of a factor. There are other locations with high solar input (africa, australia, middle east).
why stop at bankers? millions of Americans flipped homes, took out loans to buy baubles and then benefited when their loan papers became lost in the resulting chaos...and almost everyone knew damn well what they were doing

the government CHOSE to bail it all out, and they will probably be doing something similar one day for Uber, Bitcoin and maybe even Tesla.

we have CHOSEN the bubble/bailout cycle
Fair enough, fair enough
By the time these tunnels are ready (if ever), urban private transportation will probably be primarily electric anyways.