skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This may end up doing some significant hurt to some build and testing pipelines.
Yes but the US does not allow audits on their gold reserves.

They could print as many dollar bills they wanted until the Nixon shock.

That ended, and as a consequence the economy is not doing as well right now.

If not but because of exclusive deals (e.g: oil) it would be very hard to justify the dollar current value.
Blockchain announcement sends stock of Hooters franchisee soaring
Infuriating.
We need digital consumer protection laws to put increased pressure on companies to take cyber security seriously.
Do not underestimate the power of thousands of meters of water.
I guess that's how I feel too. I would never preach this gospel, but I find it inspirational.
I think a way to look at it is this: The singularity happened, likely sometime in the 90s. It was, what any singularity is, the point where what came before it is not useful to predict what came after.

It is no surprise that the event defined by our inability to predict past it did not work out in the way we imagined.
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There is a sex/BDSM/cuddle party scene at a lower economic level, but that's a pre-existing part of Bay Area culture; the roots are more in the gay Leathermen/Folsom Street culture, and the hippie/tantra 60s counterculture, than in rich VCs. There is increasing techie representation in that subculture (mostly engineers), but that's because every Bay Area subculture that's open to the middle class has a lot of techies these days.

Of course, this scene tends to be explicitly feminist, disproportionately queer/trans, and anti-classist (public events tend to have sliding-scale prices and opportunities to volunteer for free admission). I didn't read the article in detail, but a lot of the bits and pieces sound like an upper-class, MUCH more heteronormative, more patriarchal attempt to reproduce those experiences. (e.g. explicitly gender-differentiated rules, which tend to create a mentality of men chasing sex and women giving it.)
Eh, if jobs are going away, we need more jobs more than we need matchmaking for existing jobs. I can tell you from personal experience that there is a huge difference between working when there are more jobs than qualified workers and working when there are more qualified workers than jobs, and the humane way to balance that equation in favor of us workers is to create more jobs.

(It is interesting, though, because who is qualified is a subjective thing; either to the whims of a human manager, or whatever hidden statistical correlation the ML algorithm found. Right now, my impression is that standards are much higher for new grads than when I broke into the industry, and much lower for the higher end jobs that I now compete for.)

Which isn't to say that the matchmaking problem isn't difficult or important or interesting, but it's certainly not the whole of the problem.

(Also, where I am, my employer pays a rather large cut of what I earn to the matchmaker. like 30% though it varies a lot, as far as I can tell. Rather more than I pay in rent. At my end of the market, my marginal dollars are devalued to the point where I'm still making a really good living on my 70%... but if I was making a lot less, that 30% could really matter. From that perspective, inserting a matchmaker into the low end might contribute to the further impoverishment of the poor.)
What cities are these interior home magnates based in?!?
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Ahem:

- GRASS has had that since the 80s: https://grass.osgeo.org/grass72/manuals/addons/r.traveltime....

- ESRI has had those in web form since the 90s: https://doc.arcgis.com/en/arcgis-online/analyze/create-drive...

- GeoTrellis has that working in an open source project on top of a Spark cluster: https://transit.geotrellis.io/travelshed.html
And there is the noise also
Native used to mean machine code for the hardware but there's so little of that nowadays that I think people often use it to mean anything that's more tied to one platform than a web app so it's a bit ambiguous.
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If you look at the paper you can see it was poorly reviewed/edited (eg "trainning day" in figure 1).

Also, there is no mention of blinding so they probably skipped that (key) step. Nor do they show us plots to demonstrate that behavior correlated with the histology/etc.

Finally, they assess memory using the water maze. There is no reason to think the effect of the drug was on memory vs anything else like hunger, anxiety, etc: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2663577/
I actually thought that sentence was one of the more cringe-worthy parts of an otherwise interesting article since "hot-shit" was a term used by the author, not a quote from anyone involved in the parties. I think it's likely the author meant to say "hot-shot" but the editor (if there was one) didn't catch it.

Also, "product" is a term used extensively in software development / startup culture. We have product managers, product developers, etc. When I (as a mobile developer) hear "product" I think of software.
> What do you mean, 'should'?

I read it as something like 'are required to by law.'

> Sure they would. Why not? I've done this. Canadian government and US government. It doesn't make sense not to do this sometimes.

I'm curious, what was your reasoning for paying $500 more than expected? And in what way did it "not make sense" to not do that?
By helping the poor out of poverty instead of strengthening the mechanisms that put them there to keep them there.

I'm not sure how exactly that's Orwellian thinking, please explain.
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I would think that the authors/rights holders of the music really should get the majority of the revenue. The underlying technology is of little interest to the end user.

Who would really install and pay for spotify if the entire library consisted of a two minute track of street sounds from Los Angeles and thirty seconds of doorbells? Basically no one. Nobody really cares about the technology, what they want is the music, without which even the coolest technology is uninteresting.
If these parties are so widespread, how come no one has posted any actual photos from these parties? I'm sure there's some of this going on, but it can't be as widespread as claimed.
Upvoted because I agree with the sentiment but also not true.

Look at how the interpretation of copyright as it pertains to sampling and mashing etc absolutely stifled innovation and continues to do so.

For visual art look at how ambiguous the law is around collage, which definitely stifles innovation.
It is not at all that cut and dried.

Engaging in sham business activity for the specific purpose of tax avoidance is not legal. Many of these tax schemes could be declared invalid at the discretion of the IRS (or other governments - the EU already has in some cases).

These companies are not complying with tax law. They are cheating and paying bribes or doing favors to get away with it, and everyone knows it.
One thing that I don't get is what is the incentive to vote on tx?
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>that I have taken to mean: "I will never do that unless you force me to."

I actually created my own open source BDD framework and a ton of tooling to help automate stories.

19 out of 20 was a pretty conservative estimate of how much I automate - it's probably more like 39 out of 40. I'm a little obsessive about it because I want to dogfood my work properly so I automate quite a few things where the cost/benefit for a normal programmer would seem a bit low.

I'm very cognizant that the industry as a whole is terrible at testing and I'm hoping my software can one day do a small part to help with that.
Finally, someone makes _the_ point in a thread about JIRA.

JIRA's most powerful feature is that it affords for mapping businesses processes onto software. This is incredibly compelling to enterprise customers. Software that enforces workflows, procedures and requirements can be an incredible lever and JIRA's price point makes build vs buy decisions an absolute no-brainer.

The down side for the true end-users, those who actually use the software day-to-day, is that most business processes are awful.

If your experience is the hellish existence that I see strolled about on threads where JIRA comes up, I can say with near absolute confidence that it's because of one of three things:

* Your admin(s) set it up once and hasn't bothered to iterate on those workflows.
* The business mapped their autonomy stripping processes onto JIRA intentionally. I'd guess that most of your work experience is similar. Process stifled nonsense.
* You're on an instance that is serving too many people with too few resources. Shard your instances folks, the money for extra licenses is wildly cheaper than the human time you're wasting waiting for stuff to load.
> Never do that. Instead I use indexes when I actually want to access the element.

Yeah, it's pretty clumsy though.
In more or less all western societies men are found in the top and in the bottom of society.

I am perfectly fine with accepting that there is an element of choice involved if that also explains why men are found in the top of society.

My experience is that many women will not agree on that but instead point to (if they are really stereotype feminists) patriarchal structures in society benefitting men.
Yes language is imprecise and imperfect and that is why we have tax courts to clarify it.

If a company misinterprets tax code, they will eventually have to pay the price for it.

And I feel like "loophole" doesn't do justice to the authority the US gov't has.

If Congress can't get their act together enough to write clear tax law, then they should go back and fix it. Don't blame the company for imperfect and imprecise language - they didn't write it.
That's fair. Kudos to you in that you at least recognize the situation, can articulate the problem, and have an exit strategy.

Far too many people keep holding out hope things will change, and get walked on in the process.
Companies pay low tax in one country for money they earned in another country. Almost every multinational does that, there are buildings in The Netherlands in which a dozen of international firms have a postbox just so they can redirect their revenue and pay the lowest tax on it.

Being Dutch, I am ashamed that our government does not do anything to change the laws which allow for this to happen.
That's most likely due to the fact that this article/topic was non-gendered, or gender-neutral. And that the poster decided to inject it into the conversation. It may be a pertinent matter to discuss, or not, but it acted as a focal point in that comment.

To be fair, I stopped reading that post at that point and moved on to the discussion chains. Only afterwards did I come back to it.
> I read it as something like 'are required to by law.'

I would have said 'have to' to be required by law. 'Should' implies a moral code, a desire to do right and good. In this case, Google absolutely 'should' pay those taxes.

> I'm curious, what was your reasoning for paying $500 more than expected? And in what way did it "not make sense" to not do that?

If you have more money than necessary, and you know that others don't, and you know that a good portion of your taxes goes to helping others, the rational thing to do could be to help out and not attempt to claim every tax break and benefit you could. I'm not saying that's always right, I'm saying it can be rational for people to do it.

Paying as little taxes as possible to avoid jail is absolutely not the rational move for people or corporations. This is a classic tragedy of the commons: if people and companies paid taxes as due, we would all be better off for it. The rational move is to fully pay all expected taxes, not use offshore secret hideouts to avoid improving your own country.
Pardon my ignorance but how is that different from putting <style> and <script> tags inline in HTML? Other than the syntax of course.
Right, that would be non-compliance as the OP already pointed out.
We Need to Change the Way We Think About REST APIs
The Research article (PDF):
https://www.osapublishing.org/DirectPDFAccess/3ADDF00A-E071-...
This is an article from 2008.

I'd take most arguments in this with a grain of salt, as it predates much of the progress that CSS (and things like Sass/Less/PostCSS) have made over the past decade.
> other forms of intentional homicide, barring exceptional circumstances

Presumably then capital punishment, itself an example of intentional homicide, is among these "exceptional" circumstances?
> isn't this only true for the first time a function is used?

Yes, but it will happen each time the program loads, which means your LD_* variables will get parsed/iterated over. Statically linking stuff in can help if you have a program that needs to be exec()'d in a loop. While it'll probably only shave off 0.001 seconds per exec() call it can add up, more so if you have LD_LIBRARY_PATH set to look on some slow storage like nfs.

But its a bit of a hyper optimization at that point. I've used this to really annoy a c++ developer saying c++ was faster than c. Evil trick on my part but my euler solutions were always faster. >.<
They are only system calls when you need to wait or wake up processes.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futex
https://graphhopper.com/api/1/docs/isochrone/

https://developer.here.com/documentation/routing/topics/requ...
I really hope we are both wrong, but I agree with you. I worked in healthcare and health insurance, and I have a unique perspective on the mass of regulations from across the US. I see the same patterns in many areas, government, finance, manufacturing and more.

I think that as things have evolved more and more quickly (rate of technological change, complexity of systems, increasing amounts of information/data, amount of knowledge and requisite volume and velocity of learning required to keep up), it has surpassed our ability to absorb/reason effectively and it continues to get worse.

I think the reason humanity is struggling to try to get AI (to help us carry the load) is related.

I think that there is a trend here, at least in Western culture, we can see manifested by the size of industries. If you look at the biggest industries contribution to GDP, they are also some of the most complex industries[1]. It seems that, among other things, when you have many individual players and groups with competing agendas, money and complex systems, you have these issues.

Perhaps it is literally survival manifesting itself in the modern age.

Anecdotally, I also see people looking to the past for simpler techniques and "core" knowledge, trying to find more general, longer-term survival/coping skills that cut across time and technological change.

[1] https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/which-are-the-biggest-in...
Partly in rebellion to the grungy apparel of my co-workers at a Linux company, I started wearing suspenders and a tie most of the time in the early 2000s. Still wore a tie off and on until about 7 years ago, but working from home really killed that for me.

Now I have several dozen ties I love and never, ever wear them. A shame, really.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2017/08...

Just for one example of how individuals were indeed singled out. Same with each example given, I’d recommend studying the history of this aspect of human behavior to get a grip on its present. Sure, Harvey Weinstein and his ilk did alright, but plenty of individuals went through the wringer. That’s not even looking at the impact of the crack panic on the prison population and various communities.

You just didn’t have a live feed informing you of their plight.
I think if you consent to go to the sex party, you consent to physical romantic activity, you consent to taking the drug knowing your context and what the drug will do, and then you consent to sex throughout the experience, it's hard to see how it's anything but consensual.

Fortunately despite your sense of things, try that as a defense for rape and you’ll be in a deep, dark hole full of other rapists. Consent can be revoked, can be modified, and taking drugs doesn’t imply that you’re up for being passed around like a joint.
This is exactly my point. It only benefits the already big successful cooperations and people. It does nearly nothing for small artists while actively hindering people from enjoying cultural goods. Every song that is being created today will still be under copyright when you die. Meanwhile if someone creates a new way to manufacture a certain product, it's "only" protected for 20 years (which is fine).

If Taylor Swift lives until she is 80, her songs will be free in the year 2140 - maybe even later if someone like a composer lives longer. Isn't this just absurd?
Worth a click through to see just how egregious it is, however! ;)
i m interested in this as i m trying to use historical data to calculate something indicative of "real invested value". do you know if there are appropriate models ?
> When people are compiling to something you designed as an end-user interface, you've failed.

CSS is a good end-user interface for many things without variables.

And people will use preprocessors for CSS no matter how many features it will have because of many reasons including "ugly and unreadable" syntax.

It's better to leave CSS and HTML as simple primitive bytecode for web UI with powerful compilers instead of developing epic w3 specs leading to numerous bugs in browser implementations.
> an event that should bankrupt a company such as Equifax

That's a ludicrous thought. They were the victims of a crime, not the criminals. Should Target have been bankrupted? Or Home Depot?
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> You still haven't actually laid out a metric showing that Medicare is inefficient; you just keep asserting it is not efficient in the face of evidence that single-payer systems are in fact pretty efficient

Medicare is an example of a government run healthcare service in the US. Its way more relevant to compare to Medicare than to compare with foreign countries health results. Its also revelant because single payer proposals in the US are basically expanding Medicare. So even if every single single-payer system in the world were efficient, if Medicare isnt, it wouldn't matter.

> Medicare spends significantly less (approximate 1.4%) on overhead costs, compared to private insurers that average around 12.4%.[1]

Sure, thats because it doesn't do price-fighting like private providers have to with insurance companies. It has the basic incentive to cede at every corner as an institution. But lets look at other reasons why healthcare is spending and how medicare solves them. How about pharma costs, doctor salary costs and legal costs. Is medicare cheaper on these other predominant reasons why healthcare is expensive?

You will find that Bernie sanders understands well that pharma is expensive because government restricts its importation. So if as an organization the government is strained to even bring drugs from abroad, a problem it has unique power and responsibility to solve today and no-one else can do except for 'retail smuggling', and we are supposed to put our entire faith into the same hands that cant solve that?

If you just eliminated restriction of drug importation, you would drop healthcare costs enormously in 24 hours. The only thing you have to do as a government, is to stop doing a thing. How simpler can it be.

The core idea here is that the debate of public vs private is a red herring. Healthcare is not expensive in the us because of private vs public. Its expensive for its own particular policies, which economists have consensus on and are hard to take on due to lobbying, or lack of public interest, or mere gubernamental complexity. The topic is presented as two black bentos, where you can only see the results in the faces of people eating them. But they really aren't. You can see what each has and why.
It's a shame France is one of the countries you are unable to hire in at this point, I would be really interested otherwise.
With such a crude mechanism the odds are pretty slim that you can create all the right multi-bit flips in one go without hitting an intermediate state that triggers an ECC fault. Research theorizing and actual practice aren't always the same.
1. Start to build a service to continously give you weekly hotel recommendations via email for a Paris, Rome, London and New York. Did this to learn about webscraping and machine learning. Got as far as performing reliable webscraping on several hotel sites. Started to learned about the ML but have not got so far yet.

2. Started to learned about Bitcoin and cryptocurrency, and came to the realisation that it is like gambling in the wild west.
The article gives a good example of why it's in the insurance companies' interest to pay people to give you advice. It was obvious to everyone on the ground that the insurer would save money if they just sent the author's mother to an out-of-network physical therapist rather than keeping her in the hospital. But the insurer didn't have anyone who could quickly make that cost-saving judgment call.

Really, the biggest problem in a lot of cases is not that insurers deny claims for life-saving procedures, it's that they prioritize expensive and ineffective treatments over inexpensive and effective treatments.
I've lost the link, but I read a thread recently with doctors laughing at the idea they could ever be replaced with anything related to AI.

The 1 in 20 left - is so clearly going to happen to that profession - I suspect they'll be hit harder than truck drivers.

Once you get every symptom, every generic fingerprint, every prescription and every outcome for a decade in to a TensorFlow model - it's going to smash current results.

It won't be guessing at 100mg or 200mg, it will be prescribing 127mg/day for first week, and 122mg/day for the second - a year later it will bring that advice down to 126.
> On the other hand, CSS style sheets are short. They are not much bigger than one editor window. Very few people (only professional designers, it seems) write style sheets longer than a hundred lines.

Even for 2008 this is just wrong. Very few people write any kind of CSS at all. But those who do surely write more.
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>it's probably not a loophole, since the behavior in question has been known for many years, and the US government has made no effort to change how the law fails

They did change the law, and this workaround will stop working around 2020
Not two results.

But "when you click on this after that this happen while it shouldn't" is usually enough info to start debugging: you have reproducible steps. Which you can do with a debugger running so you see exactly were and how things break.

And it is a lot less brittle than "well we tried to refactor some minor thing and now everything is red; but we don't know if the software behavior changed or just because our tests were just checking the implementation".
Is there a service that can print out these massive PDFs into a bound copy? I spend enough time on screens for work that I really prefer a book for learning material.