skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It legislated a reduction in tax revenue hoping / pretending that an increase in economic activity will offset the reduction.

Fact 1: reduced tax rate and revenue

Fact 2: permanent beneffit to corporations, in the form of tax reductions

Bet 1: the economy will grow

Bet 2: the proffits will trickle down

Bet 3: increase in economy will allow to fullfill obligations

If the bets do not materialize, nobody cares. That is, nobody except tax payers and recipients of federal promises.

Corporations and wealthy individuals will pocket proffits upfront. The rest are left praying for the bets to work out.
Sorry, I was responding to your assessment of the situation as "laughable."

I'm not laughing.

Neither are you, right?
> Do you at least acknowledge the reality of how laughable your “natural right” to resist would look against even a minute fraction of the state’s power?

Acknowledge? Yes. We gave them all the guns.

Accept? Consent to? Absolutely not. I despise the status quo and want to see my children grow up in a more free society than what we're living in now. Unfortunately things have consistently gone in the wrong direction and I seem to be in the minority of people not okay with that, but I'll still do what I can as one man.
Do you opportunistically use Wi-Fi? Or just LTE all the time?
"didn't come cheap"

Is that $500 billion? $1 trillion? $2 trillion?

I imagine $1 trillion in infrastructure, for example, will pay future dividends. Simply saying something wasn't cheap doesn't help us compare. For example, the US spent $1 trillion in the Iraq War and another $1 trillion in Afghanistan.

If China can build infrastructure at a fraction of the cost, and their economy passes the US by 2032, as predicted, it doesn't bode well for the United States.
I wonder if this new policy affects international data usage at all. I've been sticking with Project Fi largely due to how seamless the data roaming experience has been for me.
Not to mention Selective Service (as in, the form you must fill out).
> (Where “wrong result” is broadly defined to include performance bugs, usability bugs, etc.)

The author seems to disagree - isn't bad design a usability bug?
Statements like the above are one of the reason we don’t see voting system reform in the US. Every time someone discusses reform, people make over-the-top claims like the above (“almost as bad a plurality voting.”)

To the reader: approval / score voting has its own problems, such as not satisfying the majority criterion (a bigger deal than monotonicity) and encouraging strategic voting, among other problems.
> Mandatory Voting

I'd strongly consider allowing myself to be hauled off to prison for civil disobedience in protest of this one. We need a way to signal our disapproval of the system per se.
They were stolen or probably marked as "distributed to the needy" on paper and then shoved into truck or I heard a large cargo plane and flown to Eastern Europe to be sold on the street.
I think people will learn quickly how harsh solitary confinement is and they can readjust their expectations. Also, the sentence should be moved up meaningfully depending on the level of crime. So 3 weeks for rape would be too little, in my opinion.
smart people who know that subsidizing developers with more regulation will backfire?
Neither there is one allowing assistance :/ I want to end in peace and dignity. Is that too much to ask? Apparently.

There is a lot of assistance available that leads you to extend your life beyond the point where you can keep your dignity but none where you can just ... bow out.

Whenever a trainer has asked what's my goal, my only answer was, I don't want to end up in a wheelchair in twenty years. My back already hurts a little pretty much constantly, I don't want to live long enough where it becomes unbearable and/or I can't even walk any more. Truly what's the point. And voicing these -- in my opinion entirely rational -- thoughts are almost taboo.
If you're using Google Maps every day, you offline your area within the app. Drastically reduces data usage.
> $20/paycheck. It is laughable

And we tech people wonder why so much of the country scoffs at our echo chamber. Maybe you've never been on the lower rung of income, but an extra $40/month can be a big deal to a lot of people. Typical median household income in 2017 was $59k, so a 2% increase is meaningful.

But don't let me get in the way of your political narrative.
I had to disable tracking protection in firefox to see anything except the first three lines.
I've long held the opinion that the Central Valley portion of the project, and/or the first phase of this project -- which in this case, refer to the same stretch -- is overbuilt in ways that make little practical sense.

If you're putting stations into every major town, roughly 30 miles apart, it makes little sense to build things like curves with a radius of over 3.5 miles (~ 5.6 km) on a viaduct, comparable to open-line track radii in France for TGV lines, just outside of Fresno's station where you're going to slow down to 0 mph anyway.

This kind of silliness is why they're over budget. The most acute impediments to long-distance rail in California is the lack of dedicated, quality track along which a trainset could speed along between towns without regard to freight, so it would stand to reason to solve that part first, while leaving a bunch of expensive niceties for later, when enough appetite for them has been built up.

When France built the TGV, or Germany their equivalent, they didn't rebuild their downtowns to accommodate high-speed tracks; this is a uniquely American fetishism the same way the US took interstate highways into their downtowns in the 60s.
It was a scam, exactly.
Mandatory voting would disproportionately punish every single vulnerable population in the country.

The elderly. Sick. Poor. Illiterate. Non-native speakers. Ethnic minorities subject to racist voter ID policies. The list goes on. All of them would be fined for having barriers put upon them.

None of that even covers people who simply can't get time off work, or from watching their kid, or who live in a rural area.
Is using a C library or crypto library that hard in Rust? That's first Ive heard of it being a problem. In high-assurance, it was standard to limit unsafety to the stuff behind interfaces of unsafe modules (incl FFI) in otherwise memory-safe, systems language. We didn't see this as a detriment esp if was C with its wide support.
Taking the voodoo out of multiple regression
I've been saying the same thing too... At least synth music is more popular again... I'd much rather have an oppressive era of synth based music than another oppressive era of wubstep.
Thanks very much to responders. Even though I watched Sapolsky's amazing Biology of Human Behavior course (a few years ago), I wouldn't have been able to correct the sentence myself.
>Hill said the cost increases were mainly driven by problems including higher costs for land acquisition, issues in relocating utility systems, the need for safety barriers where the bullet trains would operate near freight lines and demands by stakeholders for the mitigation of myriad issues.

There could of been an entire article written about these issues. Instead we got a bunch of stuff about politics. What's the point of writing an article about problems with a major infrastructure project without any discussion of the problems?
Relevant:

- http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/07/17/who-by-very-slow-decay/

- http://nautil.us/issue/55/trust/what-we-get-wrong-about-dyin...
Yes! automatic registration seems like an incredibly important step. Here in Canada i just show up to vote, and they let me. I don't have to jump through any hoops to be allowed to vote, and i can't understand why any country would have it any other way. (other than the obvious: malicious voter suppression)
Property hoarding/rent-seeking is screwing over the collective in favor of the individual. They are at least paid at or above market rate. Private ownership only exists in the framework of a society, and sometimes the needs of the society as a whole are more important than that of the individual. Otherwise we wouldn’t need a military or borders.
Do people who experience taxable events (possibly without consciously choosing to do so, e.g., inheriting money or property) lose their First Amendment rights? How?
Regarding spoiling the ballot, if the voting booth does not clearly present the choice to spoil your ballot, then the voting results will be skewed against those who do not want to vote for a candidate.
There have been some interesting, if not entirely consistent, results from "restorative justice" efforts.
Let's think a little about this post and your prior one. Juniors don't like to work on "boring stuff" like testing and ensuring that your builds correctly complete, hmm? While you're complaining that they "don't need" stuff like TDD or CI. TDD is "wasting time", even though it's how you can actually specify software and then just knock out the issues to turn those tests green, increasing velocity once you're comfortable with the rhythm. CI is "wasting time", even though it's how you avoid rolling broken stuff out to production (and thus have to, yanno, do it again).

What I'm saying is that your post was incoherent (and this reply is worse), which is why I read deeper into your comment history. There's a lot more incoherence there, too. Frankly? It reads like a junior who's found what they think is a local maximum and is insufficiently humble to realize it's not a global maximum either. And I have a little bit of extra oomph on that one, I think, because--lest we forget--your public-facing profile says fuck all JavaScript/NodeJS developers.

Most people would pay a lot of money to juniors who wanted to do that stuff. Maybe those dang kids have a point.
Making election day a holiday is pointless. Poor people work on holidays.

What would actually be helpful is what a lot of states like Washington have done. Early voting, voting by mail, voting by drop off places.
I don't understand how an American can manage this thought. It runs in the face of every stated ideal and philosophical underpinning of this dear republic. I'll refer you to the concept of natural rights, Locke, Paine, the Deceleration of the Independence, the Bill of Rights and the rest of the Constitution, and the entirety of classical liberal philosophy.
Trains are better than planes along several dimensions, if done right. "Why would I take the train when I could fly for the same price?" isn't a very good question. The answer is that (again, when done correctly):

- Trains are generally more comfortable

- Trains allow you to use your cell phone

- Trains can take you from city center to city center

- Trains don't have the same security requirements

- Trains are safer

- Trains are cheaper to operate (and so should actually be cheaper in the long run)

Planes are better over very long distances. But trains are better for regional travel.
>The beauty of solitary confinement is that it's completely non-violent

it is violent. Violence does not have to be a stimulus that you present to the subject (hitting, etc...). It can be a collection of stimuli that you withhold from the subject as in this case.

Someone even coined a term for it: structural violence.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural_violence
The State is not the exact equivalent of society in general, but there's enough overlap to interchange them in most arguments.

And you say "do you believe anything is made morally right when the State does it", but what you mean is "do you believe everything is morally right when the State does it". So you're turning bad phrasing into a bad argument. I can think that some things, even most things that the State does are good, without being universal. This includes eminent domain, which is a social good but must be applied carefully, on a case-by-case basis.

Absolutism is the second core failing of libertarianism, after the absurd ideas of "natural rights".
But it doesn't make elections a more accurate reflection of everyone's preferences.

Some people's preference is literally "I don't care"

Other people may have a preference on a specific issue that favors a single candidate while other issues better favor another candidate.

It also reduces actually researching candidates to a waste of time. If I take the time to carefully research 5 candidates and their stance on all of the issues, weigh them carefully, maybe even attend a campaign event to get clarification...and then another guy walks up without having any idea what he's voting for that votes for the other guy...his vote counts exactly the same except that he's only there because he has to be.
There's a list of people who choose not to vote that is published every year. Shame! (bell) Shame! (bell) Shame! (bell)
My Raspberry Pi Kubernetes Cluster
Indeed, I just think the ban on it makes certain things harder to find before you're using it in a production system (with proper production loads). Pagination and sorting, for example, do not exist in the usual sense.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/datomic/gr9fscuF6oE

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/datomic/NgVviV9Sw8g

It'd be swell if they put up a list of differences, because using the pull query API + clojure really is quite cool -- it's just good to know what you're getting into.
>We're tackling the most minor of symptoms.
>Of course, none of this will actually happen.

Nobody is saying that things would be perfect if more employers made voting day a holiday. But certainly it would be better than what we have now. And we don't need to wait for it to happen. Don't let perfect be the enemy of the good.
In Australia it is more or less works like this and it is far from being a good system. Just a waste of everybody time. I got no idea what and to whom I am voting, I got no idea what will be the implications of choosing someone as second place, I just go there because I have to and vote in a very vague and confused way.
Another thing you missed is voter ID, in Australia nobody asked me for an ID, I could easily vote under someone else name two or three time and nobody would catch me. This is stupid and I don't understand why people object such thing, there must be a lot of fake votes.
Static files means that your server might serve the page faster (especially under load), but page bloat is a different matter.
> data scientists said they spent 65% of their time using relational datasets vs 18% for images

Part of the reason is that use cases are driven by limited definitions of ML or "AI" -- AutoML for example note they are "Making AI accessible to every business..." but they are just managing a small part of one type of ML (images with conv nets and res nets.) A senior exec who reads this might develop a narrow view of what AI is.

A general annoyance is how obvious techniques like regression, tree models, Bayesian models, etc on tabular data are so ignored while everyone gets hyper-obsessed over GANs or whatever. Almost 90% of low-hanging-fruit I see can be captured with simple classic ML applied to tabular data.
There is free/open source software that will compute viewsheds for you, and data downloadable from the USGS. In times past I did a lot of this but really you just need to go look with a telescope or a camera on the end of a long pole. But note that the work you do to figure out if you can provide service to a prospective customer can easily exceed the lifetime value of that customer!

The Post Office (in the US anyway) will mail a postcard to every household in a defined area for reasonable cost.

Remember to get good insurance if you construct or climb towers.

Honestly I really question your sanity though. Think of all the people who decide they are going to open a restaurant: we shake our heads at the large subset of them who have absolutely no restaurant experience. We know that in order to make money at a restaurant you at least need to absolutely nail the whole making food that people like to eat and making the place pleasant and inviting and all that (execution). If you don't have that, you're doomed for sure. And then some large proportion of even the experienced restaurant folks still fail -- we look at their efforts and shake our heads "well they should have known this town doesn't have a big enough market for a fine dining place", and so on.

As someone who does know all about how to build and run a wireless ISP, I'm reading your post like how most folks look at a doomed new restaurant opening.

Sorry to be a party pooper but I figure I may save you some $$$. I think at least you need to be doing this in a place where there is _no_ competition besides satellite. If there is even just regular LTE service people will scrape by with that rather than pay you for better service. If there are traditional providers (Coax/HFC, DSL) then forget about it.
That's exactly what Datasette Publish solves: it's a tool which you upload CSVs to and it deploys the application on the internet for you, for free.

Under the hood it's taking advantage of the incredibly generous free hosting tier offered by Zeit: https://zeit.co/pricing

As a user though, you don't need to worry about this at all. Sign in, verify your email address (which signs you up for an account with Zeit), upload your CSVs and Datasette Publish will deploy the application with your data and give you back a URL hosted on the public internet.
Shouldn't Google Maps be caching this data?
For me the best two parts about Fi when I was using it was the free extra data sims and the fact that you could roam data internationally for no extra charge. I'm abroad ~6 times per year so not having to pay out the nose in extra charges or spend time walking around a new city looking for a sim card the first day of my trip made it worthwhile. The actual comparison with other providers from a monthly data cost perspective were kind of a wash

Eventually left when I wanted to switch back to an iPhone
Walmart said it's raising it's minimum wage in addition to bonuses. And there are 163 other companies giving bonuses. But sure, it would be nice for the employees if Walmart gave more of that savings to them.
The Internet Shouldn’t Be Blockchain-Based
People still work on Sundays. It doesn't address the root problem.
SurveyMonkey is expected to go public later this year – Recode
Indeed. Regular CA roads have faint line paint and are falling apart. We have bigger priorities than high-speed trains. Is it too late to trade the money?
Eminent domain doesn't happen without compensation. It's done at fair market value, almost always settled by the courts, that don't have a political interest in the outcome.

It doesn't mean take your land without compensation. It means take your land whether you like it or not, for fair market compensation.
There is an episode from West Wing that touches on how awful Ethanol really is, really opened my eyes.
People still work on Saturdays and Sundays.
Look up the term "Gorilla arm" and you'll see why it's not easier in the long run.
Many celebrities and entertainers can bring their fanbase with them as they get older. This is literally what people like Leno and the Rolling Stones do.
When I was a kid in the early 80's, I couldn't use my TRS-80 Model I during prime time TV hours. The main TV antenna for the house was located in the attic above my room. When I turned on my computer, the interference would essentially wipe out the VHF-Lo channels. Sometimes I would forget until I heard my parents yelling from across the house. Ah... good times...
Ugh, who could possibly advocate such an inhuman thing in the first place?
> 1. Election on a Sunday. It’s not controversial, it’s bloody obvious. No one should even be able to find an argument against moving it.

Christian churches are used in my area as polling places. I would hate to know how far I would have to drive if they would no longer be used. How about Saturday?

>2. Automatic registration. Registration is just increasing the barrier to vote.

How do we "automatically" register someone? Location and age would be required. There is no system I am aware of which is automatically updated when a person moves. Requiring people to deal with state ids has already been decided as too onerous.
What I hate (and it happened in the most recent SN) is when Steve explains something then Leo asks a question about the thing Steve just talked about. At least try and pay attention.
That being said, we have a large voter turnout. Huge numbers of polling places (including schools), open before and after working hours. The situation doesn't seem to be as dire as in the USA, at least from my perspective
There is high speed transit from San Francisco to Los Angeles today. It's called Southwest Airlines. Tickets are $45 for SFO-LAX each way in February right now (less than the expected cost of the train ticket). Other pairs (OAK-BUR, SJC-BUR) are similar ($49-$57 each way).

Before you say that it's ridiculous, consider how else $64 billion (current official estimated total construction cost of the project -- not counting operating cost)[0] could be spent:

- Commercial air travel costs around $0.10 per passenger-mile if you buy in bulk[1]. That means $64 billion could buy 640 billion passenger-miles of air travel. If allocated to the 11 million people who live in Los Angeles and San Francisco counties, the state could buy each resident 58,000 air miles of travel -- equivalent to about 88 round-trips between LAX and SFO.

- If the LAX-SFO air corridor becomes too busy, that $64 billion could also be spent upgrading existing fleets by buying 147 brand new A380s at an average list price of $435 million each. [2]

- If the environmental impact is a concern (not that laying tracks and punching holes through the Central Valley is free of impact), then buy new Teslas instead. Lots of them. At $35,000 per Model 3, you could buy 1.8 million new Teslas using that money. Add some solar panels to each purchase and you could still buy more than a million -- more than enough for every San Franciscan to get a brand new Tesla.

[0] https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/01/13/confidential-report-c...

[1] http://www.opshots.net/2015/04/aircraft-operating-series-air...

[2] http://www.airbus.com/content/dam/corporate-topics/publicati...

(Edit: added citation for $64 billion official estimate)
I can dream that it may reach a point where everybody is.
'every time you feel like it' and 'when he's trying to get you executed' are maybe different things.
What would be the requirement to compel voting? Be of voting age population and be mentally sound? Sounds like a massive expansion of state power to force all people of a certain age and sound mind to do an action.
Why is violence as punishment morally wrong but very harsh mental conditions not?

For that matter why is violence as punishment morally worse than involuntary confinement as punishment. If Joe does either to you we all agree it's morally wrong, but for some reason we consider justice system sanctioned confinement fine, but not violence. Why?

(I'm assuming you understand violence to include "strapped to a chair and waterboarded" and "fed drugs that trigger pain receptors" - I'm not sure everyone considers the word violence to include those things)

Edit: I know it's against guidelines here to say this - but can we consider not downvoting pfarnsworth to hell - whatever you think of his opinions he is providing good discussion.
JunOS is based on FreeBSD, which doesn't have a fix yet. Not sure about the different variants of Cisco IOS. You wouldn't run untrusted code on a router though, so spectre would not be a concern. In fact, it's probably better not to patch for it given the performance degradation.
While this is great news but is there a way to opt-out of it? I don't really mind heavy sites (sometimes) since I'm always on wifi most of the time and care more about search relevance than speed.

Kind of like how amazon shows you the search results by "Relevance", "Price", "Popularity", etc. Maybe google can do it too and let us sort by "Relevance", "Speed", "By Geography", etc.
Lexicographic variant of n-queens solved for n from 56 to 115