skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The hegemony of car culture is so ingrained that people are not even aware of how much it personally costs them. These companies are taking advantage of this loophole. People notice gas prices go up and down with great interest, but that is just a small part of the total cost. Since you pretty much have to have a car to just exist in society, people don't count the capital expenses.
"Pricing	$599 MSRP -- Currently $969 On Amazon"

When will our suffering end?
I expect the moderators, or whoever it is that looks after this stuff, decided that since it was discussing the same case as the other articles then it counted as one in principle.

Sometimes multiple articles relating to a particular issue are posted. When these links don't attract much discussion, this isn't much of a problem. But when they do, it's probably best to try to centralize the discussion, lest the entire front page get filled up multiple copies of the same stuff.

This has happened before in the past and it's a bit dull if it's something in which you have zero interest.
But there are other, more ephemeral things that you want people to at least have been introduced to and grappled with a bit. Arguably a lot of the unrest in democracies right now has to do with people not being very critical thinkers. You don't have to have an undergraduate degree, but having some well of knowledge in history, politics and economics to draw upon is pretty important to understanding and interpreting civic life around you.

So there has to be some middle ground between "everyone must get a bachelor's!!" and "start shop class at 15, you'll be fine"
Interesting effort :-) Unfortunately, your comparison table there is somewhere between misleading and insulting.

Almost all of the "unique" features listed there are in fact a standard part of Gensim. Fast approximative queries (using Annoy), memory mapping with lazy loading, ngrams features, format convertors, Python interface, parallelization, pre-trained models for download…

There is a way to promote cool new libraries, but this ain't it.
> no longer participating in the value chain of their work

I'm not sure what you mean by that.

If you mean the value chain of the gallery/dealer/auction world is where prices go up then yes, that's true, but the artist is very much participating by creating and selling new work. In the $750 -> $40K+ example the artist will definitely get a lot more than $750 per piece in the future.

If you mean art only gains real value after the artist is no longer making any (i.e. is dead), then actually that's not true for contemporary art.
I will be buying the dip. Be greedy when others are cautious.
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IBM has branch prediction (and Out of Order Execution) in their mainframe architecture: the Z series.

I strongly suspect they are subject to a variant of spectre meltdown. Yet, no news were made public on the topic. A tinge of "same cause produces the same effects" makes me think that they are immune to the scrutiny of security research on the topic because there is a tad of security by obfuscation, and secondly university and google don't care about mainframe. It does not mean attackers don't care about the backbone of banking system.
Anecdotally, I've found the opposite. The most successful people ascribe their success to their own hard work first and foremost, discounting all the benefits that luck has brought them, most especially the accident of their birth (rich country, rich parents, race, gender, date, etc.). On the other end of the spectrum, those who are less successful tend to blame all their failures on bad luck and discount their own contribution.
Thanks for this, I'll have to take a look at FastText. I've been using word2vec before turning it into a matrix and running it through a CNN. I based it off of Yoon Kim's[0] work. I haven't had much luck though on my 92-class problem. Maybe Fast Text will work better, although I think there are a lot of improvements my model can have still.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1408.5882
...Wat.

What you said is wrong on so many levels.
Could you elaborate on your meaning?
>Any sensible implementation would be a phasing-out rather than a single sharp transition

Many Americans already believe that gun control legislation is part of a program to phase out gun ownership and undermine the Second Amendment - and that's why they're stockpiling guns in expectation of an inevitable civil war. It's never going to not be tricky in the US.

Anything approaching what the rest of the world considers "sensible" gun control in the US would first need a massive cultural shift to take place, or an acceptance of protracted guerilla warfare as a consequence.
I don't know where you come from, but in france you can easily buy sets that contain lots of basic bricks (full height 2x2, 2x4, etc), and you can buy them individually, in large batches. It has never been easier than today to find those pieces.
It seems that King Solomon already figured this out:

“Again I saw that under the sun the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor riches to the intelligent, nor favor to those with knowledge, but time and chance happen to them all.”
‭‭Ecclesiastes‬ ‭9:11‬ ‭ESV‬‬
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I've never heard it be offered as that, and I've never heard anyone use it like that. For one, Uber doesn't know where you're going, so how would they know that the person who just hailed an Uber is going in that direction?
Xv6 is the classic reroll of the UNIX 6th edition sources for the x86 architecture.

What does Sortix offer that is lacking in Xv6?

https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2014/xv6.html
Bisq does it.
Being a driver is a short term strategy for the companies who plan on replacing all drivers with autonomous services. So this result is no surprize.
> HN is a left wing echo chamber (period).

Strange, I would argue it's the complete opposite. The commenters here are profoundly neo-liberal (not left wing at all).
> If you 'contract' to just one employer you're an employee for both tax purposes and protections.

That's not the case in the US. Our laws bar the contractor from having set hours, a set place of work, and a myriad of other rules. So if a contractor comes in 9 to 5 and has his own desk, he'll be classified as an employee. Honestly, I would prefer a similar % rule, that seems simpler and I think would accomplish the intent far better than what we have now.
Civility is nice, but I don't think it's what's fundamentally wrong with Twitter. One can (and people do) express hateful ideas quite politely.

Preserving some concept of free speech while also preventing it from growing into an ideological cesspool is required to give Twitter net positive societal value, but mere civility ain't that.
I'm on Unity (and probably Gnome Shell sooner or later).
It has some value. Not 30-70K/year value, particularly when the debt is non-dischargeable.
> nothing about "education" is about actual education.

I am completely baffled by this comment. University education changed my life and mind completely. Not from social access or gatekeeping - I just spent years learning amazing things. Knowing some things has been powerfully useful for me. Also, I just like it.

It was totally the best. If you like learning, higher education is like getting your retirement in at the beginning of your career.

I understand it's not for everyone. But it was incredible for me and people like me. I grew up on welfare by the way, so it's not a wealth club thing.

I totally support investing in another route for training for people who wouldn't get that much from years of books, lectures and essays. Apprenticeships and technical vocational school worked for thousands of years alongside academic degrees.
That is very recent, however. In the beginning, there was no such thing.
Don't get me wrong it would totally be about ego and about how excellent your own design tastes are. You'd name all the stuff after yourself. That's why it'd be considered art :D

Some of the robber barons did some interesting eccentricities like Carnegie libraries.

The Long Now clock is the most recent thing I can think of.
I'm going to try and exemplify the "why" in a much shorter ammt of space using some arbitrary numbers -

SCENARIO 1:

- Year: 1965

- # of jobs requiring college degree: 75

- annual college graduates: 60

SCENARIO 2:

- Year: 2018

- # of jobs requiring college degree: 150

- annual college graduates: 1,000

Aside from how horrifically wrong this^ is, the ratio problem remains.
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Congress needs to follow through I removing content liability immunity to sites that thought police. The method is already there is law, as usual it is a lack of enforcement.
I vouched that one (and this) for ya, buddy.

I don't think either were particularly strong positions or poorly spoken.

It probably doesn't help that the automated rulesets here aren't kind to downvoted first posts by new users.
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There's no parallel here since, (1) Tor doesn't rely on the promises of "no log" and that's why it uses a 3-hop design (and a 6-hop in the case of non-single onion services), (2) the Tor Project isn't the one that operates the entire Tor network.
> anyone who says that luck isn't important has possibly never had any success in life

...or want to attribute every part of it to their behavior.

Survivor bias is strong, especially in cultures where people are exposed to the idea of just world, aka meritocracy, from an early age.

Perhaps 95% of Hollywood narratives are around good guys vs bad guys and the good guys always win.
Uber, Lyft, and Juno only exist because the Taxi apps are bad or non-existent. If there was a Taxi app that worked exactly like these 3 apps, and not just for hailing taxis, then there would be no need for this.
I think you have it backwards. CEOs can cook the books far easier if they are not a public company. Meanwhile, in China: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-anbang-regulation/c...

The reason that companies are not going public as quickly is because they aren’t making money, not because they are making too much money.
Because they have literally no other choice? When your choice is to lose money driving for Uber, or starve, you kinda lose the ability to stop if you don't find it "useful".
I didnt say it wasnt worth it. I just said that the value of a relationship requires a certain amount of time. As you approach the end of your life, the equilibrium of a friendship will not be attained and interpersonal relationships may be terminated (due to death of one of the participants) in disequilibrium - basically, you try to make a friend but that effort fails and you are emotionally drained at the end of your life. It would have been better to spend your time with people you know doing things you like.
I wish they would focus these on the Duplo Lego sets for Toddlers.

A Lego death star built by an adult might need to last twenty years. But a Toddler plays with a Duplo set for maximum of two years, they lose most of the pieces, and if they break it isn't that big a deal.

Then they move on to more permanent durable lego sets.
> If wasting electricity becomes such a big problem for the society as misuse of personal data already is, sure, let's introduce regulations on that, too.

Sure, what could go wrong there? Regulator, "We're going to need to look closer at that for-loop to see if it complies. And you do realize that n+1 queries are a violation of EU law?"
Linus Torvalds had (in)famous commentary on the use of C++ within kernel design.

http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/c++/linus

I wonder if things have changed in the decade since he penned that.
If you planned to hire based on an immediate need, it would require you to discriminate against pregnant women though. For example, if you need someone to do x immediately for the next y months, hiring someone who you know would need leave during that would be a pretty major issue.

So maybe you could simply hire her as well as another person who would be less likely to require leave during that period, but then your payroll needs grow - not a great business decision for a startup or whatever.

I think it's easy to see how this could be a predicament for a business without extra money and "get over it" isn't a very good answer IMO - at the very least you'll have discrimination being done in disguise until there's a better answer.
Amazon's description of S3: "Data is automatically distributed across a minimum of three physical facilities that are geographically separated within an AWS Region".

What are people doing wrong with how they use S3? Until AWS provides a cross-region S3 that is master-master or self-healing, the suggestion that people are using AWS improperly seems incorrect.
IIRC that was Lyft's positioning. Uber started out as Uber black, a black car / limousine service.
Ads in this context meaning private companies paying for placement of their brand in front of specific demographics.
I've ran into very similar feedback and I survey just about every Uber/Lyft I ride in.
The Green Slime That Flourishes in Light-Filled Caves
> polyethylene – a soft, durable and flexible plastic that can now be made with ethanol extracted from sugar cane material and, Lego claims, is as durable as conventional plastic. As a bio-plastic, it can be recycled many times, though it is unlikely to be 100% biodegradable.

As a bio-plastic? polyethylene? What different does it make if your atoms were cycled through a living plant, or a dead plant in the ground (oil)?

From a chemistry point of view it makes no difference.

This is 100% greenwashing, and it relies on gullible reporters not to call them out on their nonsense.

You can make polyethylene from air. Are we calling it atmo-plastic now?
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The "You didn't build that" types vs. the self-made man with a million dollar trust fund types.
"Are drivers misled into believing they will make more? Is the cost per mile intentionally hidden from them?"

They absolutely are. I know someone who ended up signing one of those rental car leases with Lyft to become a driver. The numbers the company provided made it seem like it would be quite easy to pay off each week. As it turns out, it was just like the old "company store".
I think the fact that you can bloat up to any weight you want just like how you can have as many kids as you want represent how primitive our civilization really is.

We are incredibly ineffective at doling out scarce resources or pricing in externalities.

I just don't expect humanity to get a handle on it for another 100 years at least. I'd say that, right now, we can't.
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I have a feeling you have China and its citizens in mind when making this comment, but an equally plausible scenario is when Western economies begin to fail due to China's dominance of every industry and it is the West who's citizens are hungry. I wonder if maybe the prospect of joining the Chinese family might look very attractive at that point....sure, you'd have to give up just a few minor freedoms, but in exchange for peace and prosperity as citizens of China enjoy.

And that is how China can take over the world without firing a single shot.

Laugh now, but let's revisit this idea ten years from now and see if you're still laughing.
I have fond memories about building stuff with Lego and still remember what they were about. Depending on how this change is reflected in the themes of the Lego sets, it could have more positive environmental impact from educating kids about sustainability than from the direct changes of manufacturing process. More people who prefer sustainable choices over disposable plastics will make a difference.
Zuckerberg sold nearly $500M Facebook stock in February
Uber Creator Invents New Cryptocurrency
Diego Aranha (and his peers) has been presenting strong cases and amazing proofs over the years why the software stack in those voting machines is bugged beyond repair (specially considering they never have permanent uncontrolled access to scrutinize it, because if they did they would uncover with evidences some very dirty stuff) and it's disgusting to see him being a target of ad hominem and FUD by many political leaders and electoral judges in Brazil. Just so you have more context on this.

EDIT: Brazil has over 2 decades of electronic voting "experience", so you see how important papers like this one are for democracy and electronic voting in other countries
Probably for the same reason I have a tendency to make earley parsers for random languages in python and C++ every now and again, something to do that's semi-productive.

If I ever get around to playing with golang you can bet there's gonna be yet another earley parser implementation for whatever grammar I'm currently looking at.
Is this what you are looking for from Toy's R Us?

https://www.toysrus.com/product?productId=45199456&source=CA...
How do you design a design doc?
I’m paying about $1700/year for $1m coverage for two newer sedans with a combined value of about $40k. You can’t buy more coverage than that in the US without going to an insurance agent. It’s available but as a specialty product aimed at wealthy people. Most car insurance websites won’t quote coverage that exceeds $300k or $500k. The legal minimum, which is what many (most?) people have is like $60k.

I’m sure some of this is due to the differences in our healthcare and legal systems. Ironically, it seems intuitive that Americans should have higher insurance limits than Germans, not the other way around.
> the functional options pattern

Functional options are controversial in the Go community. I don't like them personally. The idea of having a bunch of functions that exist only to mutate internal state on init is... an odd choice. Google code is riddled with this sort of style.

It's annoying to write client code for another reason: It's hard to discover. For the "term" example in the article, you can't sit in your editor/IDE and type "term." and get a list of setter suggestions, since everything in a single namespace. "term.Speed()" does not sound like an option to me. Function names are generally verbs, and having one called Speed() doesn't read well. And it causes issues if you want to have a type called Speed. Then it has to be term.WithSpeed() or term.SetSpeed() or something. Neither of which is really self-explanatory.

The fact that options are functions has other downsides. The moment you pack a option into a function, they've lost their ability to be introspected. You can't dump the options to a debug log before you invoke the constructor function. You can never ask an option function what it contains.

I prefer representing options using actual data:

type (
Option interface {
isOption()
}

Speed int
RawMode bool
SomeOtherSetting struct {
A, B int
}
)

Unfortunately, due to how Go interfaces work, you'll have to provide a dummy private method to tie the types together, but it's a small loss. (Go itself uses this pattern in a bunch of places, such as the compiler's AST.)
Two replicated instances across two VPS providers (say, Linode and DigitalOcean), on different continents, $5/mo each. And you'll have spare cycles to run anything from email to a monitoring solution to a build server. How is this not economical?
The Sacred, Spherical Cows of Physics (2014)
Additional discussion of same report: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16501017
Perhaps true, though working-smart and being affable/networked seems more important than grinding. Still, IME, that variable amount of luck is tiny relative to ‘starting luck’, or straight blind luck.

I think it is fair to say that luck ‘compounds’ like interest. Being in a good position generally confers more frequent and higher-value opportunities to get into a better one. Getting lucky early is very important, and the earliest luck you can get is the circumstance of your birth.
I'm curious where you get your numbers.

AFAIK the 50% is pretty standard but "mid-high level galleries" both sell a lot of work for more then 5-10K, and sell a lot of work outside the exhibitions.

I know a couple moderately successful painters and they are selling bigger pieces for well north of 10K and have a lot of collector interest, i.e. it's a conversation between the galleries and the artist about what gets reserved for a show and what might go to a collector as soon as it's dry.

That's not to say they're getting rich, but I think they're doing better than your example suggests.

[Edit] Also in case it's not obvious to folks w/o art-world experience, the gallery usually does a LOT for their 50%. Basically they take over the "business development" work -- all the schmoozing, the selling, the legitimizing. At least the good ones do. It's not just paying for the wine and hanging the art. Many even help arrange studio space and pay a stipend (against your share of future sales) if you need that to stay focused on the work.