skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are places in the world where that is often not legally okay.
double EPS. I love how normal this has become that people aren't even that shocked anymore when numbers like these get released. republican taxes lmao
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While I didn't read the paper in detail, there are a lot of papers in the references section about GANs. And referring back to the text that cites them makes it pretty obvious they did use GANs.
Not sure what you are trying to say here, but I'll try to indulge.

1. Your mom doesn't have enough money - You can still involve your parents by having them manage your property. You'd be surprised though, most parents have at least 20-30k saved up.

2. You can't imagine a partnership with your mom (maybe she's too controlling?). Coming from asian parents, I personally felt this way growing up. I suggest finding ways to bond and build trust with your parents first. If you notice friction with your parents, it would improve your long term happiness if you addressed this sooner than later. Usually, parents are the few people in this world who would never scheme behind your back to screw you over. Having them as your ally could do wonders.
My notes....

Numbers:

- Alphabet 1Q EPS $13.33, Est. $9.300

- free cash flow for the first quarter of $4.34 billion.

- 1Q Google Other Rev. $4.35B

- 1Q Rev. Ex-TAC $24.9B, Est. $24.3B

- Capital expense for Google more than triples: up from $2.4 billion to $7.7 billion year-on-year. That probably reflects spending on hardware, including the Nest division.

- Porat says that CapEx was "almost completely split" between paying for machines ("compute capacity") and paying for real estate.

- Without Nest, the "Other Bets" operating loss narrowed to $571 million from $703 million a year earlier.

- The company has discussed making annual stock grants to executives and other employees in the first quarter, and it's not clear yet how much that dragged down Alphabet's operating profit.

Ads

- 1Q Paid Clicks +55%

- Our first new glimpse at Google's network business: impressions on Networks sites stayed flat for the quarter, but the cost-per-impression went up 18 percent. Translation: Google is getting steady growth out of its display business.

Misc:

- added nearly 5,000 employees in the quarter, to 85,050 as of March 31. That works out to more than 50 new hires a day in a 90-day quarter.

- Porat also says the company has been working on the GDPR compliance for 18 months. "We've changed our policy as needed. We are also providing users with strong user controls and privacy settings and privacy check ups," she told Bloomberg Television.

- Porat says Waymo has achieved 5 million miles of driving on city streets.
It's not just the general public. There's a much deeper problem here. Everyone from Medical doctors to phds to basically everyone on this forum is in the same boat.

We believe what we want to believe and we overwhelmingly reject data that doesn't fit our narrative.
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I just updated our “best practices” documentation to include the recommendation that tests be written against a public API/class methods and the various expected outcomes rather than testing each individual method.

I think the latter gives an inflated sense of coverage (“But we’re 95% covered!”) but makes the tests far more brittle. What if you update a method and the tests pass but now a chunk of the API that references that method is broken, but you only happened to run a test for the method you changed?

I like to think I’m taking a more holistic view but I could also be deluding myself. =)
How is promising that the economy is full of slaves an example of discrimination against slaves? If they promised that slaves were rare, that would presumably be an improvement?
You seem to have a lot of interesting base assumptions in your assertion.

Is "continuing to use JS skills" a bad thing? What makes "branching out into other things" a better thing? We will likely continue to disagree that JS is a bad language. While I agree that learning a gamut of languages is a good idea for any developer (and will heavily encourage devs to challenge themselves to try to learn different languages with different paradigms to keep from growing "stale", to keep up lifetime learning), it's not positive or negative value for a platform like Electron if it "requires" learning a new language to use it. Do you maybe think people are more likely to learn JS as a first language? That too is an interesting assumption.

Beyond those value opinions, existing JS skills may not be the only reason to use Electron. Existing HTML/CSS skills may be the more important reason for some developers. Cross-platform GUI toolkits haven't kept up with HTML/CSS in a lot of areas including ease of testing and availability of designers with design skills. Use of JS may be entirely orthogonal to that decision.

(Certainly in my own usages of Electron, that has been the larger factor. Xamarin seems like the next best bet, but it's still a lot easier for very small teams with no platform-specific UI designers on hand to audition design work in a handful of browsers than to bounce back and forth between a variety of iOS and Android emulators and devices.)

Whether or not that it is "very few" people using Electron today that don't also want to directly use JS is a demographic question that you also seem to conflict with some sort of value judgment. Even if "very few" people are using anything more than "just JS", that doesn't mean it is valueless that people have an option to leverage Electron with other languages.

Even if demograghics did matter, I already pointed to a case where Rust-sourced code is shipping in major Electron apps (I know VSCode has dependency, I believe Atom has a dependency). VSCode is written entirely in Typescript, and I don't think it's the only major Electron project doing so (and if we start to play the dependencies game, a lot of Open Source in the Node world is Typescript). Even Atom seems mostly "vanilla" JS, but still has ~7% of its source in CofeeScript, and its "vanilla" JS has a lot of ES2015+-isms that would look unrecognizable to older versions of JS, and I've heard it argued that ES2015+ starts to be a different language than what a lot of people that have not followed JS in the last few years imagine when they discuss JS.
How does a company like Alphabet have so much space to grow at this point?
Mentioned in opening because I imagine most people associate preppers with gun hoarders.

NOT mentioned in the subsequent sections about Hydrology, Math, Cheating, Horizon, and a brief mention in Disaster Planning. Then in the 6th major section we talk about guns.

"almost entirely about guns" if that's all you want it to be about maybe.
It's a two way street. If China can do things their own way, and we do things our way, and these are incompatible, who should be the one to compromise? If we do, why couldn't they?
I think it's a pretty bad backup. It cost me 7.5% of my income for my entire working life and when I die I don't have anything to pass onto my children. If I die before retirement age I get negative 100% return on investment. Let's not forget that the poor and minorities tend to have hard labor jobs so they die early, before they get a decent return. This program has really harmed the ability of the poor to create and pass on generational wealth because it redistributes their wealth to wealthier demographics who live longer lifetimes in retirement.
> I think that any sort of "standardized" education should include at least a class worth of teaching on how to interpret statistics.

This is sort of a fantasy of mine - having every public school teach a brief course on "not getting tricked".

In my fantasy world, it's a several-week guide to common ways people lie and mislead the public. One section is on interpreting statistics. Another is probably on comparing scientific papers to the news stories they spawn. Another on 'paltering' and all the things a given statement doesn't say. The 'fun' section covers cold reads, famous hoaxes, and a general sense of how to not end up believing in every silly story you hear. You could use The Demon Haunted World as a readable source textbook for a lot of it.

It's a pipe dream, of course. You'd need teachers who could teach it, which is a tall order to begin with, and then you'd need to find a way to give out examples without offending half the parents in the school when every examples (astrology, crystal healing, and so on) is going to cross somebody.

But damn, even if it didn't take completely, wouldn't it be nice to at least have a shared framework to talk about this stuff?
Electricity prices matter but lower prices give diminishing returns.

Going from $0.20 per kWh $0.05 to per kWh only increases profits by 50%

http://whattomine.com/coins/151-eth-ethash?utf8=%E2%9C%93&hr...

vs

http://whattomine.com/coins/151-eth-ethash?utf8=%E2%9C%93&hr...

and going from 0.05 to -0.05 only increases it by 20%

http://whattomine.com/coins/151-eth-ethash?utf8=%E2%9C%93&hr...

By the way, these mining calculators are very "optimistic" but for relative comparisons they are sufficient. In practice you will get significantly less because of increasing difficulty and hidden costs like motherboards, CPUs, etc.
Okay, sorry I didn't pick up on that. My fault for not paying better attention.

I agree, but I guess I'm both pushing a bit back on people to have some common sense when ascribing credibility to a source and also push some blame on deliberate bad actors (muddling what is true, and also reducing peoples' trust in the system overall).
Do any providers you use meet this standard? A few bits of open source software have been subjected to credible public audits, but not most of those. For proprietary services, the detailed results of any audits are typically nonpublic.

This is nice in theory but would prevent you from sharing your data with any third-party services in practice beyond your personal circle of trusted acquaintances.
and yet most ads I see on the internet are almost less targeted then tv ads. what are they doing with all this data i wonder. to be fair though i dont even know myself what i might be interested in.
The "brilliant and strict engineer" in this case was the extremely high selective pressure among the first replicators, where only those who could reproduce relatively robustly survived. DNA was a feature created as part of an intense arms-race for domination of the primordial soup; it was well-engineered in the same way most (retrospectively) successful wartime weapons programs are well-engineered.

The features built on top of DNA, however, were built under environments much closer to "peacetime" than "wartime." (Well, maybe not all of them—the "keeping out parasites" logic is also pretty core. But once you can do that, and especially once you have cells specialized for that role in amongst a multicellular body, the other cells can start to evolve some pretty "bureaucratic" notions about how to do things that would never fly if they were directly exposed to a hazardous, resource-scarce environment.)
> ⌘+f 'health', ⌘+f 'insurance' - no hits.

This, if you live and work in the USA. I don't know how it works in Europe or Asia, but in America, unless you have F-U Money like OP says, you are just 1 major health issue away[1] from bankruptcy if you go the "frugal" retire early i.e. retire without F-U Money.

Source: My Manager's sister, in her early 50s, who had early stage throat cancer. Despite having insurance, it quickly maxed out, and hospital stays even for 3/4 days are in 1000s of $, and not all medical events are covered at 100% even by the best insurances. She (the sister) is now using my Manager's insurance to pay for some of it, and hasn't been at her job in 8 months, so also afraid of getting laid off.
I've tried to run platforms for people, Movim, Diaspora, Buddycloud, a lot of things, nobody was interested, because it's simpler to stay on facebook, because it's convenient, and because running a website is a lot of work - these are actual responses I got.

They are lazy, that's the sad truth.
This isn't to address the argument, but I just wanted to point out that the guy writing this article chose to describe himself with "I think a lot."
Seems needlessly reactionary. The way to encourage cooperation is to cooperate, not to isolate.
Most of the change is due to a one time change in accounting policy, operating income was up but "only" by $500m, whereas the impact of the change in accounting was over $3b
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I haven't heard of missile defense systems that are capable of determining the origin of an ICBM while deciding if it should try and take it out.
This only makes sense if they are willing to expend a similar, if not greater resources into pro-social, civilization strengthening activity.

Otherwise it's barbaric. Literally a bet against civilization and your fellow human.
Those were all background to talk about guns. Prepping (whether for disasters, revolutions, or zombocalypses) is about far more than just armaments, but there’s almost no discussion of how non-gun supplies factor into it.
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You can be prepared without lowering your quality of life.

The financial acumen necessary (edit: that one develops while striving) to prepare (edit: against future disasters) can also lead to greater fiscal responsibility, but additionally, being prepared can lead to peace of mind and prevent obsessiveness.

Disclaimer, I'm LDS, where "Emergency Preparedness" is a thing[1]

Never have I seen it as something stress inducing, but I have often heard stories where "emergency preparedness" comes in handy for some completely unexpected circumstance.

That of course is less applicable to guns than it is to food and monetary reserves.

[1] https://www.lds.org/topics/emergency-preparedness?lang=eng
Don’t underestimate the discomfort of spending a dozen hours in economy class. I’d take the rocket ride every day and twice on Sunday over that, and I’m not terribly fond of crazy rides.
So, use git?
EPS was inflated due to new accounting practices. Actual is around $9.93 or therabouts – I believe it was inflated due to $GOOG finally disclosing their myriad investments, with the leader being Uber.
Interesting.
Haskell programmers are scarce enough that just knowing the language makes a difference ?
$600/mo, i'll be sure to keep on not signing up for that; if you are nixing the need for a dealership that's a good thing. price point vs millage allowed is far too off for my liking though.
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> Having a reservoir as the potential to significantly increase the reduction in excess supply you can handle, that is true, but the lack of that option does not change the benefit of shutting off generating capacity.

The point is to not turn off generation capacity that we don't control the start of, like wind. Why should we not generate if the wind is blowing at night?
This is the problem with extrapolating a linear trend from nonlinear data. I think few people would argue that the probability of revolution in the US in any given year is as high now as it was in say 1800.

When you take two data points over a period, and use those to establish a linear trend, you get misleading results. I'm nowhere near smart enough to re-crunch the numbers, but I hope someone else on HN will.

Setting aside the scenario of revolution though, there are lots of other scenarios that justify "prepping" even more. Katrina is a great example; those people who chose to stay behind were left without civilized infrastructure in some areas for quite a while. Puerto Rico, too. Here in California, we have the prospect of a devastating earthquake for which we're long overdue, and we're right on the hairy edge of our firefighting resources being overwhelmed each year.

I've taken a different approach to prepping. I'm a search and rescue volunteer and I have basic medical training. In case of major disaster, I hope to be a resource that can be sent into those areas. It's a different mindset from the stereotypical prepper, but we're really both working off of the same assumptions: that there's a significant chance of experiencing first-hand a collapse of civil infrastructure.
Ever been bobsledding? I question how well even a fit adult deals with G forces that high. I consider myself pretty fit, but I found my experience at 4Gs to be completely unexpected. I could barely keep my head out of my lap. Sure, it was fun, and I didn't die, but they would not let the elderly, those with spinal injuries, or pregnant women ride a bobsled even for 90 seconds.
This isn't completely correct. The pension is insured but the maximum monthly benefit depends on a lot of factors. Zabroski is 61 and receives $7k per month, the PBGC won't pay that much unless GE's pension goes bankrupt when he is 67.

https://www.pbgc.gov/wr/benefits/guaranteed-benefits/maximum...
Nice one, just wondering, how would you deal with spam/abuse?
That's a fair point, but keep in mind that the author isn't suggesting these are the "correct" ways to write SQL. They're just his ways.

I don't think one standard is necessarily better than another, but the important thing is to have rules. Over the years I've adopted similar rules for myself, and just internal consistency is so much better. I have old projects with table names including: "logs", "log_requests", "log_users", "game_logs", etc., not to mention mixing of plural and singular, to the point where I need to `show tables` before writing any query just to remember what I even called the table I need.
According to its site, Bubble is "a powerful general-purpose visual framework for creating web applications." Chess and Go aren't web applications.
What do other provides do wrong?
The bulk of programming is dealing with all these layers we've come up with. To make things easier for humans to send commands to machines and make them do what we want them to. Honestly a decent level A.I. system could replace most coding. I don't think it would need to be human level but at least would need to learn from watching people do tasks. Yes most apps are CRUD apps but a lot are CRUD apps with events that need to happen at certain times to maybe give feedback to users or populate another part of the app. This is where good UI + UX comes in. That is not an easy thing to do once you break out of the canned templates.

I started this post thinking a decent A.I. could do this but now I'm not so sure. ;-)
Perhaps, but maybe the model ends up being only a handful of BFR ports on each continent. Would you fly 1 hour to Mojave so you could rocket to SE Asia and fly another 1 hour to Singapore? Sign me up!
Thanks for taking the time to reply with the limited information provided.

>> why you're transferring the session to Requests at all

Only for speed. Selenium is very slow. Requests seems to return responses faster. With 10(0)s of URLS to scrape, this adds up.

>> I'd probably class the whole thing, generate the full list of urls to scrape and setup your empty `holdsurl` list both in the init. Then I'd probably write a class method that just runs the whole thing and returns the `holdsurl` list

This seems to be the way to g. One method is making it hard to read.

Thanks for the other tips as well for adding checking the parsing etc. I'll be adding that in.
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It's way easier to do in low house price areas. If you are small time (e.g., 9-5 worker looking to buy an income property). it's hard to find a passive income property in, for example, NY/NJ/CA.
>We automate websites on behalf of our users (that is, logged in as them). Which means the site knows at all time who's doing what and can take action in case of abuse.

So you break ToS on your user's account, thereby risking their own and not yours... Even better.

>Also, we see more and more ruling indicating that scraping is in fact legal.

It doesn't matter if it is legal. What matters more is if the service considers it a violation of an implicit agreement not to abuse servers with rapid API requests (Big props if you are already throttling)

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Like your service is a great idea, but breaking ToS on your user's accounts is super no-bueno in my opinion. I scrape too but I am always under the complete understanding the service can ban my account or IP at any time.
> How is promising that the economy is full of slaves an example of discrimination against slaves?

Pretty clearly, it isn't. Can you describe some sense in which it is?

> If they promised that slaves were rare, that would presumably be an improvement?

This would be an improvement to the extent that you are morally opposed to the concept of slavery. Very few people are opposed to the concept of women.

Whether slaves becoming rare is a benefit to the slaves depends on how it's accomplished.
My experience with code-free is that it's write-only. I had the misfortune of trying to support a database import to BI that was done in a visual platform, whose name I have thankfully forgotten. Trying to trace a single field to see how it was derived was nearly impossible, because you couldn't work backwards - and the instructions for this were kept in a blob that you had no visibility into.

Code really is the best representation of a coding problem.
Thanks for this -- I've been looking for recommendations on resources for HOL and this looks like a good one.
>Effective tax rate 11%

Absolutely obscene. Literally their entire Net Income increase from $5.4b to $9.4b is due to a tax cut from 20%. We will be paying for this Republican tax policy for the rest of our lives.
Their efficiency is impressive.

On an annualized basis, they are doing ~$120B.

They have ~85k employees.

That means they are generating ~1.5M Revenue Per Employee.

That's crazy
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That moment when your brain falls asleep in class and tells you it unveiled the deep connection between carnival blister peanut texture and the quantum variational bound. And then you wake up suddenly and get scared because you think you might have yelled out something stupid.

Or maybe I’m just the only one.
Smartest person I know works on smarter-than-human artificial intelligence at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute [0]. Previously at Microsoft and Google, he decided to get involved in smarter-than-human AI and is now the Executive Director at MIRI. Definitely inspiring!

[0] - https://intelligence.org/
Came here for the same reason. Although I am more interested in what @rauchg is doing
And you don't even mention the biggest issue: why would I ever trust my data to some random compute provider in a "decentralized compute-as-a-service" system.

At least with applications like storage you can encrypt your data. AFAIK homomorphic encryption isn't general or efficient enough to be very useful yet.
That makes sense.

I occasionally pipe up about these "giant" palm rests, and how they impact a user's wrists, basically to agitate for some designs that don't do this.

I got some positive feedback when I did so re the T25 design, and while I don't yet have a T25 (that cost, combined with an expensive winter for me), I gather my concern was at least considered at some level.

I'd better grab a T25 before they dry up. I wish Lenovo would keep one T25-type model for each generation, going forward.
Why are people not interviewing @adamcurry when they do stories about podcasting? He co-invented the technology, had "the first" podcast, has a massively popular podcast currently, and founded a company attempting to monetize the medium and can tell you, in detail, why it's not possible to monetize the network.
Which is exactly why you’re going to attract better intern candidates.