skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've pulled my investments out of Lending Club and Prosper. Too difficult to track returns (maybe this has since been fixed) and many loans seem to default (even higher rated ones IME).
Because the risk of default is not binary, it's on a sliding scale. If the banks are not allowed to charge enough interest to cover the risk of default, the loan will not be made.
You can write lisp-y python quite easily. It's not good, pythonic or maintainable, but for learning purposes it is acceptable, especially on the 2.x series. Just start with list comprehensions.

Lua and Ruby I fail to see how they are in any way lisp-y.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16220030

Many guidelines, but start with the civility rule.
The intended effect of ridicule is to remove the mystique and potency around the threat of a forbidden idea.

I recently saw a critique of satire[0] that mentioned white supremacists tend to be fans of movies like Apt Pupil which, while criticizing Nazism, still portray it as powerful and potent. But the Producers, which literally portrays an attempt at an in-universe pro Hitler play (albeit for in-universe subversive reasons) and similar parody content isn't well received by them, because it refuses to take them seriously.

So yes, while ridicule might make more enemies, it can also serve to make those enemies less powerful.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62cPPSyoQkE
Oh, you're right!

http://www.typescriptlang.org/play/#src=enum%20Direction%20%...

And yeah this could be valid JavaScript too, having nothing to do with types, but it's not in JS, only TS.

That said, it is a very cool and clever way to set k=v and v=k in an object at the same time!
And health care. And get elected in govt.
It would be really great for some public projects if your internal modifications and updates to nginx were a public repo. That repo could be compiled and packaged for use of open source projects that benefit from those modifications. I say this because I've seen multiple patches from cloudflare around, but it's very difficult for 1 person to go through all of that, know what version of nginx it's for, and modify the patch for newer versions of NginX like security updates. If you modify nginx internally I don't doubt there's lots of various changes and improvements over time that don't get organized or published publicly.

I think it'd be great if more companies released their own 'opinionated' versions that update with their infrastructure. Like if I wanted to host a OpenStreetMaps tiling server hypothetically using some features cloudflare has in their nginx builds. Makes it easy for white-hats to test, too.

IIRC I've been intersted in HPACK for small http responses where the headers are larger than the body, but if I wanted to use the HPACK patch I have to re-impliment it every time an update comes out that modifies the file.
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Or homeowners without garages. I live in a house but park in the street in front of it. I can't practically string an extension cord to my car to charge it every night.
We are in the process of doing this on a moderately large product. We've found TypeScript itself has much less friction to write (quicker development), and has a lot less gotchas (probably because it restricts the language itself, unlike Flow), so porting the code has been a big task but a very positive one. We went with Flow originally because it would work with our untyped JS better, but in hindsight we should have bitten the bullet earlier and gone straight to TS.

We're still exporting Flow types generated from TS modules to be imported by older projects (which is... _okay_). I would recommend just choosing the better option from the outset. You'll save hours researching why Flow has a problem (and eventually just writing `// $FlowFixMe <https://github.com/some-flow-issue/666` and moving on). I don't see any compelling reason to start a Flow project these days.
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I attended one of their monthly Full Moon Gatherings at their Chapel of Sacred Mirrors in Wappingers Falls earlier this year. Driving up to the CoSM property, my wife and I discussed what we were about to see, and I remarked that the worst case scenario was that we were walking into an emerging new age cult.

It was fabulous. While Alex and Allyson were clearly the head honchos, what they’re trying to do with their success is noble and pure. The first hour was a talk about what they were working on artistically and with regards to this new Temple venture, but also discussed their lives, their career, and how they hope to help inspire the next wave of visionary artists.

After a few musical acts, it turned into a party with fire dancers outside, Middle-eastern Oud music in another room, communal drawing and painting lessons, Tarot readings, and Alex and Allyson spending time talking to everyone who approached them.

They’re building something special up there. With the most cynical lens possible, it might seem a little cult-y. But it’s clear that’s not their goal. Their goal seems to be to preserve visionary art, inspire the next wave of artists, and erect a monument to psychedelic knowledge and discovery.

They’re unique and strange people. They’re also the most successful and highest profile psychedlic artists there are, and with great success comes great responsibility. This seems to be their motivation more than anything.

I highly recommend visiting CoSM for a Full Moon Gathering: https://www.cosm.org/events/full-moon-gatherings/

They’ve been doing it every month for more than a decade. It’ll be an experience you won’t forget.

EDIT: They’re also both extremely active on Instagram, if you’d like to see what they’re up to in real time. They bare it all.
The Newton came out before the Magic Cap OS.
Like what freedom? The freedom to choose between health insurance and rent?
You also need your blood plasma, but I have plenty of friends who sold theirs in college for some extra money. Economic privation makes people do sad things.
My Thinkpad x201 from 2011 is doing just fine. Java dev, webdev, IntelliJ Idea and VSCode just flies on it. Yeah, no 4k for you though.
Similar, but harder to use safely and correctly in class methods using the new class syntax. There's more surface area for typos and other mismatch errors since you have to type the method names twice. See: https://mobx.js.org/best/decorators.html
It's still censorship if the state does it, arguably it's more censorship if the state does it. It's even censorship when it serves the public good.
Not sure why you're being downvoted; he actually did do a pretty good job in that movie
The Jaguar I‑PACE looks pretty good to me, though not cheap.
ML = Machine Learning = Markup Language = confusion
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I did not know that, thank you! This opens up a lot of possibilities...
I remember Slashdot in 1997, too, and would like to avoid repeating it. HN is poorer for substance-free jokes.
Hmm, Steve Jobs also killed the Newton, which did many of the same things, and was released in 1993.
You can but they're cracking down on it and fines are steep. California recently passed a really unfriendly and strict law because delivery type businesses abused the 1099 option [1].

Now if you run a service based business (say app development) but outsource/1099 something like design but you are building an app - does graphic design fall under the B test ("that the worker performs work that is outside the usual course of the hiring entity’s business")? Is design outside of your usual course of business? Or does it count because your app needs design?

It's really a grey area but you can see how that B rule is really open to interpretation.

We've had labor law litigators tell us to basically stop doing 1099 at all. I started doing part time hourly instead for new hires. And hiring people that live outside California including other countries.

I don't think this will work out well for most people - they'll get part time work or hourly with limited benefits and many will be pushed to work for a staffing firm.

[1] https://www.wagehourblog.com/2018/04/articles/california-wag...
Tesla's network of superchargers aim to solve this. They stopped giving out free supercharging IIRC, but it's still a great way to keep the battery close to topped off - you can do it as a short pitstop after driving to work, and the same after your drive home assuming you have a supercharger closeby
To me there was always a fatal flaw in WhatsApp's original business model, namely, lack of a viable payment method that could scale to the userbase they were targeting. Most people using WhatsApp don't have a credit card. Telcos obviously have a way to charge their customers but beinf an OTT service meant they wouldn't be incentivized to help WhatsApp kill SMS revenue. An exit to FB ended up being the obvious decision.. but it had to be clear at that point that the plan has to be monetize users through ads.
Some of the alternatives are listed on in this table in the readme: https://gitlab.com/meltano/meltano/blob/master/README.md#dat...
Toyota had 80 years of car manufacturing and selling experience before the Prius. Of course, they will be able to execute properly on a product (which is an incremental innovation).
What? How many worlds are you living in?

This isn't a bribe. It's a fair deal which offered the money to medallion owners who lost value, not politicians.

If you want to see bribes, you should look at all the money the taxi companies have spent on politicians over decades to create the (now broken) monopoly in the first place, bribes which are still continuing to affect policy despite immense public support for ride-sharing against taxis.
Yea, I've read several of his essays (certainly not close to all of them) and didn't find any profane.
Wonder if there will be another internal petition of google employees, this time demanding that google not kowtow to government of China.
I don't think we "don't like math", but in my case, I just need an accelerated version of the "math" that I need without the deep-dive.

Here's a crazy idea that machine learning might one day help with software engineers understanding algorithms and data structures.

You write some code to traverse a list or something and do some naive sorting, or maybe you're "everyday way of doing some operations on your lists is inefficent". I want some cool machine learning where I can submit my code and it does analysis.

I think Microsoft is working on that. https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/07/microsofts-new-intellicode...

Let's take it a step further. Explain to the programmer why what their doing is wrong.

I would pay big bucks for a "machine intelligence" IDE
Turns out the buffer size is significant: https://imgur.com/a/f4LiHVI

With 32kiB buffers I get double the throughput than with 16k, the peak appears to be at 64k, after that it levels off.
I literally lease my Tesla
They have a monthly Full Moon Gathering every month at their place up in Wappinger’s Falls upstate. Highly recommended.

https://www.cosm.org/events/full-moon-gatherings/
ah yes, you are correct. Thanks.
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His comments about the "dangers" of academic research and PhDs is incredibly strange. The very examples he uses as possibly superior alternatives to the neural search approach are also by PhDs and academia. Possibly the fact that he runs an machine learning trade school is leading to this out of place criticism.
> you don't get competitive battery range on non-Tesla cars. This is demonstrably not true.

While the Bolt is a nice car with good range, it is not range competitive with the Telsa LR model 3. I have been evaluating this in the context of driving from San Francisco to Portland. This is a practical drive in the Model 3, but not even close in the Bolt.
> The company has been calling Uber customers directly, asking them to send messages of support for Uber to their council members, according to BuzzFeed. Lyft has been emailing customers with its own appeal to “speak up for ridesharing.”

If some company ever called me up to rally political support, that'd be the immediate end of any business. Ever.
This is exactly what I did too, but after 12ish years of experience.

I watched the original lectures on Youtube while working through the book. Really enlightening experience.

I was hooked by the cover art of the book and after a few minutes of watching the lecture where he explained a procedure as a pattern of rules and compared them to spells. That's a really profound way of not only thinking, but teaching too because you have to remember those people in the class are new to computer programming. That's such a good analogy on so many levels.
Isn’t the argument between transfer learning and neural architecture search the same problem posed by the “no free lunch” theorem, which essentially states specialized algorithms will always beat generalized algorithms in specific tasks and vice versa?
I think we may be misremembering this. The Prius dates back to 1996, when it was based on the Echo. The Insight was '99.

Edit: Okay, maybe 1996 in Japan? According to this Wikipedia link, the Insight DOES predate the Prius but only in the US:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_electric_vehicles_in_th...
At Google Next (which happened after this post was published), Google explicitly positions their AutoML product as a beginner approach to model building to get companies up-and-running with machine learning at low time/cost, and not an end-all-be-all approach.

Here's a recording from a session titled "How to Get Started Injecting AI Into Your Applications" which illustrates case studies for AutoML: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7iT1INWrqo
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> If Chevy wanted to bump the price, I think they could easily match Tesla's range.

If the Bolt has room for more battery. Which from pictures it does not.
Not sure why you were downvoted. This is absolutely right. The $100m fund is much cheaper than the cost of providing their drivers a minimum wage long term. I don't think the right call is to cap the number of people who can work in a given industry but that doesn't make this move any less of a PR move to make it slightly more palatable to lawmakers that these companies are slowly killing their more regulated counterpart by mostly ignoring the law. And don't get me wrong, I'm all about what is effectively a peaceful demonstration that the current body of regulation needs revamped when it comes to hired cars but trying to buy your employees into poverty is inexcusable.

The money quote:

"Lyft and other high-volume for hire vehicle companies are welcome to establish such a fund with a non-profit and assist drivers who are experiencing serious financial difficulties,” he added. “They don’t need any Council authority to do that."
Walters: How CA state leaders circumvent the legislative process: trailer bills
I'd love to make it up to Alaska. I do most of my trips with a core group of friends that I've been traveling with for the last ten years or so. It's tough to coordinate schedules so we usually end up doing about 7 days together in the late spring. Given the distance involved with a Yukon trip, it just hasn't been feasible to get up there. We're thinking about a Baja trip but I would have to ship my truck to L.A. from Kansas because it just takes too long to get down there at 55 MPH.

Africa is a dream. I would have loved to have driven down the west coast before Mauritania got so dangerous. I once read a book called "My Mercedes is (not) For Sale" that got me hooked on the area. Suwame Magazine is a place that I want to see before I die.
Uber and Lyft solved the issue for rides to and from the outer boroughs, full stop. Lets have the Taxi drivers solve that issue and then there would be no need for Uber and Lyft.
Nearly all users got in during "free for life" periods. Whatsapp was never making anywhere near $1/user/yr. To give you an idea of just how few users were paying, in the first half of 2014, they had 450 million users and generated only $15 million of revenue [1]. Even if you annualized that to $30 million, that means about 6.7% of users were ever paying a fee to use it.

[1] http://time.com/3545911/facebook-whatsapp-earnings/
Is "parqyt" pronounced "parr-quit"?
Some of us skimped on $15 lattes, very fancy apartments in San Francisco, and food delivery to save the money to do it. Don't generalize. Not every home owner is a spoiled brat.
Honda Insight - 1999 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_Insight
Toyota Prius - 1997 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Prius
I'd read it as "park it".
Those tiers wouldn't fly under the GDPR, at least not the free one.
Venezuela's president admits economy has failed
The post was written by Rachel Thomas, not Jeremy Howard. (and Rachel has a PhD)
Nitpick: it is a bit weird to talk of the original or even of the Scream. Munch created four versions, two paintings and two pastels (in addition, about 45 prints of a lithograph were made, a few of which were hand-colored by Munch)

It seems we don’t know for sure which is the oldest. One of the paintings and one of the pastels both are from 1893. It’s natural to assume the pastel was a study for the painting, but we don’t know for sure.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scream)
Interstate travel (especially here in Australia) means that sometimes the soonest someone can get there will be DAYS, purely from the tyranny of distance.

Some of the things these trucks transport is required for very large & expensive projects which get more so with excessive delays.

Paying a human trained in properly securing a load and changing a tyre nearly as big as the human is, to come along for the ride, is much cheaper than having a helicopter on standby every ~500km of the way and staff to be ready.
> The $100m fund is much cheaper than the cost of providing their drivers a minimum wage long term

There is popular support for the minimum-wage bill. The opposition is to the cap. Note, too, that amendments to subject drivers working for corporate medallion owners to a minimum wage were struck down.

> by mostly ignoring the law

Cab drivers still refuse drop-offs in Brooklyn (last week), are on their phone for the entirety of the ride (Monday evening) and refuse to pick up my black friend (two weeks ago). I'm not sure either side can claim strict adherence to the law.
Apple built ad/content blocking into Safari itself, encouraged its use, and has been waging war on third-party cookies and other tracking for years. This is the exact opposite of "enforcing ads".
I first started to use WhatsApp at the recommendation of a Paraguayan friend who lives in a small house outside of Asuncion. Her father drives a taxi and she drives a beat up car from the early 1980s. No idea if she paid for the app using a credit card but at least in Latin america, lower middle class people do tend to have access to such payment methods. My understanding has always been that WhatsApp encountered its first and biggest success in the third world, where mobile connections are spotty and average people at the time didnt want to pay for data plans and SMS packages. WhatsApp allowed people to pop into a wifi hotspot to check messages without any fees beyond the $1 for the app.
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I'm not familiar with their influence, but I'd love to learn about it! Please link me to more details.
One major difference will be the complete data life cycle vs providing just one part of it. Just like we do in GitLab except for data teams instead of software development teams.
yeah to clarify by "cultish in some ways" I mean they have inspired an extremely strong fanbase who have created almost a subculture within a subculture to a certain extent. I don't think they are actively trying to start a cult.

They are definitely unique and strange and really nice and really talented. I remember one halloween at a psytrance party at their chelsea gallery (chapel of sacred mirrors, which I wish that was up at the wappinger temple already) allyson sat with my friend having an intense psychedelic experience through much of the night while she painted.

I've been to CoSM during the day but not for a full moon (I'm not really local). If things line up I'll probably go.
Is that project more for versioning data like https://docs.dotmesh.com/tutorials/subdots/ or http://www.pachyderm.io/ ?
I got it! You’re right; America is a big place. It’s hard to conceive of all that mass at once. But is a state too big? I mean, most are much smaller than the largest of the rest of the developed world which has been treating healthcare as a citizen’s right for decades on end, and saving billions in the process. If you do that thing in that one state 50 times over, once for each of the other states, each using their own resources, you have the equivalency of the whole big entire America. Not even kidding. This is legitimate mathematics.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratio
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplication
I also know how to program computers but that’s for another day.

EDIT: I thought about it some more and realized how big California is. As far as California goes, I think you’re actually right. California is just simply too big. I haven’t worked out an algorithm for it yet. That will require probably a whole city of computer scientists to work that one out.