skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're absolutely 100% wrong if you argue Uber X has a higher average car quality than yellow cabs.
I think they only prepared a tag for 1.0.0, while 0.7 is still the latest (and very recent) release. I don't know why they do it this way, though.
Do you think it's appropriate an app doing something as trivial as calculating much you spend on Starbucks each month is now a regulated activity? I don't.
A "driving tax" is just another way to say "congestion pricing." Driving introduces massive negative externalities and should cost a lot more than it does today.

Automobiles are one of the absolute worst quality-of-life-impacting things about living in Manhattan. They're loud, dangerous, and smelly.

I'm not trying to hide my cards; if it were up to me, I'd ban private cars (at the very least) entirely in Midtown (at the very least).
To elaborate, easy access to capital is what allows those employers in his area to actually hire him. That profitable restaurant down the road, owned not by a Wall Street mogul but by a passionate middle-class entrepreneur, needs capital to renovate a second dining room, and if it doesn't get it, it's not going to be able to hire servers for that new capacity. It's going to stagnate, maybe remain a profitable small restaurant, but never have a chance to become a multi-location or multi-state job-creation engine. And this is where the "middle class bank products" come in. Anything that artificially discourages banks from making the purely-economic decision to finance that owner to expand the business - and there's always the tantalizing option to just cater to silver-plattered large-business loans and wealthy clients instead - is going to slow growth and make general inequality in the area that much worse. There's a shrinking middle class of businesses just as there is of individuals.

Now, sure, the economic decision to finance this person should not be based on the idea that you could make subprime loans and repackage them to unwitting buyers. But there are perhaps middle grounds from a regulatory perspective. And there are also opportunities to address non-regulatory aspects that discourage capital sources from lending/investing; my company Belstone builds software to allow lower-middle-market investment bankers, the advocates for medium-sized businesses in the capital markets (who have the same dynamics described above), to close deals on behalf of their clients more efficiently, to support more businesses and more job growth. None of these efforts on its own is a panacea, but we have to try everything we can to move the needle.
2BR units are used for rent price comparisons in the US because they are the most common size unit nationwide, and are the easiest to collect data on. They're what HUD uses in their Fair Market Rent analyses and many organizations follow their lead.
Why not provide the bottom / top line impact of page optimization? Your business’s profitability is the most important thing to your bosses. They do not care about making the web good, nor should they IMHO. Your job is to show why both parties’ incentives are actually aligned, not opposed.
How about:

- allowing discharging of student debt after 10 years

- allowing someone to pay only up to 10% of adjusted gross income per year (lenders cannot ask for more; voluntary prepayment is okay)

What will happen, probably, is that:

- lenders will start looking at earning potential of various degrees and loan amounts will be tied to degrees being pursued

- tuitions for degrees with low earning potential will be lowered

- universities who cannot afford to lower tuitions will shut down some departments. That slack will be picked up by community colleges.

- some of the majors will only be pursued by rich (as happened for hundreds of years)
> i wish nyc would copy london and actually tax people for enter every bridge, tunnel etc in rush hours to stop it.

The only toll route I know of anywhere near London is the QE2 crossing, which is outside Greater London.

The CCZ (congestion charging zone) covers less than 5% of the Greater London area. There are plans to expand the CCZ, and tackle pollution via an ultra-low-emission-zone.

> "The Congestion Charge is an £11.50 daily charge for driving a vehicle within the charging zone between 07:00 and 18:00, Monday to Friday."
F1 Query: Declarative Querying at Google Scale [pdf]
My only fleeting experience with Julia is in a Numerical Analysis Course three years ago... but it has 1-indexed arrays so its good for scaring away all people who are programmers before analysts/scientists!

Really though, I think it has a better type system and a syntax that translates easier to mathematical expressions. Other than that, Python's breadth of packages will be hard to overcome.
Both of these are arguments for more regulation and enforcement, not less.
Having migrated my Python+Fortran code to Julia in October last year I would say yes. For reasons why I would read the documentation basics, check the benchmarks and play with a bit of code. I was sceptical when my advisor originally suggested it but now I dread the thought of scientific software in any other language.
Agree with all of this except the part about enforcing the traffic laws against cars parked in the bike lanes. The NYPD is most certainly lazy and incompetent (as well as corrupt), but the issue is the bike lanes themselves. Most of the city, especially the most congested parts, simple have no room for a bike lane. The vast majority of vehicles blocking the bike lanes are making pickups or deliveries. There is simply nowhere else for them to pull over (much less park). This fact was ignored by Bloomberg and his friends when they drew bike lanes all over the place on congested roads. It may be a noble goal to have plenty of space for bikers and pedestrians, but that isn't the way New York was designed, and its not feasible as long as the residents and the businesses depend on a steady stream of deliveries, pickups, garbage removal and other assorted vehicles associated with living in a city. Giving tickets to the UPS driver who has to deliver a package at a location is just going to cost him money, not deter him from pulling over - he has no choice.
As someone who has owned every major VR HMD since Oculus DK1 and spent thousands of hours developing in VR I will not be buying this. We have soooo far to go yet in terms of hardware for VR/AR to truly catch on. I don't see anything here that is any more impressive than what Microsoft has been doing with Hololens for over 2 years now.

Even worse, are their pricing tiers [0] - you have to pay an extra $500 for "Early access to beta software and developer tools", which is just the height of absurdity. You then have to pay ANOTHER $500 for a "Priority Service Plan" and a "shoulder strap". I figured the company was shady but this is just hilarious.

[0] https://i.imgur.com/eqxiEjT.png
Yeah buddy, no one does illegal things! That'd be illegal!
I run a service which writes around 50-80 million small documents into S3 per month and, like you, we spend more on PUTs than storage and retrieval. So reducing PUT costs is something we've looked into a few times.

We do make heavy use of the S3 versioning API to let us roll back files, lifecycle rules for past revisions and have never been able to find any service which offers the same amount of functionality with reasonable pricing.

One thing we have done which has saved us quite a lot is adding a buffer between our service and S3 which delays file writing by up to an hour in case an updated version of a file is uploaded. This lets us limit our PUT requests but still gives us hourly revisions of files if we need to roll back. Without this system we'd be looking at over a billion writes a month. Certainly not a strategy suitable for everyone though.
At some point people might stop bothering with car ownership. That would open up a number of interesting possibilities. Imagine removing all parking on some (not all) streets during the day, thus doubling or tripling their bandwidth, and also increasing the number of cars that can be operated at the same time. I'm not saying that's the answer, but that there are lots of things that could be tried here.
The Space Shuttle software was some of the most reliable software ever written. However, it was expensive and time-consuming. In practice, few want to wait and/or pay for such. Related: https://www.fastcompany.com/28121/they-write-right-stuff and http://wiki.c2.com/?IsThereEverGoingToBeSufficientEconomicIn...
Re: "HTML Lite" - I think there's already a pretty solid solution. Hand-coded HTML 3 without any CSS, ECMAScript, or other dynamic elements. That always worked pretty well for me, and pages that could load acceptably on 28.8 would be absolutely mind-blowingly fast now. Of course, that would put the power of web design back in the hands of the average user rather than exclusively designers and devs. Because of that, I don't think we'll ever see that becoming an option again.

Or, based on the browser I use when I care about speed, can we design pages around the constraints of Lynx/Links/eLinks? The CSS layouts work when called for, menus work in text-mode, but without images, *.js, and all the other Web annoyances, everything loads quick even on the worst connections.
> could well be

Do you have any evidence of that - the discrimination part? Is there evidence that lending institutions choose to lend based on criteria other than ability to repay? Also, do/did smaller lenders fare as well or better than the big lenders during the financial crisis? Or were their loans more risky? I think that would be the strongest evidence either way.

Your second paragraph is really interesting, and creating an expensive barrier to entry is always a tactic big business implements to stifle competition. I just wonder what the way out of that is?
Congrats on the launch! You guys seem like a very different take on "computational biology". As a heads up, it looks like the twitter link on your site just redirects to the contact form.

Good luck!
People know Ray Kroc = McDonald's. We know Rockefeller = Standard Oil. We know Thomas Watson = IBM.

I'm not sure how many CEOs from 100 years ago I can name, period. Most companies that old do seem to include a person's name. But I'd say Steve Jobs stands at least as likely to be remembered as Ray Kroc or Thomas Watson, and for many of the same reasons.
> Who is going to lend tens of thousands of dollars to an 18 year old with no income, no assets, and no credit?

Since the elimination of the Federal Family Education Loan program in 2010, there has been only one legally-possible lender for Federally-guaranteed student loans.

And they aren't a for-profit corporation, or an entity that evidences much concern for babalncing spending and revenue.
Show HN: AI-driven predicative ratings for rental apartments
Opera Introduces Crypto Wallet to Desk-Top
What does one's character depend on in your opinion?
> ... why do you need to use AMP?

Because you need to convince business folks about stripping down bloat from your webpages. And doing that by citing sticks and carrots from Big-G is much easier than doing it on your own. So we can attribute this to: laziness of developers (who cannot make arguments to reduce bloat), boneheadedness of business folks (who cannot quickly understand why bloat is bad), tragedy of commons (my competitors are gaining valuable traffic by having their articles in special Google carousel at the top of search results, I am missing out so I must do AMP) etc.
> It was sold to the public as a curb on the big banks, but what really it means, is that only banks large enough to write their own software or wealthy enough to license custom software can stay in the home mortgage business. Basically, we the public were sold flowery rhetoric by politicians on the wave of sentiment following the banking crisis, while big banks lobbied to write into law an even bigger advantage.

This is a characteristic of nearly all federal regulations since approximately the Nixon administration, across all industries with incumbents large enough to fund lobbying at that level.

The industry does something outrageous, or whips up a media storm about some non-issue, so that calls to regulate come. Then the industry itself pulls a thousand page bill out of a drawer whose title sounds like it's going to do something good but whose details are all written by the industry's lawyers.

The average voter doesn't have the time or domain expertise to understand a thousand pages of dry legal text, so the bill passes and nobody figures out what's actually in it until a decade later when the evidence of what it allowed the industry to do starts to surface. Then we get a renewed call for laws to fix the "unexpected" disaster and the cycle repeats.

Hopefully at some point people are going to figure out that the answer is to remove federal regulations and pass local laws that purposely favor small local businesses with local ownership and ties to the community.
> Apple does not collect or possess that customer data in the first place.

For now. When their growth, or margins start shrinking, Wall Street will push hard on them to collect and monetize this data.

Remember when you paid a premium for cable TV, because it didn't have advertisements? Now, you still pay a premium, but it's 33% ads.
AMP will have a long-term destructive effect on web publishers (and the open, decentralized WWW), so I don't think the term "web exploiters" is accurate. Google is doing the exploitation.
If you're so sure, could you explain which linguistic features of French make it "sound fancy"?

Even if you could isolate them and somehow attempt to make the case that it is their intrinsic qualities that give them their "fanciness", you would then need to be consistent and claim that whenever they occur in other languages they should also contribute to making the language "sound fancy", since the counter-claim is that there do exist linguistic qualities that have aesthetic values devoid of cultural context. But I think that kind of follow-up investigation would reveal that linguistic qualities with "objective" aesthetic values are elusive, if they exist at all.

(For example, you could take two French sounds which are iconically French to English speakers[1][2]. Assuming these sounds confer fancy-points upon people with French accents, do native English speakers really grant speakers of other languages fancy-points when they use these sounds in their accented English? It's not clear to me if they would. For one thing, these same two sounds also occur in many varieties of Arabic, which Westerners generally don't regard as nearly as fancy or beautiful.)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiced_uvular_fricative

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiced_postalveolar_fricative
There is no fundamental difference. The difference is that at this point in time, it's more profitable for Apple to not collect and posses data than the other way around.

That is not a given.

The only future-proof way around this is to be in control of the software (and hardware) you use, something Apple is not very comfortable with.
And in the 50s, it was jazz motifs variations. And in 40s, eh, just take a quick stroll through Ink Spots repertoire [1] - it's basically the same song all the time. And few decades before that, it was just sheet music reproduction.

70s and (particulary) 80s were all about sound texture cloning. Were it particular guitar amp/pedal arrangement, or korg/roland sound du jour.

I don't think it changed much in essence, only in form of cloning flattery. Today, kids buy trap samples.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmT8S3qZnNk&list=PL210003EC6...
Cars blocking bike lanes is super dangerous, so I think it's a fair point.
If you have a substantive point to make, make it.

As someone who doesn’t live in the USA it’s difficult for me to determine if your comment refers to some context I’m unfamiliar with.

Are you implying electric push scooters are a solution for people who live 20 kilometres out of the city but work there?

I’ve never been, but doesn’t it snow in NYC?
I think the point is that the system thought there was 276 registered voters. The system was clearly wrong, and was only corrected after the lawsuit.
> I learned calculus, and even had to memorize a bunch of proofs for the course.

I'm curious about this. Did your class require students to find many of their own proofs of key results, or was it more about regurgitating proofs from the textbook?
That's the argument for limiting the number of taxi medallions low. And what of the drivers who now don't have that job?? Sure, you might [artificially] increase the income of the drivers that remain, but by lowering the income of the drivers that are ejected from the system. Yes, they can find themselves other jobs, but presumably if there are other jobs they could do for more money, then they already would be taking those and leaving driving behind.

Your argument is a fallacy. You ignore the harm to those drivers who end up losing their jobs.
IMO industry will start switching once a Scikit-learn or Caret equivalent for Julia shows up. PyCall.jl and RCall.jl should take care of everything else until the rest of the ecosystem catches up.
One difference between taxis and "everyone else" is that with everyone else, the business that does in their business is usually legal.

Uber and Lyft were largely operating illegally when they started in most cities. They ignored expensive licensing requirements. They ignored safety regulations. They ignored insurance requirements. They ignored price controls on fares. They ignored requirements to accommodate disabled people.

Taxi companies who were obeying all these rules (which all imposed costs on the taxi companies that Uber and Lyft did not have) had a reasonable expectation, perhaps even a right, to expect the city would force Uber and Lyft to follow those rules too, or would shut them down. But the cities didn't, so I think a good case can be made that the cities owe the taxi drivers a bailout.
I think this concept is address well in Neil Postman's "Five Things We Need to Know About Technological Change" [1]

[1] http://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/classes/188/materials/pos...
No, the headline is correct in that the issue is that it was reported to be 243 percent.
I want to see a high congestion tax placed in Seattle as well. Delivery, buses, and city residents exempt...possibly vehicles with multi passengers. We're starting to get NYC traffic. I bus every morning and it takes longer to get off the exit and into the city than it does for the entire rest of the ride. I look at who's driving into the city every day, and it's 95%+ single occupant vehicles, which is unacceptable.

We have a mayor who's very anti-public transit so it will not happen anytime soon.
As someone who lives in Eastern Queens, Uber has changed my life. There is no other kind of reliable taxi out here, and uber lets me live without a car.

I had to take a yellow cab the other day from a dispatcher at JFK. I normally take Uber all the time. We were going literally 20 min away to Queens.

I tell him we're going to Queens. He literally screams, "Queens?!" and storms out of the car to the dispatcher. He comes back in 2 minutes and starts driving, muttering to himself for 10 minutes after I give him the address, whining like a little bitch that he didn't get to go to Manhattan.

Fuck yellow cabs.
That's not quite evidence, and my intuition would still be: the more one drives inside NYC city limits, the richer one is. And the more one uses car services that would also pay the tax, the wealthier one is.

So: it's highly progressive when you consider all NYC residents, including those who don't drive. And it's maybe a little regressive between the wealthy and the very-wealthy, just on the general pattern that the very-wealthy spend less of their income. So, boo-hoo for the merely wealthy.

Congestion pricing doesn't seem nearly as regressive as gas taxes or sales taxes, narrowly focused as it is on just those driving in an especially wealthy and especially congested area.

And the parent post's idea that it'd hit the "blue collar" especially hard is, without evidence, just hand-waving. Their time is valuable too, and commute/on-the-job-travel time saved, from pushing lower-value travelers to non-road (or on-road-but-shared-vehicle) paths, could be worth more than the congestion fees.
The supply absolutely will go down because there will be some drivers over the next year who exit the system anyways, but no new drivers because the city says so.
There is another, more future-proof way around this - legislature similar to GDPR.
If a site does not require personal information, it does not need SSL to be "secure". Webcomics I read, blogs, etc, do not need to be "secured", as they are not requesting data. They do not need HTTPS.
The previous "transition" release, which was published earlier today. At least there was a whole week since the 0.7 RC1 version was released.
If that app has access to all my other transaction history, maybe a little, yes.
American documents were leaked to journalists and that was a legally gray problem in the UK? Don't be silly.

Imagine if some Saudi documents were leaked to journalists and the American government walked into the Times and forced them to destroy the documents at gunpoint.

This was clear and simple government censorship.

Not particularly unusual or remarkable for the UK.
Stick to duck duck go and opera
Machine Learning’s Awkward Era
We've got both Bird and Lime here in Atlanta. While some people act a little holier than thou, I've seen riders of all shapes, colors, and classes (determined by dress, worn down street clothes all the way to 3 piece suits). I ride it sporadically, but not rarely. I am concerned about the fact that lots of the money is leaving the community, but at the same time it comes back from people collecting and charging them.
Both are correct. You'd use a tin of paint/"Farbe" to paint a wall, but saying the your favorite colour/"Farbe" is red is also correct.
Not all of Brooklyn is close to a subway station.
"I truly and seriously feel sorry for them if they consider managing their situation to be a laughable absurdity."

No, they just have to laugh at people like you telling them that all they have to do is "manage their situation", because otherwise they would have to cry at exactly how out of touch everyone else is with what they're going through.

"That's dangerous tribalism that normalizes failure."

Do you remember what website you're on? This is the community that praises and lauds failure, but apparently only when it happens to certain people.
just having a generic tool using SIMD instructions with controllable masking arguments in the pipeline would be awesome.

Another example:

When ingesting data into postgre with copy from exceptions are bad...all entries in the copy from batch are discarded because of one faulting line.
So either it have to be flawless or the data needs to also be stored on disk until commit is successfull.

Datasets with invalid utf-8 are a pain because of that.
One solution is to pipe all input to
iconv −f UTF−8 −t UTF−8 -c
That will drop invalid characters, but it eats alot of CPU as every character is parsed one by one.

With a pipe processing stage using SIMD custom masks as a way to control the pipe flow I could:
Select lines containing chars indicating we have a multi byte utf-8 sequence(that can possibly fail) and only pipe those to iconv, it would reduce overhead by 99%.
It looks like this HN entry, however, refers to the stable 1.0 release
Anyone read Judea Pearls, Causality book? I’ve started, and Im hoping it’s going to be my next of those rare “oh f??k ... wow ...” moments. It’s a short-ish textbook that needs to be slowly read.

I read a SEM book , with a chapter on casual models ... which made me wonder why the hell I bothered with SEM. Any practitioners care to comment?
I can't fix it, but we shouldn't excuse its unpleasant sides.