skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Get rid of those mentioned subsidies, and the price of food and fuel will jump. It will only screw the working poor. I could care less about the price of fuel (electric car) and food (small % of my income), but others it is a large amount.

I was initial against Trump's tariffs, but after reading what other countries have in place, I think he is justified. Other countries subsidize and tariff the shit out of certain industries.
Didn't your highschool biology teach you that photosynthesis is 6CO₂ + 6H₂O = C₆H₁₂O₆ + 6O₂? That's what I remember from school. Takes light, water and carbon dioxide, makes glucose and oxygen.
Yes, the minimum standard that we have decided upon today includes necessities like shelter, food, and clothing plus a bit more than that. The various welfare programs provided by our federal and state governments are how that standard is met.
Would love any feedback on this. We currently are pulling this out of an Amazon Redshift instance, but are considering moving to the new BigQuery dataset that was recently released.
I get pretty significant SAD and 5000 IUs of Vitamin D helps a lot, but it's not enough for me. I'm planning to move to somewhere else in a year or two, maybe Seattle.
> Around four-in-ten (42%) say they have taken a break from checking the platform for a period of several weeks or more, while around a quarter (26%) say they have deleted the Facebook app from their cellphone.

44% of younger users (those ages 18 to 29) say they have deleted the Facebook app from their phone in the past year, nearly four times the share of users ages 65 and older (12%) who have done so.
A move to capitalist and away from socialist modes of scientific research production in the nutritional field due to neoliberal decimation of research budgets and encroaching business interests both in the funding and dissemination of research relevant to corporate business models.
Interestingly, when I dig deep into `find`, I wind up in `priv_lower_bound` which bisects to the bitter end rather than doing a linear find at the end. https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_50_0/boost/container/detail...
Many news agencies have free content as well.
China's Industrial Ambitions Loom Large
> Living wage is very dependent on geography. I don't think the federal government has the tools to enforce a living wage throughout America

That makes sense, but seems like most of the political pressure to raise minimum wage is focused at the federal level.

Does the issue of raising minimum wage get traction in state- or local-level politics, and just not get widely reported (aside from Seattle and a few other cities)?
I think both of these things can be true - in an industry full of clever, eccentric and prickly people this dude has a 'traitorous eight' associated with him. Just by name alone, it's very strong play.
Wood is a renewable resource - if the global population was (for example) a few million people, then building everything out of wood, clearcutting forests for farming and burning all the wood they'd need wouldn't be a problem; and without technology a high population can't be sustained.

What's dangerous, however, is a mid-tech low-income high-population situation, which can only be a dystopia.

High technology is a solution, stone-age technology can be a solution, but any semi-industrialized post-apocalyptic 'steampunk' will be worse than both high and low tech.
I do 35 minutes on a 300cc scooter through London.

Too much adrenaline could be a danger sign. For me, there's flow in efficiently navigating the traffic, positioning for vision and visibility, predicting the way cars are going to swerve and where pedestrians are going to pop out. I could go faster, but risk increases non-linearly. As it is, I'm continuously overtaking vehicles.

(I also have a 130hp MV Agusta Brutale, but I don't commute on it often.)
I would say B is right on the money. But, A and C. I don't see it. There's a vast oversupply of time and talent. Just look at producthunt. The ratio of attempts to successes is enormously staggering. This indicates a huge vast amount of talent and time. The biggest problem is lack of opportunity: due partially to incumbents, regulation, etc.
With C - plenty of cheap talent around the globe, even in developed countries. There must be some way to arbitrage this.
> I’d have a hard time finding a job in ML for $300K

If you have 10 years of experience practicing ML, AmaGoogFaceSoft would be falling over themselves to pay you $300k+ in total compensation.

Whether you'd want to move to SF/NY/Seattle and work for them, though, is another question!
I don't think that is a good argument because businesses don't create the poverty you are talking about. The poverty existed before the business was there unlike, say, pollution.
Some developers wallow in complexity. I dare say you could call it enjoyment. Especially if they work at a place that believes in hero worship.

Oh look at all the overly complicated crap I can put up with. I must be amazing.
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> The fact is if employers in this country simply paid workers a living wage, taxpayers would save
about $150 billion a year on federal assistance programs.

I'm not at all convinced that removing people from federal assistance programs (i.e. necessitating a need for a reduction in those programs' budgets) would in fact directly result in less taxes being paid by me.

> This bill would establish a corporate welfare tax on
large employers equal to the amount of federal benefits received by their low-wage workers.

But it does not establish a means to reduce my tax burden whatsoever. I feel this is a valid criticism as the basis of the argument is that it's costing "the taxpayers." Well, I'm a taxpayer. I'm a shareholder in this organization, what's my get? I'm seeing large corps raising prices to offset the new tax, no new benefits for the underprivileged it's supposed to be helping, and no reduction in my personal costs. The net to me of that arrangement is less money in my pocket due to increased prices at the big companies.

> Large companies, not taxpayers, should be required to pay for federal public assistance programs that their employees are eligible to receive.

No, the system should be setup such that taxes are fair and equitable enough to cover the operating costs of the government. I'm seeing way too much of an "us" vs "them" in this arrangement, which I'm not surprised by given who is proposing it.

> The Stop Bezos Act gives large employers a choice: pay workers a living wage or pay for the public assistance programs low-wage workers are forced to rely upon.

We have no constitutional right to "living wage" and for the government to attempt to enforce a right that does not exist is a problem. I'll leave that argument at that.
I read an article a while ago talking about this exact thing. Apparently the answer is yes, the UK police do notice if a number plate makes an impossible journey, and while they didn’t claim in the article that they automatically verify make and model, they do have the ability and motivation to send a police car after both vehicles in such cases.

Of course the story would be slightly more believable if not for the fact that shortly after I read it, the police sent me a speeding ticket for a car which I had sold nine months earlier.
Yeah, comes off as close to a call for spin-off tech as you can get without explicitly saying "climate change"...
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At least where I live (and in most of the US from what I understand), it's almost exclusively based on property taxes. Quite obviously, areas with more rich people get more tax revenue and therefore better schools, even if the rich people don't go to those schools. This actually works to the benefit of districts that are mixed, because there's a lot more revenue. The fact that the rich kids aren't attending works as a bonus because their revenue is still there, only spread out across fewer (poorer) students.

* Actually, I don't think this is relevant to what I'm saying in any case. The fact that parents want their kids to have the best education possible shouldn't be surprising even if it hurts someone else. I'm not trying to argue for the side effects (as I said above, rich areas get more funding so most poor students get less), I'm just trying to say that there's nothing wrong with a parent wanting to send their kids to private school.
t-mobile has mostly gotten rid of zero rating. Zero rating only matters today on legacy plans and hence a reason they aren't adding any new services to it.
For any one learning Mandarin, the best advice I have is: don't start with reading, start with speaking.

The Michel Thomas method has worked pretty well, much better than Pimsleur, for me:

https://www.michelthomas.com/

And the Yale "Speak Mandarin" series with romanized Chinese is also really helpful.

https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300000849/speak-mandarin...

Learning Mandarin, overall, carries a much higher cognitive load than, say, Spanish, because the sounds don't map to 26 letters. They map to 1000s of characters that must be memorized. This makes reading a much less useful way for a beginner to approach a language.
In many companies, big complex software is desirable, because of poor incentive structures. I've seen many projects ballon into vastly over-complex nightmares, because engineers are often rewarded for solving "hard" and "complex" problems. So with complicit management (who are also rewarded when their engineers are promoted), they invent complexity and then "solve" it.
I think you described it well.

I'd add that it might feel like we're in some sort of dark ages, but that could stem from a growing awareness where people know more about how much we can't claim to know for certain. That awareness replacing over-confidence might imply things aren't so bleak.
Not as fast as PIL but has reasonable optimizations like performing convolution in two passes, caching filter weights from row to row, and using numba decorations.

It's not quite apples to apples because Snowy offers a variety of filters, does everything in fp64, and is purely written in Python.
We don't live in a perfect world; we live in a world where people face blatant and systematic discrimination based on their physical characteristics.

Given this, we have two choices: pretend that the world is a fair place where merit is all that matters, or we can attempt to boost those who've been treated unfairly with the hope that society will gradually improve because of it.

Your statement makes me think you're a pretender.
>An Even Worse Thing is when we allow a super-governmental organisation to dictate what they deem to be acceptable level of non-culture to be forced upon us.

Only if what that "super-governmental organisation" dictates something against the wish of the people. I'm not a huge EU commission fan myself, but I surely do. And I'd bet at least the French, for one, are equally delighted with this (and I'd say Italians as well).

Unlike Americans who leave it all to the invisible hands of the market, and its "free" movements (easily distorted by all kinds of monopolies, power imbalances, private interests, foul play, cartels, and such), many Europeans (including me) believe in deciding as societies, and forcing our decision onto the corporations peddling their stuff.

And since you propose people to "vote with their wallet", so to speak, for that to happen people must have the option to do so, e.g. a variety to choose from. With these laws such services will be forced to give European people the option to watch EU content as well.

>I, as a Dutchman have, and I can say that most of them suck and there's a very good reason you don't see them on stuff like Netflix.

Well, there are people in EU who are hot on US culture and think that their own cultural production "sucks". But there are also people who think that its Hollywood films that suck, have naive simplistic plots and world-views, too much spandex and explosions, and so on.

When US films didn't dominate the market, we had lots of excellent European directors that have heavily inspired US filmmakers as well, as admitted by Coppola, Tarantino, Scorsese and so on.
A regex in PCRE to match “A B C” where A+B=C
Agreed, it would be far worse if Amazon were discouraged from exploiting desperate workers. No social cost is too high for cheap and fast order fulfillment.
Very nice. Worth keeping in mind prior examples for comparison's sake. My favorites so far:

- https://www.opendatanetwork.com -- what I would call the "Google, for Socrata datasets"

- https://public.enigma.com/ -- One of the best collections of U.S. federal data, with good taxonomy and lots of useful options for refining a search, such as filtering by dataset size.

- https://www.data.gov/ -- Not as useful as what most people would want -- e.g. unlike Enigma and Socrata, it's a directory of self-submitted (by the government) data sources, not one in which the data is stored/provided in a standardized way. But it's a pretty good listing, though not sure if it's much better than just using Google.

- https://data.gov.uk/ -- Better than the U.S. version in terms of usability and taxonomy.
I don't have a copy of Firefox handy to check, but IIRC the message in the inspector is a bit more descriptive.

The message screenshotted in the article is a message to the website visitor, not to the domain owner. And not going out of their way to shame Symantec to every visitor to a site with a Symantec cert is probably a decent policy. Even without their cert business, Symantec is a big player that the browser vendors will have to work with in the future.
>"I mean, if you spent 3-5 years (sometimes much more) of your prime working on something only to come to the conclusion that your wrong would you just accept it? OR you "re-adjust" the data and somehow make your p-value significant, then BOOM, your research is valuable!"

From what I've seen I don't think there is any "OR". That is standard behavior and people don't even believe there is anything wrong with it.

There really is always some legitimate reason to adjust the data... the problem is that the method of drawing conclusions (checking for significant p-values) is incompatible with this. So one or the other practice needs to go.
Hmm why not asciidoc or basically any other doc markup language? Most provide additional support for books.
When equity and total compensation go down that's a sign of oversupply of talent, not undersupply.
Love both gaming examples, but you’re proving OP’s point. Those are very specifically technologically limited games (ie not requiring the same resources as AAA games). Disruption is possible, but the complexity argument stands.
At the last game studio I worked at the artists formed a “no windows or florescent lights” room full of dimmed lamps and Wacom monitors on the lowest brightness. Deep down I wish I could have had that and strolled into the coffee room for sunlight every hour.
That I'm actually getting myself well when doctors claim that cannot be done. It routinely gets really, really ugly reactions of the "You are batshit insane" variety.
> One thing is clear: the food industry keeps funding research today — with dire consequences.

This article makes it sound like the _majority_ of research funding is coming from industry, very little from government. Maybe this exacerbates focus on needing to "succeed" in research, in order to keep justifying funding from profit motivated sources.

It seems like everyone is so focused on producing "successful" research, that we just try to fit experiments into to a positive light, and toss out data that just didn't really "work". Meanwhile, there's probably a lot of data that just goes unpublished and never shared, and thus, we remain largely ignorant of what's actually being discovered.

Part of me still feels like it's more of a just broader cultural problem, and simply shifting who's funding things isn't going to help. Not sure if there's any effort to simply provide a way of sharing experimental data, i.e., something like "open source licensing" for experimental data, etc, where sharing means you don't get screwed by someone else.
Build more towers. Which ofcourse means investing money and not paying dividends to investors.

I pay €35 per month for unlimited 4G, internet neutrality included.
Why anyone thinks that reduced contrast is an improvement in usability needs to talk to someone over the age of 10.

Seriously.

Also, what's with the smaller icon on the start page?

Not a good change for me.
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What I did

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Mostly web development in Java, CFM, PHP. Alsom worked on .NET based Desktop and web apps.

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For the last few years, I am mainly involved in writing code in Python. It is mostly command line tools to automate processes or scraping data. Besides that, I use for making web apps in Flask and occasionally in Django.

I also maintain a blog where I share what I learn or do. I have written posts on Kafka (https://goo.gl/nYUbdd), ElasticSearch(https://goo.gl/PtfFHE) or Crypto Tokens(https://goo.gl/rMVUWm) among many I wrote here(http://adnansiddiqi.me)

What I want to do

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I am willing to pursue further in Data related field, starting off from Data Engineering and then ML algos etc. I am learning Visualization, Analysis etc and share stuff on my blog.

I am technology agonistic, an avid learner and always excited to do something new and challenging.

You may contact me for gigs, (short|long) projects or even writing blog posts! (already write for a couple of magazines).

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An effort to lower salaries by increasing supply of workers. It's amazing how they play it as a donation when it is a strategic long term investment. Makes me think of tax implications of this kind of gray area between donations and long term bets. Nonetheless, money spent in education is money well spend so props for that.
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No, they said they intend to remove the data entirely in the future and that you should back it up yourself if you want to keep it.
It’s also not clear that it’s a good thing; false positives lead to serious negative consequences which is why tests aren’t ordered in the first place. It’s why you don’t get a colonoscopy at 25: chance_of_false_positive * harm_of_false_positive > chance_of_detection * treatment_success until much later in life. You as an individual are not qualified to make that aggregate decision.
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I've discovered that I have a _lot_ of fun with these code challenges. I really liked the last two I solved and would very much like a list of other ones I can work through.
We have learned a lot about nutrition. Military Rations for example are successfully designed to allow for people to stay reasonably healthy indefinably on them. This is a fairly hard problem with most cultures having failed throughout human history. Vitamin C deficiency is the most well known, but Thiamine deficiency has also killed plenty of people including several of the upper crust in Japan after white rice became more common. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiamine_deficiency

The problem is when we go from survival to optimum you need to look at weak order effects. 0.01% is significant across 7 billion people, but really hard to discover. Further, you encounter trade-offs is 0.01% worse in these 20 things, but 0.01% better in these 30 things what's the importance of each of those things and how does that interact with the 10,000 other chemicals people are eating daily.
TLDR: There is too much money chasing too few good companies, so even marginal companies can get funding.
Yes, and it reminds me also of Unix shell commands.
> Protectionism is bad in all its forms.

Yet it was the basis for economic growth of every developed economy. From the US, Germany, Japan to China.

The only countries that have no protectionism and free markets are poor African ones that find themselves under the IMFs thumb. All of which have stagnating economies.
So what are the policy differences between Switzerland and the US, and how can the US improve things?
I don't want any of those features and bill is 75% less. I am relatively frugal and prefer to invest/save vs spend. I am very happy not spending $100/month for a cell phone
I mean with the huge number of set-and-forget Wordpress installations I could absolutely believe people are ignorant of this. I mean why would anyone outside of professional webdevs even care? It's not like this news escaped the tech bubble.
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"And most of what I stand for"?
Sorry, I meant "the former is something different..."
This divergence feels a lot like making a Huffman encoding table given a prediction of probability distribution then measuring how efficient that turns out to be by comparison to a Huffman encoding table based on the probability distribution you get from the real data after the fact.
Well I actually agree you, I've exaggerated. Compliments are less useful than criticism here, but indeed not totally useless. I guess I overreacted to the comment that starts with a false blanket statement and overgeneralises.
I've thought it would be fun to try and sell a device with dual ethernet ports that people can plug in between their router and modem, which would constantly monitor their internet performance and give them a real time dashboard, in addition to reports. The goal being identifying how consistent your speed from your ISP is in general and detecting cases of throttling etc.
While I am a volunteer & proponent of STEM, I pity the administrators & teachers who need to figure out how to cram so many subjects into students heads. I also pity the students. There is a limited time in a day & everyone has their subjects they feel students need to do more of, including arts, recess, and physical activity which seem to be the most recent cuts.

I think Charlie Munger once said we learn the really important stuff by middle school. I think it would be nice if kids had more control over the direction they are interested in & the subjects they want to really excel at. This of course requires them to try different things. But once they find one they're really passionate about, I believe we should let them go deep into it without requiring as much of other content.

I believe a well rounded education is great but without being able to focus in one area we can't become an expert in anything. Bill Gates & Warren Buffet have both argued that focus is the key to success at anything.
Another Tridactyl contributor here! :wave:

I'm on a phone and it looks like bovine3dom is fielding questions so I'll just chime in with my pitch.

If you're willing to get your hands dirty in the name of power, please do give Tridactyl a go - the new webextension model limits add-ons pretty sharply, but I feel that Tridactyl pushes those limits much harder than the alternatives. It's one of the main reasons I'm on Firefox instead of Chrome. Tridactyl is also under more active and aggressive development ([1] vs. [2]); for example, I think that one of our other contributors is in the process of pushing a fix to Firefox's permissions API so we can get even closer to the line. If you want features or fixes, come on over to our issues page or chats and let us know!

1: https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl/pulse/monthly
2: https://github.com/philc/vimium/pulse/monthly
Why would they bother?

They control the information flow for most of the world.

They know every little secret place you've been.

They know every website you shouldn't have visited.

They know every text, call, and email you've ever sent.

Besides they're lobbyist paid for the VIP service.
Sucks for the grad students, but that's life. Lie to an employer and they might fire you. Especially in academia, where trust is paramount; what else would this man forge to further his career? Forgiveness is nice, but not mandatory.