skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The ideal scenario would be a pricing structure where the early adopters and initial consumers would pay a higher price until the development costs were recouped (plus a profit margin), and after the development costs were accounted for, the price would shift to whatever the profit margin was calculated to be per product.

The cost-based pricing is inherently flawed as supply/demand typically governs prices, however digital media tends to stick to whatever tradition dictates, e.g. $60 for a game or $0.99 per song. It is hard to gauge sunk costs for performance art past what it costs to run the studio for X amount of time + whatever salary artists get paid.
To be fair, it failed in part because fares were frozen without being subsidized.

Of course, the fare freeze happened for a good reason: a city where people can't afford to get around is a city whose economy can't operate. (Let that be a warning to today's MTA leaders.)

But if you freeze fares without subsidy during a period of inflation, the operators can't afford to operate, and the system fails.
>When Mr. Brezhnev’s message arrived, Mr. Nixon was reported to be indisposed; Mr. Kissinger and the White House chief of staff, Alexander Haig, decided not to wake him up. Instead, Mr. Kissinger called together a meeting of principals to consider America’s response. They moved the nuclear alert level to Defcon 3, the highest since the Cuban missile crisis.

Maybe time to wake the president if you're chaining the defense condition...
Thoughts on Microsoft Joining OIN's Patent Non-Aggression Pact
Hmm, unnoticed autocorrect...
Nuking a country without provocation is most certainly NOT a legal order, and the US military has been educated that is their duty and responsibility to refuse to carry out illegal orders.
It doesn't need to be deliberate or conscious. It can be incidental.

Or maybe women just aren't as smart as men.
There's not a lot of information available online about PEACH (Preservation of Equity Accessible for Community Health), but it's a system by which East Wind and other communities pay in for all their members $15/month, and they can access reimbursement for expensive health care events. There's a $5,000 deductible, after which PEACH covers the actual costs of an illness/injury/incident.

In the process of setting up PEACH (back in the 80s?), member communities (I think five at the time) paid in a lump sum to start it up. There's a system where a community can pull out their equity if necessary, although the last community to pull out (after their state expanded Medicaid) simply donated it to the general mission of the fund.

There's a protection built into PEACH for long-term illness. It covers 90% automatically during the first year (although the formal decision-making body can make this 100%, or even lower the deductible, if that seems necessary). This percentage decreases during the following years, dropping to 0% being automatically covered after 7 years. This is meant to incentivize communities to be internally self-sufficient -- PEACH is meant to protect communities from failing due to unexpected health care costs. The decision-making body (one representative from each community) can easily make any decisions at their whim that doesn't involve spending more than their annual operating budget. We do sometimes spend more than our annual budget because sometimes accidents come in threes or more. PEACH pays for helicopter evacuations, heart attacks, cancer, strokes, bad forestry accidents, complicated childbirth, etc.

The capital in PEACH is also lent to member communities in emergencies (e.g., after a major structure fire) and sometimes for investing in community land if it's deemed to be a safe investment.
Super clear and THIS is GREAT!
> There are at least 10 different train companies many of which also run bus services. AFAIK they are hugely profitable. Many of them also open retail spaces and office spaces in and around the stations they run.

These things are not incidental; a pretty huge chunk of their revenue is their property portfolio, which also reinforces transit demand, because people want to get to the properties around their stations.

In America, this integrated approach was not really a thing for major rapid transit systems. Where it was tried, it was the streetcar systems that built out low-density suburbs, but these suburbs did not generate enough money to recuperate the lifecycle cost when the streetcars reached EOL and needed replacement. And "fixing" it for current rapid transit systems would need ridiculous amounts of eminent domain, since all that land is now owned by other people; and the transit agencies with barely any capital to maintain their physical plants simply don't have the means to provide fair compensation to property owners.
> - They've contributed more than 1700 changes to the Linux kernel that can easily be identified with a quick 'git log --grep'

They're forced to. People want to use Linux. If a cloud provider decides they don't want to support Linux, it's business suicide. Microsoft's contributions to the Linux kernel, when I last checked, were almost exclusively related to Hyper-V. They're just doing what's good for them. If Linux was proprietary and enjoyed similar popularity, they would pay the owner to include these features.
> I can't turn my hobby/side gig into a small business without navigating a bunch of bureaucracy to obtain 9001 permits

Have you experienced this first hand? In my experience, this gets overstated by those who think any regulation is burdensome. Even the crazy regulatory environments I've been in (like the CO marijuana industry requires separate, complete audit trails of each individual plant "from seed to sale"), the regulations really aren't that bad to comply with. The same people who were complaining about the regs were also complaining about how they had to have benefits for full time employees and the like. There's a very vocal "society shouldn't stop me from making a buck" crowd.

And on top of that, I'm afraid that these people will remove a lot of the good regulation we've built up over the past century as new ways to screw over the public have been discovered.
It's a good start, that I agree with.

But the telemetry (that you can't trust is actually off) it a complete non-starter. Snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.

I recently installed an eval of Win10 in a VM. While nice in some respects, it soon became clear that you will work the way Microsoft wants. Telemetry, ads, Edge, activation, white backgrounds even in dark mode, all forced down your throat, etc. Windows 2000 was better in most respects.

Wait, I did think of something. Public support of ReactOS would be a big feather in their cap.
> If there is a lesson today’s leaders should heed, it is that in the end, luck always runs out.

The good ‘ol hot-hand fallacy in action. It surprises me how easily otherwise intelligent people in positions of significant power (in regards to their situation, such as an unchallenged boss at a small company all the way up to national leaders), forget that what they believed to be true yesterday could easily not be tomorrow.

Challenge your assumptions constantly.
I completely get your rant, but I don't see it the same way with the VR stuff. There's REALLY good VR out there... I have an HTC Vive Pro and one of my primary uses of it is for training as I'm currently in flight training, and the immersion that I get using flight simulators in 3D is just stunning. When I'm not doing that, from exercise games, to social games, to first person shooters, I can't think of playing video games not in VR.

But between the headset, computer, and everything that goes along with it, I've spend > $4k on this setup. So I get it that this is not the typical VR experience for everyone, but the issue in this space is one of price. I can't believe that if that experience could be had for, say, $500, that we wouldn't be inundated in VR stuff. Contrary to what I've seen in AR; even the top of the line stuff is still just kinda "meh"
What do you mean by monopole?
It displays a window of recently viewed LibreOffice documents with buttons to create new documents.
> If anything, the date gets pushed back.

That's what "pushed into the future" means. "Back" means "further away," "up" means "closer."

> With every subsequent IPCC report it turns out the previous as an underestimation.

So, every IPCC report has been wrong. How long are you going to keep believing them? Sounds like a religion.
Russian propaganda war is based on this principle.

They are not transmitting coherent alternative narrative. They as just delivering constant stream of bullshit faster than it can be debunked. Just increasing the cognitive load and creating cognitive dissonance is a valid propaganda method.
That's the parent posters point. There's no such thing as "evolutionary psychologists". At least so far as academics within psychology and neurology recognize it.
It provides you with the UI with the button to launch each tool as well as recent documents.
I think it goes a little deeper. Kent's original post (test && commit || revert) describes the strategy as just a curiosity. "I’m not arguing for “test && commit || revert” nor even describing its trade-offs. I’m saying it seems like it shouldn’t work at all, it does, and I hope you try it (if you’re the sort of person who just tries new programming workflows)."

But the problem is Kent has probably never been on the wrong side of a CxO's dictum: "This company is using agile, starting now. Thank you." Programmers who have felt that pain want to make sure that a random musing from Kent Beck doesn't turn into a "movement" that ruins their work, so they try to shut down his idea hard. I don't blame them.
This isn't correct, the worry isn't that a single group is small, its that a single group is large. (basically if one group is large, you can get by ignoring all the smaller groups).

This is most common with binary problems.
And guess which one is the priority for bug fixes? Hint: it's not the old, unexciting one.
I disliked the lack of understanding of Terry Davis circumstance.
Just recently, the United States imprisoned children in camps separate from their families because their parents committed the (misdemeanor) crime of crossing the border illegally.

At what point does a "camp" become an "internment" camp and then a "concentration" camp?
What do you believe causes the rampant crime?
How I built a fully functional web platform in under 3 hours
"Young’s vision was decidedly dystopian. As wealth increasingly reflects the innate distribution of natural talent, and the wealthy increasingly marry one another, society sorts into two main classes, in which everyone accepts that they have more or less what they deserve. He imagined a country in which “the eminent know that success is a just reward for their own capacity, their own efforts,” and in which the lower orders know that they have failed every chance they were given. “They are tested again and again…. If they have been labeled ‘dunce’ repeatedly they cannot any longer pretend; their image of themselves is more nearly a true, unflattering reflection.”"

That sounds familiar.

"But one immediate difficulty was that, as Young’s narrator concedes, “nearly all parents are going to try to gain unfair advantages for their offspring.” And when you have inequalities of income, one thing people can do with extra money is to pursue that goal. If the financial status of your parents helped determine your economic rewards, you would no longer be living by the formula that “I.Q. + effort = merit.”"

And so does that.
I love everything about this sentence.

It also feels very relevant to current events.
One last reply and I'm done. The US was putting children into detention camps, separated from their parents, regardless of age. Without a plan to reunite them or to keep track of them and their parents. If I set up a "storage strategy" like that ever I would be fired, and I'm talking about screws and stuff like that not people.

And now if you can explain me what crime these people comited to not merit due process despite not being US citizens?
I don't think it's a political thing, people in cities just seem to have different expectations than people that don't. I live in the suburbs and there isn't anywhere nearby that I would worry about going. My co-worker who lives in the city says that it's dangerous to go 2 blocks from his house at night, but thinks that's normal. My wife has a co-worker who's had someone repeatedly try and break into her house, but she doesn't call the cops because she just considers it part of city life. There are some things that people in cities put up with that I think they only accept because it's been part of their entire life.
Well... why is it, then, that underrepresentation of women must suggest sexism, but the (orders of magnitude higher) overrepresentation of asians - specifically from India - doesn't suggest bias?
If they naively just feed the entire dataset without some inspection maybe. But I doubt the people working on this model stopped at the most basic level. What you describe is a common class imbalance issue. I would expect that they have accounted and addressed (at a minimum oversampling the less represented class for example) for this issue while working on the model.

So I doubt it's enough to explain their issue here. I agree that we can't really take any conclusion of their broader hiring patterns from this experiment.
Yeah, if an adversary's missile launch has been detected. Absent that the President is required to consult with his command authority. He can then be stopped by the 25th Amendment and/or a refusal to obey and unlawful order by his military aide and war room duty officers. Stop being an alarmist.
I think you unconditionally dictating all the terms is not respectful of the artist.
Agree. Techwise, interesting - what were some challenges that were solved? From the outside it seems like a webapp you could find in some PHP beginner's tutorial.
https://globalnews.ca/news/4149818/vancouver-cautionary-tale...

This is really disturbing.
Don't forget; Henry Kissinger was involved.
>Why Public Transportation Works Better Outside the U.S.

Well, I have a much simpler answer than the article:

1. In US, the skill of public administration is not high enough to handle a complex system of public mass transit.

2. Any effort to just bring the transit to level of material parity with Europe is done the Soviet way: "I pretend to work, and you pretend to spend money"

And explanation on point 2: why it takes a public transit authorities from two to three times more money to buy a bus than its market price? A bus costs more in paperwork, services, and interest than the price of its hardware to them!

This is why American cities can't have clean new busses that say Germany have. It will need them a multiple of their budgets to do something a German city can do at 1/3 the cost.
I don't need it. I want it, because C# is my favorite programming language. Isn't that what freedom is about?

This means that when I'm writing a website or a Docker microservice, I want to use C#. And since the best OS to run those is Linux, there are no proprietary MS products in sight.

When I'm writing a cross-platform desktop application, I want to use C# too, but I can't, so I'll use another language.
No body thinks that. You're way outside the overton window.

Why is the health care field heavily biased in favor or female nurses and doctors? Are women smarter than men when it comes to biology/anatomy?
Minor correction: East Wind, Twin Oaks, Acorn, Sandhill, and other communities are taxed as a 501(d) non-profits. The rest of this is true.
There will be confusion if you have a 100% naming conflict with a more popular software package, regardless of how little overlap you think there is. If you want to keep the word "signal," rename it to "Signal Analytics" or "Data Signal" or something.
Integrating factors are important motivations in the design of some numerical algorithms. Some keywords: matrix exponentials, semigroup theory, exponential integrators.
Right, you've reminded me of the time they tried to take over Java on Windows by embracing it.
The whole 'But marijuana is a PLANT, it's part of NATURE, man!' argument is specious. Just because it's a plant doesn't mean it's all great and should be legal. There are plenty of poisonous plants, which if you make preparations based on them by purifying or extracting essential oils, you would quite rightly be locked up for possession.
Nobody in the real world - outside the ivory tower - actually cares about tracking the reputation of a PAC that was spun up for an election in order to run political ads, and will disappear in two months.

What makes a bot any different?
Diplomacy: erratic.

Economy: growing.

These are facts about the current administration, not "jabs" for some side or the other. We should not be ignoring reality just to be polite to "both sides".
The problem is that transit has huge upfront capital cost and regulatory risk. Even Tokyo Metro told investors that it would not build new lines after building the Fukutoshin Line.

You need lots of capital, for a payoff that is quite a long time away, and face potential litigation from any busybody (at least if you're in America), not to mention your competitor is usually the free public roads, run by an entity who also regulates you. There are simply better investment opportunities elsewhere.
> They could start by being not evil/truly friendly

This is super vague. When would their decisions stop being token gestures and into not-evil territory?

I doubt any for-profit enterprise will be "truly friendly". After all, to make profit is the bottom-line for any corp. But people fail to realize that a company is not a human. Its direction changes with its leadership. You can't label a company evil/friendly. Because that's bound to change. Look at Google for example.
Interesting to see Snap's involvement here. I wonder what kind of Snapchat integration they're considering.
> One who pays close attention to his extemporaneous comments and speeches will notice a familiar struggle between impulsivity and self-awareness driven self-control that is actually pretty reassuring.

One who pays close attention—who am I kidding, even passing attention—to Trump's entire life story shows a consistent pattern of utter selfishness and narcissism, unwillingness to take any responsibility for the consequences of his actions, and a complete willingness to sacrifice anything and cause any manner of harm in order to further his person desires.
According to statistical mechanics, even boltzmann brains have a higher probability than zero.

I find your absolute certainty disturbing.
They are shedding tears for themselves. Most of them left a while back, bit some are still sticking back.
When people eventually become too poor to
continue working as drivers or paying for
rides, UBI supplies the required cash infusion
for the business to keep operating.

So, that's the big problem? It's just some calculated ploy to subsidize small time freelancers within a side hustle economy?

The rest of the article is simply philosophical grandstanding about how UBI is really a figurative IV drip in the ICU being a secret plot by hospitals in order to keep people as patients forever.

I don't implicitly trust governments or corporations. The concept of an aggressive company like Uber, an organization that analyzed greyballing their data to subvert lawful behavior, is certainly one to operate their users exploitatively.

But, a supplemental pay check that means the difference between not eating plus getting evicted, contrasted against just hanging out and safely waiting for business to pick up again, in between seasonal dry spells, available to anyone, especially those who normally operate odd jobs as a career, this isn't some sinister trojan horse to lock people into a no-options future of scooter charging.

When people are facing eviction and starvation, and the very cold reality of getting locked into living on the streets, homeless, there are bigger problems at large, and worth fixing.

Universal Basic Income can change the world, but it's not a siren song assuredly leading to total powerlessness. It can't protect people from their own bad decisions. It is probable that both sides might employ behaviors that take advantage and game the system. But that doesn't mean this won't do a lot of good, and solve real problems for a lot of people who need the help.
Blockchain for Enterprise
Bingo, this criticism of behavioural economics is a straw man.
That's the weird part: “I.Q. + effort = merit” sounds pretty positive, right?

But,

"A system of class filtered by meritocracy would, in his view, still be a system of class: it would involve a hierarchy of social respect, granting dignity to those at the top, but denying respect and self-respect to those who did not inherit the talents and the capacity for effort that, combined with proper education, would give them access to the most highly remunerated occupations."

The intended result doesn't sound very appealing.
India: the creation of a mobile phone juggernaut  – Financial Times
You're right--communicating about the intent of a patch is a good idea, especially if that intent is outside of normal expectations.

In a similar vein, I recently learned about prefixing a pull request on Github/Gitlab with "[WIP]", or a "work in progress", to suggest that the proposed changes are for informational purposes or not yet complete.
Isn't that regular economics? Big Data marketers don't care about understanding psychology, they just care about what generates conversions. "Big data" means you make decisions automatically from data without forming theories, since you have plenty of signal.
Embrace, extend, extinguish. Don't blindly trust anyone backed by shareholders.
Stupid question; when saying 'go remote' you mean working from home right?
That may be true, but perception may be otherwise.
So there were a few incompetent males, no incompetent females - but you believe that it is just a statistical fluke. It might be - but it is still evidence for the bias, just very weak. I noted it because it seemed that you used it as an argument against bias - which it isn't.
Unfortunately federal law enforcement has lost some of its support among the law and order crowd because of the perception that they are in bed with the political opposition.
This is how the latest Apple Watch can record your ECG
Building a language translator from scratch with deep learning
> none of the features that make Inbox useful

Being able to read email is useful. Seriously though, Gmail added the snooze ability, which was the one feature from Inbox I used regularly.
There are a few big banks on the list that don't have much excuse for not being on top of this.
Remember my name: when recognising 5,000 faces isn't enough
A couple of months ago I created a dark theme for HN: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hn-enhance/dmnbgmc...
Knowing that Inbox was going to die, may as well switch now.
Overlake is an interesting area. Redmond to the east, and the Bellevue Collection to the west. Right along 520, which now needs a toll to cross from Seattle. The store probably had a lot more Seattle traffic before the tolls started. And before Costco and Target opened stores in Seattle. Also the perceived cost of being in Bellevue - I used to prefer shopping in Northgate to Bellevue.

Setting up the H&R Block(head) office inside that Overlake Sears was my first job in IT.
It is still perverse that we allow some few countries to stockpile 100 of thousands of Nagasakis. All of the world is held hostage to the whim of a hand full old men in the US, China and Russia.
If loss aversion exists but it's not inertia, then you should expect to see "win aversion" as much as "loss aversion". Do you?
These are simple terms that serve to preserve the music. It serves the interests of a third party, not the musician or consumer, if these terms are not met.