skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree that governments necessarily must be inefficient, but yes this is an area with some nuance. I could see myself being in favor of an incentivized tax structure for OZs, along with a highly redistributional tax system for income, wealth and equity, but I don’t think too many of the people who argue for the power of markets to incentivize investment of OZs are also in favor of the redistibutional part ;)
I've had an i7 3770 for a while, it's still very snappy. I've had an SSD in it for a while though, definitely recommend one of those.
The last few years I have suspected this idea would eventually take off...but I'm not sure it's quite there yet (and still requires more transparency than this is offering).
When you have more money or capital assets, more of your income comes from capital gains and less comes from the labor you do. So decreasing taxes on capital gains disproportionately benefits people who are already wealthy.
Write your own Operating System
>Oh god, I can only imagine the horror of trying to use Bitcoin as a public notary service.

One man's trash is another man's treasure: http://deedbot.org/faq.html
Why are people entitled to live in a certain community just because they have been there for a long time?

At what point do I get to lay claim to my house and force my city to allow me to live there for a subsidized price if I can't afford it?
Amarion and Pacho – Nube (Video Oficial)
Idle time can be dangerous as well if your not in the right frames of mind. There’s a part of the brain called the default mode network that is associated with self referential thoughts and social thinking, which gets turned on when we are doing nothing. Essentially the part of ththe brain responsible for brain wandering, and generally the brain wanders to places where there are problems and it wants to solve it. So if your in a phase of life where your dealing with lots of ‘problems’ it might be better not to sit idly.
Sounds like the service in your case is a sessionless gateway that does data transformation and dispatching. It fits the functional style.
Census tracts? The ones that are almost nine years out of date or the up to date ones will have in a couple of years?
> They don't have an army of accountants on retainer to figure out how to game the tax code and accomplish things that weren't really intended.

Even that doesn’t sound that bad to me. All of those people have a job, are being paid and are also paying taxes.

Also that sounds like a tax code bug and not a rich people problem. The government is allowed to collect exactly the minimum required by law and nothing more.
>I don't consider it a problem

Your mileage may vary, aka it very much depends on the problem you're dealing with.

For example, if you're in the news and/or wikileaks-type problem sphere and want to timestamp a certain event, then a centralized authority for a crypto notary is a giant problem.
It's exactly like highly optimized code.

Very efficient for today's requirements but complex, calcified, and difficult to adapt when requirements change.
awesome concept
more than 500 employees I guess.

This is something you can ask when applying a job. They will tell you if they sponsor.
How do you reconcíliate future meetings with future flow states? Unless you have the ability to pospone a meeting when you are flowing I don’t see how to do this, unless you’re able to build a pattern over time and use that information to preemptively inform the organizer of best suited times to schedule a meeting
Robert Heinlein's nephew Terrance Heinlein (Terry) is a brilliant architect.
Bob Muller
>, Netflix would rather re-skin "white" movies than invest in "black" movies.

Citation needed, here. Netflix could be doing both.
I think you misinterpreted the above - the point is that the locale of power shifts, and common people need to trace these changes and take advantage of opportunities, for the welfare of all. It’s not about seeking “protection” from anyone. It’s about making sure the people have a say in the events that impact our lives.
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There's strong animosity against the rich because some of us grew up seeing our families destroyed chasing the american dream while others grew rich off their misfortune.

That and the constant attempts at reverting certain policies or actions that would make my QoL demonstrably worse.
The default browser for iOS is Safari whose default search engine is Google. Does the comparison hold true still?
https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/10/18/i-mastered-xi-jinping-t...

Someone got a certificate ....

North Korea is more socialism than China. I will only learn from the best.

If North Korea had an open course I would take it. Specifically, I'm interested in the course on how to get fat alone ...
US plans major changes in H1B visas
I think you (and the OC) will find that, with dryers, there's really not much room to gain efficiency. It's not as if modern dryers are using a heat pump instead of burning gas [1] or "burning" electricity with resistive heating.

[1] and natural gas tends to be cheaper than electric heat pumps, especially nowadays
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I have a hard time thinking of a product where the repair is inhibited by IP issues. Can you give a specific example?

I tend to buy and repair scientific and lab equipment and repair it. I also do/try for consumer stuff sometimes, it’s usually not economical.

Tried to repair a microwave for example, but couldn’t find a replacement magnetron. That part isn’t covered by patents, it’s just not available... if there was more interest, I think there would be more stripped parts on eBay too.
As a cancer survivor, using the example of someone spying on your cancer.org visit as a motivation for encrypted SNI seems a bit excessive and insensitive. There are definitely more neutral ways of motivating eSNI than invoking the fear of a stranger finding out you or a loved one has cancer. Shame on Mozilla.
Robots: Your Guide to the World of Robotics
Quantum mechanics. Thermodynamics. Fluid dynamics. Signal processing. Information theory.

All are statistical in nature. Nature is built on probability.
Via this IEEE Spectrum article [1]

[1] https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-softwa...
This Old Lisp
Please get a native English speaker with an English degree to proof your copy.

FAQ: "It feels kind of strange to speak with people I don’t know. Can't I just not do this?"

Second sentence is a double negative. It sounds even weirder than it reads.

"We have made this experience sometimes too. But people differ, and we see that there is a substantial part of society – even across all social groups, career stages, industries etc – who are happy and willing to help others out."

First sentence sounds icky. 2nd sentence applies a Germanic language structure to English which fails basic English flow.
The hyperreals make the concept of infinitesimals rigorous as well, while preserving intuitive ease.

eg Something like 'limit(f(x),x->a) = L' is just 'f(x) ≈ L when x ≈ a'
You're free to dislike the article, but I figured I'd point out that the author is a professional philosopher, not a journalist. The bio states that he's "professor of philosophy at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. He is the author of American Philosophy: A Love Story (2016), and his latest book is Hiking with Nietzsche (2018)."
> Why are people entitled to live in a certain community just because they have been there for a long time?

I didn't say anything anout entitlement. I said that a certain change redistributes pain downward and magnifies it in the process.
Banu Parlak – Narin Yarim
That makes me feel sick. As a society we really shouldn't be operating based on expecting property to constantly appreciate, it's going to do us in.
Increases the tax base.
Wouldn't that invalidate the whole concept of autonomous V2V interaction?
Huawei Mate 20 X is bigger than an iPad mini
The Second Quantum Revolution
I'd say that cuts both ways, ex:

"It's pretty obvious that certain groups are trying to draw the focus of the public away from the socioeconomic rich-get-richer phenomenon at Harvard and other top schools, instead dangling these stories of preferential treatment between the poorer 99% as a distraction."
> in my opinion, we should probably not tax corporations at all. ultimately all corporate revenue turns into either income for employees or capital gains for investors, so just tax these (progressively) and hike the rates.

This sounds reasonable to me As long as the money doesn’t disappear to another country.
Don't think I'd like having no query planner, most of the time it does the right thing. But having the ability to more easily correct it when it goes wrong would be nice (arguably postgres already supports the ideal way of doing this with it's custom statistics, though sometimes it's easier to have a more manual knob).
This!

Haha. Way back in my 2nd year at university (1985!), these were all the rage. Myself and a couple of friends made a giant version out of 6 university calendars. It had a diameter of about 40-50cm. We launched it one day (when the lecturer was facing the board) from the back of a math lecture. The slope of the lecture hall was a gentle 20 degrees, slowly tapering off towards the front. Initially it cleared people's heads with a few cm to spare, then about halfway it was clearing the backs of chairs - fortunately there were quite a few rows from the middle to the front with no one in them - until it finally found the back of some poor guy's head sitting in the 1st or 2nd row. The ring clunked him square and he ended up wearing it. We all exploded in laughter. It wasn't aimed at him mind - he was just in the wrong spot at the wrong time. I still smile when I think of that (does that make me a bad person?).

EDIT: got the year wrong (memory is fading...)
IBM finally proves that quantum systems are faster than classicals
"And then they block you for reporting too many ads."

Glad to see Facebook has the customer's best interests at heart.
I'm with you on the mummy one, that scared me too.

It always perplexed me though, why they thought the Count's lightning-thunder-and-bats routine [when he completed a count] was too scary and nixed it -- seemed pretty tame to me -- maybe the noise rattled kids?
Why the Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics Has Many Problems
Results from 'Astonishing' Feat of Creating and Testing Quantum Gas in Space
Ah gotcha, thanks for the feedback as that helps us. Any chance you could tell me a bit more details @ ben@execution.com?
Actually the reverse happened in Detroit. Your houses value dropped 80% but your property taxes didn't drop.

Imagine you're retired and over 65 so you no longer owe property taxes. But you don't know it, the tax bills keep coming and you lose your house. It is still happening in Detroit.

You've lost your job in the 2008 recession (in Detroit with 35% unemployment it was a depression) so you don't have to pay your property taxes until you go back to work. But you don't know, the bills keep coming and you lose your house. It is still happening in Detroit.

You're a lucky one, you kept your job and are still able to pay your now inflated property taxes. But neighbors on both sides of you lost their houses and they're empty. An arsonist sets fire to both of them and the resulting blaze burns your house down. Yes, it's still happening in Detroit.
Boeing launches group focused on quantum and neuromorphic computing
Thanks or the feedback! Do you mean you have other calendars shared on this account you want this to pick up? Let me know a little there and thanks once again for the feedback :)
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John Deere tractors is one example
I am simplifying it to a level where it becomes borderline useless/wrong, but it should give a gist of the idea: it turns out that frequently you do not need to train anything but the last layer of a deep neural network, if all the other layers are sufficiently big arbitrary and weird. In reservoir computing you replace all but the last layer of the network with a "dynamical system", i.e. a large and meaningless map.
I think the author is perhaps putting the cart before the horse.
They pre-suppose widespread deployment of either DSRC, or Cellular V2X.

There is still debate as to which will win out (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/20/business/vehicle-communic...), but GM, Toyota, and Volkswagen seem committed to DSRC. As they are the biggies, my bet is within 5 years most new cars, some new pickup trucks, and some new delivery/heavy trucks will be using DSRC.

How useful will that be?

DSRC transmits a "Basic Safety Message" 10 times per second (range 1000 meters), containing velocity vector, pitch/roll/yaw vector, vehicle weight, status ("braking", "skidding", etc) and, critically, position. Current GPS (particularly in urban canyons) may only give 10m accuracy, or worse.

But if we could get 10cm accuracy (maybe with some kind of publicly deployed differential gps?), then a whole set of advantages become apparent.

1) Your Heads-Up-Display could warn of a (DSRC-equipped) vehicle that's about to blow through an approaching stop sign and will collide with your projected position. And your auto-braking could be activated.

2) You could be warned on the freeway of a vehicle 5 cars ahead of you that has just slammed on the brakes (because that vehicle just transmitted that info).

3) Special lanes could be reserved for platooning, with cars separated by only a meter or two (0.1-0.3s) rather than 2s. Voila -- much greater lane capacity.

4) If DSRC were cheap enough ($100-200), bicyclists and motorcyclists could buy one, and make themselves much more visible to every DSRC-equipped cager.

5) And if really cheap, many pedestrians might carry them, safe in the knowledge that if they step out into the street, the auto-braking cars will pro-actively avoid them.

And _none_ of these features require any type of cameras, lidar, or other (arguably problematic) self-driving technology. Heck, they don't even require a map.

A final point about privacy -- DSRC was designed so the vehicle identifier isn't anything traceable like VIN or license. Instead, the id is randomized every few mintues (or at least according to https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/fd03/f4c5f3128db5c08e5e92f2... -- I don't know how GM/Toyoto/VW have implemented it).
Maybe cool things are worth saving?
As a UK citizen living abroad, there are still some things that are not possible for me to do via hmrc.gov.uk, and still requires paper forms or passcodes to be posted to me (which can take weeks).
I mean, I know this is probably not in your control and all (and I know I'm off-topic). But wouldn't an adblocker be appropriate for your school environment? I most definitely wouldn't want my kids to see any ads, but obviously and especially those with "significant skin exposure".

I applaud you for not recommending this site in the first take. But it seems like you should have more support, adblockers being the first line of defense.

Thank you for teaching, by the way. I feel teachers need the same thanks that we so commonly give soldiers and first responders. You are truly on the front line, and we all appreciate you.
Apart from a privacy policy I do not believe any notice is necessary. The "notices" you see on pages today are actually asking for consent to store data, but you don't need to do that if you aren't storing data. (IANAL)

As for bragging about your privacy stance - well - that's a product design decision. Personally I'd probably do it on the "why you should use this" style pages and leave it out of any functional pages.
Ah yes! The great Tom Lehrer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dB2Ff8H7oVo
Thanks :), yep that is what we are working on now, an analytics package for the entire organization.
One of my favourite films is Brazil. The premise is basically, “what if orwell’s 1984 were a comedy?”
in Brazil, Robert Deniro plays a vigilante repairman, swinging heroically from apartment to apartment doing unauthorised repairs of broken air conditioning systems. He is the state’s most wanted outlaw, in the film, even more sought than actual terrorists.
Can you kindly recommend a good $40k-ish car that actually generates downforce?
If you're not getting much direct sunlight, and you think you may be affected, it's a really good idea to get your Vit D levels tested.
Dropbox for Teams
Similar thoughts here. Furthermore, the author's writing style is annoyingly old fashioned and unnecessarily long.

>Like the man—the fellow with the name Solomon, writing under the pen name Ecclesiastes—said, “Of the making of many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh

Why not just "Solomon, writing under the pen name 'Ecclesiastes', said..."?

> I recall some years ago a politician whose name is now as lost to me as it is to history who listed reading among his hobbies, along with fly-fishing and jogging.

What was the point of this? Why not just "reading is my hobby"?

> But for the road to acquiring the body of unspecialized knowledge that sometimes goes by the name of general culture, sometimes known as the pursuit of wisdom, no map, no blueprint, no plan, no shortcut exists, nor, as I hope to make plain, could it.

Had to read this 3 times to parse the grammar.
> The fact the the original code is a straw-man is discussed.

Yes, but instead of timing it against the improvements the grand-author made to the straw man, you still timed it against his straw man.

So I'll quote you: "You need to work on your speed reading skills before throwing shade..."

> The fact the flexibility is being removed is discussed too

You state: "Why do these frameworks exist then? Well to be fair, they enable dynamic, runtime composition. Instead of GameObject types being hard-coded, they can be loaded from data files. This is great to allow game/level designers to create their own kinds of objects... However, in most game projects, you have a very small number of designers on a project and a literal army of programmers, so I would argue it's not a key feature."

Which is failing to recognize that the whole point of the original code - written by a game engine developer - is to demonstrate exactly how to do this for performance and flexibility for any small team.

> along with why it was there and hits on better ways to re-achieve it later. It's mentioned that these were going to be covered in a follow-up.

With out it being there, I cannot judge it. But considering that you removed features and barely managed to match the ECS for performance is... not promising.

The point of the ECS is to be a very efficient solution to the run-time composition problem. You removed run-time composition and still weren't technically able to be more performant than it with your solution. You are comparing apples to oranges and still loosing on arguably the most key aspect of the entire problem space!
That makes a lot of sense to me. Looking forward to checking out "Boundaries".

Btw, one other idea I've had on the subject is that the problems with mutable state can be mitigated if we were able to more easily see/comprehend the state as it's being modified by a program; without that capability the only recourse we're left with is our imagination, which of course is woefully inadequate for the task. You can see more concretely what I'm talking about in my project here (video): http://symbolflux.com/projects/avd

From what I've seen, structuring a program to not modify state is almost always more difficult than the alternative[0]. There are certain problems where this difficulty is justified (because of, e.g., reliability demands); but I think most problems in programming are not those, and if we could just mitigate the error-proneness of state mutation, that may leave us at a good middle ground.

[0] The exception is when you're in a problem domain that can naturally be dealt with via pure functions, where you're essentially just mapping data in one format to another (i.e. no complex interaction aspects).
Exactly. If it wasn't for the economic systems set up by the government there would be no reason to make repairing things hard because that is simply a byproduct of the current system that is controlled by the government.
>> assuming

Are there actual numbers somewhere?
We were about to re-learn that lesson during the previous crash but decided that it was better to kick the can down the road.

The thing that I cannot wrap my head around is how we can at the same time believe that real estate goes up over the long term and allow it to be depreciated on financial statements.
Larry Niven had a nice short story on that, called "All The Myriad Ways". The Wikipedia article on the short story collection of the same name [1] includes a link to the story itself in their collection of old Galaxy issues.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_the_Myriad_Ways
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I guess you could do it in anything, even if it doesn't support pattern matching:

(I apologise for this Python abomination):

print([{ (True, True): 'Fizzbuzz', (True, False): 'Fizz', (False, True): 'Buzz', (False, False): i }[i % 3 == 0, i % 5 == 0] for i in range(1, 101)])
I think that Knuth's concrete mathematics made this connection at some point - the difference between the infinitely small abstraction of an integral and a big-sigma sum as being discreet quantities that can be measured by actual numbers that measure a thing.
This would be brilliant! Buy any product over $200 and 10kg? If it breaks within x years you repair it or if thats impossible/too hard, return it to a broken-shit-r-us where you get $20 and they turn around and charge the manufacturer full retail price as mandated by law. Should be incentive enough for easy repair design.
I had no idea.
100 CEOs rally in support of Ontario's basic income pilot
Lit escamotable
These exist, are in use and have been commercialised.

If you look very closely at the expiry date printed on packaged products you'll often find it's actually laser etched, not printed. It's considerably more reliable and readable, particularity for small fonts.

In terms of used on fruit, see: https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/jan/16...
> Is it just capital gains? Wondering if it applies to any other forms of active or passive income.

I would also like some information about this.

+1 for investing in distressed areas; self-nominated with intent or otherwise.

If it's capital gains only, -1 on requiring sale of capital assets in order to be sufficiently incentivized. (Because then the opportunity to tax-advantagedly invest in Opportunity Zones is denied to persons without assets to liquidate; i.e. unequal opportunity).
> > I recall some years ago a politician whose name is now as lost to me as it is to history who listed reading among his hobbies, along with fly-fishing and jogging.

> What was the point of this? Why not just "reading is my hobby"?

The point was that he considered reading a "hobby" as much as breathing for himself. You have to include the rest of that paragraph though to see it:

> I recall some years ago a politician whose name is now as lost to me as it is to history who listed reading among his hobbies, along with fly-fishing and jogging. Reading happens to be my hobby, too, along with peristalsis and respiration.
Some pain for sure. Others make a cool 500k now that their house is no longer next to a meth lab.