skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a great summary, and that Citylab piece is well worth checking out.

I'm sometimes skeptical of human-narrative analyses, because they make it easy to launch equally-vivid attacks on a plan that fails 10 people and a plan that fails 10,000. But with rigor behind them, there's a lot to be said for them as existence proofs - especially when we're talking about the margins of a plan instead of its core. Knowing what the edge cases look like matters, and for that it's hard to beat talking to individuals with problems that don't fit on a form.

(As an aside, I think software often creates not only an empathy gap but a mechanical one. An analog system can often be forced to accommodate oddities like self-employment and unconventional address formats, but "the computer won't let me enter that address" is a brick wall. I've never found an investigation of this, but I suspect it's a major drawback of digitization.)

Your final point about ML is a vital one, and one I'm endlessly frustrated by. We're increasingly aware of issues like racial bias in parole-predictions systems, but there's alarmingly little focus on the fact that a system which does that is flawed in general, and might be making the same assumptions about e.g. low-income neighborhoods without anyone noticing. Unlike human bias, a flawed algorithm is equally happy to abuse any strange correlation it can find.
This should help explain Brexit a little better. The EU is about giving up sovereignty. It may or may not be a fair trade depending on your POV. But people talk about it like the EU is a no brainer by looking only at economic grounds.
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Career ladders and 360 performance reviews? Deming would be disappointed...
Here is a very good simulator to get a feel for the different voting systems : https://ncase.me/ballot/
Sadly, voting terminology is nasty. I've long advocated for a better voting system than first-past-the-post (or "pick one", as I call it for non-voting-system nerds). IRV has issues and is not my first choice, but it is better than FPTP. That said, the major objection I get from people is "anything else is too hard".

So I say "can you list your choices in order of preference?" They almost always say that's acceptable. You can run IRV from that, but you can also run most any Condorcet variant. The only remaining part is to show the results in a fashion people understand, which is non-trivial but is also not what the "anything else is too hard" group was complaining about.

So don't say "ranked pair" or "STV"...say "order of preference", and you'll find people more willing to consider ideas. It's not EASY, but it's definitely EASIER.
It's a kind of optimised variant of the 'runoff voting', where the election is rerun with one fewer candidate if noone gets a majority. That's where the name comes from.

In these parts (the UK) the same system is known as the Alternative Vote (AV) which is just as meaningless a name. But in defence of my fellow political scientists, there are a lot of different voting systems, many of which have alternatives, rankings, and runoffs, so unambiguous and useful names are hard to find.
Many people talk about proportional representation; my favorite PR system is the "Random Ballot." It is a very simple voting system and is the only voting system I know of that never suggests strategic voting (when voting in a way different from your preferences is required to get your preferred outcome).

Basically if you have e.g. 100 seats in your house, you choose 100 ballots at random and whomever is voted for on those ballots are the representatives. It averages out to proportional representation, while still allowing geographically distributed candidates.

It also satisfies all of Arrow's criteria[1], which no deterministic system can.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow%27s_impossibility_theore...
As a physician, I can say that is not true
I'd like to have something that looks a bit like the Trello UI, but offers a simple and straightforward path to integrate into the rest of my Python infrastructure.

I store tasks as YAML notes in my source files -- a bit like glorified TODOs - and I would like a user interface for manipulating them without having to write the entire UI myself.
I'm looking forward to see server blades made out of those Macs. It's just satisfying to see how they are built
The author's point wasn't that. The point was that the main outcome of rent control was simply to shift the distribution of economic rents. Instead of the landlord capturing all of it, the renter got a large chunk of it.

The transaction costs are a red herring.
What are some of the ways this blows back? Having to answer them over the phone when they're not passwords, but more like customer service gatekeepers?

I do this as well and it has yet to blow up in my face, though it does seem like an inevitability.
If you threaten me to vote for a specific party and all I can say is that I did so, your threat is not great.

If you can threaten me, and after that make me prove what I voted for, the threat is much more effective.
It seems like the moment big corps acquire a well performing product, product starts to loose its value, like trying to move a viscous liquid between containers using a sieve. Eventually, acquired product quality get completely destroyed and it end up creating gap in market that product was serving. I think its good for new product startup as it creates opportunities for them. Its like nonterminating cycle of creation and destruction.
I think Kodi is closer to what you're looking for
This is an aside, but:

> Some publications even blame third party voters for Hillary Clinton's loss in 2016.

I don't think there is any plausible reason to believe Clinton would have won in 2016 if not for third-party candidates running. The math just doesn't add up.
XKCDs relevant to the end of your comment:

* https://xkcd.com/1227

* https://xkcd.com/1601
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No, the Solaris team quite almost immediately after the OpenSolaris re-proprietarisation in late-2010[1]. Sun was acquired in 2009. This was fast but not immediate, the reaction was mostly in relation to how Oracle treated OpenSolaris and not the acquisition itself.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc
Why drag gender into everything?
I just added WebGL support.
> the key differentiator was experience

Also, incidentally, a great predictor of compensation. This is a major part of why people are often disappointed with the outcome of dumb, univariate analyses.
CGP Grey video on IRV / Alternative Vote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Y3jE3B8HsE
But the question is, is this a good thing? If 51% of the population want an extremist candidate, but also like a centrist candidate, then IRV incentivizes them to lie on their ballot and promote a candidate they don't like over the candidate they do like.
Yes, it's amazing how badly each side could be at reading the other's intention. A classic example is the Missile Gap where the fear that the US was falling behind, when they weren't, lead to massive escalation. Although others do say Kennedy did know exactly what was going on.
Correct me if I am wrong but there are no guarantees this candidate is a compromise. He might be on a whole different political spectrum and agenda.
Does anyone offer the service of turning cremated ashes into diamond in HK? I can absolutely see Hong Kongers preferring to become a fashionable piece of jewelry to just being dumped into Victoria Harbour.
Corporations cannot change anything on their own if they operate in capitalistic economy. They are doing exactly what's expected of them to maximize the profit.

If you change your lifestyle significantly, you are not just a blip in statistics. Your actions rub off on other people, your vote supports the right people, and with enough time you help the right mindset to prevail.

Besides, presuming you are not climate change skeptic, what other rational choice do you have?
I frequently wonder if my impostor syndrome was acquired in graduate school, or if it's an artifact of working at a job that is primarily intellectually driven. I didn't experience it until grad school, but I certainly still get it, not just in tech interviews, but in my regular programmer/tech lead job as well (making proposals, submitting high level features, etc.).
I manage it fairly effectively at this point because I know what it is and how it feels, but it hasn't gone away and I doubt it ever will.
The Jamestown automatic voting machine
This is awesome! Exactly what I was looking for. Basically a SQLite server-node. Replace my homebrew Go thing.
Great article -- it's a big problem that needs urgent nnovation. BTW, if you are reading this and are interested in helping build better software for doctors, drop us a line. We are a stealth startup working to fix the software doctors use. As the article explains, if you have seen what physicians have to put up with, it's a bad version of the 90s, and makes medical care worse and more expensive for everyone.
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Yes!! I recently read about a new hospital wing or medical center or somesuch where they had – gasp – involved actual future users (ie. medical personnel and patients) already in the design phase! This was regarded as something revolutionary and almost unheard of.

I also read about a similar project, ostensibly designed using latest principles and understanding of hospital work, which unsurprisingly turned out to have a zillion papercuts and completely impractical design decisions. So, yeah.
The 545/645 found in the 13" MBPs can drive a 5k display adequately. Not sure about this 630, though.
It is presented by Matthew Walker, a sleep researcher, in his Why We Sleep.
I decided to use the feedback/chat mechanism at the bottom right to suggest they don't do this. Maybe with enough feedback...
Are they using the ICC compiled Linpack on the AMD chips too? I think its totally fair as long as they used GCC or other best in class compiler for AMD.
You don't need a third party tool; System Preferences does this for you already. (Maybe not the long-press, but I'm vim, not emacs).
I used to do a slightly different system where I'd have ridiculous answers, sort of a word game play on the question itself, and forgetting your secret answers with a company like Verizon can take days to figure out.
The methodology used to determine accuracy involved loading GIS data on all property in a given county. Therefore building a nation-wide accuracy map using that methodology would, by necessity, involve loading all property data nation-wide. And if you had all property data nation-wide, you wouldn't need a reverse geocoder. You'd have one.
Yes, it does. Though at that point it's effectively rendering at 5k anyway, so any performance problems you have with a real 5k you'll also have with that setup.
A vCPU is a logical core, not a physical core. So yes, based on HT.
> custom AMD EPYC processors

I wonder, how much effort does that entail? Is this some TDP and firmware tweaks, or is it actually different silicon? If the later, that sounds like a reasonably big bet that there will be a lot of AMD chips sold to AWS.
Back in the day, the Georgia Tech Linux Users' Group had a very simple two-round system. The first round was approval voting; the second round was a run-off between the top two candidates. We voted like this every week to decide where to eat dinner. This extremely simple system satisfies participation, monotonicity and a weak form of Condorcet, where the winner always won pairwise against other candidates in terms of expressed preferences (but not all preferences are expressed). The participation criterion and Condorcet criterion are incompatible in the full sense, so this is as close as you can get. The run-off acts as a correction to AV's tendency to select underqualified moderates.

However, it is a two-round election. A run-off is always necessary. But it can be made one-round via what I call rank-and-star: voters rank candidates by preference, and put a star next to the top N that they like. The two candidates with the most stars are then compared on rankings. It's pretty easy to prove this is mathematically equivalent to the two-round system, but it's not a ranked-choice method because the ballots (1-2-3) and (1-2-3) are different.

Interestingly, it might still be possible to satisfy both participation and monotonicity if you expand the run-off to three candidates and use minimax Condorcet for the final round. For three candidates, minimax = Schulze = ranked-pairs and they satisfy participation; for four or more candidates, no Condorcet method satisfies participation. However, doing this costs you the attractive simplicity of the method (but minimax Condorcet is simple to understand, relative to IRV or ranked-pairs).

Anyway, this puts me in the odd position of advocating a voting system nobody has ever heard of =p
There's also an LG one.
The absolute state of web development...
I think blue light is important, but I think addiction to phones is even more important. I have students who'll stay up late to answer messages, even though they use the modes that filter blue light. They just have to constantly be checking their phone...Now, if you couple that with blue light not being filtered, then you're facing even more problems.
There are some “puck-sized” eGPUs, somewhere between the size of an AppleTV and a Mac Mini, have chips comparable to the high end MacBooks Pro options.
How many side channels though?
Loophole free tax law is like bug free code: much harder than it sounds. Especially since the EU countries are actually independent and can have their own tax law.
Still EPYC processors have up to 32 cores, 64 HT - where is 96 comming from?
Never said it was about malice. Incompetence and negligence are just as good of reasons for someone to be untrustworthy :)
It is for security reasons, disconnected by hardware when the lid is closed so that not even the T2 has access to it(or any hacker trying to listen in on you). Facetime camera works however, as closed lid essentially prevents it from seeing anything anyways.
What if the mech Turks are like the MC simulations used for training the Alpha Go networks?

What if you stuff the Qt docs into a DL model and using the qt source code as training data? Could the network produce usable source code based on docs?
How would that work in practice? The subsidiary in country A buys all their services from HQ with the price just so happening to consume the profits. How do you tax that without essentially stopping international collaboration?
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Whatever AMD's version of that is called, yes — AWS has historically always been 1 vCPU = 1 hardware thread, so pretty much half a HT-enabled core.
There is some precedence of an acquired company doing a brain transplant on its host. Think Pixar taking over at Disney, replacing accountants with creative folks.

Not familiar with IBM's current management enough to know if that is a possibility.
The interstellar object Oumuamua is almost certainly not an alien spaceship
The flip side of this argument is that the companies are ripping the countries off by using myriad tax loopholes, because they can.

I find it interesting that the companies are often portrayed as smart for doing this, but politicians are jealous and incompetent. Almost like we worship businesses and malign government. I wonder whose interests that viewpoint supports.
Probably because the "and the last 10 is the other 90" quote has existed longer than programming has. It's borrowed.
Actually, Java is used fairly heavily at Apple for their backend systems. If you go on their job boards, you'll see quite a lot of Java positions.
This article is over a month old and talking about an update that happened months ago. I am EXTREMELY slow to install any updates because this is my work computer as well as personal and I had it installed already (which is saying something).
There's no problem with opposing candidates in IRV / STV - you just rank them at the back of the list. I can't claim to be an expert on all the finer points of STV versus range or approval voting, but it's significant to me that the Electoral Reform Society (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_Reform_Society) continue to back STV.
> nobody at the hospital seemed to have any issues with it.

this might be because they had more important things to attend to, like your dying friend.
If uninformed voters are so evenly distributed as you claim, then their absence in participation is not something to be concerned about.
What would you recommend for a Mac-compatible eGPU these days?
Maine voted on using this system for some elections in 2016.

It passed, but -- perhaps not surprisingly -- many current, established politicians weren't happy. Maine's governor called it "the most horrific thing in the world" and the state legislature refused to fund implementation and voted to delay it until 2022.

So this year the the citizens of Maine voted again to confirm instant runoff voting, overruling the state legislature and vetoing their delay. It passed by an even bigger margin this time.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/06/maine-l...
That’s ridiculous. Have you ever been to SF? 3/4s of the city is single story suburbs, where it is illegal to build over 3 stories.
I worked at Epic, and while I was there, I can confirm that a huge number of workers were fresh out of college and making crap customizations, for every single customer we had. If a salesperson ever told a customer "no, that can't be customized", they might go with another EMR vendor. So every bit of user choice added by the developers and the staff physicians was eventually taken away by customizing administrators turning optional into either mandatory or forbidden. It was completely ludicrous. One part of the company was building software to be used at theoretically any medical facility, and another part was busy turning it into many shards of software that could each only be used in one location for one customer.

And on top of this, the software used to customize the base software was esoteric and required extensive training just to change the resource strings. This was before i18n, of course, but I have no reason whatsoever to believe that made anything better.

The whole thing was--and probably still is--held together by huge gobs of money. If Epic were in any industry other than US healthcare, it would have been bankrupt a long, long time ago. My experience has led me to believe that if software developers had any significant union membership in the 80s and 90s, able to enforce minimum standards for development practices, health care costs today could have been 3/4 of what they actually are now. We are now paying for jobs that could have been completely automated by 2000, and its because Epic and Cerner and GE and all their competitors have been shoving technical debt--in the form of bullshit customizations--into every deployment for decades, at the behest of administrators who were understandably reluctant to authorize the purchase of any product that would automate them out of their own jobs.

And it just gets worse when you add billing integration, because then Medicare and the private insurers get involved...

Got out, didn't look back. Don't work in medical software if you love programming and don't want to spoil that.
Given the availability of open source solutions why would I in 2018 build a critical part of my application on a closed platform?

Genuinely not intended as snark, I'm just curious why memsql is so compelling that I would consider it.
It's not determined by their willingness, it's exactly what they pay -- no more and no less.
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Two sockets.
Amazon and Apple have both been bitten by EU states offering illegally disproportionate "deals" to individual companies. These were deemed to be state aid by the EU and each member state (Luxembourg and Ireland respectively) were required to charge back-tax to correct the tax situations.

But there are still lower tax areas. This is still an issue that is not simple to unravel because flat tax was not a founding part of the EU, something we figured out after the fact.

Amazon, Ebay, and Google all put the vast majority of their earnings through secondary states within the EU, not the main markets. I'm not sure what Apple do these days, but they've just paid a couple of ~£200m in extra tax found from an audit. The others "claim" they are going to rectify this, but it's all face-saving. They're all lying tax cheats.
What are you referring to? Amazon's been pretty good about reducing the cost of AWS features over time.
“More experienced engineers are more accurate about their interview performance...”

Dunning–Kruger effect returns again!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
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This is a very cool project! Would you be interested in performing the same analysis of Nine Inch Nail's discography? I am happy to chip in financially for such an analysis if the results would be open.
Most reviews are done on devices _loaned_ by the vendor; Consumer Reports and a couple of others buy their own stuff but they're very much the exception. A paid review is where the vendor pays for the review; that's very different. Basically any professional review of a computer you see will be on a review unit loaned by the vendor.
Thanks for your comments. If I understood you correctly, you want the comments marked as TODOs listed in a UI automatically , which you can track/move around. Am I correct ?
Seems pretty plausible with a max entropy + Bayesian hypothesis selection. And it has empirical implications:

https://www.am-nat.org/site/halting-oracles-as-intelligent-a...

If I'm right, then all AI only companies will be beaten by a AI+human company, so we can make market predictions and propose research directions based on the hypothesis. Doesn't seem entirely without technical/financial merit. I make a note of the economic implications at the bottom of the following proof:

https://www.am-nat.org/site/law-of-information-non-growth/

Why do you say it a form of mysticism?
One of the biggest factors I think affects the outcome of an interview are implicit bias in first few minutes. It can be related to gender, ethnicity, age, religion or nationality. This can heavily influence the interview process.
They're not necessarily using 32 core chips. That could just as easily be a 2x24 board.
The material conditional, if you're willing to admit it to be a part of Math.
"san francisco". "new development". hahaha. you don't need to worry about no rent control if you don't allow any new developments. guy_tapping_temple.gif
It's an unusual term that I haven't seen before.

I'm of two minds here:

1. If the investor is a former rainmaker banker who will go above & beyond in the transaction, effort that would normally cost you $mm's, she might be justified. She could also have factored that "value add" into a lower valuation rather than in a separate right.

2. Ascribe a monetary value to the term and adjust other areas of the financing (valuation, control rights, etc) accordingly. There is nothing unethical about issuing unusual terms as long as all parties are informed and it is done transparently.
Permission? Lucky them having to ask permission to set their own tax policy.