skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Part of the reason why I blindly signed up for Stripe was because of the great experience I had with their other products.

https://flagtheory.com/stripe-atlas/ didn't exist when I signed up.
A Lenovo ThinkCentre is like 10x bigger than a Mac Mini. I wouldn't want one of those sitting in my living room. And my wife would absolutely forbid it.

The only real competition I see for the Mac Mini is the little computers from System76. But they're about the same price.
- "p̶e̶r̶m̶i̶s̶s̶i̶o̶n̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶s̶e̶t̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶i̶r̶ ̶o̶w̶n̶ ̶t̶a̶x̶ ̶p̶o̶l̶i̶c̶y̶"

+ "permission to screw over the other countries they're in economic union with by acting as a tax haven for transactions that occur in those other countries"
As a contrasting anecdote, Australia uses IRV for many of its elections, and I think it's fair to say that most people understand how it works and like it.

Absolutely, it's more complex than a simple majority. But I think "bizarre" is unfair.

In practice, I think it helps to provide a diversity of representatives that more closely reflect the diversity of views in the electorate.
This is extremely cool. Emacs has a similar, though less intelligent, language agnostic auto-complete function called hippie-expand[0], which has generally been good enough for my needs.

[0] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/autotype...
Everything can be fundamentally valued, my friend. Even if that valuation means 0.

Why don't you start here, and come back when you know what you're talking about :)
https://multicoin.capital/2017/08/24/rep2017/
It would attract young coders who you can convince to work long hours for less pay.
All score methods are bad (especially in a large multicultural polity) because mapping from subjective opinion and preference to numeric scores is inconsistent and, particularly, highly culturally variable.

If there were an objective way to measure actual utilities, score-based methods would be great (and economics and policy assessment would be much simpler, and...)
When investors raise their funds, they pitch a specific model to their LPs.

Example:

"We're going to invest in a basket of startups whose aggregate value will be $X billion in 5 years and we will own Y% of those companies at that time."

If they can't hit that Y number, they are not doing what they said they'd do.
Corporates likely helped shape those loopholes, and viciously fought the legislation the entire way. Let's not pretend these corps are innocent victims here.
So partisan campaigners should be able to do traffic analysis on people to better direct their activities?
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>Difficulty in tabulation affects speed of, certainty of, and confidence in results, as well as cost of implementation.

Which doesn't rise to the level of "that is so bad it must be stopped".

>> Maybe I react differently from the typical voting system enthusiast?

>Nope,

Kind of strange, since the entire reason for my confusion and joining this thread is because of enthusiasts' doom-and-gloom about the quality of the results themselves, and how they worry about the edge cases and I don't.

Are you invigorated by the cost fears? Because they seem like a sliver compared to the cost of Gore vs Bush.
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The mic has a switch on it that imposes a hardware high-pass filter to counterbalance the proximity effect you get from being close to it. Since the mic is a cardioid mic (directional sound pickup) it would normally pick up a great deal of extra bass due to the geometry of the cardioid capsule (radio announcer sound, big and deep and bassy). The switch lets you take away that bassiness and the pop filter prevents the mic from going 'THUMP' when you say 'P' into it, and the combination of these things gives you that super-present, 'NPR interview' sound.
there was zero capital. nowhere near 10k
> The local government is the will of the collective group of people who are governed by it.

That's awfully idealistic! Sure, it would be nice if that were true, as a pure expression of democracy, but I've never seen a real-world government which actually met that standard.
No problem!

Syntax is just syntax. Imagine a function that takes two 32-bit numbers, and adds them together:

fn foo(x: i32, y: i32) -> i32 {
x + y
}

You'd call it like this:

foo(5, 6) // would give back 11

However, this is just syntax. There's no reason this can't be

5.foo(6)

It's purely a different way of calling the same thing. The first argument goes before the dot.

In some languages, this is 100% interchangable. In Rust, it's not 100%, but it's pretty true. For example, the wrapping_add method adds two numbers together, wrapping around if the number is too large. These are equivalent:

let x: i32 = 5;

assert_eq!(x.wrapping_add(5), 10);
assert_eq!(i32::wrapping_add(x, 5), 10);

You can use either method or function call style.

These aren't objects, they're just primitive 32 bit numbers. There's no heap allocation, there's no extra bookeeping info.

There are some more details, but that's the basic idea. Does that make sense?
Some web sites are feeding their visualizations using JSON data accessed via XHRs. It's not "official" data, but they usually compile their data from AP's feed, or via their own research staff accessing state-level election data directly from each state's election board.

Using your browser's devtools network panel, you'll probably find something useful there. For example, visit Politico's Election Results 2018 page [1] and check out the XHRs being made there every few seconds.

[1]: https://www.politico.com/election-results/2018/
Am I really that much of an aberration in this industry? I definitely consider myself in the top 50%, and I'm probably in the top 20%. In 16 years I am only on my fourth company, have only been "poached" once (and I was trying to get poached), and can count on two hands the number of former coworkers who are not either retired or still at the companies I left them at.

Of course, I spent the first 14 of those years in Dallas and the first 9.5 of those at a poor choice of company. I spent years having applications ignored. I sometimes wonder if thinking like this had something to do with that.
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I don't think that's what's being said. (Perhaps I'm wrong.) The gist I'm getting is, just because you have a hammer doesn't mean everything is a nail. And that yesterday's nail might not be today's nail.

The prevailing issue being, politicians - under the false pretense that they paid to be "leaders" (read: look at me! look at what I can do!!) instead of problem solvers - grab their hammer and do what they already do...pound away.

How's that working out for us?

Note: I'm not suggesting a solution per se. Simply acknowledging that we have a problem, and the general nature of that problem.
I wish that the simulator worked in reverse, i.e. instead of showing for which center-of-opinions a given candidate would win, it would show given a distribution-of-opinion, how should a candidate position themselves to win?

This is a much more interesting question to me, first because the candidates' positions are more mutable than the voters' opinions and second because as someone whose political opinions are often non-aligned with major parties, I really wish that there was an incentive for viable 3rd-party candidates to give a voice to my views. The ncase.me simulator linked elsewhere on this thread seems more useful:

https://ncase.me/ballot/
Either it pays the VAT and gets an equal tax credit, or it doesn't pay it at all (when applying reverse charge).
Result is the same, VAT is not a cost for enteprises.
Obviously the fact that end consumers pay VAT might disincentivise them to buy stuff, so companies still suffer the effects of high VAT rates.
> I mean, if we're going to finally be able to switch it, why not switch to the best option instead of starting with the second worst and switching again later?

Because that kind of lesser-of-two-evils incrementalist attitude is inherent to the first-past-the-post system we have now.
Yes, you might not be able to use the good old radio device to get AM radio stations due to frequency interference BUT the article does not mention the fact that you can use an app on the Tesla car dashboard to stream AM radio stations.
Is there a 6-core mobile (low power) Ryzen CPU for laptops? I don't think there is, which is a pity.
How senior? Obviously not at the seniority I was just offered by Google (and rejected).
The link I posted shows Amazon salaries above $400k.
You're lucky and probably in a cushy white collar gig.

My uncle worked for a place where a vendor CE had a heart attack and died in the early morning in a raised floor space control room. Someone called 911 multiple times and due to bureaucratic fuckery security didn't let the EMS in multiple times. In short, the dead guy was wheeled back and forth by operators for 12 hours, when the plant manager dropped in and lost his shit and took care of it.

Like I said somewhere else, this topic is a corner of the world that sounds insane if you're not in it.

Where I work, 911 has no idea where we are for reasons, and a serious incident where a person isn't vocal requires a floor sweep. The emergency services don't have the time or interest to handle your company's internal stuff, particularly if you have a high call volume.
I played and modded Jedi Knight around that time and there was a very popular level in the ecosystem called Jedi High School that caught some flak for this same reason.
https://www.msf.org/drc-2018-ebola-outbreak-crisis-update-oc...

https://www.msf.org/donate
The article plays on the cultural anathema to the word debt in the following ways:

It mentions specific interest rates only once, which are paid to a subset of investors in the vision fund. It briefly clarifies how none of this is an insane level of debt, just a large number.

It then spends the rest of the article talking the existence of bonds and interest bearing securities, with no distinction of what they are except "hey look, a DEBT security"

It mentions how it is as large as the public debt of a nation state, after qualifying the alarm with subsets of a subset of one of the entity's balance sheets.

By this part of the article, we are actually talking about the Softbank entity's "operating basis", which was a big pivot away from what 2/3rd of the article was talking about which was the Vision Fund doing all the cool investments.

Just.... be discerning.

The general counterpoint would be that it is great that a fund structured this way is trying to back illiquid private equity. It is nice that investors get the opportunity to have exposure to the hottest deal flow on the planet, with an entity that can push for liquidity.
Taxes certainly complicate that, but most people do what you're describing. People with moderate and even high net worth (that is, in financial assets) still use mortgages because it's better to borrow at 5% instead of liquidating an asset that is returning 9.7%.
https://rangevoting.org/Burlington.html here's a real life election with a Condorcet winner in which IRV elected some other candidate.

The reason there are not more examples like this one is that most governments don't release enough information about ballots in IRV elections.
I was under the impression fund money is typically locked for around 10 years or so.
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Variance is not risk. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18554271
Why do we even use server side rendered tiles at all? Why isn't the map rendered on the client, ideally with SVG? Is the code necessary too big? Can't we build / doesn't it exist already some lighter version to render land, sea, roads and rivers? What is the most difficult part, placing names without overlapping others (and deciding which names to render)?
> In STAR, 5 points is simply "most points" i.e. most support. It doesn't mean something semantically.

Yes, so you import the well-known cultural variation in numeric rating systems without concrete semantics for rating levels into your voting system. That's a great idea.

More data on ballots is good only as long as it has a consistent meaning and is used in a way that is consistent with that meaning.

STAR (and other score voting systems) gather noise and pretend it is signal.
Pretty close actually. https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/investing/average-stock-mark...

Edit: Anyone want to clue me in on what the downvotes are for here?
Even in a sharply polarized contest, it's usually the case that most of the "third party" candidates receive fewer first-preference votes than those from the major parties.

So the minor parties (and independents) are eliminated first, and their preferences are distributed. Which usually means than one of the major party candidates scrapes over 50%, reflecting the minor party voters' basic preference for one of the major parties over the other.

In this (common) situation, I think IRV actually works really well.

The major parties still end up in government, but they see the first-preference percentages for the minor parties, and understand what policy positions are important to the electorate.
> A pilot with 5K hours of experience is more experienced (in the pilot job market) than one with 4K. I don't care that you could have had that extra 1K hours if you'd worked an extra year instead of doing something else. I only care whether you do or don't (as it pertains to this dimension of the evaluation).

then you said...

> I didn’t go deep, because this isn’t an aviation forum, but sure the quality of hours matters......Anything past the FAA ATP 1500 hour mark, the quality matters. Before that, quantity dominates for airline candidates.

I like what I heard Jordan Peterson say in respect to winning being _less_ important than being the kind of person that gets repeatedly invited to play. That is to say, it doesn't seem rewarding to play with you. How much is that worth in your hiring process?

(Based on how you've presented yourself) I do think you have a cognitive blind spot on this topic and perhaps other folks will find empathy in seeing how the point being presented here has alluded you. This has been a very interesting lesson in the staunch presentation of bias. I'm very thankful that you engaged and gave me a small taste of what women must experience constantly.

I think once you started throwing Latin around I realized you may just be someone that enjoys the chance to prattle on a bit. The internet is certainly the place to do it so I don't fault you there. Get out there and have some fun, I say.
Sure.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29273086
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30149650

It definitely needs more study.
Even the 10 year rate of return has variance. The risk-free rate of return for 10 years should pretty much be 10 year TIPS bonds.
Presto on top of Apache Ignite is basically an OLAP database (It just takes some effort to write the connector). It doesn't support transactional workloads though.
It is rather likely that the intellectual property for the google or Starbucks brand or the work that led to Pfizer patents etc were not developed in Bermuda, Bahamas or Panama. It’s hard to exactly apportion where but rather easy to point out that near-zero IP work was done where it was declared to be taxable.
What makes you think that EU companies are not "affected"? The tax is not on foreign companies thus is not a tariff. It's just a way to make the tax avoidance companies pay some tax.
Depends on how far you go back - it wasn't that long ago in the grand scheme of things that in most places/industries there was no reliable way to get information about job listings - your best bet was to go to a recruiter or go directly to the front desk and ask about vacancies
Probably-dumb question: Does ranked-pairs use the same type of ballot as IRV, and just tabulate the results differently? Or is it a different ballot?
I don't know more than the basics, my thought was if you pocket $2b/year and invest it, you have $13B+ in 10 years (plus your own $28b you've invested that I didn't include). So $40B to whether a storm every 10 years seems reasonable.
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If you liked this post, you might also like this one: http://blog.interviewing.io/we-built-voice-modulation-to-mas...

TL;DR We made women sound like men and men sound like women in technical interviews and found that it didn't move the needle.
> Range voting is challenging because people often have difficulty putting an exact number on how much they want something, and also scales differ between different people. On a 0-10 scale, some people will be putting every candidate as either 0 or 10; others will always put in 3 and 7; and this depends a lot more on the voter than the candidate.

And, particularly, there is very notable cultural variation, which means (ab initio at least; over time, one expects behavior modification efforts would be deployed around this), support from different cultural groups in a diverse polity will have different electoral value even when turnout is the same.

> Approval voting is simple enough,

But also has the same problem: concretely what “approval” means is unclear and will be subject to voter-to-voter variation even when the actual preferences are identical.
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The "Rome" EPYC processors have 64 cores and 128 threads and with a dual processor board you can have 128 cores 256 threads in a 1U server.
You might be able to tow it in from elsewhere using a light sail, however. Beyond our current technology, but might be doable by 2100, or sooner with a fortuitous comet trajectory.
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> AWS has brand recognition, and no one will get fired for going with AWS.

Now replace "AWS" with "IBM"...

Funny how the exact same thought processes that used to happen on big lazy enterprise corporations now translate to all those startups that used to mock the big lazy enterprise corporations for this sort of thinking.
Can you post the full schema and query? Are you sure you are not projecting columns that are not part of the group by expression?
9.7% (or maybe 0.8%) is the average over the last 90 years and I don't think there is any other data points you could reasonably use to say it won't continue like that over a long enough time frame.
Europe too?
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> Distributed

is MemSQL shared nothing or shared everything, or can be mix of both?
Does it strike anyone else as weird that the Delaware taxation authority would send a dunning letter via Rocket Lawyer?
How did you break free from the Twitter/social media/24 hour news cycle reading to actual longer form books and novels?

My hardest challenge is getting the same attention span for reading that I had before the current internet.
I understand fundamental valuation just fine. You simply don't know what you're talking about, but thanks for playing.
“If TabNine does not work as soon as you install it, this is a bug and you should file an issue.”

Just wonderful. All dev tools should be like this.

I got great results for a PHP/JS project straight away — an instant upgrade for me just to support continued development.
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>Spying has always seemed like something nations do because they think they’re supposed to, rather than because of actual benefits it produces.

See also; ~80% of office work.
It happened in the SF 2018 mayoral election too. Mark Leno and Jane Kim (the two progressive candidates) teamed up against London Breed (a moderate liberal) and suggested each of them mark each other 1 & 2. As a result, after the first round of voting Mark Leno was in first place despite London Breed getting 50% more votes, and it was only after a recount and full tabulation of absentee ballots that London Breed was declared the winner.

Now, arguably this is IRV functioning as designed, where the city's progressive wing could vote as a block without worrying about 2 candidates splitting the vote. It was very much non-intuitive, though, and a lot of London Breed supporters were quite pissed off. IRV allows you to "vote for a position" rather than "vote for a person", but many voters are still stuck in the "but....they got fewer votes!" mindset.
I have done dozens of interviews in my career and have yet to meet anyone who was this bad. What am I doing wrong?
So there's Memory Optimized, General Purpose... but there's no Compute Optimized? What gives?
Great list, it puts the trees in context of the forest.
As soon as I can find some time to work through that, I'll give my thoughts.

But ... is there maybe a truncated explanation of the general dynamic there?
As several people have pointed out, you don't owe $100k in taxes. Maybe next time something like this happens, take a deep breath and read up on the relevant information before jumping to blame everyone involved for "fucking your American Dream".

You registered a business without paying attention to the necessary administrative steps like filing taxes, and since you didn't send Uncle Sam any information, he took a wild guess at what you owe.
That's half true... (or maybe 3/4 true, more accurately).

There are two "halves" to EMS in the US. One half is 911/scene response, the other half is interfacility transports. It's pretty common for interfacility transport companies to staff most of their rigs with EMTs, since those patients tend to be low acuity, and just need to be moved from one hospital to another.

Companies that do 911 response generally staff their ambulances with an EMT and a paramedic. Paramedic training is several thousand hours of classroom and clinical time.

So while it's true that overall EMS is mostly EMTs, in the area we're discussing (ambulances that respond to 911 calls) paramedics are much more common. Granted, that's only a $3-5/hr difference in most places, so it's not a massive difference in cost.
So, to those points, I'm pretty sure I agree with you. Curious if this is some sort of survivor bias, though. In particular, how normal are we? If we are the outliers through luck or some other factor, I'd kind of like to know.
Hi I built this little stream processing library so I could write things like;

const stats = await pipe(
Nodes.scan({ fields: true }),
map(generateStats),
tap(() => count++),
reduce(mergeGraphStats, {})
)

and have generateStats and mergeGraphStats be async functions and not have to worry about error handling and pushing more than one object at a time in a read stream. We use it to process billions of events and objects a day. It makes nodejs streams fun to use.

Hope you find it as useful as we do.
I guess there's less demand for that?

I would like m5da, too.
Sounds like what you want is fuzzy searching (say fzf [0]) over autocomplete suggestion results. You could type the prefix, and then fuzzy search by typing the suffix to get your desired word (while letting autocomplete fill in the middle of the word).

[0] https://github.com/junegunn/fzf
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Pasted from another comment:

I don't know more than the basics, my thought was if you pocket $2b/year and invest it, you have $13B+ in 10 years (plus your own $28b you've invested that I didn't include). So $40B to whether a storm every 10 years seems reasonable.
Nah, just Druid fans.
Yup, I have a 2009 core 2 duo mac mini and it does netflix just fine thanks to html5 video. It still does everything I need reliably (web browsing, non-vm web dev, ms office), but I will upgrade to the new mini and hand this one off to the kids.