skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep. I actually discussed this in a similar thread on HN a few days ago.

Fare revenue is approximately 3bn GBP. A 1:20 ratio.

In the worst case assuming no-one additional travels due to it being more pleasant, fares would have to increase ~5%.

My bus fare would go from 1.50 to 1.57.

This is a distraction, though. It's not relevant, because we shouldn't allow damaging activity to occur regardless of whether it might look marginally better economically if we zoom in far enough.

If the tube system funded itself by stealing wallets from random passengers, it would still be right to stop that program, even if fares went up, because it wouldn't be right or good.

A related concern I hear often is that if something becomes n% more expensive, then some people will be priced out.

The correct answer to 'poor people can't afford the bus' is not 'perform strange indirect forms of abuse on slightly less poor people'. The answer is 'fix the fact that people are poor'.

Public services should be funded via taxation, not by private advertising partnerships.
Web traffic increases just after an ad aires on TV, so I guess it works. (Source: my job)
I pointed out the error in reasoning. You are repeating the intuitive heuristic, which is that a single vote doesn't change outcomes. I'll try to explain my point more fully, but there isn't much more ground to cover here. glastra made a good sibling comment covering the basic probabilistic points, so I'll try a different direction.

If your bar for voting to have meaning is that your individual vote will change outcomes, you'll find that not a single model of democracy (much less implementation) is satisfying. That's an impossible, nonsensical bar. You can't possibly hope to swing a state to your party if everyone on the underdog side stays home because it seems unlikely to happen.

Your vote has meaning even if you weren't personally the arbiter of political change. Aggregates are defined by their constituent parts. You're acting as though voting is worthless if your cause doesn't receive enough votes to pass a cutoff point. It's true that it won't pass, but that doesn't mean the vote didn't matter. Apply this model of thinking elsewhere: if you made 2 points in a basketball game and your team lost, were those 2 points meaningless just because you didn't win? Should you recuse yourself from playing because it's unlikely your team can win? How about raising money for a Kickstarter - was it a waste of time just because you didn't raise the goal and won't receive the funds? Should you not try to raise money and find as many donors as you can, just because there's a minimum cutoff for payout?

Since analogies are imperfect it might be instructive to consider whether or not you can come up with a point at which you think your vote matters. If your vote is one of five, is that meaningless because two are on your side and three are not? How about one of 100? One of 10,000? One of 1,000,000? Can you - in a way that isn't arbitrary - come up with a point at which it stops mattering?

The fundamental problem is that if one vote doesn't matter, two cannot possibly matter either, and so on. Unless you disagree with very straightforward math, you can clearly see a single vote has some inarguable meaning. At that point you're just haggling on how much meaning it has as an individual, not on whether or not it has meaning. From there we can continue to have a discussion about why you should take this knowledge and vote with it, because regardless of your party affiliation the 2016 election was won with fewer than 100,000 votes. 1/n != 0.

On the other hand if you disagree with the basic math I probably can't convince you. But I can at least just tell you you're wrong without as much handwringing. There is no real paradox here. The only problem is that we as humans slip into intuition more than rationality. There is no perspective from which it is irrational to vote. It costs you nothing and can only have upside for your party affiliation. If you disagree we're separated by an axiomatic impasse, not a logical one.
The best I've seen on innate gender differences is Simon Baron Cohen at Cambridge, using newborns - ie, close to zero socialisation (except in utero). Results showed a skew towards 'systems' for boys and 'people' for girls.
There are perfectly legitimate reasons for 'consuming' a large amount of bandwidth. For example, I help seed a number of Linux distro ISOs over bittorrent, and once got a letter from my absolute shit of an ISP (Frontier, if you are reading this, it's you).
Optimistic framing: "Machine learning algorithms, and domesticated animals such as dogs, don’t yet understand things the way humans do — with sometimes disastrous consequences.
Perhaps you consistently notice this because you drink one (or the other, or both) regularly and your sense of taste is calibrated. Anecdotally, I drink soda very infrequently, and can't tell the difference; both just taste "extremely sweet."
And for some devs and some apps that’s worth giving up a 30% cut and dealing with Apple’s processes and restrictions. For some it won’t be, if they can distribute the app any other way.
I certainly feel threatened. If you knew about my "pre existing condition," you'd know that I'm threatened by information that claims to be an authoritative record about me, that I can't control, and whose use I can't control.

I can't prevent any "unofficial" interpretation of this information.

Making it "better" only makes it more threatening, by making it more believable or making it harder for an intelligent person to game the test.
Anecdotally, I find Coke branded soft drinks to use more "spice" for their flavors, while Pepsi branded ones (excluding Dr Pepper) to just load up on sugar. You can do the same comparison with Mug brand root beer versus Barq's. Mug is just caramel colored sugar, while Barq's seems to be "spicy"
See Brexit for an example how that would turn out.

And see the UK support for the Iraq War for an example of the reverse.

What's the death toll of Brexit?
I wrote an alternative vim plugin as a deoplete source: https://github.com/tbodt/deoplete-tabnine
OnePlus has bit into Apple in India, and things may only get worse
Synthesizing Constants
I wrote a Deoplete source for TabNine: https://github.com/tbodt/deoplete-tabnine
As others have said, it definitely is not. VS Code is somewhere between Emacs and Visual Studio. Not quite as configurable as Emacs, not as tied down as Visual Studio. VS Code is my editor of choice today and part of that is that they actively try to keep extension authors from destroying the editor, like what happened to Atom. Emacs does not do any sort of hand-holding and so it provides a more customizable experience at the expense of, in my opinion, ease of use. I only used Emacs for about a month before switching over to VS Code so take what I say with a grain of salt.
Assuming I'm parsing the sarcasm correctly, they can't sign on for any other ISP? So you get a choice of one depending on where you happen to live?

I'm used to what's called local loop unbundling in the UK and Europe - which is the removal of the last mile monopoly, and all ISPs simply putting a DSLAM in exchanges. Initially this was localised, and there were smaller local players, but they're now effectively all nationwide.
You could call those people your "representatives" and even defer your vote to them!
Ask HN: What legal forms do you need?
Hey all,

I am putting together a library of do-it-yourself legal forms for digital businesses (www.lawvolcano.com) and wondering what legal forms would you use? NDAs, etc.

I have a list of ideas but want to hear any thoughts.
The worry isn’t how you voted; in the US your party affiliation is already public. It’s ensuring the vote count is correct.
I agree with your intuition, but I'm guessing the parent was referencing this: https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/placebo-can-work-even-kn...
Quest Diagnostics to allow patients to order lab testing from home
Early voting in TX is indeed great. Now if we could get rid of the 30day waiting period for voter registration...
what size (any metrics you care to share) did you grow into?
That's maybe the ultimate economic argument about ads: They may produce value, but probably not enough to be worthwhile if you ignore external costs.

My standard example is, I strongly suspect that the added bandwidth consumption of ads translates into a greater cost to me (via increased hope and cellular Internet service prices to cover the extra bandwidth consumed) than what people are actually making off of the ads.

It's almost like a version of the tragedy of the commons, where, in this case, the "commons" is everyone's personal space.
I consider any and all links that have “crypto” in their title, that refer to cryptocurrency but are otherwise ambiguous to be clickbait.
Universal surveillance and data collection?

/Cynic
not quite. https://www.phonearena.com/news/First-notch-phone-Sharp-not-...
Bill Gates is an amazing example of a driven, ambitious (and when called for by his ambition, ruthless) person and how those traits can lead to startlingly different perceptions of him based on what they are applied to.

Bill Gates the businessman was ruthless in his pursuit of dominating the markets he was in, and was largely successful, to many people's dismay.

Bill Gates the philanthropist is doggedly persistent in identifying and working towards fixing some of the major problems human-kind faces, and he's an actual hero to millions (me included, at this point).

The same person, with the same attitude and drive, just applied to a different goal. I think that's amazing.
Reading through the code, it looks like it would work in most common lisp implementations with only fairly minor modifications. (I think there are a couple things there that might be non-standard-compliant but still behave sanely in most common lisps).
Rephrasing that: Vision Fund is a front for Saudi Arabia doing LBO schemes in Western countries.
Properly sited roundabouts don't need lights. Anyone who "detests" them must not live or work near busy intersections governed by stop signs only. The town I'm working in now has two roundabouts and one 4-way stop. Morning and night, the 4-way stop backs up traffic for blocks, while traffic flows through the roundabouts without issue. The city council has set aside a million dollars to change the 4-way into a roundabout this coming spring.

There are lots of stoplights that should also be replaced by roundabouts. A solid line of traffic flows right through a roundabout, and most of it is delayed by a stoplight.

The only problem with roundabouts in USA is the 30% of drivers who don't know how to use them, and stop when they see the yield sign... don't be that driver.
I am the CEO of a bootstrapped SaaS business approaching $1mm ARR.

I still do all of the customer/technical support. To be honest, it is a bit overwhelming and starting to take away from other tasks so I likely won't do 100% of it for much longer. However, it has really helped us hone in on our customer needs & sell them on new features. I don't regret it one bit!

p.s. we are searching for a CTO to help us build out a team (large equity stake + modest salary). Email me hank (at) ordermetrics (dot) io if interested.
C++ Quizzes and Trick Questions: Do We Have to Know the Answers?
But if AT&T unfairly cuts you off from the internet, you could just go to a competitor!
I was in scouting for many years.

Why should they welcome anyone? I was permitted to join, onboarded, etc. Anyone else who joined was given the same treatment. The red carpet wasn't rolled out for anyone.

It's religious only in a vague way. There was a religious requirement to get Eagle, but aside from that, my troop wasn't religious.

My father wasn't religious and he was a scoutmaster.

You sound like someone who has made a judgement based on what some people have chosen to highlight. With the same kind of attitude you might think you are in grave danger of getting killed at any moment in America (if you base your opinion on the US on naysayers).

Certainly if what some higher ups decide about an org matters to you the most, you shouldn't join. Trump was elected president and lots of liberals found enough reason to still love America.

In all seriousness, I learned a lot there. There are other orgs that can accomplish the same. You wouldn't believe how many people I run into today who can't even tie a couple of knots.
> are a lot more convenient to navigate though

It sounds indeed convenient for large cities where millions of people travel daily from one end of the city to the other. But does it matter for smaller cities (<200,000)? I have lived my whole life in "non-grid" cities in various countries and I couldn't imagine to live in a city with straight roads. Where is the fun? Finding an alley that you can use as a short cut, wandering around and discovering a nice house or garden that you cannot see from the main street, being scared as a kid of that small street where the big dog lives, etc.
Agreed. Open-air advertising has negative externalities (the annoyance it causes to everyone walking past, which isn't compensated in any way), and as such we should expect that in an unregulated environment it will be overproduced. This is a simple case of a tragedy of the commons. This is an argument for regulation.
Yes, it absolutely is short-termism. Denying candidates feedback they can use to improve means its harder for them to improve. Granted, not all will use such information to actually get better, but none will if you don’t give them the information to begin with. I think we can agree that having better candidates is, well, better in the long term, right?

Also, people who will react angrily aren’t going to have a favorable impression of the company anyway. Nor are people who are rejected without a real reason likely to. But, if you give someone a reason and they use it to actually get a job, that can stick with them. You can’t even buy that kind of goodwill. I guarantee you could contact that person you helped about a job opportunity in the future, and they would at least seriously consider it, unlike the tens of recruiter spams they probably get monthly.

As for proving one is trustworthy enough to warrant the interaction,” that’s your fundamental problem right there. Employers have all the power in the employment relationship, so they owe a duty to the weaker side, provided there is no material risk.

It takes probably 10 or 20 minutes to give someone who’s given you at least an entire day of their irreplaceable time a detailed feedback note. The candidate has invested far more time than any individual at the company. A couple of temporarily bruised egos and some hurt feelings is not a material risk. To anyone who reacts angrily, cut them off, block them from contacting you, and move on; you don’t want those people as candidates in the future, anyway. In other words, suck it up, buttercup.
A world-class computing education
Not a lot of them in my Troop
"The soul" is (was?) explicitly not an emergent property.
Sure. First step is "make it work". A functional simulator is sufficient for that. If you are working on a compiler back-end, then the ability to see actual pipeline stalls, to run benchmarks, to investigate the impact of various text and data section layouts on cache performance, then a more accurate simulator is useful. Or if you are working on time critical features of the OS, like a context swap, then you definitely benefit from the ability to do a cycle-accurate instruction trace.

What the cycle-accurate simulator buys in end is schedule acceleration for when a mature RISC-V software stack lands. So from an overall RISC-V program-management perspective, this is smart thing. Granted, the audience is small, but the resulting leverage is huge.

Imagine being the PR person having to respond to press that says: "I tried this basic thing on your new chip and it is slow." and having to say: "Just wait until we turn on the optimizer in the C compiler! It will be 35% faster!". Reporter: "Yeah, whatevs." This simulator is all about product launch readiness.
Oh no then everyone would be able to vote, even the renters!
Just because we can only measure something subjectively right now doesn't mean that we won't be able to measure it objectively in the future, unless of course we don't bother trying.
How many queries do you do to make the savings worth the switch?
Doesn't work that way in the US. I have a choice of two ISPs where I live. AT&T and Comcast.

Some have more. Some have less. I've never lived somewhere that had only one choice though, so I'm not sure how common it is.
We delivered fertilizer to our customers in rural Kenya. We rented 10 ton lorries, hired trucks, and set up distribution points around rural schools and churches. For two weeks, we literally schlepped tons of fertilizer.
Ask HN: Why does AWS Lambda have a time limit?
Is the time limit something that we could potentially see removed in the future?
> At one point there was nothing where every single city now stands. Everywhere it started with a blank slate.

Before the city there was a town, or a village. It's not blank slate > city, it's blank slate > something > something else > city. There's some evolution in the middle and that makes the difference. One grows organically over time and goes through different stages until it reaches the "city" stage, one is planned as a city from the start.
I initially made this so I could browse HN or Reddit while eating in front of my computer.

One year later, it has an extensible plugin architecture so any site can be supported, multiple languages, and there are aready 14 plugins: (https://www.github.com/lipsurf/plugins)
There's a HN plugin so you can say "click #" where # is the post rank (eg. click 5) Also "comments #", "upvote #", and "next page" are supported. This is how simple the HN plugin is: https://github.com/LipSurf/plugins/blob/master/src/HackerNew...

I'm targeting those looking for more efficient ways of using the web. Singular voice shortcuts can replace UIs and lots of navigation/finding buttons. The extension is especially useful to those who might be excluded from the web today due to accessibility issues. LipSurf enables those with motor disabilities: Parkinson's, arthritis, cerebral palsy, RSI, etc. or to those with arm injuries, spinal injuries, amputations etc.

Not everyone can use a mouse, click on small links, or navigate complex dynamic UI. So I hope this will be useful to a wide variety of people.
Nope. Placebos can work even when you know it's a placebo: https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/placebo-can-work-even-kn...
This is 100% true. So, so, so true. In actuality, A.I. will not ever 100% solve all problems and some sort of human intervention is typically needed to serve as a QA purpose.

AI can get you 80%, 90%, 95%, and 99% of the way to solve a problem. When you first start out, a human element will be doing most of the heavy lifting and creating training data for you. As you iterate on the model and improve it, the human intervention element will be less and less time consuming over time. As you near 100% accuracy, you will probably still want a human intervention element acting as QA because all models have some rate of error.
Show HN: Convert your website articles into podcasts
If they put really gaudy church spires on a lot of buildings that aren't churches or play the bells at deafening volumes all day every day, I would sure hope they'd get banned, too.

They are advertising, but the point isn't that all advertising is inherently bad. The point is that we've normalized a really unhealthy amount of daily exposure to it and it turns out we are way more susceptible to it than we like to admit.
Perhaps what you are noticing is bitterness from caffeine.
Learning Concepts with Energy Functions
Absorbing Commit Changes in Mercurial 4.8
That's a bargain compared to being on the wrong end of a federal copyright lawsuit.
In the majority of those patients, the underlying cause was alcoholism and its myriad complications resulting from a store called Liquor Liquor being located across the street from the hospital.
Well that's a different point. Complexity, economies of scale, and high-prices charged by an incumbent market-leader, are three different matters.
We Should Teach Media Literacy in Elementary School
One of the more famous Royce Gracie wins was against a western wrestler (Severn) who maintained control on top for almost all of the 15 minute match before being caught in a triangle choke.
Voting needs to be easier but also secure. A smartphone app isn’t secure. I don’t think it can ever be secure; exploiting that app to manipulate the US election would be the prize and singular goal of governments and corporations around the world. It would be much harder to manipulate physical ballots which are observed by multiple witnesses at every step of the process which is decentralized and takes place at multiple locations around the country.
Why is HN harping on the blockchain aspect of this so hard? Vote counting IS actually one of the appropriate uses of it, considering it provides non-repudiation in a manner that can be verified by anyone. The biggest issue here is the initial assignment of 1 "vote coin" per person during the initial roll-out. Assuming they can solve that problem (and that's a big if), they can simply create new block chains for each election in which every potential voter is again assigned 1 vote.

I realize that this has the side-effect of killing off anonymous voting (at least to whoever doled out the tokens, you'd still be anonymous to your neighbors), but I think that is a good thing. While you can argue about what the side-effects that has on individual voters in extraordinary circumstances, fact of the matter is, anonymous voting makes it effectively impossible to verify the percentages each candidate achieved.
> Getting ignorant people to cast poorly-informed votes does not help our society.

No it doesn't, but it does allow the media and establishment to manipulate people in order to obtain a favourable result under the guise of democracy.
It's cheaper than most court fees (whether those fees should exist is a different story).
Those exist in cities on a grid.
The IRS could file your taxes for you automatically tomorrow if they weren’t legally restricted from doing so. You can thank intuits lobbying.
Any guidance/advice on how to do this?
Non-determined is not the same as random. Randomness is undetermined, but not coextensive with the concept. A common error I see in these debates.
Parkinson’s disease may start in the appendix and travel to the brain
Admin Panel Roundup
Exploring the future beyond cyberpunk’s Neon and Noir
No, thanks to ballot measures in various places and voters supporting them, it's becoming legal.
> It’s not the job of the artist to give the audience what the audience wants. If the audience knew what they needed, then they wouldn’t be the audience. They would be the artists. It is the job of artists to give the audience what they need.

I have seen this occasionally from stand up comedians. It can be pretty effective to mingle entertainment with piercing satire.
There are large swaths of the United States where people have just one choice for internet service.
The high hardware requirements of social VR, illustrated
Everything is bugged in some way. If an exploit is found it would be kept secret, and the only way it would be fixed is if a white hat randomly finds it again.
What’s the library if I may ask?
This style made an appearance on Elementary a few years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1_9aHo0S30
I would expect this to scale well with at least the first few additional cores: the total memory bandwidth used in this test is probably 10 GB/s or less, whereas system memory bandwidth depends on the number of memory channels and memory speed but ranges between 30 and more than 100 GB/s for most configurations, so there is a fair amount of unused capacity at the memory subsystem.

With enough additional cores though you'll hit some kind of shared limit, however. How many depends strongly on the details on your system, and this varies by nearly a factor of 10 between some server and client systems.