skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know how much you ride and in which conditions so I can't comment on the choice of your un-cheap 23c handmade FMB tubulars. What I do know is that those would not last very long for me, handmade magic pixie dust notwithstanding. I ride year-long through the Swedish countryside with temperatures ranging from a maximum of 37°C to -25°C, on roads which vary from reasonable to hard to find on map and landscape. I mostly ride a steel-framed 24-speed with 47-622 knobbly tyres (in other words "fairly fat tyres on 28" rims) at around 5 atm. as those give both speed as well as traction. Microbumps and similar concerns don't apply here, the bike is meant to take me from A to B no matter how many picobumps I encounter. Still I average around 30 km/h on the flat, easily reach 50 km/h downhill.

In other words, I use my bike as I use my motorbike: as a form of transport. Maybe that takes a different approach, maybe not, as said I don't know how you use your bike. What I do know is that I generally don't hold with the 'cultures' which form around specific areas, no matter whether it is biking (silk-walled handmade tyres adapted to your personal preference), audio (audiophile-grade left-turning 99.999999% oxygen-free oriented-strand meteoric copper power cables), food (organic free-range lettuce grown on virgin soil from heritage seeds fertilised with certified manure from Swiss highland cattle) and other such things.
I read psych papers. Regularly. I don't know any of these aside from Tversky's.

Psychology is a big field. I just find it hard to accept that these papers are representiative of much of anything.
Playing the piano, in particular, will protect against wrist problems you might get from a computer keyboard.
You're right. Shouldn't have posted that. I just wanted the last word. (Dammit... did it again!)
> That's what fact checker sites are doing, they give out grades.

Hah! So also in Anatham, there are other machines that do this. The design the author wrote into the story involved two species of machines that work at full speed with 100% uptime to both revise and tweak the facts of a story and then, separately, to assign grades. Basically a world-wide generative adversarial network.

From the attacker's point-of-view, in order to deliver a false message they are forced to try to fight through a gauntlet of independent machinery that will first generate a bunch of alternatives and then will look at any particular story and assign a grade with knowledge that it's probably being attacked. That could be a very tough filter to consistently navigate, especially if our attacker is trying to conduct a broad campaign of misinformation.

From the victim's point-of-view, every piece of information they read now is associated with a score provided by their fact checking filters -- and there is no reason not to have multiple layers of grading filters.
I don't dispute that our current system is inefficient. But the proposed change under discussion (universal basic income) does not just mean "increasing free time by a large amount" while keeping everything else the same. It means increasing free time by a large amount while removing the need for anyone to do productive work. It's the latter that I see as problematic, not the former.

What would a world where we did the former but not the latter look like? It would be something like everyone having to be, at least in some measure, an entrepreneur--everyone would be their own small business, having to figure out what product or service to sell to others in order to make a living, and having to decide for themselves what use of their time would best serve that goal. That might well, in the long run (i.e., after all the upheaval caused by people who were used to having someone else define their business objectives, now having to do it themselves, has died down), be a big improvement over what we have now. But the key incentive of having to make a living is still there.
chan boards would've died had they become mainstream. I'm glad that never happened, many of those communities are worth preserving.
I know why the caged rat sings.
> The cost of phones is out of control

I wouldn't say that, there's just a wide range. You can spend four digits on a brand-new flagship model, or you can get a decent phone for under $150. And if you have WiFi where you spend the day, a data plan is mostly redundant.
Awesome result, hopefully we'll see a video of it in action and more information of thrust to power ratio. Very cool.
What I found most interesting in this article is the awareness that because of early testing, Down's Syndrome is going to be less common. That's a really heavy question for society to consider: this is a genuine issue of technology having serious implications.

Ironically, the article ends with "often, disabled people find that whatever they do becomes political to others".
That stuff is kind of like adversarial examples for human brains, and it probably is possible to deeply study the brain and create super indoctrination techniques.

At some point we are going to be forced to start regulating persuasion.
I was awkward and weird when I started out, but took some steps to get better. Here's what worked for me, YMMV:

1) Work retail: If you can, get a 2-4 hr a week PT retail gig, working register. Nothing forces you to get better at micro-conversations than having 20-30 short term disposable interactions.

2) Semi-follow your local sports teams. I don't watch baseball or football, but I always know how the Twins and Vikings are doing. If I' talking to someone who's really into it, I just nod along and agree with whatever point they're making about free agency, starting rotations, etc. Earns me a lot of goodwill with no actual effort on my part.

3) Know people's names and have canned responses ready. Salespeople thrive on this. Whenever I see people I acknowledge them and we have an exchange. "Hey Bill! How's life" "Another day in paradise" "At least it's not snowing, right?" Done. Goodwill up, no extra effort. The point of these conversations is to establish basic humanity to both sides.

4) Practice: It took a lot of trial and error to get good at small talk. It's going to be stilted and weird at first, but when it starts clicking it's awesome.

Bonus: Receptionists, maintenance people, and other 'para-professionals' in your building are often invisible, hear a lot of office politics, and are generally fun, down-to-earth people. If you become friendly with them, they generally keep you informed of office gossip outside of channels that are actually competing with you. And they're a lot of fun to go to sporting events with (Shoutout to Tony the Custodian!).
>that insider dealing is defined and covered by securities laws and regulations

Correct. Now, if these employees had purchased mortgage backed securities, then it would be a different story.
You can put the masks away. San Francisco's air is finally clearing
What's the problem with most projections though? How do they arrive at this number? It seems to me that this is similar to a startup offering 5 year growth projections.

I mean, one problem in this whole assumption to me seems whether Amazon even can more than double in size. If Amazon plans on growing its white collar workforce from 40k to 100k, presumably it needs to double its revenue. We are also assuming that they double revenue/headcount without increasing Seattle headcount, wage growth, or that automation reduces the need to increase headcount. All of this is possible, but it isn't necessarily a shoe in that Amazon even pulls this off.

Another thing that seems to be overlooked is at what price would have Amazon still made the same decision? Could NYC offer $1B in incentives, and Amazon makes the same choice? By helping Amazon artificially lower costs, how does this impact New York businesses like IBM and the many fashion retail brands?
I think it fails fundamentally from a market perspective - you don't know what is truly in it until you agree. Browsing while met with grumbles by merchants is essential.

Toll gating inherently adds friction to a process whose whole damn point is being low friction - marginal costs per person and free to reference around.

A rational solution would be to pay for what you like but people really aren't trained that way or lack the resources relatively. I suspect "microwork" could work better for viewers with little money and even then it is still a friction akin to annoying ads that drives people away.
which journals would be nice. quick way of getting idea of how important these papers actually were.
yes. ok. "suspicious" is probably a bad choice of words. maybe just "curious" or "intriguing" would have been better.

if the underlying implication ever actually proves true, then i have to wonder how these 2 employees even got that info ahead of time. i would have thought only Bezos and few top execs would have known this info before the announcement.
Ah, darn. I was wondering if this might be a new way to have better indoor air circulation with no moving parts. But filling my home with ozone doesn't sound like a good idea.
It sounds like they did that but TC wants more. I'm not really sure why HN allows techcrunch stories on the front page. TC is tabloid journalism at its finest.
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as unequivocal as it seems, certain air conditions can make it hard to pick out the runway, particularly if the runway is concrete and the rest of the ramp area is in blacktop. Ford made a big mistake at a major airport, but having landed at a lot of smaller airports I can totally see how it could be easy to land on a taxiway by mistake if you haven't been into a place before. That said, I always like to fly over a spot before I land at it if I haven't been there before, which almost always eliminates any ambiguity, but I can see how the mistake happens.
This makes me shudder. Companies with powerful AI and enough data could control the population in ways indiscernible to an individual. By organizing goods in stores and placing the right ads at the right time it could be possible to lead users on a treasure hunt to a political or economic opinion.
This seems to be the crux of the product (I'm exagerating, there are paid levels that might eventually provide value).

It might be better served by a static page saying: these are the keywords/verbs you need on your resume, than a full-blown product.
It's not necessarily suspicious at all. They almost certainly are not going to staff the new offices entirely with new hires. Many people will be transferred in from other offices.

That will include many to do the large amount of the work that needs to be done in New York before the new offices actually open.

It is quite likely that these condo buyers are such people, moving to New York to work on opening the new offices and then to work at those offices.

If it is only a small number of employees, there is no reason for them not to find housing in New York as soon as they can after finding out they are transferring.
Short term capital gains are taxed at the same rate as ordinary income. Long term capital gains (greater than 1 year) get taxed at a lower rate.
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Matt Levine [1] is a lawyer and he wrote [2] once that he doesn't think it's a violation of insider trading laws to transact in real estate with insider knowledge:

The insider trading laws apply only to securities markets — even insider trading in commodities markets is mostly okay 2 — and that probably is because of some background expectation of a level playing field in those markets. Nobody expects real estate to be fair; it is not exchange-traded and liquid and fungible; it is just obviously a market where some people know things that others don’t. Insider trading in operation is about theft, not about fairness, but the reason that the law concerns itself with the theft of one particular kind of information — or, rather, with one particular misuse of other people’s information — probably is about fairness.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/authors/ARbTQlRLRjE/matthe...

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-10-22/front-...

Edit: I stand corrected, Matt Levine is a lawyer.
“We found that many job applications were being rejected without even an interview, because of the resumes. Apparently, 10 seconds is long enough for a recruiter to eliminate many candidates"

What exactly does he think the purpose of a resume is? If someone does not have the necessary background or experience for a job, moving forward to an interview is a waste of time for all parties involved.
You could also serve ads relevant to the page, e.g. an article about a country with tourism ads.
It's also important to remember that while $100M sounds like a lot of money (and it is) it is only 0.1% of Bezos's net worth. It's the equivalent of someone whose net worth is $1M giving away $1000.00. And actually, it's not even equivalent to that because if you have $1M and you give away $1000 you can no longer afford to buy something that costs $1M. But when your net worth is $100B and you give away $100M your net worth is still $99.9B. You are still the richest man in the world by a wide margin, and there is essentially nothing you can't buy.
You _could_ make this have an indistinguishable customer experience. Uber now gives you a quote _after_ you've entered both origin and destination, and said quote expires after some time. Given that, they could look at all locally available drivers, assess their "bid" prices and make an assessment of what they can choose to quote the customer.

They would probably take _some_ pricing risk, since they might not want to "lock" drivers that they've used as the price basis, but that seems like a minor problem: Uber employs lots of engineers and I'm sure a few of them can figure out a way to safely manage this pricing risk.
Reckless intent requires that the person knew there is was significant risk of the guilty act happening (e.g. driving with your eyes closed to show off has a likely and known risk of causing injury and death). I don't think we can just assume that market makers thought their actions were likely to upend the economy.
I was a nuclear weapons tech in the USAF. I'm proud of that. But I've regretted working for plenty of people.
It's not that black & white. It's fine to use both paths to a job. 26 of my 30 years in software were at jobs I applied to cold, with no leads or connections.
The previous owner of the condo?
No, I would more carefully pick and choose which sites I care to visit since I have to pay for them. I can, of course, pick and choose the sites now based on how bad the advertisement is, but because advertisement is so prevalent, I don’t really get a choice because most sites use advertisement. Ironically, the sites I’d be most willing to pay for (like HN) are also the ones with few or no adverts.
This is a good point. As a former LIC resident, I lived there because of the transit situation to other areas of the city. If I was working in LIC rather than Manhattan, I could easily live somewhere like Flushing or Greenpoint instead.

Apartment prices have been dropping in LIC for a few years because of all the new development. I can't imagine Amazon's announcement will slow the development pace, so I wouldn't be surprised if LIC rents do not rise at all.
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I hesitated in writing this comment as I can see that the majority of commenters have a negative view of the 'gamification' presented by the article, but I don't see this as inherently evil or immoral at all.

The 'gamification' described by the author in their driving for Lyft is simply quantifying, tracking, and incentivizing performance at a given activity. It's in the best interest of both the driver and the company to achieve a high driver rating. Why wouldn't they track and display this statistic to the drivers? It's in the best interest of the company for drivers to log more rides, so they offer an optional incentive to complete x drives in y time. The driver receives additional compensation that they wouldn't otherwise if they achieve the goal. Both sides benefit.

The scary side of performance tracking comes when more and more is expected of the worker, their performance being able to be measured accurately isn't the issue. It's management's decision to get as much blood out of their workers as possible.
Believe me, that is a concern of mine as well :)
Yeah, I'm trying to pick through all the situations where it would bother me. In my imagination, it is limited to (1) if this happened at work (to me or to someone else), I'd see it as toxic or (2) if it happened on the internet, as it did, and it was someone I knew who did it.

And in the second case, it's more of a feeling of disappointment. "I know you're better than this, why are you wasting your time being mean to strangers on the internet?" But I can't quite put myself into the mood of getting angry at them and trying to bully them into deleting their account or even getting them fired from a job. I'm trying to understand that.
> Epicycles are much, much more wrong than mathematically perfect elliptical orbits.

Not if you define "wrong" as "inaccurate predictions". You can approximate ellipses with circles and epicycles to any desired degree of accuracy by putting in more epicycles. So you can match the predictions of ellipses to any desired accuracy with epicycles.

Also, as I noted, the actual orbits of the planets are not perfect ellipses once GR effects are taken into account. Have you proven mathematically that it is impossible to construct an epicycle model that makes more accurate predictions than perfect ellipses, based on the actual data (which confirms the GR predictions to within current observational accuracy)?
Sure, but I quite like to comment on things that interest me. I can do that safely here or some smaller forums that I frequent - like, there's nearly zero chance that a comment on HN will go viral and will be seen by millions of people. HN doesn't have that effortless re-sharing functionality twitter has, so controversial comments don't snowball into viral sensations within hours, they just can't. But on Twitter, that is a real risk - if I comment on a tweet by celebrity or a journalist and someone takes an issue with it, it can be retweeted instantly and at no effort. That's the risk coming from the way the platform is designed.
Yeah I'm not saying they are in the right either. Twitter (and other social media) is an endless recursion of poor decisions.
And as an added afterthought: given how much time and effort drafting this kind of obvious counterargument took me, I believe the author of the talk OP linked to was correct in arguing against trying to engage such thinking. Refuting formally presented arguments formally and arguing where they exactly fail when applied to practice requires quite much thinking.
The unit sales numbers are for developers, in my view.
I read some of google's patent mentioned in the text and thought it was interesting. They basically want a connected network of devices that communicate with each other and with google. Most of the devices follow the following algorithm: watch -> think -> act -> report. What is interesting is the 'report' phase of the algorithm.

I think there is a battle between two competing AI philosophies. One philosophy thinks AI should be central: all devices need to talk to the overmind for learning. The other philosophy thinks AI should be local: the device should learn on its own, kind of like a biological agent. I think the 'biological agent' form of AI is interesting when it comes to privacy of information. Only you and the device have the data.

The future of AI should be interesting with these two philosophies in mind.
People who want a semi-affordable Apple phone in 2 years when the 8 is discontinued.
There is a long-term capital gains tax break for holding a certain number of years. However with real estate you can sell one property and use the money to buy another within a certain amount of time and not have a taxable event. (See https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employe... )
Ask HN: How to deploy an AI App?
My mate and I are thinking of deploying a website (maybe running Node & Express), where users can upload an image. That image will be passed to a python script in the same environment, which will contain the AI logic / neural network. Then we want the image to be sent back to the front end.

We are looking for the lowest-cost solution as this is just a hobby project, maybe even a solution where the server starts up on demand when someone tries to reach the website.

How would you deploy an application of this sort, using what cloud service?
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In the US you may exclude up to half a million dollars of gains from your taxable income if you owned and lived in a property for at least two years. Otherwise gains on the sale of real property are taxed as ordinary income.
I am not sure how land ownership typically works - it seems that governments anywhere pretty much have to own a large chunk of the land to bore tunnels, build the station proper, accommodate parking, onramps, roads, pickup zones, etc. E.g., how did BART pick the location for San Jose Beryessa extension?
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Thanks for sharing! Will check it out.
In my experience, it makes the roasted meat worse. A lot of roasted meat works better if you dry out the outer layers with salt. Rinsing does the opposite.
I think most people have no idea what is going on and literally would not be able to understand it even if it were laid out in black and white. Even then, most people "understand" that smoking causes cancer. Behavior is not always a good predictor of people's internal mental states. Addiction is real. Damn that dopamine. Is smoking somehow fine because lots of people do it and it kills you slow? (I say that as someone who can't help but have a cig now and then).
> Instead most companies have just opted for clickwrap consent, and continued as they always have.

But isn't that what people want to do?

Why can't I sell my personal data in exchange for services?
It's mine isn't it?
Yeah, I see this on cruise ship cabins now too. There are different classes, but the cabin pricing varies a decent amount within each class based on all kinds of minor factors. Midships vs forward or after, close to elevator, what's above / below you, size of balcony, adjoining room, pullout couch, obstructed view, etc, etc. Kind of annoying in that you used to be able to "get lucky", but it's more efficient in a competitive market (which cruising definitely is) to be able to select exactly what you want and only pay for that.
I bought shareware once 30 years ago and never got the promised unlock code in response. That stopped me paying individual strangers for software via mail.
Long Island prices are probably not going to be noticably affected. 25,000 people moving into NYC is a small blip. Perhaps Long Island City [1] prices will go up a tiny amount due to people who want to walk into work.

To keep things in perspective, there are >8 million people in NYC and >20 million in the surrounding areas. Amazon is planning to employ 25,000, which is tiny in the scheme of things, especially considering that it's going to take a decade to be fully up and running. On top of that, I'm sure that many, if not most, of these employees are going to come from NYC's existing workforce.

I used to work in Long Island City and I commuted from Manhattan's Upper West Side, which took about 30 minutes. Commutes are even shorter from must of lower Manhattan and Brooklyn, not to mention most of Queens. I just can't imagine that this is going to have a noticeable effect on NYC or Long Island pricing overall.

[1] to those not familiar with New York, Long Island City, despite the name, is a neighborhood, not a municipality, located in Queens. While technically Brooklyn and Queens are located physically on Long Island, typically when people say "Long Island" they are referring to those parts of the island beyond New York City borders.
Basically a summary of my entire professional life.