skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I'm in a similar position. When the Expo line was expanded to Santa Monica, I was actually working in the building next to the final Santa Monica stop. But my house wasn't on the train line, so I would have had to somehow get to the train to take it in, but I would have only been riding like 3 stops. It doesn't make sense to drive to the train in that case, and riding a bike wasn't a realistic options because of the traffic I'd have to get through. (There were parts that would have been dangerous for a bike.) On the other hand, my yearly mileage is around 4-6k miles, so I don't feel like I'm contributing too badly to the problem.

A coworker of mine was out in South Pasadena and tried taking the train one day. His normally 45 minute commute turned into an hour and 50 minutes one way. There's no way that makes sense.

I've since moved, as has our office. I still live about 3 miles from work, so overall very low mileage each year. I looked up bus schedules as both my house and work are near bus stops. My one-way commute time would go from about 15-20 minutes to 50-60 minutes. That's just stupid. I have a family I'd like to see and making my commute 3-4 times as long just isn't worth it.

I'm all for public transportation, but if it doesn't go where I need to in a timely manner, it's useless.
Another instance of Wittgenstein's bottle, or a typical aboriginal fish trap.
This is a hard question to ask because of how touchy this subject is, but I promise this is a question born out of a situation I personally was in.

Does there need to be discrimination for the result to be skewed in this way? The way I read the parent, immigrant employees are willing to do more for less due to a logical judgement about their situation, and from a pool of "Available jobs" may chose to throw a wider net, where someone who has more leeway can be pickier. (In my situation, I was making negligible money and when offered what seemed like a _mind-blowing_ salary of 3x my prior, accepted off the bat, without realizing until much later that I was being paid far below the rate of both my cohort and my experience level for the work being done)
It seems like a perfect opportunity for someone to disrupt this market.

I have never spent more than $100 on prescription glasses ($20 for lens with AR coating). I understand there's lack of information, otherwise people would buy just them online but the convenience and trust factors might also be in play.
The free market can only take care of persisting discrimination by adjusting compensating differentials, so as to provide an incentive for hiring those who are being discriminated against. So the fact that females and minorities are both said to be discriminated in hiring and underpaid at some places is per se proof that the free market is in fact working to address discrimination in hiring. Sure, we'd like to see equal pay for equal work too, but you gotta start somewhere...
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I have a 1st gen chromecast which has root. It's been sitting in a wardrobe, but I suppose a clone could be made with some reverse engineering effort. I don't think the 1st gen ones had secure enclaves. They are pretty old at this point.
it's really annoying to read 2 conflicting accounts, the one in the article and yours, on ridership... the article makes it appear as if people voted for measure M in the hopes "that the rest would start using publiic transport" to have less traffic congestion in their cars.

Considering your karma I am more inclined to believe you than the article.

But even if the article were correct: it suggests that people in the cars don't mind if money is spent to persuade people to use public transport, perhaps a system can be set up such that gas taxes are levied and used to sponsor people to use public transit? Without the price of the ticket going negative of course, but arbitrarily low until congestion is tolerable?

Of course if both the roads and public transit vehicles are congested, then Measure M was simply not successfully executed or planned, as it promised to ease congestion...
I love that every time someone brings this amazing obvious solution up, some dumbass chimes in "why, you can check glassdoor?"
A fun example... click this and scroll all the way down: https://www.faception.com/our-technology

I need to start collecting a list to turn this into a proper Thing but I feel like whenever there's a way to use technology for evil there's a Tel Aviv startup that cranks it to 11.
Pubsub/KV-stores are already like baby's first genserver project.

Why are people not just using the tools Erlang/OTP already give them?
On Wayland it's generally a solved problem (at work I use Sway, with my internal panel - 13" 1080p, at 1.25x scale, and my external panel - 34" 3440x1440 - at 1x). Especially with Firefox nightlies bringing native Wayland support, it's only going to get better from here, but it's already pretty good.

In Xorg, it's as bad as it ever was, mostly for tech debt / protocol reasons. It can be alleviated somewhat with xrandr hacks, but they're gnarly.
You should be careful with that though, because it can cut both ways. I was a part of a company early in my career where certain people were being paid less than others, only the thing was that the big, BIG, bosses didn't know about it. They were told what the average pay was, but they thought that was the pay level that all of the workers were receiving.

Long story short, when the whole thing came out, imagine their surprise, (and delight), to discover a class of workers who would happily work for cheap. The big, BIG bosses proceeded to demand that everyone take a paycut. (Well, everyone who was making more than the average.) So a whole lot of colleagues ended up leaving and looking for other jobs etc.

In the end, it didn't really help the people on the bottom at all. I was just a lowly intern, but that experience definitely taught me a lesson about how the corporate world works.
Hi HN,

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I'm glad to see a representative actually know things like this. Too many of our representatives are technologically illiterate.
We don't know how to build a true quantum computer. But if you suggest we should also spend money on that, I agree. I don't think it's a smart idea to compare the validity of physics sub-fields. Look at the total amount of money that is spend on science compared to any other program. It's a joke. And it's not that we the people don't want it. Ask them, ask how much they think should be spend on science. It's multiples of what's actually spent.
This article is a literal translation of a 2012 60 mins show.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voUiWOGv8ec&t=87s

Lensley Stahl is interviewing then Luxxotica CEO and his answers are really interesting. A must watch IMO.
> If npm has 750k+ modules available, that suggests that the standard for what constitutes a valuable quantity of functionality is 7.5X lower in the JS community.

Or that JS lacks a decent stdlib! As evidenced by the left-pad fiasco, JS simply lacks things that are either available by default in other languages or easily include-able from the system libc (in c/c++).
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I was programming all these languages and 20y I do web technologies. Dynamic typed languages with a neat syntax was a huge step forward, developer became powerful with a single line of code. The biggest discovery was - you need all that tooling, because your language is overcomplicated. I also participate many conferences back and frontend each year (sometimes each month) watching this weird and artificially made transition backwards in concepts not only on frontend.

So yes ~20y ago was that point where developers discovered they are more powerful with dynamic typed languages and a boom for web applications started.
Particularly this reply:

https://twitter.com/OsitaNwanevu/status/1087841319219802113

Which shows that the original criticism of AOC was entirely disingenuous anyway.
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> That's one of the nicer things about these flows: you can have scoped data that is allowed, and nothing more.

IIRC the user is rarely given a choice, same as when you install an Android app from the Google Play store - they just tell you the app demands to access this and that an give you an Ok/Cancel choice instead of options to allow or disallow access to every particular element in the app's demands list and still install it regardless to what does the app author want (I don't mind if some features won't work then). IMHO this is seriously wrong.
Running latest Ubuntu on a 4k and a 1280x1920 screen. Not ideal, but I can work with it. Some apps still have issues, either to large on the small screen, or to small on the big one... I feel like they're 1 or 2 version away from it being good.

Fractional scaling (125%) is not available. There is a workaround, but I couldn't get it to work.
Using the latest Firefox on High Sierra, the print dialog for me doesn't include a preview where I can see what changes when I change options. But then, I get the same print dialog from Firefox's hamburger menu, so maybe there's something different about my machine.

I'm not near my Ubuntu (bionic beaver) laptop at the moment. Hopefully the hamburger menu print option on Firefox is better there. That's often the one I'm printing from since it's for home.
Thank you for this information, this is going to be my next project.
You're taking the Neural Net analogy too far. I don't think there's evidence that DNNs actually replicate what the brain does.
The large majority of laptops I have to deal with are still maxed at 8 GB, now if one needs to run the whole backend stack on the laptop, then it is another matter.
It sounds like the system worked as intended.
Of course ML algorithms can be biased; rather than engaging an Internet layperson who tried to contradict AOC with a silly argument, it would be more interesting if the article engaged the more salient counterpoint to claims like these--attempts to eliminate bias can introduce bias as well.

Anyway, the article is not written in good faith; it's only a step above "BOOM AOC owns Internet conservatives!". There's an interesting conversation in here somewhere, but this article seems designed to avoid it.
Perhaps. But lots of developers have also heard that premature optimization is the root of all evil. Doesn't mean we don't fall prey to these traps, biases, misconceptions, etc.

Besides that, the rise of the algorithm, like everything else in the US, is subject to interpretation by camps who insist (at their extremes) that racism is real, modern, ubiquitous, and fixable; and those that insist it's a relic of the past, inevitable, imagined, rare.
When we started, we never thought we'd ask our users for donations after they filed. We got the idea when our users started asking us whether they could donate to us even when we didn't ask for anything. The vast, vast majority of our operating budget is covered at the moment by foundation philanthropy and federal grants, but the hard thing about outside fundraising to stay alive is that it requires a lot of time we'd rather use to focus on making our product better and reaching more people. That's why we'd love to be sustainable if we can make it work. We found inspiration in business models of EarnIn and GoFundMe.

We also let our users know that they can donate well after their discharge when they're back on their feet.
Lack of option as eventually you begin to miss out on some services that use your data. Finally had to give in as they were free and it's a small price to pay to use them.
The fairness doctrine by the FCC had a lot of issues but simply removing it with no replacement sowed the seeds for blatant manipulation of people via media and "news".

There are a scant few independent non-profits I'd consider trusting with determining "fairness" or fact. The US government certainly isn't qualified anymore with how corrupted and disconnected from the people it is, corporations by definition are amoral, and power corrupts. Giving anyone the determination of what is "fake" makes them a vector for exploitation and abuse.

The answer should be you need a new, legitimately representative and democratic government, to oversee regulation on those who claim to be news in order to more closely guarantee honesty. Thats a bit bigger of a problem to approach than the mass-deception and manipulation of a society by monied interests, though.
I believe it's configurable. The all-Type-C 9370 was also configurable to that spec (and I have one with it)
I am not sure where did you get the amount of 70$ per exam.
My OD charges approx 258$ which was reimbursed by VSP .
I know this since he sent a bill to me after exam that showed what the cost of visit was and what was covered by VSP .
I think a big part of "mathematical maturity" is knowing how important it is to have someone else look over your proofs.

Of course you can learn a ton on your own by reading and working exercises and doing research, but there is no substitute for collaboration.

Mathematics is inherently a social activity, even if the bulk of it can (counter-intuitively) be done in relative solitude.
“Ground floor” is not the European name; the names are things like “Ground of the roadway” (literal word-by-word translation of the French name), “first floor”, “second floor”, etc.

It's no more zero-based indexing than naming relations as “sibling”,“first cousin”,“second cousin” is, just because some hypothetical culture that also uses 1-based indexing but counts siblings as first cousins might rationalize our system as starting with “zeroth cousins” where they have “first cousins”.
True but the U.S. has contributed hundreds of millions to the LHC and still does. https://www.aip.org/fyi/2008/us-contribution-lhc-budget-and-...
The JSF project is essentially complete. You're advocating dumping billions of dollars of R&D to start over and build something else, when all that's left now is conventional aircraft building -- and oh by the way that aircraft is now being built by our allies (who helped to fund the R&D) as well.
Eye exams are important. I have a cordial astigmatism in my left eye, I would not have know about without it.

The eye glass seller in longwood boston will measure your pupil distance, and check that your online glasses match the prescription when you get them. He charges a small fee for this.
Ruby and Elixir both made the same decision, and I don't feel like it's had an actual negative impact, for me at least; I've found both languages to be delightfully readable. I haven't dabbled very much in Julia since the pre-1.0 days, but I don't recall it being any more or less jarring.

I suppose it could indeed be jarring if you're not already used to languages which use 'end' to terminate blocks, but after awhile your brain will just start to treat 'end' synonymously with '}' and all will be right with the world.
Ryan's tweet should be altogether ignored as the interesting conversation is here: https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/108791229700197171...
I have a 2017 13" XPS running Solus Linux. I have come to abhor this machine. I can't tell you the amount of times I've had to reboot the computer due to frozen or halting apps. I only have 8GB of RAM so that might be it but I can't run Slack app or the Google Play app at the same time without definitely causing problems.

I have a desktop with Solus and 16GB at home and never run into any issues with it.

I don't recommend this laptop anymore to anyone.
Wal-mart also has optometrists that will give you your complete prescription for (last time I checked) the same cost as an eye-exam at Costco. Been my go-to for the last few years.
Yeah, hearing aids seem to be a clearly over priced pseudo-monoplistic small set of companies. There are people selling mobile phone connected hearing aid like things for drastically less money, but they run into the hearing aid cabal.
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Even regular commercial flying was an endeavor exclusively for the rich. Now it's a commodity that's affordable to most.
I wish I could even get my HP ZBook trackpad to function as nicely in Debian as it does on Windows. I probably need to dig in the Xorg settings, but the last two attempts saw me reverting to the defaults + Gnome tweaking, which seems to be insufficient regardless of how I tweak the simple options.
2 years in many if not all places. And I assume online places don't worry about that.
Wait, that's not a parody? Phrenology updated for the 21st century?
If you're a Harvard trained manager, you want real workers to be perfectly substitutable just like you learned in econ 101.
I'm hoping more device start offering 3:2 screens now. I was interested in the surface line too but decided against it for the same reasons as you. I ordered Huawei's Matebook X pro yesterday which was the only other laptop I saw which offers a nice 3:2 display. I'm hoping everything will work out of the box (this laptop uses intel wireless unlike the marvell chip on the surface) with any recent distro.

Sidenote: I've also read about decent openbsd support for the older version of this laptop. [1]

[1] https://jcs.org/2017/07/14/matebook
There is no design of AI that can be simultaneously utilitarian, procedurally fair, and representatively fair.

I'm going to repeat this again, since many people struggle with this.

It is _literally impossible_ to achieve the best utilitarian outcome, the most procedurally fair outcome, and a representatively fair outcome.

Anyone designing algorithms will have to make tradeoffs along this frontier.

For a far better argument for the above than I can make in a Hacker News thread, please see these slides from Chris Stucchio:

https://www.chrisstucchio.com/pubs/slides/crunchconf_2018/sl...
I really want to buy a "Linux laptop" like this because I want to vote with my money and I don't want to be paying for a Windows license that I'm not going to use. But why don't they sell an XPS 15 Developer Edition? Surely there's a lot of professional types wanting a bigger laptop right? Is there some hardware difference between the two that causes problems? What's the deal?
The limit of deep learning is the quantity and accuracy of training data. For some problems, you can't run 10^x trials: you can synthesize training data but it may be of questionable real-world relevance and lead to overfitting of the generation algorithm.
Touché.

I guess I never thought about it that way.
> What if they set a very low wage and only minorities and foreign students were willing to accept those rates.

That is literally what the trial is intended to determine.

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That's not how taxation works... The rich counties around DC are for quite different reasons.
I've seen designer used mostly to reference UI designers who primarily work in non-code.
once, I wanted to buy a tesla; I was waiting for inexpensive ones to become available. they are clearly not chasing me in my market, and elon musk's public asshattery has convinced me he is not a leader who will bring electric cars to the masses.
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Thank you :)

(1) Sadly, we're not able to assist people who want to discharge their student debt through bankruptcy. If that's the case, we suggest our users seek full-representation.

(2) I've spoken to the co-founder of RIP Medical Debt! They're doing awesome work I admire. Thanks for the tip.
I still think it is a matter of time before communication and analytical technology overcomes the difficulties which perpetuate human conflict and environmental destruction. Any day now... :)
What does NT and T after the resolution refer to?
I have given up on bluetooth ever being sane. If I don't connect my JBL, my xbox remote or anything bluetooth for more than a week then the connection is kapput and I have to delete and re-add the device. Windows, Linux, doesn't matter. It magically stops working when not used enough.
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Which is completely off-topic. The discussion is Viewfinders. Even your own reply above referenced Viewfinders specifically:

> There’s plenty of dSLRs with digital viewfinders

A digital Viewfinder actually has an LCD (or other type of digital display) within the Viewfinder assembly itself. It has nothing to do with the rear/main display at all.

Your other reply makes me think you don't know what the Viewfinder is. So here's some references:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viewfinder

https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/50028/whats-the-pr...
Which are in a way comparable, but I'd say that pipes are more like the arrow ->.

Transducers are compostable algorithmic transformations that, in a way, generalize map, filter and friends but they can be used anywhere where you transform data. Transducers have to be invoked and handled in a way that pipes do not.

Anyone interested should check out Hickeys talks about them. They are generally a lot more efficient than chaining higher order list processing functions and since they don't build.intermediate results they have a lot better GC performance.
Europe generally has decent mental and physical health treatments as well as decent social security nets which results in less people having to self medicate with legal or illegal drugs.
Where did you get the land to grow your seed? Where did you buy the bricks to build your house? And the fence to keep the deer away? What of the police and army to keep people from killing you and taking your seedling? The water to nourish it?

You described one of the only scenarios in which wealth is "created" and the only reason it's created is because it derives "free" energy from the sun. But that is just one of the economic inputs of the seed, and there are many more (the labor to water it, the water to grow it, the land on which it grows).

The sun's energy in this case is a small portion of the actual economic inputs the seed requires. And those economic inputs are diverted from somewhere else. They do not appear out of thin air.

So yes, I agree, we should harness the sun's energy, or other "free" energy sources, as economic inputs.

That doesn't change the fact that the overwhelming majority of wealth already exists and is not created out of thin air, but diverted.
Dat computer EEES RACIST!
Personally I think ego is part of the issue - VCs don't want to admit they don't always need "the best of the best talent" for their application.

Especially if their actual product would still be a turd no matter how polished like Juicero - there is no real sophistication needed there, they just wanted to copy Keurig to get rich.
The article mentions the price difference between Gillette's male oriented line and female oriented line. (The female line costs more) But I wonder if that's just an artifact of the economies of scale: they sell more male products so their per-unit costs are lower. Though I'm not sure why women wouldn't just purchase the products packaged for males at the lower price.
Why should anyone know or care who this person is? Are we really going to get this puppet shoved down our throats even on HN?
Do you think perhaps you could link to a site you have good experience with? I would love to get some backup pairs but I worry about the cost
This sounds an awful lot like voting impossibility theorems (Arrow's and its generalizations)... are they related?
We have some clues that weren't destroyed - The pulse pump chamber, the waveguides. With enough advanced study, it may be possible to reconstruct a working model.
Speaking of which, has Google managed to solve their "gorilla problem" yet? That was easily the most offensive case of a biased algorithm I've ever seen, and the last I heard of it Google 'solved' the problem by pretending it didn't exist (https://www.wired.com/story/when-it-comes-to-gorillas-google...).