skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> seems like the kind of thing that pretty much everyone except racists would be for

Careful: labelling people, no true Scotsman style, is not a great way to push an argument. And it's clear that there is a real problem that needs to be solved (assessing students), so however poor the SAT is at doing this, you're going to have to provide something that can replace it.
Well, he seems to think consensus = mining; I got news for you -that's not even remotely true! He also seems to think permissioned chains are worthless; hyperledger fabric seems to have a whole lot of investment for a worthless thing. And things like EOS which blend voting/stake with permissioning seem to work reasonably well, even if an EC2 crash would probably take them down.

I'm no blockchain maximalist, and I understand the disgust at the hype around it, but it is an important tech, and Schneier obviously has done no real thinking on the subject. He doesn't even make a distinction between "coins" and ... blockchains. They're not the same!

This is only his misunderstanding of the technical aspects. As I said above, he also misunderstands the social aspects. Some people really trust the crypto community more than they trust banks/governments. It's at least a reasonable hedge, particularly in light of the events described in the bitcoin genesis block.
I completely agree, I would love to see a monopoly based tax system. I consider property ownership just a special case of a monopoly, since you have a monopoly on that plot of land. The one question you didn't broach here though is how you set the tax rate. Current systems do this on property by looking at the sale price, but property value can change, so they use an appraisal process. That's no good, it's expensive and prone to political manipulation. I'd prefer to see a market based solution. Imagine this: at any time you can make an offer on a piece of property and submit that offer to the government, the owner of the property can either accept or reject the offer. Offers are binding, so if they accept you're required to pay. But whether or not they accept this offer becomes the new valuation of the property and they must pay taxes accordingly. This should give you a system where the taxes paid on a property are always relative to the value derived from it by the party that values it most. And property should in general wind up being owned by that party.

The same basic structure should work for other monopolies like Pharma and internet infrastructure monopolies.
Because the majority of HN reader have always either paid someone or simply never been involved with:

* Home rennovation (requiring city signoff)

* Home repairs

* Rental repairs

* Court over repairs or alterations to property
You start out strongly, but then this:

> Somebody appropriates for himself a valuable piece of land with oil deposits. He prevents others from utilizing that land. Let him pay for having that exclusive rights of use, since clearly the government is providing private property related services (police, courts and army to guarantee his property) for him that others (non-owners) are not getting.

If by "appropriates for himself" you actually mean "buy", then your position basically boils down to an "all property is theft" manifesto.
Right? I was super interested until I saw it was about software :(
> When anyone will be able to launch their own cryptocurrency, we will have a chance to free ourselves from the coercive influences of debt, venture capital and corporations.

You can borrow cryptocurrency.

You can invest cryptocurrency with terms that are bad for the business you invest in.

Corporations can use cryptocurrency.

What, exactly, have you changed?
wouldn't it make sense that this would be one of the metaphors upon which tolkien drew from his time in the british army? i seem to recall some bit of information that these subtle images were inspired by objects and events during that time of his life.

so biscuits brown is probably a good image.
This is also literally the claim that libertarians use to justify deregulation. "We don't need laws, if a company does bad things consumer would just naturally avoid them!"

One would hope laissez-faire proponents are siding with the angry workers and disgusted customers in this case.
Nobody deserves anything. You get whatever life gives you and it's all about luck. I have as much respect for a lottery winner as a self-made business person.

As a human being, I would prefer the lottery winner though because they don't have as many false ideas about what kind of person they are and what kind of world we live in.
Uber/UberEats pays their drivers a flat time/distance rate. If a customer gives a tip, this doesn't affect their pay for the drive (unlike DoorDash/Instacart), and the tip is 100% owned by the driver.
I think that's a very very narrow and specific definition of identity that most literature would disagree with. There's far more to identity then racial identity (or sexual/gender for that matter).

People incorporate anything and everything into their identity. Vegan/Crossfitter/Burner are all core identity components for many many people.

The "negotiation with society" is a function of how the individual externalizes it, and what type of reinforcement they expect to receive back.

To your example, Rachel Dolezal could maintain her self selected racial "identity" in peace and quiet if the society she was sharing it with was Tumblr and not the NAACP.
It's because they never read the book and assume that book burning is fascist and not democratic.
> While the government says 10,000 transplants occur each year, hospital data shows between 60,000 to 100,000 organs are transplanted each year. The report provides evidence that this gap is being made up by executed prisoners of conscience.

Other than racism this statement is absolute total junk.

China doesn't even execute murderers close to that rate.

They are not a primative society without phones or closed in without foreigners having the ability to visit. How do they hide it? Are they executing in a multiverse? One also where Chinese citizens are monsters not humans who allow it.

This is purely straight for the racist arm chair brigade.

The same ones who don't do real science, just try to destroy it.
> What is the point of having ethical standards if there isn't a high cost for breaking them?

society is already harmed by the initial crime, and now it has to pay the price a second time by forgetting?

strip the researchers' names and institutions from all copies of the articles, and adjust bibliographic standards of all reputable journals to require citations say the articles were authored by "Ethical disgrace" or whatever.
If someone is convinced that it would be so easy to automate away X annoying job that someone has to do, I would encourage them not to talk about it, but to get busy doing the automation.

Best case, they were right and the task gets automated away, now we don't need to talk about it at all. More likely, they might find that it's actually not as easy to automate away as they initially thought.
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/10/06/a-closer-loo...

Your 45% number is misleading on it's own. People don't pay income tax because they had so little income to tax in the first place.
I imagined Lembas Bread to be like ration bars (e.g. datrex, sos, etc)
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>On the other hand, fiat money is constantly being secretly manipulated.

Crypto can be secretly manipulated in the exact same way fiat can. The only thing different about crypto is that there's no central bank that can literally print money. Instead we get defacto authority with no legal framework in place.
Apologies - I just updated now to be more in line with what you suggested last time.

EDIT: the original post and the title here are now the same
I think flow based programming in general has a lot of untapped utility. I have had good success putting complex data processing workflows in to python with luigi. Tensorflow and ROS are also dataflow(ish) systems that are gaining popularity.
The average worker probably doesn't have any investments and is losing money by having more expenses than income.
So every website everywhere on the internet which has anything to do with email will have to consider each and every hack which every email provider has done which deviates from Internet email standards, ever, before sending an email or registering an account or anything... or else the website is at fault if these standards-violations leads to security issues?

Fuck that shit!

Oh... We should only give Google and Gmail a free pass because they’re big?

No, fuck that too. That’s not how internet standards and internet emailing works.

It’s level playing field because everyone plays by the rules, and when you cause fuck-ups like this, it’s entirely on your base.

Gmail is the one who needs fixing, not everyone else.
Take vacations! That means time completely unplugged from work and work-like things. I once went about 7+ years without any vacations. I literally hit a point where I was so burnt out, I was unable to function.

Don't put up with more than one or two weeks of 45+ hour weeks in a quarter. It's one thing to have a push for a release... If it's taking more than that, you aren't the problem.

Ensure a daily downtime... for me, I tend to be a late starter. I spend the morning catching up on emails, setting up tasks for the day, reading sites like this. I take lunch away from my desk. If there are meetings, I try to reschedule them all for before lunch. I then take lunch and work mostly noise cancelling headset on the rest of the day. I tend to be more productive in the afternoon/evening anyway. You may find inverting this is more beneficial.

Ensure at least 3 days a week with a 4 hour uninterrupted block to get work done. This is key if you're doing development. This is when you get your real work done, and stress less about the hours outside this core block.

At least that's where I am. I've been at this a couple decades now, and constantly learning. Which is another aspect of my mornings. They allow me to read/experiment etc.
>"If you don't like the law elect different politicians."

What an incredibly naive statement that is. Of the 11K registered lobbyists in Washington, DC more than half of them 6200 of them worked on tax related issues in 2017. 4,200 of them specifically on tax reform[1][2][3]
Put another way that is 11 lobbyists for every individual member of congress. The lobbyists are the ones shaping the tax code. Further tax reform is a generational thing, the last time it was taken up was under Reagan in 1986. Simply "electing different politicians" will accomplish nothing.

>"Anyone mad at a company for not pay taxes is misdirecting their anger. Companies follow the law."

No, one of the reasons that the US is great place to start a business is because there's a mature legal system, a stable government, and infrastructure and those things take money to run. If the country provides an environment that allowed a Netflix to start up and prosper then why shouldn't that company be expected to help pay for all those things? Both individual and corporations should share the burden of that. So no the anger is not "misdirected" at all when it's directed at entity who's shirking their responsibility. Just because something is legal does not necessarily make it right.

[1] https://www.citizen.org/sites/default/files/swamped-tax-lobb...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/15/us/politics/lobbyists-tax...

[3] https://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/business-a-lobbying/...
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> A down-vote without a reply

...is using the downvote correctly. Downvoting is for comments that are not productive contributions to the kind of discussion desired on HN, responding to any post that merits a downvote is increasing the noise-to-signal ratio.
You may want to try playing against some of the AIs developed by the Student Starcraft AI Tournament such as SAIDA, Locutus, CherryPi, krasi0, Iron Bot, and tscmoo.

If I could make a single recommendation to future AlphaStar opponents, it would be to prep against these AIs. AlphaStar has style overlap with the AIs mentioned above, and I'd like to see a match with human better prepared for that.

The SSCAIT has a weekly broadcast which demonstrates the strengths and weaknesses of AI players quite well.
The obsession over elite schools makes even less sense if you frame it in terms of where these people are coming from.

If you had the wherewithal to do well at a lousy high school, you'll be just as able to make something of yourself at a mid-grade university.

Elite universities are important if you want to be in the "elite" clique. If you just want to make a better life for yourself, any old university will get you pretty far. One close to home will likely be a lot more relatable culturally as well. Not everyone wants to uproot their identity and go be someone else somewhere else.
One (emerging) area is ABR video delivered over a WebSocket. Throughput estimation can be done using server-side TCP statistics that are updated at each ACK segment (the tcp_info structure includes a delivery_rate member that is pretty helpful), which is more reliable than using client-side info that comes from the reconstructed reliable byte stream.

The MPEG-DASH part 6 spec starts going in this direction, and we tried to run with these ideas in Puffer (https://puffer.stanford.edu). Empirically you can get quick channel changes and better first-chunk quality with this approach; we haven't tried to minimize end-to-end latency below standard levels. And there's probably nothing fundamental that you can do with a WebSocket that you can't do with a sufficiently smart chunked HTTP response.

For really low latency, you want to couple the video codec parameters with the transport's capacity estimate in a way that the WebRTC.org/Chromium codebase is not really capable of doing. See https://snr.stanford.edu/salsify .
Do you take the same position regarding evidence found in searches executed without a valid warrant, i. e. fruit of the poisonous tree?

In any case, a retraction would not necessarily erase that knowledge. It would, however, limit its usefulness for the authors of these papers, in terms of reputation and citation count. That should serve as an incentive to more thoroughly investigate the provenance of that brain with a gun shot wound you're dissecting.
To be fair, at least 40% of the "common" people reliably vote for candidates that are very up front about that fact that they will support low taxes for businesses.

This isn't some conspiracy of giant corporations and lobbyists beating down the will of the people. This IS the will of the people. In many regions it's the overwhelming majority of the people.
Like I said in a previous comment, with LEDs, power requirements are small and distances within a house are small. Coupled with a resonably high but safe voltage (like 24 or 36VDC), there's no reason why 14 gauge copper wire couldn't work just fine for a lighting circuit.
I know a family who immigrated from East Asia to US about 30 years ago. The father of the family was from a poor family (which was the case for everyone 30 - 40 years ago) who couldn't afford to send their kids to college, and so he had minimal education (up to High school?) in their native country. He worked as a carpenter all his life. Due to lack of money, he received minimal medical care (aka no checkups etc), and passed away rather young.

The 2 kids went to an inner city high school. They went onto University of California, which were definitely affordable 20 years ago, with loans and grants.

One went to an Ivy League and got PhD in STEM and now working in that field. The other also went to a top ranked public university and got PhD in STEM also.

Had the dad been given a chance to get a proper education, who knows what he could've achieved?
Gates' mother was on a charity board with the CEO of IBM, she wasn't a director at IBM. It was still a huge advantage.
"on a single page" - I see what you did there.
It's sustainable as far as Patreon goes. Their company is doing fine and looks like it will continue to do fine. But in the world of investing, sustainability means more than that. It means perpetual double-digit growth and other probably unrealistic expectations.

It seems to me that they have a good thing going, although I disagree with their policy of policing the content and speech of the projects they support.

However, there should be room in the market for competition and hopefully a competitor will arise who doesn't try to enforce his morality and/or politics (good or bad) on the fund-raising projects he facilitates.

That is all.
Ok, terminology is getting in the way, perhaps.

I'm assuming your word-pairs are supposed to be examples of differences in pronunciation of the 'verb' vs the 'noun'. Or did you have something else in mind?
Raw democracy can also lead to undesirable results. It's not true that whatever 51% of the population wants is right or good. Do you disagree?

> They can both lead to anti-democratic results. In fact the Presidential election process was originally designed purposely to avoid giving the people a direct and full say.

That is one way to characterize it. Another way is that the process was designed hundreds of years ago, before electronic communication, air travel, etc. It was not possible for every citizen to see and hear the presidential candidates before an election. So, like the rest of the representative government, citizens delegated their votes to delegates, who would gather in-person, see and hear the candidates, and select one.

So do you really think it's truthful to claim that the purpose of the presidential election process was to avoid giving citizens a full say?

I feel like you're being intellectually dishonest in this thread.
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Clojure is not the most beginner friendly language.

I really disagree here. My first job out of college was at a Clojure shop and it has been the easiest language I've ever learned. There is a small hurdle of switching to lisp syntax when all you've ever used is C style languages, but that's about it. I also find frameworks more effort to learn than pulling in a small library that does the one thing I need.
Good thought. At the same time, it's a feature; not a startup. Sorry.
Ask HN: How to encourage and maintain a long term organizational knowledge base?
We, as many others, use Slack to communicate. But this only works well for real time and short term projects. Those teams that do document stuff for the long term, either does it poorly (structural, and does not maintain it) or uses different services (Google Drive, Quip, Dropbox, different wikis, etc) more suited to their needs. I'm both talking about high level technical documentation and organizational documentation. This makes it hard do on-board new people, hard to get to know other parts of your organization and hard to search for answers without bothering others.
I really want to hear from you what success stories you have growing a documentation oriented culture and what others can do to encourage the behavior.
All bulbs produce heat, both from the LEDs and the electronics. Incandescent bulbs were blazing hot, too, and they radiated IR on top everything else.

A high efficiency LED assembly is still producing on the order of 50% light and 50% heat.
Around half of Americans reliably vote for candidates that support lower taxes for businesses. Add in term limits, and they'll just vote for a different candidate that supports lower taxes for businesses.
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The bottlenecks to Python 3 acceptance were popular package and cloud environment support.

Both have been resolved.
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This is why I think the Mastodon-like federated networks are better for these kinds of things. The majority of Mastodon users are Japanese because lolicon isn't permitted in Twitter, but you can still safely ignore those users because of Mastodon's federated nature.
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You are correct with borrowing, I'm not sure what that's about, happy to be enlightened by OP though.

Not sure about investments, haven't done too much research into the benefits of ICOs and letting more people invest.

I think corporations are a good point though. If more companies became DAOs, we'd have much better checks and balances and transparency for corporations.
> If you disagree, why don't you walk me through your proposal in a less handwavey manner

You could say companies aren't allowed to spend money to intentionally target or influence elected representatives.

Sure it's hardly defined at all, and maybe I spent 30 seconds on it. But if a jury of my peers unanimously think an exec was trying to influence a representative, then why not levy a huge fine? As far as the legality, is there anything interstate commerce doesn't encompass?
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You are right. My apologies. Whoever tells someone who is learning Python to use 2, which will be EOL in less than one year is not a retard, but a fucking retard.
From 1964 to 1986, individuals were allowed to average their income over five years. (Or was it four?)

Now only farmers and fishermen are allowed to do this, and some retirees who receive a lump sum retirement plan distribution.
Excerpt: "Some are asking for cash tips outside the app, while others are encouraging customers to leave 22-cent tips — a nominal amount meant to show solidarity with workers — through the app and then adjust the tips higher after a delivery has been made."

I think I might do that from now on.
I think they might have began quoting the LED lifetime on boxes, which is still true, but in reality something else in the bulb usually breaks before the LEDs themselves. I guess manufacturers have either taken it upon themselves or have been forced to reduce the quoted lifetime since the famous 100,000 hours marketing.
I don't quite follow your last statement, perhaps I've read an improper context than what you intend. If both the mayor and other people have the same right to express their opinion on legislative matters, what about the mayor's opinion is substantively different that it rises to the description of 'ridiculous'-as you put it?

His interest slightly preempts (pardon the phrase, given the context) that of the "other people" here in that he and the members of his city council-as elected officials-and appointed committee members have the express charge and duty of setting and guiding the direction of policy in their city. When state action has the result of affecting municipal policy, mayoral opinion matters along with that of local residents wouldn't you say?
In small claims court you can't be represented by a lawyer for example. Both - being represented and representing - aren't constitutional rights. So it is up to society whether to allow or prohibit it in various cases.
Nonsense. Acceptance of a realistic understanding does not preclude using that understanding to achieve your goals. It is certainly better then designing your policies based off a rejection of reality.
The article also is not true. Netflix paid 15 million in taxes in 2018. It says so right in the 10K:
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1065280/000106528019...
A smoke detector doesn't need that much power, so efficiency of the power supply is less of a concern. You have to find a useful compromise between efficiency and use of materials. Those additional components for higher efficiency need to be produced which uses resources and energy.

Although 15W standby for a garage opener seems excessive.
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