skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm basing this on experience using one; I have no "inside information" on how they work so I'm doing my best with my insight. Here's what I've found just by messing around; if you want details I can post the "experiments" I did to get these:

* The largest epsilon that the calculator is willing is confident about showing to the user is about 10^-13. (0.1 + 10^-13 - 0.1 = 10^-13, 0.1 + 10^-14 - 0.1 = 0)

* The calculator will show about 10 digits of precision. (0.1 + 10^-10 = .1000000001, 0.1 + 10^-11 = 0.1)

* Rounding seems to occur at the last digit of internal precision, perhaps at a 10^-14/10^-15 digit that isn't shown? This might mean the calculator is using double precision. (.5-10^13=0.5, .5-10^-14=1/2)

I think the results you got are pretty consistent with this. First of all, the sequence of trigonometric operations you performed are quite lossy, since you're exercising a very small range and you perform them repeatedly, which magnifies the error. Performing the integral is quite accurate; even a simple midpoint Riemann sum with 1000 subdivisions is accurate to one part in 10^12).

FYI, you seem to have been shadowbanned (I have chosen to vouch for the one you made here because it was somewhat reasonable and so I could respond to it), which is not surprising considering your other comments.
I've been on the other side of a similar conversation, that eventually got me the name I wanted after around 30 days. This was around five years ago, when there were still no scoped packages and the ecosystem was surging in popularity. I guess in the previous years people had been creating test packages and forgetting about them, and no doubt some were just squatting popular names. In my case the package with the name I wanted was empty and inactive, and there was a human check before it being handed over.
...and an HN link for the latter:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11320023
"maybe I am an apache attack helicopter in a mans body.."
What's wrong with investing taxes in growing the GDP?

Why does the funding of current projects affect you level of support for different projects? That's sunk cost fallacy.
Robocalls have made my telephone so useless as a telephone that I'm beginning to wonder if I even need a telephone number at all, just as I started wondering if I actually needed a house phone or cable.
I'll just point you to this book as a starting point.

https://www.amazon.com/Four-Steps-Epiphany-Steve-Blank/dp/09...
That is true, but it also often leads to an increase in unproductive noise and diversion, such as the suggestion that there is a definition of consciousness that rocks can meet.
Possibly, however who knows if in a million of years Earth even still exists to make associations viable.
If Tesla can't supply enough parts introducing a dealer layer won't make the parts magically appear.

It would add more overhead to the transaction and if history is any indicator, sleazy interactions and business practices thrown in as well.

I'm fairly confident once the dust settles Tesla owners will be happy to not have auto dealers in their lives. There's just a teething period while Tesla ramps up to a mature manufacturer at scale.
Did it actually say this? I've seen it claimed on social media, but I don't understand how.
Those tens or hundreds of thousands of Amazon employees have more clout than tens or hundreds of thousands of a random distribution of citizens.
> Micheal Moore movies have a built in point-of-view.... his. He doesn't hide this, it is part of the attraction.

One movie I saw of his was intentionally misleading to a high degree in my opinion so I don't watch any others from him. To me, a point of view is to do with your subjective thoughts and value judgements. This should never involve twisting, hiding or being selective about objective facts.
We're talking about specifics here though, not an overarching economic theory which is defined by political buzzwords. I agree that the idea of trickle down on the whole doesn't work, but that doesn't mean every one of its ideas are wrong (and I believe this specifically is related to Reagan era economics.) Companies investing revenue is, in general, a good thing. You can of course debate the specifics of what constitutes an investment.

>if amazon’s profit is double what it was last year, shouldn’t that profit be taxed? If they never pay taxes and continue exploiting labor, aren’t they a net drain on society?

Well they do pay taxes, so I don't know where you're getting "never" from. Heck, just look at the chart at the bottom of the article. This is the _first_ year they had a negative rate. If you're going to make statements (shrouded in questions) like "they're a net drain on society" you're going to have to come up with some numbers.
There is some alternate (or future) reality where a google self driving car accident is blamed on bad training data from CAPTCHAs.
There are only three or four, aren't there? Actually, the one that leaves Paris at 10:37 and arrives in Milan at 17:50 could be attractive. If you're traveling on a weekday, you can just work on the train.
Some companies have security departments that analyze malware that targets their employees or the users of their services. Penetration testers might also use reverse engineering because people who hired them don't have the source code of some relevant thing, or because they want to see what an attacker who didn't have it could do, or because for some kinds of attacks looking at the actual binary might be more informative than looking at source code.

There are also antivirus developers who reverse engineer malware that doesn't necessarily target a particular class or group of users.

I've also met a reverse engineer who works with cases where proprietary software publishers have lost their old source code (this is really a thing!).
For a while there they kept saying I was wrong and it would effectively lock me out of some accounts that required it. Recently it’s stopped but it’s super annoying how ambiguous it is.
If you are using TOR, and not accepting cookies, they are going to have no way of knowing that you are the same user who just solved the CAPTCHA. Every request is going to appear to be from a new user.

If you do everything you can to prevent google from knowing who you are, don't be surprised when they behave like they don't know who you are.
Exactly. You would have to pay me to stop using Facebook, but I'd pay for Facebook to stop existing.
I always got the feeling she didn't just lie, she pissed them off while doing it.

My mother had to cover insider trading when she was teaching. She said a lot of her students 'didn't get it'. My mother also worked for the IRS, tip don't piss off the enforcement people.
Very few Go libraries start goroutines on their own. Concurrency is mostly an application level concern.

HTTP library is unusual in that sense.

At the same time, the beauty of how http library is designed and the solution he describes is that there are hooks that allow being even more efficient with very little code.

Or to put it differently: Go gives you excellent (compared to everything else out there except C++/Rust) networking performance out of the box and you can go even faster with a minimal amount of effort.

What you call "dropping to this level" is 80 lines of code (https://github.com/eranyanay/1m-go-websockets/blob/master/3_...) and now you don't even have to write them yourself.
But, it does seem that as a whole we are getting better.
An old Partner ACS should get the job done on the cheap.
I remember talking to a high up on the program at a FIRST robotics event who complained about them running so long. They weren't making any major new discoveries and sucking up resources and mindshare stopping him for kicking off and focusing on new projects. He said nobody would take the PR hit to decide to just end a mission like this so he was stuck.
Hmm. People who built it, or in charge of building it, seem to disagree.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3owk7vEEOvs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjwW1JlGG4o

And I'm sure you've read Snowdens revelations, and lack of denials from the intelligence community, and Binney and Drake, among others, confirming, and what the gov't did to try to silence them.
This. People just don't work the way economists think they do.
That might be because they cleaned the dataset thoroughly. I vaguely recall there was something about 'facial landmarks' and alignment in the ProGAN work which was presumably carried over to StyleGAN. Doubtless helps the final quality.

However, aligned faces are definitely not required - I didn't do any kind of alignment for my anime faces and you can see the eyes/nose/mouth in all sorts of positions in the samples & videos.
I understood the problem to be, at least in no small part, regulatory to begin with. To what extent are carriers permitted to deliberately not complete a call originating outside their own network (what about from a foreign network)?
Income Sharing Agreements are super interesting. Definitely an opportunity to building a SaaS for managing agreements from contract to facilitating the payments over the lifetime of the agreement...
Frankly, jurisdiction shopping was one of the big questions surrounding GDPR. You can be sure that legal teams are using this ruling to shore up their own documentation to make sure a random DPA can't bring case against them.

Always better to be engaged with an enforcement agency in a country that collects revenue from you.
But they did grill him pretty hard in that interview, at least. I think the interview scenes reinforced he was a complete liar and charlatan. I was not aware they paid him for it, but I think it was valuable to present his side of the story (and knock it down if it was bullshit - which it was, and which they did).
Linux user here - Im glad electron exists, even if it is incredibly resource hungry and inefficient.

Rarely software is targeted for Linux, which means there are less mainstream apps than windows or OSX, which means less people using Linux.

I want more people to use Linux, electron has been great at helping build that userbase, so despite its flaws, I welcome it.
In the accepted meaning, a "cold call" is an unsolicited commercial call.

Nobody is looking to saddle non-commercial personal calls with fines or prior consent.
>To me "wealthy class" means people who have saved enough to never have to work again, which is by no means certain on a 174k salary.

In most of the world, it very much is.
Yeah, the whole point of Kaizen and a lot of process improvement is to involve all levels of the production line to make decisions and suggest adjustments.
My understanding is that that was in part due to the difficulty of providing the right dosage that would provide pain relief without causing harm. Source: dad was an anesthesiologist.
It's not paranoia, but given the number of small organisms that die inside and on your body every day, it doesn't really make much sense, either.

OTOH, large numbers of people can absolutely exhibit collective paranoia. How many subscribe to Alex Jones?
uMatrix doesn't correctly work with the `<noscript>` tag, which breaks a lot of sites that attempt to implement progressive enhancement.
> To me, a point of view is to do with your subjective thoughts and value judgements. This should never involve twisting, hiding or being selective about objective facts.

You cannot avoid that, as subjective point of view cannot avoid impacting perception of the relevance and importance of objective facts (which directly effects selection and the perception of “hiding”), and also what the important relations between those facts are, which affects organization and thereby the perception of “twisting”.
Yes, I've read that.
Because it leads to bad economic choices by the rich and that doesn't actually help anyone. Just recently we had a discussion on how those in Hollywood avoided the high marginal rates:https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-01-29/hollyw...

With high marginal rates, the tax shelters the Hollywood rich invested in were less productive investments. Yes high marginal rates will lead to more CPA hours to get around the high taxes, but that is just an example of the Broken Window fallacy. When there is no way around them, very high rates will lead to dead weight losses to the economy as economic activity won't be done.
Google's services, of course.

Is it worth it?
NIST didn't do that. The NSA did.

NIST submitted the AES candidates to the NSA for feedback and the NSA proposed S-box changes without explaining why.

Turns out hose changes made AES more resilient to differential cryptography.
JVM-Based Back End-As-a-Service
That is fair, I didn't explain that. But it is fairly simple: progressive tax systems don't reduce inequality. The US already has one of the most progressive tax systems in the world? Is it working? The US is one of the most unequal countries in the world. Look at other similar systems, are they working? Also, no...they are also amongst the most unequal in the world.

More broadly, this is totally out of step with what is happening everywhere else in the world. The US is still trying to catchup even after Trump's tax cut, the issue is that US has a tax system that is from the 1950s when capital movements between nations were essentially banned. That kind of works for the US as the dominant world power but it is becoming more unsustainable as time goes on.

Great, try new things...but what is being proposed isn't a new idea. It is more of the same. The US system is already the most progressive, it already doesn't work, and the idea is to go even further. The new idea, which is being vigorously rejected, is to just do something that actually works. Crazy, right? You don't need to believe in crazy conspiracy theories, you don't need to re-invent taxation...just do the stuff that works.
10-12 per year.

There's no limit. If the business stalls at $3k MRR (ie no Founder Earnings) it can go on running forever or shut it down. We would get a % if it was ever sold.
Awesome, thanks for the share! Would be great to integrate functionality from Zotero
The Worst Pitch Deck That Worked – And How to Do It Better
Learn relational algebra. Learn relational calculus. You'll probably want to read a book or take a class on DB theory; blog posts won't cut it.
SimpleDB is still used by Amazon's own services, it's not going anywhere.
Yes. You can take a particular latent point and generate slight variants of it. You could also apply different style/noises to change the overall appearance like orientation. Take a look at the StyleGAN paper's figures, the StyleGAN video, or the various interpolation videos people have made.
It got approved because the FCC, as a regulatory body, has no teeth. The largest-ever fine issued by the FCC was $120 million. Their attorneys probably put the total regulatory risk of non-compliance at around $1 million.

According to the article they were charging up to $1,100 per phone for the location data.

So if they sold data on 1,000 customers they're in the black on the program even after they deal with the regulatory "headache."
I wonder if it's born of habit. People a lot lower down the corporate ladder very often have access to insider information. Either directly or indirectly. When those people trade on insider info it's hard to prove/not worth going after.
It's very sad that enthusiasts running a wordpress blog to share their interests with the world now have to hire lawyers and tech experts to evaluate their sites and determine to what extent all their plugins are legally compliant or face comments assaulting them, and their comments responding stricken.

The result is that interesting and useful information being shared by amateurs is systematically being targeted and banned from the internet. Soon everything will be corporate views only thanks to these laws and their intolerant fundamentalist advocates, both which are intentionally destroying vast parts of human culture and knowledge. For this reason, these laws, and their advocates both, are extremely evil entities.
To be honest, I still have a couple years wait on the kidney but there is a non-zero change of a perfect match that gets to the head of the line. And I certainly don't want to miss that.

I do have a trick in dealing with the calls though. I answer the line but say nothing. Humans will always say something if there is silence for a while. Robocalls will just hang up. And I notice if they hangup, the chance of future calls are lower.
It could have been Deloitte, or as I convinced most of the contractors on several projects to pronounce it, "Delouche".
Were you using an unusual user agent or a VPN or something?
> Think of how much tougher it would be to put a spear into a boar if you thought it was as sentient as your mother.

I wouldn't put a spear into a boar, but from a detached and clinical perspective I don't see why its sentience would make a difference. Advanced societies like China, the Europeans and the United States don't generally have any problem fielding an aggressive expeditionary army of people nominally willing to kill sentient humans, so I suspect the blocks are more economic and cultural norms than innate.

It also seems plausible that time and breeding has equipped a large number of people with limited emotions precisely so they can stab things without worrying too much about the philosophical aspects.
http://gabriel-zucman.eu/files/PSZ2017.pdf - my reply was sufficient, you are just having trouble because it doesn't match with whatever you conclusion you jumped to without data.
This was extremely common on 4chan maybe 7 or so years back I can't remember the exact year and it worked for a very long time before anything was done about it and everyone knew to do it. Google asked for two words and presented them as two different fonts. The real word that needed transcribing was always identifiable and you could just write what you wanted as long as you got the second test word correct. Much fun was had.
Once Return Cap is fully repaid the founder can run the business profitably forever and not pay us anything more. We do typically prefer an option for a % only if the business is sold but can do a deal (with a higher Return Cap) that excludes this easily.
But Wikipedia is not even covered by the exceptions. They would have to fill all of the following criteria to not need apply upload filters:

1. Available to the public for less than 3 years,

2. Annual turnover below €10 million, and

3. Fewer than 5 million unique monthly visitors.

They fail 1 & 3 for certain. Possibly 2 as well (e.g. in 2017 WMF paid $33 million in staff salaries alone.)
What was the last time anyone real dialed me with the same first 6 digits of my phone number? Probably my elemantry school friend who lived up the block when we had landlines. These days anyone matching the first 6 digits of my phone is obviously spoofing hoping i'll pick up a 'local' call.
Rob Walling is launching something a bit similar (cannot remember the name right now). But it's aimed at bootstrapped starters who aren't planning a unicorn billionndollar exit.

Why is this now a model? Too much cash chasing too few unicorns ? Too much money lost on unicorns that cannot fly or a realisation that chasing unicorns leaves herds of perfectly good horses untended?
> But it is fairly simple: progressive tax systems don't reduce inequality.

Ceteris paribus, they do (and certainly inequality has gotten worse in the US since Reagan's tax burden shift reduced tax progressivity), but particularly progressive tax systems are often pared with spending systems with less downward redistribution (or more upward redistribution) than those they are compared with, which counteracts the effect of greater tax progressivity; the US has less downward-redistributive spending than many other developed-world systems. [0] And obviously the tax system alone has less impact on inequality the smaller share of the economy taxation represents, and while the US tax system may be unuusally progressive, but it is also unusually light for the developed world (representing, at all levels of government, about 1/4 of GDP, compared to the OECD average of around 1/3.) [1]

OTOH, the people pushing for more progressive taxes in the US today aren't pushing for that alone, they are pushing for more downwardly-redistributive spending funded by the taxes, as well, and mostly also for taxes representing a greater total share of the economy, as well.

[0] https://www.economist.com/united-states/2017/11/23/american-...

[1] https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-book/how-do-us-taxe...
Why would they bother checking the user agent when it's the easiest thing to spoof (really, you probably can't even call it spoofing)
Wow, that seems to have got closer, thank you. Spreadsheets are now created with Australian locale, although they have now lost their default timezone completely.

I'm interested whether this change will affect other Google products, in particular whether it messes up the operation of Google Assistant on my phone (possibly that can be overridden).

Cheers!
Twist: he is a robot, and when he sent them a photo, it was a robot photo. Square metal head, lights for eyes, antenna coming out the top. The works.
When people rewrite system from X where X in (Python, Ruby, Node, Clojure) to Go they usually see at least 10x improvement.

This is just one recent example:
https://www.infoq.com/articles/api-gateway-clojure-golang

The money quote:

"The end result enabled us to reduce 25 instances (c4 xlarge) running Clojure code - able to process 60 concurrent requests, to two instances (c3.2xlarge) running Go code able to support ~5000 concurrent requests a minute"

If you google around you'll find more stories like that.

To do better than Go you would have to drop to C++ or Rust.
Don's Maps / Paleolithic European, Russian and Australian Archaeology
It wasn't dead, but I hadn't updated it in awhile and it wasn't the most popular thing in the world.
It seems to me that the text of such law is literally terrorist propaganda, and thus anyone who reads it should logically be prosecuted under it.
A city will only grow as big as it takes a citizen to travel from one end of the city to the other in about an hour or so. If forced to make a suggestion, I would say create a superb transportation service so people could traverse the city quickly and thereby could afford houses and apartments in outlying areas.
I'm also not terribly convinced that the earlier rules would help against the current spate of robocalls
Here's an interesting scenario which obtained in one of the courts that the arbitration refugees are dying to get into:

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/...
I really appreciate your expertise and that you're taking the time to correct the sometimes overeager amateurs in this thread. But can I suggest you tone down the unnecessary invectives? It's true that there ought to be some social penalty paid when people give confident wrong answers -- it's a pet peeve of mine -- but I think it's sufficient to just say something like "Your comment is incorrect. Here's why, in detail. Please don't project so much false confidence next time." That still stings for the other person to hear, as it should, but it leaves them much more likely to want to learn more. And it's much less likely to escalate into a fight that distracts from the main subject.
We are mainly focused on the early stage when a business loan (ie no personal gaurantee) isn't an option. I went the route you described (racking up $50k credit card debt) to launch my SaaS business and it sucked. That said a business loan could be a great option for more mature businesses with solid cash flow (hopefully at much less than 20-30%!)