skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article is either slightly disingenuous or just structured less than ideally:
"It’s perfectly legal, but is it right?"
but then shortly after..."A post office box or a studio apartment somewhere on the east coast? They’ve seen it before. Claiming that your significant other and kids live in California — but you don’t? Good luck with that."

That's not legal tax avoidance. That's downright tax evasion and is a crime. If you are making false claims on your tax returns that's flatly illegal. Full stop. Do not pass go. Do not collect $200. Some of these claims made aren't very debatable or up to much interpretation. Saying you live somewhere but you don't is lying and when done on official documents that's illegal and a form of fraud - in this case evasion. You can't claim to live on the East coast but then somehow work in Silicon Valley everyday and your family lives in CA.
Yeah, the big fear here in Texas is that they're all going to move down here with their California liberal sensibilities and vote in a state income tax here, too.
If I'm reading this right, the core of the argument is that since any continuous function is can be approximated via a taylor series expansion, then activation functions can be seen, in-effect, as polynomial in nature, and since a neuron layer is a linear transformation followed by an activation function, the the whole system is polynomial.

That's "technically" correct, but it feels like an academic cop-out. Interesting/useful transfer functions tend to be functions that take very large expansions to be approximated with any accuracy.
Or all the other states with plenty of high paying tech jobs
>If you’re hanging out in California for nine months or more in a year, you’re considered a Californian. But even if you’re there for shorter periods, the state can still consider it your domicile if the fact pattern shows that you’re treating California like your real, true home. And that’s why advisers recommend that the megarich do a ton of sometimes unpleasant things to establish a real domicile elsewhere.

This is a key point in the article. California goes out of its way to bend the rules in its favor, and to claim certain people are residents when a basic residency test does not determine that they live there. I have previously read horror stories of people hounded for years, having to fight it out, and either paying taxes they do not owe or accumulating late fees for taxes that they should not owe.

It is fair to set a stricter, objective, residency test. But it isn't fair to treat people the way they are doing it now.
You are not wrong, but by per capita it is less.

Page 26.
UNITED STATES ATTORNEYS’ OFFICES FEDERAL PUBLIC CORRUPTION CONVICTIONS BY DISTRICT OVER THE PAST DECADE
(https://www.justice.gov/criminal/file/1096306/download)
"During its early years, Xerox was not able to capitalize on the market potential of the research and development that was getting done at PARC. The benefit of that work accrued to other companies.
During its early years, Xerox was not able to capitalize on the market potential of the research and development that was getting done at PARC. The benefit of that work accrued to other companies. For example, Apple launched the Macintosh Computer in 1984. This personal computer featured the GUI and a mouse, which for that era, was a revolutionary new innovation.

But Apple had not invented the GUI or the mouse. This brilliant work had been done by the scientists at Xerox PARC. So why was it Apple and not Xerox that was launching a product in 1984 and benefiting from PARC’s great inventions? The answer to that question lies in the fact that R&D and invention are not enough. In order to innovate successfully, companies need frameworks, tools and processes that can help them take their inventions from ideas to commercial success."
A major issue is that California pays for its own stuff, but it also has to pay for most other states’ stuff as well.

A lot of other states get by with lower state tax simply because they are net receivers of federal taxes which supplements stuff Californians pay for themselves.
Or someone who has already a shitton of money just stop trying to get the most out of it Everytime.
“Damned if you do, damned if you dont”? I won’t
The problem with that at scale is that some people can sneak in spite where there looks to be none and others hear spite where there is none.
Hyundai Working with IBM to Improve Customer Experience via Blockchain Tech
As someone that lives in the Bay Area, I wouldn't mind it if our taxes were being used effectively. But we do so little with so much. The state of our infrastructure, public transit and the homeless situation is embarrassing. Especially in SF.

The conversation about taxes always seems to be so shallow to the point of being binary. One side saying we need to increase taxes to fix things, the other saying we need to decrease them.

What about efficiency? We can do a lot more with what we have.
That is stunning! The part about copper and solder got me wondering if it would be possible to create some primitive circuits for... something?
But if you increase the number of passengers flying, you also have to increase the capacity of your terminals. That's the issue I think the OP was suggesting: if an airport can't expand due to limited space, how does it handle more passengers in its terminals? The answer is obviously more efficient security and loading practices to reduce the amount of time people are waiting for their flight, but if anything that seems to be going the opposite direction
The only constant in the world is change.
I live in California for the weather and the fact that other people are here. Government services and infrastructure are below average, in my opinion. Infrastructure is serviceable where I live (Los Angeles) but not reflective of the massive income of the state.

Without the weather, Los Angeles would lose a huge amount of its appeal. All it would have left is the simple fact that a lot of people already live here. But with its weather, it's like a year-round paradise to many people.
Ridiculous comment. I live in VA and we're doing quite well thank you. Silicon Valley incomes without the state corruption. Our problem is electing a decent governor apparently. I'll take VA over California every time.
Fair enough, let's assume that in the previous analogy I am actually the parent footing the hospital bill. If I know for certain that you are going to recover, and I can afford it, but decide to let you die anyway, is that really significantly better?

However, I do acknowledge that there are exceptional circumstances, such as the birth posing a health risk to the mother, both mother and child being likely to die if delivery is attempted, etc. That would be the case of "not being able to afford it" in my analogy, or the significant personal risk you mention (at least I assume that's what you mean, as normal pregnancy is nowhere near a significant risk, with the current maternal death rate being 1 in 10,000). In those cases, I'd be willing to agree with you.
> Easily the most corrupt state I've ever seen

You have obviously not spent significant time in New Jersey or Louisiana.
http://womanofsteele.blogspot.com/2007/11/hater-mikeeusa.htm...

Wow. Some of the stuff this guy has supposedly written sounds like an Anders Breivik in the making. Certainly pushing free speech to the limits (and beyond).
It is quite possible that people who drink diet coke also drink coke. So separating the groups could have been interesting.
That's correct. Articles/tutorials or an evangelizing fan often show the end result: the cool command/pipeline that does something cool and useful. The obvious question when someone unfamiliar with unix upon seeing something like the pipeline in this article:

comm -1 -3 <(ls -1 dataset-directory | \
grep '\d\d\d\d_A.csv' | \
cut -c 1-4 | \
python3 parse.py | \
uniq \
) \
<(seq 500)

is "Why would I want to write a complicated mess like that?" Just use ${FAVORITE_PROG_LANG:-Perl, Ruby, or whatever}". For many tasks, a short paragraph of code in a "normal" programming language is probably easier to write and is almost certainly a more robust, easier to maintain solution. However, this assumes that you knew what the problem was and that qualities like maintainability are a goal.

Bernhardt's (and my) point is that sometimes you don't know what the goal is yet. Sometimes you just need to do a small, one-off task where a half-assed solutions might be appropriate... iff it's the right half of the ass. Unix shell gets that right for a really useful set of tasks.

This works because you are free to utilize that powerful features incrementally, as needed. The interactive nature of the shell lets you explore the problem. The "better" version in a "proper" programming language doesn't exist when you don't yet know the exact nature of the problem. A half-assed bit of shell code that slowly evolved into something useful might be the step between "I have some data" and a larger "real" programming project.

That said, there is also wisdom in learning to recognize when your needs have outgrown "small, half-assed" solutions. If the project is growing and adding layers of complexity, it's probably time to switch to a more appropriate tool.
And given A350-1000 and 777-8/9 order books, very few situations call for even these...

Most of the traffic growth is being eaten by the smaller planes that are getting quite a bit bigger: 50 regional seaters are being replaced by 100 seaters, A319/A320 are being replaced by A320/A321, etc. Meanwhile the bigger planes are getting smaller: 747 being downsized to 777-300ER, A350-900 or even 787-9.
Another interesting tangent I've been curious in is networked storage.

The algorithms (protocols like AWS SRD and Infiniband RD) [0][1] and hardware (network gears and protocol specific ASICs or FGPAs) used to get to 100gbps and beyond over tech like RoCE, Infiniband+RDMA, Elastic Fabric Adapter are in themselves interesting for a clear reason that these are complex distributed systems in their own right with high availability, super low latency, and considerable throughput.

Other networking tech enables not just reliable storage over network (either block devices like EBS or filesystems like EFS or Lustre) but also things like content delivery at internet scale [2].

[0] https://mobile.twitter.com/_msw_/status/1067280447732740097?...

[1] https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/ssw_aix_71/co...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17347355
Nonsense. They just send collectors after you unless the delinquency is epic in scale, and even then, they just send better collectors after you unless you show some kind of contempt.

What a bizarre mentality. Enjoy having a large portion of your 'high paying job' eaten up by real estate costs and taxes while people who move out of CA laugh at you all the way to the bank.
Show HN: Neural Poetry (for Valentine's Day)
I especially liked his CCC talk "Seeing The Secret State: Six Landscapes" [1] a lot.

[1]: https://media.ccc.de/v/30C3_-_5604_-_en_-_saal_1_-_201312282...
Apache Flink: Batch as a Special Case of Streaming
I really don't get the recent hype around this topic. Sideloading pirated apps on android is a click on a button and a checkbox. Solving it seems close to impossible, without seriously compromising the users freedom to install apks and privacy.

Apple on the other end has a finite list of issued developer certificates and an even smaller list of enterprise certificates. If some are abused, it's as easy as revoking them, given iOS regularly checks the OCSP.

I guess they just spy less on their users, which for example means iOS might not phone home telemetry data of every app an user installs, which makes it harder to catch abuse immediatly. Also since taking down a small number of pirated apps might not directly translate into an equivalent revenue in legit app purchases (as the industry might claim), I guess there isn't too much of an economic incentive for Apple to enforce their TOS immediatly.
I Bought a House with Solar Panels
Not to mention that as a practical matter, the ability to train a neural network with backpropagation is important to get results that actually converge in a reasonable amount of time. It's not useful to say "but you could just use a polynomial regression" if you can't actually generate the equivalent polynomial regression in the same amount of time that you can train a neural network.
Notably, the folding tips on the 777x get the wingspan down to the original 777 span.

Theyre in the middle of building what I think was the first 777x. We saw it in the Everett factory last Friday.
As someone on the team, it's not the licensing change. The post is correct when it says we've been slowly working on this since 2016. The license change certainly validates the decision, but it was made for purely technical reasons.
Always had it in my mind that 10k is mastery of a topic and not as stated in that text that it makes perfect.
There is in general two main methods for revoking a license:

1), US copyright law (17 U.S. Code § 203), which allow the author to terminate a granted license after about 35-40 years. not extremely relevant in software and the people on the linux kernel mailing list will need to wait an other 7 or so more years before it can become relevant in the kernel.

2) License and legal interpretation. The author can change their interpretation of the license and how it interacts with copyright law. This is much more relevant within the context of the linux kernel since there are proprietary kernel modules that the Linux Foundation members own. Nothing prevents an author to de-facto revoke a implicit/passive/unwritten permission for such combinations.

Beside those two there really isn't any realistic method of revoking a license once legally released under an open license.
Quite - Leftists reframe the question "Why do you need that money?" when the one we should be asking is "Why is the state entitled to it?"
> the actual question (what is the purpose of CAPTCHA)

This assessment isn't quite right. The actual question is about how the captcha differentiates between a human and a bot at the box checking stage.

You're right, though, that it is both full of filler and also doesn't address the question as posed at all.

> Why can’t a bot tick the 'I'm not a robot' box?

It can, by taking over the mouse...except...

LUCKILY, the top answer (on my screen at least it's https://www.quora.com/Why-can-t-a-bot-tick-the-Im-not-a-robo...) does actually try to answer the question.

I feel like the OP submission might have just been some sort of submarine self-promotion for the "CEO of <redacted>".
If I'd hit the startup jackpot and found myself with $10M of stock, and wanted to turn it into cash, I think I could afford $1.3M of tax. The remaining $8.7M would keep me pretty comfortable for now.
You could use uniq -u to avoid the awk.
Cotton paper
It’s becoming more purple instead of a red or a blue state, so it wouldn’t take much.
>Alter’s Bible doesn’t seek that kind of canonical status; it is not out to replace the Hebrew Bible, but to engage in a dialogue with it.

The idea of engaging in a dialogue with the Bible is very important. It should not be viewed as books set in stone, but as living documents that speak to us today.

'Then said he unto them, Therefore every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old.' (Matthew 13:52)
This may well be the most interesting hypothesis for why I rely so heavily on these I've ever seen.

Are you aware of any research on this idea?
You're just restating the premise. That's not an argument. Why do you define whatever-it-is-you're-calling-stealing as stealing, and why is benefiting from your parents' earnings moral?
Ill sell you a bot that bypasses Google Catcha for 920$
....that's true! :)

edit: and re-reading my comment I feel it can come across like a manipulative sociopath comment, but I can assure you all that's not what I am. Though, that's exactly what a manipulative sociopath would say.
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Glass is a perfectly good circuit board material. Here's a company offering it commercially:

http://www.hoyaoptics.com/gcb/index.htm
Likewise here in Washington state. All the Californians are fleeing here and implementing the exact same polices that drove them to leave. Odd.
If you liked DDIA, you'll love Andy Pavlo's Advanced Database Systems course on the CMU Database Group's Youtube channel. Its about 30 hours long, fairly easy to follow, and focused on state-of-the-art database systems.
Nothing "suspicious" about it.

Red Hat also explicitly evicted Mongo from RHEL 8 because of the SSPL [0], and they have a longstanding policy of only shipping OSS.

It's no secret, and they've been very upfront about not shipping anything SSPL.

[0] Previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18919543
Key Takeaways from Zero to One
A thousand years from now, perhaps Harry potter fans will be literally waging war on star wars fans
What specifically about the infrastructure are you objecting to besides the aesthetic?
Bankruptcy is how we sever that claim, and requires a legal process. If we as a society didn't have a bankruptcy process what would the consequence of this kind of lending be?
Ha. Well, I'd be annoyed.
Google Translate is a manifestation of Wittgenstein’s theory of language
It sounds trivial but it's not always that easy. I was on a flight from Narita to SeaTac that got a nice jetstream tailwind of around 200mph for most of the cruise. The same applied to another flight from Incheon to SeaTac.

Both of these flights were originally scheduled to land around 8am. They landed around 5am so they had 2 CBP officers on shift to handle a 767 and a 777's worth of people. That mess ate up the entire gain of arriving early.

They would have known about the early arrival not too much earlier than the departure time (order of hours, not days), which isn't really enough time to shift people's work schedules.
Is there something inherent in the A380 design that makes it less fuel-efficient, or is it just that the engines are of an older design than the newest planes?

(I'm guessing it may be as simple as there's 4 engines instead of 2?)
Really nice software, switched from Postico several months ago, no regrets. The UI is perfect, it's fast.
Don't the Polgár sisters contradict the author?
They bailed out AIG creditors fully, a lot of bank execs got to keep big bonuses for blowing up the financial system. Almost nobody got prosecuted. They went way too easy on the banks.

The bailouts should have been a payday loan with punishing interest rates. Instead the bailouts showed that all the talk about creative destruction and free markets where the strong survive applies only to the little guy who loses his job or home . As soon as the big guys feel the pain the rules get changed quickly.
> No, not really..

Seeing as they're talking about 99% of the world elsewhere, it is reasonable to consider sales tax and VAT other than just the US. The vast majority of the worlds population live in countries with VAT rates at or above 13%

Only 3 European countries have VAT rates below 17% (Liechtenstein, Andorra and Switzerland). 19 countries in the Americas have VAT rates at 13% or above. 16 Asian countries (including China and India) have VAT rates at 13% or above. Only 8 of 55 African countries have VAT below 13%

Most also have capital gains tax and dividend taxes well over 13%
> If this somple thing comes from a popular WordPress plugin the equation for the spammer changes, of course.

Exactly :)
Why Highly Efficient Leaders Fail
Apparently this guy is a dick.

https://blog.valerieaurora.org/2018/07/01/bryan-cantrill-has...

Also, why does he deserve a Wikipedia page?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryan_Cantrill
This blogger is not very credible... have a sample of some of his other posts

http://greyenlightenment.com/2017/12/
Maybe you could walk me through the thought process of how a person fleeing an area for $REASON would then turn around and try to institute said $REASON in their new home. Because not a single Eastern European immigrant I knew in the 80s thought Communism was a good idea.

So you’re either being facetious and I fell for it, or Texas could use a state income tax to bump up their public education game.
Funny Texas looks comparable at a glance in number of corruption convictions, and somehow manages to do this at 0% income tax rate. Kinda rankles less when you don't have to pay for it.
Space for people isn't that big of an issue because the terminal takes up a small part of the airport and they can always build up.
Texas has the highest maternal mortality rate in the developed world, so perhaps that would be a good thing.
Here's a widget to play with:
https://love.imaginary.org/

The time actually has a write up on the formula too
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/14/science/math-algorithm-va...
And smaller planes flying more frequently yield a better experience for the customer, too. There's more flight times to choose from, boarding doesn't take as long, and there's many more jetways available for smaller planes at airports.
I don't think this is true. Last time I checked, the supermarket default options are still Coke/Pepsi/etc with 11g sugar per 100ml and zero artificial sweeteners.

I haven't seen any sugar/sweetener mixes even after the sugar tax - they are either full-on sugar or zero-sugar.
I lived in Seattle in 1993 and people were saying the same thing then. I know that sounds like a snarky throw away comment, but my point is just that people thought the same thing in 1993. I don't know if it's different now, could be.
React is changing how we think again
Show HN: Mulle-match-to-cmake generate cmake files from the filesystem
Why does a 13% tax to California bother you if a 13 percentage point increase in tax to some other entity doesn’t? Is it dislike of California? Dislike of state taxes?

This reminds me of an experiment I read in - I think - Nudge. A random group of people were given the scenario of being at a store and about to buy a box of chocolate for $10. Just before they purchase it they find out they can buy it at a store a few blocks away for $5. Most said they would go to the other store.

Another group of random people were asked the same scenario but with a tuxedo costing $1500. The competitor store a few blocks alway sold the tuxedo for $1495. Most said they would not go to the other store for just a $5 decrease in cost.
Governments already do a lot to protect people from themselves - the changes to Fixed-Odds Betting Terminals here in the UK being an example:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-44148285

I'd also love to know what percentage of people getting payday loans really understand how compound interest works and how it will impact them (for reasons of poor education, stress etc.).
Let's compare to the results for The Black Panther (a primarily black cast).

The Force Awakens:

US Box: $937M

Foreign Box: $1.132M

Chinese Box: $124M

The Black Panther:

US Box: $700M

Foreign Box: $647M

Chinese Box: $105M

The Black Panther outperformed in China compared to The Force Awakens as a % of it's domestic box office and as a % of it's total foreign box office.
Babylonian Tablet Proves Pythagoras Did Not Invent Pythagorian Theorem
Often when I have seen it escalate to that level it has been due to the individual being criticized being totally oblivious to anything more subtle.
The wordpress page doesn't mention it but with "Neural Networks" they appear to mean "only" traditional deep neural networks, so no CNNs for example, which they categorize as "preprocessing".
Which is a legitimate view, I've seen it expressed in other places as well, but if you hear "neural networks" then you usually mean the entire thing and not just the fully connected and softmax readout layers at the end.
The sort of funny aspect of bringing up that local CA non-state police responded to the Youtube shooting is that having your office shot up by a radical Iranian vegan Youtuber is also only something that could happen in California.