skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find a distinct difference in the moral justification between civil suit plaintiffs and criminal court defense attorneys.

Edit: Perhaps could be clearer. I feel like attorneys for civil suit plaintiffs have latitude to use their moral compass in deciding whether to take a case. Much more so than a criminal defense attorney.
This sample suggests to me the AI arguably better-than-average-human writing and story composition skills.
The article says Sunrun's shares rose when California decided to mandate solar panels on new constructions starting 2020. This doesn't really make sense to me. The reason stated was that developers don't like to install solar because it inflates the sticker price, but if you're taking out a mortgage, then you're probably looking at a payback timeline similar to the 20 year lease Sunrun offers. I don't really see how it makes sense not to take on the 5-10% (depending on installation size and house price of course) extra mortgage for what should be a cheaper overall cost over a similar timespan.
>In addition to vigorously opposing this case in court, we created and sponsored Project Jengo to push back against the incentives that empower patent trolls like Blackbird Tech. Now that the case is over, we will be wrapping up Project Jengo and will report back with a summary of the Project’s successes in the near future.

I don't understand... Couldn't they expand the project to help others in a similar situation?
I think few people believe things that have absolutely no justifiable basis behind them. Flat earthing, as perhaps some example of that, is in my opinion more about attention seeking behavior mixed with a bit of trolling than something people genuinely believe. But on normal issues, I think there are generally two sides to tell. And even if one side may be framed as being unjustified, so long as it is fairly represented I don't think people would generally take offense to it. The vaccination issue is a great example. I fully support vaccinations, but I also like to research all sides of issues and I was surprised to see how much of a difference there is between the way anti-vax types are popularly portrayed and their actual views.

In general people simply castigate anti-vax as completely misinformed people who know absolutely nothing. This [1] is a rather monumental report from the National Academy of Sciences that took an extremely in depth look at this topic. In that 866 page report they analyze the data on correlations between vaccines and all sorts of nasty things. And one phrase you might find worth ctrl+fing is "The evidence is inadequate to accept or reject a causal relationship between". You'll find it repeated constantly throughout the report as the academy researchers come to their conclusion on the validity (or lack thereof) of a causal link between vaccines and all sorts of nasty stuff. And for many of these nasty correlations while the evidence is insufficient claim a causal link, it's also insufficient to reject it.

Of course this does not justify turning against vaccinations. Even if there is a causal link found between vaccines and some of these various issues, the possibility of significant numbers of people choosing to not vaccinate would be catastrophic. For instance we're right now on the cusp of completely eliminating polio, much as we did smallpox. In fact you are currently more likely to get polio from a vaccine than in the wild. And some people might use that as a reason to stop vaccinating. But if they did, that would rapidly change. The one and only thing that's bringing us to where we are is people choosing to vaccinate. So it comes down to a matter of social responsibility. Vaccines are not without risk but whatever risk there is greatly outweighed by the collective benefits.

So should you vaccinate? Absolutely. Yet I don't think any anti-vaxer would feel slighted by such comments. And I think you can provide a similarly fair treatment to most of all controversial issues today. The reason one side or another tends to think the other side is completely idiotic tends to get back to our divisions in society. People attribute disagreement on issues to stupidity or lack of knowledge without bothering to see why people feel the way they do.

[1] - http://nationalacademies.org/HMD/Reports/2011/Adverse-Effect...
Here's the sequence that worked for me, though it may be possible to go straight to step 4, idk:

1. Stop drinking. Enough said there.

2. Get away from work for a week or two. Go on a vacation and remove all your VPN, Outlook, etc from your computer and your phone. Tell your coworkers you will be off the grid, and trust them to handle whatever might arise (they can!). Remove any bookmarks related to work. Do everything you can to keep work out of your mind and hard to access.

3. Get rid of other distractions while you're away. For me it's books. So don't take books with you or go anywhere near a bookstore. (My inlaws' house was great for this!). Remove time suck apps from your phone, bookmarks from your browsers, and set up website blockers for HN etc.

3a. Quit expecting to find enlightenment by reading. A quote from some "Einstein" guy: "Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."

4. Get started. There was an article a few days ago about writing a book in 10 min per day. The important part is doing something each day. Start one day by writing 10 min of code toward the thing you've been thinking about. (10 min of thinking doesn't count). And make that dedication to do so every day. For the first few days you'll probably find 10 minutes going to ten hours, and you'll have made some meaningful progress on the thing you've been thinking about.

Eventually life will take over again but you have to keep the commitment to the 10 minutes. And whatever it turns into each day. This can be done with work, school, kids, etc.

And since you've already removed the distractions, don't bring them back for a while. You'll get used to life without them and eventually you won't need them anymore. And it's amazing how the quality of life improves without the constant tug to follow every inane analysis of every inane tweet by Trump or AOC (if you're not a billionaire there's nothing you can do about it anyway--sure vote and campaign etc but following tweets doesn't help that, and if it's important enough news you'll find out somehow), or every iPhone rumor or whatever else consumes too many neurons for you currently.

And seriously, get away from work when you're away from work. Evenings included. The always-connected thing is not as necessary as it seems, and the modern ideal of it seems to be a bane on our individualism as a species. Make logging in, checking emails, etc during off-hours the exception to the norm.
Why? Aren't all merge requests a WIP until they are merged?
The lower court can set a precedent too.
Help me understand something -- right now my workflow is to create a new branch when I'm working on a new feature. One branch per feature. I check in frequently and push up so my work is saved.

Sometimes I ask people to look at the code in progress when I want opinions on architecture or just overall code quality.

When I think the feature is ready for merging, I'll create a pull request.

How does a draft PR help me? What do I get with a draft PR that I don't already have?

I assume it's a good idea, and everyone here seems to think so too, so I think I'm missing something obvious.

Edit: Lots of great points below, mostly pointing out features that I don't really use a lot, which is why I didn't see the improvement. Thanks everyone!
> Russia with a 13% flat tax

That's a common misconception. Yes, personal tax rate is 13%, but your employer will have to pay for health insurance (5.1), social services (2.9), and pension fund (22). Overall, you get closer to 43% flat tax rate.

The big difference is - you never see these moneys in the first place. Your paycheck is a net pay, all deducts are applied by the accounting department and only 13% rate is widely advertised as one the lowest in the world.
It erodes discussion by slowly acidifying it. It's not that the remark was so bad in itself—it's that these effects compound, and if we allow them to compound very much, the problem will no longer be fixable. That's why we often ask people not to do this, even when they only did it a little.
Ask HN: How to keep up with all the great content out there?
I have 4 books still inside their amazon package that I haven't even opened yet, and a spreadsheet that lists the books I want to read with about 70 items in it.
I have over 100 tabs opened in firefox right now, mostly great articles and the reddit/HN comments associated with them, along with several hours of video to watch.
I have several bookmarks categories filled with research papers saved over the last few months.

I am not just hoarding data I don't think. I spend a lot of time going through all this and I enjoy it a lot. But my backlog of things to consume feels like a bottomless pit.

Are there any methods out there to consume content more efficiently? I already watch my video sped up, what can I do to read and understand more efficiently? Surely there has to be a studying optimization algorithm
That's not a “discussion on the pros and cons of those two approaches”; that's a skewed story about just one part of a particular review of an exercise done in a particular historical context. (More on that here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18699718)

Not that there isn't some merit to McIllroy's criticism (I know some of the frustration from trying to read Knuth's programs carefully), but at least link to the original context instead of a blog post that tells a partial story:

https://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/cs257/archive/don-knuth/pearls-...

https://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/cs257/archive/don-knuth/pearls-...

(One of the places where McIlroy admits his criticism was "a little unfair": https://www.princeton.edu/~hos/mike/transcripts/mcilroy.htm)

BTW, there's a wonderful book called “Exercises in Programming Style” (a review here: https://henrikwarne.com/2018/03/13/exercises-in-programming-...) that illustrates many different solutions to that problem (though as it happens it does not include Knuth's WEB program or McIllroy's Unix pipeline).
It's a bit of work, but what I've done in the past is to set the default ringtone to a silent ring tone (or the mosquito one if you're old enough and want to annoying your kids), then for each of your contacts set a custom ringtone. Doesn't scale well if you've got a lot of contacts to deal with.
It might. He talks about revenue but not about profit. So we dpn't really know much about his costs, aside from him mentioning that he was spending a meaningful amount on insurance.

It could very well be that acquisition cost was quite reasonable, and he may have talked about this elsewhere. I just don't think the IH interview tells us enough to know for sure one way or the other.
> ivory tower dumping on red states

If dumping on ostensible conservatives for wantonly doling out government largesse is wrong, I don't want to be right.

That said, FWIW, the greater context here is an article about New York getting in on the game, too.
Ask HN: Data scientists, what is your research environment?
I'm looking to improve my stack. How do you:

* Pull in and clean your data

* Investigate your data (e.g. bad datapoints, slice and dice)

* Share and discuss your results

* Keep track of all the experiments you've ran
If the Boston Marathon bomber was suing the government for not letting him set more bombs off, and a law firm was helping him file that suit, yeah, they should be condemned.

Everybody has a right to a defense. But helping somebody attack another party is unethical.
IT never works out for the city/tax payer.

Stop Padding Billionaires’ Profits by Paying for Sports Stadiums

https://ritholtz.com/2018/07/stop-padding-billionaires-profi...
It sounds like you've concluded that there's nothing they could do at this point, and should just pack their bags.

How did you reach that conclusion?
I drink a whole lot of diet soda, and I'm skinny. (If I lost 10 pounds, I'd have an "underweight" BMI.)

Of course, I also drank diet soda when I was overweight. And it's fair to say that when I switched from regular soda to diet, I was hoping it would help me lose weight.

Diet sodas appeal to people who are looking for an easy answer to the problem of losing weight. It just so happens in my case I eventually found and committed to a not-easy answer.

I still drink diet sodas for two reasons. One is that I enjoy the variety. At times I have drunk just tea and water, but I get bored with that. The other is I do feel like they make it marginally easier for me to maintain a healthy weight. Without them, I'd probably indulge in non-diet sodas from time to time.
Oh the post is a good one. What I was drawing attention to is that manifold hypothesis and the compression hypothesis are different concepts. The compression hypothesis is more general to the point of being a definition. It holds true regardless of whether the low dimensional manifold property holds or not.
But the inspirations have almost entirely not come from the stuff that makes Bitcoin and "blockchains" unique. If they realized that people want an easy way to have their assets managed and traded digitally they can do it much better without blockchain baggage.
Scannable templates using some third party ML/AI service like tensorflow could be a neat business to develop.
It certainly means revenue for the city but we don't know that it means profit. All of those people are going to generate trash, take the subway and consume city services. Why shouldn't Amazon pay like everyone else?
Microsoft starts testing a version of Windows 10 it won’t release until 2020
>taxes that otherwise wouldn't be paid at all.

That is fallacy of excluded other possibilities. Especially for a place like NYC.

I generally like AMZN, nevertheless I'm happy just on sheer principle that the bullying behavior by the 800lb gorilla didnt succeed this time.
It can, but it made a summary judgment. My understanding is that precedent isn't set with a summary judgement.
Unless I am mistaken, DTCC doesn’t provide any trust for internal account balances at JPMC. It only provides trust for the details of transfers. These tokens provide trust before and after transfers. The tokens themselves actually provide no trust during transfers and the transfers are only allowed by trusted parties as a result.

Also, DTCC only handles securities not currency so this doesn’t exist at all.

What actually you should be arguing is that the JP coin and the DTCC need to be combined as they each only provide trust in a certain part of the ecosystem.
That’s assuming that space would be left empty. Which in NYC is unlikely.
That's one way to look at it.

Another way would be that only taxing the jobs, and all the economic activity they might generate would still not cover the strain that the company would put on the local system.

Now they need to start taxing Wall St. heavily.
The difference is whether the author of the pull request considers his code not ready for review or not. Both are work in progress but they need different treatment.
But it was never going to be "quickly." See:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-the-amazon-invasion-in-new-...
I don't think corruption can be measured by arrests, as the mechanisms to arrest the corrupt are themselves corruptible. Nor do I think that per-capita is the correct way to compare jurisdictions of dissimilar sizes. With corruption, it is not the number of residents that matters, but the organization of the independently corruptible units of government, and the amounts of money that can be quietly sucked out of them.

The desired metric--that we want to approximate from the more easily obtainable data--is corruption profits per corruptible individual. Each corruptible individual has an incentive to move to places where that metric is higher, thus performing sleazebag arbitrage between those areas where corruption is endemic.

Are the examples you cited outliers, with explainable reasons for poorly fitting the trend?

Could it be that they are all territories, where crimes of corruption by officials at lower levels in the administrative hierarchy would be investigated by the federal Dept. of Justice from the start, without any states' attorneys-general getting a crack at them first or asking the feds for assistance or joint prosecution? If you separate out DC and the island territories, does the remainder of the set hold up?
I've been using Riot daily for several years, and this 1.0 version seems to work really well. Like any major UI change it's going to take me a while to get used to the slightly different mechanics. Overall it looks more modern than the prior versions.
>The realtor sounds extremely negligent to not correctly inform the buyer about the true situation until after offer is made.

Its par for the course - realtors rarely know anything at all about the property they are selling other than what the MLS says (and the MLS is often inaccurate and/or missing information). I was looking at a house and asked if the fireplace was functional and the seller's agent answered with "I don't live here, so I don't know." Another time, back when I was looking to rent, I asked about laundry facilities in the building, she was like "idk." Neither even offered to get an answer for me.
This could be very useful, but it doesn't require blockchains in any way.
U.S. Push Against Huawei Gear Hits an Obstacle: Carriers That Love It
Thank you for the report. We have work to do to enable private modes and other environments where cookies/local storage are restricted.
> How is it that other nations/jurisdictions can have lower taxes than the USA

The US has substantially lower tax burden (share of GDP in taxes) than the OECD average, about 1/4 of GDP collared to about 1/3 as the OECD average.

> Russia with a 13% flat tax

Russia has a 13% flat income tax, but also has a national VAT (with different rates, not sure what the overall average is), and a social insurance tax that is regressive and has a rate of 26% up to about 3/4 of the median income.
IMHO (deep) feature engineering is important in these cases:

o the lower the level of representation the more important it is to increase the level of abstraction by learning or defining manually new features

o in the presence of (fine-grained) raster (automated) feature engineering is especially important. Therefore, feature engineering is important in audio analysis (1d raster) and video analysis (2d raster).
That was one of the big motivations for the California High Speed rail. Take a bunch of the short haul load off the airports.

It's disheartening both that Gov Newsom wants to kill it and how ecstatic people are about that. The 'can't do' culture is very strong in the US.
Columbus is considered the midwest? It is North and EAST of Nashville.
Dumb question: is an ISA really proprietary? Like I can't make an ARM emulator without violating some IP law? Or just an ARM physical chip?
Email the authors, one of them will be delighted to email it to you.
> would have to be public data by now

Show me the public data source where I could conceivably find that out and I'll do "please provide evidence of the data that has been overlooked". Because I don't think that data source exists.

I don't think you realize how opaque tax records are in many places. You seem to be implying that there is a way for the public - or even journalists - to acquire the tax and assessment information of individual companies. Attempting to do so is considered fraud in most jurisdictions (e.g. attempting to use a FOIA request for the personal information - including tax records - of someone else or a business of which you are not an officer).
Who's pitching "but blockchain"?

While you show clear ridicule for some sort of "blockchain fad", I don't see anyone pitching a solution here.

I see JPM literally implementing one, and I would assume there is a cost reduction they've calculated.
but to purposefully turn it into a show

A big difference is that contrived drama is at the very core of the entertainment business of professional sports. It makes for much of the entertainment! It's less helpful in the more mundane enterprise of 'building a bunch of offices and warehouses'.
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Facebook Says It May Remove Anti-Vaccine Recommendations
Great whites may have wiped out the biggest shark that ever lived
Very interesting article! It answered some questions I've had for a long time.

I'm curious about how this works in practice. Is it always good enough to take the outputs of the next-to-last layer as features? When doing quick iterations, I assume the images in the data set have been run through the big net as a preparation step? And the inputs to the net you're training is the features? Does the new net always only need 1 layer?

What are some examples of where this worked well (except for the flowers mentioned in the article)?
What if you came in and bought something at a discount and then took way more than you payed for...

That's more like what they were going to do.
Could be interesting if this could be used with electro-opaque privacy glass.
The 'Salt Queen' working to transform the health of a nation
I used to call it "startup theater." In the ad industry it's called "struggle porn."
That's literally paid by those employee taxes? Unless you'd rather more homeless and drug addicts move in, which it seems is what NYC local politicians wanted.
Someone suggested this on my team. I personally don’t like the idea because these policies often times lead to bureaucracy and then nothing getting released. It is not that I am against thinking ahead but if i have to in details explain everything I do, then more time is spent documenting than actually creating which is the part I enjoy.
Half the reason for these agreements is because they generally do want all your intellectual property: it means that there's less risk of one of their entrepreneurial employees quitting and starting a competitor, even in an ostensibly unrelated sector.
Except it's not really just 25,000 jobs, right? It's increased stress on already struggling infrastructure. It's higher prices and increased gentrification in the same neighborhood that has the largest public housing development in the entire country. It's people who will need mail and emergency services and schools for their kids.

All those things cost money. Usually, that money would come from taxing residents and local businesses. But given that we've agreed that the city wouldn't be getting that money, it's not at all clear that those 25,000 jobs would be a good thing.
This seems related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19164986
I don't see any mention of shy or socially awkward in the article.

In general, an introvert isn't inclined to social situations even though they totally can do it. For introverts, being social tends to be an energy drain.

Having a game plan makes sense for introverts so that they don't feel like they're spending a lot of energy for a little gain.
Very likely. We basically “don’t care” what our apps precisely look like, so long as they function and the user is not impeded in getting access to their data. (They’re simple line of business data access/overview apps.)

If we cared about platform perfect compliance with standard UX, it might be more challenging. Of course, if cared about native perfection, we probably wouldn’t be trying an inherently cross-platform tool.
May I ask how AI is involved and being used? I put in a word and it just added various prefixes and suffixes like bay and log.
How do I see the detailed pricing of this offering if I don't have an account? I want to know what $15/mo gets me before I decide whether I want to sign up.