skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But if you, as the city, didn't play ball and you knew for certain that the next town over wasn't going to play ball either; some city WOULD get the contract regardless. That tax revenue is gonna get collected and someone will get to spend it, whether you give Amazon $3bn or not.

I'm tired of giving money to multi-billion dollar companies, even if it does make fiscal sense. We have a poverty problem, and a shrinking middle class problem. Adding 25k jobs at $150/year would only make the housing crisis in NYC worse.

So why bend over backwards? All towns should band together and just stop coming to the table. Companies have to locate themselves somewhere. I don't want my state or city to try to attract more businesses that will raise my taxes if they're not going to do anything to fix my infrastructure and my tax rate.
> processing speed and short-term memory for family pictures and stories peak and begin to decline around high school graduation

I am skeptical that "short term memory for family pictures" is a discrete cogntive function.

I'm even more skeptical that you can extrapolate anything generally useful about cognitive decline, since this result is exactly what I'd expect if there were no cognitive decline -- people are better at remembering things they can contextualize to the familiar, so of course they'll be able to remember new information about their families better when they still live with them than after they move out.
Wow, no...

I'm just a computer consultant trying to get paid. Bank payments to/from the US is an absolute, unmitigated train-wreck.

Even with the spectacular deficiencies of the Bitcoin/Ethereum user experience, it is already a vast improvement over the Bank transfer debacle.

The next generation of Cryptocurrencies (that solve most of the complexity/risk of creating, securing, managing and recovering public/private keys) and improve the transaction thruput and cost by 4+ orders of magnitude? These are going to kick the banks to curb.
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Yep, check out a few of the studies referenced at the bottom of f.luxometer: https://fluxometer.com/rainbow/
> send large amounts of money around the world without snaking through the nightmare that is international banking

This has little to do with technology but with regulation. If you think bitcoin can solve this then you either envision a future where these regulations don't apply (in some sort of technologically independent anarchistic society) or you expect bitcoin to cause a reduction in the high regulation surrounding international asset transfers - which is very unlikely, regulators around the world are pushing for more stringent AML policies.

This is where a blockchain (the technology) could actually come in handy. If every asset is tokenized and controllable through some smart contract (and every transfer needs to be authorized by the responsible financial regulator) then such a system would make any kind of international asset transfer much more frictionless. But of course this runs contrary to the idea of most current crypto currencies (whose proponents mostly hope for the aforementioned scenario).
Quite the contrary, small parties focused on a niche goal can be very effective in attaining that goal - if the dominant parties need their support, they pretty much have to give in to the small party's pet peeve, and in return the small party gives them votes for the other issues.

For example, at least a part of current Brexit hassle is because the DUP (with their 1.5% of total MP seats) are needed by May's government, and they got to veto one of possible options of solving the Ireland-North Ireland customs border issue. There are many other examples worldwide, where small parties focused on a particular domain of problems can get an oversized influence in that domain.
The public will eat this stuff up if there's huge YoY revenue growth like they've shown in the S1. You see this all the time with public SaaS companies. Sure, the losses also increase... but nobody seems to care.
> Uyghurs are Turkic in ethnicity and language, look very different from Han Chinese, and are typically Muslim.

The name "Uyghur" goes back quite a long way, and originally refers to a Turkic group. Modern Uyghurs are only tenuously related to the ancient Uyghurs -- as noted, modern Uyghurs are visually distinct from the Chinese. Modern Uyghurs are a recent hybrid population between a Turkic group and a Caucasoid (Iranian?) group. Compare the Mongols, who do look like Chinese.

I assumed you might be talking about some remote point in time during which the ancient Uyghurs were Jewish or Christian; that is where I got "also Buddhist" from.

> If that article is accurate, then China actually has a better claim on Xinjiang than the Uyghurs do.

> So is it accurate?

If you're going to start talking about what things have been like in the region for centuries, this is kind of an embarrassing question to have to ask.

> But actually, China's behavior in the 18th and 19th centuries was worse.

What did China do in the 18th and 19th centuries? The Manchu emperor conquered Xinjiang over the objections of his Chinese officials, who took the position that it wasn't part of China and he had no business invading it. If (1) Germany conquered Poland, and then (2) Germany conquered France, why would France hold a grudge against Poland?
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He's for higher taxes on the super-rich isn't he?
I always thought that the reason the government exists is to collect taxes and spend them in the most inefficient way. Governments go to war to protect their cash flow, i.e. taxes.
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> Or IoT coloured lightbulbs

I don't know if it's a _problem_, but the ability to have _bright_ white light for when I've reading, then dimmed to a warmer shade for general use, is useful. Getting the full RGB range is a fun bonus.

> they all have disgusting privacy tradeoffs nobody should be making.

Firewalled - _no_ access to the WAN, and no access to my other LAN devices (separate network, with a hole punched through to allow allow Homekit commands in (and only from my iPad)). Good enough for me.
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Patents are not (supposed to be) on ideas, but instead on executions of them.
Are they better than scheme? I’m skeptical.

PS: I know you probably know more and CL and Lisp Machines than anyone else on HN.

But do you think CL macros are better than Scheme macros?

If so, I would be genuinely interested in why (I know you have more experience with Lisp than I could ever have, do I think your opinion would be valuable to this discussion)
If there are separate accounts then the organisation will likely be private, and you wouldn't be able to research the user accounts in the first place.
Yep, they're called null conditional operators[1].

[1]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-refe...
I guarantee that when all is said and done, that a part of this project, or whatever it is, will be attempts to alter human behavior in various ways. Basically, a continuation on the human experimentation that facebook has been allowed to get away with as long as I can remember. People have gotten so used to Facebook changing the news feed on a whim to try to change human behavior and interaction on the site, that we don't think of it as what it is.

Basically, I believe that a curated feed that isn't completely controlled by end-user rules will be declared illegal at some point in the near future.
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Another problem with an 'ideas guy' is that they are rarely involved in the execution.

I attempted to start businesses with a few friends of this type when I was younger.

The result was mostly the same: I would spend weeks/months working on the product/idea, idea guy would either get bored because they are just sitting there waiting for the launch and move onto something new or attempt to become my defacto manager.

Some people like the idea of running a business and seem to think it only involves telling other people what to do and waiting for results (as if that's the hardest part).

The other concern is that what happens to this person in the next phase of the business?

Many ideas people will realize they don't have the skills and will try to push for ideas that aren't necessarily better, but that they can attach their name to...causing havoc.

Ideas are easy. I have tons of good ideas and the skills to execute. Now, I will only consider parterning with someone if they have money to invest or a relevant business network+some other skill.
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> I don't see how these companies will stop losing $1b+ a year each year. The public markets will not be too kind.

Are you saying taxis can't exist?

As far as I know, any taxi dispatcher take a similar cut (30%) as them and their cost seems way higher (no automation at all, require people on phone, etc..).

Theses loses are either because they are considered unlawful somewhere (I never heard of this issue with Lyft but I guess that's may be happening) and have to fight for it, or because they are trying to expands. If they stop both of theses (operating everywhere they are considered unlawful and stopping to expands) then their cost remaining are pretty similar to any Taxi dispatcher but they require much less staff.
Convincing your neighbors to vote a certain way is "a pretty bare modicum of effort"? If that were true, we wouldn't have our current democracy in such a terrible state. Billions of dollars are spent on every election to try to convince voters of how to vote, and look where it gets us. How do you think one person running around to his neighbors is going to convince them to vote for genuinely good HOA board members? Remember that the bad members are also going to be running around trying to get votes.

And who would you have them vote for anyway? Yourself? I don't know about you, but I have no time or inclination for such a job. Frequently, HOAs turn out this way because the people who do have time for that crap are the people who really are a problem. This is a strong argument in favor of professional property management in fact (which is what my condo has, and doesn't seem to have any of these problems).
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Sure they can, but only if you have practiced when the stakes were not high or personal.
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So how is it a choice then? If whoever you vote for is going to go against the people because of "complex political reasons" how is voting a choice? How is it putting your $0.02 in? If he voted for a different representative they probably would have also voted against his wishes.

Because they're all bought and paid for by lobbyists.
Don't conflate "positive" in this domain with any typical connotations of the word. Stoicism is certainly "positive" in the sense of what one gives to the world, in relationship to what one expects to receive, because a Stoic has no expectations to receive anything from the world.
Well yes, it turns out you can’t burden a local government with something unless you increase taxes sufficiently to pay for that thing.
Does using a recent version of something that's been updated for a while count? Adobe Illustrator's first release was March 1987, making it 32 years old this month; I use it pretty much daily. I'm currently using last year's version.

If not then I think it's Neko. http://splook.com/Software/Neko.html

Lately my Mac has been warning me that Neko will stop working soon once Apple drops support for 32-bit apps and that will be a sad day indeed.
I don't understand the TCP analogy. TCP is incredibly straightforward and scales from a knowledge-required level of almost nothing to very advanced usage like paying attention to ECN markings. Most of the layers above TCP have, over the last 20+ years, had many many problems that related directly to people not wanting to understand TCP, from RMI and similar RPC schemes to things like BEEP/BXXP where the head-of-line blocking problem somehow surprised people.

In the end people working with technologies do need to understand their semantics. I don't mean you should be able to write a competent TCP implementation from scratch, but you do need to understand how the protocol layer makes itself an issue in every layer above it in practice.
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bookmarked. Will use in the future. I love the simplistic UX.
> Anybody could make products like this if they just took enough time and care over it.

I think that's probably true, especially considering that the light has about all the hardware of a modern smartphone inside, minus the screen.
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Maybe a few here would cause some concern. Also note that not all companies/governments using AWS just let everybody know that they are, so they aren't listed and you can only know when the service goes offline.

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Well, patents aren't really about ideas like an "idea guy" would provide - an idea of "it'd be nice to have a thingy that does X" is unpatentable; but you can get a patent for its execution, for actually finding a particular solution that implements that idea. And even then only that particular solution is patented - if somebody else can take your idea and develop a better solution that achieves the same result more effectively with a different method and apparatus, then the patent system allows them to capture the value of that execution.
I would say it is both a mostly symbolic movement and a collection of real personal stories that most people know a victim that is either have a friend or friend to a friend.

Lets imagine we had a movement like metoo here in Europe talking about violence from immigrants. You would get thousands of personal stories documenting people being robbed, beaten, threatened, raped or target of other forms of crime. The people behind the movement would highlight the over representation that those immigrants have in the crime statistics, and the crimes would be very concrete. What would the conclusions be drawn about the initiative by the broader society? I predict that the difference between conservatives and liberals would be a mirror image of the same difference conservatives and liberals has over metoo.
> Siding costs do not go up linearly with interior volume. This is basic geometry which I shouldn't have to explain on this forum.

Of course it doesn't scale linearly with volume, it scales linearly with exterior surface area, which itself scales with square footage, which was the base metric I used, not volume. The shape that minimizes the surface area to volume ratio is a sphere, which most houses are not.
It doesn't own cars, doesnt employ drivers, doesnt own hardware, doesn't own compute or storage , doesnt develop software. What is lyft after all?
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hi, I think there are a couple issues with this form for Front-End Engineer at https://boards.greenhouse.io/gitlab/jobs/4224952002

(for the questions, "Which team(s) are you interested in?" and "Please choose the country in which you are located." I'm only seeing options to select "Indeed" so I think maybe the code is pointing to a wrong resource for option content, probably pointing to origin site that user was redirected from and not intended resource). I'll try filling out the form for now.
I meant that extracting an intermediate layer as a feature embedding and then sticking a classical model on top of it performs worse than curating features through domain-specific expert tuning, for a ton of diverse application domains.
> I'm tired of giving money to multi-billion dollar companies, even if it does make fiscal sense. We have a poverty problem, and a shrinking middle class problem. Adding 25k jobs at $150/year would only make the housing crisis in NYC worse.

I'm not sure I follow. How does rejecting business development and turning away thousands of high paying (and thus, paying high taxes) jobs help reduce poverty? How is rejecting well paying job opportunities supposed to help grow the middle class? Housing crises have everything to do with supply. San Francisco has a fraction the population of NYC but also has a housing crisis.

You seem to be operating under the notion that the presence of wealth somehow causes poverty. This is just plain wrong. How are we supposed to help the impoverished and build the middle class if we destroy job opportunities?

Your post comes off as putting more emphasis on "wealthy people stay out" rather than trying to come up with ways to help the poor
You mean it's recompiling the regex on every pass? Ah, yeah, I hadn't thought about that. Thanks for the tip.
Re-using an existing model to generate embeddings doesn’t work well for auxiliary tasks with very small data. Even if you do no fine-tuning at all, you need to have big data sets in terms of the auxiliary task too.

For example, consider needing to train hundreds of unique small models every day, based on new customer inputs affecting causality effects for that day (I had to do this for ad forecasting in a past job).

Generating embeddings via pre-trained models essentially produced gibberish and performed far worse than custom feature engineering + simple logistic models.
When it matters fact checkers are useless, it is just a political tools. For all the rest nobody needs a fact check because the facts are obvious.
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Putting aside the ethical questions of this approach, I've not been able to determine how good a job will be within the first week. It usually takes me a couple months.
Are the drawbacks of Bitcoin (massive global electricity usage, makes email/malware extortion scamming much easier) worth the advantages (the ability to anonymously buy things online at a small number of places) overall?

I'm of the opinion that Bitcoin is a net negative (Bitcoin mining has wiped out all of the gains we've made from the recent renewable energy boom), but perhaps there a useful purpose that I'm unaware of.
Tech breakthroughs these days don't seem on the level of things like airplanes, the computer, the internet, nuclear power, space flight, satellites, etc. I wonder what is different now.
Thank you, I'll check that out.