skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree. Google and Facebook have the same exact business model -- learn as much about you and use that data to sell ads. All of the Google products I listed above are funded by ad revenue. Facebook executes their model by keeping you on one site, while Google executes theirs by being pervasive in your life. They are two sides of the same coin. Since they face the same economic incentives, they have similar pathologies.
> wouldn’t higher tax revenues from growing property values easily offset this issue in such a scenario?

If the tax values indeed follow the actual property values. And if the country/city has a sufficiently high property tax percentage. Some places have only tiny property taxes.
Related to this is factor analysis, the technique predominantly used in psychology to extract meaningful factors (analogue of components in principal component analysis).

Unlike PCA, it assumes meaningful "latent" factors (such as "royalty" above) and tries to find a rotation which best loads these onto the data. To achieve this, it doesn't attempt to encode the data perfectly but leaves room for error in the reduction to factors.
> If they change out the light pattern for a new one, or add blink tags to it or have it light up in a playful show involving multi-colours and timed to some inspiring music is that a new creation?

It would depend on how substantive the changes were. But most of your proposals are probably sufficient, yes.
> thing called a 'bus'

What a privileged, demeaning tone. I don't understand this.
Cool project! Any chance you could add Weekly Robotics (https://weeklyrobotics.com/) to the list?
I must have gotten downvoted by a bunch of American allowing in misery at the state of their healthcare, all the while ignoring the situation in other countries

/s, because I guess I was wrong, apparently?
Not a book but there’s a good episode of the How I Built This podcast that gives a great overview.
https://one.npr.org/?sharedMediaId=551874532:554086519
I don't want my link-clicking actions to be tracked.
I assume you are talking about Trump.

I'm not American, and even if I were, I wouldn't vote for him...
This article makes some interesting points, but I do find it strange that they reference George without referencing his famous idea of a land value tax in this context, a proposal which would at the very least put a sizeable dent in the ability of landlords to directly benefit from the increase in value of their land resulting from municipal service improvements while also encouraging better use of property in general.

Rent controls could be another alleviating factor. As could indirect competition from subsidised/social housing.

I'm not really comfortable with how the article attempts to frame municipal social improvements as something which must implicitly also drive wealth inequality, despite the other potential remedies to this.
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Well I am glad your troop helped out a bit, I had mine ask me to leave and not come back because I didnt fit in with their religious boyscouts.

Honestly a large amount of troops are maintained by mormons or others as extended wings of their belief systems.
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Why would logging not help in an async flow? Link log entries with request IDs and consider structured logs. I analyze logs in massively concurrent systems all the time.
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It can't be fully banned. I could envisage an authoritarian government demanding that you register to use ssh for work or whatever purposes. Obviously that doesn't actually prevent a determined individual with some know-how but it can be done effectively enough to bar most users and enable mass-surveillance.

They know you can't stop all encryption. One time pads will always work when used correctly.

That doesn't matter because they aren't targetting criminals, black-hats, or terrorists. They aren't targetting people that actually have to hide.

They are targetting the technologically unaware.

I always tell people that this isn't aimed at stopping people that really want to hide, it is about monitoring the majority of the population.
Childhood obesity is a huge deal, but we're not creating legislation to require adults to register before they can buy sugary foods.
Pappadopolous was the victim of a con. He went to a couple of campaign staff meetings, so he was "on the campaign staff". Then some DS tool whispered something inconsequential in his ear. He got in trouble when he re-whispered that silly rumor in the ear of some other DS tool. That's all that happened. If he had a decent lawyer or any stones at all, he would never have plead guilty nor been convicted of anything.
I'll never forget the time shortly after switching into industry from a purely laboratory workplace, that I had my first encounter with a professional project manager.

I got so pissed off that some un-introduced remote person on a conference call was try to tease out what all my "tasks" where, when they would be done and in what order (as well as when everyone else's would be done). Thus began my career-long love/hate relationship with project management (mostly hate).

While I am sure that scientists and academics can do well with general-purpose time-management skills, I think that industry could perhaps have more to gain by picking up some tips from how scientists work (and ease-off on the obsession with project management).
Oh, so quarks can only be composites of two, three, and five? Any reason that could be stated in layman's terms?
By that same logic Google deserves part of Vint Cerf's Turing Award.
I don’t think we’re on the same page here. It’s all good.
The biggest time saver for scientists would be a funding process that does not involved writing voluminous proposals with key metrics and other make work information that keeps bureaucrats happily well-fed and well-paid.

I'm not saying there is no need for some way of making sure the money is spent effectively but the grant proposal process is largely a sham and a charade that needs radical overhaul.
Don't forget to sanitize those API requests, else you will be like Facebook and can be logging passwords :)
> Cities are ancient relics of a time when human beings had to have their atoms in the presence of each other to communicate rapidly.

You're forgetting the transfer of material possessions and wealth, safety, and employment. It's great that you've found a way to work remote, but that's the not the reality for the majority of people. I also wonder whether 5 million people living in less than a thousand square kilometers is more or less wasteful than 5 million spread out over a billion square kilometers. You'd have to spend a lot more to transfer all the goods everywhere, as well as moving people around.
I wonder if that poor sod will be an HN reader too, and end up seeing your post
This article feels like a strawman to me. Infrastructure improvements are not the cause of SF rents. You just need to walk down any block, or sit on BART (if it's working!) and step in a pile of excrement to prove that.

Having lived in a few places I see rent control and legislation like Prop 13 as major contributors.

When people cite the average rent in SF, that's based on what's currently on the market. What is not counted is the (much greater) inventory that is currently occupied, with rent-controlled tenants paying far less than market rate.

When someone cites "the unaffordability" of rent in order to justify rent control, what you also don't see is the high cost of MOVING that comes with rent control. My SF neighbor had been in her unit since the 90's, paying less than half my rent, and she can't afford to move if she wanted to! If she were to move she'd have to leave the Bay Area. She's trapped. Rent control doesn't improve housing choice in that sense.
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The US is a very large and diverse country. There are lots of outdoor adventure sort of activities in much of the country.
I wonder why the prime minister felt the need to announce this himself. If I remember correctly the Chinese premier did not announce their test.
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> I don't think it would be that much effort for facebook to stop tracking Belgium or German users.

If that's the case, and facebook complies, then I think I'll start doing all my browsing through a VPN that exits in Belgium or Germany then.
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As someone who worked on Apollo, I'd challenge this. Without divulging any details, Apollo is a non trivial system.
Very interesting. Thanks for sharing.

So, it wasn't aliens?
Have exponential increase in renewal fees. Most things would drop out of copyright after 10 years, but you could pay $1k a year to renew for year 10, $2k for year 11, $1m for year 20, $1b for year 30, etc.

Same with patents.
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I suppose for small businesses PayPal could work, but for an event I wouldn't touch it with a 10 foot pole. I've read too many stories about accounts getting frozen just as money started to come in, and with organisers not having access to the money they needed, they had no option but to cancel the event.

Apparently sudden increase in payment triggers PayPal's 'this might be suspicious' flag, and once flagged, they apparently like to block until they're sure that the customers are getting what they're signing up for. But because they block the money, they're ensuring that customers are not going to get what they signed up for.

Of course if PayPal as payment option brings in extra customers, you'd be crazy not to accept it, but I wouldn't put all my eggs in that basket.
I strongly disagree.

Sales, Marketing, and CS people are perfectly capable of handling direct conversation, if it’s done with genuine respect and a desire for mutual benefit. Your approach, based on some of your examples, sounds outright dismissive and disrespectful.

I’ve spent time around lots of engineering leaders and lots of their CS, Sales and Marketing teams. The good engineering leaders recognize that those people excel in many ways they never will, and have genuine respect for that, and ask more questions about their approach. The bad ones think they know everything, treat complex issues like a code review, and carelessly dismiss their work when it’s not what they would’ve done.

I think using one of these strategies probably changed you as much as it changed them.
It hasn't been studied on kids and very little on adults to even make any conclusions.
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> They don't deserve science award because they didn't do science or pioneer anything.

NVidia didn't do science? It depends on what you call science (math and computer science are not "science" according to a very strict definition involving falsifiability). But in any case, an enormous amount of research went into the development of GPUs. It's not just engineering work. Lots of PhD (students) contributed.
The last scenes of the first season of Star Trek Discovery had a shot of Paris at night (with lots of new futuristic buildings befitting a 23rd century setting)

The Eiffel Tower was dark. Looked very odd.
In addition to the good policies you mentioned, construction should be encouraged in areas with high rents. The article talks about homeowner NIMBY politics as if it's an inalienable and insurmountable fact of life, but it's definitely possible to upzone areas and/or whole cities. (Shoutout to Minneapolis 2040 removing single-family zoning.) This is more politically tenable in certain areas using inclusionary zoning, basically allowing more units in a building as long as X% of them are reserved for low-income renters, charging no more than 30% of those renters' incomes.
Well, I think that is important to remember that dimensions of word2vec DO NOT have any specific meaning (unlike Extraversion etc in Big Five). All of it is "up to a rotation". Using it looks clunky at best. To be fair, I may be biased as I wrote a different intro to word2vec (http://p.migdal.pl/2017/01/06/king-man-woman-queen-why.html).

For implementation, I am surprised it leaves out https://adoni.github.io/2017/11/08/word2vec-pytorch/. There are many other, including in NumPy and TF, but I find the PyTorch one the most straightforward and didactic, by a large margin.
"We could lose 90% of our journalists, those whose efforts are primarily focused toward sticking to their assigned scripts, and we would be both better-off and better-informed."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17241730
Same story here. I started with stripe, and constantly got emails asking to add PayPal. I get about the same rate of PayPal vs stripe.
This is a hilarious way to put it and sadly I have been there in the past (thankfully not anytime recently). I use to say we were the fish in the fishbowl looking at the ocean but I like the zoo animals comparison much better.

Sorry you are enduring that though, I know what that feels like and it sucks. I luckily haven't had that feeling in a long time, but it sticks with you.
I can make my government responsible for the work it does. That is less true for the EU parliament. Heck, we don't even have european parties that could be elected directly.

And yes, my government does fuck up plenty and I really don't need an additional layer with minimal democratic input to add to that.

It is a good vehicle for corporation for european nations. It should get restricted to that. The currency and economic policies for example doen't really convince me. The bulk of many far-right parties we see today, were from parties a lot more moderate 10 years ago.

Those were the people that were proved correct with a lot of their criticism at that time. They were chastised and radicalized by this shit-show we see today.

We really should think about if it is worth salvaging the current union or search for better alternatives.
Physicist, working as a physicist (PhD 2015). Precision tests of gravity, primarily. We test the equivalence principle, Newton's inverse square law, hunt for exotic forms of dark matter, and build/invent cutting-edge sensors for LIGO.

I have begun looking about at jobs outside of academia in order to decide whether to stay or go. Data science is one of the easiest transitions a physicist with data-analysis can make, which I think explains the prevalence of physicists in that role. We have the training in both the techniques and a sober assessment of uncertainties, which makes us desirable.

So far, in my search for outside employment, I haven't found anything that draws me as much as my present work, but if you're in the Seattle area and looking for an experimental physicist with a broad range of experience, please get in touch.
Because the assembly polls didn't show bjp leading by as much as expected.
Infinitely expensive?

How many hypotheses do we want to test? As many as possible.
Apparently then a person found out he couldn't fly in airport, he paid back the money straightaway from his phone. True story.
This also exemplifies what I love about the strip: for a strip that often centers around imagination, it holds itself to that same standard and leaves much to the imagination of the reader.

A worse strip would have started with the last panel.
Ask HN: Those who moved careers from the West to China, what's your experience?
There's often talk in the news about China wanting to poach Silicon Valley talent to build up their own tech scene. There's also talk of founders who moved to Shenzhen to be closer to hardware development for rapid prototyping.

However, I've struggled to find individual examples of experiences. Has anyone done this, or know someone who has and blogs/tweets about it? I'm curious how this looks in reality.
I thought it was completely fine to photograph anything that is visible publicly. Or is that principle different for each country? The problem with this approach is if someday it became possible to create photographs from human memory, would they want to force copyright on people's brains too?
In a way it makes sense - if the numbers all had smaller prime factors, they probably would have been found sooner than now, and so wouldn't be as remarkable
That's not necessarily the case for compound works in Europe.

For instance, in the UK the copyright in a film only expires as you say in the event that the film does not have a director, screenplay, authored dialogue or composed music. If it has any of them them the countdown begins at the end of the year in which the last of them dies (which is fifty years in this instance). Also worth noting that even though the film may go out of copyright in this scenario, the script/dialogue does not until seventy years after the death of the writer. Work for hire is irrelevant to that consideration.
This ultimately becomes incentive for the SaaS provider to do a much better job. The most basic level of SaaS is simply OpenSourceApp as a service where devops, upgrades, security, logging and such just work... We use 5-6 different SaaSified services to deliver our product and honestly, it's fantastic versus maintaining more servers and network infrastructure.
Well, if that's what you want just use Prolog; everything you need is there including a huge number of libraries and a web application framework.

Although I personally don't understand why anyone would want to do this ... If you actually try using Prolog or Datalog, it becomes relatively obvious that it makes a very specific set of things easier at the cost of making everything else harder.
It's different for each country, though France's law is fairly unusual here.
> I quite like the image of an idea floating somewhere near me so that I can 'think at' it!

For languages like Italian (as well as my own native language), the image of 'thinking at' makes sense as an analogue to 'looking at', which you'd indeed do if the idea were floating by in your vicinity.
It seems that every announcements are made by Modi, never by his ministers.
I'm guessing the point you're driving at is "these things obviously aren't on the web, so this is wrong"?

The web is an abstract information space that can contain arbitrary links between objects. The web isn't something you load in a browser, it's a way of organising links between things. So, yes, you can link to books, movies, etc. Anything with a URI.

You might be interested in this early document about the World-Wide Web:

https://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/1996/ppf.html

It describes what I'm saying in more detail, including explicitly mentioning books as something that can be addressed in URI space.
It does not. That's why we have a massive drop in teenage pregnancies.
I think the more local the government, the less likely the fuck ups. The more the government actually knows what people wants and can align with them. This is why the EU is cracking, power is more and more centralised, which is creating more and more bad rules, which might work for a small part of the EU but not for everyone else.
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Business logic is pure and stateless. Lifting to IO is a breaking change that may or may not require non-trivial refactoring. You shouldn't be putting business logic in your HTTP handlers.

Regardless, the point is not that it's impossible to make such a change in a Haskell code base, just that it may or may not require non-trivial breaking changes, while such a change in an OO enterprise code base will always be trivial.

There's lots and lots wrong with OO patterns, but being able to respond to changing and arbitrary whacky business requirements is a clear strength.
FWIW, the data loss I was referring to happened on a single node. There may have been issues in a distributed environment as well but we never got there.
Yeah, freedom of movement. It is a significant achievement but I also can go to Australia without blowing a kangaroo for 5 hours.
I agree it is possible someone bulldozes it, but I guarantee it sells. It is a desirable location, unlike Detroit. That may change in 50 or even 10 years, but this is simply an example of people overvaluing their own work and taste. If someone does bulldoze it, it will probably be to build an even bigger monstrosity.
I have shared this blog posting more than I care to admit.

https://mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology

It amazes me that people will put their companies and employees at risk by using the new cool stuff just because everyone else is ( looking at you k8s )
> Oh, so quarks can only be composites of two, three, and five?

They can also be in fours. Possibly other configurations; the four and five quark configurations were theorized in 1964 but only confirmed in 2014 & 2015.

> Any reason that could be stated in layman's terms?

None at all, in fact, the source article does so: “In the conventional quark model, composite particles can be either mesons formed of quark–antiquark pairs or baryons formed of three quarks. Particles not classified within this scheme are known as exotic hadrons. When Murray Gell-Mann proposed the quark model in his fundamental 1964 paper, he mentioned the possibility of exotic hadrons such as pentaquarks, but it took 50 years to demonstrate their existence experimentally.”

(There is slightly more detail on the read more link, too.)
Compare the UK where a 20+ Million £ mansion on ambassadors row pays a few thousand pounds in council tax.
Because Indian computer nerds like you with IQ<30 have low attention span and they would not know about it.
Sadly still done by many companies. http://plaintextoffenders.com/ grew to 400 pages.
It is not to the level of c&h, but the only comic I regularly check is questionable content. I have loved seeing the authors style develop over the years and enjoy the story.
Just wondering, is it possible to use a big enough mirror and just reflect sunlight to do the same thing? Though this only means satellites can only be destroyed during daytime.
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Back in the day, before there was the beautifully simple Stripe, I had to implement payments on Authorize.Net, which made PayPal's APIs look great. It was cumbersome, ugly, they had libraries that weren't documented. I was on the phone with their support multiple times in the week it took to implement. And then after implementing it and pushing it to production, customers started using credit card OVER PayPal, and within a month we were fielding over 10 charge backs per day. And within 2 months we abandoned taking credit cards all together which alienated a subset of our customer base who lived in parts of the world that PayPal doesn't allow accounts for.
https://m.khaleejtimes.com/international/india/India-assembl...

Adding a link. Sorry about creating a new comment. Am on mobile
The first minutes of WWIII will see a multitude of satellites shot 'down', followed by cascading space debris beget space junk.

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“Whose side is Facebook on? The side of advertisers?”

They are on the side of who pays them. It’s pretty simple.