skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now thats the kind of deep dive you don't see very often in the rarified cloud computing world I live in now.
Indeed, manual vetting is only for alpha. I should reiterate - the point of this type of open fact checking is you can always verify everything for yourself, so you don't need to trust my credentials.

Long term every review, even those that are flagged, will be accessible. Albeit, those that are flagged will be in a separate section, but the point is they will always be accessible, so that you never have to trust me or the community, you can always review for yourself.
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Yes it's a super tough problem, not to be underestimated by anybody working on such a platform.

If there is any easily automatable way gaining reputation, then the bots will use that, and if you can easily pass reputation too, then the rep system won't hold.

> I'm not sure what the solution is.

Ditto, and I've ben pondering this on and off for years :/
I think Emily Badger sort of misses the point. A scarcity tax is completely different from a user benefit fee for road maintenance. For public goods, it’s a good thing for the government to subsidize the fixed costs of the public good. But where there is traffic, the road is not entirely a public good anymore and we are already paying the cost of congestion, but the price is in the form of time and inconvenience rather than dollars. A congestion charge converts the time price into a monetary price. It makes sense to charge a congestion charge because it is merely harnessing a price that drivers already pay and using it to improve the city.

The same is true for land value taxes. Tenants pay the scarcity price for land anyway (in the form of land rent) regardless of the level of tax, so the government might as well harness that energy and use it to benefit all the people instead of a few.
Thanks! It's been fun working on this with the team @psl
Obviously the ammunition is purchased very much in bulk, but let's say, I dunno, $0.05/round? (I pay around $0.25 or more for .45ACP for a handgun.) Carry the one...$1250/week just in ammo.
Many Republicans don't want filing taxes to be easy so that they can continue to use it as an attack on taxes in general.
The art collective Pox Party did a rebrand right around the time of Google's & Airbnb's (both successful in my mind). If the Pox rebrand is successful is up to you... They modeled their video after similar self-aggrandizing announcements. Their "identity program" PDF was modeled after the infamous 1M Pepsi rebrand: http://getpox.com/
Went to github, saw the word “sprint”, closed window. I really appreciate any effort to return us to basics. However, we should have a firm grasp on what the basics are first. Today, you wouldn’t batch all of your team’s code together this week and then do a build - you would build and integrate continually. Why would you adopt large batch, non-continuous process for your overall development process?
That's quite an understatement - a vast majority of _employees_ don't need tax to be digital or not because it's all done for them through PAYE (Pay As You Earn, i.e. deducted on your payslip before you see it) and other mechanisms anyway.
Entrenched middlemen become abusive gatekeepers. Is it inevitable across human society? Is there a way to prevent it from happening?
Yeah, that wasn’t very clear. He hardly lost his job because of the politician action outside work, is that legal? Maybe it caused him to miss too many days of work and that was used to fire him, maybe by management who wanted to appear faithful to the establishment.
You're missing the forest for the trees. SQL & RDBMS' support use cases that might as well be cheats with how easy it makes it to do non-trivial queries.

> In summary I think a QL should produce a table from a database

In SQL we call these projections, which is just whatever columns are being returned from the amalgamation of tables you used in your query. This could include aggregations or window functions.

Things are possible in SQL that are simply more difficult with anything else, and my time and my companies are more important than figuring out the perfect approach to every problem. SQL makes 80% of problems trivial, and the remaining 20% I can easily solve somewhere else (like Elasticsearch or sqlite or even custom serdes to disk).
How is gold created out of the collision of stars composed of neutrons?
just spun it back up on PythonAnywhere, http://mritchie712.pythonanywhere.com/, pretty sure most of it won't work, I didn't start the database, but you'll get the general idea.
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Your comment is interesting because it hadn't even occurred to me that the parent comment might be being sarcastic. I thought the emphasis on love was being serious. My experience is older folks (maybe 80 and up? Not really sure) start to lose confidence or ability with driving and give it up. Hence need to walk and take public transport. So less cars and a more walkable neighborhood is a win for them as well as everybody else :-)
They do kill people tho
That's not exactly new and it has been a thing for over a decade already in South Korea.

"The top professionals now make six-figure salaries and earn even more with endorsements and prize money."

Same in this case, six-figure salaries were already being paid a long time ago. [0]

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20100202002307/http://www.mymym....
Brand New is a good resource: https://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/
==We NEED low skilled labor. Bioshock proved this years ago. ==

Would we stop importing this labor from other (poorer) countries? I imagine only people with a SSN would get the UBI benefits. Immigrants would still come here to do low-skilled jobs as they would be ineligible for UBI, no?
I watched a short documentary on the player "device" from the CS:GO team Astralis[0]. It's interesting even if you aren't into esports or Counter-Strike in general, I'd say. One of the relevant aspects of the story is that he was seriously affected by anxiety, and the team itself developed a reputation for crumbling in high-pressure situations. They made the pioneering decision (in esports) to hire a sports psychologist. They took on a physical training regiment that highlights healthy eating, working out, etc. just like any other athlete and since then they have become perhaps the most dominant team in Counter-Strike history, with 3 of their core members becoming the game's first millionaires (based on prize money)[1].

Esports have been building up to this inflection point, where now players are expected to care for themselves physically and mentally and act more professionally. Production value is high, Twitch is bigger than ever, and these tournaments sell out large stadiums. It's a super exciting time to get into watching esports if you haven't been into it yet.

0. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goaP8yjeFzs
1. https://news.unikrn.com/article/astralis-dupreeh-xyp9x-csgo-...
Preliminary report is here:
http://www.ecaa.gov.et/documents/20435/0/Preliminary+Report+...

Looks like the pilots did everything right initially, but then discovered they couldn't manually trim up, presumably due to air loads. With no other options, they re-enabled electric trim and trimmed up, but didn't trim up enough, and left electric trim enabled. 5 seconds later, MCAS kicked in again, and at the high airspeed they'd reached (365 knots before the dive started - VMO is 340), there was no recovery possible.
You think people who can't perform on the job should be kept on so their feelings aren't hurt? Are you fucking kidding me? That's just bad management. No wonder people think the wrong hire can cost so much even in at-will employment states. It's terrible attitudes like this making it into management.
I can't agree with you. I am in the USA. I had dinner last night with several people talking about starting up an AI/medical company. When I got home, I found companies in China that were already shipping similar products to what we had just been talking about at dinner, just as possible ideas.

My fields are NLP and deep learning, and from my perspective, research papers coming out of China have been innovative and high quality in the areas I am interested in. That is to take nothing away from the spectacular NLP deep learning models that Facebook and Google have recently been publishing and sharing. Just because we have very good tech, that does not mean that our competitors don't also have advanced technologies.
In some cases things went smoothly and there is a little to say.

Has been my experience (on good teams.) After a while, you tend to gel pretty well and don't need to spend that much time introspecting. The issues raised are either generally intractable organizational problems (that'll never get fixed), or fairly minor, and on several teams I noticed that retrospectives tended to feel pretty similar after a while (To the credit of the team, at that point we were like "we probably don't need retrospectives every sprint.")
Good points. I would rather have these answered in planning, rather than a retrospective. If these questions need to be asked after every week of work, that's a sign that the retrospectives are not helping much.
i'll try that, thanks!
That's just your personal experience. It's reflective of your personal surroundings.

Nobody I know is into baseball. Either I assume there is no real interest, or I assume it might be a reflection of my surroundings.

(I live in London, where nobody cares for baseball)
>> There are notable case of ultra runners dying, and autopsy shows long term heart damage.

??? I run ultras and marathons, am 55 years old, have trained 2500 - 3000 miles/year for years. I don't necessarily consider all this as building my health; I assume it helps in some ways and hurts in others.

But I'm fairly plugged in and I've never heard of these "notable" cases of ultra runners dying with heart damage. Do you have links or specific references to any? Sounds to me like typical baseless conjecture (of which there is plenty) that gets thrown around and then accepted as fact by someone down the line.
"Approval Voting does surprisingly well" and I agree that it's a mathematically valid and efficient solution that does _surprisingly_ well, but other systems do better (Cordorcet, etc).

Also in the messy human emotional sense, it's still _unsatisfying_ that I might Approval vote for Bernie and Hillary but I still want to say I like one better, and I still think that difference matters.
No. The last "new" American car manufacturer was GM, which was founded September 16, 1908 in Flint, MI.

"ha ha ha Tesla is so bad at logistics, they suck so much! Look how much better everyone else is!"

Imagine how much better I'd be at literally anything if you gave me a > 100 year head start!
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Hey all,

Excited to share this demo with the HN.

All of the portraits in this demo are computer-generated by a machine learning model called “StyleGAN”. While most of the recent excitement around StyleGAN centers around its amazing ability to generate infinite variation (e.g. thispersondoesnotexist.com <3), the emergent semantics encoded in the latent space are impressive as well.

For instance, faces in this space allow for some semantic vector math, reminiscent of word2vec’s “king - man + woman = queen” (https://p.migdal.pl/2017/01/06/king-man-woman-queen-why.html).

We can find the latent representations of, say, smiling people. We can then average them and create a new semantic vector that, when added to pictures of non-smiling faces, makes them all smile.

Play with the sliders to see what I mean.

Some possible applications: Generation of assets for games, Customizing ad photography by region/demographics, Lifelike, custom avatars, Compression, Modeling longitudinal medical imagery, Zero-shot inpainting, super-resolution, etc.

Happy to answer any questions!
How would the open reputation score mitigate bad-faith actors trying to exploit the system?

For example, I believe HN has a vote-ring detector, but I think there's also a decent amount of manual intervention from the mods. Amazon's reputation system is under constant attack through a variety of means (paying teams of people for fake reviews, going to the length of having real transactions on Amazon between fake-reviewer and the seller buying the review).
That should have been obvious to me. Of course they have a lobby.
That's a great website, thanks!
They're all over Chicagoland too.
Ask HN: How to gain experience building large scale apps?
My resume was recently rejected because I do not have experience building "large scale apps" that serve millions of users.

I have over two decades of experience, but mostly in startups/small-ish companies. Thus most of the times I got to work on "new" projects.

Startups always want MVP that can be shipped/released early, so the "growth" is always iterative.
Most of the times, the product was discontinued and/or startup closed shop.

While I (believe I) have "theoretical" knowledge about dos and don'ts of building large scale apps, it is not same as having "real" experience from the trenches.

They won't hire me because of lack of "relevant" experience, plus the fact that I am senior engineer. If I were junior experience I assume they would not have this "requirement". I did offer to accept "junior" position (I really liked the company I applied for and their product) but I was told they don't have time for "babysitting" and thus aren't hiring for junior positions at all.

So what do you guys suggest I do to gain "real" experience building scalable app ? (In my case, it is chicken and egg situation)

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P.S: I am NOT looking for links to posts like "How to build large scale apps using ...."
Not a comment on the idea. I like the UX execution on mobile. The menu on the left is always visible, in the background. The content is swiped left / right to reveal the menu.

It’s counterintuitive at first, but within a second you work it out. Works well on iPhone 6s safari.
Listening to headphones while bicycling isn't safe, and playing it from a speaker where everyone around you will hear it feels rude.
since you don't know anyone into esports, it must not be popular
He's not a CEO. I'd be shocked to see a CEO behave this way and have a board that continues to support them.
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Online e-Sports are talked about on the internet because...wait for it... they are nearly entirely based on the Internet. I've been watching pro Starcraft matches for 10 years from Korea - it's an online game, the games are streamed online. Some things like fighting games or console games, yes you do hang in person at an arcade or a tournament.

You're looking in all the wrong places. Maybe start by comparing yourself to average esports fans/players. What's your age, who are your friends, what are their hobbies?
First world problems meme is taking on a whole new level
The carve-outs are precisely the problem with the congestion pricing. If everyone in mid-town just had to pay a flat fee, fine, that seems somewhat fair. But now every interest group is rent-seeking and going to lobby to be exempt. That's the unfair and corrupt part, not the fee.

NYC having congestion pricing isn't the most unreasonable thing in the world. Some might say it's long overdue. But the legislature doesn't have the political will or want to actually implement a fair, flat fee. Instead, the people who don't fit into a easily defined interest group will have to pay, and everyone else will get to drive for free.

If I have to pay to drive, then everyone else should to, regardless if they are poor, disabled, rich, taxis, ubers, or whatever.
Every language in that list is vastly different from its 90s version.
There's nothing stopping low income people from just filling out the forms. With a trivial income situation and no complicated deductions it's dead simple. The problem is that much of America is functionally innumerate and doesn't want to take a little time adding up some numbers.
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I spent 5 minutes digging through menus and trying to figure out how disable this setting. There are clearly many people who are frustrated by the marketing notifications, and Lyft has decided to (1) turn them on by default, and (2) make it super hard to find where to turn them off.

Considering how Lyft tries to position themselves as the kindler/gentler Uber, using dark patterns is a pretty bad decision.
You can't really benchmark anything on FreeBSD X-CURRENT. There is a ton of debug code there which slowdowns whole system including its libc. Very unfair comparison be warned!
Definitely, and I should have included that caveat. Kindle/epaper is ideal for linear books in my mind, but for non-linear, paper still rules, though I'm hopeful that some day someone will figure out a better way to use phones/tables for accessing that sort of content.

Cookbooks are strange. With the number of recipes out there in electronic form it seems like the tide has shifted, but I still buy cookbooks for general cooking stuff, and still find myself printing out recipes that I find online (like an old person!) so that I can actually use them in a kitchen environment.

Technical books, reference books, textbooks seem so incredibly natural for an interactive format, but I'm not aware of anyone that has cracked this. The closest metaphor I've found is having tabs in a browser, so I can store a limited history of my exploration of a topic, but it rapidly becomes an unnavigable mess.
The first officer on that flight was extremely inexperienced. He only had 200 hours of total flight time. In the U.S., you need 1500 to sit in the right seat of an airliner in scheduled service. While I would not put the blame on the pilots for the accident, it's impossible to know if it might have turned out differently had there been two experienced pilots in the cockpit.
>> The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. - George Orwell, 1984
In Ontario Canada there are real wait times that are over a month for long range and AWD options for Model 3, even though the website falsely proclaims delivery within two weeks. I would define a wait time over a month (and counting) a backlog.
Agreed, it is also a question of goals. Journalists can bend "facts" to support the argument they want. Title are 99% click-bait anymore. Sure there are some people who want to present fair and balanced view points but that takes a ton of work and time. Most "journalism" these days is get likes and move on.
> Production is up year over year, no?

I mean, that's expected for a growth company. What's unexpected for a "growth" company is a sudden halt in growth.

Why would production drop by roughly 10% and deliveries drop by 30% in one quarter? I think most people were expecting a drop of some kind due to the loss of the $7500 tax credit, but 30% drop is far larger of a drop than almost anyone ever expected.

Note that Tesla also dropped the price of all M3 by $2000. So Tesla also has lower-margins in Q1 2019 than Q4 2018. Lower-margins AND lower-volume is a pretty bad sign.
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Indeed. And if you're doing other things your test is a different one. It depends.

BTW, if you want to discuss which languages's scripts are complex… office, oﬀice, ofﬁce, oﬃce.
> Typically, the price of books is largely a function of the costs of manufacture and distribution.

I don't think that's always true. The cost to print and ship hard cover vs paperback books is less than the price difference between the two.

I'm surprised about ereaders not supporting what you need for complex books. When I looked at Apple's version of epub it I thought it was pretty impressive. The Kindle format is more limited, but if you can represent something with html, css, and javascript, iBook should work.
True - many people do - but there isn't enough clamor to make this a major issue.

Yes, "Tax Reform" get's thrown about, but no one ever seems to elaborate. I don't recall too many candidates debating "automating" income taxes.
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I think people respond well to natural rhythms with contrasting phases (a time to sow; a time to reap...) so I find the general concept quite appealing. One thing that always bothered me a bit about scrum was that it's basically an endless series of sprints. Just saying it like that sort of illustrates the problem that you can't sprint indefinitely.

Additionally, I've found that for maximum creativity/productivity, I need periods of down time. Work on a problem, then put it down, and often the solution will pop up while you're in the shower or taking a walk. So I think explicitly building some sort of breaks ("take a couple of days to learn/rest or work on whatever you want") is a good idea. I'd advocate doing this informally when needed or when schedule permits, rather than formally scheduling 3 on, 1 off.
The choice isn't marathons or nothing. You could run half-marathons.
> you can probably find some Uighur Tibetan people on Chinese social media like douban.com

The heavily surveilled and censored Chinese social media, that are filled with paid PRC posters? Sounds much more trustworthy than the Times.
I'm reminded of the oft-quoted phrase "you cannot reason someone out of a position they did not reason themselves into."

I am not trying to disqualify the solution, more like observing that the existence of provable facts has not yet been any sort of antidote for 'fake news' (whether that refers to the real deal, or the position many people take that any news they don't like is fake news).
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Why wouldn't racing drivers exercise?

Incidentally, obsessive fitness was one of the things that Michael Schumacher brought to F1.
yeah that no longer works for me
I'm not sure the US isn't imperialist by your definition.
At the very least the second Iraqi war hints to the contrary. It appears the main agenda there was a grab for oil and not a security threat.
Not to mention its behavior in South America during the cold war.
Now, I prefer the US over China, because its ideals are at least against imperialism and pro human rights, democracy and freedom. They might not always do what they preach, but these ideals combined with soft power approach, is (was?) A source of good.
(If only they didn't hate socialism so much, and didn't prefer corporation freedom over human freedom, it would have been even better... well, let's hope the EU can survive)
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