skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure it as simple as blaming lobbyism or the electoral college. In France and Germany filing taxes is also an insanely painful procedure.

There are massive bureaucratic institutions and processes that need to be changed, huge IT systems to be created and maintained (doesn't the IRS use magnetic tape??) and laws to be adjusted.

Making complex things simple is one of the hardest jobs out there.
So, your examples are all "reporting about court cases" and you use court documents as your citations for facts.

Court cases are as good as we have for determining facts, I suppose. (Though the error rate in court cases is quite high!) But 99.9999% of reporting isn't about court cases. Most reporting isn't about issues that will ever be litigated, and even those things that will be litigated, haven't been at the time of the reporting.

"Mitch McConnell had oatmeal for breakfast this morning, according to sources."

There, that's a fact. Now, tell me which court case I can refer to in order to verify that fact?

Fact-checking is an impossible endeavor. The essence of journalism is reporting things no one knows. That's what news is! This is completely at odds with "fact-checking". A good news story CANNOT be fact-checked by the public because if the public knew it, it wouldn't be news. There is an extremely limited genre of "news by trawling public but little-known documents", such as reporting on old court cases. Almost zero news fits into that category.
I know this talking point has been brought up by different people, but it's worth pointing out that Transformers were already covered in the class in 2018. https://web.stanford.edu/class/archive/cs/cs224n/cs224n.1184...
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Budget will go to capital construction costs [0], particularly for MTA, buses, and underserved areas of NYC. This was layout in the NYS 2020 budget place.

Source: https://congestion-pricing.com/
Experience shows that this is not the way things work.

Real-world team members present varying levels of maturity and, therefore, commitment levels to the aimed results.

Some will work at their natural pace and deliver the thing, provided the estimates were accurate; some will relax and leverage the fact that it's always OK to say that there was not enough time; some will work hard at the beginning and get contaminated over time; and so on.

It is sad to work without a 100% mutual trust, but we have to be realistic. Building trust takes time.
1. That's how it's done in France AFAICT. In April/May we get the pre-filled form on our tax site [0,1] and make sure it's ok, then tick a box.

2. We also have a website for that (though it's probably just a glorified multiplication and graph) [2]

[0] https://www.impots.gouv.fr/portail/particulier

[1] it looks like https://www3.impots.gouv.fr/simulateur/calcul_impot/2019/sim...

[2] https://aquoiserventmesimpots.gouv.fr/
@akalitenya the way I used to explain it to the technical audience is: would you rather program in a low-level language like C or in a high-level language like Java, Python, or Node? Well, if you are writing compilers, you might choose C, but if you are doing almost everything else, you want to choose a language that fits the purpose: python for data science, Node for web backend, etc. Same with LookML - it provides a language that is ideal for doing analytics in-database. SQL is a language for extracting and summarizing data - it is not an ideal language to preserve business logic in just as C would not be an ideal language to preserve backend web dev. work in.
If you time your travels right, it often makes more sense to compare prices of sleeper trains to the price of a flight + one night at a hotel instead of the flight alone. Also trains often get you to city centres while most low cost airlines will take you to an off-center airport which is also worth something.
Yikes. Like I said, domains are still far from fail-safe. The Madonna theft was almost 20 years ago, when trademarks seem to have reigned supreme in court, so hopefully more judges are better informed today and know this is unacceptable and not how the internet operates anymore...

...but I am often told I'm too optimistic.
> Not doing something like this leads to stupid stuff like having POTUS' handle be "real donald trump" (yes, I know choosing that handle predates his being POTUS, but you get the idea).

I actually find this a charming reminder of the old days of the web. there's a certain populist quality to the idea that no one is important enough to snatch a particular username that some commoner took first. I agree situations like @realdonaldtrump are kind of silly, but it doesn't hurt anyone. anyone who actually has a large audience has a verified account so there's little doubt regarding who actually controls it.

that said, we really do need a responsible way to reclaim truly inactive accounts without enabling "reset my password via email" type attacks.
Note I didn't say "better" - I said "worse". For example, there are different voting systems, each that optimize different outcomes. Impossible to agree on the best system because we all think different goals are important. Yet despite this inability to determine the best, First Past the Post is across the board worse than the alternatives. PIck a feature people really want in their voting results, and FPTP is worse at it than any other.

My point being, though, that "every system has its flaws" is a terrible excuse for accepting problems.
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One subtlety is that you had better watch the bad client request rate during deploy. I’ve seen SLOs completely blown and swept under the rug (accidentally) because infra bugs caused “user” errors.
Bringing the intolerant into your tolerant fold is self-defeating. All you're doing is introducing a poison pill and giving it acceptance.

There is a big difference between tolerating people who have views different to your own and tolerating people who actively want to put an end to you and your views.

The latter group deserves no tolerance, because it means the inevitable destruction of your own group.

How tolerant are you of the views of ISIS? Or the KKK? Or Combat 18?

Do you tolerate all these groups and their views? I sure as shit don't.
> DJs are given 15 minutes

Lol, at 15 minutes, i'm like halfway into my second song, lol.
I think he's attacking the stereotype of the 'geek', rather than individual attitudes. If he was attacking attitudes, he wouldn't need to cast aspersions on an entire group (stereotype) in the way that he is, because nothing about the attitudes he is criticising are exclusive to 'geeks'.

It's a cheap and hostile article masquerading as socially conscious self-reflection. To put it like a conservative might, it's 'virtue signalling' without any self-awareness.

I'm not a fan of stereotyping people this way. It's never helpful and is merely an attempt to elevate oneself by putting another group down.

It's hostile and crass.
I 100% agree that the reputation system will be they key to scaling this. I'm currently seeing promise with my experiments with reputation scoring.

As for "How do you create a platform that allows correct ideas to flourish even when they go against conventional wisdom?" Great question, however my goal here is a bit more modest, it's to create a platform that allows facts which are provable by public primary sources to stand out from everything else. I think a platform that focuses on simply that can add a lot of value to political discourse.
You're right, but since 10 > 5 the pilot should always be able to "win". You can see it happening in the Lion Air flight:

https://spectrum.ieee.org/image/MzE4Mjg2OQ.jpeg

I count 20 cycles of MCAS -> Pilot correction. It's not clear why the pilots lost the 21st cycle. It could be that they stopped making corrections or another yet to be identified airplane failure.
I think so. If you watch someone like Katie Ledecky, she breathes every 2 strokes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQU_VWBF1uw
> Does the order of defining arguments matters or its just a taste of matter?

It's only a matter of taste or convenience. Haskell is a curried language, so you put the callback first to help partial application, and reversing the order is just a `flip` away.

Rust is uncurried and uses a C-style syntax, so you generally put lambdas in tail position, for a more block-y usage:

foo.bar(x, |y| {
// body
});
It's going to be tough to retrofit canals into all major cities.
This isn't a question of different levels "handling" the issues, it's a case of different levels maintaining their own databases of highly sensitive information, I still think a local sheriff should be running local investigations, but think a local sheriff seriously should fucking not have unfettered access to the exact location of my car at all times without needing a warrant.
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It was hardly an anarchist playground in years gone by
I think it's more or less generally agreed that Tesla has the best in class battery, charger and perhaps drive train, including motors, technology.

However, they have a single car plant and struggle with production and quality, after sales support and so on.

I wonder, as a thought experiment, if Tesla would be more successful if they become the OEM, providing their technology to the various car manufacturers. Something akin to Intel and computers, so that you can buy a car with Tesla inside.
That will allow Tesla to focus on it's core strength and innovate while leaving the car manufacturing, QA, sales, support and such to traditional car companies.
Well then I have been incredibly lucky because I only contributed twice, on simple questions and I got more than 50 without even thinking about it.
The company I currently work at respects developers immensely.
We just assume that when we commit, the code has been tested in the local dev environment. Better not be committing untested code to my repos, that will get you reprimanded.
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Nice work. What IP service do you use? I've found most of them to be of really poor quality.
If the US went to a flat tax, would the "poor" still be taxed unfairly?
I would go even further and add -- "over-the-top" or "showboating" relative to what?

I think it's more that the consensus style of much business communication, technical documentation, and academic literature is very sparse and dry and focused. Which is most definitely a style and not a baseline which represents some sort of "normal".

You can make the argument that the style of the blog post supports its content and purpose by showing and emphasizing the outrage with Simon felt/feels.

So yeah, labelling it as "bad writing" is ridiculous. Agreed. : ).

Sorry for the rant - I have strong feelings about the written word : ).
> This doesn't scale easily when you consider the volume that places like NPM have.

Found the blanket statement for npm.

How about instead of reviewing 1 library of 10k lines that does everything, you review 10 focused modules for a total of 1k lines?

Also modules like left-pad don’t change that often so you probably have to review only changes in the top modules.

We need to stop this mentality that dependency count should be low. Look at total LOC and you’ll probably find that it’s not as bad as people like to paint it.
Right, but suppose I know or suspect that a specific person is trying to send me a hashtag, but I don't know what that hashtag is: let's use the example given in the posted website of a new romantic partner wanting to take things to "1st base", "2nd base", etc. Can't I just post all four bases and see what matches? That would reveal their preference without revealing mine.
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Equally important : Don't display reputation to users other than themselves. Humans will attributes higher trust level to individuals with higher reputation, despite them occasionally dropping false claims.
That family has been stealing from the plebs for hundreds of years, why is this newsworthy?
I think the correct comparison would be Average Selling Price (ASP), which for a Model 3 is nearly $60k USD. So I think when someone suggests a 50% price reduction, they are saying they'd love to buy a Tesla that is real-world, no tax credits necessary, breaking the $30k barrier.

The most expensive Toyota Camry barely tops $30k[0], and the vast majority sells for less. So ultimately, mainstream electric cars will have to compete in this space (and probably without tax credits, unfortunately.)

I only have one anecdote - my co-worker bought a Model 3, and it was over $60k. That's a luxury! I'm a reasonably well-paid software guy, but I've never spent more than $29k on a car. Currently I drive a hatchback that I bought nearly new for under $20k. So I'm stuck looking at the Nissan Leaf as my option for an electric car, and it would probably work if I kicked my wife out of the garage and installed a charger there. But I'm hesitant to go from a Mazda 3 to a Leaf.

[0] https://www.cargurus.com/Cars/2019-Toyota-Camry-Price-c27940
The average traffic speed in Sydney is 55kph, so a 45 minute drive covers a distance of 25 miles. Taking the IRS standard deduction for gas and depreciation, you pay about $1 in operational costs for every $1 you spend in tolls.

I understand that you would rather pay x than 2x, but this is not “cultural freedom”, it is haggling over a price. But the fact that we ignore the $1 in wear on the drive belt because that won’t be a problem for three years, but we are annoyed about $1 to use a road right now, says a lot about human psychology.

Given climate change, and that sitting in traffic is not very nice, it seems a superior system to me to leverage psychology to bill at the point of use rather than squirreling the costs away in oil changes and in the fine print of financing paperwork and in making pedestrians walk longer between places through parking lots. It may be the case that transit is impractical for this route but the only real way to determine that is to have a functioning price mechanism. I mean it is probably faster to visit your family by helicopter, and helicopters do exist so there is a usecase for them. But we have the good sense to charge about what they cost.
This is absolutely not clear. How does someone who has @apple and posts pictures of apples infringe on Apple, Inc's trademark?
>the culture will only be significantly different if everyone in your management chain is a developer themselves, right up to the CEO and board.

Couldn't agree with this more. At my current company, the COO and CTO are both developers, although the COO doesn't code anymore. The CTO is basically the most senior developer and developed the core solutions at the company. I mainly joined the company because I was able to talk to those two (along with my direct management) and I was extremely impressed in the interview phase at their (apparent) ability to maintain development skills and hold a conversation about weedy topics while also being at a 10,000 foot executive.

I could say more, but it'd probably give away my job. Basically, you can definitely find some "finance" companies where the at least the technical operations are run by devs/former devs.
That doesn’t answer my question at all.
I think a lot of people still have this idea that everyone in Africa is poor. The reality is that Africa has flagship carriers that are as old and prestigious as those found in the West and that the African economy is booming.
I don't buy this argument.

This is syntactically valid ruby, current state:

tuple.collect{ |x,y,z| [x * 3, y * 3] }

and so is this:

tuple.collect{ |y,z| [x * 3, y * 3, z * 3] }

The last one will generate a runtime error (unless "x" is already defined in the closed-over scope the block exists inside of, in that case it might be valid and correct.)

But both are valid Ruby expressions.

Neither are less inscrutable than:

tuple.collect{ [@1 * 3, @2 * 3, @3 * 3] }

This expression will return nil for @3 if only two arguments are passed in, again it's a perfectly valid Ruby expression, and you'll get a runtime error from inside of the block in this case, just like the pre-existing standard block syntaxes.

It's up to the author of the code to create readable constructions that aren't misleading or confusing. There's no reason why this tool is innately bad, more tools can only make it more likely that the author will find an expressive and clear way to say exactly what they're doing without writing something confusing or redundant.

From a language purist perspective, these are all very good reasons not to use Ruby at all. I don't think that adding numbered positional params makes it worse in any objective sense.
Depending on where you are and what your house is like, it could be feasible and financially viable to retrofit your house.

In other places (Japan comes to mind), houses have a relatively short shelf-life. Making passive the default could have a big impact there.

And in many urbanized areas, there is a housing shortage. This can lead to ridiculous price increases, or to a housing boom. Again, building new developments to passive standards could make a big dent.

I would love a magic wand to make every house passive, but I'm sadly aware that it's unlikely to happen. In many cases, the economics make sense.
How would this work? A monthly ZTE surcharge? The consumer already bought the phone. Retroactively punishing them when they already gave money to ZTE isn't the right solution. Just ban new phones from joining the networks.
1. When was the last time you went on a 1 to 2 week vacation away from everything, with no work (job and side project) on your mind?

I was feeling similarly to you and I took a 2 day vacation and that was enough to give me enough will power and motivation for a few months. I'm due for another vacation now.

2. What do you spend your 1 to 2 hours on each day? You should be prioritizing your time carefully. You should stay part time on your side project until you have 12 months of expenses saved up.

This is what I do. I have a notebook where I write the 5 tasks I'll focus on for the day. Then I'll take a look at all of them and decide which task is the fastest to complete or which task will create the most impact, then I come up with the first thing I have to do to finish that task. I then write that tiny task down on a whiteboard and I keep working until I get that tiny task done. I keep this process up until I finish my five major tasks.

For example, your task could be close a sale, so instead you write down upgrade linkedin to pro account, once you finish that, you write down identify one potential client, once you're done with that, ...

Another example, build my authorization library is the task so the first tiny task you write on the white board is identify one authorization library on ruby toolbox.

3. 10 years ago I felt my actions were driven by what others thought of me. Now, I don't even remember who those others were or what they thought of me.

What i'm trying to say is it won't matter in the future what others think of you.

4. Surround yourself with people that believe in you and with people that inspire you. Surround yourself with people that you respect and want to emulate or become.

This is what will keep you going. This is what will make you work hard and this is where you'll find your next co-founder.

Where is this place? It could be a co-working space, a few great meetups, a hackathon or two, demo days of accelerator programs, college classes that you sit in or it could be soccer intramurals.

5. Get yourself a mentor. Find people on linkedin that you want to be like and reach out to them. Tell them that you're at a crossroad with your startup and that you need advice.

the more meetings you take, the more people you meet, the more ideas you create, the more vision you have, the more opportunities that you get.
Yes, so what they'll do is reduce the budget for the MTA to offset that, then "poof"! They have new money to spend on whatever they want.
What are you talking about? Ebooks are tiny. It's just text.
See also https://fullfact.org which sponsored an Apache Solr hackathon a couple of years back.
We already have a kind of congestion pricing, in some sense. If you plan a trip during peak hours, it costs you more time. It’s pretty typical, then, to plan leisure trips into or out of the city based around when traffic will be light.

It’s just that this cost in time isn’t distributed nearly as ideally as it could be. It costs an individual the same amount whether they take a bus or a car with four people or four cars with one person each. If we tax per-vehicle instead, that pushes people not only to shape their travel times more ideally, but to also use more efficient forms of transportation.

So long as this is used as a means to shape travel to be more efficient and not just as a way to gobble up revenue, it might be alright. I think toll bridges/roads are mostly this way, where they’re free in the dead of night when few are on the roads, so I’m hopeful.
I think you're underestimating how much people are willing to spend on an EV, especially a Tesla. I work in Boulder, and Teslas are literally every where. When the Model 3 deliveries started happening, our parking lot at work was invaded with the navy blue models.

EVs have become quite commonplace all over the Front Range of CO, even in the less rich places. Teslas, Bolts, Volts, etrons, and Electric Fords are really common here. I don't think this is exclusive to this area, as I was just in LA, and they're everywhere there too.

Whether it's the urge to help reduce carbon emissions, or have the newest coolest thing, people are willing to shell out those amounts for a vehicle, regardless of how practical it is.
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The US has been caught doing industrial espionage as well, more of a pest or cholera situation here.
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But the number of circles filled in by large segments of the electorate matter hugely, and most people's level of "am I OK with this person winning the election?" varies hugely, especially when there's a candidate they'd be really unhappy with on the ballot paper.
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It’s only a registered trademark for their business field. For example Apple Records also has a registered trademark on Apple in the USA. So by your measure they’re just as valid a rightful owner.