skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
so, users would much rather get ads they aren't interested in? the point of a/b testing is to show you something you want to see and might be interested in purchasing.

This is a good thing
And even the robots still complain about the weather.
I choose to believe that story is nothing more than apocryphal folklore. And nothing you can say will convince me otherwise. :-/
The important role local newspapers play in a healthy voting democracy
absolutely grotesque
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It's worth noting that in some sense, all words are just made up.
Terrible analogy. 1+1=1. More like Ax + Bx = 1.
But it's a pwace fo' fwiends!!!
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> IANAL but how is a human artist drawing a face (based on their learned reality of what a face looks like) any different than a GAN drawing a face (based on the GAN learned reality)?

A human artist is a legal person, a GAN is not. That's a fairly substantial legal difference.
I have been working through this book in rust, and I have to say, the book is a real joy. Extremely clear writing, very good pacing, and excellent explanations of technical topics.

If you're at all interested you should buy this.
But while I'm sure some of them had that in mind, I think very of them went around thinking "how I vote on this specific piece of legislation will make a difference in how much I make afterwards".

The Clintons is a good example of why that would no sense: Their revenue is effectively diversified enough that it would make very little difference. They're trading off their perceived status and recognition - if they'd pushed policy in a different direction, their revenues would just have come from being popular as speakers etc. with different sets of people, it wouldn't have evaporated. It might have been different, and it is possible they'll have thought about that at times, but it is unlikely that they kept thinking "this will increase/lower our income later" because it's way too abstract how it would influence things.

Yes, I'm sure outright vote-buying happens, but I don't think most lobbying is outright vote buying. That doesn't mean it isn't wrong, but that trying to paint it as outright vote buying rather than paint it as wrong by making the point that disproportionate access is equally bad is counter-productive. Because if you accuse the average politician of outright selling their vote, they'll consider themselves unjustly victimized and just think you're a crank that's totally off the mark.
Gates broke the law and nearly destroyed his company. Had he been less well politically connected the appeal would have gone another way and we would have had at least three Microsofts today.

Like I said, 'value' is a dangerous proposition to measure anyone by.
One thing I don't understand (possibly as a Canadian, possibly just as a conscious person) is how little it costs to bribe your highest-ranking politicians.

The article suggests that tax filing is an $11B industry and that companies spend ~$6M lobbying your corrupt senators. The chair of the Ways and Means committee received ~$16k in donations from Intuit/H&R.

Wait, what?

Never mind how inexcusably transactional this political 69 sesh is... it's obviously table stakes for these people.

What I can't process is that $11B of revenue only spent $6M to bribe these guys. Why not spend $100M? Why not spend X? Are the senators just selling themselves short?

For perspective, $6M is like 10-12 totally normal homes on my totally normal suburban street.

If I was in the business of bribing politicians, I would allocate a lot more than $16k to the chair of the committee. Just saying. At least send all of his grandkids to the Ivy Leagues.
I mean, if you have tried Netlify before, you will know why they are loved so much
For the most part I don't dream :/ Though I can sometimes experience a flash of a scene in my dreams. Or at least it feels that way - I think there's a distinction on that that this science is still missing.
I wonder why nobody's gotten around to it yet. Could it be complicated to decide if someone passed away or not?
I see your point, but there would be nothing stopping them from double-dipping under the guise of "we need both revenue streams to pay the bills".

They'll still show us advertisements, though they'll probably optimize them to use fewer CPU cycles since those would directly affect their bottom line.

I sincerely doubt the vast majority of the general population are using ad-blocking software today; at least, not to the extent that companies would dial back their advertisements in an attempt to prevent the size of this demographic from increasing further.
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Politicians don’t put the bribes in their pockets. They put them in their re-election campaigns because without those bribes they will get voted out of office by The People in favor of an opponent with a larger, bribe-based ad budget. They don’t want the bribes, they need them just to stay in power. In return, the real goal of “access” is to hear what the bribing company wants written into law or else the bribes will cease and the politician will be booted out.

Competition for this ad budget is so fierce that Congresspeople spend more than half of their working hours reaching out to groups they need bribes from. This skews the laws not always in favor of the groups, but really in favor of whatever motivates the groups to bribe harder. Ex: if simplifying the laws would make everything easier for everyone, we can’t have it. We need the existing complexity to fight and have bidding wars over.

No matter what you want Congress to do, they can’t do it until we fix campaign finance. Doesn’t matter what issues you care about. They’ll only be worked on incidentally if they don’t get in the way of the bribes.

You don’t like it. Congress doesn’t like it. They’re trapped and can’t move against it without getting cut off and booted out. We’re all fucked until we find a catch-22-escape for them.
The Speaker has minimal influence on the Senate; I think you mean th Senate Majority Leader.
Interviewed here at the end of 2015, so quite a while ago, but even back then, something just didn't _feel_ right about that place -- like they had their eye on everything but the ball -- raised a ton of money, hired a bunch of smart people, drinking plenty of the koolaid, but they weren't really focused so much on the problem if anyone wanted what they were selling...

It was a big vision and most startups fail, so maybe it's just they couldn't figure it out -- happens to most of us.
> It’s mind blowing to me that Senate procedure still allows one party/person to control what bills even are voted on

McConnell doesn’t wield absolute power. The Senate can remove him at any time. His leadership is a matter of efficiency and convenience, not necessity.
Yes, the link 'antt posted goes into it by the third sentence.

"This upset many employees – mothers in particular."

As for other companies, well, my employer existed at that time, had and still has a work-from-home culture that's more friendly towards mothers, and is routinely highly rated in most innovative company beauty pageants. The link from the link also details basically every other company in 2013 having a non-trivially better situation with flexible WFH policies.
Should it also shut off for the millions of train passengers?
Your representative represents you, among many. That's the vote you share. Representatives are supposed to put state or district above everything else.
I love what Netlify is doing, but I've chosen to only watch it from afar for the past few years. I used to use a similar service that I loved very much called Divshot. But Google bought them, closed it down, and absorbed some of their tech for parts of the Firebase platform.

Now I use NearlyFreeSpeech.NET exactly because I do have to pay for it. I'm not sure how Netlify is able to offer their free tier. But I've learned the hard way that if you're not paying for it, you're not the customer.
Plus they were dumb as posts to think it wouldn't be noticed. I'm surprised they weren't suspended. Word at Berkeley High is they got 300 "service hours."
I don’t understand thinking about one’s actual life in these terms.
But the output result is the same (i.e. human can produce a drawing of a face, GAN can produce a new drawing of a face).

If another animal such as chimp draws a human face what do you think would be the outcome? Would a chimp drawing a face be any different to a human drawing a face?
Maybe so, but please don't post unsubstantive comments here. What would make a comment like this interesting is specific information about what is bad in the diff and why. (That, plus maybe a bit less name-calling.)

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: no, you guys are right, I totally didn't get the joke.
How many other things are like this? What abilities do I have that are rare, that I take for granted and think everyone else has them? What abilities am I completely ignorant of because I don't have them? I think this is a source of great misunderstandings because we think others think like we do. Something that is obvious to us is obvious to them. But that is not the case.

I used to get a lot of push-back about ideas at work in ways that confused me. I have started to develop a habit of stating the obvious, what I think doesn't need to be said and I usually would leave unsaid. It has been surprising to me how often the things I was skipping over are viewed as novel ideas.
What is the story here (andrew) ?
There's got to be a less user-hostile way of handling deduplication, though I do appreciate that there are several conflicting objectives here. Maybe the annoyance could be partly mitigated by also transferring the upvotes so the original story has a chance of re-ranking on the hot page again.
EDIT: Parent edited their comment to no longer reflect who McConnell represents.

"Only 33% of Kentucky voters approve of McConnell and an overwhelming 56% disapprove." [1]

[1] https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/431002-poll-33-of-kent... (Poll: 33% of Kentucky voters approve of McConnell)
The name Helvetica Now seems like an April Fools' joke. The name will not age well, plus there is potential for confusion with Helvetica Neue.
Yahoo is in a business that has fantastic economics. Try again.
> Politicians don’t put the bribes in their pockets.

Yes, they do. All the time.

> They put them in their re-election campaigns because without those bribes they will get voted out of office by The People in favor of an opponent with a larger, bribe-based ad budget.

You kind of fail at corruption if you are getting bribes many times the annual salary of a job per year and are feeding them into nothing more than keeping that job.

Most corrupt politicians do not fail at corruption that badly.
It seems like being academically excellent and being successful in industry are totally different things. I still remember the hype about Udacity and Coursera a few years ago.

Beside VmWare and Akamai, I haven't seen any company founded by university faculty that have survived and made impact (even though VMware was tiny compared to what it is today when EMC acquired them)
Upvoted.

1) I'd like the IRS to at least have a role, since the IRS is the only one who has a copy of all my tax information provided by employers, banks, brokerages, etc. They have a unique role in that they can pre-fill all the information, where someone like Intuit cannot. However, an opportunity where they simply provided that information to a third party with my permission could also be an interesting model. I haven't seen any exploration of that.

2) California, at least, already provides this service. But few use it because the federal government doesn't. If the federal government stepped up, many states would follow.

I believe that the IRS providing it like most of the rest of the world would be a big step forward, but would be open to a role for private industry too.
I used to play soccer when I was young and I would always visualize the trajectory of the ball in my mind before I kicked it. This wasn't just muscle memory (though I don't doubt there's a strong connection between the two); I would describe it like being able to see 1 second into the future and having the ability to superimpose the trajectory of the ball on the scene in front of my eyes.

I now take portraits as a side business. When I schedule photoshoots with models and think of locations, I'm constantly visualizing in my head the scene, their poses, the lighting, etc. In my head these aren't still images or snapshots, but I'm on set with the model and I'm able to move around and interact with the model to try different angles and figure out the ones I like and don't like. I never take written notes about the shots I want to try and get, I just spend the few days leading up to the shoot mulling over ideas in my head and by the day of I know exactly what shots I want and how to get them.

I also noticed as a kid that when I would read fantasy books that I would sometimes get so engrossed in the imagery and descriptions of the scenes that I would stop processing the words on the page. When I would "break out of it" I would be able to remember exactly the movie scene that had been happening in my head, but I wouldn't be able to tell you the last few sentences I had read even though they perfectly described the scene I had been experiencing. This visualization of novels made me fall in love with reading as a kid.
How is concerns about net neutrality and the absence of net neutrality party politics. Aren't all politics party politics in the USA.

As far as the topic concerns. It just goes to show how much power big business has. Clearly net neutrality is what caused the USA to become leaders in internet technology. Why not keep things fair. Who are our politicians supporting by not adopting this bill.
Bottom end of 22% tax bracket is ~$43k/annum based on 2019 Notice 1036...that's a $23k margin before hitting the $66k AGI threshold for free file offerings.

That number is more like ~25mil, or just over 18% in 2017; +4.6% over previous year[1].

EDIT: I suppose I should probably ask what point you were trying to make? I didn't quite track where you were going with all that.

[1] https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-soi/17in01pl.xls
So if you wave your hands enough, it seems like maybe there's an argument to be made that the weights of a trained GAN somehow correspond to a 'compilation' of the training data as it's defined in this doc: https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ14.pdf
> Because the majority of Americans want it and they are supposed to represent us? Because it’s good for the country?

I’m a Manhattan Democrat. We ran a state net neutrality bill. Nobody called. Nobody wrote in. This isn’t an issue voters care deeply about (yet).

Net neutrality has popular support (I think). But nobody is there to organise the interest into an issue.
What is needed in extension portability? You can use Firefox Sync to sync extensions between devices.
> The second argument blows my mind because I can't imagine that the set of people who would just pay the IRS without double checking their math are reviewing the tax filings from the third party they use right now. In other words, I would really like to see a survey of how people currently file their taxes in comparison to how they think they would if there was an IRS free filing for everyone or something like the ReadyReturn mentioned in the NPR story.

I'm actually of the second opinion and, aside from two years dealing with medical issues with my wife, I've filed my taxes by hand for my entire life, and think everyone else should too.
I think you got swooshed, a bit. The GP was almost certainly making a pun. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sans-serif#Grotesque
Nails are pretty forgiving to the type/size of hammer used.

Screws can be pretty finicky, for example using a too-small Philips screwdriver can strip the screw-head, and make it very difficult to tighten further or to remove.

I'm pretty fond of those screws that can take a Flathead or Philips screwdriver, though.

How about nuts+bolts?
Where AWS/GitHub is mentioned, there should be the equivalent Azure stuff, especially for bug tracking, CI/CD, repo subfolder "owners", code review, there's a ton of stuff equivalent or better to buganizer, OWNERS file, etc .

In services there should be vitess since it's both a YouTube and an open source project.

It seem to have a new transactional messaging feature with message sending and Ack: https://vitess.io/docs/advanced/messaging/, which seem to fill a slightly different niche than rabbitmq/pubsub/etc.
A similar story from 2013: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6429457
That sure is a lot of green commenters.
Isn't the framing of that hypothetical piece as "a window into..." fairly heavily implying that it's not intended to be the entire picture?
> However there is an incentive for that 3rd part tax company to save their customer as much as they possibly can.

lol. No.

First of all, that myth already assumes a complicated tax code which requires a for-profit middleman. We should be able to minimize our tax exposure without paying corporations.

Secondly, the vast majority of filers don't qualify for loopholes. When every tool offers the same refund, competition is for the cheapest/simplest tax experience... while the industry as a whole is strongly incentivized to create an ever more convoluted system, ensuring their yearly rent-seeking continues.
How would you even prove “derivative work”? My understanding is that in proving derivative work you would need to show the original, but in a GAN output which could be made up of 20MM nodes you would not even be able to confirm which 200K image(s) where used in the production of the output result
> But the output result is the same

Law is only extremely rarely concerned with only output results and not process, status of actors, etc.

> Would a chimp drawing a face be any different to a human drawing a face?

Yes, legally, the outcome wouldd be different (whether it was original, a direct copy, or something made by copying elements but with some new content) because chimps are neither legal actors that can create a copyright through authorship nor ones who can violate copyright.
> well, i'll add that to the list of things my brain can't do :(

I see it more as tradeoffs that make us different. For example you may have noticed that you are better than average at folding paper in your head and other spatial tasks. You have your aphantasia to thank for that.
I can hear/imagine a human voice singing, (similar to the way my internal voice 'talks' when thinking) but i usually can't imagine instruments, because they always end up sounding as if they are performed by a human voice.

Several times i did listen the sound of instruments as if real, but it happened only before falling into sleep, and just thinking about that would wake me up enough to bring the human voice back.
Please keep the 'whataboutism' cliché off HN. At this point it adds no information and is just a form of name-calling, so therefore against the site guidelines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This is pointless obstruction and ironically a waste of my tax money. You could easily have the government automatically complete your taxes for the simple cases and have software like TurboTax for the difficult ones.

To the people complaining about the possibility of a government run site being poor have you used TurboTax? I've used it twice now and will never use it again. The dark patterns, upselling and fake loading screens really obscured how simple my taxes actually were to do.
Not your OP, but when I was in the program it was because MSFT people found me and awarded it to me based on posts I had already done. I didn't apply. It was in 1992 when the big transition to Windows 3.1 was underway. I had already been assisting people with Windows programming questions on Compuserve, because of my belief that it was then an important transition. I believed it was going to be easier than people thought, and my aid was meant to help people see this. When my priorities changed and I stopped posting, MSFT didn't award me MVP status again. The MSFT self-interest was that the awards were things that made it easier for us to post more, such as comp'ing the minutes we spent in the Windows forum on Compuserve and the like. Although I heard rumors of MSFT leaders/liasons encouraging individuals to post after their awards, I didn't get such communications personally. I bet it's all different now but I have had not been involved.
I love that I have no idea whether that second paragraph is a real analysis or one making fun of font nerds.
I'm not sure I connect either of those side effects. I discovered I have aphantasia a couple of years ago from a chance encounter with a previous news discussion of it.

My sense of direction is fine to good, and as far as I can establish, it's common to visualise "metaphorically". So I'd visualise a route or 3d model as another might visualise honesty - I know what it is, I can precisely express it, but I can't picture it in technicolour. It seems to work well enough that hobbies over the years have included model engineering - including design, fell walking and geocaching. I never needed a 3d model to "see" a plan, even while drawing it, even though I cannot "see" it. Saying "I just know" seems completely inadequate, but that feels like how it works. I can pick up on potential problems where a) might interfere with b). Language gets difficult for this!

I can juggle a model but again metaphorically. I can do it quite easily and it never occurred to me in 50 years that images were an optional component for others. :)

The only other I've encountered with a similar lack of images among my friends reports just the same ability to do direction, map reading and spatial interrelation just fine, without seeing it. Just knowing seems to be enough to do the rest.

Rumination and regret is perfectly possible too - the feelings, the consequences is plenty enough to get that going. The pictures are better on radio also applies - not a literal picture but the feelings and the metaphorical. :)
Why do we like magic when we know it's a trick?
You shouldn’t apologise for a personal attack, whether on the internet or in person. Anyone who says you’re privileged is your enemy, at worst, and completely indifferent to your welfare at best.
Getting a docker image to performantly access a local folder across platforms is a huge challenge.

I love docker but it's just not good enough at handling watched folders.
A map is just a visual representation of spatial relationships, and often a poor one because it's from a fixed vantage point that is certainly not well suited to visual translation into what you see at a street level.

When I look at a map, I rarely try to remember what it looks like (I couldn't visualise it anyway) - I remember directions and distances relative to other places.
A good chunk of the cryptocurrency space is built around this idea. Some more well known projects are Filecoin and Blockstack.
I'm not overly concerned with hurting a politician's feelings. I am bemused at the idea that someone can observe the last few decades of the capture of the government and major political parties by corporate and oligarch interests and the increasingly lucrative payoffs to these people, and not come to the transparently obvious conclusion that these are commercial relationships.

This is institutionalized and legalized bribery, not just 'access' or 'networking' or whatever euphemism you want to use to couch this in niceties.
The title isn't misleading, people on this site are just way too eager to jump on the "Google discontinues everything" argument every chance they get