skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It is, in fact, a special interest giveaway to some local publications, but there’s no teeth to the law.

So you have to hope no one wants to come after you? What would happen if this were actually in court? Overturned for lack of enforcement?
I think the story is possibly confusing this bit. When recorded, and transmitted to Apple, the location, Apple ID, etc. of the recording device is known. The same (similar) would be true for any voice assistant.

When the contractors are reviewing snippets for training purposes, this data is anonymized. In the case of Apple;

> Apple has said that it takes steps to protect users from being connected with the recordings sent to contractors. The audio is not linked to an Apple ID and less than 1% of daily Siri activations are reviewed."
Indeed, NYC rent control has been weakening since the 70s.

And the annual rental increase 1970 to now is roughly double what it was 1920 to 1970. Yet for housing, 1920 to 1970 saw roughly 50% growth while 1970-now saw roughly 20%
An asteroid on collision course will not be seen. I just realized an old concept applies here. When two objects are on a collision course with each traveling in a straight line, the apparent heading toward one as viewed from the other does not change. In other words, when a deer runs in front of a car, the angle to the deer doesn't change - it just gets bigger as you close in, but position in your field of view doesn't change.

Astronomers look for things moving against the background sky, but over a short enough time span (maybe a few days) the earth and an asteroid are moving almost in straight lines. That means all you'd see is a speck of light that gets brighter as it gets closer, but does not appear to move against the distant background stars.

Has anyone quantified this phenomenon with respect to asteroid hunting?
> Having studied graphics and signal processing for a few years in graduate school before that job, I thought I would be good at seeing the differences, and I was a bit shocked how good they were at it, and how not that good I was. :)

IMO the best place to learn to see these distinctions is in careful photo printing (of the type where you spend >30m per image, and where “printing” here is being used in an old-school sense of “all of the manual steps to take a raw image from the camera and turn it into printed output”).

Spend a few months doing that for a few hours per week and your ability to see artifacts, textural details, fine differences in amount of edge contrast, etc. will shoot up. (Obviously the folks who spend 30 years on this are even better.)

Studying signal processing, optics, psychophysics, etc. is also useful for understanding what you are noticing, but it isn’t seeing practice.
Yup. In 2000 or so I was just asked what my address was and my name. There was no verification.
That's because election fraud in Russia is driven from the top down. In a country with more-or-less functioning rule of law, and where you won't get into police trouble for documenting this sort of thing - these attacks would not work - and those sorts of restrictions on voting are not necessary.

Hence, the voter fraud boogieman in the US remains just that - a convenient boogieman.
According to whom exactly?

The 14th and 15th amendments to the Constitution.
I’ve visited Xinjiang in 2006, before the 2008 riots mind you, but it’s just another Chinese province and you wouldn’t know there was trouble going on if it weren’t for the armed police, extra internet fire walling, and so on.

That is not to say there isn’t a problem, but hanging out in Urumqi is definitely nowhere near as interesting as hanging out in Pyongyang.

Tibet is much harder to visit, foreigners have to apply for a permit (which you don’t need to visit Xinjiang).
Atmospheric sampling is definitive but slow, because it necessarily propagates at wind speed. I do agree misidentification is very unlikely.
The voter ID requirements gather enough info so that a person can be identified, putting them at risk of fines, prison and deportation if their citizenship is challenged later on. That's not perfect but it creates an incentive to not vote fraudulently.
Perhaps it's the same advantage of living in a society like ants or humans. By keeping each other alive we stand stronger against other forces of nature and/or other species of trees or plants.
To quote the user wbl:

Aside from the transistor, negative feedback, Unix, troff, radio astronomy, the charge coupled device, cryptography, information theory, what did Bell Labs ever do for us? [1]

By the standard you set forward, we would have shut down Bell Labs BECAUSE it started to create these unquantifiably valuable inventions.

Google makes absurd amounts of money by search. Is it unethical to create an amazing search engine? Would it be better if Google said: "We aren't going to put money into moonshots, cancer research, laying fiber in Kansas, internet broadcasting balloons, AI research etc. We are going to take all of the money and pay it back to shareholders."?

I believe that your proposal, if put into practice, would amount to "we should destroy products that are successful". What am I missing?

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20512519
If you want to see really careful observation skills, try dye-transfer printers like http://ctein.com/
supply is how much of a thing is available to be had; demand is how much people want that thing. If there isn't much of a thing and people want it a lot, it will be difficult to get. Acting offended at the reference to the existence of these variables does not eliminate their effects.
What changed such that nobody knows anybody anymore, even in small towns?
Anyone is welcomed to create an iOS/Android/Web application using the library! I’ll be happy to answer any questions or help.
Alfred+Dash have been an amazing improvement to my workflow. Type in "torch batch" and suddenly you have all the docs for Pytorch's Batchnorm functions right there.
It was described as "astronomically small" that something like this would hit us so I imagine there's factors not being considered here
If this is true, then what about clothing? You can't go around unclothed, you always have to pick some sort of clothing to wear. Does this mean clothing manufacturers have some sort of special power over you, and must be regulated by the government?

Just like picking what clothes to wear, you can pick your apartment, pick how much and what quality of medical care to receive, and this is enough to ensure a reasonably well functioning and competitive market without special rules. These markets aren't that special or different.
I am not confusing anything. In https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20532446 you said "Coal plants are air cooled, not water cooled". I simply posted a counterexample. The coal plant is water cooled, and all the other coal plants pictured in the Wikipedia article are also water cooled. You still haven't justified your accusation of this being "dishonest".

>but nuclear uses both

People have already posted multiple examples of nuclear plants that use only one, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20532670
Also related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20493699

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20531039

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20526039
A library is not loaning you property, it is a public good which you already paid for and have a right to use, the administrative overhead is for the convenience of all library users.

A corporation's activities are unknowable but not being a real person it is not entitled to an assumption of good faith and there is no particular right to create new legal entities. We should definitely know who the beneficial owners of any corporation are to reduce the potential for fraud.
Open source all-iron battery for renewable energy storage
Tag every resource you provision (probably on 3-5) dimensions and you’ll never wonder where your money is going. It’s a great system, but most people (including me for the first 3 years) skip the tags screen by default.
Well, we do have evidence that voter fraud - in the form of preventing people who can vote from voting, through imposition of onerous voting requirements is rampant.

Denying the vote to someone who has the right to vote is mathematically just as problematic as granting it to someone who does not have the right.
A corporation creates a fictitious person. Allowing the beneficial interests to be hidden is disgusting and not compatible with a free market.

Long ago, a corporate charter required an act of the state legislature to authorize it. Obviously that’s a heavy handed approach, but the idea that any agent of any person or other entity can anonymously create a company is ridiculous.
I usually strip them out during builds that target production. They’re just noise in that environment.
haha...knew what state would be the focus without even opening the link.

I'm not even in the US and we see a ton of Delaware entities.
Along with what kenrose said, imagine the flexibility of being able to request the exact view that you need from the server for any client you have in mind. A perfect view fetched in a single trip -no overfetching or underfetching, no bespoke HTTP endpoints for every new use-case and a self documenting API + type-safety to boot.

Some trade-offs are things like more backend complexity, querying complex data (like deeply nested or recursive data structures) becomes harder, limiting exponential query complexity as the data branches out, etc. It also becomes more difficult to predict resource usage and to monitor performance, as the article mentions.
How Old Is The Shepherd? (2013)
When I was an intern I spent most of the year fixing bugs, between other assignments. It was the most beneficial educational experience I could have had. I got really good at it by the end too.

There isn’t a better way to learn a codebase and new tech than one issue chosen by you at a time
I fear that peak often comes before many companies are profitable.
How should climate change or air pollution or any of it be partisan? When Republican voters are polled, many say they love the environment and the outdoors too. The truth is fossil fuel has bought and sold most R politicians and many D politicians too. Until we get money out of politics or make the energy companies go bankrupt, they will continue to pay politicians to prevent the cleaning of our environment and energy system.
It's orthogonal, but if you don't see how the shift in (the orthogonal) political power structures has affected the exercise of basic rights, then you probably won't see future violations of rights coming as effectively because you're not fully alert for them.
I'd recommend starting with the (much, much) shorter, modern sequel: Paul Lockhart's "Mathematician's Lament"[1]

It addresses a different side of the question. Namely, why, if mathematics is about beauty, most people perceive it as an instrument of torture?

(The TL;DR is: the way we teach math is often a nonsencial torture, to the extent that what we teach is not math).

[1]Lockhart's Lament: https://www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin/LockhartsLament....
It’s not unusual among modern democracies for voters to provide proof of identity. We’re (and the UK?) the outliers in that, so no, I think it’s unrelated to authoritarianism. It’s got more to do with ensuring integrity of votes.
India, Mexico, Argentina, Germany, Taiwan, Brazil, Iceland, Costa Rica, etc, require it.

To which I can only think, "So what?"

Why does the United States need to be like other countries? The whole reason people settled this land was because they didn't want to be like other countries.

It's OK for countries to have different systems. In fact, it's better because the diversity allows for experimentation. France is awesome because they do things the French way there. Germany is awesome for all its Germanity. If all the countries are the same, then there's no point in having more than one country or ever going anywhere.

I wouldn't ask Americans to give up their system any sooner than I'd ask the French to give up wine.

Among Americans all major demographics show majority support for voter ID reqs.

Again, "So what?" There's a vast difference between doing what is popular and doing what is right. Keeping it in the political realm, you imagine the mess the nation would be if we just went with the popular vote and let people vote directly for the president? It would disenfranchise 273 million people who don't live in New York, California, Texas, or Florida.
Brooklyn resident here. Plenty of room on the subway during my morning commute. Wish they would build more condos here so I could enter the market.
> Because [little squares] is how computers deal with them. Not as point samples

This is not accurate. Computers generally represent raster images as arrays of numbers (where each entry in the array is called a “pixel”). There are no literal little squares involved. Some code (much of it mediocre) conceives of those arrays of numbers as representing little squares. Other code does not.

> vectors-as-numbers is much more useful when calculating with them

This is super myopic / parochial.

Mathematicians think of “vectors” as elements of an abstract vector space (i.e. anything with well-defined concepts of scalar multiplication and vector addition over some field). This is useful to them because there are many powerful theorems which work in general for any arbitrary vector space, or sometimes for any vector space over the complex number field, or sometimes for any finite-dimensional vector space, or ....

Physicists think of vectors as directed magnitudes, generally some kind of measurable physical quantity in Euclidean 3-space (or Minkowski space). This is useful because many kinds of combinations and relations of directed magnitudes can be computed can be made without reference to any specific coordinate system.

One possible representation of physicists’ vectors (or certain types of mathematicians’ vectors) is an array of numbers.

But an array of numbers by itself is a completely different type of object than a vector. There are no specific well-defined operations on a generic array of numbers; or rather, depending on what it represents there are a wide variety of operations that might be meaningful or reasonable.

There are many kinds of “calculations” which are completely abstract where thinking of vectors as arrays of numbers is unbelievably obscurantist and counterproductive. Proofs and derivations involving coordinates are almost always extremely cumbersome.

There are even many types of concrete calculations on vectors-represented-as-arrays-of-numbers where the most effective algorithm is to first convert to a different representation.
We also turn the corn into ethanol and force everyone to add it to their auto fuel, and they want to increase that amount. Which is, in essence, forcing everyone to burn corn.
Siri activates almost any time I say “are you serious?!”, which is a phrase I say with some regularity.

I’ve definitely had it activated a number of times by the TV or when watching YouTube or Twitch.
> Your last sentence is very true - economists on the most "conservative" and "liberal" sides of the profession all agree that rent control is counter productive.

No, I wouldn't say it is true. The things is most people on hacker news would agree that it is so because you have read it so many times before. But they can't actually specify what that actually is because that isn't really known. All that economists really agree on is rent control is unsurprisingly a worse way to allocate resources based on money. But that says little to nothing about the political and social costs which makes the economic discussion largely irrelevant. If rent control decreases market efficiency by 5%, but increases political efficiency orders of magnitude because people no longer fear that building more will force them to move, it is a worthy trade off. Similarly to achieve affordable housing without rent control in an already hot market requires the government to implement changes to the direct detriment of landlords and land owners, which usually isn't popular.

Economics isn't a field like others. It is very overtly political. Unless you know exactly what they can and can't prove, and to what degree they can prove it, it might not be relevant. Which isn't something you will actually find most of the time, because it often isn't.
If votes weren't anonymous, maybe. But they are.
That’s the difference between a right and a privilege. Borrowing a book is a privilege.

You have a right to vote. Rights come without condition. Many municipal elections only require residency, and the state cannot compel you to have an identification, be literate, or participate in society beyond voting. A hermit living in a cave, a software engineer, or a person who just moved to a place are all humans and all subject to the same rights.
wow. someone really took comic sans and started charging $100 for it.
Thank you! This is quite good detail. I especially appreciate that you told me what you did - versus what I should do :-)

Insurance is maxed out. Agree that putting tax money in super safe savings method is good.

Got an accountant, not sure it's the right one but not a bad one.

Working on trust and all associated works.

Interviewing various RIAs. Not sure about DAF - I get it but may wait to donate money.

Great book recommendations!

The only question I have for you and others is - what about diversifying? Details on my 'wealth increase' is that company illiquid stock turned into liquid stock; so did you focus on diversifying or patience?
Having an ID is a pretty good proxy for that.

Having an ID doesn't show someone is part of a community. All it does is provide a way for systems to exclude people.
I wish the article was more clear on this.

It takes a lot of work to properly anonymize the data. The question is: what information does the operator see?
Land markets are very unique. Location, Location, Location.

Unlike Fruit of the Loom underwear, you can't get 12-pack of NYC or Paris next day.

A land value tax is does not cause economic inefficiency, and it tends to reduce inequality.

https://www.economist.com/free-exchange/2015/04/01/why-henry...
Yes it is. I don't smoke any more but I resent having to produce my ID for common purchases. It's none of the retailer's or the state's business. Corporations typically cover their ass for legal liability against selling booze or cigarettes to minors by requiring everyone to product ID. I have no wish to live in a permission society where everyone is constantly having to get approval for everything, and am opposed to the construction of same. That attitude extends into the political sphere.

tl;dr mind your own business.
The majority of the US electorate is underinformed and/or misinformed.

The most popular cable news network is Fox News, which pushes straight-up falsehoods as propaganda for the right. That's not to say the left-wing networks are innocent, just that the most popular one is also the most dishonest. It has a wide reach and many voters get all of their news from only this network.

The right-wing party is completely bought out by the fossil fuel lobby, which has peddled the "global-warming-is-a-myth" narrative since the early 80's. Both the party and this lobby push that narrative through the right-wing media, which uninformed voters eat up, as the left-wing party has been completely demonized to them via that same media.

Those who trust these right-wing media outlets often do so on principle since these outlets are not "leftist" and the "left-wing media" is "out to get them". As a result, they often do not trust other media sources.

There is also the poisoning of the well that is filter bubbles on social media platforms (particularly Facebook) but I won't get into that as this comment is quite long already.

Hopefully this explains our problems to an extent. (I love explaining/ranting to non-Americans as they can empathize with my incredulity.)
Agree re: put money away for taxes - I've made the mistake of not doing that in the past and it leads to more problems.

As for conservative - general plan is to put enough money into 3-fund portfolio to be 'set for life' - then be a bit more aggressive with the rest. Agree with diversify. Keeping quiet is good - agree re: think like old money.

I do need to figure out how to treat a bit. Today we decided to splurge on $120/visit weekly housekeeping - too extravagant?

I plan to work for the next 30 years because I like it. I'm around 40 - but we'll see how it all goes.
The likelihood it would hit a highly populated area is still incredibly slim even if it did strike earth. I wonder if there are some smaller asteroids on rare occasions just landing in the ocean that we don't really know about.
"A conservative town in red Texas led by a Republican mayor going green – how cool is that?"

This continues to be frustrating. If politics was actually about ideology then going green and gaining energy independence would be a super republican thing to do.
Wait, you're assuming anonymity and the ability to "decide later if my vote was valid or not"? How would that work?
Then communities should be able to decide who's eligible to vote rather than having that decided at the top and promulgated downwards.
In the US Republicans make it as hard as possible for poor people to get an id then are asking to make it mandatory as they are aware most poor people don't vote for them.

While the Republicans take heat for it on the national level, when you examine the issue at state and local levels there's plenty of it on both sides.

What disappoints me is that the Democrats rarely push back on these proposals, and when they do it's half-hearted.

Republicans used to be the party of freedom as in pioneer guy with a cabin and a mule. Democrats used to be the party of freedom as in ACLU. These days neither is willing to stick their necks out in any tangible way for freedom.
Agree re restaurant = bad.

Agree $5M isn't rich. But I make fairly good money and live in a moderate LCOL, so with good continual salary plus this (which is quite a bit more than $5M actually) it should be good.

Agree trading a lot is stupid - and more so on the restaurant.
Amendments to the constitution have establish the right.

As a society, we decided that tenants, people of non-white races, women, and 18-20 year olds should be allowed to vote. We also eliminated odious standards like counting then-slaves as 60% human.
Lithium ion battery prices are currently below $0.17 per watt-hour and expected to drop below $0.10 by 2024. Does the all iron battery have any advantages aside from being more environmentally friendly and not requiring lithium? I must admit, the "safe for DIY" description makes me want to give it a try.
I was working at Azure and did some minor projects with the Microsoft Band. I decided I wanted to get into consumer bio tech. Then, the wife got a job in Hawaii and so we decided to move from Seattle for that. I expected there to be a lot of tech jobs in Hawaii, given its location in between Asia and North America. However, there are very few. Then I saw a post on Craigslist that the cancer center was looking to hire a software engineer. I had almost no biology experience but there are very few software engineers/data scientists here, so it ended up being a great fit. Took me about 9 months to be comfortable with the biology, and still am far from an expert, but have great team mates with that expertise.

From what I hear, this is not too rare. There is a large shortage of good programmers in biotech. Probably because the pay is a lot worse than in the tech industry.

I’d recommend new software engineers go work in tech and save money while the economy is hot, and then transition to bio tech when you are looking for some more challenging work and money isn’t as big a concern.
You should check on cd.textfiles.com. They have the content of a bunch of those old CDs that would come with magazines. I've spent more time than I'd like to admit download content from textfiles.com and reminiscing of the pre-ubiquitous-internet world :)