skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's the benefit of this over growing high-protein plants like lentils with grow-lamps? Presumably CO2, water, and electricity are also the only resources consumed for the latter. Is is a difference in efficiency?

Also, how do they account for the need for trace elements that I assume even a single celled organism would need. For example, where does it get selenium and sulfur?
> Wish we had a gland that got rid of excess salt then we could just drink sea water.

If such a gland existed, it would probably require a lot of energy to work. Plus, what would the gland do with all of the salt it is filtering just send it to your kidneys/bladder? I'm imagining kidney-stones formed from all the excess salt your body is trying to get rid of
I’m USian and I usually make an effort to be more formal and put more personal distance between managers and I. Some have remarked on it. I feel like it’s more straightforward and productive to do this. My manager has authority over me in a workplace setting in things that relate to work. Politeness and respect is great and probably requisite for long employment but we don’t need to pretend we are friends and you asked me for a favor. However I also have very clear boundaries about where management does and does not have authority and generally socialize less with management less than many of my peers have. I’m not sure whether this is weird or not.
Yeah, if the personal (or shadow) profile has a phone number, and the same phone number is in the tracked data, removing the personal profile's user ID seems a little beside the point.
Wow thank you for mentioning this! My wife had a bullseye bite mark two days ago. We wondered what it was. Time for a doctor visit.
Including durin42 himself ;)
Abolish all of the tax code, pass a federal sales tax, almost entirely do away with the IRS, much more efficient - the end.
> The plan she released consists of several parts. Companies with revenue of twenty-five billion dollars or more that provide an online marketplace would be designated as “platform utilities” and would not be allowed to both own the marketplace and participate on it. Right from the start, Warren says, Amazon would have to separate its “Basics” business, which sells products under a house brand, from the rest of Amazon, and Google’s advertising business and its search business would have to be split apart. Secondly, she pledged to “empower” federal regulators to undo many of the tech-industry mergers that have already happened, such as Amazon’s acquisition of Whole Foods and Zappos; Facebook’s takeover of Whatsapp and Instagram; and Google’s purchase of Waze, Nest, and DoubleClick.

This would really change the landscape if implemented. On thing that it would do is force the companies to innovate themselves, knowing that they can't just acquire every innovative company that challenges their dominance.
Thanks for the debate. I will try learning Lisp and see how it goes. Time for me to go to bed. It is 21h30 this side of the world -> South Africa.
> And yet, we've been in a state for decades where a $1 increase in IRS budget results in more than $1 in income, yet their budget has continued to be cut.

That's because the point where $1 in IRS spending brings in $1 in government revenue is well past the optimal level.

First, it's not just government spending that matters. If you have the IRS spend $.60 and the taxpayer spend $.60 to recover $1, you're spending a total of $1.20 to get $1, not $.60. (And the burden doesn't inherently fall on people doing something wrong; it costs people money to get audited even when the audit reveals no malfeasance.)

Then you have to consider that IRS spending is unproductive. If the IRS spends $.50 and the taxpayer spends $.50 in order to recover $1, you haven't generated $1 for government programs, it's only $.50, but it costs the taxpayer $1. The collection efficiency of doing that is astoundingly bad -- in normal cases the collection overhead is <1%.

Meanwhile the amount of actual tax evasion in the US is quite low, so more audits don't result in a lot more compliance. (Tax avoidance is something else entirely, but IRS spending does nothing there.)
> I don't think there's a good analogy in the office space category: maybe shared kitchens?

I worked for a startup that also rented out our extra space to other startups and there were a ton of benefits: conference rooms with tvs and teleconference hardware, phone booths, a very nice coffee maker and other kitchen appliances, shared outdoor space, nice furniture, copy machine, a receptionist... all things that most of the >10 person companies would not want to buy for themselves, but we all got to share because of the setup.
Very clever, but missing the point. Those two qualifiers refer to different classes:

(1) Most startup theory is ex-post, therefore bs.

(2) All ex-post startup theory is bullshit.

Those claims may or may not be true, but there's no contradiction between the two. The title does indeed seem to implicitly claim (2), in the form of the following (implied) syllogism:

Most startup theory is ex-post.

All ex-post startup theory is bullshit.

Therefore, most startup theory is bullshit.

Or, more concisely: most startup theory is ex-post, therefore bs.
U.S. Farmers Made in Brazil
It is, I think, worth making a distinction between understanding a construction of the reals, and understanding the reals.
consider the following example:

You are going to visit example.com, a site which you have an account.

You think your clipboard have the string "example.com". But while the browser opened, you clicked your password manager and already copied the password for it. (or for the sake of the example, you might have been typing an email you didn't not want to share, maybe it had financial information about your IPO... I am going with password as it is clearly something you want and need to keep private)

When Chrome opens, you click the address bar and paste. See your mistake, press backspace a few types, type example.com and press return. Now google has on it's logs (and associated to your user profile) your example.com's password and you never had any feedback that it was sent, unless there was search results for your password (let's hope not)!

Had you used firefox with autocomplete off (which you should) you would have seen the mistake before pressing return. or if you did press return, it would have been very clear to you that you just sent your password to google.

So, defend it all you want, but it is a dark pattern that logs everything you type on a somewhat unrelated field and only show you feedback on certain cases. It is worlds apart from typing your credit card on amazon!
What's your source on diversity of people who buy things on iTunes?
Most people here will seize on Better Markets' phrasing rather than addressing the merits of this part of what Warren proposes: (1) "Right from the start . . . Amazon would have to separate its 'Basics' business, which sells products under a house brand, from the rest of Amazon," (2) Google’s advertising business and its search business would have to be split apart. (3) regulators can "undo many of the tech-industry mergers that have already happened, such as Amazon’s acquisition of Whole Foods and Zappos; Facebook’s takeover of Whatsapp and Instagram; and Google’s purchase of Waze, Nest, and DoubleClick."

Friendly reminder that (1) through (3) are the actual stakes of the policy, not what Vaheesan says to the reporter about forcing companies to "behave in more socially responsible ways." That editorializing will never, ever become law, and it is entirely secondary to the actual debate here.
If I remember correctly, Regus is "WeWork"ifying some of their real estate under the brand Spaces where you get the startup-y interiors. Under this brand they should be able to offer the same benefits as WeWork.

I will need to find coworking space in a couple months and will be looking at Spaces due to my less-than-optimal experience at WeWork.
You can turn the coins off. It’s not heavily in the UI. The blocking works fine. You’re in control, just click the blooming icon.
n-body problems are hard, 2-body problems are easy (can by analytically solved)

One pretty accurate way of approximating orbits is the patched conic method where you break your n-body problem into multiple 2-body problems picking the most influential body for specific parts of a journey.

Interplanetary journeys will have three parts ex. earth-craft, sun-craft, and mars-craft.

The glitch might be some noise switching between two different patches.
I actually think this would just make things worse.

If you were strip Google to just search and Facebook to just Facebook then they would have to more aggressively go after advertising dollars to ensure they are growing revenue. And since they would've already been broken up they would surely do this by invading privacy even more.

Surely the smarter move is to focus on heavily regulating their ability to track users. And make approaches like Apple did with WebKit mandatory.
The GitHub registry public beta is live
Some Facts:

* This is a public test lasting for five days until Friday, 23.08.2019. Then they will decide if RPAN will stay permanently.

* Users can stream from 9AM to 5PM PT.

* Streams can be voted to the top of the community feed.

* Reddit wants this to be "Safe-for-Work".
I've just blocked all Facebook.com cookies in my browser. If you're not using Facebook, why do you ever need its cookies?
I'm going to keep saying this in every goddamn tax thread I see here - We need to switch around the way we are taxing from the US level getting the largest pie to the state. I'm not saying I figured it out - but right now there are enormous issues with the way we tax.

1. We have a system where the fed. government holds states hostage for money when it wants to bully things around. (emergencies, etc..).

2. The current system is actively encouraging people to domicile in TX, FL, WA, SD, etc... (income tax free states) and not actually live there, hoping to play the tax lottery (or move around so much they can't be convicted).

3. The "sales tax" system in the US is ridiculous. It's egregiously illegal according to our tax-once rule. If we can get a tax break on all sales tax we paid, that would be one thing, but we can't.

4. Ind. contractors are taxed in extremely unfair ways, often have no recourse to get discounts or tax breaks on health insurance.

My solution -

I say it's time to start having states collect that 25% and the feds are hands-off of taxing individuals. Beyond that it would make sense for people to declare a state of residence (one that they most want roads repaired at, police hired, etc..). Get rid of sales tax completely - it's a massive waste of time if states are getting a fair amount. Move MOST fed employees to the state level and remove major govt. contractors that are bilking the public (in the long run companies like Northrup Gruman etc.. are paying the heads billions each - there's no oversight.). Remove the national army and start creating state-armies. Re-write the constitution that changes how states operate within the federal level, and completely change the role of the federal government to be allowed to make laws that are scoped towards fairness across states. Make the fed. government in charge of analytics and cross-state environmental regulation. States would then have the right to make laws that apply to the people.

Some might say this is ridiculous but in a time where we getting to the "end of capitalism" a MASSIVE re-write to how money is moved around is damn fucking necessary.
There's no way you're paying attn to the news and believe she doesn't have plans specific to other industries.
I'll say the opposite - the government should set the optimization target ($/life) and companies should do the optimization to meet that target themselves.
No, because they didn't deliver anything early on, manually or otherwise. "Dont do crimes and fraud" is another great bit of advice IMO.

Even healthcare isn't immune from market considerations. Might have been a good idea for regeneron to have done more market research before developing praulent for example.
One simple action you can take to prevent 99.9% of attacks on your accounts
If it truly is common sense, then yes I would say. The question always is, is it really common sense.
Fastmail used to have a mechanism where you could hold down <alt> (I believe) on that screen and phone number would no longer be a required field to continue creating your account. Maybe that's still possible.
Nonsense, the digits of sqrt(2) most definitely are computable and there are bounded algorithms that can check, given inputs n and k, whether or not n is the kth digit of sqrt(2).
I don’t read “per my last email” as “you’re an idiot”. If people didn’t misread emails it wouldn’t be a common phrase. And if it’s a common occurrence in an area of highly skilled employment with generally highly educated workers... I don’t see how doing it could conceivably make one an idiot.
This is the wrong incentivization model because it means physicians will do everything to treat the symptoms and not even bother diagnosing the causes.

We already have a pain killer epidemic, and that would make it worse.
Earth's inner core is doing something weird
Halophyte plants use a sacrificial salt leaf. They concentrate excess salt into a specific leaf, then cut it loose when it reaches capacity.

The mammalian equivalent would likely be salt hairs.
I read a theory that the crossword maker had unconsciously picked up these words being used by kids, who themselves would like to hang out near soldiers that would use those code words.
Mapmaker: The Gerrymandering boardgame
>Yes, Euro is a disaster. It's a predominantly ideological project that economically is totally unsound.

It has been running for about 20 years, becoming the world's second most traded currency after the dollar and without it Europe would still be a mixed bag of national currencies rather than being one of the big three economic powers.

If the euro is totally economically unsound, then I must say that it is doing rather well considering.

Personally, I store all my wealth in a 3 ton rai stone sunk in deep water 60 km NNW off the isle of Yap. There are some limits on fungibility, but the transaction security is excellent.
I think it would change the VC market too. A lot of companies are funded because they potentially make good acquisitions for larger companies.
Why does this article keep calling WeWork a software company??????
It’s because there are huge tax incentives for “under preforming” real estate investors. It’s honestly maddening. You literally get to deduct everything short of your desired “market” rent (even if the market can’t bear it, you just need a team of appraisers on your side) and you can even include upgrades and entrepreneurial risk as a deduction.

https://www.nreionline.com/finance-investment/struggling-vac...
Prior Probability in Logistic Regression
Exactly that!
"I also explored creating a system that could recognize fake tweets from real ones and I believe I got 94% accuracy. It was a Bayes classifier but I think I have to double check my work."
Is it open source?
This interest me a lot!
> The companies make money by monitoring their customers’ online activity and selling the data, largely to advertisers.

Not true. They make money by monitoring their customers' online activity and using the data to target ads, which they sell to advertisers.

I can't take anyone's reporting or opinion on FB and Google seriously if they don't understand this extremely important distinction.
Taxing businesses at all has been objected to as double taxation: the business is taxed, then the residual profits are distributed to shareholders, who are taxed. It isn't a fringe idea: in 2015, many of the Republican candidates in the running for President stated they thought making corporate tax rates 0% would not only "boost the economy", it would essentially remove all tax laws from the books, greatly simplifying things.

Superficially it sounds reasonable. But it isn't. The US military spends $700B+ every year, often times very pointedly protecting the interests of US businesses. The state department has untold people spending billions more opening markets and making trade favorable for US businesses. By and large, the benefits to individuals is an afterthought -- what is good for US business is good for US citizens is the thinking. Large swaths of the government function is spent optimizing conditions for business activity.

So, to get to the point: why should I pay higher tax to protect the business interests of Grumman, and GE, and farmers, and Apple, etc? Apple derives far more benefit and far more directly than I do. Why aren't they paying their portion of the taxes to support it? If part of the cost of doing business is running overseas bases so we can exert influence, that cost should be built into the business expenses as taxes, instead of being externalized to John Q. Public.

The answer is, of course, the super wealthy have captured government and a large part of the media which promotes their interests.
It appears to share some qualities with bullet journaling.
So it's okay for supermarkets and brick/mortar retailers to offer house brands but not online retailers. Pretty arbitrary line.

And this would equally apply to Apple and Google who have a number of apps on their app stores. This would then lead to even more bundled apps on the phone e.g. Garageband which would decrease competition.

Most of these policies are really not well thought out.
github (and everything microsoft) have two incentives for forcing SMS always: Advertising* and US law.

* github has no ads, yet. But microsoft is the 3rd largest.
A Primer on Bézier Curves (2013)
I’m having a hard time imagining what value putting code names in the crossword would have. Did they suspect the compiler was encoding information in the position of the words or something?

Seems like an unnecessarily hard way to exfiltrate data.
Kafka?
How weird to argue about the connotations of a word like extremist in response to a comment about calling Apple malware.
What about Google apps on the Play Store or Apple apps on the app store? Would google be allowed to have videos on Youtube? What about Netflix? It makes sense for Basics but there are many other areas where it kinda breaks down.
Fuck that guy. Seriously if someone is in silo mode for a month I am going to fire that guy.

He is doing either some dangerous changes, which is not acceptable OR he is doing something that could be walled off by feature switch and integrated with at least weekly commits.

If it was some manager that told him to do that, fire that manager too!
Just installed it: https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/insider-addons/detail/od...
Why restrict it to online marketplaces? Should Wal-Mart have house brands? Should Comcast own NBC?
Revsets: a single, uniform syntax for querying and selecting commits. Used throughout Mercurial and accepted almost everywhere that a subcommand takes one or more commits as a parameter.

https://www.mercurial-scm.org/repo/hg/help/revsets
Except that BERT is now obscoleted by https://github.com/zihangdai/xlnet
(but xlnet would never have existed without BERT)
Use of GPUs. Not Talos II it seems (?), but with POWER, GPUs are first-class citizens on the system, with NVLink-2-bus access to main memory as the CPU - 150 GB/sec in each direction! (simultaneously!)
Bye Bye, Passwords: New Ways to Authenticate [pdf]
That is mentioned in the footnote: “it was often his practice to call in 6th formers and ask them for words for inclusion. At that time the US Forces were liberally strewn through Surrey, particularly in the Epsom area and there is no doubt that boys heard these code words being bandied about and innocently passed them on.”
It keeps being said: you must eat only what is needed to fuel your body for the activity you are doing in an average day.

By the time someone acquires the maturity to accept this, their lifestyle has been too deeply established for change to be possible.
I'm just here waiting for a plan to break up Big Government.
As an engineer with a math degree, this all seems like unnecessary complexity, imposed by a pro-complexity politician in the interest of preventing feigned-natural-selection of markets from evolving a proper fit solution.

What am i missing?
> Right from the start, Warren says, Amazon would have to separate its “Basics” business, which sells products under a house brand, from the rest of Amazon, and Google’s advertising business and its search business would have to be split apart.

What exactly does this mean? Google ads can't show on Google search? Couldn't they just lease out ad space to whatever Alphabet company gets spun off to handle search? Same thing with Amazon basics.
I know both extroverts and introverts who are really bad at email type text communication.
Air.

Ground heat pumps are very uncommon; "heat pump" is assumed to be air based.
Reading the actual study [1], the headline is a bit deceptive. The study looked at audits between 2000 and 2010, a period during which funding to the IRS increased, and found that generally more funding for audits led to more money recovered from audits (duh). But that $34.3B figure is over 10 years, so it's a tiny fraction of a percent of overall federal revenue, and it's not offset by the amount of more money the IRS would have taken to run those audits.

Also unmentioned is the very real negative externalities that IRS audits cause. Audits disproportionately affect poor people [2], who are also the least able to spend time dealing with them. The United States already has extremely low tax evasion rates [3]. Rather than spending money to catch more of the very few cheaters by audits, other country's tax authorities have found "nudge" letters were found to be similarly effective and vastly cheaper.

[1] https://www.aaajournals.org/doi/abs/10.2308/accr-52520?utm_s...

[2] https://projects.propublica.org/graphics/eitc-audit

[3] https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Size-and-development-of-...
As near as I can tell, I think most people:

1) are not particularly well-informed about issues around Facebook
2) aren't willing to go through the effort to be well-informed

So the real problem we need to face as a society - Facebook is only one instance of it - is how to get more people to take an interest in the important issues around them? How do we make people into competent citizens?
Apple health team faces departures as tensions rise over differing visions
No one is talking about "being bossed around like slaves". Don't descend into hyperbole just to score points.

Saying something simply and directly is not "boss[ing someone] around like [a] slave".

And if your only problem with being told what to do is the manner in which you're told, your priorities are kind of out of whack.

My employer pays me to do what I do and to not do anything else. If at any point I felt like they were taking advantage of me or not respecting me enough, I'd go somewhere else.

Yes, people have feelings. And I feel patronized when someone couches their demands in the language of an optional request. I feel as if it insults my intelligence. I'm an adult, I can perfectly handle the situation that in some circumstances I will be the subordinate. My ego isn't so fragile that I need to pretend that every situation there's equal power.
How about splitting the cable companies between content production and connectivity?
Superhets were pretty rare in the 1920s. All kinds of wacky and wonderful forms of tuning and amplification were used in that era of radio (as someone below mentioned, to avoid RCA patent infringement), and of course the aesthetics of the machines were top notch. Collected them for a while myself, though you rapidly run out of room for such hobbies.

Here's some eye candy for folks who are interested in the aesthetics of the era:

https://www.radioblvd.com/20sRadio.html
It's also not like physical stores don't do it either. They all have membership cards that track your purchases and visit data.
What about Comcast and AT&T!?