skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> linguistic coincidence

It's not a coincidence. The root of both ratio and rational come from latin ratio, gerund of reri, 'to calculate, to reckon, to think'.

To the ancients, just like us, computation, thinking, and reasoning are linked. Irrational numbers were literally numbers that 'could not be reckoned' in the normal sense.

You can even go further with this analogy. The halting function is not computable because there is no finite procedure that tells whether any program halts. But this objection to infinity is also what the ancient Greeks had to continuity (Zeno's paradoxes) and irrational numbers, as there is no finite procedure that results in an exact answer. In fact, there is no bounded algorithm that can distinguish sqrt(2) on all possible numeric inputs.
Studies show that YouTube does largely do this. The recommendations are usually proximal to the current video but they do generally trend toward the center. I wrote my own YouTube crawler to test this empirically (or at least as empirically as I can, recommendations aren't exposed through an API and I had to use selenium). It is possible to go towards either extreme if one selectively chooses more and more left/right leaning videos, but a random traversal usually doesn't result in extreme content. It's generally difficult to gauge, because recommendations usually fall into what I call "topic pits" where once you view a few videos in a topic all subsequent recommendations will be in that topic. So my crawler would often fall into viewing a bunch of videos about gardening or math or something that is totally not political. By the point is, I never saw any trend of my crawler going down the "rabbit hole" that allegedly exists.

The problem I see is that people's preexisting polarization means that they see a trend of centrist content as radicalizing. So you end up with liberals seeing centrist recommendations as pushing people to the right wing, and conservatives see a push to the center as restricting conservative content
> I for one look forward to finding out which of the 595 Apple subsidiaries I'll be doing business with moving forward.

None of them. You'll be doing business with Apple CustomerCare or whatever it's called, and they're going to pay license fees for some logo, software or what have you to those 595 companies. It's how Amazon & Co funnel their money out of Europe without hardly paying any taxes, too.
I'm not sure why you're trying to draw a connection between stock buybacks and QE when there isn't one.

Stock buybacks are just tax-optimized dividends.
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I think any good advice in software development will be widely misunderstood. At lest, I haven't seen any that wasn't.
thanks! I've been looking for something like this for while.
Hg already works with Python 3, and tortoisehg's Python 3 development is proceeding at a rapid pace. They're not dead, they just left it to the last minute, relatively speaking. I expect them both to make the cutoff of Python 2 EOL with stable releases.

The releases being out of sync is not great, but if you're on Windows you download tortoisehg with a compatible hg, and if you're not your distro's repositories should ensure they don't push a new hg to you before tortoisehg is updated. I went and looked at the history, and the average delay from a mercurial release to the corresponding tortoisehg is only about 3 weeks. Not a big deal. On Arch Linux since tortoisehg isn't in the repos it's a slight pain to hold back mercurial. Hopefully after the Python 3 transition tortoisehg makes it into the repos.

...though if there is not mercurial hosting available by the time bitbucket sunsets support, then maybe I won't care. I really want to keep using mercurial for my public open-source projects.
Sort by karma, but don't display it.
If you don't have a facebook account, facebook likely has a shadow profile for you. Which would carry your phone number, full name, and whatever else they could extract from your friends' phonebooks and whatever other sources they use. There is no opting out of that, and there is no opting out of facebook getting third party data that lets them connect your shadow profile to a cookie, or to information collected by third parties.
> In MacOS and iOS, the procedure for converting images from the Photos format to a free format is so tedious and time-consuming that users just give up if they have a lot of them.

I select one or more photos in the Photos application on my Mac, and drag them to a folder window in Finder. That exports them as JPEGs.
I think you have it backwards. The biggest companies that are already avoiding taxes can justify the lawyer costs to do it again.

Besides, they typically already have dozens of subsidiaries that are largely invisible to most employees and business partners. This is just adding more reasons to do so.

(Source: have worked on subsidiary taxonomy of large companies before, not for tax purposes, and from the outside there is often little information, at face value, why these subsidiaries exist. Even if you asked them, it wouldn't be hard to come up with legal reasons.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whig_history

"The term is also used extensively in the history of science to mean historiography that focuses on the successful chain of theories and experiments that led to present-day science, while ignoring failed theories and dead ends."
A single building can support multiple mailboxes. Hey, a single mailbox can even support multiple stickers!
Networking with people who manage/hire for distributed teams is really helpful.

Also having a good reputations with other engineers who also work remotely, they'll get you in places you wouldn't have heard of otherwise.
I was using PayPal on my account, and they didn't have a legit 2FA back then either (now they do, thankfully). Blows my mind that something as crucial and attack-desirable as a payment system wouldn't have a legit 2FA in 2017, even though random places with way less import stuff to lose like Twitch would.
Thank you for the overview.
Another piece of this is roommates (Bay Area) and concurrent network use - this helps make it more worth it.
That sounds fascinating. Do you have any examples / study material that describes these programming techniques?
They very first version of Reddit used spark lines instead of points. People hated it. We experimented multiple times with removing karma from the equation. It always reduced engagement.

People just really need that dopamine hit of seeing their points go up.

Honestly I prefer the way HN does it, where only the submitter can see their own points.
Well then, we should make the entire government and every single person in the country an IRS employee so we’ll have infinite money by that logic.

How do you factor in for the point where these agents having diminishing returns? Is it when the agency brings in as much as they cost? If so, why is that the reasonable place to employ to? The purpose of the IRS is to collect taxes to fund other agencies that don’t directly make revenue for the government.
The front end company would be the same for everyone. They money would get funneled to the 4847373 shell companies on the back end. Then through Bermuda->Netherlands->Ireland a bit, same as usual. If it saves the company $.002, they will do it no matter how large and excessive their profits already are.
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This is the key "problem." WeWork is a boring real estate business that is trying to frame itself as some massive scale startup. Add in growth fueled by a ton of VC money (not earnings), tons of leverage, not even for owned property, but leases, some questionable deals with the CEO, insane hype and trying to redefine accounting metrics, and in the end you have a "boring" business dressed up in a pretty hype coat made of red flags.
Years ago I daydreamed about making a social news aggregation website like Reddit(though I was more into Digg at the time) that focused the "karma" on getting multiple, mixed view points and perspectives on a story/topic. So like if there is an event, someone posts the first source they find on it. Others get karma by linking other sources. I think I was brainstorming ways to record where sources disagree and other ways of keeping things open and balanced.
The article mentions TabNine, which has made it to the HN frontpage before.
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> All the claims are strictly true. They just carry a moral judgement some people disagree with, and most people don't care about.

This is a poor standard. For example:

> Kim Jong-un is an elected leader

It's technically correct, but it does not provide any useful information, and could be classified as heavily misleading. But hey, technically it's true!
> EDIT: Also note, Power9 came out a few years ago at 14nm, while Zen2 came out on the 7nm node a month ago. I think a new 7nm Power9 update is planned, but I don't know what its timeframe is.

I believe 7nm POWER10 will be the next move, they had announced Samsung as the partner for their next chips back in December if I remember right.
Tube amps that have been on for an hour or so to .. get into working temperature.
Ha ha. You youngsters make me laugh. Sitting in front of the TV was almost universal when I was a kid mid 60s - mid 70s. There might only have been 3 channels (4 if you lived in a big city with a PBS or independent) but we all sat around and lapped up that crap.
What about apt-HD ? how's the quality ?
Those complaints have nothing to do with the device that AOSP is running on.
You're welcome to research and learn - I suggest you start with hydroxyl radicals.

Asking for citation in a world of counter examples and studies is a little technocratic. Maybe just logic and learn it.
That didn't answer my question. That's fine if you think Intel is better (I don't, but that's orthogonal), but that doesn't make PowerPC less general purpose.
Hi, can you pls share your blog name? I can check what is the problem. I think it may be because your blog is private.
Yes, but do their employers? It is easy to come up with things that employees or employers will love, it is pleasing the two groups simultaneously that is hard.
The physical world is hugely polarized. I don't see how tweaking the UI of websites is going to reduce real-world tendencies, it's a losing battle.
The global fertility rate is below 2.5 children per woman today. We're almost there.
Firefox, firefox, firefox!

((facebook containers -> it looks after you))

ironically, posted with Chrome
Note that this is most likely a population map. That's why Western Mass, Adirondacks, and north of Bar Harbor are nearly void. Each dot represents "patient’s county of residence."
So is it your view it's all propaganda, and as a consequence there is no way to determine what the truth is? Or do you have some sources you consider reliable?
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It's valuable when you're at a startup event, so people who want to talk to you can find you. At YC Demo Day a good fraction are wearing their logos and they're much easier to find in the mingling sessions.
Tumbled
"...know that there's demand for your product/service even if it's pretty manual to deliver early on. Then see how to automate."

So, Theranos? (I swear, if I had a quarter for every company that had "good product-market fit", I'd have...a lot of quarters. Possibly all of them.)

Advice isn't terribly useful if you can only evaluate it after you've taken it, or not.

P.S. Think I can get VC funding for my corner fruit cart?
If my manager said "would you like to x" I would assume he is trying to figure out who on the team to give x to, and wants to take our preferences into account. He may end up asking me to do it anyway, but at the time of the question it was not decided.
Funny how our bodies need water and salt, both are in such abundance but in a problematic way.

Max recommended salt intake is less than 1 teaspoon per day. You need 2 liters of water per day. There's nearly 6 teaspoons of salt in 1 liter of sea water. That's quite a bit of excess salt. Kind of a bummer really. Wish we had a gland that got rid of excess salt then we could just drink sea water.
Exploding Head Syndrome
Always strange to me they tax corporate profit instead of corporate revenue. "We spent all our money so we don't pay any taxes."
> if you point the police at anyone they'll find crimes.

The same is true for our tax laws. I can almost guarantee every adult over 30 has made an error in their tax return.

There are a million examples. Here's one: do you know someone that has stayed with a friend or family member rent free? The guest should have claimed the fair rent value of this non-monetary "gift" on their tax return. But literally nobody does.
Bad for those who are unable (and/or unwilling) to adapt. Not as bad for those who will learn the skills of the future and convince employers to hire and retain them.

There used to be so many jobs that were in existence and now have been automated away-- dockyard and factory line workers (robotic arms), ice merchants (refrigerators), analog technicians (digital).

It is a sad reality that though these workers are capable of re-skilling, many employers will not see fit to hire them.

That's the problem that needs to change really, and it's entirely due to human biases.
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Amazon pays taxes, not sure how anybody still believes this piece of misinformation. You do realize it is Congress who creates the tax rules to begin with, so if anyone is at fault for the tax 'loop holes' these companies leverage, it's corrupt legislators.

"In 2017, Amazon paid close to $1 billion in income tax. In 2018, the amount jumped to $1.18 billion, accounting for local, state, and international taxes."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stephaniedenning/2019/02/22/why...
Public corporations in the US have to provided consolidated financial statements including all majority-owned subsidiaries.
This gem was published six days before it was found, which means that the effectiveness of the attack seems to have relied on it being picked up by people doing automatic upgrades. Wouldn't a distro help because it fundamentally is less predictable about when it takes a new version?
If you get the signature bull's eye, you are lucky. My kid got it and we were able to recognize the textbook bite signature, in addition to her high temps and fever symptoms. They were able to test for Lymes and then aggressively do the IV antibiotics regiment.

As an avid camper, I treat all my clothing gear with Permethrin. In addition to keeping the flying bugs off you... they also keep the ticks off. I treat the tick 'entrances' and socks, which makes a huge difference for the normal ticks.
I feel like this post mistakes advice for directive.

Most of the great founders I've encountered are excellent pattern-matching engines who can absorb large quantities of advice and then re-apply it within their personal contexts rather than rejecting it outright, ex post facto or not.

No you probably don't need to live with your users, but yes you should probably spend significant time with them doing the thing your company is trying to help them do better.

Putting advice to work is more than regurgitation... then again, if your company's goal is to normalize short-term living with strangers well then yeah, you probably should live with a few.
The missing property is that every bounded set has a least upper bounds or that every cauchy sequence converges.

A consequence is that you can divide the rationals cleanly into disconnected parts. For example A = the set of rationals < sqrt(2) and B = the set of rationals > sqrt(2)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Completeness_of_the_real_numbe...
Not much hope for that when Windows and Office telemetry have been ballooning in recent years, with no end in sight.
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Baseline energy expenditure may be changing, but weight loss/gain is 80-90% diet. Sure, rural folks aren't moving much, but let's address that they may live off fast food, drink too much alcohol/sugar, eat too many processed carbohydrates, and generally don't have access to healthy vegetarian-heavy cuisine and the education that many city-dwellers use improve their health.

Case in point: I drove on a road trip through the southern USA recently. In rural areas, you had highways with truck stops and gas stations with tons and tons of very tempting fried, sugary, tasty treats. I saw barely anyone eating a vegetable-based dish that wasn't fried. Salads? Forget about it...There's a reason it's called The Stroke Belt, and why Southerners are known to eat poorly. Look at even Jim Gaffigan's routine on Southerners, he aptly characterizes their ridiculous diets, poking fun at biscuits and gravy, for instance.

So, while exercise is important, really just look at the foods on offer in rural areas. It'll be less healthy by default.
Pretty much nothing here resembles the world I live in. Can you precisely articulate which pieces are right now?

I've been reading a lot recently, and so buying a lot of books. Some digital, some not. As far as I can tell I own a single copy of the physical ones. I can transfer them to someone by handing them my copy. I can do the same with digital ones. It's legal for other people to read my paperback, or for me to hand them my Kindle. I can even, get this, do stuff to the mobi file I get when I download the ebook.

What am I missing?
Blue, the color of calm.

And data hoarding.
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Errors are fine, you don't go to prison for an error. You get audited, the IRS takes a look, they tell you how much you actually owed, plus interest. I actually don't mind the additional scrutiny this will bring to dark corners of the tax code. The reality is we owe it today, and if we realize it, there may be a bigger push to simplify the tax code down (to be clear, this does not mean reduce tax burden, but just reduce complexity).

Let's take this down a level. If your friend owes you $200, and paid you back $150 because of an honest mistake, does that mean your friend no longer owes you $50 because, oops? Of course not. This is no different at the scale of the IRS.
Well, I certainly agree that many people use ML in this way. But to me it's just bad terminology. The thing that happens during ML -- the L part -- must be the same as what happens during statistical learning. Many (sophisticated) ML algorithms are statistical in nature, so there is nothing there that stops simple stat-learning algorithms from being ML algorithms. And there is nothing in the terminology that says ML has to be sophisticated relative to stat learning.
Facebook's 'clear history' tool doesn't 'clear' anything
VAT is corporate revenue tax, but between businesses you can claim it back in the EU.
> common sense

Is this a meaningful category of knowledge?
> everyone puts in according to their ability

Ahh yes punish those who worked to provide something worthwhile and reward those who couldn't be bothered to do the same.
NYC's aqueduct system is gravity driven. And food comes in over the interstates.

Sandy knocked out neighborhoods for way more than two days too.
Where does it say you need to download another app? It lives in the Settings tab of the main app.
Yeah but likewise, when I learned to code in the early 90s, I had no internet. I had to do a lot of exploratory coding and doc reading. It drastically shaped the way I not only learn but has helped me even today to be able to do my own research to solve problems and write good docs.
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No idea how modeling works on AMD. (most discussions are about NVidia/CUDA)
And keep the fuel from going bad.
"Everyone wins with this interaction."

There is ample evidence about who is winning in the current system: a tiny minority of extremely wealthy people.

Nearly everyone else is turning in to their servants, and nearly everything is coming to be owned and controlled by them.

Is that the world you want you, your children, and their children to live in?
I live in what most would consider a very suburban area in the deep south and am forced to walk as a primary mode of transport. There is a bit of walkable infrastructure where I am, in between an middle class and more run down neighborhood, and while it doesn't happen as much as it did when I lived in some worse areas, there's almost a stigma to walking as a mode of transport. I've had people shout at me, etc. or even offer me a ride at night even when I'm on a leisure walk, presumably because they don't expect a young white guy to be out walking at night.
Shorting Bernie. Sorry ya'll. Riding Warren/Buttegig to the top :D
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No, VAT is a tax paid by consumers.
> I think people tolerate Git because they really like Github.

I mean, I'll add to the pile of anecdotes this thread is accumulating but I don't know if it'll convince you that people are genuine:

I struggled to learn git, but it was also my first VCS. I've needed to muck with hg a few times and vastly prefer git. Hg was fine. It didn't win my heart or anything. But it also didn't let me (at the time) branch as quickly and trivially and it was slow as hell.

Sure, that need/want may not win a hg user to git, but I'd hardly call that tolerating git.
There is a movement commonly referred to as "Outcomes-based Healthcare" that is rethinking the way the system approaches treatment. The focus isn't necessarily on compensating physicians for their outcomes, but changing the metrics that are used to evaluate potential treatment options. [https://www.healthcatalyst.com/Outcomes-Based-Healthcare-Top...]

I've been following ZDoggMD for a couple years now and I really like listening to his perspective on the world of healthcare. Check him out if you have any interest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hEnAmfTBZs
Lots of people are overweight purely because of hormonal/genetic factors, and couldn't lose it no matter how hard they were willing to work. Plus, depression is a contributing factor to weight gain, so maybe think twice before trying to shame people into losing weight.
You should relax. People can 'kill you for any reason' anywhere, and yet they don't.