skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Of course not. You can, however, compel people to pay taxes. And you can compel people to not just throw their garbage out into the street.

You cannot compel people to pay taxes, as New York discovered to its chagrin. [0] These are no longer Oregon Trail days, where to move you have to sell property and buy a stagecoach and oxen and spare axles. You just sort of buy another house in Arizona or Florida to ride out winters and don't spend more than 179 days a year in New York.

> If you think taxes are equal to slavery, you've never been a real slave.

Slavery is just an extreme form of taxation. Not only do you give up all fruits of your labor, but also give up your children from you.

If you don't believe me, you face fines for taking your kids out of public school in the US and the UK for taking your kids on vacation while school is in session. Probably because because they know better than you do what your child needs. How's that non-slavery working out for you? [1] [2]

[0] https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/State-facing-unexpec...

[1] https://abcnews.go.com/Travel/taking-kids-school-travel/stor...

[2] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/family-holidays/term-time...
I live without a car. I have for more than a decade.

Trying to plan car-free travel routes in the US is a huge pain in the butt. If Google maps can't spit out a solution that gets you all the way to your destination, it won't tell you a partial answer.

This means piecing together information from multiple sources. I spent a lot of time checking Amtrak routes and then looking for commuter bus routes, local shuttle services and the like to find a viable route.

In the past few days, I've done some googling to try to see if there is a website that handily aggregates commuter bus route info. There doesn't seem to be such.

In Southern California, you can travel from San Diego to Victorville via commuter bus, but there is no travel site that will tell you that. You have to research all the connections yourself.

(Well, I had to. I posted it to my homeless site: https://sandiegohomelesssurvivalguide.blogspot.com/2015/05/o...)

I have to wonder how many other places in the US actually have similar situations where you can get there via bus or other transit, assuming you can dig up the information.

Living without a car is an environmentally-friendly choice and it's hugely painful in the US, often very unnecessarily so. Serving this need could promote not only environmental goals but also serve social justice because car-free Americans are frequently poor. We make it so painful to live without a car in the US that most Americans who can afford a car have one, even if they don't really want one, with the exception of a few dense metro areas with good local transit (like New York).
It doesn't output back into your code though; it goes directly to stdout, so its main priority is readability for debugging. If you need log-quality output for parsing by another program there are plenty of libraries for getting time in whatever format you wish.
Well... you objected to the phrase "can have a large impact on the experience of pain" on the grounds that it was only reported pain. But pain is measured by self report. There's no other way to do it.
Good point. I am a 100 trillionaire in Zimbabwe dollars.
He wasn’t surprised it worked, he was surprised someone used it. At least that’s how I took it.
Yes, thanks for that feedback. We actually do have support for arrow keys, but you have to first click the path to focus on it (made similar comment at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21327738)
I believe it rever really returned anything. It just wrote them on stdout.

It's not an API incompatibility.
Either you're trying to gaslight me, or we're on completely separate levels. This will be my last attempt at interfacing with you.

> Congratulations for your situation in life and happiness. Many people will never know that.

Correct.

> Then you must feel very privileged because of your ethnicity, your country of citizenship, and education.

That's the point. My political ideology is not self-serving. I am part of those who benefit from the status quo. I recognize all of that.

> You're the one that raised the example of the garbageman/artist and just because I point out some flaws in that example, your personal situation makes this a strawman?

You did not even allude to the "garbageman/artist" example. You insinuated that I was "complaining" and "feeling entitled to other people's money", which is trite conservative bullshit.

If we keep "sanitation work" and other difficult, menial tasks to their minimum rather than putting people to work for profit first and foremost, then the people who DO clean toilets and collect garbage will have more time in their week to find purpose and actualization elsewhere. Currently they are overworked and alienated and you would have us believe that's a necessary thing.
November 2019 is the goal, of course!
Thanks. I dived into this and tbh I'd like someone to take what you've mentioned and extend the discussion in the original paper further.

IMO, the paper's simulation tells us explicitly the full extent of what they've been considering, so it's a useful tool for the reader to judge the ideas. I know you might disagree but it gives a firm definition of ideas to me, at least, and avoids me having to over interpret based on my own biases of what I'm reading.
I'm always astonished (slow learner or beginner's mind, you decide) at the Q&A Amazon section Amazon offers for its products when I see how many "I don't know" answers there are. Someone posts a question, "Does it list an artificial sweetener as one of its ingredients?", and several people will always answer, "I'm sorry, I don't know," "I have no idea, I don't own this product" etc. What?! Do all of these people somehow imagine that every posted request for info is being personally directed at them? Are these the people I'm standing in line with at the DMV? Do they all think I'm the crazy one? (Am I?)

Juxtapose this with the local news interviews and it all makes a strange sort of sense....
At some point the banking system will crash due to lost math precision I believe.

The speed of porting everything to arbitrary precision programs limits inflation, unless the gov start cutting zeroes of the bills.
I don't think you understand what placebo is because placebo is all it takes for someone to believe in (tied to optimism and hope that you're trying to gate keep as irrelevant) for some people to feel benefit - regardless if there's another mechanism causing that or not.

Otherwise apples to oranges comparison - we're not talking about anything else.
You can also buy a printed copy if you like that kind of thing: https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Language-Processing-Adap...
Nothing listed on AWS Personal Health Dashboard related to this incident. Also nothing abnormal listed on the AWS status page under S3, which is seemingly having DNS resolution issues for buckets with the `[bucket_name].s3.amazonaws.com` pattern.
Notice all the other (non-US) countries in the list using .gov.<two letter country code>? There's nothing stopping them from using .gov.fr, just like Ireland uses .gov.ie.

>France speaks French and the visitors to these sites speak French as well, why not use French names?

.gov is no less of a "French name" than .gouv. They're both (natural) abbreviations of "government" and "gouvernement", as they keep the same letters in the same order and form a sound that would naturally be recognizable as a contraction of "government/gouvernement".

It would be like if the US were the only English-speaking country to use .orgz instead of .org on the basis that "Hey, we have to use the z in the abbreviation to show that we're not contracting it from 'organisation' like those Brits." It's a remarkably petty way to distinguish the abbreviation your country is using.
What is "plasma metal edge" and "wet edge metal"?

The article is a unique usage of these words in that order...

Edit: generally the article feels a bit like word salad for April fools (however, I only have an undergraduate EE knowledge of transistor design, so there's a lot I don't understand in there).

Edit 2: if it were a good chance to become a breakthrough tech, why is it missing deep VC level funding to get it to market? I know it's not software, but neither is it limited by FDA regulations!
Without diluting the abusive level of control the two parties have over the system no change to how you count votes will matter. simply put, the two parties do everything they can to prevent competition including hiding behind dishonest campaign reform proposals to "protect us" where in fact they want to only protect themselves. if anything all campaign reform efforts should only apply to those who hold office, not those who seek to unseat them.

from in office politicians having unlimited access to US Mail and nearly unfettered access to media the ability of other parties making a real challenge is near nil. so watch carefully for the tweaks to any proposed changes to voting, redistricting, or reform, because you can guarantee if you read between the lines it all boils down to protecting the two parties
The status you personally ascribe to various positions is obviously up to you.

Estonia is sovereign, but whether it’s “independent” from the Eurozone on which it relies for economic sustenance (they get back 5x what they put into the EU budget) and security guarantees and over whose regulations their influence is commensurate to their population is also in the eye of the beholder.
I am. Currently at 2.5k MRR working alone. We build tools journalists love by aggregating, benchmarking and integrating hundreds of APIs under a single web interface.

Our tech is a 'lingua franca' of APIs. We started with newsrooms but the benefits apply pretty much to any large Enterprise. Newsrooms were a good first vertical because they are desperate for innovation.

Hit me up: moura at the oko.ai domain
If you mean is there something that compares Firefox battery drain to Chrome battery drain, then I don't care because Chrome is also garbage about energy efficiency. If you mean is there something that compares Chrome battery drain to Safari battery drain, no I don't think so.
Good luck proving it doesn't discriminate against minorities in court, you mean.
You're assuming those blocks are there for a reason. But blocking PUT makes no sense. Getting blacklisted here requires a very special mix of incompetence and pettiness that is thankfully rare.
I think UIPath recent success shows that the market already values this.
Here is why they track and collect:

“Hiding within those mounds of data is knowledge that could change the life of a patient, or change the world.” (Atul Butte, Stanford)

"Information is the oil of the 21st century, and analytics is the combustion engine” (Peter Sondergaard, Senior Vice President, Gartner)

“Without big data analytics, companies are blind and deaf, wandering out onto the web like deer on a freeway.” (Geoffrey Moore, author and consultant)

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And the quotes go on and on...
how about with this > https://TrumpTweets.io ;-)
Approval voting is too similar to FPTP. Enough voters will continue to mark a single box that you're not better off in practical terms. Major candidates will aim to muddy the waters because they won't want "leakage" to third parties.
Bernie Sanders Pledges to End Practice of Prosecuting Whistleblowers
I'm not a normal Firefox user — I usually use Chrome and Safari side-by-side. So I decided to give FF another try with this release, and I agree that the scrolling performance is noticeably worse in FF than Safari and Chrome on the same page. I know the link here is about power usage, not performance, but it makes things feel much less nice.
Good catch, TIL! Still, the vast majority of those countries use .gov.<their two-letter country code>.
A handful of places around Dublin have active Robotic Process Automation (RPA) teams, which seems to be what's being discussed here.

The Big Four consultancies and Accenture spring to mind. I think the likes of Fidelity and Citi have few roles too.

Note however that you'd be using off the shelf tools to do the automating - you wouldn't be developing the automation tools yourself.
Someone watched the new Watchmen show!

The Tulsa Race Riot is the nastiest incident in America's nasty history of racism, and it's not as long ago as one might hope.

Personally, I hope America one day fully comes to terms with her history, rather than continually sweeping things under the rug, leaving people uneducated about history innocently asking why others, educated about history, can't just "get over it."
Good to hear! Yes at some point I'd like to update it. The current version went to reviewers in summer 2018, so it wasn't possible to add much that came out after that.
Any lawyers speak to why it would even be legal to give journalists earnings numbers before they were public, even if they were under embargo?
> They don't get bigger budgets and employ more attorneys because they are investigating Facebook.

That seems a bit naive though; of course investigating Facebook is a demonstration of the wielding of power. If they can investigate and punish Facebook, their power and importance grows.

> If anything the government attorneys are hurting themselves professionally ...

Not if we consider their profession to be more of whatever they are doing now; if they do a good job in that, they advance. The more junior people involved in the investigation do good jobs, and advance to better, more senior positions and so on.
Here's some analysis that shows Trump comes lowest in complexity among the last 15 presidents that were analyzed.

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-fire-and-fury-smart-genius-ob...

>The words were run through a variety of lexicological analyses, besides the Flesch-Kincaid, and the results were the same. In every one, Trump came in dead last. Trump also uses the fewest "unique words" (2,605) of any president—Obama was the best at 4,869—and uses words with the fewest average syllables, with 1.33 per word, compared to positively multi-syllabic president Hoover at 1.57.

>"By every metric and methodology tested, Donald Trump's vocabulary and grammatical structure is significantly more simple, and less diverse, than any President since Herbert Hoover, when measuring "off-script" words, that is, words far less likely to have been written in advance for the speaker," Factba.se CEO Bill Frischling wrote. "The gap between Trump and the next closest president ... is larger than any other gap using Flesch-Kincaid. Statistically speaking, there is a significant gap."
You wish.

Just like the early socialists of 19th century wished.

Many of his suggestions are outright harmful, like pulling water out of air. Same thinking got us in this mess in the first place, hey just pull out oil of the ground and burn it.
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That's a rather offensively culturally relative judgement. The left exists everywhere, one man does not. Why should I have heard of him? Are you assuming everyone comes from the same place and culture you do?

You don't seem to have any real response to my points Mr Throwaway. If he isn't then respond to my comparisons?
We don't run FreeBSD-update inside freebsd.org (2016)
McKinsey, the ultimate power point company. They also nobody got fired for hiring them. I could not believe this reasoning but it exists. We tried to solve problem X but even McKinsey failed. This problem is declared unsolvable now.
Growing up I never heard of it. It’s crazy how well it’s been swept under the rug.
Knowledge, skills, and experience end in practically proven wonders
Its no longer possible with about:config - you must use a JSON file. However be careful - even once you create it, its destroyed upon manual update:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1576400
In our case the issue is affecting DNS resolution of 'only' S3 related hostnames (my-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com)
True on Debian. I don't remember much articles or noise about it, it sort of just happened.

One article here, debian jessie 8 is from 2015. https://mariadb.com/kb/en/library/moving-from-mysql-to-maria...
I wish Jacob didn't run away to Google and instead made an online NLP class @ Udacity/edX.
> It depends what we want to optimize for, but I think most people would agree that we want to avoid having a very large number of absolutely discontent voters. So I think a system which either makes the least hated candidate win (even if no ones favorite), or makes an overwhelming favorite win, is what we'd want. That way we minimize the number of people who are absolutely disgruntled.

If the least hated candidate wins, I worry that they would lack the mandate to get anything done. I'm not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing.
Trump's speeches/sentences can be twisted either way you want and nobody can't tell if it's just gibberish or real statements so the computer has fewer chances to produce "bad" samples. Just like a broken record!
If you assume people are just molecular reactions in their brain that could, theoretically, be modelled like any physical system then sure. But otherwise there's no useful way to predict the response of whole societies to arbitrary events beyond trivialities anyone could predict.
Ah, I dealt with this data entry manual process many times at work. We were able to build a few solutions to remove 80-90% of the human work for these processes. It took a few years to get good at but now I run a business that specializes in this type of stuff.
Composite generators are web specials at the moment, but as soon as the mobile app developer - who reads us here on hacker news, I am sure - finished struggling with the Android app, he will probably implement these composite generators on the mobile apps too. It shouldn't be too difficult, it's more a data parsing issue, than actual programming.
I dispute this. The problem with analogue processing (besides noise, of course) is that the dynamic range sucks compared to plain old floating point. Fine for inference, not for training. And most of the compute power in NN is spent on training, inference is trivial.
The problem with some of this is product-market-timing fit.

There are huge problems to solve that add value. But some of these businesses are very old school.

You can't force someone to digitise if they don't want to.

There are a lot of barriers to entry, and there can be lengthy sales cycles.

Someone will definitely get there and be hugely succesful, I'm just not sure if the time is now or if we'll need to wait years.
Can you remove Pocket yet?
How do I download it on Linux? Following the link hangs my PC, wget just downloads 66.03 kb of HTML code with no meaningful content but "Sorry, something went wrong", "Sorry, we cannot display this file" and "Sorry, this file is invalid so it cannot be displayed" down within it.
Hobby Lobby illegally purchased and imported thousands of antiquities looted from Iraqi museums.

They knew what they were doing.

Thats part of why their “museum” is frowned upon.

That and the stunning amount of items without any provenance beyond the word of shady antiquity “dealers”
Mental model for handling system failures: on-call, run-books, etc.
There is debate on how often companies provide raw earnings ahead of time: https://twitter.com/tomgara/status/1186741657351413761
It is a shift in the behavior of a side-effect though. Anyone who set up metric math based on log values here would be in for a surprise when they try to look at their reports.

This is definitely one of the gray areas when deciding whether or not to consider it a breaking change.
Exactly. Toxic two-party politics is a direct result of FPTP voting, not a reason to dismiss IRV

Preferential voting, including IRV, effects change to toxic politics by encouraging a greater number parties, and encouraging them to work together and form coalitions to build strength through consensus and common ground.
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I read about it a few years ago and was as surprised as all of you are.

In case people are wondering why it is all over the press, the HBO series Watchmen (apparently, only tangentially related to the comic/movie of the same name) just launched this past Sunday and it opens with a dramatization of this event.

Reading about it doesn't really capture what it is like to see the dramatization.
An interesting couple of quotes in the article that make me wonder about their conclusion:

The maximum success never coincides with the maximum talent, and vice-versa,

Our simulation clearly shows that such a factor is just pure luck

By definition, this can't be completely true, as pure luck would mean pure randomness, and apparently, both tails (the most and the least talented) are never the richest. Such situation is at odds with a random distribution.

So there is a missing part of the model that may explain it, but it's not random.

That being said, I'm not trying to nit-pick the work they've done. Clearly there is something at play here that has huge social significance for every person on the planet.

Fascinating work - I'm looking forward to seeing how this research grows over the coming years.
ServiceNow stock drops as CEO leaves for Nike
I grew up in MD and didnçt hear about the coal mine wars (1) until last year, which However, it could have been fairly important and impactful history for the region. However, I could have very well just not been paying attention.

1.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia_coal_wars
A: Laughter
I'd like to build something with someone. I work full time so it would have to start as a side project. I'm in Ireland so someone who likes remote or is in the same timezone would work best.
There is a baseline standard of quality in journalism that a majority of the educated public still requires, populist Newspeak notwithstanding. If you read news without scrutinizing it, and without holding it to such a standard, you are guaranteed to read and accept things that aren't true.

When you publish a story about someone that fails to mention a relevant detail that is present on that person's Wikipedia page, that is not an accident, that is a deliberate omission. In this case, the relevant section was highly visible, and was five sentences long. Nobody writing this article could have missed this.

Then there's the detail itself. When the detail undermines the author's argument, or changes the narrative of the story they're trying to tell, the author needs to address this. They need to mention the detail, and if they have other evidence that might move me to put less weight in that detail, then they can present it here. But to leave the detail out entirely, and hope that I don't google the person is dishonest, and assumes that their readers are stupid and uncritical.

When the editors at a publication exhibit a pattern of such sloppy, deliberately misleading journalism, and when that pattern happens to perfectly fit a specific political narrative, then the educated public is more than justified writing off the publication in the manner that I have done.

tl;dr: Google stuff. Look for problems with the way the argument is presented, not for things you disagree with. If it doesn't pass the sniff test, you're allowed to write it off. If there's a pattern of not passing the sniff test in a particular way, you're allowed to call bullshit. I can't believe I have to fucking spell this out, but here we are.
Firefox folks, I would _love_ to buy some FF stickers/swag. Is there anywhere I can do that?
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It's an article about Hobby Lobby, not a generic article about all museums.
Any videos of the restaurant with people in it? I'm curious how it would "feel" with a room full of colorful people.

EDIT: I should have taken time to search before asking! Here's one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fAmL5LgmkE
History Guy on the "Red Summer" of 1919
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hy3a6PvIcxI
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