skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an in-depth explanation (may take some time to digest it):

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4742505/
Another way to conceptualize the "cropping" is to get rid of all future states where planning would have been meaningless anyway.

We are momentary Boltzmann brains? We'll assume not, because if so, nothing really matters.

Trivial difference, but that avoids potentially difficult threshold problems and cousins of the St. Petersburg paradox or even Pascal's mugger, at the risk of being slightly more hand wavy.

Arguably an aesthetic distinction at this point, I generally think your description and approach are right.
So, a carrier lies to a consumer about network coverage to lock them into a contract, with no way out? Sounds like everyday, corporate America.
Cities and towns need to start changing. The argument I always hear is that because things are unwalkable now that they have to be forever.
Proxmox is good with the large exception of high speed interconnects.

If I have Mellanox IB cards in my servers, proxmox fails to handle ipoib without a lot of legwork. Compare that to something like oVirt; that supports it out of the box.

There is very little incentive for me to recommend a proxmox subscription to any of my clients because having >= 40 gbit interconnects is far better than using lags on single gbit. High traffic internal applications, (and migration!) benefit so much from those interconnects.
The USA minimum wage is definitely enough to live on, and comfortably. (Just not in the USA)
This is an all-too-common story with startups, as PG points out in several essays. Often startups only make sense looking back, and don't lend themselves to business-plans & analytics.
If you have made the switch from Windows to Linux, you probably have got that feeling of satisfaction, of things working as expected. Maybe getting everything working was harder, but it felt right. That is the feeling you get when you switch from Linux (or other Unix) to Plan 9. Yes, you lack a web browser, but it is a beautiful system. Then, there are a reduced group of people (like sl) for whom this beautiful system just works.

It is the same reason people write programs using lambda calculus or make fundamental physics research instead of engineering. We even get something useful from it from time to time, but that is just a very nice side effect. Or, as Feynman put it: "it's like sex, it may give some practical results, but that is not why we do it".
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Why is San Antonio (and Seattle?!) so bad? Also central Africa.
Not from the PNW, but it sounds like amtrak rents track from a freight line to run this route. So it works in the sense that they got something resembling inter-city rail service for a tiny fraction of the capital costs up front.

Even so, I'm guessing that there are options other than $50B of high speed track to improve the route. Maybe there's a few segments of track where a large fraction of the delays happen, and 30 miles of amtrak-owned track would really improve on-timliness. Just getting it from +hours to +minutes might draw some new users.
That has already happened to some degree, we just need to expand it and simplify it. Within the EU you have to pay the VAT of the country of the buyer for "digital services". But shouldn't Google and Amazon already be subject to that since they have EU subsidiaries?
That's a pretty ridiculous strawmen argument.
There's no such thing as a tax loophole. It's the law, and is written specifically the way it is for a reason. "Loophole" by definition implies that it's a mistake, and with the amount of money at stake that's incredibly unlikely.
So what do you propose? This is an honest question. Those companies act in strictly amoral fashion (even within the law of a given country, breaking laws of others).

They basically steal public money by not contributing taxes, so that general population (=we) has to pay up the rest via increased taxation, or public welfare, education, medicine, research, social system etc. suffers because of lack of funds.

Increasing net worth at all costs of types like Bezos, Zuckenberg or Brin at the cost of everybody else is not in interest of humankind in any imaginable way.
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Refusal to answer can bite you in the ass in the United States. Make sure to say “I want my lawyer” nonstop.
Maybe the authors don't mind if their ideas get incorporated in other projects? Maybe they are more interested in spreading their ideas than owning them?
Believe it or not, I say foot and food with the same oo sound. Weird huh.
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Scotland.
Maybe this guy? https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233679918_Robert_Bo...
I think you have in mind something that's very different from create-react-app.
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Imagine this:

- A tiny well behaved client that starts with the OS.

- It downloads rare bits of the archive at 1 kb/s obtaining 1 GB every 278 hours. It should stop around 100 MB to 5 GB.

- It periodically announces what chunks/documents it has.

- It seeds those chunks at 1 kb/s

- Chunks/documents that have thousands of seeds already are not announced. Eventually those are pruned.

This escalates the situation to the point where everyone can help without it costing anything.

If someone is trying to obtain a 20 mb pfd it would take 5 and a half hours using a single 1 kb seed. With just 50 seeds it's just 8 min.
Because they aren't internal - they are impacted by it with broad reach.

There have been many stupid attempts to target Google in the past from vested interests (snippet tax, link tax) - but this one isn't very objectionable.

The main legitimacy to the complaint is that even though nation neutral it is defacto targetted by industry concentration because of the lack of international Spanish internet companies. A flimsier one but there. The second is the populist rhetoric to sell it caused offense by targetting their companies. Plus countries in international relations are best anthropoisized as a bunch of hypocritical petty bastards.

A flatter 3% corporate tax rate wouldn't have those grounds but would piss off the local corporate interests and possibly ideologe powers abroad still.
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People have been saying the same thing about a route between DC, Philadelphia, NYC, and Boston for as long as high-speed rail has existed. Great population density, and the distances look good.

But it never seems to pan out. My pet theory is that frequent air travel is not nearly as miserable for people who are wealthy enough to be decision-makers as it is for most of us, so the political will never reaches a breaking point.

Plus, the existing rail transport options are already viable options for people who have time. It takes about 9-12 times longer to go across the whole country (72 vs 6-8 hours), but rail is already competitive between major East Coast cities on both time and price. And it's worlds ahead in comfort.

So you'd wind up spending a ton of money for...what? Trimming 45 minutes off of a trip which is already fairly pleasant?

How about a case for three high-speed rail lines belting the North, Center, and South of the nation? Maybe connections between them could pass through Denver or St. Louis.
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> But usually nobody cares about or checks whether your implementation of the operator your overriding still obeys all the axioms.

Make some non-associative implementation of (+) and see on how many compilers code using it will work.
You don't necessarily need the distribution under the alternative to determine the values for which the likelihood ratio will be highest. In your example, the tails will be the areas of maximum likelihood for any (symmetric) alternative.
Hi!

> I guess you prefer an "end-to-end" model over a hybrid HMM/NN model, for simplicity, right?

Simplicity and ease of targeting other languages, yes. We're a small team.

> As far as I remember, you use CTC, right? I always wondered why you have chosen CTC, and not some better model, like RNN-T, RNA, or some of the streaming attention variants.

We started DeepSpeech in 2016, before these recent developments for end-to-end ASR were mainstream/SotA.

> Or is this simply because there currently is no simple ready-to-use implementation for those?

Implementing the model architecture for training is only part of the problem for us. We have a hand-crafted inference graph to allow for small and efficient client code and inference models, and the more complex the architecture is, the trickier it gets to make sure it all works on all platforms, including TFLite, with quantization, etc.

We're investigating alternative architectures as well as mixed CTC/RNN LMs to deal with language model size, but no final decisions made yet.

> Note that we published some TF code recently for some streaming attention variants, and plan to publish some RNN-T/RNA code soon.

Nice! Can you share a link to the streaming attention code?
Lots of minimum wage remote work in the US?
That's not our problem either.
I wish the article had more info on the mechanics of the tax. How do they measure “value” and what percent of the value do they want to collect as tax?

The ad sales might make sense, but why not just add a tax on all advertising.

The marketplace tax is confusing because do they tax the value of the transaction? The full customer value that results of the acquisition? Why not just use existing sales tax for retail transaction (which e-commerce is).

The last one is the hardest to understand. Do they mean sale of data from Spanish citizens? Or only people created data while in Spain?

It seems simpler to just create a “data sales tax” that happens specifically for transactions where data is sold to or from Spanish orgs.

I think this will just result in a tarrif on Spanish goods.
> Cancer cells die in [whatever] conditions.

So what? There are plenty of [whatever]s that satisfy this statement.

The difficult part is how to create such conditions within the human body without affecting sane cells!
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Kind of off topic, but "General Magic" is a really cool name for a company.
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> Do you realise this reads as "don't bother validating your inputs"? Surely that's not what you meant?

I agree, surely that’s not what GP meant. So it would seem to be in bad faith to portray it that way. Come on.
>Anti-tax activist Grover Norquist famously declared, "I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub."
You have no obligation to... but the jury can hold that against you.

It seems somewhat reasonable to me - if you have an alibi then you should tell that to the Police as soon as practical. Otherwise you're wasting everyone's time.
That benefit seems extremely marginal when the presumption if innocence is the standard.

Your explanation for the UK police caution phrasing makes perfect sense, but I wonder now if it's not meant to scare people into talking?
Actually the reason Amtrak runs a huge deficit is their long haul routes (cross country). Their local routes like the eastern corridor and even the ones on the west coast are profitable. Even their regional routes either break even or are very close.

I would point you to the following Wendover Productions video that gives a great analysis.

Amtrak’s Grand Plan for Profitability

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSw7fWCrDk0
Only for matters considered critical and sensitive for member states - finance, EU membership, harmonisation of legislation etc. it's mostly a hold over from the days of an EEC with 6 or 9 members (ie, right back when UK and Ireland joined in 73), when unanimity worked much better than it can now. Obviously to step back from unanimity requires unanimous vote without use of veto. :)

Most matters are done under qualified majority - which is a small super-majority based on population.

A post-Brexit UK going full on offshore tax haven might encourage the EU to get their act together on finance, and come up with some ways to crack down. Well, one can hope...
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I'm looking for more reading from personal blogs, these are the current ones I read:

https://www.joshuakennon.com

https://www.oaktreecapital.com/insights/howard-marks-memos

http://www.docbastard.net

https://meltingasphalt.com

http://paulgraham.com/
I just tried this in Java and I ran quickly into circularity issues (one of the fields has an indirect reference to the same object, say a list which the current instance is part of). How does Lombok cope with that?

It's not that easy as I thought (see my sibling comment).
> The public defender is overworked and understaffed. Having someone dedicated to you in the criminal justice system is a huge advantage--especially if you are guilty.

It's a real shame that the fate of an innocent person's life is determined by a system that's pay to win.

To think that you can lose a massive chunk or maybe even your entire adult life for being falsely accused because your public defender is in a bad mood or doesn't have enough time to look into your case is total insanity.
It's a little bit mind boggling how much Unigroup spent on DRAM. They had 5 separate memory projects in recent memory: Ziguang Group, Jihnua, Guoxin, Innotron, YMTC, and 3 fab complexes built. Fabs cost in total of $70B.

Micron was also on the purchase list for $28B. It was shut down by activist shareholders, and US govt.

7 something billions were spent on Jihnua. Jihnua got started with production just to have it shut down when UMC bailed out. Their fabs were de-facto being ran by UMC.

Guoxin — definitely went nowhere because of UMC. Also, around $5B+ sank

YMTC — dropped plans to make DRAM, now makes flash

Ziguang Group — no info in them, maybe just a new front for Jinhua

Innotron — is ChangXin after a rebranding. Does stack DRAM

Were they to simply develop everything in house, $70B would've been enough to redo the RnD 10 times over... Often a shortcut is the longest way possible.

I can also mention Sino King Technology, which was project by Ex-Elpida CEO with Unigroup which really didn't took of the ground because Sakamoto requested... 1 million buck salaries for all senior engineers.
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I recently moved to Kathmandu, Nepal (I'm a US citizen). The air quality is debilitating. All the gyms I've looked at (except the American Club which costs $100/month) have open windows, so you are more or less unable to exercise unless you have a gym at home and an air purifier. We have an AP but when the wind blows the right direction our sensor reports sometimes as high as 200 - it comes in under the door (we are searching for a solution). Let's hope it never gets this bad in the US.
They're probably paying all the tax in Spain they're currently, legally obliged to pay at the moment.

That's true, but it's also true that Spain is free to change its laws whenever and however the Spanish government wants. If Spain wants to change their laws to negatively impact American companies by modifying the 'loophole' so it no longer works they're completely within their liberty to do that. America using tariffs to protect American interests is also fine. That's just how international politics works.
> a 2mb page right now, than a 200kb page that slowly grows to a 2mb page over the course of 20 components individually loading themselves.

Isn't the point that the 200kb is static code that can be served immediately, while the rest can't? Regardless of whether the remaining 1.8mb is built on the server or client, it still isn't available "right now"
As a non-economist (amateur or professional), I get the impression that countries are losing their concern of the repercussions of displeasing the USA economically.

Is this an accurate interpretation? If so, is it that they're less fearful of reprisals (tariffs?) or that they're less confident in the benefits of cooperation with the USA? Or a mix? Or something else?
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150 USD / mo is not a lot of money for most companies, especially for a production-grade, supported Kubernetes cluster, it might actually be a bit too cheap.

If you need that to be cheaper, try something like DigitalOcean Kubernetes from 10 USD / mo, or if AWS is important to your company, then KOPS can provide a self-managed/hosted control-plane.

Spotinst.com offer a great service that uses spot instances to squeeze your costs (I think around 30%)

So whilst I see why you may think K8s could be expensive vs Lambda, I think you might not have had all the information you needed.
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A friend visited recently, within three days with very little time outside, their throat was burning.
No, not the UK
My money is always on China.
I upvoted your comment but I respectfully disagree: If a country has a law that says "you pay X tax using this law/method but Y tax using this other law/method" Google are perfectly within their rights to say, "Let's use Y".

Who in their right mind would say "you know what, I'm going to pay more tax"?

Have you seen the size of modern tax laws?[1] They're utterly gargantuan!

[1]https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/feb/13/britai...
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850M euro, the proposed amount to be raised, would be on the order of 1% of Google's worldwide revenues. Google doesn't break down its revenues by country but it's hard to imagine it derives more than about 1/20 of the revenues from Spain. If we assume 1/20, which seems very generous to Spain, the amount to be raised amounts to about 20% of revenues in Spain.

So, this seems very high to me? Is this amount annual, or decennial like how US spending and tax amounts are reported?
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Ask HN: Best book / resources on leadership, especially for tech teams?
Although I know self help books are of little value, but wondering if any author has really nailed the topic? Would be even be better if the book is specific to tech leadership.
thanks rurp - fixed.
Postgrest is a pretty cool one. And arguably Elm could be included. That's getting more widely used
And you can cut down on cleaning staff
I sat next to Prof. Knuth in 1982 at Stanford, while he did a demo of TeX on the university's DEC-10. I asked him what was next? He said: real-time, WYSYWIG display.

At the time, the idea struck me as utterly impossible.
It is nationalism in that case or more specifically "tax somebody else who can't vote against" always being a popular plan among voters.
If that is true, why do countries spend money on development aid? Isn't that caring about what's right?

Or to take a more extreme example, why do we give a lifelong salary for nothing in return to people who are unable to work for the rest of their lives? Surely killing them would be more efficient.

I do think states should, can, and do care about right and wrong to a certain extent. That's the difference between us and governments like the Chinese.
Could you expand on that? What does it mean to 'not talk to HR'? Isn't it unavoidable in a job application process?
You have to pay the VAT when you sell to EU even if you don't have presence in EU. Google pays that. The fuss is about some countries wanting more than that.
How do you get to be a lawyer in the US if you aren't competent?
Beyond compensating the affected individuals, it will incentivize the state from pursuing false convictions by shoddy/hasty case and trial work.
Not only that, but it specifically says against you. Note that it doesn't say anything you say can and will be used as evidence in a court of law.

A police officer can testify to statements you made or actions you took that will incriminate you. But if the defense counsel asks them to testify to similar statements or actions that will exonerate you, the prosecution will object to it as hearsay, and it will be sustained. You'll need to take the stand to make such claims, which opens you up to cross-examination.
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Funny caption beneath the title picture.
Like this, but in Seattle.

Further down:
But Roger Millar, Washington State’s secretary of transportation, sees a better way: a trans-national, ultra-high-speed rail line that can hit 250 mph and put the three booming cities within super-commuting range.

While THIS [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stadler_EC250
is new in rail development time frames, it tops out at 160 mph and is permitted to only 125mph so far.

Anyways, why choose a picture of of something like THIS [1] when it can't reach the goal?
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On the contrary, you'd be asked what the cost benefit analysis was vs doing it in house, then told to continue.

CEOs outsource critical things without meaningful oversight all the time.
I run Plan 9 in a VM now and then which means I've never gotten that far into it. It seems very much like a solution to a problem that I've never had and as such doesn't do much for me. The article's author is a writer by trade and uses his laptop like a typewriter. Plan 9 certainly does that well and it's free of the many distractions that come with other OSs, so good for him.
>Just use it as is and see how it does.

How? The docs seem to be suffering from the same problem as the git docs: they assume the reader is already a domain expert, which would seem to run counter to the stated goal of being simple (and ubiquitous).

I tried to figure out how to "just use" deepspeech and failed.
Do locals suffer from symptoms like that?
Their local EU subsidiaries are just for expenses and business.

These companies show their profits in places like Bermuda (British Overseas Territory) Ireland, or Luxembourg and use all kinds of schemes and special arrangements to reduce them.
I'm not saying you're wrong, but I think it's pretty analogous to writing a test to cover that bug that happened in your app.
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At the risk of being put on even more watchlists than the average person-

I wonder if it would be quite as easy to wreck similar havoc on a commuter rail as on an airplane. It seems that it is easier to induce catastrophic failure to a plane than it is to a train.

Interestingly, there have been attempts[1], specifically in North America, with no major addition of security checks to train boarding. I suppose it would take a full scale, 9/11 style event to induce the same sort of worry about travel. I'd say that trains have a pretty good safeguard built in: they're stuck on tracks. That makes them significantly harder to ram into buildings, by my reckoning.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Via_Rail_Canada_terrorism...
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