skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not to defend anyone, just to add some context

1) People are still practicing blood feud where Kaloev lives. I mean, for real. Not at mass scale, but anyway. And while illegal like any murder, it is romanticized in local culture like an act of supreme justice. So, while it may sound unexpectedly medieval to some people, killing someone who killed your family was pretty much what is considered right for Kaloev and his circle. This is not true for Russia in general.

2) Russian media presented events in very unbalanced way. It is more common in Russia to blame "others". Russian pilots completely ignored TCAS resolution advisory, but were never blamed for that in Russian media.

3) There is a movie
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unforgiven_(2018_film)
Stop it with the drama. There are millions of people (billions?) using Windows to do stuff every day.

Just an example: do you know who Hans Zimmer is? You have most lilely heard his music in countless films. Yeah, he uses Windows.
Check out Joe Rogan's interview of pro surfer Laird Hamilton where he talks about his hip replacement.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYsvhzhAK2g
Not trying to defend the practice. I'm just annoyed by all the people who only complain about it when their preferred party is hurt by it and not when it goes the other way.
The Grassmann.jl package provides tools for doing computations based on multi-linear algebra, differential geometry, and spin groups using the extended tensor algebra known as Leibniz-Grassmann-Clifford-Hestenes geometric algebra. Combinatorial products included are ∧, ∨, ⋅, *, ⋆, ', ~, d, ∂ (which are the exterior, regressive, inner, and geometric products; along with the Hodge star, adjoint, reversal, differential and boundary operators). The kernelized operations are built up from composite sparse tensor products and Hodge duality, with high dimensional support for up to 62 indices using staged caching and precompilation. Code generation enables concise yet highly extensible definitions. The DirectSum.jl multivector parametric type polymorphism is based on tangent bundle vector spaces and conformal projective geometry to make the dispatch highly extensible for many applications. Additionally, the universal interoperability between different sub-algebras is enabled by AbstractTensors.jl, on which the type system is built.

https://grassmann.crucialflow.com
> Assembly language yields maximum control and execution speed.

It yields the only control and execution. Almost programs are generated through an assembler and assembly language. How could it possibly not be relevant?
A Memory Called Empire was interesting as concept, maybe not a top plot.

Started Ada Palmer’s series as audiobooks, did eventually get hooked. Rich in plot.
I had an examination a few years ago. It was about 5 years after the fact. My wife and I were taking turns doing taxes and for some reason I forgot to give her the paperwork for an investment account one year.

It was not a pleasant experience. So they knew about this account, all the years before and then all the years after. We got a letter that said I under-reported my income for some year 5 years prior. I mentions the account and the amount. Explains that since I didn't report that account, it's treated like normal income for that year I owe them $80k plus penalties.... I forget the exact wording but prison time was mentioned for tax evasion in the initial letter. Hired a lawyer, hired an account, refiled that year and then the subsequent years since the account found some more deductions. Then it took about 2 years to get it closed out. We'd write a letter,
3 weeks later we'd get a letter back the said they'd respond to our
letter within 90 days. After like 9 months the accepted our new tax
submission but insisted we pay the penalties. It took another 15
months for those to get waived. It is infuriating fighting over
penalties that no longer apply.
My understanding is that while yes, in some sense a flat tax is neither progressive nor regressive, that's not really what people are talking about when they say a flat tax is regressive. Instead, the issue is that the poorer you are, the larger percent of your income is spent on essentials.

If I go from spending $200/month on groceries and then I get an enormous 300% raise at work, I'm not going to start spending $800/month on groceries, maybe $300. The rest goes into the discretionary part of my budget. So, to someone making $40,000/year, paying 20% of that in rent, 10% for food, 20% for healthcare, and 15% for other stuff, adding a 15% tax is a decent chunk of the rest of their budget. But, for someone making $400,000/year, paying 15% for rent, 2% for food, 10% for healthcare, and 15% for everything else, then 15% of their income towards taxes is comparatively much less of their total budget!

This is true, even though everyone is paying a proportional amount of their income. Another way of thinking about this is as follows: if there is a homeless woman on the side of the street who makes $30 one day begging for change, should she be taxed at 15% and have to give the government $4.50 because it's "fair", or, should she be receiving more value in benefits than the average citizen because there is a floor on how much you can spend on food and survive?

Thus, even a flat tax can in practice be regressive, because essential spending does not scale with income.

An addendum: While it is not relevant to this argument, I also agree with the other commenters that whether a tax system is flat or has marginal brackets is not the main source of complexity, and is relatively super simple. The main complexity comes from determining which sources count as income. Presumably, birthday presents don't, but whoops, now there's an exception. And this is suddenly how tax laws get super complicated.
For what it's worth, this is basically the learning model fast.ai works on. You start by just applying pre-built models to things, then learn how to tweak them, then learn the theory that makes the tweaks work.
Pretty sure this quote has been discredited. Some reporter said he said it, but after he died, so it can’t be confirmed. His family says that quote doesn’t sound like him at all. Even if he did say it, it’s one guys opinion and doesn’t reflect gov’t policy.
The idea that any drug is capable of permanently transforming a sane individual into a psychotic lunatic is pure bullshit. If there was a substance capable of such magic it would have been weaponized long ago and political dissidents would all wind up insane as opposed to dead in places like modern day Russia, China, etc.
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The root of the issue is, I believe, that I'm using Datomic's solo topology for production which is unsupported. However, the production topology has a 10x price increase (for the EC2 instances) and I'm just a solo dev, so I'm making do.
Imagine if the US gov't had spent a fraction of the resources that it has spent on NSA surveillance on the IRS and tax compliance.

The resources and infrastructure to increase tax compliance and make it easier for everyone exists it's just that it has been grossly misallocated.
No, it can also be vaporized.
Why not? All levels of government seem to view the second amendment as arbitrary, if not archaic
Only if working with individuals. If I, as a consultant, work with a company, that company requires a W9 from me, and they have to report what they paid me. And I also report what I paid myself in salary and pay federal taxes from every paycheck I make out to myself. So at least for me, they know everything there is to know.
All I have for New Tabs is 'Firefox Home (Default)' and 'Blank Page', it does not allow me to set a Custom URL.

Which is why I have an extension installed to do it.
I'm mostly a macOS guy but I built a new music production and gaming machine a couple of month ago with Windows 10. Other than the ugly UI and confusing UX it has been running flawlessly for me.
Apple had room to build a new Venice. Shops, housing, work... but they built a spacepad.
I had to do this type of work frequently at an old job. We'd built short-run software systems for clients.

Often this resulted in one-off data loads or reporting metrics. It was almost always easier just to knock something out with command line tools than it was to write, test, and deploy code. The deployment process itself could take longer than actually processing the file.
They do pay interest that accumulates some time after the filing deadline.

This is probably just a practical matter, because accounting for interest during the tax year would be complex/impossible because you would need to know when the various amounts of withholding exceeded the amount owed. I'm not even sure there is a single consistent way of doing this.
> On average, S&P performance over 40 years is very good. However, if you look at every possible 40-year period so far, some are really good and some are lousy. If you instead ask "What performance would I have gotten in 90% of those cases?" the performance is not as high.

What is "high" for you?

I basically did what you suggest (although stopped at 30 years instead of 40):

http://blog.nawaz.org/posts/2015/Dec/pay-down-mortgage-or-in...

On a 30 year horizon, even the worst 30 years (involving the Great Depression) gained money - equivalent of 4% per year after inflation for a lumped sum investment. For a periodic contribution, it was more like 2%.

Still, the average for the last 30 years is about 7%.

> Due to volatility, you generally score better (in terms of percentage of x-year periods) if you do 70/30 stocks/bonds rather than 100% in stocks. Meaning, you can leverage it to either aim for the same performance with less volatility, or same volatility with greater return.

Can you find me a 30 or 40 year period where 70/30 outperformed the 100/0 case?

If you're close to retirement, putting more money in bonds is beneficial due to the reduced volatility. It still has lower returns.

> For example, I keep pretty good records and have a list of every date/amount of each retirement contribution I've made. I'm able to simulate what my current balance would be if I have immediately put each sum into S&P (by using the adjusted close for that period). It's not as good as the reported S&P average over that period.

How long is that period? As the plots on my page show, you need to be well above 10 years to reduce the effect of volatility. I mean - a 10 year window has been as high as 22% per year and as low as -7%/year (i.e. lost money in the 10 year period). Contrast with a 30 year window: The swing is from 11% to 2% - much more stable. If you're looking at your simulated performance over just a few years, you are essentially looking at noise.
That's something that IMO should change as well. Too many things means too much wasted material.
The answer to this question depends on your level of computer & math proficiency. Some folks here have been debating about the relative merits of practice vs. theoretical foundations, but this dispute makes some assumptions about where you are starting from and where you are most comfortable. The fastest way to learn something is to fit it into a framework that you already understand. If you have a PhD in theoretical physics/abstract mathematics (like a lot of ML researchers), then the more mathematical (theoretical) frameworks will be a good way to build deep intuitions. If, on the other hand, you are more into applied data analysis, then you will probably find that working on applications will be the easiest way to go.

Personally, I enjoyed both Andrew Ng's and Geoffrey Hinton's respective courses on ML and Neural Networks on Coursera. You may also want to check out Michael Neilsen's online essay on deep learning (http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com). Ultimately I would also encourage you to supplement your understanding by applying this work to your own applications. The universe is often the best teacher.
Also the sites of their biggest corporate donors.
That’s what I mean. High fuel costs are going to be the reason local government can’t afford to maintain infrastructure, and people can’t afford to commute. And not just cost in terms of money, but also environmental damage and whatnot, however it ends up being felt.
If I understand correctly about Portugal, I believe people can obtain drugs legally at government locations where they distribute the drug, but also have the ability to receive treatment for addiction. I don't know if there are some drugs like marijuana they can buy legally, or if even marijuana is illegal. Surely there aren't a bunch of people obtaining marijuana for free at the government office? Or are they?
Thanks for finding a link to that infamous recording.

I think a hybrid scheme could work well. Transmit data in text, greetings via voice. Make sure to do the greetings every time, just to make sure people are used to using voice, for when the emergencies happen.

> Regardless, if you think "I have no idea how major accidents don't happen every week" then it's likely because you don't recognize how much what you're referencing is an outlier, or you're disregarding what else mitigates issues

You do realize you are commenting on a story that's about.. exactly that?
> Not all stocks pay dividends. Most actually do not.

Yes, but the historical performance of, say, the S&P 500 has more to do with dividend reinvesting than the actual value of the shares appreciating. If they did not reinvest the dividends, the S&P 500 would not be as attractive as it is.

It's still not compound interest, but it is compounding.
Libanese descent, Brazil-born, French-educated.
I'm sort of joking about Putin. But he is rather an archetype of Russian nationalism, no?

For maybe a couple decades, it seemed possible that the Cold War was over. But I guess that was an illusion.
I'm surprised to see such big emphasis on support for Android. Most camera modules come with their own drivers that already provide Android support. One benefit could be the licensing, but after a quick inspection it is unclear to me what license this library is under -- there is a licenses folder with 4 different licenses in addition to a developer agreement.

The design seems to be heavily inspired by the Android camera API: per-frame configuration, 3A, multiple stream support, device enumeration, etc.

> The HAL will implement internally features required by Android and missing from libcamera, such as JPEG encoding support.

That is interesting, since most camera modules will have a hardware accelerated path to encode frames directly to JPEG. If it's done internally, it will be much slower than all other implementations I'm aware of.
I tracked all my health biomarkers in 2019. Here are the results
IIRC this quote has been discredited.
I thought that argument was because they doubled the standard deduction, making it much less attractive to itemize and hence, simpler. What is idiotic about that? For most middle to lower class families it reduced their tax burden and made things simpler. There were a few exceptions, primarily upper middle class families in high cost of living areas, but those were exceptional situations.
> Pretty sure this quote has been discredited.

By whom? (Citation?) This is the first time I'm hearing that.
There's food for thought there. As part of my current project I wrote an assembler for 8-bit Avr. (on github https://github.com/Lerc/AvrAsm/ )

Part of my motivation for this was to have an assembler that ran in the browser (for my fantasy console that also runs in the browser), but another big part of it was to write an assembler designed to be more friendly to people writing assembly directly.

When I wrote 6502 asm I mostly did it from Supermon which is a no frills experience. It's nice to see the features that assemblers have now, I think I'll be implementing quite a few of those macros from this link in my own assembler.
Could also be because it's getting to be a huge pain in the ass to get prescribed opioids. You have to go to the doctor, often several times, and then you get to pay a pretty penny to fill the prescription. Much easier to smoke a doobie or eat a brownie. Convenience wins every time.

IMO the best strategy for the drug war is to make MJ and other drugs with very low addiction potential (shrooms, LSD) available nationwide, and continue to harshly prosecute the sale (but not possession) of crack, heroin and fentanyl.

That way people who feel like they need drugs to deal with their life situation will choose MJ out of convenience alone.
Are people just blinded by rage against Microsoft?

The first person quoted abbreviated Microsoft as “M$”, and AFAICT, within the past few years. We’ve seen that Penny Arcade cartoon from, what was it, ten years ago? That was a page-closer for me, I don’t think I was going to find useful commentary in there. And I loathe having to use Windows 10 at work. And I worked at MS a lot longer than the person quoted.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Guidestones
Whenever I book a flight google offers to set alarms and gives me don't forget your flight tomorrow notifications. They are obviously reading the email to achieve this.
Thank you! Finished the book already since reading your comment. Very simple, and encourages (and shows examples of) personalized variants, experimentation with the system etc. I like it. Gonna start today.

I've been just deleting things from TO DO lists when done.. which isn't very satisfying!
For people who aren't good at budgeting/saving, it can be a decent way of putting away money for a large purchase or two every year. It's a lot easier to raid a savings/retirement account than to get your IRS refund six months early.
For private pensions, there's the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation which is doubtless not perfect but makes things not entirely at the whim of the original company that created the pension.

Certainly public pensions in particular have been a big issue because of overpromising and underfunding. But, from the perspective of the worker, they do provide a level of (mostly) guaranteed retirement payments that lots of people end up not getting through a 401K. Sure, we can take the attitude as a society that's not our problem but it sort of is.

Personally I will have a somewhat nominal pension through a private employer in addition to savings but I understand why we may issues down the road where many people have nothing besides Social Security as opposed to more common defined benefit pensions as in times past.
What do you mean “tells you very little”?

You invest $1 in S&P at beginning of the year and now it’s $1.28.
JEB decompiler (https://www.pnfsoftware.com/) seems to be the standard
Whoever read this - please please please ignore the posts that suggest to just play with numbers. This is the equivalent of suggesting to someone who wants to learn how to code to copy-paste formulas into excel. Just don't be that person.

To be very blunt, in 2020 most ML is still glorified statistics, except you lose the insights and explanations. The only tangible improvements can be random forests - some times. 99% of the stuff you can do with basic statistics. 99% of the coders I know just don't know statistics besides the mean (and even with that, they do senseless things like doing means of means)

So learn statistics - basic statistics, like in the "for dummies" book series.

If you want to be a little more practical, stats "for dummies" is often found in disciplines that depends on stats, but are not very good in math - biology, psychology, and economics are great candidates.

So just download biology basis stats (to know how to compare means - this gives you the A/B test superpower), then psychology factor analysis (to know PCA - this gives you the dimension reduction superpower) then econometrics basic regression (to know linear regression)

With these 3 superpowers, you will be able to do more than most of the "machine learning" people. When you have mastered that, try stuff like random forest, and see if you still think it's as cool as it's hyped to be.
They should have put the new engines on a new airframe with more ground clearance under the wings, that would not have required the heavy engines to be pushed forward and change the center of gravity in order to fit.

Such an aircraft would no longer be considered a 737 for the purposes of pilot certification.

The whole thing was motivated by that. Pretend it's the same plane, so that the pilots can pretend to know how to fly it.

It's analogous to hiring a Java or C# applications software developer when your codebase is actually in a proprietary variant of C++. It's close enough that they think they can code in it, but no one ever mentioned how the memory management subsystem is actually just a library written by Dave, who left the company in 2004, and if you aren't careful to clean up your references correctly (according to Dave), the biweekly analysis run will crash-to-desktop in the 14th hour, and you will be called by a panicked twentysomething at 5 AM on a Saturday. Then you find out about the custom compiler (also Dave), and start sending out resumes before it's too late. But with pilots, there's no one else to send the resume to.
Rephrased: Google changes its tax structure after what its done before is now illegal.
617 million is a lot for the general sector. Quora has raised 226 million; the company behind Stack Exchange, 68M.
Transcribing solo piano to MIDI, even very complex polyphonic pieces, is fairly reasonable these days. You can try a demo from a not quite state of the art system here: https://piano-scribe.glitch.me/ . (full disclosure, I was one of researchers who produced this system).

I would argue that there's a lot more people that can take the output of the MIDI and turn it into a reasonable score than there are people that can listen to the raw audio and turn it into a reasonable approximation of the notes.

Papers / dataset:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1810.12247.pdf [New dataset and slightly improved network]

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1710.11153.pdf [Original Network]
The association between drugs and racial minorities has been established long before then - pick any random Anslinger quote about drugs, and it'll have something racial. So it would be perfectly consistent.
It means it would be worthwhile to harvest artificial knees from dead bodies
> political dissidents would all wind up insane as opposed to dead in places like modern day Russia, China, etc.

I don't think it's safe to assume these regimes would favor chemically induced insanity over murder/assassination/execution. For starters, induced insanity wouldn't provide a supply of organs. For another, those in power might fear that the procedure could become reversible, or may have efficacy that wears off over time (these fears may well be ungrounded but still sufficient motivation.) This is to say, there is a finality to death that's hard to match. Furthermore, if it only works "naturally" on a small segment of the population then it's not a forgone conclusion that Putin could snap his fingers and have it weaponized such that it's effective on everybody.

Also keep in mind that inducing insanity reliably can already be done today using very primitive technology. Prolonged sensory deprivation, or even just social isolation, takes a hard toll on people. That's a pretty reliable mechanism from what I understand, and is considered a heinous form torture by many, yet these governments still choose kill people. They could also give people lobotomies or fry their brains [ab]using electroconvulsive therapy, but they still choose to kill people.