skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sadly, this exact scenario was predicted by multiple people and could have been avoided by making segwit and 2MB activate atomically at the same time. This is a huge embarrassment for big blockers; they have been completely politically out-maneuvered.
Python 2.7 is frozen. It just get security updates. The community is investing in Python 3. All the main numerical libraries are already compatible with Python 3 and, unless you need a very specific library, there is no reason to start developing new projects in Python 2 nowadays.
> Let me put it another way - I personally have never met a single person who was responsible, level-headed, and made rational decisions with their money ever wind up in a scenario even remotely like this woman's.

What does this prove? Those people wouldn't be hanging out on HN for sure!

Edit: But you're right, you're not wrong for having your opinion.
We've had our dev servers (heavy R&D work in machine learning) with Hetzner for 4 years now, never a glitch.

Super nice, responsive support too. I've had their Head of Product, Arno Pirner, engage in a long email exchange when we inquired about GPU servers last year (they finally launched a GPU line recently). Great service.
I admire the patience with which you've responded in succession to two different commenters that didn't bother to read your comment, to which they were replying.
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Instead of splitting hairs on hypothetical budgets, let’s look at it another way. The median HHI is $43,000 and the median household size is about 2.7. (And remember, that is taxed while her SS and pension likely are not.) $17,000 as an individual living alone with no dependents probably puts her at the bottom of the middle 1/3. Middle third in Sibley isn’t just barely surviving. It’s a decent life.
To be clear - it's 7k for each person in the entire country - not each recipient. So the amount received by the actual people getting the benefits is far, far more than just 7k.

Think about it this way - the average household income is something like 55k in the US. Even if it were just the far lower 7k number, that's nearly 13% of income. That maps out to around 6 weeks of work/income for which the member(s) of that household must work for to then have that money taken by government and given to someone else. And that's the best case scenario, using the lowest number. Households with multiple earners making larger amounts pay an even higher percentage towards all of this.
Having worked with trains I'd guess that frequently running busses are actually very cheap trains. Rail infrastructure is incredibly expensive.
For those who don't obsessively follow SpaceX:

SpaceX is working on three projects right now. #1- Falcon Heavy, strapping three Falcon 9s together to make a super awesome rocket. #2- The BFR. All over the news lately, going to be a humongous rocket that does New York to Sydney in under an hour, or take humans to the Moon or Mars.

And #3, they are working on what's being called "Block 5", the supposedly final upgrade to the Falcon 9 rocket, including upgraded Merlin engines. These would make the rockets just that much more powerful, increasing payload sizes on both Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launches.

So, this is probably one of those new Merlin engines. And it exploded. Which is going to delay Block 5. Damn.
Yes, but downtown Menlo Park, Palo Alto, Mountain View, San Carlos, hell, even Redwood City are the polar opposite of the Stanford Mall. The fact that a bunch of vendors of overpriced trinkets happens to have outdoor passageways is more a factor of the good weather of the bay area than it is an indicator of some kind of difference from your generic indoor megamall.

There's a difference between needing parking, and surrounding an area with a moat of parked cars.

I think one big problem retail is facing is that, for a long time, efficiency won the day. The chains and their supply chains and economies of scale drove more and more mom and pops out of business, and then only the really efficient chains could survive, and then they had to refinance and take on all this debt that the article mentions, and pretty soon there's absolutely nothing to mourn, and no reason not to buy from Amazon rather than drive to a Best Buy. Some truly unique independent mom and pop or local shops could be worth spending a few bucks more than Amazon to patronize. GenericMall stores give me 0 reason to patronize them over Amazon.
Time is a price we have to pay.

By which you mean that time is a price you think we ought to pay. I mean, we do actually have options.

Because the alternative, govt intervention, in the long term is much more expensive: it corrupts the market and impedes the natural mechanisms from working. Interventions beget interventions.

I struggle to come up with any example anywhere, where this is true.

This leads to heavily regulated markets, where the biggest players buy themselves monopolies

I don’t see how that follows from your previous paragraph. But never mind, I get what you are trying to say, and I agree that there are plenty of examples all over the world of regulation that has the effect you describe. Sometimes simply because it’s bad regulation. But other times because it’s a worthwhile trade off. I bet you don’t mind the pharmaceutical industry being regulated. Or how about the aircraft industry. Even taxi medallions serve(d) a purpose.
This paper seem to be made to stir stuff up amongst people who thinks this is a simple matter
Why? Mass transit is an industrial age solution to the congestion problem, when we couldn't plan for demand in real-time. Mass transit means that there need to be a lot of people who want to go from the same place, to the same place, at the same time. This is never true, so you have to relax the assumptions: they aren't coming from the same place, so force them all to walk to a stop. They aren't going to the same place, so force them to walk from a stop. They don't want to go at the same time, so force them to wait for the next bus/train. If you're in a very dense city at a busy time of day, this isn't too bad, you don't have to walk too far, and you don't have to wait too long. Otherwise, it's not possible to get enough people that want to make the same trip at the same time without making people walk long distances or wait a long time. On demand Lyft Line style routing, automatically driven, with variable sized vehicles depending on demand in the area, is going to completely replace mass transit in twenty years. The cost will be the same, and the travel time will be half or less.
Logitech isn't a US company, so it probably works fine.
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Completely agree that weather makes a huge difference to how much you enjoy strolling outdoors over being in a mall.

My main complaint about malls is how _loud_ they are: visually and auditory-ly (someone please tell me what the right word is). Malls are crowded, adorned in bright, garish colors, filled with stale food court food smells. There is very little seating other than at food courts, water fountains are hidden far away in some corner, loud music plays almost all the time, or it's noisy because of all the people. In sunny Silicon Valley, parking is a nightmare but there'll only be one bike stand hidden in a 50 acre space. It somehow has all of the worst features of a busy bazaar with almost none of the good (local products, "authentic"-ness, ability to haggle etc). Just standing in a shopping mall stresses me out.

It's possible that the present state of the art of mall design ticks the boxes for the largest audience possible and I'm the weirdo.
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I always just read it as dysfunctional people getting into comical situations. I see the show sometimes at my parents' house, and it doesn't seem that bad.
I'd love to invest $10,000 and have $500 automatically invested in a bucket of 20 properties all at one time. Doesn't seem possible today but if you offered, I would invest today.
Hi - Team Lead from Condé Nast here. You're right in that WIRED and New Yorker readers are interested in ML, but that's not solely why we've invested. This work is driven by our platform research team (FORE) which produces predictive models for a [wide] variety of uses, primarily to deliver a better user experience for our readers.

For example, these models are directly integrated into our search, recommendation, SEO optimization engines. Those engines then power both our in-house CMS as well as the modules you see on the brand websites.
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It's going to be a total panopticon.
I agree. Have you read any "ML for dummies" types books that you could recommend? I use python, for better or worse, almost exclusively...
I really want auto-tagging via ML classification as well, it's one of the things I wanted other than one-click save when I started the project. That's a really nice to have at the moment and can only be achieved once PageDash matures more. Right now the closest antidote I can offer for your use is to configure a keyboard shortcut to do the extension saving via chrome://extensions > Keyboard shortcuts (bottom) for quick saving.
As a fellow lizard person, I concur. I do have a 401k but i've been putting more into crypto coins these days.
BitMEX, CBOE, Deribit, and others all offer bitcoin futures, with new exchanges appearing all the time.

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange says they'll start trading Bitcoin futures by year-end.
"you'll get in, input your destination"

That right there is a problem I have with this glorious vision of an "autonomous module" transportation future. What if I don't know what my destination? What if I, GASP, just want to go out for a drive?

Some people (myself included) actually like getting in cars and driving. The destination is somewhat irrelevant. The feeling of control and freedom you get when you're at the wheel is not to be underestimated. The notion that human-driven cars will be outlawed at some point in the future scares me. Folks always think it's a good idea to outlaw stuff that's "bad" for people's health or whatever, but guess what? People still smoke, people still drink heavily, and people get high.

Maybe another way to look at it is there could be designated "autonomous module only" zones. Dense urban environments are of course a logical choice. If you want to drive around in the country or suburbs, that's one thing, but once you get towards the city center, human-driven automobiles are not allowed. That seems a more reasonable compromise.
patient- Hey doc it hurts my arm when I hold it like this.
doc- Well don't do that.
I suppose people that were into horses felt the same way when automobiles were first introduced.

But nobody was told "you have five years to trade your horse in on a car, or send it to the glue factory". Horse are still legal and used to this day, they just mostly lost out to market forces... that is, cars are simply a better mode of transportation for most people most of the time.

But you can still ride a horse if you want to (albeit probably not on freeways, but certainly on country roads). Now, if the proposal was that certain limited access, high-speed highways are restricted to only self-driving cars, I might be able to accept that, even if somewhat grudgingly. But outlawing human driven cars completely, even on backroads? I just can't see it.
Wow, that isn't the one I remember- that website is way better. Thanks!
>#2- The BFR. All over the news lately, going to be a humongous rocket that does New York to Sydney in under an hour, or take humans to the Moon or Mars.

Does BFR happen to stand for "big fucking rocket"?
Yeah, IIRC, I was actually on your side / making a light-hearted joke/factoid. That my old phone could handle larger messages than Twitter is pretty sad for Twitter.

I actually just saw a news article that a guy is saying "Twitter enabled larger character lengths... so nazis could spread their propoganda without as much split tweets." and I was like "Uhh.... okay there..."

We're living in a time where literally nobody can be satisfied with your business decisions and whatever that ONE person is, they'll have a "journalist" platform to spew their crazy ideas to millions of people.

Anyhow, have a great day!
> How do you propose fixing the problem?

Not a complete fix, but a service like snapchat specifically could use AI to block seemingly-nude photos for underage users. Perhaps it could offer parental oversight features too (though this would be hard to implement w/out teens flocking to fake accounts).

The drawback with this approach is that if it becomes mandatory (due to public pressure, legal risk, or legislative risk) it will work work to exclude startups from entering the market.
> Charging for your home area is covered by wherever you park it.

Though if you're staying with relatives for a week, you'll be playing musical cars to make sure everyone's charged. A problem you don't really have with gas cars. It's not all upside.
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The weakness in the teaching of ethics, and in particular the lack of discourse in ethics amongst business in this nation is utterly frustrating. That you can do something (within the law) or that no moral outrage would occur is itself not a measure of ethical action.

Not dealing harm is itself a rather weak ethical stance. Ethics doesn't test whether you do no harm, it tests whether you maximized the good -- and not the good for you or your investors, but rather the good across all of society.

If anyone holds you to an obligation that entails that you take an unethical action then such a license itself become immediately void. We can see this historically expressed by St. Augustine in the 3rd century and more recently by Martin Luther King Jr. (an unjust law is no law).

Hence, the law itself is not a measure of ethical act. That you _can_ do something is not itself a justification of ethical action. Only that you _should_ do something is itself a measure of ethics. In which case you must provide proof that you _should_ misrepresent yourself and your content. Returning to Kant. If you cannot universalize the action -- that is to say, if you cannot show that to create fake content is always a good act (and with all the rufus about "Fake news," I think we certainly cannot show that fake content has been universally good).

Jumping into the question of net good we skip from deontology to utilitarianism. Yet, utilitarianism recognizes that net good is not a measure of money, or pleasure but can be an abstract measurement. Success of the business is only a local consideration, you must expand the ethical question to all of society. That which is good for you or your investors is not itself a net good for society (nor from a deontological perspective a good unto itself).

Was the success of Reddit a net positive for society? Had there been no Reddit would our net quality of life have been improved as a whole society. In this, I would say Reddit was not a net positive for society. It consolidated a distributed system of smaller social forums across the internet into a single hegemonic gated community and consolidating social power into a smaller sum of hands. And I would argue that consolidation of power into smaller groups (whether hard or soft power and in this case we are discussing the soft power of cultural norms) is itself unethical.
> You cannot just write laws to force Universities to zero out graduate tuition and forfeit all the revenue either, as the Universities would just hike up administrative overhead, cutting a bigger slice from the PI's research grants.

What's wrong with this solution? It looks like it leaves the grantors, universities, PIs, and graduate students in the same financial positions, but use a more straightforward and logical way to get there.
We can certainly blame companies for using loopholes secretly, rather than doing it openly, pointing out the problem, and working to get the loopholes fixed.

If the company position is that the right fix is to plug the loopholes then by all means be consistent about it.
Sorry I didnt mean to create the impression that i am guessing here.

This _is_ how it works, i just didnt have the source at hand and wanted to just exolain the broad mechanism
> Where else can I spend $6, and have 1000+ calories available to me the next minute?

The supermarket. You’ll have 10-15,000 much better calories, but you’ll have to cook them in water before you consume them.

If you can’t find time to cook and you’re poor, you’ll be poor forever. If you can’t find time to cook and you’re middle class, you’ll be poor soon enough. If you can’t organize your time to run your home economy, you’re going to be poor. Your home economy is the basis of all your wealth. It’s fundamental. If you “don’t have time” for that you’re a slave to The Man, parroting that nonesense for the privilege of eating inferior food other people prepared for you at a huge markup.

> Call it a tragedy of the modern times.

I am! :) It's the tragedy, really.
This is one of those I’ll beleive it when I see one rumours
Many schools already do it with their tuition rates per credit hour: the cheapest rate for city residents, then in-state residents, then out of state students. Adding a fourth tier for foreign students sounds trivial.
In my opinion, the article also unwittingly reveals the fetishization of Asian women in North America.

How dare an Asian woman who has breast augumentation surgery and risque photos call herself a technologist? How dare she use her physical attractiveness to woe the attention of men other than getting naked in front of your computer screen?
Since when is “GitHub” a verb?
I thought the Indian guy on BBT was one of the more sympathetic characters. He is a bit sheltered, but seems to do significantly fewer stupid things than the rest of the cast. Also seems to be a good friend. But I've only seen a few episodes.
Because Facebook doesn't want to pay people to do the work of directly policing them, and instead relies on community reports.
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I know this is silly, but I would have laughed like crazy if your comment about using their reliable services ended with your comment stopping halfway (like your station/internet died).
I think publicly they say things like "Big Falcon Rocket".
So you'll not be sad if we just take your job, and remove your ability to provide for yourself.
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One-in-ten is a pretty high rate of returns.
Nothing is being produced when rent seeking.
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I'm sorry, I don't think your product, as it is, provides enough value for the cost.

I would suggest using the WARC format someone else mentioned as well as providing a mechanism for backing up locally and a guarantee that all data will be available for X weeks/months/years following any buyout or failure of the business.

Good luck!
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Similarly, and while I don't have links on hand, Japan (at least Osaka, Kyoto, and Tokyo) have major shopping centers right in major train stations. The train station itself seems to be a destination.

There are gyms (generally Konami health clubs), food and shopping, and gardens on the rooftop.
How would anyone know if they're below the taxable level?

Paying taxes shouldn't work on an honour system. Not reporting income is tax evasion, which is what the Indian government wants to stop.
Probably because they support taxes on actual income, not taxes on money they've never seen.
I agree. The reason I see CP as bad is the implication of child abuse.

Underage teens sending nudes to each other doesn't seem a big deal to me, morally, irrespective of what the legal position happens to be.
That didn't say anything about what's wrong with 2.7
There is a question in that letter which I wonder if it is intended as a threat. I might just be misguided. But asking about the questions asked about 'credible opposition party' and 'movement that may replace the current government'... I think Tim Cook (and others in his tax bracket) might see such a question coming from a media outlet as a bit of a threat. The general public think of the rich as simply normal people with way more money and power. They have no concept of how differently they relate to the world, governments, etc. They've got no idea that once you get beyond a few million dollars, once you've surpassed whatever an individual would reasonably ever need... you start planning for your family. When you get to a billion? Then you start planning for your legacy. You don't think "what will make me some money this week" or "month" or "year". You think on the scale of centuries. And you fully intend your dynasty (for some reason all rich come to fetishize bloodlines and draw irrational conclusions about the superiority of their genetics, likely a psychological defense mechanism against a sort of survivors guilt born out of all their compatriots they've seen fall/destroyed) to outlast flimsy flash-in-the-pan happenings of history like the rise and fall of currencies or redrawing of national boundaries.

When people talk about things like a large movement to automation, or things like Apple having a value greater than the GDP of nations, and things like that... they don't tend to follow through and consider things like... people have fought very, very large wars and killed many, many people over sums smaller. Those who think it isn't a game are only those expendable enough to be fodder for it.
Hydra and Dex both support OAuth and OpenID Connect. This apparently supports neither, but comes with its own JWT structure.

With inbound federation that shouldn't be much of a problem, but with outbound federation you'll have some very difficult questions to answer (especially because all major identity solutions are pretty much OIC centric these days)
Yeah, that sounds pretty not-worth it to me.
This generalization has zero value, and that's before we even get into the specifics of the argument.