skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not saying NYC has a bad subway system, and agree that it's one of (if not the) best in the US. I've spent enough time there to know that. But when compared with most other large cities outside the US (where I've also spent enough time to enjoy their trains), it's merely decent.
Would you have examples of the first case?
Hard to decide how I feel here. I hate software patents and patent trolls, but I also hate what f2p and premium currencies have done to gaming.

Which is the lesser of these evils?
What is the rationale for adding another rule to the tax game? It seems complicated enough already, and I thought we were trying to simplify it?
will stop using there cards for just this reason from now on.
Kudos for sticking through with it for your class project! I have been working with and have contributed to WRF code since 2009, and it's sure not straightforward. Porting it to different HPC systems can be especially painful. This pain point was one of main motivators for building Cloudrun.
That would be pretty expensive though. Is why nearly any non-huge company is going to take someone dropping their claim as a huge victory, and not try to go to court anyway.
Geez what a glaring oversight! We'd change it right now if not for the hundreds of Cloudrun beer koozies we had made :(
Letters can be ignored. Lawsuits must be responded to. And that same 35K will be offered as a deal after they file, if they file. They are trying to save THEIR legal costs, not yours. Let them sue. Fight it in court. Hopefully win. Counter-sue for your legal fees. Booyah.

Note: IANAL, and any actual lawyer would be less flippant. But seriously... don't let attorneys bully you.
THE LIBERATING PROMISE OF BITCOIN IS a FANTASY
Algorithmic traders focus on short-term market movements. The investment decisions described in the study are about long-term foundamental of companies. As long as enough investors prefer cash flow to capital reinvestment on the earning report, the strategy will continue to work.

Cutting costs and investments can easily dress up short-term financial performance at the cost of long-term productivity. But it will look good for investors who don't understand the underlying matter and rely on simplistic metrics to make investment decisions.
Magic Leap alleges $1M stolen in false recruiting charges
I think it's not efficiency in the sense that you're talking about, it's that the picking and pricing of stocks as a signal of their effectiveness back to the company that is broken.
I think there is something more to why the wealthy buy art besides just the intrinsic artistic value of it. In my mind I compare it to how in the past a person would gain status by wielding a certain sword, or by wearing a certain crown. I think it could be similar to art -- who has previously owned the piece, or who created it could be a huge part of its value. I also think there is something to it being a sort of currency/store of value that can be exchanged outside of the normal currency system. Maybe it is to avoid taxes, or to have a record of a shady transaction
It could be that your friend's son has an overly generous sense of what Mono is. It could be that he knows precisely which individual entity is Mono but misunderstands what "Mono" denotes/refers to. It could be somewhere in between.

If a neural network has a representation of entities in the world apart from language referring to those entities, that's would be awesome. I'm guessing we're not there yet though.
CD32 Upgrades, Games and Fun
Dockless bike-share service leaves France after ‘mass destruction’ of its fleet
They've basically abandoned the Zumwalt class and are building lots more updated Arleigh Burke class destroyers.
The people who actually pays for this are cash and debit card users. Because there is a single price for merchants, the merchant charges marginally higher to cover the cost of the transactions. Credit card users are less impacted because credit card companies convert a portion of the revenue into incentives for their card users to continue using their cards. (Chase Sapphire Reserve anyone?)

Here's a good paper that goes into this:
https://www.bostonfed.org/publications/public-policy-discuss...

From the abstract:
On average, each cash-using household pays $149 to card-using households and each card-using household receives $1,133 from cash users every year.
I wonder if you got the animated red dot GIF from bellsnwhistles.com. I sure used their gifs on my first website (sadly lost to time, courtesy of angelfire deleting unpopular pages + a particularly nasty Windows bug that deleted my local copy)
If we could get rid of cars and make some streets bus+bike only (no taxi, no ride-share), I'd almost certainly get myself a GoBike membership and use it nearly all the time.

I just don't feel comfortable riding a bike on most SF streets; it's (as another poster put it elsewhere) a blood sport, and the police tend to knee-jerk side with drivers whenever there's a crash involving a bike.
We should make all museums accessible to the public for free for people with low-income regardless of where they live. The art in this museum and the exhibits in other museums should be for all people.

Donations to these museums are tax deductible meaning that the taxpayer makes a significant contribution to these museums so that all museums are taxpayer supported.
I get it now. The OP posted an old article from his own blog.
postgres=# SELECT AVG(x) FROM (SELECT 1 AS x UNION SELECT NULL) t;
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"Is murder okay, as long as you're murdering Hitler?"
India’s Unique Wound Dressing That Stops Bleeding in Minutes Gets FDA Nod
Doesn't the article say this patent has been successfully used in the past and thus there's likely precedence? :/
Frankly, I’m still salty that the commuter tax was done away with by the corrupt Sheldon Silver. If the only thing that NJites have pay for is the Met they are getting off very easy. A similar argument can be made for the rest of the country, given our balance of payments with Washington.

The lifelong NYer that moved to Florida last year is a decent point, but it’s also a rather small edge case.
Good point. Of course, the overdiagnosis is then caused by the legal environment (not the scan). As an individual of course you can always sign a release for your doctor. If he seems uneasy about nontreatment, just write a letter to release him from liability for nontreatment so he knows he can relax and actually consider your wellbeing rather than liability.
You can get a new cert when the existing one has less than one month remaining lifetime. The problem is that Chrome now distrusts Symantec certs way before their expiration date.
Good point. It's hard to be sad about something that doens't exist and you can't fathom as a possible technology. Commissioning painted portraits were certainly a thing before photography, but I assume you had to be decently well off to afford that, and of course that's going to capture you in a staged setting, nothing remotely candid.
IMO you’re gonna need to do more than blame Twitter.

Humans were racist, misogynistic, selfish, hateful, road raging shitheads before social media.

Columbine was before all of these things

Kent state

Beltway sniper

Jonestown

Hate crimes everywhere

What’s different is how visible Twitter makes it

My money is on this being more of a nationalism thing. Buried or purposefully hidden xenophobia and anxiety over being in each other’s faces suddenly

Especially with the older crowd that grew up and lived mostly isolated

These attitudes were more visible during GW’s time in office too

It’s disconcerting seeing a community of “smart” people ignoring a lot of variables and insisting on demonizing Johnny Come-lately

It was less work to find a hateful clique before Twitter. Just walk around town and find the right group of people
Dynamic Routing Between Capsules in PyTorch
Currently we use SpotWx [0] for 12hr. It gives you the choice of whatever numerical model you like. These are very important for mountain trips because rain in the summer will make things very slippery etc. In the winter (ski-touring), precipitation is not a big deal but avalanche hazard is -- so there are avalanche forecasts [1] and [2]. You'll note that they breakdown the forecast by elevation range, below treeline, treeline, and alpine.

The shortcomings of the existing systems is that it is cumbersome to get elevation properly into the model. SpotWx for example, gives you the forecast for the elevation of the square you clicked on, which is the average of the surrounding elevation. This may be irrelevant if you're walking a ridge vs a valley bottom.

SpotWx, however, does something very right, which is very good hourly breakdown. The avalanche forecasts are typically for a very large area, and the timing of precipitation isn't important, but heating due to temperature change or sun is very important.

[0] spotwx.com/products/grib_index.php?model=hrrr_wrfprsf&lat=49.25963&lon=-123.12047&tz=America/Vancouver

[1] http://www.avalanche.ca/map

[2] https://www.nwac.us/mountain-weather-forecast/current/
TypeScript interfaces are purely structural. The effect on the type system of using `interface Foo { … }` vs `type Foo = { … }` is the same. I mean, the whole point of interfaces in TypeScript is that it's structural typing, and if you want nominal typing you use a class.

The only difference is readability and how tools like VSCode treat it (e.g. if you hover over something typed as an `interface`, VSCode just shows the interface name, though you can hold a modifier to see the whole definition).

All that said, if you want to exclusively use type aliases, you're certainly free to do so. But I expect most TypeScript developers will consider that to be a bit odd.
The storied history of the uniform name
>a way to link stuff together

Maybe... hyperlinks via <a> tags?
Code that's dynamically disabled is at least checked by the compiler, you can detect a whole bunch of errors that way (function prototypes changing, using deprecated APIs, naming clashes etc...). Of course bitrot will always happen if code is never tested but code that's never actually built will rot much, much faster in my experience.

Then some day one poor sod actually wants to use the option, he gets 4 pages of compilations error and decides maybe he didn't need that after all. Code that compiles doesn't necessarily work but it's a start...

>At least, when you decide that CONFIG_ARCH_TOASTER is no longer supported, you CAN trim the code out easily. You can't do that with code that is living in shadows.

I suppose you're right but again, I feel like you're optimizing for the wrong thing. For one thing the linux kernel is not too keen on removing stuff in my experience, in general older APIs coexist with newer ones and board support is not dropped willy-nilly.

Beyond that I don't know if I should trust my judgement over yours but I'm sure I'll trust the kernel maintainer's judgement over both of ours.
True, but here's a man that got bilked into financing the US festivals in the 80's. While they were nice for the people that attended them he lost Millions. The sad part is that he wanted to put on a minor music festival but was conned into expanding it to a full music festival where the promoters and the bands got rich and he lost big time, something larger than $35 million. And that's not the only example.

He talks about it in his bio. It's a shame he's probably too nice a person and people are ready to take advantage. It's a shame to say but maybe nice guys do finish last.
I actually just tried to sign in to it, but it wants to do 2FA using an e-mail address I didn't even remember I had. So I guess I'm permanently locked out of that Yahoo account. :(
Like the peculiarly specific definition of "startup" which is often used here, I don't believe that very specific definition of patent trolling is commonly accepted. I'm sure you could find examples from Slashdot 10+ years ago where it's clearly intended as a more general "abusive exploitation of patents for monetary gain".
Microsoft and UPMC unveil AI assistant that takes notes on doctor’s visits
Ah, I remember the days when I was a young child cruising messageboards. When I found one that didn’t escape HTML text, I would copy and paste the entire source code of another website into the message box and watch as I destroyed the forum by dropping an entire website into it.
This is what internet is to me. What internet is today isn't really 'internet' anymore. Well at least not from my perspective.
Yes, I should have said bubble, like the original tulip bulbs. At least the tulips did have some aesthetic value. There is recruitment reward: buying early, hyping up modern "art" and making a profit.
Not for everyone. I know a few people that prefer to run real hard drives in their hardware, especially when they show at vintage computer exhibitions. These people go out of their way to get old ones for spare parts and to repair what they have. Adapters are the last resort when the drives they need can only be obtained for astronomical prices or not at all.
So IIUC, they're charging people differently based on their nationality (in the sense the people from outside the U.S. cannot get the discount).

Is such discrimitory pricing legal?
> "Twitter is not a hate machine."

I agree. It's an amplifier. And the unfortunate thing is that many people are so different that it mostly amplifies distrust, dislike, misunderstandings, etc. -- and turns those things into hate.
I noticed this from the article:
The proportion of museumgoers who pay a “suggested” amount has declined from 63 percent to 17 percent over the last 13 years...

Which made me think of something else I've encountered, which is that the percentage of people who respond to phone polls has plummeted over a similar time frame - http://www.pewresearch.org/2017/05/15/what-low-response-rate...

I wonder if these trends are related symptoms of a cultural change away from community-mindedness, and if so, has anyone seen other numbers in the same vein?
Here's my old website: http://stuffwithstuff.com/robot-frog/index.html

At some point (alas!) I lost the domain robot-frog.com, so note that some of the top-level links on the site won't go to the right place. All the relative links should work, though.

The name of the is the site is kind of silly. I was typing random emoticons in an email and came up with [:|], which looked like a robot frog to me.
Strongly disagree here.

I think WebUSB will enable a lot of cool things, though it will definitely be hard to sandbox.

I want to program an Arduino from a web IDE. I want to control a 3d printer or pen plotter from a web application. I want to store things on a flash drive on my iPhone using a web-based file explorer? This last one sounds strange.

On a tangent, I see application runtimes moving into the browser by default with very few performance-critical applications remaining outside that stack. Photoshop and AAA games might be exceptions. Services like databases and web browsers would not have a need to be in Chrome.

(don't hurt me, I know I'm strange.. ~)
My old geocities site from the 90s is long gone but from what I remember it had:

- The midi version of the exorcist theme song[0] that autoplayed

- That old animated HR of a stickman peeing onto an internet explorer button

- Various 2600 magazine related documents and links

- A whole bunch of VB6 apps I made and their source code

- A guestbook / hit counter

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1PH_Y8Xn4g

BUT here's my first freelance web design site from 2001:

http://web.archive.org/web/20010201051000/http://darkelement...

The copy on that site is next level cringe worthy.

Also, does anyone remember the original Andy's Art Attack when it came to design? http://www.brucelevick.com/andyart/. Make sure to click into one of the pages because the sidebar was epic for its time.
I'm optimistic that the move of computing into mixed reality (VR/AR) will be a grand opportunity to re-capture this spirit. But instead of making their own pages, people will be making their own places and things.
I think MySpace ultimately represented the final form of the essentially unlimited customization of the early web. The terribleness of MySpace pages was, I believe, the catalyst that pushed the design trend in the opposite direction, resulting in the "standardized array of fields" as popularized by Facebook.

That said, given the cyclical nature of design trends, I strongly suspect that we'll eventually start to see a gradual shift back toward customization, hopefully avoiding the ridiculous excesses of the MySpace era.
I think your comment is valuable, especially given your first-hand knowledge, but there was no reason to insult GP by starting it with "what a naive worldview!"
I have a friend who is somewhat of a "evolution denier" (he's not religious and actually very intelligent). I was thinking about this from his perspective and would like someone else perspective.

"On human terms, the LTEE generations span the equivalent of well more than a million years of human evolution."

Haven't we evolved a lot more in 68,000 generations than the bacteria have? Or put another way, all the bacteria has done in this time period is go from consuming glucose to citrate, nothing else in its shape, structure, etc. So how did humans and other creatures evolve so much over 68,000 generations?

I am 100% on board with evolution, I'm just curious about this. This is only 6-7 times more generations than when humans split from chimps (quick google search said 6-7 million years ago).

Is it because we have way more interaction with our environment and these bacteria are just in a little petri dish? Sounds likely.

Has anyone ever heard of people questioning evolution? I think he was saying something about how impossible it would be to have every single thing we see in nature be pre-written in DNA - it has just been all expressed in genes over the millennia through natural selection.
why do you think the push to hire more women is the reason for the current gender balance in law hiring rather than a simple increase in the number of women choosing to pursue legal qualifications? there is a huge push to hire more women in tech yet it has done little so far to change the balance. there is certainly no hard barrier on women pursuing a tech career as there was for women pursuing a career in corporate law before the 80s.
I actually still force myself type out anything that's important enough for me to know it or understand it. Text, code, doesn't matter. Some things I'll even write by hand if I really think it's important enough for me to remember.
So far it's about 5 trolls for every real post. :)
some of those cases will involve healthcare providers or energy distributors, so what? The case potentially affects all transactions where there is processing or market-making intermediary. There's no specificity on how it applies to Google, Amazon or Facebook products even those are named in the headline. It's just a terribly written editorial with vague legal analysis and mentions tech firms for click-bait sensationalism.
The Opera web browser had a torrent client built-in for a long time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Opera_web_brows...

Looks like since version 9, released in 2006.
This is true but doesn't address the why within one human generation the population size change in salmon returning to spawn ( five years in Pacific versus current two-three years in Pacific versus 10000 years prior history at five years). Also I believe the article says that Alaska orcas are now feeding on the salmon before they get to the Puget Sound orcas, and not in the article but linked that marine mammal populations take a larger number of salmon than orcas, so there is pressure on salmon population from all types of natural predation/less habitat.
A little over a year ago I listed some garments from my girlfriend's clothing line. Unless someone broke into our garage and stole the stock, then no one else could ever sell these products. I created the listings, did the brand registry, and we still were not able to get the Buy button on the listings. Something about not being an established seller, and that other sellers might come in and offer the same product. If that wasn't dumb enough, we also weren't allowed to buy advertising for three months. So amazon wanted us to just kick back for three months, paying the seller fee on products that no one will find and that don't have a buy button.

So, I completely agree with the headline of this article. The whole listing process was catered to listing existing products, and the policies did not make sense for sellers who completely control their product.
They develop a laser to do job that relatively small caliber autocannon can do.
It's amazing that despite all of the technological growth, there are more middle people than ever skimming off the top. Somehow it feels that technology is simply making things even more inefficient.

Technology doesn't change people's motivations - it simply rearranges who gets to fulfill their wishes a little.

As long as people want to live 'I GOTTA get mine, worry about the rest later', we're going to continue being the cancerous species that we are, biting the hand that feeds us (our community, our planet, etc)
I don't miss Flash but the jaw-dropping impression when visiting Gabo for the first time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Y-ESJS911c
How do you feel if instead you got dolphins with tracking devices?

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/uncle-sams-dol...
Life of a Go Infrastructure Maintainer
Sadly browsers don't support them anymore... you have to implement the behavior in javascript and/or css these days.

Although if you search for 'blink tag' or 'marquee tag' on google, you get some fun easter eggs!
Yes. There are a bunch of places in SF that give discounts if you are a local.
I deleted my Twitter account when I realised that I was contributing to the sarcasm/nastiness/hatred on Twitter. Every now and again I look at Twitter to see if there's anything positive on there, but almost always it's just snarky comments, outright racism, fear mongering, and a raft of other negativity.

Unfortunately, I can't see how this will change.
Pedestrian Deaths Are Up. Is Marijuana to Blame?
The only mechanism to force repayment of loans without government is violence or monopoly.

Nonsense. First, while this is phrased to position government as an alternative to violence, forcing repayment of loans with government involves both violence and a monopoly—a monopoly on "legitimate" violence being the main factor which all governments have in common. Second, government cannot be relied upon to force repayment of loans (e.g. they allow debts to be discharged in bankruptcy). Third, social pressure can effectively force people to repay their loans without resorting to violence. As things stand today, the main factor that keeps people from skipping out on loans is not the threat that the government might get involved, or a more general fear of violence, but rather the impact it would have on their credit score—in other words, the risk of acquiring a reputation as someone who does not repay their debts, and consequently losing access to future credit.
I can't read nytimes (not a subscriber) but how are they verifying citizenship?
Stratolaunch, world's largest plane, marks key milestone
Ah, a simpler time
How to apply? :)
This really made me smile. Thank you.
Just updated my account to paid subscriber.

My own old page: https://mat.tl/archive/1994.htm
https://www.thedailybeast.com/fooled-by-the-onion-9-most-emb...
If you're the oldest individual in your elementary class, you've got ~11 months more development than your worst-off competitors. You carry that age advantage throughout every level of education you go through, allowing you differential access to awards, accolades, special opportunities, etc.

When development evens out following full development, you're already past the majority of the educational sorting mechanism - you've been scoring higher and formed by your experiences as a high performing student throughout.