skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you actually read the article and the many citations, it’s a strong data-based approach.

As a review of the federal sentencing guidelines status quo, sure. As a source of proposed remedies, no.

I didn't go into the article looking for an argument that there were problems with that system and the application of it. I had prior knowledge there, and fleshing it out further wasn't my only reason to read this.

I went into the article looking for the proposed remedies (and a ounce of hope that they wouldn't be as hollow as the headline suggested). If they had limited the scope of the article to the problem they wish to describe, I'd agree with you. But the headline and the "lol, trump" paragraphs aim the article higher. Those aspects don't stick to the tough data-driven no-nonsense image fivethrityeight tries to convey.

Lies, damn lies and statistics.
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Disaggregation Theory: where does value accrue in the decentralized web?
>The US existed, and was prosperous, before the Second World War. How the US economy functions in the postwar period really has no relevance to how it got to the position it was in before that. I do hope you’re not suggesting that a single protectionist act having a negative result means that 100 years of protectionism was actually bad for the US.

The effects of the Smoot-Hawley Act as well as a hundred years of economic consensus are quite clear on this: protectionism is bad.

>Protectionism was very effective in developing economies.

Care to cite any sources? The infant industry argument is not widely supported by economists[0] and is mostly parroted by heterodox/Marxist economists like Ha-Joon Chang.

>Once your economy dominates and functions mainly by extracting value from submissive developing nations (who are not allowed to enact the same proteionist rules that allowed the US to become so powerful) free trade becomes beneficial to you (but not the other party)

This shows a fundamental misunderstanding of the purpose and effects of international trade. Comparative advantage creates a mutual benefit for both parties to trade. The postwar liberal order has been associated with astonishing increases in standards of living across the globe.

[0] http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0973801010005001...
Let's forget about Africa/Latin America for a moment. The comparison always ignore 2 differences about the relations:

1.China build roads, buildings not only for living but also whole industrial parks that create jobs in Africa which local population can also benefit later on while the US seldom do the same thing at least with compatible scale. I'm not saying China is unselfishly helping Africans but it's more kind of long term selfish behavior that cultivate local stability and prosperity.

2.China don't set up values promotion preconditions for financial aids to Africa countries while US/Western countries often have a "universal values" promotion agenda combined with financial aids, maybe with good intention.

Western MSM almost always omit these 2 differences when making comparisons trying to sell their own belief that the relations are similar.
I have gotten my news from web for 25 years but I still watch local news 2 night s a week - to see coverage of some local issue, to check on the weather or see a bit of a baseball game, or just by default.

And while people over 40 are generally in the second half of their lives and heading for the demographic exits, that doesn't mean they're politically irrelevant. They're far more likely to vote, more likely to be homeowners/property tax payers (with the political heft that that gives), and have greater financial and political heft than their younger counterparts. You're naive if you think they're just bumbling along without thinking of much of anything. Just because you find that demographic boring and personally irrelevant doesn't mean they can't exert political power over you int eh aggregate. Many such people are willing to have their opinions shaped or validated by broadcast media and act accordingly.

Take Fox News; it's easy to make fun of their audience, because who int heir right mind would take people like Sean Hannity seriously? And yet millions do, and their existence and hostility cannot be wished away.

Incidentally, just "getting your news from the web" is no guarantee of objectivity either. Come on, we live in a society where people in high places tweet links to Infowars or Qanon conspiracy theories non-ironically.
Intel stock is down 7.3% currently.
Seems like this just creates a honeypot where censorship regimes can easily detect people attempting to circumvent their systems. Use this tool and you're liable to be a list.

Maybe combined with a form of stenography, this could be more useful.
Travis CI secure environment variables are accessible to new repository owners
> new computers in the $200 to $400 range

There's quite a lot of these, e.g. HP Stream; the Windows license is much cheaper for these systems because they have such low specs.
Ask HN: What are your favorite podcast *episodes*?
Episodes only, please.
I don't know if having it off the charger will necessarily prevent issues. I had an old ~2010 Macbook Pro battery pack that stopped taking a charge, but which I decided to keep around because I thought I might see if it was possible to replace the cells. Kind of forgot about it, so it sat on a desktop for maybe a year, and then I tossed it in a closet maybe a year ago. While cleaning in there recently, I found this:

https://my.mixtape.moe/kceuko.jpg
https://my.mixtape.moe/zbvjdu.jpg

It was in a closed ziploc bag, which showed no evidence of high heat, but kind of disturbing in that I assumed after a year of sitting it would have fully discharged.
Because that worked so well last time?
The nichrome heating elements in vapes have been proven to leach considerable amounts of manganese and chromium into your vape fluid and vapor.

https://www.jhsph.edu/news/news-releases/2017/study-toxic-me...
It doesn't look like aperiodicity is a required property of Wang tiles. Just the cool ones. :)
No one has mentioned the heroic work of Sci-Hub yet, so here's an obligatory link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16332139
not gonna read his lies.
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Episode: Tim Ferriss with Naval Ravikant, also Naval with Shane Parrish/Farnam Street - who: people interested in business, philosophy, and self-improvement

Episode: Austin Allred with on IndieHackers - who: people who want to hear about a cool business and a thoughtful founder

Episode: Tim Ferriss with James Fadiman - people interested in psychedelics
Yeah, we really could've done a better job with explaining how to write your own configurations. I tried to make the conversion from images to runtime specified in some manner[1], but really the trade-off between granularity and ease-of-use was tipped to the "extreme granularity" side of the scale.

Though if you're writing low-level container configurations you really should already know enough to write a (simple) container runtime yourself (because the security pitfalls with a slightly misconfigured container can be pretty bad -- even though runc does quite a lot of things to keep you safe that are outside of the spec).

[1]: https://github.com/opencontainers/image-spec/blob/v1.0.0/con...
Because simply offering the option for sale helps portray Tesla as forward-thinking? The option itself is basically a marketing mechanism at this time.

The FSD option doesn't actually do anything right now or even add any extra hardware.

According to their Q4'17 update letter,[0] "In October 2016, we began equipping all Tesla vehicles with hardware needed for full self-driving capability, including cameras that provide 360 degree visibility, updated ultrasonic sensors for object detection, a forward-facing radar with enhanced processing, and a powerful new onboard computer." All new Teslas manufactured since then include the same Hardware II (or the incremental "II.5" version), which includes the eight cameras referenced under the "Full Self-Driving Capability" option in their configurator. Enhanced AutoPilot activates certain software functionality (what people generally understand to be "AutoPilot"), while the "Full Self-Driving Capability" package doesn't actually do anything right now. You're just purchasing the right to unlock a future FSD update for a $1,000 discount today that may or may not come out before you sell the car.

Basically, Tesla is betting that they'll be able to develop and deploy FSD in a reasonable (for consumers; from a developer and regulatory standpoint, it's incredibly aggressive) timeframe using the hardware already present on its cars. In the interim, FSD orders just sit on Tesla's books as deferred revenue because "FSD" hasn't actually been delivered yet.

As an aside, it's actually kind of impressive that ~40% of buyers[1] have opted for the FSD option despite the fact that it doesn't exist yet. Offering the option today involves some pretty significant risk if there are significant delays or Tesla runs into unexpected development hurdles it can't easily get around. It could easily turn into a class action nightmare.

0. http://ir.tesla.com/secfiling.cfm?filingID=1564590-18-2956

1. https://www.inc.com/kevin-j-ryan/35000-people-have-paid-for-...
because it's a logo at the center of aluminum lid?
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Pretty much every conception of AGI is of greater than human intelligence, at least in some aspects.

The reason? Otherwise why build it? Yes, there are cases where AGI as subhuman-level intelligence would have utility, but the remaining cases are far more numerous and have far more utility.
"Generous"
Indeed. The battery was bad and wouldn't hold charge, but the charging circuitry probably would still try and charge the battery and it eventually, catastrophically failed. Owner is lucky they were not sitting there at the time.

If your battery doesn't hold a charge anymore, don't keep it plugged in. There should probably be a PSA for battery handling at this point.
These are 3rd party analytics firms and not any random companies. Both these firms have strong data protection processes and are very secure. From Grindr's perspective, they are probably looking for analytics for different segments of their users and send all data to Localytics who help them with this (vs. trying to build these internally).

Here is a thought. Do we think that the data is more secure with Grindr itself or with Localytics? I feel the answer might be the latter given data security means a lot to Localytics (as they provide analytics as a service to thousands of apps) vs. Grindr itself who may not go to the extent of Localytics to safefuard user info.
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> Why wouldn't HIV status be protected by HIPAA?

Because Grindr is not a healthcare provider (doctor, nurse, hospital, etc.) or a health insurer. HIPAA doesn't apply to social networks, or otherwise (e.g.) Twitter would be liable if you wrote a post announcing your own HIV status on their service.
Ask HN: Any step by step guide to get better in CSS with projects?
I believe that you only learn when you truly build something. I have tried to learn CSS a lot of time but after learning selectors and some basic properties I forget them because I don't use them a lot.
This time I am thinking to put around 15-20 days continuously but I need some structured course with projects. I am trying to find out but unable to really get what I need. I am aware of freecodecamp.org and I have already finished it in 2 days. All I need is to practice for next 20 days.

Please help me with some resources or challenges type project that aims to make you better at CSS.
Have you read their editorials? They're so biased and poorly written that I can no longer regard CNN as a good news source.

It's a case of "two wrongs don't make a right." Lowering reporting standards because the other side lowered reporting standards means we have no good news.

Not being able to trust the media (both CNN and Faux news) is a bigger problem than electing a lousy president.
Compression and VQ [=video quality] vs. bitrate are the same thing; it's not about creating small files, but rather small files _which still look great_. IMO the focus of the companies you mention is simply different. Elemental (through AWS) sells encoding services. We sell encoders. The type of client attracted by each of these is fundamentally different.
I'm seeing much closer results:

cloudflare 32 ms 33 ms 34 ms 39 ms 36 ms 35 ms 29 ms 57 ms 48 ms 33 ms 37.60
google 43 ms 38 ms 37 ms 60 ms 34 ms 30 ms 30 ms 50 ms 32 ms 67 ms 42.10
quad9 30 ms 139 ms 25 ms 35 ms 49 ms 36 ms 34 ms 32 ms 27 ms 47 ms 45.40
opendns 32 ms 33 ms 28 ms 69 ms 32 ms 91 ms 37 ms 75 ms 67 ms 39 ms 50.30
norton 35 ms 33 ms 33 ms 31 ms 39 ms 34 ms 22 ms 25 ms 24 ms 33 ms 30.90
cleanbrowsing 36 ms 48 ms 40 ms 49 ms 56 ms 35 ms 36 ms 49 ms 49 ms 46 ms 44.40
yandex 217 ms 233 ms 203 ms 199 ms 215 ms 380 ms 210 ms 204 ms 258 ms 205 ms 232.40
adguard 98 ms 95 ms 101 ms 97 ms 104 ms 129 ms 103 ms 110 ms 95 ms 111 ms 104.30
neustar 32 ms 30 ms 32 ms 35 ms 31 ms 34 ms 29 ms 28 ms 138 ms 34 ms 42.30
comodo 55 ms 52 ms 51 ms 52 ms 47 ms 48 ms 58 ms 59 ms 48 ms 48 ms 51.80
Well it was more than just chain migration he wanted changed. Also the “diversity lottery” and overall limits.

No question Trump represents a large segment of Americans who want to see less immigration overall, and more selective granting of visas and green cards.

The doors, so to speak, would remain decidedly open, to the tune of about a half million green cards per year. Historically average.
That's probably due to the influx of chinese players coming in to play pubg or whatever in the last few months. A more "representative" sample could be found in the months leading up to the spike: https://web.archive.org/web/20170606030609/http://store.stea....
they will not dare to. They are too dirty to allow that to happen.
Here's what he thinks of privacy: he had his own private paramilitary / police force de facto arrest and detain a photographer on a public California road. The photographer was taken to Facebook HQ for interrogation:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5563325/Mark-Zuckerb...
>The fact is advertising business models, like Facebook, have inherent conflicts that Apple doesn't have. Paying directly for a product that you're going to use creates a beautiful alignment of interests.

Don't forget FB as business tool. There it not only aligns interests, it gives back more than you put in, many businesses depend on it, and the conversion rate they enable.
Parallel tasks in Python: concurrent.futures
Came to say this. The TED talk is fantastic. You should watch it in one sitting (it's short) -- no pause or rewind!!! ;-)
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What do you mean by UI related work?
Looks like my general policy of never charging batteries on something flammable is going to have to be modified to not charging batteries near something flammable.

Like, what the heck, there were long jets of burning stuff spurting out of the battery. It was like it was designed to light the place on fire on a failure.
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I suppose webmasters could add the inline css

body{animation:none !important;}

On mobile so I haven't had the chance to test
Yeah, I think very few outlets are doing well these days, aside from the New York Times and maybe one or two others. (Which makes it a little ironic for the NYT to stir fear about one company having too much power over what people see, especially since they're no strangers to pushing narratives themselves...)
Check out SilverCar. They are mostly app based.
Fair points. You may be right.
Great, we can go back to the macrumors nonsense about how this PPC is "just as fast" as the x86 days.

With their focus on iOS vs MacOS, this doesn't surprise me. MacOS will simply die once they port their tools to iOS.

Terrible choice IMO.
Given the age of the laptop, 2014, I would be very surprised if this was the original battery. And, if replaced, surprised if it was not the cheapest option off eBay. OEM batteries are surprisingly difficult to source for many laptops after a few years (sometimes if you don't order it with the laptop upfront, you're sol), not to mention priced 3-5x higher than no-name replacements.

That being said, I have bought a lot of no-names over the years and haven't had even so much as an abnormally hot one yet. More often they just perform at 3/4ish capacity of the new "real" one.