skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It may have been better for companies, but was it better for customers? It sounds like the bureaucrats set the price too high, which created a surplus.

Almost all customers of airlines want lower prices, not more amenities.
Well, have you seen the submission domain?

> ZyCrypto is a Cryptocurrency news Breaking and Information Website Focusing On Daily News, Coins Analysis, Reviews and so much more.

I am sure other news sources would have reported this differently.

Update: itnews.com.au actually also highlighted cryptocurrency, but they also mentioned that arrest was made with a help of "state crime command’s cybercrime squad". I'd think that that cybercrime squad wanted to show off something only they can do.
>people find value in living in a city and neighborhood that isn't completely focused on extracting the maximum economic value at any cost.

More power to them. But why should we use violence means against peaceful people?
I was coming here to say that. Inflation rates in the double digits is something millennials have never gone through.
Assuming the tourists have more money than the locals and anyone can rent their apartment out to tourists instead of long-term to locals, you pretty quickly get to a point where "AirBnB-able" housing stock is taken off the actual housing market.

This is a problem that can't be solved by building more housing, because that housing is not going to be built in the historic city centers where the tourists want to stay. (Also, it takes a while to build more housing.)

Wouldn't the real market solution be to build more hotels?
The "Tulip Bubble" of 1630's is arguably the first speculative bubble. No FED back then. Maybe the FED affects the timing and depth of the business cycle, but probably cannot prevent all "bubbles"...Unless, maybe you give the FED a clue-stick to use on stupid investors.
Fun at Work Doesn't Have to Be Temporary
Before calling what you read 'nonsense', please follow the argument. We have a massively overclocked and unrealistically chilled chip from Intel, with massive results. And we have a cool chip sitting in Lisa Su's hand, that claims no performance numbers. Both use comparable technology, have comparable number of cores and per core performance and, we expect, comparable real life frequencies and dissipation when air cooled.

My conclusion is that the chips are roughly comparable in performance and we are witnessing a marketing war, not a performance showdown. Nothing you said seems to disprove that or even address that conclusion.
While Heathrow to Austin did start on a 787, as seemed appropriate, it has become so successful that it upgraded to 777 and now actually a 747, amazing as that is.

http://www.austintexas.gov/news/british-airways’-747-begins-...
The thing is that every time someone uses linux and complains because some bug or something, they think of macos and seem to forget all the issues with it and only remember the good things, like the nice UI. This also happens to my self
Wages don't rise exactly like that. There's a threshold under which it doesn't make much sense at all. If you're making under 100K - and certainly under 50k - I wouldn't be surprised if you could be much more financially comfortable in, say, Dallas. Chop your rent budget in half, lower your tax burden, you'll probably get a bigger chunk of monthly spending money.
It happened several times, which makes you wonder. They have all this great engineering talent and a really fantastic test infrastructure, yet somehow never managed to write a unit test that checks if a simple boolean value doesn't toggle during an update. It's quite a mystery.
If I attempted to call myself an engineer (in any discipline) without having the requisite degree, people would probably laugh behind my back: "Why does he feel so insecure that he has to pretend to have an engineering degree?"
It takes me a while: Constitutionally guaranteed freedom, not constructionally guaranteed.
I hate talking to a bot in general.
Does this solution use ML or not?
Bias and discrimination are foundational to information and decision systems. Thate's wwhat they do: decide, choose, and filter.

Pichai's point is that such discrimination must be fair and societally beneficiaĺ.

The line is not clean, straight, or constant. But it provides a guiding principle to future decisionmakers aand stakeholders.
inject ads into every page the user visited and then geolocated about 200k people in less than 5 min
> so far everything the airlines do that leads to paying less for a ticket has led to lots of grumbling and no shortage of sales :)

Customers have no real visibility into any of this, eg you're lucky to know what kind of aircraft will be flying a route let alone what interior configuration it will have (and all of that can and is regularly changed between booking and departure).

I'd gladly pay an extra $10 or $20 to fly with more legroom or a plane with windows, which would be a realistic reflection of what these cost carriers (10-20% extra), but these are major revenue centers for them. On the last flight I took, Delta wanted an extra $110 for an exit-row seat, on a flight that cost $165. That's just blatantly milking it. At time of departure, 5 of 6 seats were unfilled and they had to fill them with main-cabin passengers.

The only real control you have is over what carrier you fly with, and there are definitely people who will refuse to fly with budget carriers. By the time they are done nickel-and-diming you for having a carryon and everything, you end up in the same place anyway.

But even there, people only have a small degree of choice in carriers either. Delta is the vast majority of flights out of my airport (Wikipedia says 75%), I'd love to go with Alaska Airlines or someone but I don't really have a choice.

So, there's lots of reasons this isn't really an efficient market.
I agree that debate cannot occur on social media and it would be better if no one used Facebook; leaving social media certainly sets a good example.

But I'm arguing against the sentiment that whatever goes on on Facebook is merely a symptom of politics that occurs face-to-face. We live in a world in which people can form political opinions and vote in elections without ever leaving their house.

Today, Facebook might not yet be one of "the usual attachments to society." My point is precisely that social media is increasingly seen as one of the "usual attachments," particularly among younger generations.
TARP would have been signed by Obama (or McCain).

The fact that the US has enjoyed a economic boom post 2008, while the rest of the world struggled for several more years (especially Europe), can be considered evidence that it was the correct action to take at the time. The current expansion is the second longest in modern history.
I believe the compiler flag just disables the random seed - you can still use the new hasher API
I think the way that percentages were expressed in the headline was intentionally deceptive- 14% seems like a lot of inflation in 5 years! That makes for good clickbait. But the percent that is being talked about is the comparative difference between groups, per the line:

Over the past five years, millennials have seen their goods become 8.7% more expensive, Generation X 8%, and baby boomers 7.6%. This means that the price increase for millennials was 14% higher than for baby boomers.
The incentives in the USPTO process align to encourage companies to patent things they're using if for no other reason than defense against patent claims. Google may be patenting these things to ensure anyone can continue to use them (because "benevolent dictator" is the only model the US patent system really allows for).
What happened?

All you need to do is click on the little wifi icon in the status bar (or go to preferences -> network connections).
Huh? In a high-trust society, you absolutely can leave personal or business property in a shared public area, with the vague expectation it will be moved/reclaimed "soonish" (such as "before nightfall" or "within a day").

In some cases, there are posted limits: 2-hour parking; 72-hour maximum; etc.

You can also often leave temporary signs/markings (like sidewalk chalk or "garage sale"/"lost pet" posters). You can hand out flyers/coupons or solicit signatures on the sidewalks. You can monopolize a public field/court for a temporary period simply by starting to play/picnic there with friends. You can leave boxes/deliveries/garbage on sidewalks and in parking-spaces for later pick-up.

How can there be confusion that a branded scooter, which squawks when moved without authorization (just like other laptop/vehicle/shopping-cart/shoplifting security devices), is "abandoned property"?

Further, both the proprietor's needs (to recharge/inventory) and typical usage patterns mean these scooters seldom stay in one spot for more than a few hours – the same commons impact as if they were widely-owned personal scooters.

So dockless scooters look to me like an innovative use of the commons, fairly analogous to other precedents. Sure, if specific negatives are detected, and outweigh the positive until ameliorated, new rules could then be required.

But in a free, high-trust country, the default should be permissiveness until harm can be shown. It's obtuse to shoehorn something new into the category of "litter", when that's clearly not the intent of those responsible nor the practical impact.
Can I assume you're not employed in a profession that involves helping people?
I guess the question if it could be answered would be can the profits and losses of civ vs military programmes be sussed out somehow? That would shed some light on whether subsidies play a role, discounting “pollination” from skunkworks.
It’s a sign of how bad things are in the U.S. State something obvious, like you did, that jives with someone’s attachement to a political party and you get irrational responses. The polarization is palpable. People don’t seem to rationally discuss policy. It’s about defending/justifying political parties. It’s the party that matters.
There are plenty of major metropolitan areas where the salary vs cost of living make a lot more sense.

I live in one of the 25 most affluent counties in the US and just bought a brand new build 5 bedroom 3.5 bath house 2900 square feet for a little over 320K.
I did it two years ago. No regrets so far.
Because of the way US patents work, it really is a "We should file these so somebody else doesn't claim-jump them and put us in the position of defensively proving prior art" system.

As a deep-pocket company, Google can afford to file patents and has a track record of being responsible about them in the community. It makes about as much sense to be mad at DeepMind for not filing them.
I don't see why you're getting downvoted.

How many people here would have said the same thing a few years ago before the issue became more mainstream?

Interactions depend just as much on the cop(s) in question (and the bad interactions seem to depend more on the cop) as the person but the statement from the article is basically true at face value. It's always been true. That said, NYT wouldn't have said this a few years back because it wasn't a fashionable issue for folks in ivory towers acknowledged (or at least not enough of them for NYT to feel comfortable mentioning it casually) and NYT obviously does not want to rock the boat too hard among that crowd. Now that it is acceptable I can't say I mind seeing it stated so bluntly.
Eh, Facebook was a natural evolution of social networks going back to MySpace, Friendstr, SixDegrees. Each one fixing mistakes of the past and becoming the next big thing until their own mistakes caught up to them.

The one that I dismissed was Twitter. In fact I thought it was a joke when I first heard about it, something making fun of how long winded boring blog posts on services like Livejournal tended to be. I also thought Vine would be doomed to fail.
Starts to tank under trump.

Democrat doesn't miraculously fix it in 2 years. Strong republican congress in 2022.

Where have I heard this story before.
It is unfortunate that stigma around mental illness causes most people to view psychiatric hospitals as places to avoid at all cost, as they have a stigma so terrible going to one is like dying multiple deaths. After that you're 'legally' crazy (whatever the fuck that means)!

In fact, if you need one, if you are severely depressed or hallucinating, a hospital is exactly the place for you. You will most likely love it there. They can help. They can really help. Everyone gets better in the hospital. Everyone. Not "1/3 get better, 1/3 stay the same, 1/3 get worse." Everyone in that sheltered environment rapidly improves. It is a vacation for the mind.

The question then becomes staying out of the hospital. Many people come back every few years, get to know the staff quite well, etc. Others develop a plan to address mounting depression early through ongoing treatment, partial hospitalization, etc.
What parts of the film industry aren't unionized?
This is so much BS. You should actually read the history of the reasons for the involvement of the US in the WW2 theaters.

You sound like a young kid who has never actually read about history and geopolitics.

Please dude, actually read up on the involvement of the US in the secret wars in Cambodia by Kissinger, the School of the Americas, instrumental in teaching South American militaries repressive strategies that killed tens of thousands of innocents with the full support of the American government, the Iran-Contra affair, the ridiculous involvement in Vietnam.

There is an innumerably long list of atrocities commited purposely by the American government and with the silent consent of the American majority.

Seriously bro, Irak happened less than 15 years ago in a completely manufactured war and you're actually so stupid to believe that there's anything particularly worthy of American Imperalism?

You should try to be on the receiving end of the American business interests that have fueled these conflicts, lest we see what your opinion on the matter would be.
I really love that this getting started guide is "do lots of studying and practice, here are the canonical textbooks, papers, conferences, tools, and problems" instead of "spend a few hours on this superficial toy problem." I'd love to see more guides like this.
Yes. You get selective enforcement against dissidents.
And you don't get to decide you're a dissident: the method they'll use will surprise you!
The same thing happened with the first 787 examples, as well. What I read was wiring to support testing equipment that couldn't easily be removed
> I think quite a few of the hyperbolic comments

That's what you get from things like deprecating OpenGL and replacing it with a non-multiplatform alternative: bad reputation. They should ask Microsoft if it's easy to get rid of if once you have it.
Use Emacs Org Mode and REST APIs for an up-to-date stock portfolio
(b) is not stagnation, it’s feature completeness.

For example, Skype hit that very early on - you were able to make and receive voip calls of a very good quality, zeroconf, for free. It really didn’t need anything else. It just did one thing really well. That’s not stagnation.
Have to agree. It's the only flight I've been in that doesn't scream "economy".
Also similar in Berlin, though last I checked there were still quite a few whole flats available... at much higher prices. Makes me wonder if some people are just counting the fines as a cost of doing business.
This information is easy to find on-line, by searching for "cost of living". See, for instance: https://www.payscale.com/cost-of-living-calculator
I imagine that depends on how much AI researchers care about personal freedoms and easy access to 4chan. ;)
Oh, where I live they were made mandatory something like 50 years ago so I assumed they were standard in every developed country because they cost $30 a piece so why not? Much better life extension value for money than a medical checkup. I wouldn't want to live in a house where every appliance is a potential death trap. They might even pay for themselves purely in cash if they save you an appliance. Mine activated just last week when someone dropped water over the power extender contact and still proceeded to turn it on.
Articles on the features that get real use seem to suggest that people tend not to use these home assistants much, and if they do, it tends to be for music or turning on the lights: http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-echo-most-used-feature...

Which is to say, they're not getting a whole lot of usage of features you might consider to be chatbot functionality.
What's frustrating with AirBnB in Japan is AirBnB lets them lie about how many bedrooms they actually have. The excuse usually given is that Japanese count rooms differently but that is 100% provably false. As someone that's lived here 12 of the last 20 years you can see it's provably false by visiting any Japanese realtor or apartment listing site where there is zero ambiguity about the difference between 1 bedroom, 1 bedroom with a living room, dining room or both, and a 2 bedroom, or a 2 bedroom with living room and/or dining room.

This is important because of privacy. If it says 2 bedrooms it should actually have 2 bedrooms. Not a one bedroom and a living room with a sofa.

The fact that AirBnb endorses this really speaks to the integrity at AirBnb which AFAICT is fairly low (have documented lots of other similar issues with them)
I don't, but they can be among a menu of several destinations for them. Certainly not the only destinations.
> Pensions are not inherently a problem any more than any other form of retirement account is.

Sure it is. It's inherently problematic because it assumes perpetual growth of population and economy. Also, there is a difference between pensions and 401ks and IRAs. 401ks/IRAs will run out. Pensions can never run out. In other words, you can outlive your 401ks/IRAs, but you can't outlive your pension.

Or put it simply, with 401k/IRAs, you can't take out more than you put in. With pensions, you can if you live long enough. So who makes up the difference? The workers or taxpayers.
There's a lot to be said for this view, and I've reshared and highlighted your comments elsewhere.

At the same time, Google and Alphabet Inc., far-from perfect entities which I have and do criticise strongly and often, at least present a public face of learning from mistakess rather than doubling down or issueing repeated and increasingly trite and vacant apologies (say: Facebook).

This is a line Google have drawn for themselves in the sand, and our various future selves may judge them against.
Socking away 10% of your take home income for retirement is not "barely making it".

Also, do you have a 401k contribution coming out as well? I assume the $500 IRA is a Roth IRA?

By that same argument I could make $200K, sock $5000 per month away in savings and say "I only have $500 in discretionary funds each month! I'm barely making it!"
What about going all the way and using an unikernel (or something approaching one)? Statically link suitable readonly data/code into a single global address space (to make use of optimizations possible by combining binaries, as apparent in e.g. busybox, and remove the overhead of code duplication and dynamic linking, if possible even skipping some overhead with syscalls, by allowing the compiler to reduce spilling registers to stack in an effort to prevent clobbering), and just make sensitive and modifiable data unavailable to or at least not writable by other/unprivileged processes.

This would probably require some modification to GCC or LLVM, if the latter even supports building a normal Linux.
What is the relationship between "more slowly" and "in stasis or decline?"
I'd disagree. Fully funded would probably look more like 300% of what is expected. People are living longer. If healthcare is included in the pension, it is a variable cost we can't even measure in terms of future cost.

Additionally, pension have to be managed and administrated. This is pure wasted money. Every pensioner would be better off taking the money that is set aside for their part of the pool and putting it in a Vanguard index fund. When you start to withdraw, you know how much you have left and you haven't paid tons of kickbacks along the way. When there is a recession, you can scale back your withdraws until there is a recovery, etc.

Fixed benefit pensions can never be anything but a pyramid scheme. Otherwise, your pension would be more by doing what I state above because the administration is near zero. The pension funds have never done better than the S&P over any reasonable time window. Pensions will always have unnecessary overhead.
Yes, housing is extremely expensive in the Bay Area. However, consider your options before deciding that there's no way to save more. I pay $500/month for your "Car/Insurance/Gas/Parking/Phone/Internet" category (old car, cheap MVNO, don't take the car to places where they charge for parking) and $300 for food/clothing. And that's for a family of 3. I do pay a bit more than you for Rent/PGE ($2750 all told) but again, family of 3 -- we need the second bedroom (and lived in a 1-bedroom for the first two years after my son was born anyway).

I'm certainly not saying that my choices are the "right" ones, but I am saying that if you make saving for the future a high priority it's possible to do at your income level, even in the Bay Area.
I am not sure. I used to apply an external lotion Finasteride.

Maybe I will straightaway refuse if a doc prescribes Finasteride pills to me.
> Housing is largely a problem to do with interest rates and mortgages inflating the land.

Interest rates and debt impact the value of a property, but do not impact the willingness to pay (i.e. the rental market). If rates were 10%, people would still be willing to pay $3k/month for a 1 bed in san francisco. The only difference is that buyers would have to adjust their offering prices due to the additional interest expense.
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I wish this were the case, but "vacation for the mind" is not a good description for the hospitalizations I've been a party to (and have had to work to get people out of). Hospitalization is better than physical harm and is an appropriate response to an acute crisis, but our acute mental health care system in the US is very problematic.

I think it's important to be clear that there are interventions that work that precede crisis hospitalizations, and that even if hospitalization is the right call, you can improve the experience by getting people connected with a good doctor first. The belief --- not irrational --- that there's no available intervention other than psychiatric lock up is a part of the problem for some people.
Don't know about Emirates, but Etihad had two cameras available to watch on the in-flight entertainment screen (IIRC that was on 777), and quality looked so poor it reminded me of the very first 640x480 webcam I had in early 2000's.

Although that's probably regulatory stuff. Most governments don't let arbitrary airtcaft do aerial topography-grade stuff, and companies err on the side of caution.
I can't really judge how much insight can be gained from this article. It's a little short on details, and reads as much like a press release as a piece of journalism.

That said, damn are those some incredibly cool pictures. Seriously.
Overall? You may very well be right. At Google? Based on my memories of the culture there, definitely higher than that. Certainly not 100% though, agreed.
I also thought twitter was a joke until I realized most Americans are too lazy to write a blog post, or even read one.

“No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.” - Mencken (paraphrased)

http://www.thisdayinquotes.com/2011/09/no-one-ever-went-brok...