skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I too would prefer to see a federal VAT, but that would not receive Norquist's blessing any more than this has. Anyway, this decision leaves the door very much open for Congress to step in and fix things; it just throws out the nexus rule created by the Court in the Quill decision. One would think that Republicans would celebrate the reversal of an example of "legislating from the bench".
Try sending money around the world and you will get to know how much manual work and paperwork is involved. Banks don't live in this century yet and if multiple countries are involved it gets worse.
I'm not 100% sure which side you are taking, but I think you are saying all common crypto is backdoored. That seems like a giant logical leap with absolutely no hints as to why you landed at that conclusion based on your quote.
Same. I generally try Docker first. With multi-stage builds, you can reduce container build times by a lot (after your first build), as opposed to reprovisioning an entire vm every time you need to nuke your dev environment and start from a fresh image.
> 3. taking blood - why do I need a doctor visit.

Pricing this out, it's almost cheaper and easier to just get an order online that you can have handled at Quest and pay out of pocket than it is to deal with the hoop-jumping and co-pays that insurance requires. That's what I've started doing, because I know what I need done, and that way it takes me about 15 minutes on a lunch break, as opposed to eating up part of two days, scheduling an appointment to convince a doctor to order it and then having to go to a lab to actually get it done.

The other one that enrages me is the difficulty of getting drugs for common ailments that aren't sold over-the-counter. If I have bronchitis or strep, a zithromax pack will knock it out immediately, or if I get into poison ivy badly, I'm going to need some prednisone, but I can't just buy those, I need to have the gatekeeper sign off. I can probably go down to the pet store and buy them for my dog, though.
I've used YAML for years, and yeah, there's a lot of warts, but I love it for small(ish) manually edited configuration files.
I generally keep it simple and it works.
But ... chromium is not embedded in the OS?
I mean a Wendy's double is $5, $3 is just crazy cheap.
Problems with the Ring Pro
Why wait for future generations? Some of these seem pretty horrific and worthy of derision in the here and now.

I think the biggest problem I see in looking at this trend is the utter inauthenticity of the resulting building. It fails to preserve the original building and it doesn't allow a new building to express itself.

I see value in preserving or renovating the old, I see value in creating something new. I even think a real fusion of old and new could be great. But from what I see this does none of those things. This seems more akin to putting lipstick on a pig.

But perhaps future generations will come to love the charm of this juxtaposition. Perhaps new construction will create new freestanding facades so that the real building can be swapped out easily without changing the frontage. And at the very least I can find amusement in the building of these abominations.
There's no paperwork. None. I'm working as an offshore company domiciled in a "tax haven"....

So that paperwork is one of the hassles that we save. Sending payment is one-click. Then it's done and there's no possible undoing.

Bank payments can be denied, reversed, routed strangely, delayed or something else. Bitcoin is more binary; either it works instantly or it fails and you know it. There's not so much doubt about it. Though high transaction fees for a few weeks last year did introduce more uncertainty, that is true.

Anecdote: Out of hundreds of small monthly salary payments I've sent out, I've only once had a big problem. What happened there was that the payee said she hadn't got it, but the blockchain said it was sent and confirmed.

Of course I certainly trust the blockchain to tell me the truth. More than I trust a bank. Who wouldn't?

I think the payee's computer had probably been malware hacked. (So I told her how to clean her PC and then I sent the same payment again as a one-off favor and that was ok, no further trouble and we still work together today).
I grew up with this misapprehension (thanks to seeing it aged 6 or so) that Monty Python & The Holy Grail was a historical documentary. If that wasn’t laughing in horror and derision at witch hunts, I don’t know what is.

Limited just to architecture, I seem to recall quite a few derisory laughs at school about how toilets used to be designed, too.
This is really corrupt, simply disgusting.
Regarding (a), the approximation can be made as good as you want. However you are right on (b) it gets exponentially slow.
Exfiltrating data from user browser with battery charging events
Even though this is a fast food, its more customizable, more of a "Counter" burger IMHO.
I mean they still could have just not linked accounts and made everyone make a new account just for Sony. Really only Epic to blame here.
> Beware arguments of the form "I can't believe the Government hasn't banned..."

Also be wary of people claiming, "don't worry, no prosecutor would read the law that way."

If it's part of the law, it's a matter of time before a prosecutor will use it. And if it's so unreasonable that no prosecutor should read it that way, the law should say exactly that in black and white.
How Popular Science is shedding its male-geek image
yeah that ain't gunna do shit to fix bart. (seriously though, the problems w/ mass transit, at least here in the bay area, are not simply "not enough money".)
I just thought it was an interesting factoid and a good segue to the LWN article link.
Just imagine how fast this could spread food borne illnesses. Unless the meat grinder is cleaned between each burger, that's a huge potential risk. Just a little e. coli on the outside of the beef, and each blade will be contaminated.

And as anyone who's worked fast food knows, the higher tech the food prep device, the more delicate it is. Cooking beef results in grease, which gets everywhere. You can put gaskets, physical barriers etc etc, and grease particles will coat everything. Then things will break down.

Add in robotic mandolines for the tomatos/onions, the necessary refrigeration of all the components and you've got something that won't be robust, reliable, or efficient.

Then there's tamper resistance. This thing will need to be hermetically sealed to keep people from doing the usual fsckery that happens in kiosks etc.

And the economics looks "challenging." From the article, it looks like it stocks 30 buns. 30 burgers at $6 is $180 in revenue before someone needs to restock it. And restock the beef. And make sure the artisanal beef deliveries are handled properly. Sounds like a prep cook... Then you'll need cashiers, and people to clean tables, and restrooms, and all the other accoutrements of restaurants.

Yeah, it looks cool, and people do like to see their food cooked. The novelty will attract people at first. Then the lines will deter them. Restaurants are all about volume. And at $6 a burger, you'll need to crank them out fast.
SIMD! For anyone curious about the performance impact of this feature and a real-world implementation, check out the PR adding support to the regex library: https://github.com/rust-lang/regex/pull/456
Stuff like compression algorithms, some codecs (not all use GPU), some high-performance parsers, some encryption stuff (e.g. openssl), some databases (often column stores, also redis I think), language VMs etc use SIMD.

More generally SIMD is useful when you are repetitively performing the same instruction on a long stream of data but you don't want to send it over to the GPU because you don't want to incur the many order of magnitude slowdown of sending stuff back and forth to another chip or you can't rely on a GPU being there (e.g. embedded), or it's just overkill.
It looks like a high quality burger made fast.
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i finished Andrew Ng's deep learning specialization with a perfect score and attending Data Scientist nano degree on udacity. I've a bachelor's in Applied Mathematics and will start Masters in Computers Science from Geogia tech - online this fall.
I did the same thing this week actually. I called because I stopped getting cell service at my house. Then they told me I couldn't connect to WIFI calling because I have a Pixel. Then tried to sell me DirectTV while not resolving my cell service issue.

I switched to ProjectFI. Works great so far because I am basically always on WIFI, I realize this solution wont work for everyone.
Because the market by itself is just the law of the jungle, it has no moral compass. The market has to be encouraged towards a good outcome for humanity.
Because we as humans will never escape the subconscious constraints and biases of a pack ordered society, it's woven into our very being.
Growth in Retiring Baby Boomers Strains U.S. Entitlement Programs
Not really disenfranchised. You don't have to sell to someone in another state if you don't want to.

The laws of various states place many restrictions and requirements on businesses who want to sell to their citizens. This is just another one of those.
Restaurants fail because of 1) poor location, 2) undercapitalization 3) poor QSC (quality/service/cleanliness).
Somehow my post was scrambled (I blame cosmic rays).

If I go by train I expect to be able to work (to compensate for the stress of missing a connection or being late). I can easily listen to podcasts in my car and in much better condition than in the train (plus the fact that 99% of the time I'll be at the office on time).

All in all I don't want to listen to podcasts but I'd rather to listen to podcasts in my car on my way to work than sitting in one of the new and upgraded train seats which don't allow working with a laptop.

Besides, listening to podcasts with a headphone in the train is a no-no because I need to crank up the volume.
When English borrows words from other languages, it tends to keep them as close to their original pronunciation as the average English speaker can wrap their tongue around, and if the original word was written in a Roman alphabet, to not change the spelling at all.

So when pronouncing an unfamiliar English word, speakers look for markers and patterns in the spelling that indicate what language the word is borrowed from (a process that starts with shearing off or reducing standard prefixes and suffixes.) Only after determining a source language is the pronunciation attempted. This happens mostly subconsciously, and is used as a marker of social class.

http://zompist.com/spell.html

edit: I'm excepting the notorious British hatred of pronouncing recent French borrowings in a French way, "herb" "valet" etc. The relationship between French and English has an enormous amount of history and death behind it.

Also, something like 80% of English words are borrowed, but the other 20% make up 90% of utterances.
Reading up an static vs dynamic dispatch may help - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_dispatch.

Essentially Box<Foo> is static dispatch. You know at compile time which exact methods you are going to call. Box<dyn Foo> is dynamic dispatch. Since Foo is a trait, at compile time you won't know which methods are called, it depends on the type of the object passed in (as long is it implements the Foo trait).
I did not cross over from Software Engineering, but did transition from Engineering to Finance.

I would suggest understanding what part of Finance is the most interesting to you. Are you interested in Technical Analysis (i.e focusing on characteristics of the market as opposed to characteristics of the company) or do you find Fundamental Analysis more interesting (i.e interested in the core business of a company and their published financials)?

If you are interested in Technical Analysis, I would suggest taking a few courses online to understand trading strategies. If Fundamental Analysis is more appealing, I would focus on taking courses in Accounting.

Once you have a foundation in investment strategies, try producing content on Quantopian.com - build a portfolio and search for positions at firms.

If you have a strong enough interest, a firm will pick you up.
Sleep researcher explains science behind ghost and alien sightings
Isn't such deal called a bribe in normal countries?
>Interviews are for selling yourself.

Sales skills are my weakness and as you said, they don't need help turning me down. So best to just avoid situations where sales skills are needed. What are some approaches that don't need it?

>Take a very active role in deciding what career you want.

If you're telling me not to browse job ads, and also not go with recruiters, can you elaborate on "take a very active role"?

If you mean that I should use my network, I'm trying. None of my colleagues want to reply to my message anymore. And my dire financial situation is making it hard to give something to them first.
It's very simple how it would be handled:

(1) very large organizations with retail over a wide area as a core business focus would handle relations with taxing jurisdictions directly as a central function.

(2) medium scale organizations would outsource tax compliance to specialized vendors that would handle it.

(3) very small organizations would either do the same as medium orgs (assuming vendors handle them) or just not sell into many jurisdictions.
Usually you need to do some cleanup first. Abort_ip being outside critical section prevents kernel from restarting this cleanup code.
Is this for only physical products? What about digital downloads and software services?
Maybe.

A first good step would be if the billion dollar company would try to come up to the standard of the non profit.
I haven't seen such a chart, but I don't know of any burger restaurant that grinds a la minute - not at any price point.
How do you find this?
Chaos parenting
A few reasons:

1. Because it gets people on their system, who will then buy more games when the fad does eventually die out (which let's be clear won't be anytime soon). If someone playing Fortnite on PC asks their XBoX friends to download and play with them, now a bridge has been formed between the Fortnite only PC player and the XBoX player. It's only a few conversations away from "Hey, I got a 4K TV, let me get an XBoX so that I can keep playing Fortnite and all these other games with my friends."

2. Because it garners good will. Within the last few years, more and more companies are realizing that doing good by the consumer can still be profitable. Sony's the dominant platform now, but that can change within a year. If Microsoft is over here saying that their games are going to be backwards compatible forever and the consumer knows, through history, that Microsoft allows you to play with your friends no matter where they play, that's a substantial incentive to get the next XBoX over the next Playstation.

3. Because, and this is the simplest reason, why not? The work is already done, all Epic has to do is flip the switch. It requires no extra work on Sony's end, just willingness to allow their console to talk to other consoles. The way this is going, this is going to be net profit negative in the long run, with more people jumping to XBoX if they know Microsoft plays well with others.
My biggest source of procrastination is Hacker News!
They can be simulated on classical computers, but in exponential time. In general, you need 2^n bits to represent n qubits.

You can see this in the case of a basic quantum gate, the hadamard gate:

H(a) produces a qubit with equal probably of being 1 or 0 if observed; H(H(a)) will always return the original value of A. Doing this to an entangled vector of qubits, performing another transform, then hadamard again produces a quantum circuit that takes an impractical number of classical bits to simulate.
No he didn't. He bet the S&P500 would outperform a fund of funds. That's a colossal difference in meaning.
Wait? What? You can't be serious? The market will sort "what is a worthwhile education"?

Why not let the market sort out legislation? Or court cases? Or child custody?

This is a pretty sad statement of your personal values if you're serious.
You're right; I should've written the second thing. Too late to change it now, but I would if I could do it without causing confusion.
Opera sneaks advertising into the omnibar
FYI: The "Mitchell" quoted above and the "Kyle" mentioned above are the same dog.
That page doesn't appear to factor in filing costs, which run up to $5000/year.

Also, I wouldn't generally classify it as "a little more work", since in many cases the old system could be hard-coded and the new system requires reworking the checkout flow to capture the full mailing address and pass it through an external API before calculating the transaction total.
It's alien when you're on the inside too.
Even worse, I've noticed in USA you seem to classify "white" as a race, which is absurd.
Canada? Switzerland?

Better examples aren't as easy to come by as cynics think. I think the problem they see is that it's worse than it was ten years ago, rather than that it's worse than most other places.
>>I would expect, generally, that if a company is going to spend tens of billions on an acquisition, a few tens of millions on marketing material, "citizen groups", "studies", third-party editorials, etc. would be par for the course; it's pure bad business to do otherwise.

OK, but Google, AMZN, APPL and MSFT (the other side of the equation) can buy AT&T with their pocket change. Obviously outspend them by a huge margin in any campaign. So either AT&T is wayyyy more motivated or they have an edge in this debate. Investments in x area? Jobs?
we are going to have to somehow subsidize the recycling of waste

Our recycling would be worth a lot more if we could train consumers to stop throwing junk in the recycling. Supposedly, junk in the recycling was a big part of the crash in the value of recycled material, and China's subsequent refusal to take more.

Maybe if it's no longer something we can ship off to "far away" and forget about, people will begin to care enough to sort their recycling out better.
Hard to do that with vegetables as per here.
Big Trouble at 3nm
It also says it was referred to the Privacy and Consumer Protection committee. As the changes kill the 'consumer protection' aspect perhaps they can be unamended in that committee.
Sure, and I agree that many products aren't built like they once were (with or without survivorship bias, as well as the ability to fix older products is way easier than newer products) but, the cost of metal gears versus plastic gears, for instance, was much much higher. (now with Metal Injection molding, the prices would be closer, but the MiM are still more expensive.)

For better or worse, people are almost always going to choose cheaper products.
Do you have any source for that? Would be interested to read more.
[If the theory is true ...] The machine has 26 dimensions because this is a 26 dimensional machine. The difference is that in 3 dimensions the size is about a few inches, in the "time" dimension the size is a few years and in the other dimensions are very very small (I don't remember the actual guess, because nobody is sure, ¿10E-100inches?)

So for everyday calculations you can use the 3+1 dimensions and ignore the others. For calculations about the effects in tiny elementary particles the other dimensions are important.

Imagine that you are living in the surface of a long garden hose. Is it a 1 dimensional word or a 2 dimensional word?
I'm strongly supportive of the LVT, but I'm not sure it can be the only tax strategy for every locality in a large and extremely heterogeneous country. Not every locality is seeing rapid appreciation in real estate values.
> Why not let the market sort out legislation?

We do. What do you think “money = speech” is?
There is no rule in English that says a pronoun cannot be both singular and plural. Here's a simple example:

"Which of you thinks you are the smartest?"

I used "you" as both singular and plural in that sentence, and no one would blink an eye at it.

"They" is used the same way as "you", as either a singular or plural pronoun depending on the context. This was the case in English for centuries, until some prescriptivist grammarians decided they didn't like it, each for their own reasons.

BTW, do you really think that last sentence would be improved by saying "each for his or her own reasons"?

The modern resurgence of singular "they" is just returning English to what was common and correct usage before the prescriptivists hijacked the language.

https://www.google.com/search?q=singular+they+history

https://stroppyeditor.wordpress.com/2015/04/21/everything-yo...
Totally. If you already feel like you're in a space where everything is riding on you, it's not exactly appealing to expand that responsibility. If you felt freer, you may be willing to take on that burden initially.
>Fixed-route 19th-20th century public transportation networks are inefficient because most of the vehicles are pretty empty most of the time. This makes these systems expensive on a passenger-per-seat-mile basis. Not to mention the colossal waste of people's time spent trying to accommodate their journeys to those fixed routes

You know what else sits empty most of the time? Highways.

Ok, I was being snarky. Couldn’t resist. Snark aside, this is not an insurmountable problem with public transit. The Vancouver SkyTrain operates on the assumption that frequent, automated, short trains are better than longer less frequent ones. Headways are about 90 seconds during peak commute hours and scale with demand.

> Example: LA's Metro system is subsidized to the tune of about 50 cents per passenger seat/mile, or was as of 2009

Hong Kong’s turns a profit. And who said transit systems have to turn a profit anyway? Just like our roads, they are provided for public benefit.

A large amount of transit money is spent building, operating and maintaining a dedicated transit right of way, needed to make any sort of rapid transit work.
Facadism happens due to economics.

The historic building is far too small for what's needed in the location now. The building can't be brought up to modern standards with any sort of rational budget. So we have adaptive reuse - wildly popular in many areas such as the historic docks and warehouses in London, disused steel mills, etc

Facadism allows you to keep a great street level architecture while dramatically increasing the density and utility of the area. Useful in London, where you couldn't build up until very recently, but especially in North American cities where there are very few old buildings since they aren't that old and the cities were dramatically smaller than they are today.

So accept facadism or widespread annihilation of historic fabric.
Bacteria isn't always particularly visible, and that's the part you have to worry about. I'm curious how they keep the meat and other ingredients chilled in those transparent tubes, especially if sunlight is anywhere near them.
You literally said you're Chinese, in one of the comment a month ago.
The lack of upstream bandwidth offered by cable providers almost seems deliberate. (I.e. a disinterest in improving the upstream capabilities of docsis standards, as well as offering pitiful upstream bandwidth in their plans.)
A friend of mine is a researcher in water quality, I asked him what the primary source of microplastics was and his answer surprised me: textiles.

Apparently things like fleece shed small plastic fibres constantly every time they're washed, and those fibers make up the bulk of most microplastics.
If you have the resources to proactively keep your data up-to-date, then a lookup API is trivial. But it also doesn't begin to address remittance, which is by far a bigger burden.
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