skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with you that this is a route which deserves investigation. My question is, how difficult is it to make something which works "even in extreme conditions"? I would guess that it's really difficult, particularly when one takes into account deterioration (asphalt needs to be maintained constantly, these things probably would be too) and monitoring.

That said, I don't know much about this space so maybe I'm just overestimating the difficulty here.
> the banks did redeposit much of the money back with the Fed

They didn't have to "redeposit" it. The money the Fed prints goes straight into the banks' accounts at the Fed when the Fed uses it to buy bonds from the banks. The reason all that money is still in those accounts is because the banks did nothing at all, instead of increasing their outstanding loans, which was what the Fed predicted they would do (and which was the reason for the QE in the first place).
No one has an issue with WikiLeaks keeping some things secret. The issue is when they clearly support specific sides in political issues and strategically leak and manipulate information to support only that one side, while disparaging another. This isn't how a transparent, journalistic, "information wants to be free" organization operates. That's how an intelligence organization operates.

The concern is that Assange has turned WikiLeaks into his own personal intelligence agency to achieve his political goals. And these WikiLeaks-leaks from the past few years seem to confirm much of that concern. Assange constantly uses language in these DMs indicating intent to influence political situations to his favor, and the subtle and nuanced ways they can affect and control narratives.

I'm not really convinced Assange and WikiLeaks are puppets of the Russian government, but I do think Assange has let the power and prestige go to his head, and has now rejected any pretense of neutrality and humanitarianism. WikiLeaks is now Assange's personal machine to change global geopolitics in a direction he likes; nothing more. Who knows if that was his intent from the start or if it's a case of "die a hero or live along enough to see yourself become the villain". They should really change their name, either way.
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But I bet cityfolk have a reeeeeeaally different notion of "road" than is meant here.

Yes, they mean : no throughfare usable by a regular vehicle including high clearance 4wd, including private roads, tracks etc.

In the Absoroka here there are "inholdings" (I think they're the remnants of old mining claims) that the owners access via helicopter. There have been a few court cases about access over the years e.g. https://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/lawsuit-seeks-to-build...
Bad management. Ppl promoted to thier incompetence.
This is why cities are gonna have to regulate the hell out of autonomous vehicles to reduce congestion.

The induced demand from affordable autonomous cars is going to be incredible, as the set of available drivers expands to include those below 16, the elderly currently unable to drive, and the unlicensed.

If everyone starts sending their kid to school via their own autonomous car its going to be a disaster.

A much better idea that doesn't run into issues of limited road space is of course is autonomous public transit.
Oh sure, it's 115 straight line miles, but in my opinion that is still extremely close and populated.

In many other countries it's nothing to get 1000 straight-line miles from a McDonalds, or gas station, or other "development"
That isn't true. Domain registrars in the US are free to terminate service or even seize your domain for any reason they like. Domain registrars are not bound by US free speech protections.

This is, for example, what happened to the contemptible Daily Stormer. There is no practical difference between a major domain registrar like GoDaddy or Google and a social media website like Facebook in terms of speech, except that at least if Google Domains shuts you down you can hypothetically (unless they seize/freeze the domain, which they have done) move to another registrar and the process is "transparent" for your viewers relative to being banned from Facebook...at least until they all run you off, with the most notorious example being The Daily Stormer again.
Well, driving or at least the ability to drive is part of a great many jobs. Want to work in a warehouse? Sure, you don't need a DL to drive a forklift but if you were hiring people to drive forklifts wouldn't you see a DL as a plus?

Automation or not, tech boom or not, the ability to drive is still a part of most people's job description. Basically all the trades won't touch someone who cannot drive if called upon. Want to work in resource extraction (forestry, fishing etc) then you need a DL. Want to be a cop? Want to be a grad student studying melting glaciers in northern BC? Want an entry-level job on a film set? These jobs require the ability to navigate a vehicle in non-standard conditions, well beyond what automation promises us anytime soon. Don't limit your options.

Want to go backcountry skiing? Want to go rock climbing? Windsurfing? Kayaking? These things only happen when someone drives the car with all the stuff to some location well off the normal road. We cannot all afford helicopters to haul our stuff from the highway.
And the prices on the SSD don't just get you an off-the-shelf Samsung SSD from Amazon, we're talking the fastest SSDs on the market by an absolutely massive margin.

https://www.laptopmag.com/articles/2018-macbook-pro-benchmar...
Audiovisual media of value has value.

Audiovisual media that I choose to donate my bandwidth towards downloading may have value.

Audiovisual media in and of itself has no value.

Audiovisual media that automatically loads, thus slowing down the loading of everything else, has negative value.
Universities and foundations, etc.

https://arxiv.org/help/support/faq#2B

https://confluence.cornell.edu/display/arxivpub/arXiv+Budget...
Five years for a Mac isn't all that long. You're still getting software support!
That CNN article he mentions does take 30 seconds to finish loading... However, you can start reading the article in less than a second. Actual perceived load time is nearly instant.

For the actual end-user perspective, this article is mostly bullshit.
> In a Twitter-style world, I am surprised if a large corporation does not have someone available 24x7 to speak on behalf of the company.

Even when they do, commenting on a pending lawsuit almost unequivocally requires conference with Legal to assess whether it's sane for them to make any statement at all.

Corporate counsel is most certainly not sitting around on Sunday waiting for opportunities to consult on press releases about tort claims.
Define “unfair”?
!8.7 is not a long distance if you are in good shape. I regularly do 12-18 mile hikes during the weekend, sometimes with significant elevation gain.
On $7.4 trillion in volume. So about 0.2%.
You just used “maybe” eight times to make an argument without having to support it in the slightest. Maybe you’re right, or maybe you’re just bristling at an argument made well and strongly supported without a leg to stand on. Maybe if you bothered to support your claims, or even make them real claims instead of “maybes” it would be easier to take your non-arguments seriously.

Of course it would also be easier to take you seriously if ad blockers and script managers and cookie sweepers weren’t so incredibly popular, along with VPNs. Every site begging people for money or to stop using an ad-blocker is a nail in your “point’s” coffin.
(Can't edit anymore, but finally found the relevant Wikipedia link for the phenomenon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox)
N. Korea provided just 1 dog tag with 55 sets of war remains
This model only has two Thunderbolt ports, both on one side, and severely gimped internals.
Partially, but a lot of folks really need trucks for professional use.
Anna Anthropy's book about ZZT (and really about the culture of game development that thrived around the game) is very good. https://bossfightbooks.com/products/zzt-by-anna-anthropy
My read on why writing a book is seductive is more cynical: most people believe that writing a book is an achievement and signifies something about the writer -- depth of thought and feeling, intelligence, vague specialness, etc. So writing a book seems like a fine way to transform an unspecial life into a special one.

What's even better: from the outside, anyone can write a book. We all tell stories, most of us can read and write, and those are the only technical requirements. By contrast, when you're 50 you know there's just no viable path to say becoming a surgeon or painting like the old masters or finally writing that symphony. The skill barriers are just too obvious and high. But you can start writing a book today, and indisputably, you'll be writing a book.
VIRAL YOUTUBE MASHUP
Well, I used it to make a donation to Krita that comes with free automatic desktop updates.
It'd be interesting to see a service that automated this process for you. Ie if you select your flight it displays a list of ATC streams for each airspace you pass through and allows you to easily switch between said streams.
Leapfrogging-from-the-front-using-a-trampoline-and-taking-the-trampoline-with-you?
For ordinary execution, yes, but was it known that the processor warms up the AVX units based on speculated branches?
I can only guess the reasons for this weren't the rational engineering-motivated ones.

I picture a meeting of a dozen folks, a powerpoint slide and statistics that show the two models (the four-USB-C version next to this "budget" single-port version). I picture a sort of an argument/pitch/"presentation" that suggests that a high percentage of folks -- consumers (or whatever they are called by marketing people) -- in the "Undecided" camp would lean to the more expensive version. Budgetary swing voters if you will who wouldn't accept a one-port world.

After that I picture some sort of final whitepaper (or whatever it's called), finally approved by someone in jeans who's higher up in the hierarchy of decision-making.

Behold - the Apple Product Lifecycle <tm>
It does to me.

The US constitutional right to Free Speech only applies to government actions, not to private individuals or companies. To use someone else's analogy: if you come into my house and talk shit, I have every right to ask you to leave, and you don't have constitutional protection for that. Yet, "Free Speech" is constantly invoked when people are banned from privately-owned sites such as Facebook and Twitter. It doesn't even apply to these sites.

Free Speech is also applied inconsistently. Pornography is protected Free Speech under the US Constitution. Yet Facebook's Nipple Ban is usually not even mentioned when people talk about Free Speech on Facebook. Their right to remove pornographic content from their site is not questioned, but their right to remove someone's hate-filled rant is. This is clearly inconsistent.
We've replaced out Mac minis with Intel NUCs. It really go to the point we just wouldn't spend the money on something that so outdated and crippled.
That's no different from paying for a real newspaper subscription though.

But I guess you could say that you are paying for delivery instead.
That's very accusatory. I'm just trying to make a nice experience for users.

As I said the GIF version would use more bandwidth, so if browsers force me to use GIFs instead of an HTML5 videos it's making things worse for the user by that metric.

If you want to browse an internet without images (or GIFS, or HTML5 gifs) I think you should be able to but I don't think that's what most people, including myself, want.

Aside from that though video autoplaying is part of the spec. I think that browsers not following specs properly has made the web a much worse place overall. Browser incompatibility has significantly hindered the web as an application platform.
> A much better idea that doesn't run into issues of limited road space is of course is autonomous public transit.

I suspect you could argue that for metros and trains it already is largely automated. Surely the scheduling is at the very least supported by computer algorithms, or perhaps even automatically planned and then only manually overridden by human elements as needed?
San Francisco Considers Ban on New Office Cafeterias
Yeah, we know that A.I. is an overused term nowadays. But a lot of our techniques are taken straight out of AAAI proceedings. The problem is too hard to not take advantage of the latest techniques.
> We are talking apples and toilet paper. One is public infrastructure run by a pseudo independent non-profit, the other a page on a private website.

ICANN may be the top-level administrator, but the actual domain registrars are normal private corporations like GoDaddy and Google. What makes Google's domain registration service public infrastructure but not their video sharing service?

The scale point the sibling commenter made also drives to the heart of the issue - we can agree that I should be free to ban whoever I want on my private forum, but Facebook exists at a completely different scale that makes a qualitative difference in their impact on speech and society. The practical effect of banning someone or some type of speech on my forum is negligible. The practical effect of banning someone or some type of speech on Facebook is enormous. By giving Facebook that power (which they technically have, even if they aren't using it much now), you are handing them incredible power, maybe more power than any organization has ever had in history.
For me, it was working at Boeing on critical flight control systems. Knowing how everything worked (and how safe everything was) took all the fear out of it.
Looks like the turbo button needs to be in the on position for this one: 0.05 FPS in a qemu KVM on my old P8600... I presume the game loop uses the hardware clock :P

btw my base64 util needed lower case -d
Human drivers aren't really aware of the capacity or credentials of those directing traffic. Source: Sometimes I direct traffic. I'm part of a volunteer organization, taking orders from another volunteer organization, often eventually, yes, getting marching orders from police. People who are wearing vests may or may not be cops, construction workers, or volunteers like myself who have little to no oversight preventing them from putting the vest on and walking out into a busy street when they shouldn't.

At an event I was at recently, traffic control involved at least four different organizations, which had their own gear and their own attire, so you really can't count on everyone you see on the road looking the same either.

Additionally in terms of lack of credentials, there's a certification process for directing traffic (I've renewed mine twice), but there's a pretty non-zero chance that the person who has directed you around a construction site actually bothered to get that, and you'll probably never know that either.

Your other mistake is believing human drivers actually do what people directing them tell them to. Source: Sometimes I try to direct traffic.
Heh, the same game gets played in retail commissions.

Didn't hit numbers for the month? Buy a bunch of your own product, wait a few days until the next cycle starts, then return it all.
The driver was actually watching "The Voice" on their phone.
How swappable is the underlying DB from RocksDB to something else? Faust seems awesome, but I imagine in many corporate settings having multiple DB vendors in Production can be difficult.
I've given up checking the manuscript proofs, it's a waste of time. The real paper as it was intended is available on arXiv.
Side note, probably not applicable, but keep in mind wearing a baseball cap or having certain hair styles works against the noise cancelling seal.
Potentially controversial opinion: shadowing bindings is a bad idea.
This story is a duplicate of Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does. -Groucho Marx sometime between the 19th and 20th centuries.

I hope not everybody has a book in them, that sounds mildly annoying and not sure if someone could cough that up on demand, unless they need to book it to an appointment that they booked. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ C’est la vie.

Disclaimer: everything should be taken reactively literally, no exceptions... straight to the gallows without a cigarette for a passive-aggressive send-off.
Or maybe it's really easy to have all the individual decisions make sense, but still arrive at a really insensible complete decision. Like a local maxima.

It's easy to be smart, make smart decisions and end up somewhere dumb.
This is in part why I'm developing https://html.brow.sh - a purely text-based web, rendered by a fast remote modern browser.
In my opinion, Scheme is not a good first-language to learn for beginners or for anyone getting into programming. Why?

Because if you take an introductory CS course taught in Scheme, and you decide the field isn't for you, then you have essentially wasted a semester learning something you'll never use.

Compare this to Python, which is general enough to transfer to other domains (with its numerous libraries) and is way easier to pick up. In addition, its near resemblance to English is friendlier to approach. I'm sure there are some plots out there showing the number of companies which use Python versus Scheme.

This was the intuition, I believe, of why Berkeley for its 61A course switched from using Scheme as its primary language to using mostly Python and Scheme as a secondary language. (You still learn enough Scheme in the course to be able to build a Python interpreter for it).

TL;DR - the language does matter; the first one shapes how one views CS; save Scheme as a later language to be used to shape mental models.
The SE is not the top end iPhone either. He asked for the “iPhone SE” of MacBooks.
Everyone who looks at their front page, apparently.
I know we're supposed to downvote short jokes, but so help me I like this one.
There was something of a game to identify a volume that was in the Doheney library's restricted list at USC. It took a bit of social engineering and the knowledge of a title in order to get the librarian to even let you know if the volume was or was not part of the collection.

That said, libraries that take their archival mission seriously (as all good libraries do) will always have to restrict access to volumes that are at risk of damage or theft for moral, political, or value reasons.
SMH. No.

A girl can be a "bro" or a "dude" just as much as a guy.

A group of girls can be "guys".

English language is peculiar!

I am just amazed nobody Godwin'd this thing so far.
>Yes, you are. You just tell yourself that you are not.

Eeesh. Any able-bodied person can walk a marathon, given sufficient motivation. You might be able to run parts of it, but you can't run a marathon through sheer force of will if you haven't done the training.

A book is technically just a bunch of bound pages, so anyone can write one in the loosest sense of the word. I can just type the word "beige" 80,000 times and call it a day. Writing a book that someone will actually read past the first chapter requires a certain level of skill. The author isn't telling people not to try - his closing paragraph makes that clear - but he's warning people of the amount of work and practice involved in writing something that people want to read.

To quote the great Ronnie Coleman, "everybody wanna to be a bodybuilder, but ain't nobody wanna lift no heavy-ass weight". The number of people who like the idea of being an author is vastly greater than the number of people willing to learn how to write well. If you enjoy the process of writing, then by all means write for your own pleasure. If you harbour dreams of being the next J.K. Rowling, you're likely to be sorely disappointed.
Federal Judge: Albuquerque's Asset Forfeiture is Unconstitutional
I don't recall any credible cases where someone was charged by a search and rescue organization. Some other organizations might (AMR has recently started showing up at calls and charging for the kind of basic first aid that SAR traditionally has provided for free), but in general it's SAR policy not to charge even when the person involved made some really bone-headed decisions.

See for example https://www.reddit.com/r/searchandrescue/comments/8gv3n3/tho...

If you get air-ambulanced, yes, you'll probably end up with a hefty bill for that and your insurance company probably has a clause exempting them from paying it. REACH (https://reachair.com/membership/) and AirMedCare (https://www.airmedcarenetwork.com/) both provide affordable insurance for this.

But if it's CHP or air national guard that picks you up, you shouldn't expect to get a bill for it.

Pilots need flight hours and ground SAR personnel need regular training. There are a handful of areas where SAR might get a bit over-worked now and again, but usually more calls are better than no calls. Yes, the rescues incur some cost, but a significant amount of that cost is covered by the SAR volunteers themselves.

And yes, it is a way to "meet some cool folks". Obviously I don't mean go out and call for a rescue if you don't need one, but talk to any SAR volunteer and they'll almost universally say the same thing: they'd rather people call sooner than later, and they're happy to walk out with them.

The call-outs that get really expensive are the ones where somebody disappears and SAR has got no damn clue where they went. Those can stretch on for several days before the search is suspended, can consume multiple air resources, and increases the risk of injury for volunteers. In many of those cases, the search would've ended successfully far earlier if someone involved had called as soon as they thought there was trouble.
A great complement to that would also be to use Jupyter, whose notebooks are similarly interactive and not dead like typing into a blank terminal or IDE.
Schools. Chromebooks are now an option and the iPad just isn't a laptop.

We were buyers of a lot of Mac minis, iMacs, and laptops, but folks are starting to ask for Surfaces and the Intel NUCs are a good deal. At this point, the graphics arts people might get Windows boxes if Apple doesn't get their crap together as Adobe runs just fine either way. That would be a true shame.
Odd fact: VMS is to WNT as HAL is to IBM.
The point of using learning styles should never be to pigeonhole someone into a limited form of data consumption. It needs to used to teach them build a bridge from where they are, to where they need to be. It should be about teaching the student how to process any type of information from any type of source. In order to do that, we need to know how they process, so they can build a system that allows them the best use of whatever it is they're learning.

The brain needs to be progressively challenged just like any muscle and achieving a state of mild confusion while consuming new information does just that.
Huh, the "McFarthest" spot happens to be in the Standing Rock reservation.
If "impersonating a government agency" doesn't breach their Community Standards, their Community Standards need updating.
Vancouver's skytrain light rail is fully automated (and thus achieves crazy short headways). Buses however aren't elevated from traffic and so of course they currently require a driver. If we had autonomous buses then a transit system would lower its labour costs, but I don't know what other potential gains there could be.
Unlike so many "modern" systems, these systems are designed to let you to put all of your eggs in one basket if you want to, and never even break a sweat! Their built-in level of reliability (they're almost bullet-proof) generally allows this, too. You may very well have legitimate reasons for not doing it, though, including regulatory requirements and such.
Definitely :) See? Right up their now wrecked alley.
Have you checked the direction of Sony's stock lately?