skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of this "stuff" are one-time-use items for the majority of people. I very rarely read a book for a second time nor do I rewatch television shows. When I do, reread a book or rewatch a movie, I usually end up paying for it again because I lost the original or I saw the movie in a theater.

The good thing about the digitization of this content is the fact that it will be more likely to be preserved in the long term. There are tons of books that are out of print and movies that were produced before DVDs that will never be released. This is going to be much less of an issue going forward. So, while you may need to pay for access again if you haven't watched a movie in 20 years, at least you'll be able to obtain it like you would any other movie.
The signatories of the letter mentioned in the article, which you can download here:
http://leiterreports.typepad.com/files/butler-letter-for-avi... (it's a 37KB .doc)

There were 51 by my count, but I didn't count carefully. (also that might not be the final version)
Not a great example, because that is law very specifically written to get around this (which many consider a bad law for that reason, if not others). In other words, without the very specific felony murder legislation(s), your getaway car driver would not be accountable for the murder for the very reasons quoted here.
These 3D X-rays are spectacular and really gross
"Feynman’s kitchen experiment remained unresolved until 2005, when physicists from France pieced together a theory to describe the forces at work when spaghetti...But a question remained: Could spaghetti ever be coerced to break in two?"

gotta read the article man
I don't care how it happens, but the day petrol mopeds are completely phased out will be a very happy one for me. Being woken up by a loud scooter deliverying pizza late at night is a continual annoyance. Electric mopeds presumably make little to no sound.
So if I want a non-neutral carrier, I have to go to a niche social network?

Forcing channels like Facebook to be neutral carriers only makes sense if they're a natural monopoly, which they aren't.
But you had to buy them! It's not a fair comparison.
AFAIK at least AWS Lambda has a Docker based CLI that lets you run functions locally.

I guess since the Zeit solution is based on Docker something like this should also be possible...
Adding to my prior comment - I agree that the actual experience of reading a paper book hasn't been matched too closely by ebooks (yet, to be fair). However, there are two things that ebooks do wildly improve - long books are not any heavier, and footnotes/endnotes are just way, way more consumable on a Kindle than a physical book.
> Bus.

Takes 90 minutes to do what my car can do in under 30, and I don't want to wake up yet another hour earlier.

> Subway.

Doesn't run to the area where I live; and would have to run even farther to reach the office. I suspect the NIMBYs want it like that.

> Ride-share.

I'm a miserly bachelor in an office full of respectable familypeople. None of them would dare to live within 2 zipcodes of where I live.

> Taxi.

Is shockingly expensive to use for daily commuting, moreso than financing, fueling and maintaining my own car. Plus, unless rush-hour lasts long enough, each cab will only get one commute ride per rush-hour, so there's no net decrease in traffic for commuting via cab.
Why rent out apartments at immense cost and hope someone gets caught when you can dragnet hundreds in a hotel?
Typically when you think of "investment", you are exchanging resources (typically money) for some sort of increased or improved production capacity. For example, buying a new truck so you can increase delivery capacity, or buying a new machine so you can produce more things faster.

Speculation, which is a very, very, very high percentage of all crypto transactions, is merely buying some asset with the intent of selling it later at a higher price. There's a name for this, the "Greater Fool Theory", which is so called because you hope somebody else will buy at a higher price and you won't be the fool holding it when the price declines.

It should be noted that buying stocks on the open market is more akin to speculation than investment, although historically it has provided fairly reliable returns in the aggregate over the long term. It also has the effect of providing liquidity for original investors, so that they can take their gains and invest again elsewhere, which is a trait crypto doesn't necessarily share.
>The substitution of individual ownership for a communal one in which individuals retain a stake - a real community, or at a larger scale, a democracy - is not inherently bad.

IMO it's still terrible if there is effectively only one product option. A democratic decision is just as bad as a shareholder one if it's choosing to favor a majority group over the minority (2 wolves and 1 sheep voting for dinner choices).

>outsources the generation of actual value to others

If you don't think there is value in the network, feedback mechanisms, and simplicity of using Lyft/Uber/whatever, you have completely missed why they are popular. Cabs would still dominate and would have been as popular as Lyft and Uber are now if all of the value was generated by drivers with cars. I think you probably meant to say 'outsourcing the labor' to others, which is completely different and companies have been doing that for centuries.

Labor != Value. I can go dig ditches in a yard for 10 years and not create any value.
I'm not American (or Turkish) so this is somewhat removed.

I think that Turkey's slide in to authoritarianism can be directly traced to the US' Kissinger-esque approach to diplomacy, particularly in the Middle East. I'm not saying the alternative would have been better everywhere, or even in Turkey. But... still.

There is simply no relationship between American friendship and liberalism, rule of law, protection of minorities or any other "moral" standard. The US will not downgrade it's relationship or do anything, in response to stealing an election, commiting a political purge, etc.

Turkey has never been a fully liberal democracy, with basic freedoms held to a basic democratic standard. Ironically though, at the beginning of erdogan's premiership it was pretty close, closer than it had been certainly.

As it gradually slipped into its current state, there were no consequences... not even a scholding.

Oddly, Trump's wildman diplomatic tactics that constantly and hyperbolically upgrades and degrades the US' "friendship status" other states... the inconsistency allows for flexibility.

I doubt much liberalism will result directly from Trump (it's just not something he seems to care for) but the re-write get of the rules... That will probably be permanent. It may allow the US out of its fairly constrained diplomatic policies, which (I now believe) are far too consistency and convention oriented.

Tldr... If the US had started reacting sharply when Erdogan started jailing journalists, rivals and activists....Turkey might still be a free country.
This is a interesting example, quoting from the article so more people can see it

> [Radio Rwanda] was barred from continuing to disseminate hate propaganda. This led the Hutu Power circle around President Habyarimana and his wife to found RTLM as a private radio station. RTLM became immensely popular as a young, hip alternative to the official voice of the government. It played popular music, and encouraged the public to phone in and participate in radio broadcasts. Amongst its listeners, RTLM attracted the unemployed youth and Interhamwe militia.
Looks great for basic websites but it's missing the biggest and most difficult piece of cloud infrastructure. The DATABASE!

Today you'd have to open up your cloud DB provider to the world since Zeit can't provide a list of IPs to whitelist. This is a showstopper for me unfortunately.
If I rephrased to say "you could learn enough to break into a hobby that would be both enjoyable and meaningful", would you agree with that?
SMM code from your firmware can still take over and add random latencies at the worst times.
> One year, the state literally took a chunk of money out of all bank accounts overnight

To be fair, that was 1992 so way before the euro. The problem is that ratings are easy to send down, but very hard to bring back up. Currently they are just two steps above junk, (despite having had pretty low interest until a few days before the current government swore in). Even just a single downgrading would be bad, two would lead to a massive sell and basically a disaster way worse than the Argentinian crisis.
"A stake in the system" comes with restrictions. It's hard to move around when you own a house. And there's various forms of "stake", too. I'd much rather own stocks & bonds and other instruments that I can look at in an app versus a complex bureaucratic like a house. The transaction and maintenance costs are unbelievable.
I'm looking back through this ... so .. did he ever tell her to stop?

Forget about who is the man and who is the woman in this and think about just two people. The partner, who is your student yes, but they still accept all your flirtations, sleep in the same bed with you, cuddle with you, and either don't show any signs they're uncomfortable or you're just really not socially aware and don't real them.

They graduated and then sue you for the entire, what was in your mind, "relationship."

She probably loved this guy. She probably thought he loved her, or at least felt something for her. I dunno. Are we going to now require contracts before going into any relationship that might involve a power dynamic?
I think this is the "missing link" in the new transportation ecosystem. Right now, alternative transport exists in a sort of grey zone where if you ride on roads drivers are angry about how you're taking their space, and if you ride on sidewalks people are angry about how you're taking their space.

mopeds look enough like a motorbike and are already accepted enough that a high enough concentration of them could go a long way towards taking back the road as a true multi-use space, rather than a car exclusive space that other users sometimes get to encroach onto. mopeds and bicycles and jump scooters can all coexist in the same space happily. mopeds and cars can coexist happily.
> Filing status and dependent information is a small fraction of the information content of a tax return, so having you file just that would itself be simpler than asking you to file a tax return

True, although that was just one example. Another example is the credit for education expenses. Here are the requirements for the American Opportunity Credit, the best one:

* Be pursuing a degree or other recognized education credential

* Be enrolled at least half time for at least one academic period beginning in the tax year

* Not have finished the first four years of higher education at the beginning of the tax year

* Not have claimed the AOTC or the former Hope credit for more than four tax years

* Not have a felony drug conviction at the end of the tax year

The IRS + the schools could theoretically figure out only three of those five requirements. I guess four if all states reported felony convictions to the IRS.

If you don't meet those requirements, there is another one available with different rules for which expenses qualify.

This is not an uncommon tax situation! I helped a lot of lower/middle-class taxpayers prepare their returns through a free IRS service a few years ago, and this came up all the time.

> once you've filed it once, they could prepopulate it and require updated filings of that information only if changes occurred

But changes occur all the time. So the information would not be accurate for long, and you have no way of knowing when it has become wrong. In the case of the education credits, a common occurrence is that the student ceases to be a dependent of the parent (an issue which depends on how much support the parent gives the child, something the IRS has no way of knowing), meaning who is entitled to the credits changes.

Even for simpler things, like which of your children qualify for the child tax credit, changes are not extremely rare.

It's not that hard to guess when changes might have happened based on additional information. But this basically requires the IRS to reimplement TurboTax, or at least a crappy version of it that kicks people out of scope whenever things are not trivial. Without those types of inquiries I think the confidence that a given return is correct would be extremely low, absent a serious simplification of the tax code.

Edit in response to your edit:

> Something “like TurboTax” that also precompleted information that was tied to forms that are already filed directly by third parties with the IRS would be essentially equivalent to pre-filled forms for a very large number of filers.

Yeah, that would be awesome! I definitely agree that a "TurboTax lite" that was synced with the government info and allowed you to click through a bunch of screens confirming various things would be a pretty good experience. Although I actually think the real TurboTax is pretty close to this for simple situations, because they can import your information from major payroll providers, brokerages, etc.
LHC physicists embrace brute-force approach to particle hunt
I mean, if you think about it, any time you run any installer, whether via brew install, apt-get install, or an .exe or .msi, you're effectively running someone else's unknown code on your system, often as a superuser (e.g. with sudo apt-get install). Is there a significant difference here? At least in this case you could potentially download the shell file and read it before you run it, unlike with a binary executable.

Am I way off base here?
> I can't tell if you're being serious or tongue-in-cheek, but I like this comment nonetheless.

Thanks! I started by interpreting the tool as a serious and important feature of putting styling where UIs don't allow it. Then I did a quick stream-of-consciousness advocacy for fitting the feature in all the places where it isn't allowed.

The results are obviously bad, which is reassuring.
For the duration of the warm phase (i.e.: while the process is running), we ascertain healthfulness via `SYN` packets as a baseline.

Because you give us your code under the constraint that it will expose data over a port, we have a much better safety baseline than stock schedulers, that operate under the assumption that the process describe by `CMD` is a black box.

We will describe this in more detail in coming weeks. One of our priorities is to minimize the cognitive load on the developer necessary to run a healthy service at scale.
He makes a lot of generalizing, and his track record is pretty poor. He said many years ago America is in a stagnation. hardly. The stagnation is in countries such as Turkey. not America. The S&P 500 is at record highs, Tesla and Facebook and AI technology..all sorts of cool stuff and innovation..quite the opposite of stagnation. Consumer spending at record highs too, so evidently people are still buying. Maybe instead of buying knick-knacks and do-dads they are buying services and subscriptions instead.
Dumb was really a poor choice of words, I basically wanted to say that the rules were incredibly simple and even so you get this complex behavior that comes out of it.

I remember the first time I played HALO and the guys talked to each other, and it wasn't just random sound effects they actually did the thing they were talking about. If the Elite guy said to "flank him" they would try to flank you or whatever, it was very cool.
“I am of course very supportive of what Title IX and the #MeToo movement are trying to do, of their efforts to confront and to prevent abuses, for which they also seek some sort of justice,” Professor Davis wrote in an email. “But it’s for that very reason that it’s so disappointing when this incredible energy for justice is twisted and turned against itself, which is what many of us believe is happening in this case.”

Given the context, this may be the most blatantly hypocritical thing I've ever seen in print.

I'm hoping someone can shed some light on this that indicates there's more to this than what there appears to be.
> Only take on debt or issue bonds in your own currency.

That means that the borrower would control how much he owed, as governments of nations with their own national currency are able to devalue their currency.

Understandingly, potential lenders do frown upon that possibility.

Similarly, lenders don't accept judicial arbitration in the jurisdiction that the lender controls.
Chess and Roguelike = Chogue
Comics. Outdated MVP
You may not get your wish. My personal most-hated source of urban noise is unmuffled motorcycles that can be heard for miles, but it turns out these exist on purpose: ICE bikes with stock mufflers have a reasonable noise level, but bikers take them off they think it makes them safer ("loud pipes save lives"). It might turn out that we have the technology to make personal vehicles whisper quiet, but then people refuse to use it.
Consumers largely dispose of waste through municipal pickup which is already well overlooked. Setting up oversight for industrial disposal by a bazillion corporate entities in this theoretical shareconomy of appliances would be an enormous burden on the already undercapable county and state EPA offices. It would probably all just get shipped out of the country anyway.

If you think modern refrigerators are wasteful I'd ask you to prove it. The design choices they make are manufacturing trade offs—not simply cutting corners to make it break. A refrigerator might only last 10 years, but its a net gain if it cost 1/10 the energy to build, uses 50% of the power, never leaks refrigerant and uses a small ammount.
this wont be popular but I always felt like docker was a step backwards in order to regroup and take a giant leap forward.

I went from right clicking and deploying from visual studio to SSH and configuring dockerfiles, docker compose, even nginx.conf to loadbalance.

You do get more bang for the buck with such setup but its too much work on infrastructure and less time for development.

edit:
add kubernetes to it, although AKS and GKE being free lessens the burden its still too much for a software dev like me.
It's even more subtle than that :)

Renting the exact same stuff for the same period of time still gives more of one kind of freedom: flexibility. You can usually more easily get rid of that stuff, and you're usually less responsible for it if it breaks, etc. Yes, there's usually a higher financial cost for that, which is less freedom in another sense.

But the reality is that renting often means just paying for the time that you're using an item, instead of paying for it forever even if your utilization window is small. So jumping in an uber for 20 mins a day instead of owning a car 24/7, or renting a movie for 20% of the price to buy it, which might make sense if you're only going to watch it once or twice, etc.
My biggest concern with serverless is pricing. How does it fare when compared to regular Docker hosting and vps hosting?
The importance of being noisy
Do you have any other chicago-related datasets available?
> The fourth amendment absolutely applies to hotel rooms.

Hotel Security aren't the federal government. The 4th amendment? C'mon.
I was avoiding mentioning this, not just because of the questionable legality in some counties, but rather because it's more of a workaround. All Amazon has to do is sufficiently alter the encryption mechanisms for new books.

Same thing goes with Spotify. Tools exist to strip the encryption from the offline cache (they are either encrypted mp3 or vorbis, don't remember), but it's a workaround. I suspect it's why they killed off libspotify, which sucked because I used that to make a hackjob spotify client for RPi...
ah, I didnt know that. I assume you mean this? https://github.com/lambci/docker-lambda
Hmmmmmmm, an interesting question!

I think the biggest plus point is, if you are seated, and facing in the direction of travel, then the acceleration/deceleration issue doesn't apply. You then have an experience where you get to where you need to go much faster, because the bus is better able to keep up with traffic.

Also, regarding two of your points:

> I imagine they are very quiet…

Actually, the answer may surprise you! My experience has been that the electric buses can be louder than their diesel equivalents. I expect this is because that, for diesel buses, the noisiest components are all in one place (normally the very back of the bus) with soundproofing material in place between the engine compartment and you). Electric busses (at least the ones I've experienced) have motors spread all around you, with less sound-dampening material in the way.

> …and don't smell like exhaust.

Exhaust smell is not something I've particularly noticed from the remaining diesel busses. I expect that is due to three reasons: (1) The emissions standards placed on California-registered diesel vehicles; (2) the maintenance regime in place; (3) the fact that, when I leave the bus, I end up going towards the front (and away from the exhaust pipe). Although, in places that I've experienced which don't have (1) and (2), you are right!
I don’t think that’s likely or desirable. VPCs and the ability to make a service that’s not in the public internet are hugely valuable from a security standpoint. And Ansible, Terraform, etc are great for automation and managing configuration and architecture. It’s unwise to discard everything that came before you when hopping in the shiny new bandwagon. Even if it is the future, last generations tools can still teach you a lot.
Revoultion eats its own children
The US dollar is backed by the taxing power of the United States and the productivity of the US economy. Our economic decisions have always stood and fallen on their own merits. Those merits include the world's largest consumer market and the world's putative strongest military. Foreign desire to export to the US and thereby acquire dollar denominated assets is a function of those merits. So long as that situation holds, foreigners will always desire to swap their non-interest bearing reserves for interest bearing treasuries, at any nominal positive interest rate.

So long as enough oil is denominated in dollars to satisfy US demand for imports, it doesn't really matter what currency other countries pay. A eurodollar crunch doesn't have any appreciable effect on US domestic prices and neither will a eurodollar glut. Petrodollars are eurodollars. [1]

To cut right into the meat of the issue, US issued currency will remain valuable until economic and political collapse destroy US consumer markets and productivity. Foreign asset holders cannot cause that by refusing to show up at treasury auctions. It would take a serious civil war, a world war where the mainland USA wasn't left untouched, or a similar multi-megadeath level catastrophe. And even then it wouldn't be impossible for the US to pull through as a going concern, as it were.

[1]https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2016/01/25/2151037/petrodollars-...
For high traffic routes you could electrify the road and need even less batteries.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/apr/12/worlds-f...
Update to Strava Privacy Zones Functionality
Digital holography of optically-trapped aerosol particles
Don't wear businesslike attire when bicycling in hot weather. You pack it, instead, and ride at a comfortable pace instead of doing speed-racer stuff. Pack a thermos of ice water to drink from occasionally and you won't even break a sweat.

Or use an e-bike so you don't have to pedal as hard.

I live in the Boston area and I see a ton of people in business attire riding bikes.
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