skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been told by people that have been involved with lobbying that it's way cheaper than you'd expect. Almost a million in the right congressional races can buy you a lot of stalling in congress.

Also, IMHO, few people have messed up US tax policy like Grover Norquist. Even if you don't agree with that particular humble opinion, he is, at the very least, a figure with his own agenda to push. He's far from an unbiased source.
That is a really smart way to play it, because while it is astronomically unlikely, it's possible the answer is "woops, we charted the wrong data there, here's the actual results" and we enter a beautiful new world of room temperature superconductivity.

I get kind of exhausted of the typical response to Hot New Shit In Science, which hasn't changed in about four hundred years: outright, arrogant dismissal.
Really cool stuff.

I have few friends who are pharmacists maybe I could develop something with them. :)
I wonder how stats like these will impact home prices in 20 years. Will it be a buyer's market because there will be lots of boomers downsizing/deceasing, and not nearly as many buyers flush with cash?
Anecdata: Have been there multiple times for treatment of a severely handicapped child. Found them to be the best run hospital I have ever visited by far, and I have more than one severely handicapped child. I see a lot of hospitals every year.

Not to say this didn't happen. The story seems surprisingly well reported and sourced. If it's true I hope the hammer falls on the people responsible. But anyone who has been on the business end of a journalist knows that accurate reportage is exceptionally rare.
As much as I argue that fuel/distance is the correct way to measure things, given that the vast majority of people keep the distance they travel fixed as the amount of fuel and its cost fluctuates, it is a bit easier to do certain math with the distance/fuel metric.

If I get 25 mpg and have a 12 gallon tank, that's 300 miles per tank. The nice thing about this is that it's a fixed value with simple, understandable units that more or less doesn't change as long as I keep the same car, presumably for many years. It helps me plan trips—I know that I regularly visit family who live 110 miles away, so anything with less than 220 miles to the tank forces me to refuel any time I see them… which affects my plans. America being less dense than Europe might partially explain why mpg is so popular here. A trip of 110 miles (or 200, 300) is not unusual in America. I remember making a series of trips to pick up a family member in college some 250 miles away, and that’s because she went to one of the closer options!

The same problem (averaging reciprocals) shows up in investment. If you get 10% growth this year and 10% decline next year, the average is not (1.1 + 0.9)/2 = 1.0 = 0% growth, it is 2/(1/1.1 + 1/0.9) = 0.99 = 1% decline.
Exactly, it's more strict....

I apologize if I didn't spell that out. To work in this country you need to provide more identification then you need to vote. At the very least, I think it should be equivalent. In reality, I think at the very least a government issued photo ID is required. We're talking about the integrity of an election after all.
You seem to be arguing that the request was made, received, and fulfilled as a joke. I find this to be not a compelling difference.
Let's not cling to the importance of names.
The goats that allow thunder is Vili and Ve.
Wolves are in the back, connected to eyes.
Birds are in front, executive -- attention and memory.
Don't rely on wolves and birds -- vultures or snakes.
What your preference and psychological type?
There are several, that's lost harmony among more and many.
Put it this way: If you were to average 60 mph over 2 miles, you would travel those two miles in 2 minutes.

However, if you've already driven the first mile at 30 mph, it's taken you two minutes to drive it. In order to then average 60 mph over the full two miles, you'd have to travel the remaining mile in 0 seconds -- in zero time.
First of all, no self-employed taxpayer ("contractor income via 1099") could have an accurate return prepared by the IRS because the IRS won't know their expenses.

But secondly there's a lot more to taxes than just income.

For example:
- Filing status (married, head of household, etc.)
- Education credits
- Child credits
- Personal exemptions (income adjustment reduced to zero, but you still need to calculate them to determine qualification for various things)

These things affect most taxpayers and require information that is not reported to the IRS. The IRS could make "worst-case" assumptions (single, no kids, etc) thus requiring everyone to revise their returns, or they could guess and invite tax fraud and inadvertent errors.

So that's a reason why not.
"You're basically anthropomorphizing, thinking that there just has to be a way for humans to screw this resource up because humans are just that icky and gross"

I said nothing of the sort. You are, perhaps, confusing me with another poster.

"There's no spacetime equivalent"

Nonsense. The obvious example is emitted radiation, though any type of energy, matter or field byproduct might fit the bill.
New theory paints more sophisticated picture of ancient Easter Island
Secretly Handmade for CIA: Pottery from Poland
Threadripper and Epyc are essentially multi-socket-in-a-package. There is an inter-processor link which is analogous to Intel QPI or DMI, it just runs between dies within a single socket instead of dies in separate sockets.

Threadripper and Epyc present themselves as 2 or 4 separate NUMA nodes depending on model. Spreading a single task across multiple NUMA nodes usually hurts performance significantly (often slower than just running it on a single node using fewer threads), but you can run 2/4 separate tasks at pretty much full speed.

The new WX processors are a little weird because two of the NUMA nodes have no direct access to RAM at all, they have to ask the other 2 dies to do it for them and pass it over.
Any politician who even hints at getting rid of Social Security will find them self unelected quickly. Old people disproportionately vote. It won’t go away.

The real question is: will I be able to retire on what little SS will provide, and the answer is likely no, given how little it is nominally, plus inflation.
Rural is the new urban [VID]
It absolutely did make a difference to the cost. Probably only a few cents, but definitely a difference. Die area is money. Microcontrollers are extremely cost-optimized and people will buy exactly as much capability as they need which is why you can still buy things like the PIC10F200 with 16 bytes of RAM (Furby has 128 bytes).
90s web was a weird weird place and this was a truly disgusting project in many ways. One of my earliest memories of something turning into a "meme", there were t-shirts being sold referencing it at one point.
Is anyone making hub motors for cars? The technology is probably workable now.
I hear that online, but from what I read is that you just split half of your community property. Where's the disconnect?

Also, in my state you don't split assets people had before going into the marriage. Maybe that's just here though.
i see where you're coming from.

i think using that framework the ideal constraint would be something like 1.2X or maybe at the very most 1.5X. this leads to overpaid janitors and underpaid execs, which is the desired result of the policy. it sucks having to find a new janitor because things get dirty in the meantime, but there are a billion execs out there and most of them should be doing very little other than keeping the ship stable most of the time.

holding people's money safely is not an occupation for people who can afford to treat money carelessly in their personal lives.

i know that these are "stupid" and petty things, but i think little petty things like this add up into a corporate culture if you have enough of them. the corporate culture of this hypothetical bank would do a lot to add to its branding and also its credibility.

honestly i wouldn't even be proposing extreme measures like these (or advocating that the execs should be doing very little) if i didn't think it was necessary for the concept, which i've now put far too much effort into :p
Having a browser open uses approximately 0% CPU though.

Streaming would be a better example.
Maybe it’s been answered though I didn’t see it addressed, but couldn’t the noise issue simply be some sort of copy paste error in excel?
I did wonder if the "answer" is a diamond-encrusted dumbphone.

Maybe a less socially-wasteful solution would be to create an OLPC-like model, where you give your kid a phone and simultaneously signal that you have enough wealth to donate a phone to a kid in need elsewhere.

If I weren't already running a couple early-stage startups, I would seriously pursue this — for the good of kids in the US, and kids elsewhere.
Surprising good.
The Future of Healthcare Logistics–Delivery by Drone [VID]
This cracked me up - watching the Narnia TV series as a kid they were made out to be so good, I would try to imagine what those semi-transparent cubes could possibly taste like. However, my reaction when I finally tasted them I think was opposite to what it seems you're alluding to: I think the anticipation and the immense respect I had for Lewis and Narnia in general made it so that they tasted better to me than they otherwise would have!
That assumes you do the same millage but the people might drive further if they get 30mpg rather than 10mpg making the 30-60 saving greater than the 10-12. Indeed if you assume economics 101 that people consume more if the good is cheaper, that would be the case.
Of course. But if you have to avoid the MGM and Cesar's hotels like the plague.
Conferences...
An Android Spy App Left 1.7M Passwords and Nude Photos Exposed to Hackers
An ex-girlfriend of mine worked for the company that works on the latest iterations of Furby. She wrote a lot of the lines that the Furby speaks, if I recall correctly. She loved to sit in on the voice recording sessions and hear the actors speak the lines. One of the voice actors was rather prominent and had done a lot of recognizable voices from various cartoons.
Because it makes for a miserable user experience.
There should be an economic system set up where all workers get all the fruit of their labor rather than a fraction of it. Communism failed, but there has got to be another way.
Matching noise in plots isn't proof of fraud, but it's something that is so suspicious that it changes the game from "convince me that this paper is fraudulent" to "convince me that this paper isn't fraud." In that light, other worrisome elements of the situation are problematic:

* Claiming one of the holy grail properties of modern physics is achievable with rather pedestrian materials.

* The methodology section is apparently on the vague side. Sort of on the order of “we prepared silver nanoparticles using standard techniques, then incorporated them into into a gold matrix.”

* Response to the announcement of "your data presentation has serious errors" is "we won't share our raw data to confirm."
Open-source styling for React Native components
>A waste of time? When I train a dog, I want the dog to respond to a specific input, for instance saying the word "sit". I'm not going to stand there trying different words until the dog's ass hits the ground.

And that’s what the dog does...a specific input (knocking). The dog never knocks to be let in/out when my mom isn’t on the patio to respond. When my mom ignores the knock, the dog doesn’t change to barking or another input to get attention, the dog waits a period of time for the desired response and then knocks again (a little harder).

It would appear to me the dog uses the same philosophy as you when you train a dog, when training my parents...a standardization and consistency in input/desired output.
Yes, it's from 2016. The above Cloudflare post is from 30 Mar 2016 so I linked The Tor Projects response from 31 Mar 2016.
New SaaS tool for bulk creation of content for any social media – Please review
in sf, the civic center (heart of the city) farmers market has a lot of farms catering to asian and lower income folks. the prices are pretty comparable to new may wah. think $1 bags of a couple pounds of produce.

the alemany farmers market is also similar in terms of cost and availability of produce. not too hard to avoid the ferry building and fort mason type hipster farmers markets :) not as easy as the markets in terms of hours/access, but...
For technical people it used to be the various conferences (as opposed to journals) where you wanted to publish papers. They were peer reviewed (so some level of scrutiny pre-publication) and they definitely helped with credibility both as an organization and as an individual.
Craigslist Seller Lures, Robs Buyer with BB Gun: Cops
In this case I think it's moot, because by Borges' original description there are 25^(1 312 000) books in the Library, much more than the number of atoms in the observable Universe. So I think (and hope) the site isn't actually storing anything.
One would hope that the correlated noise was a problem in a plot command. Two observations.
1) The correlated noise in that plot seems obvious. If one was to fake data, why make it that obvious?
2) If it was a plotting error, that would be easy to check and to respond about.
You must be confusing me with someone else; I explicitly said that “neither of us can know for sure.”.
I'm really surprised that this isn't builtin to more NLEs. I've tried this in the past, but using SVN (long long ago). At CG/post houses with custom pipeline tools, they have an easy way to version up builtin. With NLEs, it's all up to the editor duplicating timelines. However, with literal EDLs, it's hard with modern editing as so much has to be simplified to satisfy the EDL. I think AE has a version up tool (memory is fuzzy). Even tried using Time Machine backups to roll back to prior versions. All sorts of hacks that I really feel should be built in to software that is known for multiple revisions.
I think this is it for a lot of people.

I played insane amounts of video games as a kid. Getting up at 5am before school just to play more Age of Empires. But once as an adult I had other stuff to do that fulfilled my need to build and accomplish things, I stopped playing more or less naturally, except the occasional social game with a far away friend.

Kids have almost zero avenues to build or accomplish things. Their parents don't care or give them meaningful stuff to work on or tools to build stuff with. They might as well be under house arrest.

They have no way of seeing their friends except in-game because they must get their parents to drive them everywhere. Even if they drove to their friends house, they have nothing to do with them except play games.

We fail children everywhere by disallowing them from having meaningful stuff to do.
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There are some banks doing this as well. Check out Radius bank for example - online only and unlimited ATM fee rebates
It's a pretty well-documented phenomenon in the west.
Is it possible to buy a cheap chemical kit which allows testing for these toxic compounds?
Fantastic summary. Worth more than the book, which I did read.
employee ownership is a great way to organize.

https://rady.ucsd.edu/centers/beyster/employee-ownership/
You're right. I forgot I was on my work VPN.
This has more to do with classist beliefs than it does with dehumanization. The origin of those words relate to the aristocracy using the french/latin forms, while those poor farmers used the orginal english/germanic forms. Notice what the french words are for a pig or oxen/steer.

At this point you might be right, but the origin is about wanting to fit in with the new french overlords.
OK, it does look like a Sunplus SPC81A, like they said. Memory map, interrupts, I/O registers all match.

http://www.ic72.com/pdf_file/-/428557.pdf

FWIW though, it doesn't loo like page one is an alias of page zero, but is instead unmapped. That's not the biggest deal in the world to the zero page the fixed stack page given that this is probably a totally different mask set than a regular 6502. I wonder if you can underrun the stack into the HW registers or if their stack pointer is only 7 bits?
In my limited experience with CNNs/MLPs, it is more of a tipping point. There is a very small knee point in the tradeoff curve - below this point you get no accuracy, within the point some tradeoffs, and above it very little increase in accuracy for more compression.
There's a plot point in one of the sequels to The Three Body Problem like this. Certain spacetime-warping propulsion technologies turn out to leave behind a large mark in spacetime which isn't directly harmful, but is easily detectable even at stellar distances. Because of the Dark Forest theory, such a mark is taken as a giveaway of a careless and technologically dangerous civilization, which causes other advanced civilizations to immediately try to kill the civilization that made the mark before it can advance further or launch its own attacks.
My impression is that most advocates want the flat part which reduces taxes on high incomes and then are pretty hand wavy about deductions.
Actually, studies have been done and shown that isn't the case.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/2/17642868/robots-turn-off-b...
maybe by buying inflation indexed bonds on a rolling basis. nab something like 1-2% interest on the customers' money in an extremely safe investment vehicle, then return most of that to the customer after paying off infrastructure costs. (does this work? i have no idea whatsoever)
For those wondering like I was after reading this comment, both the anandtech and phoronix test setups are patched for Spectre.
I would actually argue that that is a pretty fair description of quality Turkish delights. I've had some rose and some mastic flavoured Turkish delights imported from Turkey and this is more or less exactly how I would describe them.

They are simple confections but they are oh so good.
As I understand it, this has to do with who was asking for a thing and what they wanted.

The upper class spoke French and when they asked for beouf, they wanted meat, not a cow. Likewise when they asked for poulet, they wanted a cooked chicken, not a live one.

The lower classes spoke German and gave us cū (kuh in modern German) for a cow and cīceb (Küchlein in modern German) for chicken.

As English grew from both of these roots, the different words remained.
Some background on Brian Jacques:

> He is known for the very descriptive style of his novels, which emphasize sound, smell, taste, gravity, balance, temperature, touch, and kinesthetics, not just visual sensations. His work gained acclaim when Alan Durband, his former English teacher (who also taught Paul McCartney and George Harrison), showed it to his (Durband's) own publisher without telling Jacques. Durband told his publishers: "This is the finest children's tale I've ever read, and you'd be foolish not to publish it". Soon after, Jacques was summoned to London to meet with the publishers, who gave him a contract to write the next five books in the series.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Jacques
If I could get 1% of end users to use google for their stupid questions, it would be a miracle.
Which, if you're a Baby Boomer, is a rather more serious issue. It's one thing not to have saved much of anything for retirement in your 20s. It's another not to have saved anything by your 50s or--for that matter--if you're already retired.
I think its interesting to see fintechs trying to bypass the traditional banking model entirely. They are trying to move up the chain with a UX advantage while larger players are trying to defend themselves. Square and Venmo both offer debit cards which covers the majority of banking needs for an average person.
I suppose you could add the soylent green crackers to the list. (not that I'd want to eat them :-)
> Screen readers don't do very well with this

Badly-implemented screen readers don't do very well with this. The Unicode Standard provides a Normalization Form for Compatibility Decomposition (NFKD / NFKC) that screen readers definitely should adopt in their Unicode implementation [1].

[1] http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr15/
I was extremely disappointed when I first tried Turkish Delight.
I have a strange craving for Strupo. The liquor derived from capers that they drink on Isla Verde in The Simpsons.
We're in the weeds here, but 1099-INT are also used for interest on money-market savings accounts - my guess is a lot of that 42 million filers do not have stock trades. I think W2s and 1099-INTs for money-market savings accounts still qualify as quite boring.

However, I still claim that even such boring filers would benefit from the IRS sending out "yea/nay" forms. It removes a lot of the stress and mystery from the process.
Yes, this is a major con! Luckily my job involves a lot of R&D for the government, so UX and customer adoption isn't as important, though it still is important.

Like other commenters have said, you need a balance. A workplace where everyone does not understand what the customer wants is crazy. A workplace where (almost) everyone does not understand any technical details of how to build what the customer wants is also crazy.

Basically, you need enough people with enough domain knowledge to avoid this situation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKorP55Aqvg
How intermittent breaks in interaction improve collective intelligence