skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe I'll try it in real life someday, but I've tried manual in some sim games (Richard Burns Rally and Assetto Corsa, racing wheel/pedals + oculus setup) and it wasn't more fun, it was just a distracting chore. And that's not even having to use a clutch pedal, which would make it even worse.
OK, I've never driven an EV.

Although I've mellowed a lot, what I love about manual transmissions is the ability to instantly ramp torque. It's especially useful for extreme turns. Do EVs have so much torque that it's not necessary?
Healthcare is not a free market. It’s a collection of cartels with price controls.

Things like healthcare networks were illegal before the Supreme Court redefined monopoly, and are now swallowing up healthcare delivery.

CVS essentially controls drug distribution.

The AMA is a trade guild that restricts the supply of doctors. A radiologist makes $1M a year because there are only a limited number of new ones minted each year.

ISPs are dangerous but nothing close to as awful as healthcare.
Top 15 relaxing music i have ever heard. Must watch
Learning to drive stick is still a useful skill if you want to operate heavy trucks or ride motorcycles, neither of which tend to have an automatic transmission. It’s not an option that I would want to go away.

Also, I might have used valet parking once in my life. Handing my car over to someone who can’t drive stick is something I’m willing to live without—especially when you remember that many car thieves can’t drive stick, either ;)
while I applaud comparison shopping, My regular PSA is any extension you put in browser has a clear-text view of your content on ALL websites. Be careful with these extensions, especially the closed source ones!
why the heck are you married?

"Some people are bigger than society. Most of us are not. For most of us, society’s rules are our rules, and as you and your person walk down your blue balance beam, you can feel the walking space melt away around you. It’s time to make The Decision."
That’s where I stopped reading, too.
Could it be that one of you is looking at the young age bracket (=people who likely finished university in the past few years) and the other at all ages?
I've heard part of the reason automatics caught on more in America is because Americans had more relative buying power, so manuals being a little bit cheaper wasn't a big deal. Same for better dryers, bigger houses, bigger cars.
Then why is college/healthcare/RXs cheaper in Europe where there is more government involvement? Seems like we’ve tried the free market approach and it’s failed us miserably—healthcare costs us 2-3x as much for worse results compared to other developed countries. Why can’t we just do what’s working for every other developed country?
Did you try using Drive instead of Overdrive?
These guys have been around with the same story for the last 5 years.

https://www.colorado.edu/today/2013/09/18/solid-state-batter...
Ah I remember going on cuil back then. Just read up on why they shut down and this is appalling: (from Wikipedia)

>... on the morning of September 17, 2010 "employees were told about Cuil's demise [...] and the servers were taken offline five hours later." Laid-off employees were told they would not be paid.
Tweet-Toot: Building a Bot for Mastodon Using Python
Teredo is dead.
likewise, I am planning to cancel prim this year after the subscription runs out.
It takes 20 lines to reproduce the bug minimally, and relies on a confluence of code-generator bugs. I believe most fuzzers would take a considerable amount of time to find a bug like this...

How are you suggesting a team on a very large project find this elsewise?
At least returns are super easy to make
We haven't left the 1920's in terms of using drug law to "clean up" "undesirables".
I've heard that it's because when automatics came out, Americans had the extra buying power to not care that automatics were more expensive.
To add to that point, because the government guarantees things that it has no control over, it means the businesses in these industries have the best risk/reward ratio possible: no risk for unlimited upside, because the risk is taken care of by taxpayers.
Not at all.

There's only one good reason; Psychedelics make people question their existence and therefore, their social situation as well. The dictators don't like that.

Non-psychedelic drugs like opiates are banned to keep people in the mountains from defending their lands using opium money. I know, iv seen it done.
ah nevermind too much monies
But then why do it in the first place? If you want to have the optionality to constantly plan, reassess, and communicate why would you bind yourself into a legal agreement that limits your ability to do that?
Or... if they hadn't tried to expand into "absolutely everything", you'd be buying from Walmart right now. Obviously you can second guess any single decision of theirs and try to spin that as "The Reason" Amazon is looking less dominant.

I'm saying that no, that's silly. They're less dominant because they're seeing significant competition, and the stuff you perceive as "worse" is the inevitable result of them having to squeeze on margins or expand into higher-hanging-fruit regions of the market.

And we're all richer for it. Don't buy from Amazon, that's fine. But don't expect to live in a world where you get someone else who can dominate a market like they did, either.
I lived in the Marshall Islands for two years. AMA.

My current thoughts are that of all countries to adopt crypto, MI makes little sense. Only on the main island do people have cell phones. Smart phones are even less common. Internet is a rare commodity. On the outer island, they barely have a reliable mail system. Electricity is pretty much non existent. They get their power by using solar panels to charge car batteries. They use those to power tvs and such. But internet and phone's, etc, are completely non existent on the outer islands.
That being said, some islands already have a "ledger", where the people themselves never actually have money, they just earn "credits" and can make orders with them. The ledger is mostly a trust based system with the "lord". So a public, immutable ledger here would be cool, but they lack the culture and technology to have that everywhere.
What are you referring to? Common law marriage? That’s only valid in 8 states and DC (California is not one of those states, FYI).

Edit: Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Montana, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, and the District of Columbia are the only US districts where one can enter into a common law marriage today. Such marriages are, of course, recognized by other states, but you won’t end up “accidentally” married by doing nothing in New York, for instance.
Not sure why this is being downvoted. Photoshop has been scriptable in JavaScript since at least 2003

https://www.adobe.com/devnet/photoshop/scripting.html
Any examples?

BTW, back in the 90s there were a ton of free sites, no ads. Mainly hobbyist sites etc. No reason that still can't happen.
Some cars have valet mode nowadays: https://media.chevrolet.com/media/us/en/chevrolet/news.detai...
To add to the list of programmers making money- Evan You, creator of VueJS, makes around $11,000 on Patreon. The creator of the CSS library Bulma makes several hundred dollars, and the Quasar Framework makes a couple thousand.
> everyone loved Amazon... they had no desire to look at the competition

That's literally the definition of a lack of competition. Everyone loved Amazon because they were cheaper and faster and better. Even inside the tech microcosm, no one makes a purchasing decision based on "love".
This is one of those moments where citing a source (that experiment) would be incredibly useful...
> It's perfectly reasonable for the baseline of a marriage contract to be shared income and a reasonable time to adjust to the loss of shared income should you get divorced

You are positing a right without a responsibility. Why should a spouse with no earning power be given a free pass on having obligations?

The only answer I would readily accept is that one partner is responsible for earning and the other is responsible for children, but outside that the situation is hard to justify.

> How does your spouse get back on their feet now?

Claiming that being married disqualifies someone from the workforce is a relic of an era that is long past. In the absence of some hefty commitment (ie, children) it isn't true.
The data on Wikipedia is out of date though it cites oecd.org. Go straight to oecd.org for the correct data.

(It's not good that Wikipedia copies data like that. If only we had decent transclusion capabilities on the web.)
It's like sixty miles. It takes 90 minutes without traffic.
Google the Dutch-American Friendship Treaty. It makes it trivial for American entrepreneurs to move to NL
The aftermath produced a lost decade for European economies
and helped lead to the rise of anti-establishment political
movements here and abroad.

I was visiting family in Hawaii during the 1st Christmas after the financial crisis started. Guess what? The beach chairs around the pools at the Waikiki area hotels were packed with guests. Every single one of them. Note I went because family is there, and stayed with them.

Granted, some guests were probably there because they already had reservations made before the shtf moment came. Or maybe some there were just vacationing at Waikiki as they downgraded their vacation plan to more moderate level, instead of going to Maldives or something.

But the point is the rich were far less impacted by the crisis. And when the crisis slowly faded away, the rich swooped in and accumulated more wealth. Like all the foreclosed homes in US being bought up by rich folks to be flipped, or worse, bought to be rented out.

The rich were barely impacted by the crisis, and the crisis just turned into an opportunity for the rich to accumulate more wealth more easily.
Next: All you need to do to make the next billion $ movie is your imagination, literally (and a 100m$ helium cooled MRI machine, and 25$ worth of AWS credits).
I can't find anything anymore. I was looking for Fitbit straps and the genuine ones were many pages in.
No idea why this article takes the view it does on LTE based on 1 device? ... We do low power data loggers on 3G and now just starting doing LTE, and power usage is really good for LTE compared to 3G. We aren't rechargeable (though we do have options for that), and we do 3+ years depending on the scenario. We have 1000s of devices in the field and have been doing this for quite a number of years. LTE is going to let us do more for the same life span, or the same for a longer lifespan.
From what I have observed, many people do not, which would explain how they talk about their legs killing them. I don't like driving in heavy traffic, but I don't like it any more in an automatic car.
Actually we definitely need to go there, but cost regulations doesn't requires micromanagement of price controls. We already have a decent working example of some form of central control in the form of the fed bond rates; this is no different. Considering the fact that these are mostly public institutions, there should be a touch more public control in terms of the costs, because the end result of not controlling the costs centrally is a type of competition that we see now, which is to say universities taking on more and more debt for new buildings and other bullshit, knowing that they can account for the burden of that debt on tuition increases and unnecessary.

This is not a hard problem and it's vastly different than central planning with respect to prices of toilet paper or other stuff that shouldn't be centrally planned. Don't conflate these contexts and assume that they're all the same with respect to price regulations, because they're not. It's either lazy or intentionally disingenuous on your part to do so.

Fostering competition while ensuring that students are not taken advantage of is equally as complex if not more so than centralized cost regulation in the form of restrictions for institutions that accept federal loan monies. That's something I often see unaddressed with comments like yours. Unregulated competition is not a magic wand that solves all problems. Treating it as such is ignorant.
Yeah, seems hard to make scholarships/student loans work without putting upward pressure on college pricing. Perhaps not possible.
GitHub doesn't render javascript-based visualizations in notebooks. Consider viewing in nbviewer:

https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/tensorflow/data-validati...
Wow, I'm calling a hoax. They produce images of dubious value, and for whatever reason, contaminate the results by mutating them with the Deep Dream stylization.

This is as bad as the dead salmon results.

EDIT: You can flag all you want, but look at this playback of the reconstruction:

https://video.twimg.com/tweet_video/DSrWxhSVQAE2Xix.mp4

There's nothing useful happening here.
While i and ii might be "typically" true it is not the case for the "current state of the art". See research by the Sakamoto group at umich.
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> Another solution would be to let students discharge their debit via bankruptcy.

So you are going to force loaners to loan to people that can simply discharge it?

I am not sure you understand how a loan works. Somebody risk their money for the chance to get the original amount back plus some. If the institutes making loans can't recoup at what they put in then they too will also go bankrupt. And if they can't make any profit then there is no incentive to loan the money.

> Education (and healthcare for that matter) are NOT free markets.

They most cerentety are. And them being part of a free market where people can make money has also allowed it to give humanity some of the best healthcare ever.

> Which is not acceptable for education or healthcare.

You are right, education is free, pick up a book at your local library. There is nothing stopping the masses from learning the same subjects today. On the other hand attending private institute that offers assistance in learning is not a right. Every time these free collages ideas come about it irks me so much because you have every right and means to educate yourself on a topic.

> Maybe that's fine in some circles but a modern wealthy superpower should be able to do better than throw some percentage of its own citizens in the trash because they can't afford education.

No, instead we can just trash the entire country because of feels.

In any case, put your money where your mouth is. Let me pick at random somebody applying for a loan today and let me fund their schooling with your money. If this person becomes successful they will pay you back. If they find it is too much of a burden, or they don't finish school you lose your money and never see it again.
Considering most eBooks with the free first book are like $0.99-$3 a book after you take out Amazons normal profit cut for the book they probably aren't really paying that much for the free book anyway so it makes it worth their while to do it this way.
TBF these numbers can be... messy.

For example, at least one statistic is based on earnings 5 years out of school.

5 years out of school I was making less than 30k as a research assistant. A few months later I was making easily 100k+ more than most senior SDEs, and doing exactly what I would be doing if I had a trust fund to pay the bills.

Many of my classmates who became doctors were in similar situations -- working through residencies at T+5 years but setting themselves up for mid 6-low 7 salaries in the near future.

So earnings over even a medium-term time horizon can be extremely misleading. You really need that 35-45 year career to get the full picture. Any college grad salary number with less than a 6 or evne 10 year time horizon is going to be a poor representation of what's really going on.
I will never choose a car with stick shift to drive around. Not in Los Angeles with the stop/go traffic freeway. Nope.

But it is a useful skill to have. What if you go abroad and have to drive a stick shift. Looks like in many nations, stick shift is sometimes the only option.
A choke gets used once upon start, a shift happens dozens of times per drive, it's not the same thing. And no paddle replaces the sheer joy of rowing your own.
The only serious investor in Theranos was Tim Draper, who gave Holmes about $200k in initial seed funding, and largely because she was a friend of the family who Draper has known since she was a kid. Holmes went around to every major Silocon valley VC firm and every life sciences VC firm, but they did their due diligence and after consulting with experts every one of them said "I think I'll pass on this one."

Following that initial seed funding from DFJ, all of Theranos' early stage funding came from fly-by-night wannabe venture capitalists. A123 systems definitely does not fall into that category.
parent is saying that clustering is magical in the relevant field of conversation -- here, Switzerland:drones, not startups or companies. In fact, Switzerland is a demonstration of lacking the clustering for successful companies and startups, just drone enthusiasm independent of that, and showcasing clustering as kind of a magical yet incredibly powerful thing, proving parent's point.
> Can you cite some concrete examples of these values, and, perhaps, common ways that an otherwise seemingly compatible couple might not share them? Thanks.

A friend of mine's wife once said to him, about planning some extended vacation despite his busy schedule: "if you loved me you'd make time!" Between my wife and I, this is a punchline. But for many perfectly reasonable people it would be a sincere request worthy of fulfillment. A couple having different reactions to this statement could mean a lot of resentment built-up over time.
A society's diet dictates its form.
We are to consume ethanol, caffeine, nicotine, and sugar, for those will create a manipulatable non-questionning society.
> usually emergent paths to activation

What do you mean by this?
> A culture raised on overcompressed and pitch fixed productions just won't care about dynamics and good mixing.

I think you are harming your own argument here. A lot of expensive gear and studio time is what created the over-produced, over-compressed, pitch-fixed productions you deplore.

In the less-is-more spirit, a four-track tape machine is all one needs to make a good demo (not even that, really). GarageBand is more than enough for a lot of music - in most cases, problem exists (and is fixed) between the touchscreen and chair.

Now, personally, I haven't found any iOS music software that I'd make music with - but not because of its technical capabilities; it's the UI that gets in the way (and lack of VSTs that I love). But I can absolutely see how great music can be recorded on this platform alone.
Exactly why I never trust a valet with my car. Some may be great at driving a manual, but you just never know.
As a former valet driver, would bet said valet probably drove up an inclined parking garage in the improper gear.
A built-in battery header would serve as a workaround in many circumstances, and is already being worked on.[0] The heater would draw power when the car is charging to either keep the electrolyte above room temperature or preheat prior to expected use. You could even run the heater off standard 110v or 220v outlets, for instances where the car is parked but doesn't need to actually be charged (a garage might not be willing to deal with EV charging, but be fine with the relatively minor draw of a car's built-in battery heater in comparison). And when that doesn't work, you could probably run the heaters off the battery if you keep it from dropping too far, or a secondary battery as suggested by the grandparent.

There aren't really any perfect solutions, but cold temperatures are a problem we've dealt from the beginning with both batteries and internal combustion engines. My dad used to tell me stories about his time in Alaska as a teenager, and a bush pilot who would talk about when he'd have to pull the drain the oil from his plane, pull the battery, and take both inside overnight to keep them from freezing.

0. http://popularmechanics.com/cars/hybrid-electric/a21999984/e...
I'd also like to reply to the other half of your comment:

> Can you imagine the code that loads a configuration file directly into the code and the ops team unable to reconfigure things?

Yes! That's what code is, actually! Code is stuff you put in a file which can't be configured easily, but is thus consistent between all deployments of the software.

It often actually makes it easier for a problem to be found and reproduced if configuration is baked into the binary vs varying based on the environment the code is run in. In a way, docker images are a means of statically compiling a bunch of random stuff (like /etc/passwd) into your application at build time to remove more environmental variables.

Really, loading a configuration file into the binary statically at build time isn't much different from having `const SOME_VARIABLE = "some value"` in your source code... the only difference is how you, the programmer, chose to represent that constant.

The line between "configuration" and "code constants" is very thin, so I don't think what you say is a sensible criticism.
Yes. Apparently I'm having trouble writing today.
I find the infinite loop much less troublesome than the wrong data that apparently this bug may cause as well.
> Federal student aid has ensured that the cost of education grows to meet the amount of loan money available.

Yes, tuition prices are somewhat limited by the amount of loan money available. However, please stop this nonsense that "the cost of education grows to meet the amount of loan money available". I went to a public state school and most people there went there to minimize their debt because they paid in state tuition which is much cheaper. Most of the out of state people went there because it was a good school and they got decent scholarships and thus didn't have to pay full price. The rest willingly chose the higher out of state fees but they could have gotten into an in state school or one that gave them a scholarship. Private schools are similar except they only give "discounts" (scholarships) to people who need it but anyone going there can choose a state school if they want.

TLDR: In classic American economics, schools price discriminate and charge the highest prices they can based on how good they are, how good the student is, and the students willingness to pay.
You must live in a bubble. $15k in living expenses is a lot of money for even middle class families—$15k is like $25k pre-tax and that’s more than about 40% of Americans even make in a year...

Living expenses like dorms/meals are also why so many kids end up taking out student loans and have so much debt. How is that productive for society? It seems like Americans have a very weird attitude towards certain fundamental things like healthcare and education where they prefer to privatize those commodities rather than make them cheaper for all to benefit from. I think it’s bad for society for people to be putting 17 year olds into debt for degrees and then ripping people off for 20-40% of their incomes for healthcare. It would be a major stimulus for the economy if Americans paid what Europeans do for education and healthcare. I don’t understand the conservative argument at all. We get worse results for higher prices. The only people who benefit from our system are the ultra rich.
>> Valet parking is downright dangerous. My wife's car had its clutch literally melted by an incompetent valet driver, and the car was barely driveable when we got it back.

As someone who will only ever own manual transmissions, that's terrifying. Over the years I've had a handful of occasions where "mandatory valet" has been presented to me. I always refuse. Most of the time, I've been allowed to park my own car and bring my keys with me. If they refuse to allow me to do so, I find my own parking elsewhere. Only once have I had to actually abandon an event due to my stubbornness to hand my car over to a stranger working minimum wage.