skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With electronic license plate readers everywhere, you already lack privacy in a private vehicle. I wish there were a way one could drive anonymously yet still be held responsible for hit and runs, etc, but that doesn't exist.
I don't know why this is downvoted. Inflation in the USA absolutely is mysteriously low right now. It's a lot easier to explain 5% growth and 3% inflation than 2% growth and zero inflation, even if they work out the same for the median (average?) worker who has no assets and no debt.
When is the last time that someone answering "senators' demands for answers" has resulted in anything remotely punitive or (socially) productive? It seems that it is only productive for fanning political campaign fires and 'news' outlets.. so I'd honestly like to know when, if ever, this has been productive in other ways that actually matter.
Fantastic!

> The code and pre-trained model will be available at https://goo.gl/language/bert. Will be released before the end of October 2018.
> But I personally worry about knocking the legs out from under the strongest bull cycle we’ve ever seen

Because when the tide goes out—and it will—the Fed needs to be in a position to reinvigorate the economy. It's standard mainstream economic theory.

We're already in a precarious position, with the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act doing precisely the opposite of what we should be doing. Thank goodness the Fed has so far managed to remain sensible. I would be far more worried if they were not continuing to raise rates.
I’m curious how much is the TC for doing stuff like this?
It is a whitelist. There's a button that says "Disable For This Site" and the preferences page lets you manage the exceptions list.
Not only should you use privoxy with tight settings to block everything

You should also disable QUIC in chrome
Anything related to webassembly (like you know what it's doing...huge security risk there)

any video card accelerator interface middleware (information ratline)

you should turn all urls back to mozilla or google in the advanced settings (about:config and chrome:flags) back to 127.0.0.1 to disable them

get an extension to block canvas information siphoning (fingerprinting)

disable webRTC via extension or advanced settings

disable "native client" in chrome (allows google to watch what your'e doing)

disable any vnc

disable any "help" or "spellchecking in the cloud" or "predictive blah blah in the cloud" or

pipeline seems to be ok, security wise afaik

disable any "protect you from malicious sites" -- that's tracking everything you do

and use DNSSEC or DNS over TLS on your router, by for example flashing your router with dd-wrt or tomato or using an advanced firewall computer that can handle all this. It's kind of annoying to set up, but it will be worth it, if you care about your privacy

The worst thing you can do is set your dns to 8888 and 8844 that's basically giving all your internet activity to google, because of your convenience
Oil droplets guided by pilot waves do not give rise to double-slit interference
One argument is that all the easy money is going into housing.
This is depressing. But as a hiring manager I see echos of my own processes and biases.
After GV went down during business hours once, I realized I needed to control the number. It's more expensive than free, but worth it.

You can port out a GV number to any telecom provider for a small fee, including any of the big SIP/VoIP providers. They'll usually provide voicemail and dirt cheap rates -- but not VM transcription.
I’d bet good money Instax Wide isn’t long for this world. It has nowhere close to the popularity of the Instax mini line and is supported by just one not particularly popular Fuji model in their current lineup of Instax cameras. Instax Wide camera models see updates at a glacial pace compared to the Mini models too.

Instax Mini film can be bought in a ludicrous number of physical retailers (considering the overwhelming ubiquity of digital photography now) - Target, Michaels, Urban Outfitters etc. Instax Wide not so much, another indicator of it’s increasingly niche little market.

I have the latest Fuji Instax Wide model given to me as a gift and it’s really not difficult to see why Mini is so much more popular - it’s significantly more expensive and much bulkier than the cute little mini models. I used it three times and then left it in a cupboard, it’s simply too large to carry around regularly.

Finally I’d argue the difference between 3.1 inches of image height on a Polaroid and the 2.4 of the Instax Wide feels much more different in person than the numbers alone might suggest. For me personally, I don’t think it’s a nice substitute for the look and feel of the traditional Poloroid format.
nowhere did the gp say that the products are fake (generic coffee with the starbucks label slapped on top). so i'm guessing that those coffeehouses are franchises operating like any other franchise, it's just in this case, they're owned/operated by one company.
This seems like a direction fallout of the VDA's position paper from 2016[0]

[0]https://www.vda.de/dam/vda/Medien/EN/Themen/Innovation-und-T...
Google is only interested in tablets that run ChromeOS, and just announced one without a headphone jack. Not sure if the low-latency audio is making it to the CrOS/Android environment either.
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To your point it's hard to see how the referenced article qualifies as a standard. It does not deal with escape characters or missing values, two places where CSV implementations tend to vary in random ways.
Do these requirements for the levels you mention anticipate the changes in traffic patterns that will occur? What I mean is, if we could save all the space that the author is noting, could we relegate entire lanes of bikers into completely separate streets? If bikers were gone, for example, could we get away with not needing cars to go to level 5? I'm speaking hypothetically about one hazard but has anyone modeled what would be the environment for cars if everything changes? If your train travels in an enclosed tube, it would require fewer safeguards against obstacles, and could we put autonomous vehicles in a similar kind of enclosed environmental tube?
Sites like wapo need to find a better way to make money than being a blog for bezos and the CIA to mindrape everyone with disinfo nonsense

Sometimes you can lie by omission and democracy really DOES die in darkness

Ask WAPO who Imran Awan is, and why they didn't tell you for over 2.5 yrs now? Let's talk about the most viciously censored scandal in US history that is being blockaded by what has become a completely separate timeline for infocucks
Keep this up and the whole east coast will be up in arms to stop climate change.
When are we going to actually make the Fed history known to the man stream of Americans.

Understand the players that built the Fed and read the book on the Fed by G Edward Griffin "Creature from Jekyll Island"

Or listen to him give a talk about it here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lu_VqX6J93k

just one of many copies online:
https://archive.org/details/TheCreatureFromJekyllIslandByG.E...
I tend to agree here. Any tolerance for "slowness" is anti-free-market. I don't necessarily think completely free markets are optimal, but I can't see a reasonable argument for slower being better than faster in general.
That reminds me, I forgot to enable it
Hey thanks! QR codes might work, but I think key files will be too unwieldy for my user base.

Do you mind elaborating on the hash to word concept? I'm not sure I follow.
Does the Fed have some privileged information that everyone else does not?
this is where safari shines. the site thinks tracking is on but it’s effectively neutered. i guess on FF you can containerize the site.
I am not an economist but I think we’re just measuring inflation wrong: anecdotal, but I have noticed for my peers housing and education is now expensive to the point where there aren’t many dollars left to participate in other economic activity.
Flying cars will always be less efficient (and thus, more expensive) than driving cars due to the physics of it. I wouldn't hold my breath on flying cars replacing driving cars, just as airplanes haven't replaced trains.
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I was extremely confused why the website nor the repository does not contain the specification. There is an informal specification littered in a separate repo [1], and the whole organization [2] is dedicated for the documentations and associated Ruby implementations. So well, good luck, but next time try to be more specific.

[1] https://github.com/csv11/csv-next

[2] https://github.com/csv11/
the problem with this line of thinking is that newspaper people need to actually make a buck. Or else there are no newspapers.
Just curious but installing adblock and track-blockers isn't the first thing you do with a new browser installation? Just wondering how it got turned off in the first place :P
We've had 'flying cars' for 100+ years already, and automobiles are still around. Flying just doesn't make sense (energy, safety, and practicality-wise) compared to rolling.
I've never seen this behavior by Google in incognito... Wonder if they're doing some questionable browser/os fingerprinting to track you??
At a 50% growth rate, it would take DDG 12 years to surpass Google's 2015 volume of 3 billion searches, correct?

Not that DDG has to catch up to google to be a success. But it's interesting to consider the scale.
If I'm Googling correctly, there's $1.5 trillion in US student loan debt right now. We spent about that on the F-35 thus far, and it's only an extra year and a half of the current annual deficit to pay it off entirely.

Or, to put it another way, wiping out all student debt in the US would increase the national debt about 7%. Hardly catastrophic sounding.
Unfortunately this won’t help with the terrible hardware level latency on many Android devices.
I really prefer Searx[1] to DDG. It has a not dissimilar feature set to DDG (and you can even use it to search DDG). I've been using various public instances[2] of Searx for a while. And it's free/open, licensed as AGPLv3+[3].

[1] https://asciimoo.github.io/searx/
[2] https://github.com/asciimoo/searx/wiki/Searx-instances
[3] https://github.com/asciimoo/searx/blob/master/LICENSE
Because economies tend to get carried away. The fed comes in to pump the breaks by lowering/raising interest rates.
PDF and ePub. LaTeX if you want to get fancy and OSS.
What's "loco" is not the tightening now underway, but the super-lax monetary policy that preceded it for many years.

The Fed kept short-term rates close to zero for nearly a decade. Longer terms rates were negative for many years.

All of the world's central banks joined in the orgy of money creation.

The Fed's balance sheet (assets bought by conjuring money) ballooned 4x in the same time:

https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/bst_recenttren...

This Fed will now face unprecedented political pressure to reverse its course of monetary tightening and balance sheet unwinding. The President will almost certainly lose an election held during a recession.

But reversing course is going to be very difficult, given the sharp and sustained rise in inflation over the last few years:

https://stats.bls.gov/regions/mid-atlantic/data/consumerpric...

Oddly enough, it looks like the President has the legal authority to fire the entire reserve board if he so chooses:

Upon the expiration of the term of any appointive member of the Federal Reserve Board in office on the date of enactment of the Banking Act of 1935, the President shall fix the term of the successor to such member at not to exceed fourteen years, as designated by the President at the time of nomination, but in such manner as to provide for the expiration of the term of not more than one member in any two-year period, and thereafter each member shall hold office for a term of fourteen years from the expiration of the term of his predecessor, unless sooner removed for cause by the President.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/aboutthefed/section10.htm

Never before in the modern history of US banking has there been a President with so much drive to kick convention to the curb, nor a Federal Reserve that has painted itself into such a small corner.

If I were a gambler, though, I'd bet on the President. One way or another, the Fed will be forced to reverse its balance sheet unwinding and short term interest rate increase campaign.
Trips up Vim's syntax highlighter.
Whatever Happened to Grumpy? Go Running Python
> 1. I retired my ~15 year old Gmail account and registered with Fastmail

I'm looking to switch my email. Any thoughts on Fastmail vs ProtonMail? Do you feel secure with Fastmail?
Anyone who buys Treasury bills is paying that interest to the Fed. So banks, pension funds, social security, etc.

The Fed’s debt is made up of (other) Treasury bills which it purchased during QE using “printed” money.

If this makes your head spin, then you’ve probably understood it correctly.
And the Saudi military comes to train on U.S. soil, as well.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exercise_Red_Flag
They probably feel TPUv3 is stable enough to give access to cloud customers now. But I doubt they do not already have TPUv4 versions running already internally in some capacity maybe only for testing.
I didn't downvote you (I don't really downvote, thank you for those who do though), but I think the reason this was voted down is because you didn't provide any substance in your answer, and put a potentially large burden on those who were curious (how much shit will we have to wade through to get to your point). I would suggest giving a brief overview of your point before sending people down a rabbit hole. We just don't have time for that.

As a semantic aside, the index call to the single reference was unnecessary, lol. Just trying to help.
So sell regular old display ads. Native ads are the future (again).
Wrong on both counts. However, I'm very much back in the audio synthesis game, and will give a talk at next month's SF Rust Meetup on the topic.
There was a dude doing an interview on NPR where he talked about a conference he was attending in Saudi Arabia. He said he was still going to the conference and talked about how the prince had a really tough job dealing with entrenched interests and he was doing "the best he could"....

It was pretty sickening to listen to.
"A tool's utility is directly proportionate to the skill of the one wielding it."

-Anon
they were aware. these are smart people. they don’t live under a rock.
Not trolling: Do you believe the fundamentals of the measurements are correct?
Hmm: looking at 19th century shops where only merchants picked products to self-checkout today, that seems like the trend. Everyone will end up doing everything themselves.
For me, most often I disable ad blocking for the site, so we have the opposite reaction!
The best resources on understanding Polly are probably various LLVM developer conference talks (it’s come up at nearly every one since at least 2010 or so).

But just like not needing to worry too much about how GCC does this unless you’re a compiler engineer, I’d say just either let it try or not.

Edit: Here's the 2011 talk (http://llvm.org/devmtg/2011-11/Grosser_PollyOptimizations.pd...) that I think is a good yet old intro. Tobias's more recent work (say http://www.grosser.es/bibliography/doerfert2017optimistic.ht...) is a good "what's possible now-ish". But again, these are both compiler-researcher papers.
I know a lot of small companies (including mine) use it a lot.
Sincere question, what does this mean?
I actually deleted my second paragraph before posting, which was about how recently a couple webserials have made this even worse. According to their estimated page counts, I've read something like 10,000 pages in less than 3 months.
You mention tax cuts and deficits — isn’t spending equally to blame? Why is cutting government spending viewed by some as not an option? Those who oppose the tax cuts almost never suggest cutting entitlement spending which is the largest percentage of the federal budget — 56% of all federal outlays are from mandatory entitlements. That’s far more significant than any tax cut effects.

Besides, even after the tax cuts, the government has collected record revenues this year. We are collecting plenty in taxes — but we are spending it wrong.

Here is a list of some of the more ridiculous expenditures:

https://www.dailywire.com/news/12309/9-ridiculous-things-gov...
It makes more sense for most us to just make what you are suggesting illegal.
The early days of letting shops and franchises into service stations saw a few different, and contractually separate, companies weakly competing. A few independents mixed in with the WH Smith that was often as well as a main shop. There would be real alternative choices. Weakly competing as a services has an effective monopoly for a 50 mile stretch of motorway, so they were never going to be competing with Tesco or corner caf prices.

Now the entire service station is single supplier agreements making the entire service station effectively a single franchise. Even in the petrol station shop. Half the choices are just branding styles on the front of the same parent. Chances of a real independent are somewhere around nil. Prices and brand choice are heavily constrained accordingly. Quality and service drops accordingly so a burger or coffee franchise on the motorway is a pale reflection of the high street.

If one of the shops doesn't have product x there's no longer any point checking the other shops, or the petrol station shop, it won't be in those either. The only answer is normally to drive to the next services and make sure it's showing a different brand on the sign before pulling in.

With hindsight I think it was a mistake allowing the motorway sign to be branded in any way.

The best answer, of course, is leave the motorway and find a proper shop or caf. :)
There is also this https://www.washingtonpost.com/gdpr-consent/? where the Post offers a free sub, a basic sub (requiring consent to the use of cookies and tracking by us), and a Premium EU ad-free sub (No on-site advertising or third-party ad tracking).
It was forked and now has active development here: https://github.com/grumpyhome/grumpy

still no Python3 support though
Unfortunately, I don't know any replacement for any of the features of Google Scholar.[1] I usually access YouTube via NewPipe[2] on mobile, and youtube-dl[3] elsewhere (and there's a GUI version of youtube-dl[4], though the command-line version is really easy to use).

[1] Although, given that it's useful, I expect Google will probably shut it down within the next 5-10 years.

[2] https://newpipe.schabi.org/

[3] https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/

[4] https://mrs0m30n3.github.io/youtube-dl-gui/
It's important for the US dollar to maintain reasonably constant and predictable purchasing power from year to year. This is part of their dual mandate. Their target is just under 2% inflation per year, as measured by the Core-PCE index. If the dollar didn't have reasonably constant and predictable purchasing power, people would be afraid either to issue or to take out loans denominated in USD.

Manipulating the supply of the dollar via interest rate adjustments, along with open market operations, is how the Fed attempts to control inflation.
Why can't the government do that with structural changes? What is the role of the money supplier?
Protect your privacy online – Steve Gingrich
Thanks for sharing Plotly.

I'd recommend pointing out the Plotly features you'd like to improve and seeing if the Muze team has solutions/improvements.
Here’s a hard reality: The people who can fix the security problem are the ones who are already working on it. There’s no magic dust or elite squad of cyber security professionals that are going to walk through the doors of a FAANG and turn things around. Security is hard, and security at global scale is still an unsolved problem that no one has the answer for. What I do know from working in the valley is that neither the government nor the media has the damndest idea of what they’re talking about when it comes to technology, and they certainly wouldn’t know how to secure Google let alone keep search running globally for a night.
I think this is a very important point. The more that power the is wielded at the Federal level the more that national politics divide the American people. Emphasizing state power, a red state can adopt one policy while a blue state can adopt another, yet each policy has minimal effect on the other, so there is no reason for citizens of either state to care all that much what the other state does. But in a system that emphasizes Federal power (which our system has been trending towards) this indifference is less likely because citizens are forced to live under whichever policy won at the Federal level.
The people I've discussed that with believe it will kill extrinsic motivation and they believe that is a key pillar of capitalism.
Somewhat true, but is that data for sale on the open market? I mean, I wouldn't really be surprised if it was, but I'm hoping it isn't, at least in most places. I'm OK with government officials having access to data via a system of checks and balances, not so much with just anyone that happens to have a few bucks. Just because we've lost some privacy in one place, doesn't mean we should just stop caring, that's how things have gotten as bad as they are.
Each subprocess would only get one permission, the one that it actually need. The critical parts (audio decoders, video decoders, parsers) would not get access to $HOME or network, for example.
Maybe, just maybe, we will get one.
I’m waiting for housing to drop in price over the next few years. The boomers are dying. Their houses, and I mean all those investment properties as well as their private homes, will hit the market when their kids don’t want them.

The price of education will only decrease when more people take up manual labor jobs. You can get paid 24$ here in Florida if you’re willing to work on a ladder.
That's the only (positive) thing I ever hear about Bing.
Watch Boston Dynamics humanoid robot do parkour
I read that article before. Here's the thing, the only thing that the "go" keyword makes easier is having the ability to have any arbitrary function run in a green thread without having to modify it's signature. However, the moment you want to actually do something useful with it (e.g. communicate with it, cancel it, or read its returned value), you're going to have to pass a channel (or more) or a waitgroup to it anyway, modifying its signature and changing its "color". The issue remains pretty much the same.
This article says that the President cannot fire Fed Governor at will or because of policy disagreement.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-trump-cant-fire-powell...

"The law goes back to the 1940s when President Franklin Roosevelt removed a member of the Federal Trade Commission and cited as a reason their divergent views of public policy. The Supreme Court unanimously reversed the firing, saying executives of independent agencies cannot be removed in their term of office except for cause. These agencies “must be free from executive control,” the court ruled."

I would be interested to learn more so it would be great if someone has more info to share.
I agree. The biggest problem with CSV is Excel's terrible support.

And while CSV is primarily used for data transfer, Excel could hypothetically be a great debug-viewer if it didn't do brain dead stuff like unrecoverably corrupt UPCs and other long numbers by default.

There's an Excel Uservoice about this very issue from 2015:

https://excel.uservoice.com/forums/304921-excel-for-windows-...

They're "looking into it." Just as they've been looking into it for the last twenty years. Any. Day. Now.
!maps also works for google maps, !osm will use OpenStreetMap instead.