skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the detroit situation happened because of immigration of blacks to the north. It's actually a great predictor of what will happen in Europe instead of in Japan.
These scooters and scooter companies seem pretty divisive, especially on HN. I understand they're operating in grey areas, I guess kinda like Uber before them, but they are causing (I think) positive disruption.

I personally love these scooters. I'm living in Australia now where we don't have them. But last month I took a 3 week road trip from LAX to DC and back so I could hit cities I hadn't been to before. And in many of these cities, I used a Bird to get around. These scooters opened up so much more of these cities for me than I could have seen if I just walked every where.

I think they provide real value to a city, for tourists to get around, and for citizens for the last mile and to complement other forms of transport. We just need for these scooter companies to be less like Uber and actually work with the cities to come up with reasonable regulations (in particular insisting on all riders wearing helmets)
Minor nitpick: probably better to append to PROMPT_COMMAND, rather than overwriting it.
How do we short it??
I discovered scooters recently and have rode them in three major cities during the past month. I have to say it is the most genius consumer tech product I've seen in a long time. I instantly felt a sense of "wow" after riding the first one (bird). The entire experience is so simple, so elegant (ui/ux), cheap, efficient, and most importantly FUN. I looked up bird and lime to discover they'd each received over 400M in funding and it makes perfect sense to me. This is a disruptive technology that's going to see major adoption in every city across the entire planet. You have to ride one to understand, especially in an urban, downtown, waterfront or metro type area. They're going to easily cut into bikeshare and short-trip rideshare services. Take a ride and you'll see, #scootlife!

Also worth noting, none of the technology is itself "new", but rather bird & lime particularly have packaged existing technologies together to make a product with all the qualities mentioned above. Innovation is usually just a twist on something that's already out there.
I was in Atlanta last month, and outside of Midtown (Tech/GSU), I didn't see them anywhere else. Here, we have them in SM/Venice, in Westwood, in Culver City, in DTLA, etc.
Early is the keyword. I got through a lot of conspiracy / UFO stuff as a kid, the way others go through paranormal phases. I outgrew it, just as I outgrew Santa.

Robert Anton Wilson is also good, because he presents all this stuff clearly marked as fiction.
Discord is proprietary; and developers like IRC
+1 for Team Reality finally winning one. Feels like we’ve been getting shut out all season. A small victory to be sure but even those are worth celebrating in these dark times.
Anyone know where folks like Peter Norvig and Urs Hölzle fit on the L1-L11 scale? I assumed that all of the early employees/now legends were at the top level, so I was surprised to see the article state otherwise.
If you believe that your comment adds value, then so must the parent comment. If that’s true then your comment is false and adds no value.

Quite paradoxical.
Quick feedback: If you change the trailer to show some game play, I think it would improve your conversion rate. As stupid as this sounds, I have discovered I'm too lazy to try the browser version (but not too lazy to give you a reply -- that is weird...) The trailer just didn't hook me and I found myself thinking, "I don't have enough energy to learn how to play the game right now. Maybe later". But I know "later" will never come.

To be fair, I'm not a fan of puzzle games and this looks like a puzzle game. However I think the engagement issue may still affect other people.
Qualcomm could still consider re-opening NXP bid despite ruling it out
The wikipedia pages on both fail to explain why there were never built. I assume it was difficulty of manufacture but in the case of the additron it seemed close enough to existing technology that it could have been mastered fairly quickly.
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When was this?

You might just be thinking it used to be that way because when a new company/product becomes successful, their brand name becomes the term for the thing.

Kleenex

Xerox

Google

Asprin

Hoover

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_trademark
You'd be waiting more than 5 minutes. China has told lots of companies to get lost and built compelling substitutes internally. This is about Google wanting into the biggest global market in a bad way, not finally relenting to China's long term overtures.
But we only really hear about the failures, or when the mission didn't go according to plan and someone was caught. When it does go according to plan, no one knows about it, or at least there usually isn't enough evidence to be able to attribute blame.
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I sold mine so I couldn't take any more jobs. Otherwise it would be too tempting.

But agreed, I wish I had more versatility in focal lengths. Sad to see none of the "external sensor body that uses the phone as main UI" devices (Olympus Air, Sony QX) really took off.
Or with additional tylenol.
The language may not be dead -- just the souls of the people forced to use it.
> The biggest problem with GPU physics is that it's a very difficult problem to tackle

This is a completely meaningless statement.

> you'll run into compatibility issues between the hardware vendors

Those compatibility issues already exist in the form of DX or OpenGL drivers, and most games have to face them. Writing a sim in OpenCL would work on both Nvidia and AMD, and even on Integrated GPUs.

> Many games do have spare GPU room to spare

Many smaller games mighy but most big games do not. And those games with GPU room to spare normally have CPU to spare.

>since there are no good GPU-accelerated solutions for physics

There is - PhysX.
This is a very opinion loaded, fact distorted article.
Attenborough: Collapse of civilisation is on the horizon
That's very cool. I'm just now attempting to study religion from a historical standpoint myself, and have been finding myself drawn to older sources as well. Though I must ask, can you explain what you mean by "non-duality"? Is duality something you experienced from the Catholic perspective? I ask because I actually find myself very drawn to some ancient texts from Gnostic perspectives (Book of Thomas, some Mandean texts) and "duality" as a part of nature seems to be a core belief to them (light vs darkness, good vs evil, knowledge vs ignorance). Is that the same type of duality you're referring to, or is the term broader than I'm understanding it to be?
> No one wants to do fentanyl

I question this. I recently watched Netflix's Dope documentary and they talk about how an increase in overdoses due to a stronger batch (i.e. cut with more fentanyl) leads to higher demand on the street because addicts want more potent drugs.
Huh, turns out you're right, which is entirely why em- and en- both exist and mean the same thing.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/em-#Prefix
Absolutely. The news isn’t all bad, and I think most reporting has focused on the decline of the middle, instead of the growth of the bottom.
Lime and Bird have collectively raised nearly a billion dollars within 14 months of founding at valuations of $1.1 billion and $2 billion, respectively.

For reference, American Airlines has market cap of $18 billion and 950 jet planes.
mess with the best die like the rest
Where can I apply to fall and winter internships? I didn't find them in https://www.sumologic.com/company/careers/.
PhysX works on a CPU, and the GPU acceleration is optional.
Yeah, but those statutes came after cars were popular. Early on, I bet people were parking all over the place and it was people complaining about it that lead to those rules being put in place.
A good proportion I suspect never get fully investigated. People 'going missing', dying of 'suicide', 'car crash', 'heart attack', etc. All of those are pretty trivial for a state to make happen anywhere else in the world with a low chance of being caught.

I suspect there are also some where there is reasonable evidence a foreign state was involved, but the victim simply wasn't sufficiently noteworthy for the media to care, and the case not being worthy of getting high level politicians involved in. For a state, using the brief time the president has talking to another state president to discuss a missing person rather than finalizing a new trade deal is a bad move.
Internally we use Skycfg as a library linked into other tooling, the same way you might link in a YAML parser. The ideal adoption model would see "skycfg support" as a checkmark feature of user-facing tools like kubectl or Helm.

The specific case of a sky-to-yaml utility binary is one we want to write (and have started in the `_examples/repl/` directory). Unfortunately go-protobuf doesn't support dynamic protobuf schemas yet (https://github.com/golang/protobuf/issues/199). Until it does, every message type must be linked directly into the binary.
Blood conveniently is an intense red and it can spread over a large area without losing much of its color. A nosebleed, for example, can look quite dramatic.

Pain also is highly subjective, and can depend on psychological factors. A gladiator may have thought “that looks as if I fought hard, so they will let me live, and it is survivable”, rather than “that’s half an inch deep, bleeds like , and I will never be able to use that arm again!”

Regardless, that gash in your fat arm easily beats an equally sized gash hitting a major artery or cutting into a bone.
The problem is coordination of a Public solution where the will to act lacks a political majority or super majority. The opportunity is the most progressive eighth of the first world really wants to address it.

Then the solution is a Private sector one - for this high net worth eighth of the population to invest the vast majority of their savings portfolio into green energy sector. But this would be even more effective if we made investments outflows less possible, so we should create a hedge fund that would require around one decade of a commitment period. This will supercharge R&D into this sector leading to better solutions, maybe one a political majority will support.

It does seem risky to tie your personal finances to the progress of green energy, but since the climate threat is already the greatest risk of all, it seems a worthy swap. And since it seems like green energy is a "no-brainer" / inevitability, then the investment is almost a sure thing to pay off in the long run. So in the end you'll not only help the planet but help yourself.
Mixed up Deepmind and OpenAI again, my bad.
How can a person disappear from the planet without anyone knowing about it? When it's within the guilty country that's one thing, they can suppress the information from getting out. But to travel to another country and kill someone that doesn't really work.
Asteroid mining would require brand new technology. We cannot crash an entire asteroid into Earth's surface, we would need to do zero g mineral processing, regardless of how the minerals are ultimately used. This is a task no one has ever done before. How do you estimate the cost of doing something like this? I'm not qualified, but I do know if a traditional mining organization decided to mine an asteroid the launch costs would be a small line item in their budget.
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honestly nsfw pages should just be grouped as their own package which could be sold on the basis of attracting higher potential views but also the risk of being associated with controversial content. this could be a great avenue for smaller brands who don't want to have their ads compete with nike & coca-cola for eyeballs. trying to homogenize the audience so that they fit the needs of advertisers is a fundamental failure to understand why people come to these platforms in the first place, and that isn't good for anyone's business
Which absolutely does work. Not really sure what the OP means here.
Doesn't that depend on the relative price sensitivity of the employer vs. the employee - namely, the elasticity of labor demand / supply?
I'm tasked with running several ML algorithms on a new hardware accelerator. Currently there is an LLVM toolchain for that new hardware, but no Python support is expected for a while which means implementing a bunch of ML code in C or maybe C++ (not a very pleasant prospect). I'm wondering, since Julia has an LLVM backend would it be possible to emit LLVM IR from Julia which could then be fed into our LLVM toolchain?

One thing that comes to mind here: does Julia use some kind of primitives for various things like matrix multiplication that might be difficult to export at the LLVM-IR level?
Was surprised to hear the audio version of the story has a different title - "Binary stars". I think the editorial board went with a more click friendly title.
Just because lots of people derive value from a service does not give them carte blanche to push externalities onto everyone else.

I mean, do you say "No no, you can't complain about all those chemicals being dumped into that river... look at all the value people are deriving from thing the factory is producing!"
It doesn’t sound like you have a handle on the problem if you think if everyone who reads this will lessen the problem by reducing their consumption.

We really need to make some rather large changes. India, China, and emerging markets need a lot of clean, affordable, clean energy, for example.
Not sure why a golf course or amusement park would be unviable. Alton Towers' 910 acres is worth at most 3.8 times that of this 240 acre £2.2m farm [1], or £8.4m.

Total UK land is worth £5394b [2], and total budget revenue is £800b, requiring a 15% land value tax to cover total spending.

At 15% LVT, Alton Towers would attract taxation of £1.2m a year, spread over 2 million visitors, or about 64p on the ticket price.

Currently tickets are in the £30-60 range, so already attract £5-10 of vat.

A land value tax will actually mean that Alton Towers tickets would be cheaper, and as they wouldn't be paying things like national insurance contributions, overheads would be cheaper.

[1] https://www.rightmove.co.uk/commercial-property-for-sale/pro...
[2] https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/nationalaccounts/uksectoracco...
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> These scooter companies are operating in a grey area; that's a fact

That's not true at all where I live. Santa Monica often bans them for not following rules, makes deals with other companies, etc.. Every app is forced to implement geofencing for not allowing riding on the beach walkways, for example. On popular roads like Abbot Kinney there are small fenced off corals where the government has replaced a car parking spot with a scooter and bicycle one. So yes, scooter companies do have specific laws they have to follow. It's actually a drawback since the city favors Jump over local companies like Bird, and Jump has a lot less availability.
Very unlikely that it’s presented this way. People working in NSO feel they are doing a public service by helping catch bad guys. Given the Israeli sensitivity around terrorism, it’s an easy sell, and I’m sure NSO has success stories around such use.
From the page you linked:

"Market consequences
... U.S. treasury bonds, which had been the subject of the downgrade, actually rose in price and the dollar gained in value against the Euro and the British pound, indicating a general flight to safe assets amid concerns about a European debt crisis.[31]"

Basically, no one believes rating agencies with respect to the US paying its debts - but they do believe that if the US government is in chaos, it will be bad for the world economy.

One should also remember that US bonds are denominated in US dollars, which the US government can print. Also, if you're comparing to "cash" you probably mean "US dollars" which are backed by the "full faith and credit" of...the US government.
I have spent a lot of time observing this phenomenon in Venice; here are some of my thoughts.

What these scooters have done for SM-Venice is, they’ve gotten people to park farther away and spend less time in cars. Especially the tourists. What does that mean for locals? Well, for one, it means that the nuisance of having to drive slow past people on these things, rather than the nightmare of sitting in standstill traffic if all of those people were in cars instead. Summer traffic in Venice was definitely helped by the scooters, as they replaced a bit of car traffic. These “short haul mobility vehicles” make it much easier for larger groups of people to engage in a large, spread-out, mostly-pedestrian area.

They’re completely dorky and I’ll never be caught dead on one... but, at the same time, there’s serious benefits to us all that these things exist. There’s definitely problems (not sure how I feel about seeing them in piles outside of public schools, such as Venice High, and there’s something very Idiocracy-esque in watching them being used by people who would benefit from walking), but I find it to be an overall net-positive.

I’m interested to see where the next form factors go, and how these things factor into future urban planning decisions. Especially within geofenced environments where you don’t have to pay for them, they just exist. There’s a lot to ponder here.
I think it's more common in developing nations. I saw this when doing fixed deposit in India and was very surprised. It makes sense as it is expected that the safety of the investment will increase as the country develops and the interest rate is likely to fall, as it is currently three times as that of US.
> Just let people have a certain power and max speed and they will drop the car and replace it with a powered scooter

I think many Americans have a higher expectations for safety than many people in China. No way I am packing my kid onto a scooter and driving them around downtown.
That's because people have accents.

My partner is Korean and I am Australian for example. Two very different approaches to speaking English.

You would hope that the HomePod would be usable by both of us.
that's why I said "part" of a conversation. If it's known that China (or any nation) is actively working against our citizens interests, it certainly makes sense to include in any conversations relating to foreign affairs with that country. Does that benefit people addicted to drugs in America? No. But it may benefit people who could *potentially be addicted in the future.
That's because despite all the complaining about Steam changing things, it's still far better than all other ways of selling their game.

Personally, I think Steam is correct to change their algorithm whenever they think it'll help the buyers find games that suit them better.

It's also very possible that other developers have seen a bump in sales that correspond with the decline for this developer.
The context is not the same for the car engineers compared to engineer knowingly working on something with the explicit purpose to harm people
I would suggest first reframing how you see the mechanics of government finance:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnSaBGthkio

Governments create money when they spend and then tax it back. It is the point at which taxes are imposed that enable spending. Tax collection is the end of the transaction.

So the constraint on government spending is aggregate spending, not total tax receipts last year.

Armed with this information you can deduce that the government can purchase any output not consumed by the private sector at a fixed minimum price, so long as it doesn't compete with the private sector for the same resources, the most obvious being labour:

http://www.jobguarantee.org/

Once you have this understanding of how government finance works you can see that the government isn't desperately trying to "raise revenue to fund itself" but rather, needs to ensure it creates sufficient space in the economy to spend without inflation risk.

Most social programs deal with the fringes of the private sector and thus carry no inflation risk, and so long as they're counter cyclical do not need to be "funded" as such.

For everything else, taxing assets, wealth and resource usage will suffice!

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/06/randy-wray-tax-bads-...
All the buses are electric too, they finished replacing them at the end of the last year. Like you said taxis seem to be about 95% replaced now (was only about 30% last year, this city moves crazy fast, there are around 20000 taxis in the city). It helps that BYD is a Shenzhen company and all the electric taxis and most of the buses are made by them.
Govt's don't usually announce when a spy goes missing.
There is a desperate need for a way around these morality police suppressing legal free speech via money:

GNU Taler seems to be that answer, if it would ever actually launch...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18529764
https://cryptosumer.com/2018/11/24/free-software-messiah-ric...
https://taler.net/en/index.html