skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And that is assuming that the previous and present day reporting are correct.
The argument to rid licensing for music therapy or florists (as per article) seems stronger than for a hair salon. Do you know the difference between cutting straight, thin hair and thick, curly hair? What about kinky (usually African American) hair?

If you would like your market to be more than just those clients that request an Army buzz cut, you need to know those differences. My hair, for instance, looks terrible if given a straight chop with scissors. Because it's wavy and thick, it needs "thinning" all throughout its length to make it lie flat. Enforcing practicing on mannequins how to do just that without ruining someone's actual hair seems reasonable to me.
I disagree there are no consequences. Broken ribs have been known to occur.[0]

[0] https://www.viarob.com/my/page/Snowtorturing
That damaged section is called the nosecone; there's a weather radar behind it.
If Snowden revealed anything it's that there is lots of hypocrisy involved and for the most part American citizens are in line with that hypocrisy as long as it does not effect them personally. And if we see China's behavior it's in line with accounting for this hypocrisy. Sure the US calls them out on it all the time, and they can't respond to the allegations... But similarly their citizens are on board with their hypocrisy. It's a world full of liars looking to exploit however they can so they can get to the top and remain there. It's all propped up on a commonly accepted fiction, if you did a bit deeper you see all the fictions are there to support various power structures and keep them functioning.

So can you blame China or the US... Not really everyone is playing the hand they were dealt the best way they know how.
Three drawings I use to explain agile
We have to solve the problem in the next 10-12 years. The median nuclear plant construction is 7.5 years, with the US medians being more in the 18-20 year duration - with the very most recent nuclear projects mostly being shut down mid construction because of cost and schedule overruns.

Even France, with one the most mature and well run nuclear power programs is concluding that the next wave of power investment makes more sense to make in renewables instead of nuclear.

I suspect we will solve our problems with renewables + storage (which are still rapidly declining in cost).
> Not everyone wants to be ‘richer’.

They say that, but if you write them a cheque, they'll cash it.

It's the things that come along with wealth that they may disagree with, but certainly not the wealth itself.

No doubt, there are pockets (even in Canada#) that refuse government welfare programs like health insurance because they feel that they shouldn't be dependent on others like that, but it's much less than 1%.

# Some of our old-order Mennonites refuse to get a government health card.
The internet has literally never been unregulated.
I use Xfinity. (It’s my only option for internet.) They would routinely inject crap into unencrypted HTTP webpages, bill notifications, adverts for antivirus, stuff like that.

In the end I configured my (pfSense) router to forward all data on port 80 (and a small selection of other commonly unencrypted ports) through a VPN to a local VPS. Port 443 HTTPS is still allowed to connect directly.

Makes me feel a lot better. Comcast should be a dumb pipe, not fucking with my data.
In 1976 there was a plan to develop fusion by 2005. However, the funding for it was reduced below the level for which they had projections.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/5gi9yh/fusion_i...
You'll have to clarify what "by accident" means. The FTC's rules on "unordered merchandise", linked else-thread, seem pretty unambiguous.
absent any law they would still be free to DNS hijack you and show you an ad. there is no law against that.

this law says you have to notify customers of a thing.
century link then did so in a shady way, then claimed the law REQUIRED them to do it this way, which is not true.

why am I having to explain this?
Customers have options, scramble or not. My sympathy is with the staff, sorry "teammates" (per the webpage). It's a lousy time of year to be out of work.
You can run fully transparent updates in Linux using tools from Canonical, Oracle, etc. I have absolutely no idea how people put up with how badly Windows does updates, and really, XBox is not far behind.
> Until we have teleportation living rurally will always be more isolating.

I am very curious how close VR with gaze and body language tracking will get us.
Worse. Steven Wright fandom:

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/123074-you-know-when-you-re...
If you mean ordinary people, then everywhere was poor, so travel authors would not have seen a shocking contrast.

We actually have numbers on all this stuff, e.g. you can track a slow decline in day-labor wages, and IIRC (around Delhi maybe?) they decline slowly from about 1600 to 1800. There are comparable-sized rises and falls in other parts of the world, too. But all very low by modern standards.

Only with industrialisation did this change, and it lagged a bit -- the first gains typically allowed a population boom, without dragging down income as would previously have occurred.
Wow. What a nightmare to shut down just before Christmas.
In Kavanaugh's case, the problem is deeper than the rape accusation itself. False accusations are horrible but we have to stop pretending that the people pushing for his nomination even cared if it was true or not. A majority of Republicans polled said that he should be confirmed even if it is proven he is a rapist. The Republican senators said they'd push the nomination through no matter what was found. It's clear from these facts that these Republicans were not approaching the nomination in good faith.

If you were interviewing someone for a job, and then found that he was accused of rape multiple times, do you:

A) Ignore them.

B) Not hire him.

C) Look into the situation more deeply.

D) Want to hire him even more.

I think we can agree C makes most sense, but most Republicans were pushing hard for D. They were an inch away from doing it without an investigation, but finally caved due to one holdout senator, and then did a quick crippled investigation where they couldn't even interview Kavanaugh or the accuser Ford.

As for the accusations itself, we know that Ford named Kavanaugh as her rapist to multiple people decades ago. We also know that Kavanaugh sent texts about how to deal with another accuser, before the accuser even went public. Also, he then perjured himself saying he didn't know about her until she went public.

Because of these reasons, I think the outcry against Kavanaugh's nomination was justified. If the Republicans really wanted the best person for the job, and if he really was innocent, they should have all agreed early on for a thorough FBI investigation which should clear his name. Instead, they made it a culture war issue and played up the circus. If they didn't want it to be a shame storm, they could've taken the allegations seriously and do their job to represent the will of the citizens.

We all know that we're not going to get 100% evidence of if he did it or not, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't seek to find what we can and build up some percentage of confidence in the candidate. If the available evidence instills us with perhaps 30% doubt of his word, should that have a factor in our hiring decision? Or do we only consider 0% or 100% conclusions? Is 30% too risky for hiring someone for what is arguably the most important job in the world?

To be fair, I don't think a media circus crucifixion is the right outcome of an unproven allegation, but it's also wrong to totally disregard such allegations when making such a high-stakes decision. It seems fair to me to at least take a risk-adverse approach without casting total judgement on the candidate.
The second solution is to use an antibacterial surface. Nanoparticle silver or copper are a good choice.

Of course such a screen would have to be specially made.
As others have said, your #3 point is controversial, but potentially not as bad as they seem. This really depends on what resort/part of the world you are. My home mountain in Oregon is about 65% black diamond, and there's only one green circle run. The first blue square you can use is actually very steep and quite dangerous for beginners.

At the same time, I was living in the Midwest a few years, and the only black diamond I found honestly wasn't even as steep or interesting as the intro blue square I mentioned before.

So, your advice might be accurate in context of a beginner mountain, but at many resorts blue diamonds are best left to intermediates only.
The priests bit may not be the best example.
So, BattlefortheNet submitted close to 3 million pro-NN comments but without any sort of identity verification, while the cable providers are accused of submitting up to 9.5 million comments and misusing the identities of real people.

I'm sure some comments were submitted via pseudonyms, the same way you and I post under pseudonyms as opposed to one of us representing ourselves as Ajit Pai, a real person who happens to be FCC chair. It's possible some battleofthenet-originated comments involved fake names that were similarly misappropriated but there doesn't seem to be any body of people complaining about that having happened to them, in contrast to the anti-NN comment submissions.

Now if you have any evidence of such an effort, I encourage you to publish or submit it to investigators. But if you don't, it looks like you're trying to undermine the investigation of a big thing by complaining about the potential failings of a smaller thing.
One of the authors here. Thanks for the comment! Yes, we mention this work and number of others in the blogpost and paper. This isn't the first (or the last) paper on the topic but I think we've clarified the large-batch training situation significantly by connecting gradient noise directly to the speed of training, and by measuring it systematically on a bunch of ML tasks and characterizing its behavior.
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> Essentially this is just the city of Minneapolis making it harder for people to get to work. This will result in a decrease in companies based in Minneapolis without affecting the overall number of companies in the Metro Area.

Ah yes, much like those transit-friendly, job-deficient cities of NYC, Boston, and SF.

Cities are cities. They shouldn't be suburbs but bigger, and trying to make them that way just causes problems.

Even if what you say is true, a big reason why everyone has to drive is because of policies -- like, say, mandatory parking -- that favor driving at the expensive of transit, biking, and walking. Look at cities where people use transit, and a big part of that is that they usually don't take up enormous swathes of space with parking and huge roads or stroads everywhere. Leaving those policies in place just prolongs the problem.
This means you are, at a country level, deciding by policy what jobs are desirable. Which seems to mean, according to you, that Farming and agriculture, which are generally distributed due to the land needs, aren't feasible. There are quite a few other industries that are non-tech that are distributed like these.

Sure lots of these small towns don't need as MUCH centralization as they have but they still need services because there are still people and things to do out in those places.

Now, given modern transportation and things like Amazon, the density in outlying areas may not be as needed. Driving through rural missouri, you see a lot of very tiny dead towns at crossroads, where there used to be a general store, etc, and these died in the 30s. Then you have slightly bigger towns that are dying now. These towns were starting to die in the 90s. In the 60s it took around 8 hours to get from St. Louis to the arkansas border (except along 55). When I was a kid in the 80s it took 4-5 hours. Now it takes 3:30. Because of this you don't need as many of these services as local, but that doesn't mean you don't need them.

Also driving through rural missouri you see things you wouldn't expect. My cousin owns a VERY profitable organic chicken ranch about 2 hours outside of St. Louis, near Owensville. Going further south you find all of a sudden where like 80% of the oak for charcoal and wine / burbon barrels come from. It's completely unreasonable for these folks to commute from St. Louis. It's also completely tenable for them to live in a house in the middle of no where and make plenty of money for that life style.

What seems to be happening is that much of the rural area is becoming LESS dense as you need only basic services and health care, gas food, etc.

There's also other things that need lots of space that you can easily do in rural areas that you can't do other places. If I was to switch to running a textile mill, or a machine shop, and did it in Seattle (where I live now), or St. Louis (where I used to live), I'd have to plunk down 2-5 million on a warehouse. If I did this in Wenatchee area or Owensville, the land is like $200k, and I just build the building and put that other 1-2 million into better tooling and employees, and the effective minimum wage (what people actually need to live), is a lot lower out there because everything is cheaper. Which means product is cheaper.
Would you please read the guidelines before commenting further?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
If you took ten seconds before you placed your order, you could instead realize that the vast majority of these decisions you're making our irrelevant to your life and you could spend your time doing more enjoyable and worthwhile things instead, without driving yourself to decision fatigue over a pickle.
I continue to believe - as I've said in prior HN comments - that the Chinese leadership welcomes this slowdown and the related trade dispute as a means to rebalance the domestic economy, while placing the blame for the rebalancing on the United States. I note that at least one distinguished China watcher agrees:

https://carnegieendowment.org/2018/07/27/china-s-best-option...
Also never forget what depression does to a person.
I like Casper Carver and the Swoard guys. Casper uses mid '90's stuff like asyms but it fits his style.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQBXNum6l_M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmfUjxM_NOQ

I can link turns laid down on a good day on a good slope but it's not even half as nice as what they do.
No. https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/backplane vs. https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/backplane-io
> Many of my sites are focused to low-education, low-ability, and marginalized people. That means accessibility, semantic coding, standards compliance, and clarity are paramount.

Those are nice! But they don't require that it be easy to swap out one global CSS for a completely different one. Which is what is accused of "breaking down" in the post you replied to.
Show HN: This agency is doing free landing page design for 4 startups
I had a similar issue with comcast. I sent back a modem I didn't need, took photos and even had a receipt. After around 8 hours of phone calls asking them to remove it from my bill and them giving me the run around. They continued to charge me and sent my bills to collections.

At collections, it continued like this for months, I sent photos, I even had a recording of a comcast manager saying "we shouldn't have billed you, and will remove the charge".

After 18 months of fighting this $300 charge and around 30 hours of debates... I just paid the bill
Within wall gardens you are the sharecropper.
I would anticipate the kiosks move to voice control before they would ever go back to cashiers.
KDE these days has pretty much earned my forgiveness for the last couple of bid re-dos. It's a really fantastic DE again.
Pretty simple: Disallow posts about the subject of the storm. Do so with the explanation that it is a moral good to prevent this kind of dogpiling and that those taking part should be ashamed of themselves.
"Misuse", that's part of what it always did and does
It isn't, but hackernews is full of people who have fully bought into the idea that all government things are bad.
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Anyone remember Yahoo! Music? Another market leader that is now defunct.

"Yahoo Music was the number one online music site in terms of audience reach and total time spent in March 2007."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Music

Unlimited streaming for $9/mo: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Music_Unlimited
When houses fall they fall they kill people.

And houses are not free.
The article points to less easily faked data to indicate the slowdown, not the official statistics that are widely known to have a tenuous relationship with reality.
I think it's terribly worrisome that anybody is talking this article seriously.

To be upfront about my own assumptions: I totally believe that licensing in general is nonsense.

But that's not the point! Just because something agrees with our preconceived notions doesn't mean the evidence holds any water whatsoever.

And this piece has a few classic "terrible science reporting" features:

- It wildly overstates the scope of the original research, making it sound way more broadly applicable that it really is. The research doesn't actually appear to have a solid method for quantifying costs at all, and it doesn't appear to have a method for quantifying benefits either. Sounding like your using statistics https://ij.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Licensure_Report_W... doesn't make your data any more real-world impactful. The data does appear to reasonably quantify the amount of licensing, and there are some indications as to how much that affects labor costs. That's pretty much it.
- It omits key facts that would lead readers to critically examine the evidence, such as the fact that it was funded (at least in part) by an advocacy group (John Templeton Foundation) dedicated to market freedom, and it was performed and published by a thinktank similarly dedicated towards deregulation (Institute for Justice). That doesn't automatically invalidate the research, but insofar as the researchers and publishers have considerable leeway in choosing methods, areas of study and what to publish, you should expect considerable bias - and the fact that their analysis supports their political stance certainly doesn't suggest otherwise.
- It's published by and appears to target those who likely already hold similar beliefs; i.e.: this appears to be part of the trend to live in your own bubble.
- I don't think they actually linked to the original research? I'm assuming it's https://ij.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Licensure_Report_W...?

If anything, the lack of convincing evidence despite all of that and despite my own assumptions leads me to question if this belief really is valid. But I'm still betting it is, and that this kind of thing is simply hard to measure with means like this.

TL;DR: unconvincing, but at least honest-looking research that tries to extrapolate some solid-looking questionnaire into something totally different, which was then regurgitated into trash journalism designed to deceive, not inform. I don't read a lot of Forbes, but clearly they're a publisher to be wary of.
And 1970 and 2018. Those activities are evergreen.
No, different people entirely.

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/backplane

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/backplane-io
If they're not very clearly stating the opposite, the answer should be assumed to be yes they are monetizing it.
100% agreed. i don't think anyone should ignore it by any means. it's just that the FBI/NSA/etc seem to just keep doing it, which is why it shouldn't come as a surprise, they've been caught many times doing questionable data gathering.
What state is this? How do they require minorities to have ID but not whites? Apologies if these questions are naive, I'm not particularly familiar with midwest politics.
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Wholeheartedly agree, asking the right question helps in getting closer to the right answer. In my undergraduate Mathematics curriculum, "The Art of Problem Posing" (Brown and Walter) was required reading alongside "How to Solve It" (Polya and Conway).
> I skateboarded regularly for approx. 15 years before my first snowboarding trip.

Same! I went for the first time earlier this year. I plopped around for about a half day, but by the end of the second day I was doing some easier blues without too much problems.

I think the one thing skateboarding helped most with was being comfortable riding sideways. Also backside powersliding (carving?) is one of the most amazing feelings on a snowboard.
It's merely claimed that he made such a statement. Where? To whom (there are multiple authors, one of them?) None of this is indicated.

Modern journalism is garbage, and you've already demonstrated the public accounting of this case is poor quality. We can speculate why.
It's even easier to build something that's more complex than needed, because of original bad design or accumulated cruft.
As is the case with any money market account...
Actually worse. Cash is porous giving a nice surface for bacteria to hold and is rarely if ever washed.
Author here — thanks for your interest! So far we do not know of a way to estimate the noise scale without any training. You can generally get a rough picture of the noise scale from a small fraction of a training run, but the noise scale tends to increase over time, so to get a fully accurate measurement you do need to do at least one full training run. You also need the hyperparameters (primarily the learning rate) to be reasonably well chosen, but the choice of batch size isn’t important — and the batch size is what you’re trying to determine.

We also show that it's possible to compute the noise scale as you train (without any extra overhead), and this can be used to adjust the batch size in real-time, so that in theory you can get it right the first time and in a way that adapts over the training run. However, those experiments are still preliminary (see appendix D of the paper).
How much are these? (USD ea for 100,000 volume, say)
I love how poland embraces their history. Those beach baskets in Sopot are just typical of here and my wife’s grandparents have pictures in the same basket chairs that are out there today (kinda).

Many farm pictures can be seen with a 1 hour drive from Sopot today. There are some really remote places where people have horses, yet they have near gigabit LTE service. Borzestowo for example.

Coming from America where we have no single ancestor except “freedom” it’s hard to imagine why people would want to hang out there like that. However, it’s just part of the culture. We are lucky to be part of it.
In fact colonies were the engine that created Western Democracies. At ancient Greece time, where democracy as a term was coined, "demos kratos" meant power of voting citizens. Where the citizen is a "respectful person" - wealthy guy - slave owner at least.

Nothing have changed in principle since then, it just slave ownership became "remote".

How many African, South American, Indian gold coins lie under each stone of those beautiful European plazas?

Yes, without that cache flow the humanity might had no Enlightenment and Industrial Revolution as they were so
all this is not that black and white. We just need to understand that.
Some version at least will be yes. RE: RoT + RISV-V, cache isolation appears missing here, so sidechannel attacks using cache timing and other methods still work
When municipal fiber started moving into Utah, CenturyLink was a big offender of paying off local authorities to restrict and limit deployment. Lots of cities and areas didn't get upgraded for that reason. Less customers for fiber meant less customers to payback the investment - ends up costing everyone else more. CenturyLink is textbook rent-seeking behavior.

My advice to anyone moving into the Utah area is check the internet service provider options first. Last thing you want is to be in an area serviced only by CenturyLink.