skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't. This is not some obscure by-law from decades ago that a businessperson wouldn't be reasonably expected to know. I imagine a businessperson would already know what their cash policy would be prior to applying for a business license.

Businesses continue to have the right to refuse service to anyone. Just don't tell them it's because they brought cash. I don't recall Jim Crow laws having such loopholes.

The upscale cashless places mentioned in the article already have most if not all of their customers using credit cards, so this law won't be losing them any customers. Although as the article says, their cashiers may have to learn how to add and subtract change every now and then.
If it keeps more availability open for award flights, that's fine with me!
Flying private has always been one of my bucket list items, but the fact that flying US coast-to-coast private has the same carbon footprint as 10k Americans(!) use per year is kind of appalling. There's a certain level of FU that's hard to rationalize.
The article opens talking about first class to Dubai, which is an entirely different animal.

If you look at a United 777 [1], they don't even have a first class and nowhere near a third of the aircraft is "Polaris business class". Most domestic flights are like this, business class (or premium class or whatever they call the upgrade from economy plus) is usually full too because they bump people, people use miles to upgrade, or they offer cheap last minute upgrades.

1. https://www.seatguru.com/airlines/United_Airlines/United_Air...
So what you are saying is that big computers and little computers were fundamentally the same?
The government cannot compel speech. I don't think that using the power of the government to require some types of speech against the wishes of private entities solves the problem you think it's solving...
While our democracy is clearly flawed here in the US, we still have say in whom we're putting into office. A broad stroke of the electorate choose to put people in office who are outwardly hostile to environmental protection measures, so yes, as a society we allow these things to happen.
This is 2019. We have come up with so many correct tech solutions to problems, like inventing the Internet Protocol Suite and so on, where we once needed government. We have email instead of the post office. Desktop printing instead of the printing press. Xerox copiers were a game changer back in the day.

Why do we need government’s help to break up these monopolies? When AOL literally was the place everyone went to just be ONLINE, it semed unstoppable. Then came the Web, with its permissionless nature, and over time it completely took over, and led to trillions of dollars of new value. The Web is the plarform on which Google, Amazon, Facebook,
built their businesses, companies that would never get permission do that on top of AOL.

Now we need something similar to disrupt Google, Facebook, Amazon. I believe Wordpress was an early start, and indeed powers 30% of all websites today. But you need four things:

1) Open source and permissionless platform

2) A unified Social Operating System with well designed components for user accounts, permissions, realtime notifications, payments etc. like the graphical OSes had windows, menus and so on. A well-designed cathedral architecture like BSD.

3) A permissionless plugin system and marketplace where anyone could develop their own components and package them into plugins and apps, and sell them to communities.

4) A layer where you could go between many different domains and have a seamless social experience. This is key.

I am really passionate about this. I have put my money where my mouth is - my company Qbix has reinvested half a million dollars over the last seven years to build a platform to do just that.

What I said is just the surface. Please watch this video to understand in depthwhat I mean:

https://youtu.be/OzXnVSZbvAw

Would love to hear your thoughts.
Amazing how he was so astoundingly wrong about so many things and still managed to luck and cheat his way to the top.
Depends what you mean by "founders." You can certainly enable people who have interesting ideas for worthwhile projects without enabling them turning into owners of megacorps, and I think he's playing on the confusion. Google the search engine started as a Stanford research project, and we should, as a society (I'm intentionally not saying as government) provide additional support for grad students who want to develop cool projects and make them real who aren't interested in turning into business owners. Saying "Don't start Alphabet Inc." and "Don't start Google the search engine" are very different things.
Refactoring Class Based Components with Hooks in React
Nothing special, just manager in a software dev shop that works with a lot of airlines/airports.

As soon as your customers are abroad there is a lot of international travel involved for the management levels of any company. Although more and more companies are cutting back and making people fly coach :/
Chelsea Manning jailed for refusing to testify on Wikileaks
It really feels that with proper governance it should be possible to both extract the oil and benefit the environment overall. Reinvesting the profits in environmental improvement projects (both locally, but particularly in other places where small investments can go a long ways) seems like it should be possible to outweigh the damage.

That said, probably infeasible to achieve that type of governance in the US these days, so this Audobon approach of putting its foot down is possibly the most viable.
A new breed of supersonic executive jets will be even more polluting. The International Council on Clean Transportation, a think-tank, estimates that their emissions will be five to seven times greater than for standard jets. Boom, one of the startups hoping to produce these jets, has forecast that up to 2,000 such supersonic aircraft will be built by 2035.

They should make these guys go carbon neutral by installing CO2 scrubbers or similar for every plane they sell. There's no reason we all have to suffer the consequences of the super rich wasteful behaviour.
Is there something surfing specific to that meal choice or otherwise nutritionally useful for the activity? Or just the pleasantness of random taste profile aligning with someone else’s?

And what do you do with the other half of the can of pineapples?
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What was the result? 50%?
> if you've launched it any time in the past several years all the cosmetics items are garish and clash with the original designs.

True, there are quite a few items that do not fit in well the original aesthetic.

But nearly all of the items introduced into TF2 are designed by solo creators who get a percentage of the profits for any of their items sold on the store.

So yes, you now have a visually (not functionally) different game, but the upside is that talented designers from all walks of like can make a good living from the profit sharing model Valve has set up.
At normal highway speeds most car noise comes from air movement and tires. Electrification will only deliver a slight noise reduction.
Perhaps we need economic pressure to encourage consumers to stop buying products from climate change deniers and their states.
I'll just leave this here as well: https://www.gorillatough.com/product/gorilla-super-glue/
I modified the "randomize!" button to inject the de Bruijn sequence DB(2,6), and I get a rate of 50%.

Is there an error in my patch ?

diff --git a/not-so-random.html b/not-so-random.html
index 48c04da..c650b5b 100644
--- a/not-so-random.html
+++ b/not-so-random.html
@@ -169,8 +169,12 @@
randomHelpFunc = function(evt) {
evt.preventDefault();
//document.onkeydown = null;
- for (let i = 0; i<10; i++) {
- lastKey = Math.round(Math.random());
+
+ // db(2, 6)
+ var inputString = "0000001000011000101000111001001011001101001111010101110110111111";
+
+ for (let i = 0; i< inputString.length; i++) {
+ lastKey = inputString[i] == "0" ? 0 : 1;
testPrediction();
updateAll();
predictNext()
From Warren's blog post:

> ... Google’s ad exchange and businesses on the exchange would be split apart. Google Search would have to be spun off as well.

I think maybe her team needs to do a little more research on what Google's business is. Splitting off Android/Play or GCP at least creates potentially viable businesses. Splitting up search and ads creates two non-viable businesses.
5?! Pardon the wholly inappropriate comment, your innards must shine like polished steel.
The third line is a mispaste btw. You can delete it. ;)

Running this myself, the guesser is correct 46% of the time after 100 iterations.
If it were up to Bezos I bet he’d spin off the retail aspect of Amazon but keep AWS, the inventory/shipping logistics, and all the other infrastructure.
They could also do "real" e2e encryption but perform keyword analysis on the message's content on the client
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Please notice that the payoffs in this program are set up such that you will, in fact, feel cheated.

The basis for this is that you will likely spend maybe 30-60s playing this game so you will register something between 100-200 keypresses or so. If you just click the "Randomize" button you can see the problem: a truly random input source will fluctuate over 100-200 keypresses much more than it will be biased upwards, so that after 100-200 you will probably see some run of "bad luck" by which the truly-random algorithm crashes from $1005 to $995 or so. Now if this were you, you would have stopped there with the last 5-10% being predicted perfectly, and said "okay, okay, the algorithm has learned how I behave." But it hasn't.\

Part of this is the fallacy that people generally assume that over a large number of trials the standard deviation of a sum of random variables drops to zero -- that is true of an average but not a sum. So you have a discrete random variable which takes on the values +1.05 with probability 0.5 or -1 with probability 0.5, so its variance is basically 1.0 (off by 625 ppm but whatever) and so its standard deviation is basically 1.0 and if you sum N of these you have a standard deviation that is 1.0 √N while the mean is 0.05 N, these only equal when √N = 1.0/0.05 = 20 and thus N=400.

So at 100-200 trials, you cannot generally expect the systematic bias from winning extra money when you are random to visibly outweigh the random noise from just randomly being wrong, you have to go to 500+ trials to really prove your mettle. But most people just won't play this thing for that long.
Did a web search for that number to complete: it's $7.37 per user in Q4 of 2018, and that number is averaged over the whole world. In the US, it's >$30.
Awesome, upvoted for more visibility. Who needs advancements in medicine, tech, science? Not us! Everyone’s the same, everyone’s equal, everyone’s the lowest common denominator!!
SIFTs are rotation invariant. However, they are not good for classification.

Anyway, the early layers of an NN should be performing an encoding that creates scale and rotation invariance though, so that later layers can classify. That's what makes this result interesting. Well that and the ambiguity matches the human ambiguity.
Would that really fix anything? Nobody would trust that Facebook isn't tracking them anyway.
you're competing with wide-eyed 23 year olds

Not for senior/lead roles (I've done hiring in several companies). There are lots of people competing for junior roles but its still not that easy to recruit true seniors (10+ years work experience).
Nope! Usually if I need ui I reach for Clojurescript, but if I need something "native" I go for cljfx[0], a wrapper of javafx. But it's so much better than javafx - you get a really nice repl-driven, live coding plaform with functional state management and smart re-rendering.

[0]https://github.com/cljfx/cljfx
Not forgetting they licensed flight simulator from SubLogic.
I think it was a jocular jab aimed at the idea of "saving an import" and documenting that choice with a comment that's longer than the module import would have been.
> Breaking up Amazon or Google would benefit China more than the west

China doesn't seem to be having any problems competing, and winning, against Google and Amazon. Baidu and Alibaba are huge.
Agreed. This avoids the common argument against socialism removing incentives to success, while still providing social safety nets. Allow people to succeed, but when they do, tax them and regulate them to benefit the less fortunate members of society. The rich got rich in part because of the protections and services afforded them by our modern society. In having reaped a greater share of benefit, why should they not contribute a greater share of taxes?

There is a stark difference between socialism rooted in the above idea and socialism rooted in jealousy and vindictiveness toward the wealthy just because they're wealthy. We're not trying to punish the wealthy and we can still allow them to be very wealthy. But as the US currently stands, the wealthy could contribute much more while still having far greater quality of life than almost everyone else.
Hey there, I looked at this but still have no idea what it does. You say it helps limit the number of open PRs and encourages closing them and issues, but there is nothing telling me how it does it unless you read the entire screenshot which is more than I want to do at a glance to figure out what it does.

It seems to me that it auto closes the PRs that someone tries to open if the PR threshold is met? Does it do that to issues too? I think I wouldn't want a limit on issues personally.

I like the idea of the tool though!
Thanks. Any insight into how they justify grouping in unknown poisonings with those due to common medications?
There's a reason the super rich lobby for smaller government and fewer regulations.
I've eaten the same breakfast, and the same Sweetgreen salad for lunch (in 6-12 months streaks) for the past 5 years. The reason it works so well for me is the reduction in needing to make decisions every day, and feeling bad about having made the wrong choices.

I like this because this is in a part of my day where I need to focus on work, and being productive, and don't need to be distracted by food decisions.

I also LOVE food - so dinner, and weekends, are times where I actually love making decisions about where to eat, what to eat.
If we're worried about concentration of power, invasions of privacy, and collection of private data, the by far biggest problem is Warren's own employer.

Once we've broken up the federal government, we can start worrying about these much smaller and less powerful entities!
>The once cut-and-dried distinctions between city and suburb have blurred and no longer explain the actual places we live

I think this should be expanded on. If you live in a place where people commute to the urban center on a daily basis, then you are a part of that city's urban fabric, even if you are not "in the city".

The distinction between "urban" and "suburban" is mostly superficial based on the forms of housing common in each location, the modes of transportation commonly used, and the culture of each location. This is even evident in day to day speech, if you are traveling and meet someone who asks where you are from, from my experience you say the name of the city you live near, not the name of the adjacent suburb or township you live in.
Interesting.
I saw a video that explained exactly the opposite.

First class pays for the flight and the rest is filled up so no space goes to waste.
I use Firefox myself. But look at this Skype for Web it doesn't work on Firefox. It seems to me companies are getting so lazy that they don't even make an effort to support anything other then Chrome.
Premium economy IME is not just a little more legroom, its more akin to a domestic first class experience. Wider chairs, better meal, better booze selection, etc...

Note that "Premium Economy" is a newer term being thrown around and is different than Economy Plus, Comfort Plus and such that airlines throw around to denote the same economy seats with an extra 6 inches in front of you and maybe a free drink/snack.
It is not a monopoly in the US either. People are exaggerating.
>> As a society
> As a government

These are not different things. The government is made up of people from society. There is no secret cabal running things, just a bunch of people. If you want to treat the government as something other than yourself, then this is the inevitable result.
Whoops. Guess she won't be winning then...
Every evening for 4 years :

Pasta + Ketchup + Wasabi.

I just love it, and feel no need to change that!
Sounds like a ton of sugar and carbs to me with barely any protein...
This article feels like a direct response to the ideas of Stephen Pinker, summed up by this quote:

> one of the greatest epiphanies of the Enlightenment: that people are equipped with a capacity for sympathetic imagination, which allows them to appreciate the suffering of sentient beings unlike them

and, in the context of:

> Even the aspect of identity politics with a grain of justification—that a man cannot truly experience what it is like to be a woman, or a white person an African American—can subvert the cause of equality and harmony if it is taken too far, because it undermines one of the greatest epiphanies of the Enlightenment: that people are equipped with a capacity for sympathetic imagination, which allows them to appreciate the suffering of sentient beings unlike them. In this regard nothing could be more asinine than outrage against “cultural appropriation”—as if it’s a bad thing, rather than a good thing, for a white writer to try to convey the experiences of a black person, or vice versa.
>
> To be sure, empathy is not enough. But another Enlightenment principle is that people can appreciate principles of universal rights that can bridge even the gaps that empathy cannot span. Any hopes for human improvement are better served by encouraging a recognition of universal human interests than by pitting group against group in zero-sum competition.
You also have to look at the standards themselves. If a US water supplier violates a standard about some chemical not having more than 2 parts per billion because it had 2.5, and in some other country there's no violation because the standard is 15 parts per billion and they had 12, that's still not an advantage to the other country.

Last time I looked at this, yes, the US has very high standards and tends to meet them. Western Europe does as well, and also tends to meet them. ISTR there wasn't a systematic difference between the two, either; this chemical's limit might be slightly high here, but some other chemical's limit would be slightly lower. It looked more like what you'd expect from two similarly-concerned regulators that simply have no reason to coordinate than either side having higher standards.

You can't just look at violations. That procedure always makes things look bad because even just one violation is a violation, even just one error is an error, oh no! You have to look at the system holistically, and, yes, US water is pretty darned good when you look at it that way. You can't just look at problems but pretend to yourself or others that you're looking holistically at the situation.

(The Internet trains people to go "Oh, so we should just stop worrying about it then?" when someone says it's going pretty well, but what I'm actually saying is that our current level of concern is pretty much correct. It shouldn't be lowered. But there isn't much compelling reason to raise it globally, either. Only locally in certain places in response to local issues.)
Excellent! First class is an environmental disaster.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/27/climate/airplane-pollutio...

http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/141851468168853188...
As someone who has bought all of GTA games and the extra episodes and add-ons over the years it saddens me that there hasn't been at least one single player expansion for GTA V. I have absolutely zero interest in GTA Online but have completed the single player story multiple times both on Xbox 360 and PC.

I imagine it's far too late in GTA V's lifecycle for them to announce something now, and it's a real shame.
> We were taught that not removing your shoes/sandals when you visit someone's place is a sign of disrespect.

This can be said about central/east europe as well, and our western european friends seem to behave like that too. And I don't mean just removing dirty heavy winter boots, I mean any boots/shoes/sandals/etc used outside.
If there has ever been a monopoly, those 3 companies are it.

I wont speak for social media and search, but Amazon has a complete stranglehold on retail in the United States. People keep saying 'retail is dead', thats bullshit, Amazon has a monopolistic stranglehold on the selling of all goods. If that weren't the case, small shop brick and mortar shopping would still be a thing.
International flights generally have 3 (or lately, 4 with basic economy and economy plus) classes.
The post said "environmentally speaking", not economically.
That's an interesting point I hadn't really thought about. The set of all even naturals is isomorphic to the set of all odd naturals, so technically speaking you'd be right. If every number appears with equal likelihood in a sequence, you'd have evens and odds appearing with equal likelihood.