skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Polar melting: 'Methane time bomb' isn't a 'bomb'
Adding extra costs by using cash? Credit card companies take %3 of every transaction.
Isn't this the point of Folding@Home, SETI, etc...?
I wonder if these detections would become just impossible once NLP researchers figure out how to integrate adversarial training (specially GANs) into their models.
When the first snowstorm hits it never ceases to surprise me how the dynamics of the road change - not just the friction, but the number of lanes and where they go all change as people give their best guess, which over the next 2000 cards becomes codified. If you have self-driving cars following the old lanes you're going to have accidents.
I think serverless computing attempts to address this issue. You have an image that you can doing up whenever and access like a normal desktop, but when it isn't in use the resources go back into a pool that I managed by some authority. It is then the reposnsibility of the authority to load balance the resources and ideally optimize out wasted resources. This makes it cheaper for everyone.
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If I grokked the parent right, it's not that we are living in a simulation, but that the apex of development for a species is effectively becoming a simulation.

Now, whether that is an argument that life at present is itself a simulation is yet to be determined. However, I'd imagine given that ungodly level of computational power we'd have the wherewithal to construct a reality for ourselves far more compelling than this one. ;)
That's another variable.
What do you use for micro and macronutrients? Oatmeal will fill you and keep you going but there's not much in it.
> Regular motorcycles drive my crazy with the noise from their ICEs.

They don't have to be loud it's just that people pull off the stock muffler and throw on something different.

I used to have a ZX-10 that two owners before me used to amateur race which had basically straight pipes and it was entirely too loud -- used to set of car alarms just idling through parking lots. The police around here don't enforce the noise pollution laws so I didn't bother with it though I'm pretty sure my neighbors didn't like me too much starting that thing up at 5am.

My current bike (if I ever get around to getting it running) is as quiet as a kitten with its (intact) stock mufflers.
If by "regular Dragon" you mean Dragon 1, it doesn't have the SuperDraco thrusters necessary for vertical landing.
Monster truck madness was a similar situation too. I remember there was still a logo from the original company in there somewhere, on a license plate maybe?

This is from memory, mind you.

I still exclaim "roll over, Beethoven!" whenever appropriate.
Beyond Hybrid War: How China Exploits Social Media to Sway American Opinion
For starters, Horan is not a "transportation expert", he's never worked outside of the airline industry. His entire claim to fame is writing a multi-part story on why Lyft and Uber are never going to profitable, long before he knew anything of their finances.

Not saying he's wrong, but I would take anything he says with a grain of salt. Especially considering it's pretty clear that Lyft is in a hyper-growth state, with huge revenues and their only major overhead is labor, hardware and the cost of entering a new market.
what's your opinion of this Vice article, is it accurate?
- Not giving a middle man %3 of all the money you spend.
I really like ghc's comment style: all toplevel functions have a comment that describes usage and interface. Comments about implementation details and gotchas are floated out and referenced. https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Commentary/CodingStyle

prepareRhs :: SimplEnv -> OutExpr -> SimplM (SimplEnv, OutExpr)
-- Adds new floats to the env iff that allows us to return a good RHS
prepareRhs env (Cast rhs co) -- Note [Float coercions]
| (ty1, _ty2) <- coercionKind co -- Do *not* do this if rhs is unlifted
, not (isUnLiftedType ty1) -- see Note [Float coercions (unlifted)]
= do { (env', rhs') <- makeTrivial env rhs
; return (env', Cast rhs' co) }
...more equations for prepareRhs....

{- Note [Float coercions]
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
When we find the binding
x = e `cast` co
we'd like to transform it to
x' = e
x = x' `cast` co -- A trivial binding
There's a chance that e will be a constructor application or function, or something
like that, so moving the coerion to the usage site may well cancel the coersions
and lead to further optimisation.
...more stuff about coercion floating...
-} ``
Semi-frequent McDonalds eater here who wears size 30 - 31 jeans here.

I agree with the sentiment, but your numbers are somewhat off - a Double Quarter Pounder on its own is 750 calories, and a medium fries is 340 calories. You can get a cheeseburger at 300 calories, but I don't think that would feel filling.

If you're having McDonalds regularly, it works better if you just have one main meal a day. So you can have your 750 calorie burger, 340 calories fries, diet soda / water, and still have room for small snacks at other times of the day.

And personally, I'd be putting on weight at 1764 calories a day. I need to stay around 1500 - 1600, unless I put in a ton of extra exercise. I'm shorter than average.

[Edit: FWIW, not actually recommending others do this, do your own experiments. I've been keeping weight & body fat logs for 14 years, so I've got lots of personal data to track & measure against.]
Agreed, I tick a lot of these boxes but nahhhhh to this process.
Rain melting greenland ice sheet even in winter, alarming new study says
This should include renewability and pathway to permanence and citizenship. UK tech nation has permanence in 5 and citizenship in 6 which is quite compelling
Frankly, your response sounded like informed "scientism", so popular at the end of 19th/beginning of 20th century. I simply state that we should keep minds open to different explanations maybe someday observable by scientific method instead of trying to fit phenomena beyond our grasp into mechanisms known and proven today in unrelated areas, while expressing the hope that our civilization keeps improving instead of regressing. I couldn't care less if Universe had a special consciousness layer, or information layer, or we lived in some virtual machine of some grad student in a layer above us or whatever, but I wouldn't rule it out and wouldn't make fun of it either; I would also make sure if somebody comes with such a theory, that they stand on sound grounds instead of some new ageish demonology (popular in current neuroscience ehm) or whatnot. Whether I would allocate funding to it is a completely different matter (99.999% no).

If you start saying that "oh, it's just evolution", your contribution to the topic is zero, skipping any issues with that theory we can't explain yet, making it similar to a religion (which condenses certain observable facts into its rules otherwise it wouldn't survive). It's pretty normal for scientists to believe in 99% BS but if they are 1% right, we consider them super successful. None of the pioneers had any kind of holistic view of a field crunched through by theoreticians, after the initial discovery dust settled, taught at universities, so they inevitably believed all kinds of silly things from our current point of view. I hope the same would hold for our successors, having boldness to explore, instead of blindly taking existing knowledge without any doubts and punishing everyone who deviates from whatever narrative.
The second stage landing has been shelved, to work on Starship.
This. There's great opportunity ahead and calls for the Dems to lead with anything other than bold policies don't make sense.

Running on strengthening healthcare was primary among many reasons for their success in the Midterms.
This is true; it's become pretty standard practice to offer immunity, then compel testimony with Fifth Amendment protections waived.

Presumably that's what motivated Manning's focus on the private hearing and invocation of the Sixth amendment. Manning isn't the one being charged at the hearing, but compelling private testimony under threat of incarceration looks rather like a de facto private trial.
We’ll see.

>Equifax spokesperson Nancy Bistritz-Balkan said not requiring a PIN for people with existing freezes was by design.

>“With myEquifax, we created an online experience that enables consumers to securely and conveniently manage security freezes and fraud alerts,” Bistritz-Balkan said..
Better than the SS administration who ask "Where were you when 9/11 happened" or "Where were you when JFK was assassinated"...Took a screenshot of these but cant find it now. My method is picking the common questions like "what street did you grow up on" and assigning it a random/not true/or another question such as "I don't know what my favorite street is"
Overuse reduces the lifetime of CPUs. I'm pretty sure unning a CPU at full throttle for a week will burn it out.
We are distinctly not allowed to use URL shorteners at my enterprise company and our fraud prevention department regularly educates us about the dangers of clicking URL-shortened links (you have no idea if it will send you to a phishing site or not).

URL shortening was created so people could send tweets without using up their character counts on a URL. I'm pretty sure most software companies aren't communicating via Twitter, so I'm not sure the practical application of this anyways.

Good luck.
So what DEGIRO does is that they buy shares in a money market fund (MMF) with any cash balance that's left in your account at the end of each day. This is done on your behalf like an standing order.

For instance, if you transfer money into your DEGIRO account or you sell stocks and don't use (or transfer) that money on the same day, DEGIRO will move your money into the MMF. So you are effectively buying MMF shares.

When you use your money at a later date to buy securities or because you want to transfer money out of the DEGIRO account, they will automatically sell MMF shares on your behalf to cover the cost.

In some tax jurisdictions this disposal of MMF shares may be subject to capital gains tax (or other taxes). The exact tax treatment depends on the tax status of the MMF in the country where you pay taxes (usually where you live). You may also have to pay taxes on any interest you receive from your MMF shares.

Now, if the base currency of your DEGIRO account is the same as the currency in which you owe taxes and you're using Auto-FX (that is you're not holding other currencies in your account), this whole structure is unlikely to affect the amount of tax you owe. The price of the MMF hardly changes at all, so there will not be any taxable gains or losses in the fund currency.

But if you pay taxes in a currency other than the base currency of your DEGIRO account or you don't use Auto-FX, then any change in exchange rates may cause taxable gains or losses on disposal. You may also have to report the number of disposals, the total proceeds from disposals and/or each individual disposal in your tax return, even if no gains or losses have resulted from those disposals.

That's why it's important to know what the tax treatment of those money market funds is in your jurisdiction and if you have to include the MMF disposals in your tax return or not. Are the MMFs registered in your country at all? If not, you may have to pay higher taxes on any gains. Are they transparent for income tax? There are many questions.

It's easy to think of DEGIRO's strange structure as an internal affair for them. But that is not necessarily the case depending on the tax laws of your country and the tax status of these particular money market funds in your country.

DEGIRO is a Dutch company. They report all disposal proceeds as well as any interest income to the Dutch authorities who will then pass that information on to the tax authorities of your country of residence under CRS (Common Reporting Standard) rules.

Obviously, the information the tax authorities receive from DEGIRO should be consistent with what you report in your tax return. It's all the more important to understand the tax implications of DEGIRO's cash funds as mistakes you make in an offshore brokerage account may incur far higher penalties than the same happening in a domestic account.

I asked DEGIRO about the tax treatment of their money market funds. Their reply: "We don't give tax advice".
That reminds me of a joke - what's the probability of meeting of a dinosaur in the street? 50% - either I meet him, or I don't!

Not every event with two outcomes is 50/50, you know :) And the article does point to both the subject of the bet - unemployment indexes, which are known to all participants and it's kinda the job of the economist to know what they mean - and why Caplan thought he would win. It may be, of course, that he won randomly and his theory is still wrong - but in general people that successfully predict real world outcomes are regarded better in most scientific endeavors than people that predict wrongly.
Yep, that's correct! That works assuming you have access to setup subdomains for contoso.com. We make it easy for any employee, technical and non-technical, to update and create links.
>There are laws against businesses forming monopolies in the United States

That is not true. There are laws against certain behavior by monopolies.

Here's the Sherman Antitrust Act you mentioned, which makes this clear [1].

As such, it's not legal to simply break up a monopoly solely because they're a monopoly. They have to exhibit specified illegal behavior first.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherman_Antitrust_Act_of_1890
It's obviously a collective action problem and thus needs a collective solution. If I stop riding my car today, nothing changes. Would I be in favor of banning everyone, including myself from using any combustion engines by January 2020? Absolutely! Would it hurt? You bet! But it would be a incredibly reasonable trade off and we'd find new ways to cope. In fact anyone who lobbies for continued burning of fossil fuels should be charged with genocide.
How about we stop trying to come up with "solutions" that just cause more distortions, and exercise a bit of patience?

The 'cost vs. benefit' analysis should reveal similar ROI as "the wall."
Or perhaps take the lyrics from your favorite song and convert the letters to their respective number rank in the alphabet. Then heads for even and tails for odd numbers.
FWIW I think that DOES happen, but it happens on the "wrong" computers!

Google has at least tens of thousands of cores running builds and tests 24/7. And they're utilized to the hilt. Travis and other continuous build services do essentially the same thing, although I don't know how many cores they have running.

From a larger perspective, Github does significant things "in the background" to make me more productive, like producing statistics about all the projects and making them searchable. (Admittedly, it could do MUCH more.)

I think part of the problem is that it's cheaper to use "the cloud" than to figure out how to use the developer's own machine! There is a lot of heterogeneity in developer machines, and all the system administration overhead isn't worth it. And there's also networking latency.

So it's easiest to just use a homogeneous cloud like Google's data centers or AWS.

There's also stuff like https://github.com/google/oss-fuzz which improves productivity. I do think that most software will be tested 24/7 by computers in the future.

Foundation DB already does this:

"Testing Distributed Systems w/ Deterministic Simulation" by Will Wilson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fFDFbi3toc&t=2s

Autonomous Testing and the Future of Software Development - Will Wilson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFSPwJFXVlw

They have sort of an "adversarial" development model where the tests are "expected" to find bugs that programmers introduce. So it's basically like having an oracle you can consult for correctness, which is a productivity aid. Not exactly, but that would be the ideal.
Quote of the "Key Judgments" section from the article:

Key Judgments

Chinese English-language social media influence operations are seeded by state-run media, which overwhelmingly present a positive, benign, and cooperative image of China.

Chinese influence accounts used paid advertisements to target American users with political or nationally important messages and distorted general news about China.

It is likely that weekly guidance issued by state propaganda authorities drives accounts to propagate positive messages in concert regarding special events once or twice a month.

We assess that these Chinese state-run influence accounts did not attempt a large-scale campaign to influence American voters in the run-up to the November 6, 2018, midterm elections. However, on a small scale, we observed all of our researched state-run influence accounts disseminating breaking news and biased content surrounding President Trump and China-related issues.

We believe that Russian social media influence operations are disruptive and destabilizing because those techniques support Russia’s primary strategic goal. Conversely, China’s state-run social media operations are largely positive and coordinated because those techniques support Chinese strategic goals.
The SALT deduction cap removes an important incentive for perusing (using mortgage leverage) high value residential properties. Now we just need to cap mortgage interest deduction to a much lower level.

It's going to be a lot less appealing for high income people to pile into a few coastal areas when they can no longer deduct away most of their Federal tax liabilities by borrowing a $700K house.
> Are you saying an omniscient being is impossible, because something about quantum mechanics implies that it is impossible to possess all possible knowledge?

> Or are you saying that even if an omniscient being possesses all possible knowledge, they would nevertheless be unable to accurately predict all sequences because of some knowledge we have about quantum mechanics?

That's an extremely astute question. I'm impressed that you managed to realize that that's an important distinction and that you don't know which it is.

It's actually the latter, and incredibly we can prove it. And the proof of this is surprisingly accessible:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcqZHYo7ONs
Bad code. I would pay for better developers. But they are all happily employed (for the most part) and we cant exactly back up the brink truck...
> Anyone can spend $1 to make $0.50.

And very few can scale it to spend $0.50 to make $1.00. We aren't talking about a company selling a product for half what they pay. They are investing overwhelming amounts of money into growth.

> If this was their actual business model, they might actually be able to turn a buck.

Yes, just oversaturate the market with drivers and not enough passengers and you'll for sure make tons of money, constantly dealing with overages and shortages since you aren't managing supply in any way.
Also, GASP you eat plants that GREW in that shit for months.

It turns out most of the stuff you step in just won't hurt you in modern society.

And if you have pets (mainly dogs) they're going to bring some dirt in anyways.

I can understand taking off shoes on particularly muddy days, but otherwise who cares? A little dirt and grime is part of life, and exposure has been shown to be good for allergies.
There is a principle I have learned over time in infosec. Attacks only get better over time. If the defender does nothing, it is a net bad thing.
Password managers solve the storage part of making security questions secure, but there's still the question of generating sufficiently random answers in the correct format.

I look forward to password managers including generators for your birth date, family tree, childhood friends, favorite color and maybe also social security number, name and address if those aren't actually required for anything. Then you can have a value for your mother's maiden name that isn't incredibly common, but nonetheless looks like an actual person's name.
Leasing is just a financing model that may have implications for how assets are carried on a balance sheet.
Also, I'm reasonably certain the aluminum is coated with what amount to an anti-fouling coating, to prevent the growth of organisms on the surface.
You mean like we knew for cigarettes that doctors recommanded to relax the throat ?

The general populatuon is not a control group.
That is one rational position, not THE rational position. I'd say it is the only empiricist position to take, but not all rational arguments are necessarily empiricist.
I agree with what you are saying and it's unfortunate that many of the modern suburbs in America were never created around the concept of a village but were strewn about by various developers looking to put up quick, cheap buildings to sell at a premium. It's often boring, drab and desolate in a sense. Depressing at times for sure. On the other hand, living in a cramped condo or apartment with kids isn't my cup of tea either and US cities aren't always the most walkable or even have quality public transit. Unless you are wealthy, which affords you more options, it's all a trade-off in the final end.
Internet of Things Could Be Posing a Serious Internet Security Risk Everywhere
Yea, in absolute terms, Austin traffic isn't bad. I moved to Austin from Atlanta, and Atlanta has massive commutes and traffic. That said, for a while, my commute in Austin was ~3 miles. It took about 7 minutes on the weekends, and took between 30 and 45 minutes in average 8 AM morning traffic. (Loop 360, for the curious.)

Austin traffic is just amazingly severe for short periods - you'll see trips go to 2-4x the time regularly, and a trivial event in downtown is enough to cause a 2-3x increase in traffic. Even on the worst day, you're usually not looking at more than 45 mins in absolute time, but it's nearly mandatory to check Google Maps before you go anywhere, because there's a 40% chance it's going to take 45 mins to get somewhere you can usually get to in 5-10 mins.
I guess this means the 'meat maximalist' carnivory diet will eventually 'die off'
Isn't the founders' holding severely diluted? They've gone through, iirc, over a dozen rounds of funding and own very little in the company
So I built this as a prototype for the college I worked on. Broken links are a big problem with learning materials which are hard to change after publishing.

The idea was that someone is responsible for each link and any 404s would get corrected. Then if the person left active directory would assign the manager.

Hope that’s useful. It was also called go.
Personal experience and greatschools.org used to have a math comparison by state but I think they have changed their site since I last saw it.

Parents that can afford to move into the city send their children to private schools, so if you are looking at moving there and your children don't play football then I would recommend considering private school as an option.
As Elizabeth Warren makes clear in her post, "demonstrated consumer harm" isn't the only justification for antitrust action. We can't demonstrate the innovation that would occur in a competitive marketplace, but we break up monopolies with the faith that it will. This was the prevailing view until the late 20th century. Hopefully we'll get back to it.
Yes, I'd like to see someone demonstrate that they put some thought into the idea of what happens when, say, credit reporting agencies are eliminated or curtailed. What would be the negative repercussions, etc.

In contrast to a low-effort farting of "break 'em up!" for karma. That doesn't bring anything new to the conversation.
Having grown up in the South, I think I understand what you experienced.
That's true, but in this case it's not being used as a last resort, but seemingly as a matter of course.