skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I imagine it is just hard and annoying to try to enforce a time limit. You don't want your cashiers and baristas to have to keep track of how long each person has been sitting at a table. Plus, your cashiers may not be comfortable asking a homeless person to leave the establishment since it could lead to a confrontation.

On top of that, I could totally see a time limit rule being implemented poorly. The well-to-do looking businessman probably never gets asked to leave, while the young non-white person gets asked to leave...

I'm not saying cash-less is a good system, just saying the other policies have their issues as well.
I host such events in my home here in the Bay Area in addition to attending such events hosted by others. Happy to answer any questions.
Given the extremely sensitive nature of this investigation—not only the political implications, but also the fact that it involves a state known to conduct assassinations on foreign soil—a closed-door hearing is entirely reasonable.
Great point. I was thinking of returning to finish my degree at $US_PRIVATE_COLLEGE, where tuition is around $60k/year now. ETH and EPFL in Switzerland, about equally good, turn out to be, like, 1/3 the price, and those are at the expensive end. (You do need competence at French or German first.)
> Often an algo or structure is so much better described with an image or video- yet most comments are text based.

I've written my fair share of ASCII diagrams. I've also smuggled links to wikis into my doc comments for e.g. cross platform abstractions for on-screen keyboards. Then I can link all the screenshots I want. Or to gifs/videos for shader effects demos. Or to a series of images and code snippets for tutorials, or ...

Heck, if you're using markdown doc comments, there's no reason you couldn't embed image URLs that get expanded directly into inline images by the doc generator...
It’s probably “we now have two idle supersonic jets”. Everything else they already had. And good budget planning always helps.
Folks on the east coast are often hesitant to move to the west coast because of distance from family. I think the west coast already has plenty of tech hubs so who do they draw talent from? Who wants to leave the Valley for Reno? Outside of gambling and tourism what major anchors are there?

Austin became a tech hub over decades due to anchors like UT, National Instruments, Dell, Intel, IBM, etc.
Wow, I had no idea there was such a thing as simple.wikipedia.com! It apparently tries to follow 'Basic English'[0] that's comprised of only 850 words. The difference between the simple version[1] of artificial neural networks is a lot more approachable than the normal version[2]!

0: https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_English

1: https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_neural_network

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_neural_network
Lift Aircraft already built working eVOTL for 1 passenger. 16 engines. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSbynmTcAYk
The world is littered with examples of this, mostly showcases of what urban planning of the time didn't understand. So much so it's a recurring theme on 99 PI:

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/bijlmer-city-future-p... -- ended up as slums outside of Amsterdam

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/soul-city -- a city for and by blacks

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/fordlandia/ -- ford's company town to build tires

There's also Brasilia that was supposed to be full of monumental grand plazas, but they learned people don't want to walk 3/4 of mile through a grass field outside their apartment tower just to get to the local market bodega.

Today I think Google is making one outside of Toronto, and I heard of someone doing something around Boulder. Economic Opportunity Zones (ie regional tax breaks for development) are kinda in this realm.

Personally I'm waiting for Elon's planned city where he will MVP all his social and organizational concepts before blasting off for mars.
> “Artists can’t afford to live here anymore,” Baer said. “The cool people are going off to live somewhere else.”

That's a disingenuous way to frame a real problem. Makes it sound like hipsters with twirly moustaches are deciding to take their unicycling-pantomime act elsewhere.

Realistically - if you're not working in tech, fuck you and fuck off. You're just not welcome. Keeping you as a citizen is a negative value proposition (short term).

Real estate developers are catering to a huge influx of high-income citizens from other states, so the bottom's getting squeezed out. That'll become a problem when the proposition of working outside the tech industry is completely nonviable.

The city itself is focusing on continuing growth rather than handling it; public transit works alright if you pick where to live based on bus/train stops, traffic's pretty bad no matter when or where, the police are complaining about not having the resources to respond to emergency calls in a reasonable amount of time, etc.

If you're working in tech and coming from CA or NY, Austin is a great place to live. Come on over. Rent near a bus or train station, or get some douchey condo downtown. Buying is a sucker's bet, though. You missed the beginning of the bubble. The wheels are probably coming off this thing eventually, and that's gonna hurt the value of your investment when you move back out.
> Plus, we have breakfast tacos. :)

I miss a lot of things about living in Austin, but that has to be right at the top of the list. Right next to that other giant of Texas breakfast cuisine, the brisket kolache.
The company twitter has set its terms of service. That is speech. What you're suggesting is eliminating the corporation's ability to do speak in that manner.

Do you believe the US government has the ability to simply prohibit speech by corporate entities? Is it in accordance with free speech principles for a federal government to prohibit certain types of speech?
That's a widely criticized study because it ignores the cost of failure. It only looks at the r&d investments of companies that received FDA approval for a drug. It's like doing a study of the odds of winning the lottery, and only analyzing people who won the lottery

Considering the fact that 90% of phase 1 drugs never get approved and that study seems quite biased. That study conveniently assumes that all those medicinal chemists, who've worked decades and never seen a drug approved, simply don't exist
I haven't logged in for a long time and they've started sending me text message notifications about friends posting photos.
Except the Standard Oil break-up was considered a failure. The new companies all reported back to Rockefeller.

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/02/15/695131832/anti...
> And if they want to do that, they can. Nobody is removing your ability to drink. You're taxing it more heavily because this specific choice results in societal problems that everyone else has to clean up.

Apply the same argument to healthcare. The main difference is that you think that you have the right to tell people what's good for them.

> This hypothetical tax is meant to represent my desire not to have to deal with the consequences of your choices.

If a man and his son crack a couple beers by the fire in Wyoming, why should their private activities be any of your business? Why impose your will more on the poor than on the middle class or the rich? Your desires are not relevant to the right of ordinary Americans to buy and sell alcohol to and from the willing, just as they are irrelevant to the right of a single mother to raise her own son, or for teenagers to get pregnant; it's just none of your business what people do once you've said your piece, no matter what you think of the risk that they might tend to be more likely to behave in a way you dislike.
> various new ways to get cozy with strangers—from lectures on tantra, workshops on “rope play,”

Neither of those typically involve getting "cozy with strangers," at least no more than going to an art gallery or meetup or hike.
Especially since Juul is not a tech company.
More effective than breaking them up would be imposing regulation. Force the incumbents to allow 3rd parties to use their infrastructure at a regulated wholesale rate, and then compete on service.

In Canada, there's a bunch of smaller cable resellers. For instance, Shaw does cable/phone/tv and also has some wifi infrastructure deals with various commercial businesses, and provides "Shaw Go Wifi" access to internet subscribers.

In my local area, we also have LightSpeed which resells access to Shaw for a cheaper rate, but you need to buy your own modem, and there's no wifi access around town. Trade-offs, and a slightly more healthy marketplace.
>Excluding the most affluent suburbs higher quality urban real estate is often more expensive.

This isn't really true in my experience. What is true is that housing is more expensive in terms of $/square foot in the middle of the city. However, this doesn't mean you'll find a cheaper place in the suburbs: if all the housing in a suburb is giant McMansions, they're still going to be more expensive than a small condo or efficiency in town. This is what I've found when I moved to my current city (DC); it just didn't save any money to live farther out because I don't want 2-5 bedrooms, as I'm a single guy. So it makes more sense for me to live closer to town in a small condo where I can enjoy the benefits of living closer, and my total rent is cheaper, and I don't have a giant house that I don't make use of, nor do I have to pay to heat/cool that giant house that I don't use.
Microsoft updates Store revenue split to give developers 95%, with limitations
While I don’t know what Google spent their money lobbying for, so I’m not going to pick a side in my comment. I’d say the more important thing isn’t who spent the most money but what they spent it on. If for example Google spent some of that money fighting for Net Neutrality then that is better in my mind then Comcast spending most of their money fighting against it. I’m not saying this is the case or that Google has lobbied for good things. But knowing generally what they lobbied for would be a more useful piece of information.
First - architects shouldn't be lumped in with engineers in this context. It seems like there's some confusion around how far the responsibilities of an architect extend, which makes me wonder if things are different in the US? Whenever I research it seems to be the same as Australia though. Anyway, architects know as much about structural engineering as engineers know about Le Corbusier. An architect would really have to mess up to be criminally negligent.

But in response to your comment, engineers have a very clearly defined set of rules, collectively called "the code". As long as they design to them you'll be free of criminal negligence (at least during the design & development phase, things get a little murkier in construction).

More to the point, engineering for the real-world means layer upon layer of uncertainty. e.g. civil/structural engineers use materials we can't model (we use pretty-good approximations for concrete behavior) in conditions which are unknown (soil) to resist forces we can't predict (weather, earthquakes, dynamic response to loading). How does the code deal with all this uncertainty? Slap safety-factor after safety-factor onto everything. Whoever comes up with a method for more effectively dealing with this stuff will make millions.

The most obvious example being that we design structures to resist a 1-in-100 year storm. In other words, we expect a structure to be within spitting distance of failure every hundred years. But as long as you design to that standard, you're fine.
content here: https://www.outline.com/6SsN3G
You’re exactly right. It’s the same reason we’re required to sign checks then the bank promptly ignores the signatures. It’s cheaper to handle the fraud than check the signatures, but it makes us feel good to do it anyways.
It's like an 8000 word review. Ironically it's you who refuses to read.
"a thermite infested apartment in Sicily"

I sometimes wish I could use thermite against some infestations... wouldn't be surprised if cockroaches evolved to survive that too.
One obvious answer is parallel builds. It's an immense waste of developer productivity to force builds on developer machines.
So where’s the next Austin for tech?
There have been a few such documentaries. I even saw one that followed a woman who worked at one of those cafes, and she would in turn spend large amounts of the money she made at another intimacy cafe.
> How is that different than a department store?

I think it is different. When a department store buys a third-party product, it pays for it and the Store bears the risk of the item not selling. If Macy's decides to make their own brand, they did so by transferring risk from manufacturer to themselves in the beginning; if a product didn't sell enough, they had stake in it. There are some successes (store-brands) and some failures (brands they bought, never worked)

In the Amazon Basics case, AMZN doesn't own inventory for the product at all. All the risk is to be borne by the 3rd party manufacturer. When Amazon looks at its data and sees a product succeeding, it creates a Basics product with no risk - it knows this thing sells. There is no way Amazon can 'fail' per se.

This essentially is the difference. Any manufacturer is likely scared of success on the Amazon Marketplace. If too successful, it can be Amazon-Basic'ed.

> The consumer (along with Amazon) is a beneficiary here. The losers are brands trying to sell commodity items at a markup.

I think in the short-term for that product - yes, the consumer finds a cheaper product, but Amazon will always have an economies-of-scale advantage.

However, long-term, I think innovators will not know if making a highly successful product (which is always difficult to sell cheap because scale isn't achieved) is worth it.

I found this episode from Planet Money pretty informative: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/02/22/697170790/anti...
The value and impact on commercialized surveillance depend critically on the ability to generate large databases, both on the any specific indivual, and on the the number of individuals thus affected. Breaking up dataminers probably would help.

And if we take a step back: this isn't necessarily only about privacy, but about capitalism and competition. Data-miner customers, and data-miner subjects might both get a better deal if there were competition between the middle men, at least more than now.
Why would you want to live in Vegas? Bleh.
Except that at the end of the civil contempt confinement the prosecutors often file criminal contempt charges.
We are working also on micro turbo fans (<250lb thrust class). Current TBOs >250 hrs
> From what I understand, the greatest difference between mainframes and minicomputers (and later, microcomputers), is that mainframes were batch-oriented machines, while minicomputers were interactive-oriented.

Actually, a lot of early interactive computing was done on time-shared mainframes. I learned to program in 1968 when I saw a Teletype machine in our high school math classroom and found out it could dial into a timesharing system where you could write and run programs interactively.

At first we were dialing into a General Electric mainframe, and partway through the year switched to an SDS Sigma 5 at a local Phoenix timesharing company, Transdata. I got my first job there that summer.

The next year I moved to the Bay Area and started working at Tymshare, where we used a variety of mainframes to provide interactive services, along with some minicomputers for network routing. It was the biggest timesharing company of the day, and there were many others.

Timesharing was a big business from the late 1960s through the 1970s. Of course there were many mainframes doing batch processing too, but interactive computing certainly wasn't exclusive to minicomputers or microcomputers.
Kaiser could do so much with the data they have and could have. I wish they were more forward looking.
If you're interested in older Silicon Valley history,

In Search of Stupidity: Over Twenty Years of High Tech Marketing Disasters ( https://amzn.to/2EJjvHG )

is pretty good, although he gets some things pretty wrong himself, like the rise of open source.
Sounds like sex is a deeply emotional practice for human which intersects with any faith, rather than being a consequence of LACK of religion. (those pagan practices you cite WERE religious, after all). Several (all?) prominent religions are certainly opinionated on when and how one should and should not have sex.
Was there "coordination" aside from Democrats being angry that a lot of leaks over the best decade paint Hillary Clinton in a bad light? The left seemed pretty willing to hate on Clinton as the archetypal imperialistic neoliberal archvillain, until she became the nominee against Trump.

I'm reminded of this video from Rap the News that I recall seeing as typical of how the leftist internet thought of Hillary Clinton during the Obama era:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hl4NlA97GeQ

When it was Bush's State Department being exposed committing war crimes, was Wikileaks coordinating with Gore and co?
I've heard that too, but in a couple different ways. I have heard that economy is low-margin because of the increased market competition. In a saturated market with limited potential for new customers, premium options are also a rare area for growth. That makes sense to me. But I have also heard that, per square-foot, economy cabins bring in more total money.

I think it depends on your perspective. On a daily basis any ticket above economy is a win, a more profitable ticket to be sold. On a larger scale, when airlines are determining how much space to allocate to various classes, economy does seem to be where the bulk of money comes from.
There Is a Second Valley Past the Uncanny Valley – The Canny Valley
From Linus himself: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wi2E4kugAW7BQwNSVwYHOr=B_...

> Because I think the likeliihood that anybody cares about a.out core dumps is basically zero. While the likelihood that we have some odd old binary that is still a.out is slightly above zero.
"less NIMBYism than SF" isn't really saying much.
The author of the blog entry is looking at things from a different angle. He knows the cost is low because demand is low. He's trying to figure out why demand is low. He wants to find a way to make that idle time useful time that produces value greater than the cost.
Navdeep, can you please send your profile and LinkedIn to hr@voix.ai
Cashless comes with problems that cannot be avoided. It's easy to trace cashless. What with more and more entities interested in an individual's purchases (insurance companies car/health/house), being able to buy things in cash is important.

There are certain things I will only pay cash for to avoid the stigma, insurance issues, and some others: booze, fast food, firearms (face-to-face private transaction, which is legal in TX), and tobacco. All of these are paid for with cash.

There is an increasing interest from various companies to learn who buys this stuff. Everyone is trawling the databases to learn more about you. I pay cash at the supermarket for everything, because your purchase history is sold. I know a couple of people in marketing and a couple in the insurance industry, and these people have talked with me about this stuff.

Hospitals and insurance companies are now trawling social media and other sources to get dirt on people and to see how their incomes and habits stack up for a variety of reasons. Articles abound on this behavior. I'd rather not be on the radar of anyone for my purchase habits. Cash, for now, allows people to enjoy their peccadilloes without fear of their insurance going up or other bad stigmas. I have "nothing to hide" as the saying goes, but I'm private and none of this is anyone's business.
I guess the signatures are there in case someone complains? They can just pull the check and see if the signature is legit. But checking every signature is simply too much work.
It depends on your reason for interacting with them; what are you trying to gain from the conversation? Are you being pressured by friends? Is it work related? Are you trying to solicit something from them? Do you want them to like you or hate you? The most efficient approach would be to optimize for the desired outcome of your encounter.
Sure, but I guess the question is, is that a doctor's value? Being good at interacting with people? Is that really the primary thing we want from them?
Yes you're correct. I neglected to account for the bijection between even naturals and odd naturals, and was only considering finite strings. Since we're talking about infinite (or potentially infinite) strings here, the reduction in entropy is alright as you've stated since even and odds occur with equal probability if every digit of Pi occurs with equal probability.
In this scenario who is "we" that invests that time and energy?
They don't want to make it hard to use your credit report. The worse job they do with security theater the more money they make, and the easier it is for you to obtain credit products. If they actually applied any reasonable security, the friction of getting new credit would reduce new customer acquisition.

For my view, that's ideal: people should put real, explicit thought into obtaining new credit or debt products. It's too easy right now, especially with products like Credit Karma trivializing getting new credit cards.
> SSN and DOB data is widely available for sale in the cybercrime underground on almost all U.S. citizens. This has been the reality for years, and was so well before Equifax announced its big 2017 breach.

Again, I find that this only reinforces the fact that SSNs are not a useful identification system because there's nothing secure about them. Can someone explain where attackers obtain SSN/DOB data with such a widespread success rate?
> The difference would be Amazon's [alleged] monopoly power.

I don't see Amazon as being particularly more of a monopoly than Walmart. If Amazon was a traditional brick and mortar business, would we even be having this conversation?
Wikileak's "affiliation" is perceived to be the opposite of whoever the last group they exposed was. You could easily "change it," just send something exposing someone else. Clearly, this is not how affiliation works; suggesting that they might not have much of an affiliation in the first place.
Austin is very hot in the summer. The average high is nearly 100 degrees in July and August: https://www.usclimatedata.com/climate/austin/texas/united-st...

Miami is 90 degrees. And Austin is humid too.

And there's no comparison to NYC, which isn't even usually above 90 degrees.
For the same reason that you like things that other people don't. People are different and like different things. Some people like sharing their own images and following images from people/companies they like.

Some people don't. It's not a great mystery. People enjoy different things.
> the bank promptly ignores the signatures

You're technically supposed to sign and endorse the back of every check you electronically deposit; I have never done this since my bank offered mobile deposit and have never had a check rejected. It honestly just makes me sad.
Depends on which aircraft but the JB11 is approx 110dba at 25ft
But one of the tenets of the paradox is so much time has passed you shouldn’t have to work hard to detect alien life, they should have already colonized everywhere.

>Even at the slow pace of currently envisioned interstellar travel, the Milky Way galaxy could be completely traversed in a few million years.
Based on the spec I'm guessing it is an AMT Nike

Five engines in the render, assume 1 is redundant:

705lbs to metric: 3134N. Divide by 4 = 784N which is _exactly_ the max thrust of a Nike.
I feel like you're having a conversation with me... that you started elsewhere.

I don't understand what your statements have to do with my question.