skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For Chicago to Los Angeles, in June, I’m seeing
pricing for two people at USD 286, 358, 688, or 723,
depending on seating or roomette, for direct or via Texas,
and 1109 max via Sacramento & the coast. Granted, I may
be misreading the Amtrak site, whose UI/UX is sub-optimal.
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The mods on this site are a joke.
The current internet, at least the powers that be, won’t forget and will easily de-anonymize the current crop of edgelords.
Interesting. That echo test fails for me in Firefox but works fine in Chrome. However the repl doesn't give me graphics in either browser.
Worst thing possible? Really? That's a simpleton's view about existence. Countless planets die every day. I only care about the next 20 years I'm going to be alive for. I don't care about the planet or the survival of your children. Don't force responsibility on me.

So capitalism it is for me.
How are people stupid enough to download these apps?!?
I use this one! Love it. Does everything I need.
I completely agree.

The thing that bothers me isn't so much ads themselves, but the implicit meaning behind them: consumption. It's simply not a sustainable business or ecological model.
The point of SecureString is to ensure that sensitive information gets removed from RAM in a timely manner. It's just a wrapper around some native memory that gets zeroed when the SecureString object is disposed.

Otherwise, when you use standard C# strings, you don't know when the garbage collector will collect them.

(Granted, you could do similar things with pinning a char[] to a char* and zeroing it before you end the pin, but who wants to jump through those hoops?)
One is keen on using state power: lawsuits and the office of the president.

The other simply uses speech in response.

You seem to think that critical speech should be less protected that bigoted speech. I’m baffled by that position.
I wonder how much non-US sites and services an average American use daily?
There is no alternative unless we magically have free energy. The only way out of this is to colonize the solar system, galaxy. At that point the Earth's status as a habitable planet will hardly matter.
That was intentional on some level, an embodied metaphor to underscore one of the unifying messages Eric was trying to convey -- be wary of your fixed frames of reference, that's not from where radical leaps come.
When I first saw this app in the news, I downloaded it to see how this "conversion therapy" app worked. I was expecting step-by-step instructions on how to go from gay to straight, but instead I got an app for listening to Bible verses and devotionals. It's as much a "conversion therapy" app as any other conservative Christian app. I deleted the app because I have no use for it, but the whole thing is a tempest in a teapot.
Note I didn't say state any opinion about how we should deal with juvenile violent offenders.

What I take issue with articles making it seem like things are all rosy these days in California when I live in one of the wealthiest cities in the world which has an unbelievably rampant crime problem and woefully ineffective governance regarding this issue (and most other issues, really).

Also, I also take issue with the article alluding to the idea that a shift away from prosecuting crime is a good thing. I can see the problem with those policies in my city on a daily basis.

But at this point, I've given up on SF and I'm moving out. I've stuck it out here for too long and things aren't getting better, they're getting worse. I don't see the light at the end of the tunnel. So, so long…
Did anyone else confuse this podcast interviewee with Eric Weisstein at first glance?

http://www.ericweisstein.com/
http://mathworld.wolfram.com
Exactly, how much does the EPA cost enforcing clean air and water standards?
You can look into Alicloud (Alibaba Cloud) ICP, they provide English language services to help you set up a license. Still requires a locally registered entity (whether as a WFOE or a fully registered company) but they help a lot in navigating the bureaucracy.
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> After he quits, then promptly goes back to the same company.

In isolation, sure, this seems weird. But remember that around that time (Obama admin), a lot of techies were being invited to join the government in the "Digital Service". Many of them took leaves of absence (I know a couple) to work 6 months or a year in the government, fixing their systems, and when done, rejoined their previous companies. So, in context, it's not that unusual.

See, for example: https://www.cio.com/article/3288924/us-digital-service-recru...
$1,790 a month and 'no cooking' allowed: Welcome to renting in the Bay Area
I've been around the block in this country, and not defending SV, but DAMN are people narrow minded and out of touch pretty much everywhere.
Just read the article again only to realize the late paragraph was not "Good luck! Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus." LOL

Anyway, before I had a stable proxy, I actually set up my local DNS to redirect all .google.com., .facebook.com. and their CDNs to 127.0.0.1 just so I can "unblock" some other webpages. That was not a good experience.

Those script can actually be delayed from loading so they won't block the page. You don't need to actually remove them, just load them AFTER your page is loaded, and then most things will be fine. (Except for Google Recaptcha of course)

It's a good practice to un-trust everything you don't have control, and maybe make exceptions from there. Don't by default trust everything.
The culture of shaming and the conversion therapy programs exist for the same reasons. They aren't independent phenomena.
I agree with you, but it's not so black and white.

The atomic bomb is a notable example, and consider Eisenhower and many other military leaders said "there was no reason to use that awful thing." I realize my high school education, and most othet's, led me to believe this wasn't the case.

I'm not trying to say it's wrong, but it deserves a lot of skepticism.
What are end-users qualified to assess? Should we be able to choose what we want to eat if we aren't qualified nutritionists? People that aren't experts will certainly make poor decisions sometimes, or think they are choosing healthy food when it really isn't. Where do you draw the line?
The thing with expensive watches is they recommend to send them in for maintenance every 2-or-so years which isn't cheap, I know sending my watch costs me ~$500 for maintenance which was about 1/4 of the total price. Granted, it comes back looking brand new but I'm skeptical to believe that my watch will be appreciating greater than the costs of owning it. Then again, my watch isn't rare or crazy expensive, I just happen to really like it.
I was addressing the point in the parent comment:

> The question shouldn't be whether this technology is perfect, it should be whether this technology is safer than humans.
The lack of pockets in the women's version is a beautiful touch.
HHS proposed rules on biggest issues in health care "information sharing"
I want to start conversation about this huge news in Health IT. This is long awaited move towards information sharing. This new proposed rules makes sharing is the default and blocking is the exceptions. Essentially API's for accessing EHR records using HL7.

Sources:

https://www.cms.gov/Center/Special-Topic/Interoperability-Center.html

https://www.healthexec.com/topics/health-it/cms-onc-propose-new-interoperability-rules

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2019/03/04/2019-02224/21st-century-cures-act-interoperability-information-blocking-and-the-onc-health-it-certification
Apple and Microsoft are barely competitors anymore.

Apple is the only high tech company with a material retail presence.
I believe the fundamental reason was that testing on women of childbearing age was not recommended, so they tested on men.
"However, the victim and their family or friends may force a confession from the alleged criminal in any way they please."

Who is doing the forcing? Is it the state? If so, then I agree with you. If it isn't the state, with all of the force it entails, your argument is irrelevant and invalid.

You seem to be conflating social norms with state power.

We can't lock up an asshole just because they are an asshole, but we sure as shit can refuse to socialize with them. What would you want to be different?
Strange. Any error in devtools?
You think just like a NYT editor apparently; from the bottom of the page:

> A version of this article appears in print on March 20, 2019, on Page D1 of the New York edition with the headline: Watches Are the New Bitcoin.
This is dumb. Imagine there's a totally cashless economy that keeps out the unbanked. But then a merchant could price gouge the unbanked. But then there'd be competition for this high margin unbanked business. But then the merchants would compete for the unbanked by lowering their margins. But then equilibrium would be hitting the unbanked up for precisely the inconvenience overhead of dealing with cash. Unless unless unless someone interferes with the market in a regulatory way. Or gets impatient waiting for the inefficiency to right itself. Sheesh.
You want consequence free speech?

You seek to limit my ability to react to what someone has said?

You want to force me to host nazi comments on my blog?

You want to force me, personally, to provide a platform for
hate and bigotry and not chastise bigots?

I can’t call someone an asshole? I can't fire someone because they are an asshole?
>The survey of economists that the article poo-poos includes the comment by one economist that a government can print to pay its own debts exactly once (because people loaning to the government figure it out quickly).

The government can pay its own debts as many times as it wants.

It can also dial the interest rate up and down virtually at will through QE or raising interest rates.

It actually makes less sense to think of government debt as debt and makes more sense to think of it mainly as a publicly run savings account.

The government can also push private sector loan interest rates up or down at will through the setting of the base rate.
I'm really confused.

I have a fairly international website geared towards English language learners, with Google Analytics and AdSense and links to share on Facebook, hosted on Digital Ocean here in NYC...

and, without designing for it, China has been my #1 source of traffic and revenue for many years now, simply because they're the #1 largest population of English language learners.

It seems to be working fine. I mean, maybe my share of Chinese traffic could be even bigger, but does anyone have any hard numbers showing this is a problem? Or are Chinese users aware of slow loads but just put up with it?
It changes the way I drive. I don't focus on making minor adjustments to keep the vehicle centered in the lane. I don't need to predominantly look far down the lane to try to keep my peripheral vision maximized, and only take cursory glances around, like I would if I was actively steering. I don't worry about drifting out of the lane if I'm looking at something in the next lane over or in the rear-view for a moment.

I can scan more of my immediate surroundings and notice potential hazards which are not just directly in front of me much more easily.

I also find it's a lot less tiring to have the car dealing with the micro-adjustments in steering while I do the higher level planning.

I've said it before in other comments, but I honestly believe 20 years from now we might not have "sleep in your car while it takes you from point A to B" but we will look back and wonder how we managed to drive cars while constantly have to manually and meticulously center them in our lanes.

In fact I personally think it's quite analogous to how airplane autopilot actually functions (even if the general public perception of airplane autopilot does not match reality). It requires a pilot to constantly be monitoring the situation, and in fact it frees the pilot to be able to do necessary planning tasks, but at no point does the autopilot itself carry the actual responsibility of operating the vehicle.
Cutting corners during manufacturing is unrelated to safety rating (within reason).

The safety comes from robust design, not superior manufacturing practices. Neither are fit and finish related to safety.
> 1. A person who [...] maintains engines, machines, or structures.

So we should call car mechanics "mechanical engineers"? And maintaining structures? With all due respect to the janitors out there, their job is vital to society but it's not engineering.
We've had our own "Intranet" for many services. Its error message usually looks like "Sorry, you can't load this Netflix/Hulu/Pandora/Spotify/Amazon/HBO content outside of the United States." And now there's many sites with error messages like "Sorry, but the GDPR is, like, hard, so you can't access our site outside the US."
It's hard to take you seriously when your argument boils down to name calling and how obviously awesome FB is.
Amazon's ad sales are kind of a double edged sword though since most of their ads are from product vendors. If vendors need to spend X% of their revenue on Amazon ads to make sales, the prices of products on Amazon will rise to compensate for that new expense.
As the sibling pointed out, there are extensions for that, that may be useful in PostgreSQL.

It also is a good KVS, a document store, a queuing system, a pub/sub system, etc. While I usually add a message bus and a memory cache to a larger system, PostgreSQL can do all these things for you if you want to keep things simple.
I don't think the claim that the "intellectual darkweb" includes a broad range of political positions holds up to any scrutiny - the many prominent members of the group (Jordan Peterson, Ben Shapiro) are strongly identified with right wing politics and not one left wing of similar significance appears.
Yeah, it's inverted for me too (hemisphere looks carved into the screen). chubasco's comment seems to indicate there's a way of looking at it that goes the other way (and that my technique results in a backwards image), but IDK — the above is the limits of what I know.
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Have you ever played a real time strategy game?

I see Tesla as a company that is basically putting all their resources into building their tech tree and their vehicle and parts factories, but cannot mine enough vespene gas to support the stores.
I don't want to live in a world where the next superpower blocks websites as they suit them, suppress freedom of speech and journalism, exploit prisoners, religious segregation camps, employing social dystopian systems and is led by unimpeachable, unchallenged leader who has elected himself with a 1000-0 vote as perpetual president of the country.

It is sad to see that the rest of the world has to bend down to serve this repressive state. I've been to China and the people there are the same as us - I despise the party, not the people. The next generation that grows up there will not have the perspective of what it means to live in a free democratic country.
Arc’teryx gear is annoyingly good quality and well thought out. I don’t want all my gear to be Arc’teryx but it’s such a safe go to.
I have neighbors that used to raise chickens. When they went on vacation, I used to care for them for a week or so at a time. It's a lot easier than you might think. They are fairly low-maintenance, as animals go. And if you just eat eggs, it keeps things simple.

Also, the eggs were way better than anything you get from a supermarket.
"The test of whether or not you own something is whether you can sell it." I can't remember where I read this or who said it, but it's a good rule of thumb.
Exactly!

Tesla fans love to claim Autopilot is the best because, for example, Waymo's system is not available to purchase. How then can we be expected to believe a secret Tesla battery project is beating competition? There is no independent review and it is not in production.
you're missing my point.

many ads "work", and even in a perfect world where I only see the ads that "work" for me, that doesn't mean I want to see them.
I've secretly thought it was like the airlines taking away legroom and making you buy it back with an upgrade.
VPN usage is popular, even more so among the educated who might want to improve their English. That’s who you’re targeting anyways right?
> * companies that buy blood and skin, and who come to possess other body tissue, do under circumstances retain property rights over that tissue

Are there special rules about who can buy blood and skin? Otherwise why can't I just sell my blood to my friend and then immediately buy it back, thus acquiring property rights to it?
Will now have image of crust punk playing Old Dan Tucker firmly burned into my mind
It’s not really that odd. Anglo law has several different areas of law, of which property is one. Humans have special status, so things to do with people and their bodies falls under the umbrella of torts. If someone punched your dog, you sue them for trespass to chattels. (Because dogs are property.) But if someone punches you, you don’t sue them for trespass to your body. You sue them for battery, which is a tort especially for injuries to people.
He's a mildly-odd high-end AI researcher with a somewhat cynical Russian outlook, I neither expect nor want highly polished interviews from him. In fact, it's exactly because he's somewhat idiosyncratic that he's fascinating to watch have a conversation.
Yeah no thanks.
Both can be true. Especially if you look at it as someone taking advantage of a broken system.
Extra complex because the major networks don’t peer with each other very well so you end up having to have PoPs on Telecom, Unicom, and China Mobile.
The funny thing is that the concept of inclusivity has always been at the core of Star Trek, so if anything, Discovery is simply keeping with the status quo.
"I think people making money making music was an aberration in history, not "the way it should be"."

I don't want to put words in your mouth, but are you saying you think we should go back to the way musicians used to be treated in the past?

That's a rather reactionary position.

Historically, women in most societies were treated very poorly, often treated like property, and you could say that women being treated with respect is an "abberation in history". But so what? That doesn't mean we have to go back to when women were treated like crap just because that's the way they've mostly been treated before.

Slavery was the norm in many societies for thousands of years, and you could similarly say the lack of slavery is an aberration in history. That doesn't mean it's a good idea to bring back slavery.

If you want to argue that making money off of making music is wrong, you have to make a stronger case for that position than simply saying that's not the way it was in the past.
I'm sorry that your adherence to consent is ruining your "fun." How terrible a situation that must be for you.
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There's an emerging trend with tech companies to sue former individual employees for theft. It's a departure from the usual practice of suing other companies who acquire the employee and work on a competing product. The idea in silicon valley is to intimidate not the person being sued, but all future employees within your own company who might be thinking of doing the same thing. It entirely changes the calculus of moving on to another firm when you know you'd be dealing with litigation for years afterwords. It's a shame because Silicon Valley was built on former employees leaving their companies and starting their own firms to innovate.
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I think people should just watch the gigafactory video:

https://vimeo.com/176841432

there's a lot going on behind the scenes.
My understanding is that this kind of thing happens within China too, business is run on relationships and guanxi, not contracts. You have 0% chance as a westerner. As a Chinese citizen your chances are only good insofar as you can network and maintain relationships with people.
> There are very few countries or peoples which have a genuinely positive view of Western occupation.

On the other hand, let's consider how popular inter-Asian occupation was.
That Madagascar remained unsettled for so long is the most puzzling of all. It's not that far off from Africa, where humanity came from.
Interesting. Because one of the X-chromosomes is inactivated in female cells (which have XX). Otherwise it would lead to over expression of X-chromosome Genes (well most anyway).[1]

[1]https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/chromosome/X

(There are some genetic disorders where an organism have 3 of one chromosome. Trisomy its called.)

Which X is inactive is somewhat random however so it seems that it reduces the instance of color blindness.
I would also like my attention back. However it doesn't look like advertising is going away any time soon, quite the opposite. Too many people are invested in it as a business model, including many in tech.
I think Google actually has taken more or less the right stance here. I'm not entirely sure that most people understand the difference between "click this button to make my app work" and "click this button to make my app work, and oh by the way you are also agreeing to let us sell your data to a marketing firm". Clarifications like the below are good for the vast majority of users (your opinion about Google's own business model aside):

"3rd-party apps accessing these APIs must use the data to provide user-facing features and may not transfer or sell the data for other purposes such as targeting ads, market research, email campaign tracking, and other unrelated purposes. (Note: Gmail users’ email content is not used for ads personalization.)

As an example, consolidating data from a user’s email for their direct benefit, such as expense tracking, is a permitted use case. Consolidating the expense data for market research that benefits a third party is not permitted.

We have also clarified that human review of email data must be strictly limited." [0]

[0] https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/g-suite/elevating-use...
Another GDPR hater, so: https://web.archive.org/web20190322023033/http://projects.sf...

Edit: Except that all of the images are extremely low resolution. Maybe an archiving artifact?
> The sun doesn't shine and the wind doesn't blow 24x7.

And power plants don't run 24x7, they're regularly down for maintenance. With either solution you need to over provision.
>> We were 8 hours late leaving Seattle and couldn't get into our cabin until we got to Spokane because of some sort of merge of trains coming from Portland and Seattle. Got to Spokane, got our cabin, another 6 hour delay. By the time we reached the upper Midwest, they were rationing food, literally cutting every meal (that we had already paid for) in half. We eventually arrived in Chicago about 22 hours late.

>> The train was disgustingly dirty and the employees were surly and unhelpful.

> On my wife's trip the refrigeration went out at some point so cold food was no longer available, nor was food that required refrigeration before it was cooked. Fortunately they disembarked soon after that happened. The rest of the train was still a day or so from Chicago and those passengers were stuck with god knows what to eat.

Stuff like this makes it feel like the USA is falling apart from being a 1st world nation, crumbling in bits and pieces into a 3rd world one.
Beautiful! Congrats on shipping it. And you're right about the Square/Complementary/Analogous/etc. selection mechanism. Your target audience is smart enough to figure it out in seconds.
Sell it or its products. How about sperm, eggs, hair, blood?
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