skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's almost as if the article is equating less crime being prosecuted as less crime existing. There's a big issue with that.

No, doing that would be silly. Criminologists look at both prosecuted crime, crime reported in victim surveys, number of arrests and incarcerations and a whole host of other metrics before drawing conclusions. The good news (which no one ever believes :)) is that they all point in the same direction. See this fact sheet f.e https://www.ncjrs.gov/ovc_archives/ncvrw/2017/images/en_artw...
Passenger trains do get priority in the US, your mileage may vary by railroad to how forgiving they are for schedule delays.

Basically Amtrak has to keep to a specific schedule, if ut misses it's window it loses the priority it had.
Honestly? No. I suppose I've just developed filters that means I pretty much never notice any of them unless a comment like this draws my attention to it.
It's pretty clear that if you provide a platform with any visible large scale user input, you're going to need some full time policing staff and decision makers who can take the time to look into things and make the call.

Sometimes you're going to be wrong, and sometimes right, and often reactionary as you realize there is X, Y, and Z out there.
"Did Bush do 9/11? Can jetfuel really melt steel beams? Are other races and genders worse at computer science than me because they are genetically inferior? I'm just asking questions!" said the online poster.

Just because they measured the data, does not imply they were trying to explain it. To explain a result would need a very different experimental setup. Every scientist knows this. It's not a conspiracy if a scientist declines to throw darts at a wall on the cause of something. In fact, they specifically say the cause is likely not explainable by the test differences, which were too small.

"The within-country gender gaps in skills are small enough, however, that they may explain little about gender gaps in CS graduates’ labor market outcomes".

In fact, the poster is not "just asking questions". They have a clear opinion, and ignored the researcher's own statements to the contrary.
Reminds me a lot of PT Barnums article on Money written in 1880. A lot is still applicable today.

https://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/www/barnum/moneygetting/
Verbatim mode is very insufficient. We need actual logical operators to go with it.
Turing as a Runner (1999)
A quick suggestion that would help people to "lock-on" to the effect, add two small coloured dots the distance of the stereo separation. It makes it easier to work out if you've managed to uncross your eyes the right amount.
This is a really fascinating concept/layout. A vertical option that fits inside a left column would be awesome.
Toplip – Best command line tool to encrypt files
I upvoted you, because yes, it's everyone's responsibilities to make the world a better place. I hope you find peace and compassion before it's too late.
Text samples generated using openAI's GPT-2 small version
Amtrak doesn't even license it - Amtrak is actually owned mostly by the freight railroads.
> original retail price $118 for just season one

Well, there's your problem right there. Expecting three figures for a single season of anything is just pure madness.
What if one among the 2000 was curious ?
Do you mean in terms of spending?
Whilst it is obvious that increasing the money supply will cause inflation in an otherwise fixed economy, it is important to note that increasing the money supply will not cause inflation if productivity also increases.

If you believe that there is untapped productivity in the economy then, by increasing money supply and spending the additional money in those areas, it is possible to increase productivity whilst avoiding inflation.
Ford Names Former Amazon, Snap Inc. Exec Next CFO
How is any of that related to this article? This is about applications of formal mathematics, and the criticism (not skepticism) used by the author is in no way connected to the point you’re making.
I am not a game developer, but couldn't you make a multiplayer game more fair in this situation by adding artificial lag into everyone's controls to match the highest lag person? Just limit it to a certain amount, like no more than 200-300ms.
> Even the screws.

Why? Dont normal screw dont work in Apple devices? Or do people think they dont? Are their heads more beautiful?
On the plus side, there's a saying that suggests a good way to know if your couple can weather the test of time is to sit on top of each other for a long enough period of time -- such as a weeks-long camping trip, or a long, harrowing bus or train ride.

That makes you quite lucky, and you eventually got married. Most couples don't know if their future marriage is seaworthy until they hit their first major storm.
It started as a joke. It's called "modern" because it only applies to the past 4000 years.

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2018/10/randy-wray-modern-mo...
What happened with the flight attendant? I'm flying United soon first time, kind of nervous lol (won't be using my laptop on the plane but will be in my bag)
$.50 per article? "Unlimited article length" - I'd be concerned about abuse. Surely you're paying Google for parts of paid usage?
If all of western society downsizes its eco-footprint by massive media consumption and the state subsidizes this (panem at circensis) by lawlessness - im okay with it. Sorry, its hard on everyones dreams, mine was to life from game-design- wont happen.
Nobody will live from music anymore. Thats just the way it is- your dream is your hobby.
But that hobby keeps a lot of people sitting in front of a glowing rock, like meditating monks, instead of buying useless tanksized cars and overdimensioned houses.
Worth it.
You think Brittany Spears made music because she loves music? Or the Backstreet Boys? Or pretty much any K-Pop band these days? They're all out there because a record person wanted to sell personas.
No. There truly isn't anything Hacker news worthy about an article about a HW prototype of a phone. It's perfectly normal electronics.

It may only interest some iPhone/Apple fanboys.
Amazon has the best data on user purchase history. They are already building the tech for displaying mobile ads and ML based targeting behind the scenes. The choice to show them only in the Amazon app is a business decision and not a technical limitation. One day some VP from the ads team will make a fancy presentation to Bezos on how Amazon could make a killing by supporting more mobile apps and then the business direction will change instantaneously. This day is the threat to existing ad platforms.
The author's basic premise is false and his article is riddled with basic factual errors.

The vast majority of artists never made a significant proportion of their income from recorded music, due to the extremely shady accounting practices used by the industry to deprive artists of royalties. For detail on this, see Steve Albini's notorious essay The Problem With Music.

https://www.negativland.com/news/?page_id=17

The internet has hugely undermined the value of recorded music, but it has greatly increased the marketability of live music, which is and always has been the most reliable source of income for musicians. If you've got a mailing list with a few thousand people who'll pay to see you perform, you've got a career. You don't need a record contract, you don't need a booking agent, you don't need radio airplay, you just need 40 or 50 towns with enough fans to sell out a small venue.

Prior to the internet, building that mailing list almost always involved a record deal, because there was no other way to reach the public; a few independent artists made it through 'zines and word-of-mouth and tenacious effort, but most didn't. If you didn't get on a radio playlist, nobody got to hear your music and nobody came to your shows. Today, the equation is completely different. There are a thousand different niche acts with absolutely no recognition among the general public, who nonetheless make a respectable living from touring because they can connect directly with fans.
this feels very 'old man yells at cloud.'

People still make money making music (and other art,) but it's changed. That's true, but this person has an outsized view of his own impact if he thinks that hustling to move 100k copies of his own record changed anything for better or worse.
Agreed. My guess has always been it is because of lack of variety, not an intrinsic property of getting older.

Take a summer off and travel to unknown lands, and when you get back tell me that didn't feel just as long or even longer than summer break did in grade school. Spend that same summer in the office or in your normal routine and it will fly by.
I am taking the following steps to convert it in audiobook.
1. Split Doc into chapters
2. Feed the chapter into TTS
3. Join the audio chapters into the book.

I working on the solution for 1 and 3. It would be really helpful if you can provide some suggestions for 1 and 3.
> I do not want my buying habits mined , bought and sold, etc. They are my property and not subject to the whimms of amazon or any other company.

In order to make a purchase of X it is required that another party exists to make a sale of X. Let's call this transaction A. Why do you believe that the metadata of transaction A is owned solely by the purchaser and is not equally owned by the seller?

Even further, is there really a differentiation between the purchaser and the seller? It's really just an exchange of a good or service for dollars where the "buyer" is the one with the dollars and the "seller" is the one with the good or service.
Except that doesn't really work.
You were heading east. Notice that all these reporters start in the east and head west. Buy a ticket and start your journey as close to DC/NY as possible. It is very different. I dont know why. I suspect power politics, or the interaction with freight trends, but i have heard this from many travellers.
Where'd he move from? Because there are a number of things that really help people from outside the EU here in the Netherlands. First is the 30% tax discount they receive, which usually adds a couple hundred euros to their net income. Secondly, companies often help expats to find houses or even pay part of the rent. Then there's the fact that in order to hire someone from outside the EU, you need to prove that you can't find a Dutch person to do the same job. Companies do this in part, by paying them higher wages, which indicate that these people have rare skills.

Expats are actually a big part of why housing prices on the free market are rising, since they can often pay much more than Dutch people can.
There is no good economic rationale for long distance trains. The only part of Amtrak that is actually profitable is the NEC, the rest of it generally loses money.
World history? Give me a break.
> For all of human history, we've been making music and art. And for almost all of that time, it was done for love of doing, not money.

I would challenge you almost precisely the opposite. The vast majority of the "great art" was in fact done for money.

For example, walk through the Parthenon and its museum, most of the art was commissioned.

Look at the wall murals of Pompeii--again, done for hire.

I can go on and on and on.

Art not done for hire is almost exclusively a very new thing brought about by industrialization giving us enough surplus that people have enough spare time to specialize in something other than their job.
Nothing about engineering really covers security best principles and practices.

I went through classical engineering school, and I'd summarize with three categories:

* Newtonian Physics & The Mathematics Behind It (i.e. Differential Equations)

* Ethics

* Technical Communications
Some time ago I was brain storming about something similar but with a different tech stack to be able to plot from the distance. I wanted to mount a spray can on a quad-copter and keep the power supply external initially. The ultimate goal was to mark an area of wall using a separate device (mobile phone maybe) and the quad-copter would then fly there and do its work.
Would you put your money where your opinion is?

You can demand your attention back, but are you willing to pay for the content you consume? I say this in earnest. We had great content in newspapers and magazines... and the world decide that cheap ( with instance access ) was better. Same has happened to many industries.

You shouldn't demand, without a willingness to, well, compensate.
They cut corners but have the highest safety rating ever and the highest customer satisfaction?

Is it reasonable to call something a cut corner when the end result is success by nearly every metric? Maybe that corner needn't exist? Scaling issues are unavoidable. So much nitpicking.
> The logic of this escapes me.

It doesn't escape me. Japan has a declining population.

Drinking, gambling and smoking don't produce babies (only an environment that is harmful to children).

The motivation here is obvious.
Hipster Topology: I studied Algebraic Topology before it became "Applied"
As a former vermonter... The St. Albans service is terrible, trains go into Essex Junction (basically, Burlington) once a day and the train leaves NYC at 11:33 am and gets in at 8:18 pm, eight hours for what is a five hour drive with a single train a day.

I don't disagree that some other services might be alright, but that's clearly not one of them.
The law that created Amtrak provided for it to operate on tracks owned by freight companies, with usage fees, under the condition that passenger trains get higher priority than freight trains. Part of that condition is fines, payable from the freight company to Amtrak, for Amtrak train delays caused by the freight company.

Unfortunately, for various political reasons that part of the law has almost no teeth so freight companies openly flout it or treat the meager fines as the cost of doing business. It's a big part of the reason that passenger rail sucks in the US.
This or discover the magic of youtube-dl. Of course I think OP aid having these issues on mobile. But I will add I don’t get ads using safari to watch YouTube on my iPhone with ad blockers installed.
Does being liberal mean you are tolerant only if it suits your point of view?

I am pretty openminded myself and don't care of someone's orientation but everyone should have the right to do whatever the f they want as long as it's not hurting anybody. Don't tell me it's hurting their feelings!
I've never felt that Video Games are truly an outlet for anger. In particular, it's not clear that the Freudian idea that anger can somehow be "built up" and then "released" is valid in any context, let alone video games.

However, I do strongly believe that video games reduce violence, but only for the same reason that smart phones and the internet do: less socializing, less physical exercise, less kids hanging around bored and looking for trouble.
>Didn't the Waymo-Uber suit end up with Uber settling by paying a quarter billion dollars

Yep. They did.

In fairness, though, Waymo did run into difficulties during the litigation in respect of tying the misappropriated documentation to Uber itself, though.

I don't think the difficulty was fatal, but I don't think either side was looking forward to a long and protracted discovery fight to prove the point while Cruise et al. were sitting on the sidelines sniping secrets.
You do bring up an interesting point.

I could never teach my grandmother what an ad blocker is and how to disable it if a site is not working. That would be far beyond her reach. Some basic Youtube browsing and email reading/writing is the peak for her.

I was mostly commenting on the <=45 crowd where some basic computer literacy is usually there and can be beefed up, in my experience.

Yet our older generations are probably the ones that would need an ad blocker the most to prevent them from ending up on fishing/scamming sites etc.
I'm far more experienced with the rental market in Dublin, I'm Irish living in the Netherlands. The situation in Dublin is the endgame of the same property market extremism.

The national obsession with landlording and trying to get someone else to pay for your mortgage ended a few short years ago with the world's biggest bailout. In Ireland there's very little regulation and what there is is almost completely unenforced. No lessons were learned and we now have a national housing crisis with a neoliberal government turning a blind eye to rampant homelessness and a lost generation. All potential solutions are met with excuses as to why it will only cause problems for the young being able to rent, thus furthering the crisis.
It's hard to tell from the article, but this doesn't sound like conversion therapy at all, it sounds like voluntarily downloading a set of articles and testimonials.

Either I'm missing something or the reaction is overzealous.
Consider the possibility that they are wiser, having been through some hard times, and might like to leave a functioning economy for the younger generations.
The train wasn’t that full. The problem was trying to sleep. I tried multiple configurations to no avail.
"Large business helps other large businesses to become larger businesses, to become larger business."
No, it is not about static typing or the general use of typed data structures for describing statistical software. Statistical software has been among some of the best software around for a long time. In fact, I frequently revisit aspects of the C++ implementation of STAN and the interface design of pymc as inspiration for effective software design in other domains.

The idea that statistics is a field with poor software tools is just plain crazy.
Being liberal doesn't mean you're open minded, as we're seeing lately.
In comparison, imagine the amount of effort and man-hours required to copy a similar amount of printed works distributed across the planet.
Yea the Lakeshore Limited Albany->Boston is fine.
My daughter got an inexpensive record player (Audio Technica) and some records for Christmas and I was shocked by how great it sounds. I remember playing records 30 years ago and just accepting pops and hisses and skips. Plus I owned a lot of crappy records (anybody remember K-Tel?)

Going to the record store with her has gotten me back into buying music as well. She shops the vinyl section and I buy CDs. I think CDs sound better and I like not having to flip the disc, but there's something very satisfying about handling a large grooved record where you can "see" the music and the accompanying booklet or sleeve with lyrics and artwork.

Something I didn't expect is how cheap CDs are now. I've bought lots of stuff for $6-$8.
Conversion therapy does hurt people.
Amazon (sub)Prime? (on commingling inventory)
What are the walking controls in Skyrim? Any kind of locomotion that is not strictly tied to the player's movement is a big no-no for comfort. This is a huge problem for the kinds of FPS games that people want to make for VR. The fundamental problem is that you're not moving but your whole field of view is telling you that you are.

I've read that this is a problem for astronauts IRL when they're in free-fall next to a slowly rotating or panning object that occupies a lot of their field of view. So, that would be a kind of existence proof that it's not vergence, but rather optical flow that is decoupled from the subject's actual motion.

It sucks, but basically FPS games are out for VR, until you can actually run around, leap, etc.

EDIT> Another example -- during a scene in Apollo 11 where the camera (and hence my view) was orbiting the spaceraft while my IRL body was still, I started to feel queasy. I was able to reduce the sensation by looking at the growing space-craft as it started to fill more and more of my field of view -- it was relatively stationary to me. This again speaks to optical flow, and motion that is out of whack with what the player's ears are telling them. Another cheat along these lines is to use a cockpit that is fixed relative to the player's view to reduce the amount of visual area that is giving wrong motion cues.

EDIT2> I'd be interested to know whether you can last longer in a game that uses only your own IRL motion + instant teleport. So, no thumbsticks, mouse, keyboard locomotion -- as these are all known chunder inducers. Unfortunately non-VR games with bolt-on VR are like the worst-case for comfort, but also often the games that we really want to see in VR.
What do you do for sleep?

> find a nice quiet diner

Oh, are you getting out snd having dinner and sleeping and then catching the train again the next day? That sounds fine.
Would definitely like more 12 options.
The National Passenger Rail Corporation is a federally chartered corporation whose controlling interest is owned by the US federal government.
This is where I think the value lies.

I have been thinking about a process where a procedurally generated template is completed by artists and subsequently used as a base for training an AI to apply to further procedural generations.

I also wonder if you can do micro style adjustments to unify artistic style, train a net on one particular artists work, the rest of the team copy the general style but use a final pass of a style transfer to make it a closer match.
The lifelong plight of the artist. I don't think it will every change. The community tends to only respect the artist once they are long gone.
Oliver Sacks wrote about time perception and aging as well:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/08/23/speed-5
This is mind-blowing. Can you point to any resources on how to do this? Also, where’d you sell the components? eBay?
There's a weird duality in ads based on their quality. As a customer, I most certainly do want to see ads if they're for things I'm interested in. I don't want to see ads for things I don't care about, though. I'd say most ads nowadays aim to be in the former group, which makes them helpful. Whether they actually make it into that group is up to implementation, but the intent is to be something customers want to see.
Government also needs to tax to ensure sufficient demand for its money ("taxes drive money")
Probably because it's easier to order 'genuine macbook pro 2019 screws' than try and find other screws with the exact same dimensions?
Revenue. Total spend on the platform.
Maybe you would prefer "what for" vs. "what"?
In any other industry.

Maybe I'm getting sucked in by stereotypes but it seems like the art community is much more concerned with 'selling out' than most.

On the other hand, a plot device from a scifi book (Tad Williams I think?) has stuck me with the idea of creating slowly evolving graphics. If I were an artist I might get pretty excited about a robot who can paint and repaint a mural for me as many times as I want. Being able to change with the seasons or local events might entice me, regardless of how many ads have done the same thing.
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Are films/programmes now preparing for future re-rendering in any way?
Quick correction to this comment as I just took the silver meteor recently from FL-NY. Meals are definitely included when booking a room. The dining car has been renovated so perhaps meals were unavailable at some point. The price is significantly more than a plane ticket and while the rooms are older I would not consider them dirty. Sleep is difficult IMO as you do stop, bump around and you’ll occasionally get some random rattling. There is no observation car but they do have a lounge car with tables and snacks. You could get microwave meals like pizza, burgers, etc. Definitely not gourmet fair. The dining car meal is a significant step up and while not winning any Michelin stars is surprisingly decent.
Also, this kind of stuff of course can only be profitable in the long tail. So what means failed to reach any expectations? If it gets a reasonable price it will probably constantly sell in low amounts for 10+ years.