skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We’re moving from a world where we actively search to a word where “the best” is recommended to us.

Google will continue to build out lines of business that make sense in a post search world (hardware, shopping platform, ....?)
Inflation is not up even though it was supposed to be.

Lots of things are changing because Trump doesn't follow the "experts" but have his own way of approaching China for better or worse. Right now mostly for the better.
if my nerd history is correct - MTG almost killed dungeons and dragons in the 90's!
more like a negotiation ploy.
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It seems like the standard inevitability for every service related thing that it degrades noticeably with time.

Start out and offer a thing and tout the level of service, then shave off bits of service to save money until it is bad... probabbly still touting service.

That's one of the reasons I left a career of 20 years supporting high end networking equipment. Company after company would talk big but the gradual (sometimes sudden) dialing back on training, tools, and staff (sometimes outsourcing that cost even more than locals in the end) seemed inevitable and tiresome. But the pressure on individuals to maintain the service level was always increasing. Eventually it was a grind that I just didn't want to do anymore despite the pay being good. You can only take so much talk talk talk from the company but decreasing investment and conflicting action before you lose heart. I decided to start over with something else.
What keeps people from class actioning the shit out of Epic for rendering software that they paid for unplayable?

Usually, clauses in EULA's regarding forced arbitration protect companies from being sued for such nonsense, but seeing as how no such agreement has been made by these users between them and Epic, I don't see how it can be avoided legally. Those agreements were made with Valve.

If I suddenly find that I can no longer play Rocket League on Linux as a result of this, I'll be first in line.
Mr. Bush also shared a private exchange with Chinese President Hu Jintao in which he told the Chinese leader that the thing he worried most about and that kept him up at night was another attack on the United States. Mr. Bush said he then asked Hu, "What keeps you up at night?" Hu responded, "25 million new jobs a year." [1]

I think it's clear that China has a lot more to lose in this trade war. The bargain that the Chinese people have made with the government is that they will sacrifice personal liberties for economic prosperity. Once the latter is put into jeopardy, chaos will ensue.

[1] https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/11/15/decisi...
"I don't recommend rolling your own Kubernetes cluster either. You should strongly consider leveraging a fully managed Kubernetes offering such as Google Kubernetes Engine, Digital Ocean's Managed Kubernetes, or Azure Kubernetes Service."

Working for one of those vendors. There is no cloud, just someone's else computer.
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See https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/introducing-red-hat-universal...
Off the cuff? Probably nothing fatal.

Lets assume the laser works by dumping a lot of thermal energy into the missile. It's safe to assume for two reasons - primarily because I think that the power requirements for anything other than that would be ridiculous, and because they specifically talked about 'destroying' the missiles in question, rather than simply burning out the sensor package. Also...that's pretty much how laser/directed energy weapons work - you dump energy into a point until it catches fire.

People are mostly water (citation needed). Missiles are mostly meta (ibid)l. Water takes a lot of energy to heat up, while metal heats up quite easily - we know this because we know that a Calorie {kilo-calorie for those at home} is the amount of energy needed to raise 1 kilogram of water 1 degree C, and is equal to ~4500 joules. To do the same thing to copper and steel, you need something like 350 and 500 joules, respectively (this is a property called specific heat, and is really cool and I wish I wasn't bad at thermo so I could talk about it more accurately).

Anyway, it takes a very large amount of energy to hurt a person, and a smaller amount to destroy a missile. There are two ways of getting that energy out of a laser - in one big ass pulse, or in a longer stream. Looking at the mount, and the platform the laser is to be deployed on, I believe this works with a 'stream' of energy. Fighter jets are not power plants (citation needed) and have a lot of high powered electrical equipment on them already (radar(s), communications devices, whatever sensor packages they have, flight avionics, cooling, and the computer(s) that co-ordinate all this). You don't want your displays going dark because you're charging the laser. Additionally, high energy pulses tend to be destructive to their components. Having only one anti missile shot before you have to under go maintenance to replaced a bunch of fused emitters and whatnot doesn't' seem like the best idea. With a lower energy continuous beam, you don't have that destructive flow, and while the total power draw is probably similar to a pulse, you're pulling that over a longer period, which is much easier to plan for.

Pulling it all together - the laser's target has different thermal properties than a human does, and probably takes a few seconds 'on target' to work. Depending on how long you stayed in the beam, I'd expect anything from first to second degree burns, probably from the water in your cells turning to steam and bursting, but nothing catastrophically bad unless you were lasered continuously the entire time, and even then I don't think it would kill you, just burn you quite badly.

Unless you looked into it. That would probably go poorly for everyone.
> Those tax duties are arbitrary.

Most taxes associated with externalities are arbitrary (in amount), because externalities are much easier to see than to quantify.
Apple store staff have had cult-member aloofness for as long as I can remember
Thanks, fixed. Learned a new thing today.
I mean, it's objectively more convenient and faster. No waiting in line.
I made a new account and I am trying to avoid absolutely destroying the karma on this one.
This article misses a very obvious point. The reason it takes so long to get help in an Apple store is because those stores are so popular. This isn't Apple Stores losing their lustre. This is Apple Stores being a victim of their own success.
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It doesn't seem like that particular game is included, unless it's under some other name.
I stopped using iTerm2 in favor of the default Terminal because iTerm2 has worse performance and latency [1], and I wasn't getting anything out of its additional features. I noticed an improvement going back to Terminal.app. YMMV of course; but if we're asking why Hyper is necessary, I'd like to ask the same question of iTerm2.

[1]: https://danluu.com/term-latency/
I agree completely
Map of countries currently ruled by a monarchy
OP stated: Unless you're already making that much, how does a higher marginal tax rate on income over $500k affect you at all?

So, if you want to make that much some day, then it would affect you when you do.

Further - raising rates on high income earners makes it more likely for others to make more? That seems dubious.
I suggest you look at projects like Shandalar 2012 and such - the original game is from the Banding era, but the 'AI' isn't too bad.
It's "cockpit"; I regularly give it a try, looking for a better structured, more elegant webmin replacement; alas, cockpit has like 5% of webmin features.
The difference is that as soon as you know what time it is in Melbourne, you know if you can call Uncle Steve. Regardless, you have to know where the sun is, because that determines whether or not Uncle Steve is awake (most likely). But it’s much easier to find his timezone offset and figure that out than figure out if the sun is up there (which incidentally, timezones actually allow you to do).

It’s much easier if noon is noon around most of the world (obviously it gets more meaningless the further north and south you get), as opposed to always having the same time and having to figure out where the sun is.

This is why one world timezone is a terrible idea. It makes some calculations simpler, but it otherwise royally fucks with how humans work, and humans are much more concerned with where the sun is.
Now you two are moving the goalposts if this meta-thread.
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not to mention that China found another shaddy way..

Look at the huge increase in China students attending US colleges from 2016 to 2018

almost 500%
At the very least, I would assume most bus time tables are written to reflect the worst case scenario regarding traffic lights. That alone should make the actual average waiting time lower than the theoretical one.
Yes, exactly. Vietnam stands to reap the benefits. Factories are opening in Vietnam en masse. Once they're up and running, the lifting of tariffs against China won't matter. Chinese workers are higher paid than they used to be. Now China will have to make their way as an advanced, developed economy (with lower growth), just like everyone else.
Good practitioners do both. Whatever knowledge about the weights you can predetermine, you set those as the initial values of your weights. Then you improve on that by training. It really depends on the problem and size of your network how many weights you'll have a good estimate for but yes, you should try to estimate good weights yourself first.

This practice is well known but here's a concrete source from Andrej Karpathy:

https://karpathy.github.io/2019/04/25/recipe/

"init well. Initialize the final layer weights correctly. E.g. if you are regressing some values that have a mean of 50 then initialize the final bias to 50. If you have an imbalanced dataset of a ratio 1:10 of positives:negatives, set the bias on your logits such that your network predicts probability of 0.1 at initialization. Setting these correctly will speed up convergence and eliminate “hockey stick” loss curves where in the first few iteration your network is basically just learning the bias."
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What do you use/recommend for tabbed file explorer?
That's right, it's part of the strategy but it's not generating revenue if you think of this from the marketing perspective. If we take into consideration the amount that we made based on the traffic that we got from these articles, it will be around 0.2% of the general revenue in 1 year (~2.000$ of $1M). Me, as the co-founder, I've spent many weeks planning, writing and gathering information to write these articles.
You left out the qualifier "Single-socket nodes". It's much easier when all the components are on the same die.
Markets are not perfectly efficient - this is why arbitrage exists.

It likely will take some event, some slack, some inelegance for a business or entrepreneur to notice that the delta between that $5/umbrella and where they can figure out how to deliver it for $4 is worth spending time and attention on.

Markets are not perfectly efficient. Markets are perfectly imperfect.
Yes! The Genius Bar experience has been terrible (especially as a somewhat socially anxious person) the past few times I've been there. A lot of sitting while constantly busy employees buzzed around, unsure if I was waiting in the right place, hoping someone would come by and ask what I there for.

It's like they're emulating the real bar experience, with a bunch of overworked and inattentive bartenders. Just give me a dedicated line to pick my stuff up.
Historically speaking horse was the only mean of transportation, hygiene was nonexistent, disease spread quickly and killed millions, warlords owned nearly everything for most of the recorded history, people used to believe in gods... (all these factors could contribute to monogamy)

That something was valuable and important in the history doesn't mean is it today. Do you seriously think our world is in any way similar to the world even just 100 years ago?
I would not trust experiments using GAN on EEG to provide higher resolution/'quality' signals. You're not going to have a reasonable method to collect the data needed to train such a network, nor to be able to generalize the network. It will hallucinate patterns and given the dubious statistical quality of many comp-neuro papers I would be even more skeptical of many results.

If you're interested in applying some of these ML techniques I'd consider looking towards ECoG or LFP array recordings where sensor noise and sensor failure could in part be approached by techniques like this. For long term LFP arrays sensor failure is expected and models do not need to necessarily generalize to other individuals (and there is enough data to train on).

Overall you're not going to create signal when there was none in the first place.
Yea I've talked to hundreds of people who have had success with removing amalgam fillings. This was not my issue though.

I posted above about a test you can do. Feel free to write me at jbob286 (aat) gmail if you'd like more info. I can point you to a bunch of free resources that can help guide you through the process.
It sounds like this situation can be remedied in multiple ways:

* Email a customer a reminder email with explicit instructions on who to talk to in-store

* Train the Genius Bar techs to point a customer to the receptionist when looking for an appt

* Put up a sign in-store that points customers to the receptionist

* Have the receptionist wear a differently-styled uniform than the techs (nametag, color, etc)

This does not sound like a difficult problem to solve. Then again, it could have been the perfect storm of events for OP. Maybe the receptionist had to step out and take an emergency phone call. You never know what could happen. At the very least, the techs and associates working the floor should at least be able to point the customer to the correct place/associate. A 'schedule appt' service queue should not be mixed with the 'walk-in' and 'browsing' service queue.
They have to be related because that’s what humans are concerned with. Timekeeping is meaningless if noon for you means the sun is up and noon for me means it’s the dead of night. What purpose does that serve? Timekeeping is all about where the sun is, because humans still have sleep/wake cycles, and most people obviously want to do things when the sun is up.
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I find the apple store uninviting and uncomfortable. They're generally packed with people standing around... you have no idea where to go or who is available... more obscurely controlled chaos than clear and apparent order. I feel visiting the store is generally going to be bad experience for most people.
Historically speaking, slavery and civilization go hand in hand. Undermining the former might undermine the latter.

That's not to say that not having access to legal polygamous marriage and owning people are equal but to show that the argument doesn't really stand on it's own. The correlation between monogamy and civilization isn't necessarily causitative.

Also I'm not sure that monogamy is as paired up with civilization as you claim. Haven't Kings and leaders for large portions of history been known for their harems?
Dude, the reality of Cuban healthcare it's very different of what you see in the news. Foreign people are banned to enter the hospitals used by the regular people. There are special hospitals for foreigners, and Cubans cannot go there unless you have very good connections or you pay an insane amount of cash under the table(keep in mind that the average wage in Cuba is about 25$ a month and with food prices quite similar than the US). On regular people's hospitals there are shortages of meds quite often, with people having to go to the back market to get the meds they need.

Take for example here: (You can use google translate)

https://www.periodicocubano.com/pedazo-de-techo-del-hospital...
I typically write about things I'm learning about as a way to solidify my own knowledge. That or I write about something I wish I had known recently.
That's may be true, but that doesn't mean Firefox/Gecko isn't a viable alternative just because fewer people are choosing to use it. In fact, I think it demonstrates my point that people don't need competing browser engines that badly because they aren't radically different. There was a time where IE was hemorrhaging users to Firefox, but that was because Firefox legitimately did things better than IE/Trident. At this point, however, our expectations of what a web browser should do are fairly solidified, so people are likely going to choose whatever is being marketed to them the most and comes installed on many Android phones by default.
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For a period of time, so did some form of monarchy. I believe this may be a correlation and causation issue.
Easier, but prohibited by treaty.

See “The Protocol on Blinding Laser Weapons, Protocol IV of the 1980 Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_on_Blinding_Laser_W...

It’s quite short and to the point. No weapons designed to permanently blind people are allowed. Incidental blindness is ok, also if you get blinded while looking through binoculars that’s fine. Blinding sensors is also fine.
This is essentially the idea behind “meta-learning,” or “learning to learn,” with the slight difference that most of the meta-learning literature aims to initialize networks that can learn quickly (“few-shot learning”). It has pretty good theoretical grounding but in practice seems to be quite expensive.
This comparison is almost not fair. I've recently moved back to the UK and experienced John Lewis for the first time. Now I almost try to avoid buying from Amazon if I can help it, I can't believe how good the shopping experience is there. Also, they price match most online retailers if I remember/understood correctly which is insane.
Guess I better put in a few Ali Express orders now.
GM’s self-driving division Cruise raises another $1.15B
Amazon's one-click shopping patent expired on Sept 11, 2017:
https://qz.com/1057490/a-patent-that-helped-amazon-take-over...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19778672
The Chinese are also shifting a lot of their polluting heavy industry to Cambodia.
> Could a Family Limited Partnership accomplish much of the same goals?

Since a marriage is effectively a general partnership, and a Limited Partnership is a legal structure with overlapping but not identical effects to a general partnership that involves more involved goverment rules, sure, the State could create a “Family Limited Partnership” having the a similar relation to marriage as a regular limited partnership has to a general partnership, but simply legalizing the existing family system with more than two partners would be the less intrusive, simpler approach (and a lot of the problem areas that people raise with that already have fairly obvious solutions from generalizing the multipartner handling in the law of general partnerships back to marriages.)
The F-35 cools avionics by running lines through the fuel tanks and already has had thermal issues. Removing the heat of a ~50-100kw laser via a heat exchanger onto surface airflow is going to make a nice heat signature/target.
The CO2 is absorbed in the electrolyte, and that's where we use it in the catalysis process. It is turned into fuel within the electrolyte, then we extract that fuel from it.
The way things are going it's not all certain that Xi won't be waiting until January of 2025.
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It's certainly not just Google. Same thing in Germany on DuckDuckGo.

The last time I had checked current reviews (though that was for tech products, now for DIY home improvement), I got researched lists with information – and happily clicked on the amazon.de affiliate link.

Now? I checked 20 sites that literally all had the same content because it was nothing but the highlights extracted from the Amazon product page. Utterly useless.
A glass of bubbly drink contributes to human happiness
That had more to do with "who owns what, and who gets what when they die" than anything else. (Citation needed...)

In a modern society with strong property rights and gender equality monogamy would be unnecessary from a purely "maintaining civilization as we know it" point of view.

...No comment on an emotional / psychological point of view.
Yes, it works with some sunglasses. My sunglasses are Ray-Bans that aren't very dark. They're a pretty ordinary pair of sunglasses, but they don't work with the default FaceID setting. I think it's a bit random whether you get ones that work or ones that don't, if you're looking for a practical pair of sunglasses and not paying attention to whether it works with FaceID.
Well it will be interesting. For the last decades the US had printed money with bonds and exporters to the US have bought those bonds to spend their dollars and not put pressure on their own currency.

If China is no longer exporting to the US it will no longer need to buy bonds, so if the us is printing money with bonds where dollars are not parked, those dollars increase dollar supply and therefor increase inflation. Money 101.
Politics exist to reduce conflict, bring two opposing sides to the negotiation table and avoid violence.

Often I find the opposite is true, contention just for the sake of contention, spreading everywhere. To do the most basic things today, like live in a home or feed yourself, you have to move one step short of murdering one another. No thought is provided to mutual sociability, just selfishness and coarseness.

You are supposed to be happy with nothing. When you are unhappy, go ahead and do something. Then return to being happy without needing anything or anyone. It's backwards today, because everybody chases one thing to another, just to avoid confronting their own emotions and behavior.

The natural philosophy is one that stands for nothing. It runs from any conflict, often in a horrible horrible response against whatever stumbled upon it and brought disruptive contention and conflict.

Celebrity is not a good thing. Bringing disruptive social change by setting forth your own downfall is a horror story that often results in hundreds of cities burnt down, and hundreds of thousands unknown victims following into your demise. Today's martyr is tomorrow's monster.