skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A much better book [0] IMHO is "Bicycle and Tricycles: A Classic Treatise on Their Design and Construction" published in 1896 and republished by Dover in 2011. This book goes into great detail about the science of bicycling. It assumes only a basic math knowledge, and covers topics such as vector mechanics, stress, strain, mechanics of motion, dynamics, etc, all applied to bicycles. I found it quite readable and a great way to learn engineering mechanics. I highly recommend it.

[0] - https://www.amazon.com/Bicycles-Tricycles-Treatise-Construct...
If you use the blue for an hour does that set your 'start of day' to the start or end of that hour?
> > Use self-hosted CAPTCHA with simpler solutions

> My favorite CAPTCHA is the one on the Arch Linux forms but I realize this cant be used many places. > What is the output of "date -u +%V$(uname)|sha1sum|sed 's/\W//g'"?

> Easy to do but hard to do with computers. My second favorite are the math problems one.

> However if these become popular people will just write bots for them and were back to square 1.

Interesting...I wonder if they show destructive commands below a certain threshold. It would be funny if a captcha caused a bot to delete itself.
Yeah, the way the article phrased it, I have a feeling this is a useless statistic like the sum total of all the money spent on tickets.
LMFAO under the American rhetoric about the booming stock market, there is the reality of an oil glut:

1) Fracking is responsible for plenty of oil hitting the market.
2) An economic slowdown / market top is happening.

Don't plan on that oil being used so quickly.
VWUSX is the only one who has bought IPOs (Uber and Lyft) in the past. VTSAX usually only dips in technology for large companies.
'They broke my mental shackles': could magic mushrooms be answer to depression?
Mysterious large mass discovered on Moon bewilders scientists
There's a reason that the Utah state bird is Larus californicus, the California seagull, and a huge statue of it graces Salt Lake City's Temple Square.

https://www.standard.net/news/local/not-since-the-bingeing-p...

https://onlinelibrary.utah.gov/research/utah_symbols/bird.ht...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seagull_Monument
Is the randn(Complex64) used in your Bayesian estimation project? I’d be curious to know how if so!
This seems dangerous, like people are going to spend 100% of their paycheck every month and get everything taken away from them if they go a week without a job.
This. I've worked on code bases that intentionally closed stdout.
Huh? Have you noticed the stats of how much video is uploaded to YouTube? I won't provide any numbers, due to working there, but a back of envelope calculation should answer the question "how much money does it cost for Google to encode at twice the compute cost".
Non political comic about political comics that I think about sums up the value of political comics (language warning, I guess)

http://smbc-comics.com/comic/2008-07-02
Indeed, some thought it was simply farmers plowing fields or stock grazing, but their origin point were mountain valleys so it doesn't seem their demise would have been as rapid as it actually was.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqyCO1eVC68&t=26m38s
While I agree with you re trump’s motivations, it’s also true that the leading democrats are making similar statements about regulating/breaking up big tech (for better reasons). It seems that, in this time of hyper partisan polarization, one of the few things the two major parties agree on is a hatred of big tech. That’s a bad place for big tech to be in. While agree big tech, especially Facebook, are no angels, it’s tragic that big tech is catching so much flack while the big banks and hedge funds, whose crimes are far, far worse, seem to be forgotten.
Sure, but don’t underestimate the appetite of VCs to keep funding these businesses, leaving you renting a lamp for $20/month or whatever.
It's the Rent-A-Center model.
"That was satisfactory."

I love that this guy, who is probably, what, 80? 81? pulled off this huge math heist after probably a lifetime spent doing math running a convenience store.

I bet it feels great to have that sense of, like, ease with himself in old age, having made a mark on the world in a way that hurt no one and helped a lot of people.

He stuck the landing
I just took him at his word that it was FAPI & was asking if it is available in the US - also I favor PET as a modality b/c it's quantitative. No judgement on a particular tracer.
Ever been so pissed at a dude's wife, you invented a major telecom technology that took over the world and lead to better stuff?
Welcome to modern serfdom, implemented by app. Your boss is an app, your job is classified as an "independent contractor", you own nothing. You can never get off the treadmill of wage slavery.
On relevant ads.

You see ads from companies with the most to gain from getting to your eyeballs.

These companies are not the ones you are interested in, who will probably get your business anyway.
I once implemented a "poor man's captcha" that presented a simple randomized question that anyone would be able to answer (ranging from "what year is it" to "what's 2 + 2"). I guessed that nobody would make the effort to write a custom script for this, because the website in question was so niche and the stakes so low -- a very quiet corner of the Internet; I don't even remember what is was, possibly some feedback form that went to a support email. I actually felt some irrational measure of pride when, probably a year later, I was looking at some logs and discovered that some script kid had cracked the questionnaire and was currently using the form to post nonsense text with Viagra links. Someone had actually sat down and written code to crack my terrible solution, and probably spent more time on it than I had (which is to say, more than five minutes). Made my day.
Craigslist seems to be dying as people use Facebook Marketplace, OfferUp and LetGo to buy used items. The end of the personals section combined with heavy advertising by the aforementioned new entrants is causing a slow user bleed from Craigslist.
I am sure people can be productive in this environment, I personally know some who currently work as defense contractors. You have some good hypotheticals, but much of the environment is driven by legal compliance rather than misguided management.

It’s not that defense is inherently toxic or good, I’d like to be clear what I’m saying. I’m saying that whatever good or bad management you have, there is a ton of legal compliance you have to deal with on top of that. So the baseline level of frustration an bureaucracy is higher than what you might be used to, even with good management. But this makes sense! Development OF COURSE slows down as soon as you are, say, building something that will affect whether somebody lives or dies.

Some amazing, skilled, productive engineers work in defense.

Same with medical technology. They tell stories of the Therac-25 to scare people away in college, and in spite of that, people are still willing to put in the work to make new radiotherapy devices, even with all the red tape.

Same with civilian (non-defense) aerospace.
16 tons and what do you get?

Another day older and deeper in debt.

St. Peter don't you call me cause I can't go,

I owe my soul to the company store.
Well the point is to protect founding myths because at the time of the invention of said myths they were very weak. And yeah if your myths can't survive criticism, maybe your myths are not worth believing in.
WeWork doesn’t own property the same way you don’t own your house. The bank does. You still have an asset though, and so do they.

Their asset is what’s known as a leasehold interest. Riskier and shorter duration than owning real estate, but still an asset making this cash hemorrhaging talk complete bosh.
Denmark's healthcare system tried to implement Epic nationally, and if this article is anything to go by, it didn't go so well: https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/06/epic-denmark-healt...

Essentially, different healthcare systems have different needs which are reflected in how their electronic health record systems are architected. For example, EHRs in the US are optimized for billing, and if you're moving an US-centric EHR, like Epic, to a country like Denmark with universal healthcare, all that functionality becomes superfluous. Not to mention the language differences, as well, which are touched upon in the article. It's possible that similar concerns played into the NHS's decision to build their own system. Some NHS trusts are moving forward with their own Epic implementations, however. For example: https://www.digitalhealth.net/2018/06/royal-devon-exeter-nhs...
of course it does. so does an automatic ban. that's precisely not the issue.

i think you probably meant to say recaptcha allows an extraordinarily large number of humans compared to false positives? because that would be the relevant metric. you sure about that one?
>>Lefty types regularly make fun of NYT conservative and centrist commentators

Do you have some examples of this?
But in order to publish the odds, you have to know the odds. And the only way to know the odds is to do the math, correct?

Unless you're making a distinction for determining the odds during optimal play (which makes a lot more sense to me).
AMD blows minds with a 16-core 7nm gaming CPU that works like any other Ryzen
I've been to that Spaces Noma in DC many times, and I immediately said to my coworker that it was a "cheap imitation of WeWork". The same entrepreneurs in glass cages concept, the same barista upfront, but without any real originality. I don't like the WeWork vibe but at least there's some original thought going into it. Spaces is just an imitation, but you know what, does it matter? From a business perspective, immitation is the sincerest form of flattery, even if it feels like a cheap imitation.
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Who in a US prison is there for speaking out and trying to change things? Name one.
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Brown marmorated stinkbugs mentioned in the article are a problem where I live, southeastern US. Somehow they get into the house, then crawl into the light fixtures and die. I always wonder what natural predator is absent when there's an insect pest problem.
> What's wrong with paying license fees?

Let us begin with the fact there are at least three different legal entities in which you have to talk with, each with different schemes:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Efficiency_Video_Coding#P...

At least with H.264 you only had one.
Not all VCs are above water on their Uber investment.
I don't understand why this is downvoted so much. If we're going to apply the three filters (Is it kind? Is it necessary? Is it true?), the parent comment seems to fulfill two of them. Can someone chime in and educate me?
This might be more interesting if there was more competition and prices were more inline with the cost of purchasing.

It might be I don't understand the costs though. Is renting furniture or clothing like leasing a car, or is it more expensive (or less expensive)?
By doing nothing because you will have less than a basis point of WeWork exposure.
Or on the flipside, I've got some contractor/consulting buddies who regularly pull down $200/hr bouncing between Tech companies in the Bay Area and Seattle and big banks in NYC.

Not owning anything allows you to go where the work is and keep your net worth in assets that produce actual income (like index funds and bonds), instead of sitting around collecting unemployment during a dry spell because you're encumbered by your depreciating assets.

I'm sure some people will use this as a way to temporarily live beyond their means...but it's not like Credit Cards don't enable this behavior already. The US is the land of the free of course, where we allow the weak to be preyed upon.
On the other hand, what about people with lots of credit card debt?
You are confusing unit economic vs profitability. They are very different things.

If I manufacture a widget for $1 and sell it for $.50 then my unit economics are negative and, unless I manage to either lower manufacturing costs or raise prices I am in trouble forever.

If I manufacture a widget for $1 and sell it for $1.50 then my unit economics are positive. My company might still be unprofitable due to other expenses though (R&D, Marketing, whatever). This is the situation that WeWork is in.
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> no additional cost to the consumer

Merchant fees are very high.

> If I had transacted in cash

The only difference with a debit card is a function of regulation and the network rather than actually being a credit or debit card.
We're tracking Uber's submarine on the Great Barrier Reef (sharks & turtles too)
And after they extract a $100 for the lamp, sure, you can keep it if we go under.
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It's actually not that different than before. Clothes wear, smartphones get outdated, people are already used to renting their home & car, etc.

There's not many things you only ever buy one of.
The lack of deterrent effect doesn’t mean that society’s desire for punishment vanishes. If there was a treatment that could make Osama Bin Laden a perfectly normal accountant in Des Moines I would not advocate for it compared to a trial and execution.
Not really, but I suppose it depends on the application requirements. It typically takes under a second which is much faster than taping out another chip ;-) but could be problematic for real-time systems in some cases. It depends upon the size of the FPGA/bus speed etc.
See also: "Compiling to categories" Conal Elliott

http://conal.net/papers/compiling-to-categories/
Same. I guess it is because Microsoft is a relatively smaller company established in rural Washington and focusing its efforts on FOSS. Nothing to be worried about there.
"Many young American urbanites have resigned themselves to a life of non-ownership, abandoning the dream of their parents and grandparents and great-grandparents before them, often out of financial necessity. But renting isn’t just a matter of necessity these days. It’s become almost posh."

They're doing it wrong.
I agree WeWork is overvalued, but the whole thesis behind an index fund is you can’t reliably pick winners and losers. If you can, there’s no need for an index fund. There were plenty of naysayers calling FANG overvalued at their IPOs as well. If you didn’t hold those stocks for the last 10 years you missed out on most of the overall market’s gains.
It took me far too long to go down the rabbit hole to see what languages are supported by this tool. It should be much more obvious that this is meant for primarily java code, with only experimental support for other languages.
Standing up for free speech is a great thing to do; to reframe what you are saying we are dealing with one of the mildest outlets for anger that a demographic could possibly express. We want people to do that rather than escalating to, eg, yelling at people in person.

People get angry all the time and a lot of them don't know how to deal with it. A political cartoon may not be a shining example of debate but it is a great way to let people see that their feelings are understood and broadly communicated.

If it doesn't cover expressing an unpopular, offensive and unimportant opinion as an image, what does free speech mean to you? Are we only to have free speech on topics are declared important by popular survey?

Just to make it clear why that is a ridiculous idea, the principle of free speech is ultimately not for majorities, it is for minorities. You don't really need a concept of free speech to talk about things that are widely recognised as important and worthwhile by everyone. It is top protect things that are generally believed to be better left unsaid. Things like purposefully upsetting people with a cartoon.
It's nice to see that things don't always have to be continually getting worse.
Re: lambda expressions, it turns out there was a proposal to add them. Maybe it or something like it is in common use by now; I wouldn't know. http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/ulrich/Prolog-inedit/ISO-Hi...

(It's true that you can write higher-order programs without them. The style was often clumsier and used less, at least as I saw it back when I read much Prolog.)

Re: unnesting, I've toyed with the idea of a slightly fancier Prolog syntax that lets you write nested calls which get desugared to the use of an extra parameter. Of course they'd have to look distinct from functors as data.
Oh, I switched to Firefox years ago (Chrome still doesn't offer any reasonable equivalent to Tree Style Tabs). This would be more for the folks that I haven't quite convinced yet to do the same.
The data storage limit increased quite a bit just a few months ago:

https://releasenotes.docs.salesforce.com/en-us/spring19/rele...
I guess, but it makes things even more disposable, more consumerist. More detrimental to the environment.
If he’s directing terrorist attacks from jail maybe the smarter move is to not force feed him.
The one part of Vice that was still amazing and worth every bit of our attention. Sad to see it go. I ask the question: do we need more Succesion and Billions at the expense of something actually worthwhile?
It’s a reference to a scene in the film _Margin Call_.
You could have a rich uncle in Scandinavia about to die and leave you $200M
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I think part of the problem is that it's just as likely to cause a raise (from the increased exposure) as it is to cause a drop, which creates an incentive to do things that will incite outrage.
Yeah, but it took them like 300 years to get to cash flow positive. Today’s religious investors aren’t willing to wait that long.
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I have encountered some who think climate change is no big deal because, so they say, we can just blow a few nukes and induce a controlled nuclear winter.
"superblocks... can either be of size 128×128 or 64×64 pixels" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AV1#Partitioning Unfortunately I don't know of a more authoritative source.
Friendly suggestion: adding some line breaks / paragraphs to a post this long will make people much more likely to read it.
A decent couch from crate and barrel probably goes for 800-1200 or so. At 50/month for a couch, you’d pay the cost to buy it outright in two years. It would also be interesting to see what they charge for any stains/damage. Is “normal wear and tear” a thing or do they use the landlords definition of “anything I think I can get away with”.

Math looks a bit better if you do long distance moves constantly.

Not a frugal option in any sense, but if you have plenty of disposable income and value minimalism and simple moves, sure, why not.

Edit - Couch pricing a bit off (looks like they’re around 1500-2000, but I doubt they’re renting things at that quality and I’m sure furniture has some fantastic bulk pricing) Probably paid off in 2.5/3 years of renting.
Considering how much people spend on lottery, and how much value they could get by spending that money on real products, it's innumeracy.
India has already banned them.
Here's the main premise: "Even the most thoughtful and well-intentioned school-reform program can’t improve educational outcomes if it ignores the single greatest driver of student achievement: household income."

I generally agree with this. High-quality education starts not with teachers, but with parents. And parents can't do their part if they don't have stable income and enough free time to... actually raise their kids. This then gets compounded by wealthier families being able to afford the more expensive housing that comes with better school districts (or opt out of public school entirely and pay for private school). Then it compounds further with wealthier families being able to afford tuition instead of saddling their kids with mountains of debt. It ends up being something of a vicious cycle.
I could make a case for the opposite -- consumers tend to buy something new at the store then throw it out a couple of years later. I can imagine these types of companies buying more durable goods so they can rent them out to multiple people back to back instead. I see it as almost automating the craigslist model.
Or perhaps we are all but dancing birds trying to be our best.
To elaborate on my comment, by eliminating all cartoons, the NYT invites one to think that politically correct over-sensitivity is the cause. Otherwise, why would they not simply avoid publishing anti-Semitic cartoons? Indeed, the author of the blog post suggests that "Twitter mobs" are at fault. But the NYT has an extensive, dark history of profoundly harmful anti-Semitism, including the editorial stance that the Holocaust was not occurring, as it occurred. This is extensively detailed in Buried by the Times, and is supported by that book's absolutely mammoth bibliography: https://www.amazon.com/Buried-Times-Holocaust-Important-News...
They can take one of those giant canadian arms to pick it up and put it in a ... wait, to throw it into the sun.
>You can read horror stories of prison companies only having one underpaid doctor for multiple prisons forcing inmates to wait weeks to get treatment for basic injuries, leading to broken bones healing incorrectly, or dying from appendicitis.

In federal prison, we used to joke that the most dangerous gang was Medical. A guy I knew got a brown recluse bite on his foot and medical mis-diagnosed it as a broken bone. They put a cast on his foot and three weeks later had to amputate right below his knee.
All thanks to China refusing our trash. Really, can’t thank them enough. Finally our politicians are awake and are proposing changes.
Correct me if I'm being overly cynical, but this is an oft-repeated truism that is as useless as "the only winning move is not to play." It's technically the truth, but what are we supposed to do, revert all information systems to non-electronic media? What is the intended takeaway from this statement? If anything, it absolves data security efforts of responsibility by pointing out that there's always a chance of data breach as long as there is data.

That's trivially true, but the proper response to bad security is good security, not shutting down the whole system.
I am aware of the difference. If you look at their numbers, their literal unit economics are negative, if you employ normal EBITDA. They don't, they employ a so called "adjusted EBITDA", which last year flatout discounted 150 million in marketing as non-recurring trying to make the argument that you just made.

But this is hilarious number fudging, because obviously a lot of marketing budget is recurring and goes towarss retaining existing customers and should go into a unit cost metric.

They do the same thing that uber did, which is pretending that they can magically 'scale' and that they are a tech company, when in reality they are a real estate business siphoning money out of investors, pretending their losses are somehow magically going to turn into profit.
He hurt all the lottery players he beat.
In fact Cicadas emerge on 7, 13 and 17 year periods.

The theory for this 'prime number' periodic cycle is quite interesting:
https://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2001/11/27/421251.ht...
Like the Yellow Pages, where your phone listing is immediately adjacent to listings for all your competitors.
WeWork is just too expensive here in SF. Easier to just rent an office or work from cofounder's home.