skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Completely agree with a lot of your points, we run into coffee shops every day that are hesitant to offer something like this. That said, resigning themselves to the fact that a chain exists is a surefire way to go out of business. Most of the shops we speak with are actively looking for ways to maintain the quality you've noted, while simultaneously attracting more customers.

In terms of scale, we're asked about fragmentation a lot. Chains like Starbucks and Dunkin' will never use Cloosiv, but there's no reason to believe that as our network grows, that we can't support large regional chains (Joe Muggs, Dollop) and even national chains (Caribou, La Colombe, etc.).

For now, we're hyper-focused on building out that network, by adding any interested shop as quickly as possible. That may appear fragmented across the country, but as we increase our speed we'll be able hit a critical mass quickly.
>It's probably gotten harder and harder to dedicate dev resources to building a robust bot player for your game

I don't think so. Years ago gaming programming books were all about how many CPU cycles can you spare for AI. Literally omg the graphics are too slow we have to make the AI stupider.

These days you can throw spades of power at it (comparatively).
I have ADHD as well, and sure, the stims absolutely help our focus. But we have ADHD. We have less dopamine and norepinephrine floating around our brains (in addition to other issues, like smaller-than-average size of the prefrontal cortex, by volume). These are the chemicals released by the medication. The goal with the meds, however, is to bring us up to baseline -- to a normal level of focus. To us, it feels like "Wow, look at all this FOCUS! I can actually CONCENTRATE!" But we feel like that because we have lots of experience knowing what it's like to be physically unable to do so, and merely operating at a normal level feels like magic to us.

I can't focus or perform adequately at all without my medicine. I didn't get diagnosed until 28, so I have a lifetime of evidence to back this claim up. And once I started taking meds, I went from a depressing career I hated to spending significant time and effort self-teaching programming and computer science in the evenings while working full time, and eventually changed careers. Something I absolutely never could have achieved without medically prescribed stimulants.

But it's really hard for me to take my experience as someone with a neurological disability/impairment, and try to apply it to other people without that impairment. For instance, even with my condition, there is a very delicate balance that has to be achieved with dosing. If I take even a little bit too high of a dose, I am hyperfocusing in a way I can't control, and on non-productive tasks. Spending three hours furiously rearranging books alphabetically is not productive. And since "normal" people don't have the same deficits that I do, I genuinely feel like have those people take any significant amount of stimulants would do something similar. I was around plenty of people who "used adderall to study" in college but clearly didn't actually have the condition. Let's just say "studying" tended to involve many things that weren't actually studying.
100% reliability needs to also be measured by usage. It's easy to get that if you have 1 or 10 customers vs a hundred customers. How many unique customers & transactions were you seeing?
Yes. My GF and I have both purchased items that an influencer is 'marketing'. It's not so much that I've been deceived, it's more about the exposure. Some items I'm interested in and the influencer simply put it on my radar.
They could, but if they distribute the private key, which they would, the private key would be considered compromised, and the CA would be required to revoke the certificate within something like 24h of being notified with appropriate evidence (e.g. a copy of the key or a special message signed with the key).

In the case of LetsEncrypt certificates, there is even an API for this revocation.

However, given how ineffective revocation is, it unfortunately could still be a viable strategy.

The easier approach is, of course, using the fact that browsers now consider http://127.0.0.1 (and/or http://localhost) a secure origin to avoid this issue.
Like with JS, you might not have a choice. I mostly use Python for extending programs that use it as a embedded scripting language. Performance is still important.
There are no decentralized cryptocurrencies.

Like all other so-called "decentralized" coins, Bitcoin rewards economies of scale. That means that it tends towards centralization.

Though of course Bitcoin has its own unique problems, like being deflationary (which is evil).
> they are inferior computers

Also: inexpensive. Price has always been one of their strongest features.
For a lot of FPS and Third Person shooters the AI is normally rock dumb, which is a shame. Compare the original FEAR's AI with many of today's shooter can't see to emulate. This guy done a good run down of how it is relatively simple but the emergent behaviour makes it more challenging.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmOOrh5lq7o

This game was made 15 years ago and every time you play the game (just like the guy says) the encounters are different. There are ways to cheese the game still but it isn't easy to do it and tbh it almost not worth doing.

I think the problem is that a lot of games have been constrained by two things consoles being quite limited compared to PCs and the industry trying to constantly sell graphics and celebrity voice acting over gameplay.

Most of the open world games except for GTA are essentially pretty stale.
Effective APM limits is not enough.

No human can maximize target firing before each shot like AlphaStar did.
Not a lot of people even talked about it
Using their trademark as the name seems a little on the nose, but I guess if it's been that for 7 years nobody must be very concerned.
The section in SICP on circuit simulation has some similar ideas. I like to think that that was an early version of the propagator idea - https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/sicp/full-text/...
human error often, configuration changes often, new changes often.
Fair point, but arguably that's a bit short term thinking. What if at the same time(driven by increased ridership) public transport improved to the point where it's not an extra hour, but instead about the same time or only slightly longer than driving?

I don't think most US cities would ever get to a point where public transport and bicycles are much faster for a lot of regular routes (like in some European cities), but the gap can be closed if there is political and financial support to improve the infrastructure.
My favorites, in no particular order:
TheBrainScoop https://www.youtube.com/user/thebrainscoop

Adam Ragusea (cooking) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9_p50tH3WmMslWRWKnM7dQ

Tom Scott https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBa659QWEk1AI4Tg--mrJ2A

Smarter Every Day https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6107grRI4m0o2-emgoDnAA

Minute Earth https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeiYXex_fwgYDonaTcSIk6w

Minute Physics https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHW94eEFW7hkUMVaZz4eDg

Numberphile https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoxcjq-8xIDTYp3uz647V5A

Veritasium https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHnyfMqiRRG1u-2MsSQLbXA

You suck at cooking https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCekQr9znsk2vWxBo3YiLq2w
The "ingredients" in this analogy are mostly human capital/contractors and locations used in pre/production/post. For example, Netflix doesn't really have the ability to see how much the choice of caterer on set influences their churn.

That's contrived, but I hope it illustrates the point. There are dozens to hundreds of these contractors who work on serious productions, and some studios are more integrated than others when it comes to hiring them for different phases of the process. And the sheer amount of real estate and personnel involved in these ecosystems is beyond what Netflix is capable of exploiting today.

And while Netflix is uniquely capable of collecting some extremely useful data (which they guard like the crown jewels), I'm not aware of them getting granular with production pipelines to see how changes influence their revenue. And if they were, I'd be skeptical given the amount of variance, since every production is different despite massive efforts to standardize the process. It's a very human problem domain.
>Because you can check. Open it up, see what it does. Use Wireshark to inspect traffic.

99.9% of users are incapable of doing this.

>Imagine the scoop that "the mute switch does nothing" would be for a tech journalist.

Google has already been caught doing this type of thing with location data:

https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/13/google-keeps-a-history-of-...
I did, but it still didn't work. It was extra complicated because it was coming out of API gateway calling Lambda.

But the point is, it shouldn't be that complex and I shouldn't have to dive deep into the docs to make it work. That is as much an impediment to CORS as is the lack of understanding.
Thanks for the suggestions, I will have a look at them. I am however not sure that I buy into the idea of something being hidden to avoid tinkering with it, I will have to think a bit about that.
Yes! https://tehnoetic.com/mobile-devices
Investment is circulation though. They are no longer holding the $10 you spent to buy 10 Libra but $10 worth of Apple stock say that definitely isn't always worth $10 and Apple or whoever sold that stock now has $10.
> The only issue is being forced to come up with the initial funds to make the challenge, which isn't too hard to do.

That fully depends on the person. Suppose I mined Bitcoin in college when it was still rather young and amassed a ton of BTC, but then lost my wallet at some point.

Many years later, BTC is worth a great deal more than when I was mining. Perhaps my wallet is now valued at tens (or hundreds) of thousands of dollars. Depending on my life scenario, I may not have that amount in liquid assets to put toward making the challenge.
I'm using Calca since seems like there is no real alternative on Windows.
I don't think the act of sending the POST is blocked by CORS, receiving the POSTed response data is though.
It doesn't look like olivine is mentioned in that. Is it under some other name / concept?
Google employees do. It's required reading before designing, implementing or operating any system dealing with user data. Intentionally (i.e. genuine bugs excluded) breaking the policy is an outright fireable offence.
Problem Solving with Combine Swift
Does anyone know if DeepMind is fed raw images of the screen to process via ML or it's already a parsed data of the game state?
The University of California: Discontinuation of Elsevier Journal Access
TO: UC Davis Academic Community

RE: Elsevier access suspended for 2019 articles

The University of California has been out of contract with Elsevier since January. Until now, the publisher continued to allow access to 2019 articles via ScienceDirect. As of today, Wednesday, July 10, UC’s direct access to these Elsevier articles is being discontinued.

What is affected: Members of the UC community no longer have direct access to:

● 2019 articles in all Elsevier journals

● Older articles in certain journals

What is not affected: Articles published before 2019 in the vast majority of journals used by UC scholars should continue to be available via ScienceDirect.

The systemwide faculty Senate has encouraged stakeholders across UC to use alternative access methods or contact their campus library for assistance in obtaining articles, and to refrain from any new independent subscriptions to Elsevier journals at this time. “By ‘holding the line,’” the Senate leadership writes, “the UC can help change the system of scholarly communication for the betterment of all.”

What happens next?

We will be carefully evaluating the impact of losing access to new articles on ScienceDirect over the coming months, and will do our best to ensure that you have access to the articles you need. Meanwhile, UC is hoping to reenter formal negotiations with Elsevier if the publisher indicates that they are willing to discuss a contract that integrates our goals of containing costs and facilitating open access to UC research.

MacKenzie Smith, University Librarian and Vice Provost of Digital Scholarship

Dennis J. Ventry, Jr., Professor of Law and Vice Chair, Academic Senate University Committee on Library and Scholarly Communication
What is the intrinsic value of btc?

I can't eat it, use it to heat my house. It has value, most of it isn't intrinsic though.
> why isn’t some billionaire using subversive techniques to manipulate the population into doing something?

Maybe there is selection bias, where only borderline (at least) psychopaths seeking individual profit and power become billionaires.

Also, I think the steel-man of the conservative position isn't that AGW doesn't exist (it clearly does), but that economic damage from over-reaction is actually a bigger threat and cost than adaptation will be. They just focus on fuzzing over the science since that is much easier to sell than what they really believe, which I think is actually more like "We just don't care much about animals, and what we're doing is about comparable to effect to what our species did when we invented the automobile and air travel and paved the earth. This is progress, deal with it."
I don't personally, but there are cryptocurrencies that have made some really big strides there: Monero and ZCash. I've heard that a lot of dark-web business is actually switching over from Bitcoin to Monero, so it's getting some real adoption.

One of the interesting things about the cryptocurrency space is that it's challenging one of our fundamental assumptions about economics, namely that currency is a winner-take-all market and everything works better if there's a single currency used for everything. Instead we're seeing that currencies can actually have different properties, and that this can actually affect which currency you'd chose to use in which circumstance. Want to do things that you don't want the government to know about? Use a privacy coin like ZCash or Monero. Want to let your computer programs transact economically? Use a platform coin like Ethereum, EOS, or Tron, and select which based on whether you want to write your smart contracts in Solidity, WebAssembly, or Java, respectively. Want to define a marketplace and create a utility coin to mediate transactions in it? That's what coins like BAT (Brave), Kin (Kik) and now Libra (Facebook) do.

The primary functions of a currency (store of value, medium of exchange, and unit of account) are also now getting unbundled: Bitcoin is used as a store of value, but not as a medium of exchange, while something like Monero or BAT is much more a medium of exchange than a store of value, and stablecoins like Tether or USDC are filling the unit-of-account role. That trend has been going on for decades - stocks and bonds are stores of value, but not mediums of exchanges or units of account, while in-game currencies are units of accounts but not a good store of value or unit of exchange - but the crypto space has made it explicitly clear.
Our goal is not to cover up existing tourist beaches. You would be surprised how much coastline around the world is undeveloped and not even accessible by roads etc, those beaches are likely to be the places where we go first.

That said, we believe that green sand beaches will become their own tourist attractions as the naturally occurring ones, such as Papakolea in Hawaii, are (which is the beach pictured on our site). They are beautiful and we are considering ways we could create ecotourism hubs for climate change education etc.

Because most rivers are now damned and sediment flows impeded, many beaches in developed areas are eroding away with no sources of replenishment. Beach replenishment/nourishment is a huge industry and there are not only sand shortages, but even sand mafias who steal sand. So as resorts have to replace their sand, in the future, they might consider creating olivine sand beaches.

We have had early interest from a few parties who own resorts with rocky beaches and would consider replacing their beach with green sand, but at this time, that is not our focus.

We are focused right now on getting a pilot project deployed that can definitively and irrefutably prove the minimum accelerated olivine weathering rate on a real-world, high-energy tropical beach.

The questions of ecotourism and specific beaches is what we will be dealing with as we move to Phase II-III. See an outline of our deployment plan here -> https://projectvesta.org/plan/

[1] https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/06/insid...
[2] https://smile.amazon.com/World-Grain-Story-Transformed-Civil...
> I meant that were the chips upgradeable, you would still spend the money, only you would do it later.

Yes, but my point was that I couldn't spend the money up front even if I wanted to, because the thing I upgraded to didn't exist. It's not "deferred cost" if you get something better later. It's only deferred cost if you get the same thing but later.
Free will, for only $10 a month
I hate AMP for the simple reason that it hijacks my mobile Chrome browser and forces me to scroll all the way back to the top of the page and drag down again just to get to the menu/address bar so I can leave the page or switch to another tab.
Sometimes mistake in router/balancer rules can make your servers non-accesible for users. Really huge systems sometimes can't be federated. I agree we need to design systems to be fault-tolerant and high-available but I also know there is no recipe suitable for every system.
A lot of similar “bike platforms” in Oslo/Norway. Guide from the municipality:
https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&...

Google Maps of all the bike routes, parking and “bike-self-service-points”:
https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1oO7FZepl8zXxKmx22y...
This is just silly. I'm allowed to go into my house whenever I want and you aren't. That isn't me being a hypocrite, people who own things just have more rights to those things.
This reminds me of Pokemon Go forced arbitration opt-out clause that made the news and trended a while back.

"The Go terms do include an opt-out provision for people who don’t want to give up their rights. However, you must opt out within 30 days of first agreeing to the Terms of Service.

Luckily, many Pokémon Go users have only downloaded and activated the app in the last week, meaning they are still within that timeframe.

To Opt Out: Send an email ASAP (before the 30 days have passed) to termsofservice@nianticlabs.com with “Arbitration Opt-out Notice” in the subject line and a clear declaration that you are opting out of the arbitration clause in the Pokémon Go terms of service."

https://consumerist.com/2016/07/14/pokemon-go-strips-users-o...
I thought only samples of audio from speech that is addressed to the Home device (starts with "OK Google...") is sent to humans. That by definition makes it not a conversation in the privacy of your home, it's a conversation with the assistant just like having a phone conversation with someone else in the privacy of your home implies that someone else has access to the conversation.
It took me two readings to catch that "269,000 tonnes" was not '269,000k tonnes' I recommend trying to keep the unit/scale matched up to improve comprehension rates.
Right; the idea is a separation of the profit-driven part of the organization from the editorial part. This is commonly known as "the wall."
Greetings, Professor Falken. Would you like to play a game?
They already ship a server along with the client. It's already always running.

The author is explaining how they could have done it more securely. I think everyone here including the author would agree it's a ridiculous solution for this "feature".
I lived in Seattle for half my life, and I see where this question stems from.

It’s unbelievable to people in the Northwest that people in NYC, London, and other fashion hubs spend $1K on an article of clothing. This is the norm, not the exception here. Brands like Supreme barely want to sell their $600 t-shirt to paying customers, much less give them away.

Point being, it’s a strawman to compare the target demographic of free tech swag to up-and-coming models getting free designer clothing. Still, it seems the fashion industry is adverse to paperwork and the formality. They’d love it if they didn’t have to deal with paperwork, and can get a tax incentive to give out more (which can potentially be abused, but that’s a separate discussion).
For the demo they were limiting average APM not EAPM. That's how it was able to get such superhuman battle micro: by playing slower than usual before and after so that the average was below the limit.
Braintree?
Watch out: some types of stainless steel can leech enough nickel to approach the safety line.
Visualizing and Measuring the Geometry of Bert
Dataset of classified screenshots from Tor hidden services
We’re told that too much screen time hurts our kids. Where’s the evidence?
Yes frontend is a Next.js app and the backend is a GraphQL server.
> The thing is, journalism, good journalism, and certainly public service journalism, no longer requires an institution.

Good journalism is expensive, no current model sustainably funds that kind of work without advertising and infrastructure.
Bloom: The 2-Sigma Problem (1984) [pdf]
Over complicated software. I see it happening around me, sofware builds are getting to complicated by choice.
Technically you can carve a wood log with a piece of sandpaper, but I recommend a chainsaw.
Does the poor quality of this article have something to tell us about Medium and pieces published there? What about it could cause it to attract particularly poorly constructed and sourced arguments?

Or is this just Sturgeon's Law at work?
You know a bond is a loan?

Why is a Libra loan to the government different to a fractional reserve loan of any sort?
It’s interesting that science-minded people seem to like it so much. I gave up pretty quickly as it seemed like he was just writing a narrative without much science to back it up.
Have you considered an e-bike? Don't listen to the bike snobs, they're really quite good at extending the commute range.
12 miles through freezing rain or snow is a bit harder, and that's the majority of the year for most in the US.
Maybe the prospect of a mass extinction will start to convince the far left to start taking nuclear and geoengineering seriously.

And for that matter, to realize that the problem isn't lack of moral behaviour of individuals, but game theory and a global problem of coordination between China, India, Russia, USA, and the rest.
That's usually because of age (at some point in history they got a deal, or one manufacturer didn't have a model etc), or because of mergers.

What's certain is that all airlines dream of having only one manufacturer. If they have multiple, they often try to make one hub service one type of plane, e.g. fly all their Airbuses past one airport and all their Boeings past another (For competing models such as A320 vs 737)
You could have some minimum amount, so you have to have $100 deposited in the last week, making it prohibitively expensive to DOS, but still work for accounts you are actively using. I don't think there would be much incentive to DOS someone anyways, you would have to know that they lost their password for it to be effective.