skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there a lot of conclusion jumping. The NCAA only make $1 billion in revenue with 900 million in expenses.

A state-only organization the size of California can easily compete especially when any player in any sport with financial planning would move to California.

Why would anyone watch the NCAA in football, basketball or anything else when we'd know all the best player are in the California League.

Also, the point is that rich boosters colluding wouldn't be illegal. This wouldn't have anything to do Title IX. I do agree those rich donors will pull all the best talent to California though.
5, but given the volume of recommendations here the ratings will need reworking!
Anyone incapable of writing their own regular expression for this is unlikely to know when their problem is too complicated to be solved by it. You're not actually doing them a favor by answering the question.
I haven't used visual studio since I learned basic in high school.
Why would you image an author would not care that their page "suck on mobile". If they are posting/sharing their stuff, they more than likely want people to consume (and spread/reshare it). Both being poor experience on mobile and non-discoverably, hard to search for impact that.
I believe their auto-tagging feature (which was too good and creeped people out, so they reverted) occurred soon after this investment.
If you don't _want_ to get a PhD, it will be very hard to finish. It is already hard if you are motivated and eager to do research.

Also, just the title alone is of not much value in industry, you need to have done research in a sought-after area. So if you mainly want to do it for career purposes, interactive theorem proving is probably not a good choice. If you think you need a PhD to get interesting industry jobs, better look for a PhD in an area where FAANG researchers publish.
Personally, I'm delighted to see the unicorn bubble popping. For a long time I've felt like the "Uber for X" wave of companies soaked up a lot of investment that should have gone to people building reasonable businesses. It seemed to me that investors were looking for the next Google, the next Facebook. Ignoring that when Google and Facebook started out, they were much more focused and modest than the high-drama unicorns hyping up how they were going to dominate the planet. (And also ignoring that both were profitable at IPO.)
The history of how we got here is very odd. The NCAA's worship of amateurism has it's roots in Ivy League gentleman amateurs, and for many, many years was explicitly racially segregated.
Hmm, using a hole puncher is a pretty clever idea. If I had thought of that, instead of crudely sawing off a notch with scissors, maybe my success rate would have been higher. ;)

You can also punch holes in 3.5-inch double-density disks to attempt to turn them into high-density disks. :)
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The NCAA's main argument against paying college players is completely bogus, which is that there is an uneven playing field between "amateur" and paid players. In reality, some players already claim that advantage by coming from rich families, which according to NCAA logic is unfair.

The real separation between college and professional athletics is being a student. Rich and poor students both only have 24 hours in a day and as long as a significant portion of that is dedicated to classes, then that's fair enough for me. 12 units / semester is the current minimum.
It’s the only estimate I know of. Here’s a critical look at it: https://www.factcheck.org/2019/03/how-much-will-the-green-ne...
My preference would be for a world where college athletes were genuinely student-athletes: held to the same academic standards as other students while genuinely acting as amateur athletes.

But that's not the world we live in (particularly for football and basketball.) The quasi-professional setup we have now, where athletes generate tremendous revenue for schools and and capture very little of that, is untenable. I don't necessarily think athletes should get paid by schools, but it's hard to articulate why they shouldn't be able to benefit from endorsements.
Dude:

> The "modern world" sucks at figuring out how to help people find the right kind of job for one of two reasons:

> 1) they keep thinking about gender and age as qualifiers for jobs for which those factors have absolutely zero relevance (girls are bad at math! Old people can't learn new things!), or

> 2) They invent the delusion that gender and age disqualifies you for a job (girls will just get pregnant and leave! oldster can only do Cobol, they'll never learn Python!).

I didn't "go off on a tangent" about anything. OP already refocused the conversation to apply to the entire problem domain of career matching, which is absolutely absurd, so I teased the two issues back apart. Put on your reading glasses.
One of my favorite books ever, but I would categorize it as classic sci fi with little computation.
> Most people who care about climate change are also in favor of publich transport and already vote liberaly

In my experience, I know many 'liberals' who vote for transit, but do not take it, preferring to drive their car for convenience. Voting honestly doesn't matter. Public transit being provided by the government also does not matter. What matters is actually choosing to take multi-person transportation. Whether that be a public bus, or a private car-pooling service like uberpool, the effect is the same. You do not get brownie points for voting, sorry.

And before someone says this is anecdata, the facts support it: https://psmag.com/economics/why-people-are-not-using-public-.... Thus, conservatives and liberals are equally bad. Actually the liberal voters who voted for transit and then don't use it are worse because the transit going unused is probably worse for the environment.

> Without CO2 & other emmision taxes how am I suppose to know which consumer products are the worse offenders? (Besides the obvious ones like meat).

Just consume less? I dunno... wild thought.

> No one is saying that. It's just considerably more effective to put the emmision taxes & limits on the production/corporation side than the consumer side. A good portion of American's aren't going to do anything of their own accord so policy at state & federal level is much more attractive.

Um, that's fine. Choosing to tax at the production side due to easier regulatory enforcement is fine. The tax will be passed to the consumer, who can then use pricing to better judge externalities. However, taxing the production does not mean that the production is what is ultimately to blame for the emissions. The consumer is to blame. Without the consumer, the production wouldn't take place, and a production-side tax is a great way to enforce that consumers (who are fantastic at tax evasion) actually comply.
This comment is a great example of what kind of disinformation the PSYOPs might want to propagate. Probably isn't, but just saying...
The caption for the image on the IEEE article :

"Photo: Chongqing University

Two cotton leaves grown in the Chang’e-4 lander on the far side of the moon."
I was working on a credit trading desk during the beginning of the crisis. At least in my experience, Margin Call is definitely the most accurate movie about high finance I've ever seen.
>The players should be paid a salary, full stop.

This is where I disagree. I don't think the schools should be obligated to provide a salary. These are amateurs, by definition.

That said, if you are popular enough to make money outside of the school, of your own volition, the NCAA has no business stopping you from doing so.
Why weren't floppy disks sold this way to begin with? Some sort of economy of scale type thing?
They are real humans in the sense of that they're made of flesh, but their actions and opinions are clearly fabricated. Combine that with the fake engagement so that it looks legit to the average Joe and boom you have the perfect robot army.
New app claims it can identify venture capitalists using facial recognition
Couldn't OP just not list that on the resume/application? This seems like a solvable problem if it's as bad as they make it out.
I'm someone familiar with 20th c. and 21st c. Marxist literature. Academic Marxists today do not, in general, view the fall of Communism as an abomination, and in fact many of them celebrate it - and use it as a learning guide for avoiding such collapse. Peter Hudis, for example, speaks of the irony of the USSR falling into what Marx himself described as a situation in which the equality of wages creates an "abstract capitalist" of society. Moishe Postone, perhaps one of the most influential Marxists critical of the Soviet (and Soviet inspired systems) chastises "traditional Marxism" for similar reasons. The Japanese Marxist schools have their own criticisms in turn, as does the Frankfurt School (focusing on the similarity between forms of domination in the West and the USSR in the 60s).

The fact that the USSR and the ideology of Marxism-Leninism are associated so strongly with Marx himself is in my view an intellectual tragedy. But you won't find such associations made by professional modern theoreticians.

The author writes,

>But Marxist view is entirely powerless to explain 1989, the fall of communist regimes, and hence unable to provide any explanation for the role of communism in global history.

But this is wrong. The figures I have named above actually use a Marxist lens to explain the fall of communism and its fall in global history. Herbert Marcuse goes further in investigating the role of the Nazis is history in Hegel's idea of progressive development of freedom.

Why was the USSR not a socialist state? What lead to it being the way it was? Why did Stalin effectively admit as such in Economic Problems of the USSR? There are papers by Marxist historians, philosophers and value-theoreticians alike. Here[0] is one by Chattopadhyay, a respected figure in Marxist philosophy.

From Peter Hudis:

>This is in many respects a remarkable passage, for it anticipates the problems with many of the social experiments that will be carried out (ironically enough) in Marx’s name in the twentieth century. Two points are worth noting from this. First, wages, like property, are results of human activity. They are made necessary by the existence of alienated labor. To ignore alienated labor while altering wage and property relations through the elimination of private capitalists does not undermine the necessity for a ruling class to impose forced labor on the workers. Society has a whole now becomes the “abstract capitalist.”One form of oppression is ended by instituting an ever more egregious form of oppression. Second, if everyone is paid the same wage, labor becomes treated as a uniform abstraction. Treating labor as an abstraction, however, is precisely the problem with alienated labor.

[0] https://www.jstor.org/stable/25769087?seq=1#page_scan_tab_co...
The issue is weather becomes a common-mode failure that affects your entire fleet regardless of size. A week or two of no/light wind, or winds that are too strong mean that everything is delayed.

Slower shipping may not be a problem, but unpredictability often is. Few businesses can handle completely unpredictable shipping timelines.
Yet Another Public iOS Update (13.1.2)
My main reasons I want to move to Canada over staying in India are

* Pollution in cities like Bangalore, Delhi

* Water scarcity issues which cities like Bangalore are already affected by and might get more severe.

* Overpoppulation and over competetion. I have no fucking clue whether my Children would be able to goto a decent college because of the over population and competetion.

* Corruption. You life is is valueless if you are not pwerful

* Global warming and rising temparature in the sub continent.

* If robots take over and more people become jobless Canada sounds like a better option than a country with 1.4 Billion people and counting.
I used to do this all the time back in the day. I also used to buy floppies in bulk from some mail order catalog and re-sell them at a profit from my high school locker.
Let's also not forget how many seasonal jobs in rural areas this will create.
More to the point: if you provide a service (or product) to the general public, you have to accept that people will user it as they see fit.

If you want to limit the ways your service (or product) can be used, you can do so by explicitly arranging these limitations through a contract. Things that are already (otherwise) illegal do not have to be included in this arrangement (hopefully for obvious reasons).

Whatever is not explicitly forbidden by either law or contract, are not valid grounds for treating consumers differently.

Sadly, and mostly for historical and cultural reasons (and law enforcers not paying attention for a long time), it is often assumed that these rules do not apply to big service providers (and software producers alike). However, I have never found any legal basis for why such companies should be treated any different than any other one.
Ask any 18 year-old 3-star high school senior football recruit whether he's going to play in the NFL. Let me know how many of them tell you "maybe, but I'm not sure I'll get there."

Then ask the 4- and 5-stars.
His short story "Dial F for Frankenstein" (1961) [1] might be a better candidate for an early example of the genre. No programming is involved, but there's no magic explained away as technology, either.

For prescience, however, I don't know of anything that beats Murray Leinster's "A Logic Named Joe" (1946) [2].

[1] https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?entryid=2506

[2] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/19/a_logic_named_joe/
to me that seems like the same problem, since you still don't touch anything, the only feedback is the computer doing something (or not)

that said, I'm definitely curious to see how it performs in the wild
> Sadly, one has a largely voice than the other because the other congregation is busy coordinating and conducting community litter pick-up events.

No, one has a louder voice than the other because that one is a convenient fig leaf used to put the imprint of the cross on the self-interest of the Mammon-worshipping economic elites.

The other is also politically active as well as involved in direct action, but money is volume in political discourse, and the side serving money has more of it.
No, they don't. This isn't "feel-good technology". We're talking about saving the ecosystem and providing for posterity.

There are no ifs, ands or buts about it, we have to return the energy we borrowed and rebind the carbon in our atmosphere. It doesn't matter if thereisnospork doesn't see the utility in this, it doesn't change reality. So again, the energy is not being wasted. It's being used. Just because there isn't a net 0 expenditure doesn't mean it's a stupid idea, that sounds like a Conservative talking point waiting to happen.
By "everyone" I meant "everyone involved in the current trade war", e.g. US government, businesses and China (there's no differentiation there between government and businesses at the moment). I don't see why the US should care about not hurting the Netherlands or OPEC countries at its own expense. I was under impression the Netherlands have a functioning government and can stand for themselves. Same with OPEC countries.
i'm sure the author cares. what i'm not sure about is that the author isn't aware and that "hey your site fails on mobile" is of much use to them.
There were floppies sold as double-sided and they came at a premium price: Before the floppy would be sold, it had to be verified at the factory and having both sides of the media functional was harder than just one side.
The players who have a good change of playing in the NFL likely heavily overlaps the players who will be offered endorsements. 99% of college athletes simply aren't good enough for either and will probably be unaffected by this.
Fond memories! Eventually did the same on my C64 floppies, but only after having destroyed quite a few disks using my mom's blunt, giant scissors.

Used a soldering iron on my 3.5" disks, with a scalpel to take care of the excess plastic. Can't remember why I didn't use a drill, but I suspect drilling ran a bigger risk of particles getting inside.
> That's not exactly discoverable

Sure it's not. But that doesn't mean it doesn't exist/is not possible :)
This completely disregards the number of politicians and newsmakers using Twitter as a platform to share information. The US President has been the first president to announce major policy changes over Twitter without any consultation with his own administration.

News outlets cover Twitter precisely because people are making news on the platform. There is a lot of misinformation out there (especially from the President), and major news outlets make bad calls when running stories (affecting their reputation), but their insistence on using Twitter for news isn't a part of that.
It sounds like he used the power of his job to rape several women. Now that he is free, it says he is helping fight police corruption and donates to organizations that help victims of sexual assault, but if I was one of his victims, I don't think I would feel justice is served just because he hid in the woods for 22 years. This is a pretty tricky scenario imo.
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Are you guys getting less views/likes than before on social media (in general)?
It seems that I'm getting fewer views and likes now on all of my social media accounts. I am a musician, so I need to promote my newly completed work on these outlets regularly, it's not accounts for vanity... I have also spent years generating quality content on them as well as creating connections that now probably never see my content.

I have followers in the hundreds on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, but it seems like lately I've been only getting 10 views or less each time I post (about once a day). Also no matter how many notices I see about people following me, my overall follower numbers never go up beyond the number of max people I've followed on Instagram and Twitter.

It just seems like I've got to put in a lot of work to establish a presence on these social media sites for little outreach, and now that they're charging for advanced promotion, the value of free accounts is nonexistent. I have been using hash tags suited to my content to no success as well on posts, and they don't even work like they used to now. This has been going on for the past 2 months for me.

Anyone else experiencing the same issues? Is there some kind of algorithm in control?
You'll have to help me out. The assertion is that all things that aren't nuclear "decimate the poor and drastically increase the price of food".

Can you suggest some reading material that would tell me how wind and solar do those things?
Offer it up for a share of future profits, a leveraged buyout financed by you. For instance, you value it at say $60K because it makes $30k profit a year. Hand it off to someone to run with the agreement that they pay you 100% of the current profits for two years. The buyer tries to double the profits so they make money too during those years. You keep the domain registration until the terms of the agreement are fulfilled.
First, the GDD tool shows that most of America's landmass has a reduction of Growing Degree Days. This is more than "some places" and it throws doubt on the Hockey Stick graph model. The 1930's were hotter than the recent warm period, even though there was less CO2.

Do the models you are referencing account for magnetic fields & Birkeland currents?

During Grand Solar Minimums, the Solar Background Magnetic Field & Magnetic Field strength of sunspots is reduced, weakening both the Heliosphere & Magnetosphere, both of which repel cosmic rays, which trigger clouds, earthquakes, & volcanic eruptions. See the work of Dr. Valentina Zharkova, Dr. Heinrich Svensmark, & others (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S13429...
) for more details.

Earth is also going through a Geomagnetic excursion of the poles, which is geologically rare.
AFAIK this history is less than 100 years old, per what 'nostrademons elaborated on in the thread. From what I remember from my history lessons, most wars - including both World Wars - were free for all, with (what we consider today) war crimes committed left and right. And it's only expected: any party that believes they're fighting for their very survival will not stick to the rulebook unless consequences are greater than benefits, and they usually aren't.

I mean, the proposal here is equivalent to saying "let's solve all our disputes by a deathmatch in Quake 3 Arena" - stated this way, it's more obvious that the only thing stopping a party from cheating is threat of consequences in the real world. And once you have threats and counterthreats, you may as well do away with the Q3A game.

Hell, it seems to me that in a way, we're already doing "conflict resolution through games". Geopolitics is the name of the game, and diplomats and politicians are the player. There's a full fluidity from the purely virtual threats, through sanctions up to trade wars.
The most important change in terms of usability, IMO, is the use of tf.keras as the recommended interface to TensorFlow. There hasn't been a case yet where I've needed to dip outside of Keras into raw TensorFlow, but the option is there and is easy to do.

That said, TF 2.0 changes a lot. Many repos might break, so expect to see lots of tensorflow==1.14 in requirement.txt files from now on.
Probably-not-ethical study I'd like to try. Pick two innocuous subject that somewhat uncommon. Pick a group of target accounts, randomly divide in two, assign each group of accounts a 'target subject'. Whenever you see a tweet from one of these accounts that mentions target subject, have a bot network like the post. After running experiment for a period, measure whether the relative frequency of posting about each subject is different between groups.

Would be interesting if previously unrelated accounts in same targeting group would find each other. I suspect you could make a weird cult of 'asparagus enthusiasts' or something if you worked at it.
The point being that, in an 'ideal' world, you wouldn't need anywhere near that number of cruise missiles, assuming they are able to effect accurately-targetted strikes.
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You always install windows without a network connection so that you can run group policy editor to install your policies before first network connection. This has been best practice forever.
Last quarter? https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/TWTR/financials?p=TWTR
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The Science of Branding: How Brands Make Us “Think Different”
If coding physically hurts your brain, you might consider another field altogether. I mean you no disrespect but that sounds like an awful reality. There are plenty of ways to make a good living that do not require one to be tormented daily.
Angel group charges fees to pitch, blocks me on LinkedIn when I say it's not OK
Just a reminder to all entrepreneurs out there to never, ever pay fees to pitch. Jason Calacanis said it best: https://calacanis.com/2009/10/09/why-startups-shouldnt-have-to-pay-to-pitch-angel-investors/. Additionally, any entrepreneur who accepts to pay a fee normalizes the practice, making it harder for those who are earlier in their startup journey.

It's in investors' best interest to condemn the practice as well. It severs the trust between entrepreneurs and investors--big time. It makes bootstrapping a much more enviable path by comparison.

Shape your business so that funding is a plus rather than a need if you can, know your worth, and stand up with your fellow entrepreneurs when faced with such inappropriate requests.
Nope, it's generally a case of looking up things asserted as fact or otherwise independently verifying them. Quotations may also be verified with the interviewee. If I had known that such a job existed when I was in college, my career path would have been very different.