skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is the time dimension to the adoption. So Facebook already having billions of users is in a position to monetize that relationship. In fact that’s the proclaimed goal of serving underbanked (India and Pakistan e.g.) that use Facebook but can’t be targeted with ads because they can’t buy online. Whether these people start using the new currency is probably less about algorithms and more about trust in the sense of ubiquity of acceptance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_avian_flight
Also, because all political messaging is essentially bullshit in the Frankfurtian sense. Whether a political ad's content is factual is besides the point, because its object is persuasion.

https://youtu.be/lArA7nMIqSI
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> It's not quite that simple unfortunately.

This has been my experience with Go. First a promise of everything being much simpler than the alternatives. Then, when we run into all sorts of confusion and caveats, an unapologetic disclaimer about why it's not simple and can't be, with a long exposition about Go's own internal limitations and the trade-offs they had to make.
It'd be worse than taking down a plane. Us millennials are desensitized to that. But if you took out a security checkpoint, or all of them, airports would be forced to move screening to before you even got inside. There would be car checkpoints. It would take hours to get to your flight.

Also a bit disappointed the Blaine the mono reference went unnoticed
The expensive live sports streaming I get with my internet :)
Yes, but if you believe that going from our current level of wind/solar to 80% wind/solar is a lot easier per gigawatt than going from 80% to 100%, then it still makes sense to develop advanced nuclear for the last part, while still rolling out wind/solar as fast as possible right now.

Not to mention, fast reactors like the TWR can destroy the nuclear waste that people claim to be so worried about.
Advantages of tape for evidence is that it is way easier to prove that it was an original, not tampered with than a digital form.

WIth that, I worked at the BBC in the early 2k period on a project to replace the last bastions of tapes in radio towards a complete digital system. Remarkably one of the drivers of this move was that the tapes used had stopped being manufactured. Ironically though like many things tech that from a user perspective - just work, parts of that system are still in use today.

But then like many things - if it works, why change it does seem to play out more often than not.
I think it's impossible to compare human and animal intelligence because there's a "hard-coded" part to intelligence. I don't think being unable to understand human language says anything about the general intelligence of a non-human animal since humans are at least partially hard-wired to understand language.

That pretty much precludes any animal from ever being able to "follow instructions", "speak", "understand logical problems", etcetera. Even if they would have the general intelligence to do the things we want them to do, it's very difficult to encode that information in a way that they would understand.
The EU could create the legal framework for an EU-wide company, that can settle anywhere in the EU, but be liable towards an entity of the EU, not its host country.
Not OP, but I never needed to research anything where I couldnt find what I was looking for on scholar.google.com.

One time for a club I did need to find an SAE standard, and that might have been the one time I ever checked out a book for non pleasure reading.
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well then let's just hope those electronics don't fall out of the hat the way he moves it around...

https://youtu.be/Eg34YTF-meA?t=7502
(yes, url with timecode :) )
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My favourite thing is how they wait for you to put money in and then lock your account for ID verification/adding a bank account. They know that 99% of people would just exit the site if they had to verify on registration, so they wait until you get paid, holding your money hostage so you have no choice but to verify or lose the money. Skrill is the worst, their ID verification is all automated, wonder if they deleted my $900 yet after 2 years because i just couldn't be bothered sending ID for a 5th time.
This is one of those things where explaining it makes you look like a tinfoil conspirationist and you have to swear it's true and documented on Wikipedia or whatever. Frankly I wonder why people bother with conspiracy crap when the actual documented reality is crazy enough as it is.
Right. I believe it’s just laziness on their part. If the crime is abusing children, go catch the guys doing the abuse. If you’re worried someone is in possession of illegal materials go get a warrant and search their home/computer, etc.
Fascinating. I’m always intrigued in these style of answers. Where do super-capacitors fit in this?
If you know German, Latin, or Greek it helps for understanding inflection in Sanskrit. Otherwise learning the eight cases of Sanskrit nouns is going to be really hard. I studied Sanskrit for a while many years ago in a Classic dept where I'd been studying Greek and Latin (alas, I can barely read Devanagari now), and it was mostly straightforward to understand the structures for the nouns and verbs - learning all the forms takes time and work and you need that to parse the syntax. But it's Sandhi that makes the language unusually hellish. If you've got a critical text or something with the works broken out, it's so not hard to read and get basics of syntax. But the originals of the classics the words are all compressed into long unbroken lines with subtle and difficult rules for joining words.
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In undergrad, a couple people in a class would make a mad dash to the library after receiving the syllabus so they could grab the one or two copies of the textbook. I can't recall ever beating them to it.
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Just cycle names, cancelling every time the discounts end. New FIOS customer discounts are always more than retention.
It's not part of the base definition of capitalism.

But you're correct, there's nothing stopping companies from trying to make a profit at the expense of tricking consumers with hidden fees.
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Nice. I stand corrected.
> Call for quote to me spells 'go away'.

There are many cases where this is by design.

I was recently in the market for a new couch. I walked into a neighborhood furniture store, and I began looking around the showroom confused why there were no price tags on any of the furniture ("ask for the price").

A minute later, the sales person approached me and said "Welcome! [...] Our prices start at $4500 for a lovely sectional. Our store never has sale prices and we don't negotiate price. Our couches are custom order and are delivered 8-12 weeks from the time of purchase. May I take you around the showroom?"

Since I was looking for something delivered next week (at a lower price), I walked out of the store happy that the sales person was so upfront.

Some businesses do not want you as a customer, and use techniques like "Call us for a quote" to weed out customers they know won't buy. Also, some products are inherently difficult to give upfront pricing for before understanding more parameters of the purchase.

Edit: This is especially true of B2B SaaS. A significant number of leads we receive request custom integrations between our internal systems and the customer's internal systems as part of their purchase. In these cases, it's literally impossible to give a quote without multiple calls understanding the complexity and set up cost.
Any of them.
Not at those insane valuations, no.

The business model, at its core, is a fine one. But it's one that's already out there, working fine in a slow, normal, boring way for companies like Regus. I've used Regus spaces, they're fine.
They're not cool, trendy startup collab spaces with beanbags and baristas, but AFAICT they are actually more conducive to real grown-up business use.

Maybe there is a market for a more startup-focused temporary office space business. But it's not one that's going to shake the foundations of the world, nor bring in 100x the investment for VCs.
I feel you are making this up without ever having visited a startup in EU.

All EU startup hubs are local (eg the Paris startup scene). The main difference to SF is scale and crazy money.
Recently I heard[1] that SQLite does not offer concurrent access safety. That is to say, the premise was that if you were to use it as a database backing something multi user, like a forum, SQLite would suffer due to the concurrent access of users against the DB.

While I've not had time to research it yet, I'd be curious on your (or anyones) knowledge / experience in this context.

My plan, if SQLite didn't offer concurrent access safety, was simply to put concurrent primitives around SQLite to ensure safety. However I'm not doing anything until I can make heads or tails of that original comment[1].

Thoughts?

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21041433
VAT is only regressive if you assume that everybody have a constant spending regardless of their income. In practice I think people with a higher income also spend more, however, probably not linear to their extra income.

In practice, sales tax is probably progressive, but not to the same extend as, eg. income tax.

Furthermore, we should probably consider increasing the sales tax as it limits the consumption. This is highly necessary given our current ecological situation (In Denmark, where i live, the sales tax is 25%).
In theory, if you give a bank an instruction, you are the principal and they are the agent, and that means they have to follow your instructions pertaining to your account.

If it's a written instruction, they do need to authenticate it, but they could call you to do so. Or they might charge a big fee for it.

Or they might drag their heels by claiming you have to perform the transaction online because of some policy they have that you don't care about.

But they definitely can't ignore a letter you send them.
Especially when pornography isn't included.
As someone who identifies with the left in India (and has always been atheist), I have to say this is unfair and really quite silly.

The Gita and other religious and literary texts like it are important cultural artifacts. They have existed since before there was such a thing as left wing vs right wing.

They may have been co-opted by particular political parties to suit particular ends, but that doesn't make them the property of those parties. Please don't associate them with politics in this way.
Bhagavad Gita is a deep scripture about yogic teachings.

The premise of the story is a war between a family fighting for dominance.

Arjuna is one of the greatest archer at the time and he was fighting against one side of his family.

Both side sought out Lord Krishna for help for their cause. Lord Krishna gave each a choice - His army or Him as a guide.

Arjuna chose Him as a guide and majority of the book is about the dialog between them.

The scripture is deeply allegorical and metaphorical. Bayasa, the author, wrote it as a guide to live one's life (Self-Realization).

The war is actually talking about the "war" every human being is fighting inside themselves. The "good" versus the "bad" or virtues versus vices. That's the whole reason why we suffer. It's all an inner journey :)

I'd highly recommend reading The Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramhansa Yogananda as his Master and other great saints explain more about it than I can.
Tipping is another big one. Americans love price obfuscation.
We are are a land of slaves and a home of cowards. We have forgotten that obedience is a sin and only defiance can set you free.
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But equality of race (or really nationality, at the time) is relative, in the sense that quality of life was worse than probably what most minorities experienced in most other Western countries at the time.

And equal suffrage in a single party system? What is that worth?
Switzerland has fairly high rates of car ownership per capita: 716/1000, vs 811/1000 for the US, according to Wikipedia. The Swiss rate of car ownership far exceeds that of Germany (561), France (478), or even an auto-oriented country like Italy (625).

I think that calls into question your hypothesis: first, direct ownership by voters seems like it should have at least as great an effect on politicians' behavior toward auto transit as would the existence of domestic auto manufacturing, and, second, it demonstrates that Switzerland's car-unfriendly urban planning (and, moreover, extremely high rail density nationwide) does not result in a crippling of the domestic auto market.

Of course, this has to be viewed through the lens of wealth; Switzerland also has the highest wealth per capita in the world, so of course people can afford to keep a cheap Maserati for weekend trips. Given that confounding variable, direct comparisons are hard.

(But I also don't really understand the comparisons you make to other European cities; Italian inter-city transit is heavily car-based, but large cities like Milan have quite functional urban transit, and large cities and small towns alike have limited-traffic zones. Paris certainly has large thoroughfares, but I don't think there has been a lot of widening; the Champs Élysées predates automobiles and serves more as a venue for parades and the like than as a functional high-throughput road.)

So, hard to compare data apples-to-apples, but I think your assumption that urban planning is heavily responsive to the presence of a domestic auto industry is not entirely credible.
Mental stimulation junkie.
Apples Tim Cook spent a lot of time charming the Trump administration
How awful.

Unfortunately, hotels are also generally tightening up cancelation policies to require 48 to 72 hours notice--which of course does you zero good if the cancelation is due to travel disruption of some sort.

(You also see a lot more pre-pay/no cancel rates which I admittedly have less trouble getting upset with although it's very annoying that there's often no refund window at all if you fat finger something when you make the reservation even if you notice immediately.)

My most recent bitch with Travelodge--which I basically never stay at but it was the only last minute room I could get--was that they really didn't want me to check in without a government-issue photo ID which I lost at the airport. This was even though I had a wallet full of other cards and I had an online reservation.
Look harder. I just purchased 1,000 for $7.
I teach about Ted Kaczynski in my course at Sciences-Po in Paris. Do you have more info on that? I'll guess I'll find out easily by myself, but if you like the topic you might have good clues about where to go.
how is this different than getting a bank mainframe hacked?
Have experience in Vietnam. Some clients been asking for manufacturing there, but often get surprised that it will both be harder and cost the more than in China. Still some persist, and do that.

You have to effectively import everything from China, and just do final assembly there. I see close to no point doing that when local inputs cannot reach even 10% of the value.
Chile tried something similar, with StartupChile which I participated in circa 2011. My impression was that there were some very productive and interesting startups formed, while a lot of money was wasted.
It's read-only, video-only internet that doesn't provide pornography used mainly to deliver advertising and propaganda.
Maybe the new maxim should be "Fast and Felonious"
In related news, Michael Avenatti sues Stormy Daniels for legal fees, also. [1]

1. https://www.thedailybeast.com/michael-avenatti-suing-stormy-...
Some will have you answer your own security questions.

That's how I learned, red faced, to make sure my answers are something I'm comfortable reading over the phone.
Does anyone know why cable companies are able to tack on all these fees to TV service but not to broadband service?
If the final price was different that a written quote I was provided before (such as an email confirmation), I would dispute it with credit card.

However, I’ve always seen all the fees listed in email confirmations along with a final total price.
This is a little more than just a matter of the intrinsic fallibility of human nature. There's also a structural flaw in capitalism itself that allows these massive wastes of resources to be perpetuated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_fool_theory
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For a really deep study and interpretation of Gita by M K Gandhi [1] is recommended.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/gospel-selfless-action-according-Gand...
We use a common SQLite schema for exporting/importing very complex application traces between environments (several tables and lots of relationships). If we didn't have SQLite managing this for us, it would probably be some horrific JSON blob on the wire with serialization+LINQ on both ends blowing up RAM and crashing things.

With SQLite, it's as simple as dumping the .db file from one machine to another and running your analysis tools over it - aka executing simple SQL queries from various reporting views. We also see really good compression on this type of structured data (we just compress the entire .db file on disk).

Our analysis tools are typically just DB Browser for SQLite - A tool I would say is 10x better & faster than SSMS: https://sqlitebrowser.org
Startup scene is the result of WW2 along the dominant position of the US on the economic miracle of 50-60, that give a chance to create an industry network that will support new initiatives im yhe future. Cant be done with just money like EU and bunch startup gurus want.
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It'd be interesting to see them refuse to accept it if it came on a law firm's letterhead.
Probably intentionally misunderstanding but bear with me:

Sales tax is bad because it is not on the sticker. Guess my and every europeans surprise when we realize that what we have to pay not the sum of the prices on the goods we buy, but that sum plus some more.

VAT is a whole lot more reasonable as the price on the sticker is the price you pay is the sum of the prices on the stickers ;-)

That said:

VAT seems kind of reasonable to me but I will be happy to hear why ut isn't.
VAT != Land Value Tax

Land value tax taxes landowners on the unimproved value of the land (that is, your land disregarding whatever’s built on it).
I mean, not really, as it includes other services. It probably goes some thing like this

$65 for internet,
$60 for tv
$35 for phone.
$20 for rented devices (such as a DVR)

Phone services and the rented devices are increasingly unnecessary, but when I’ve looked into cutting the cord and maintaining the same level of media accessibility (live sports and certain kids programs mostly) my savings come almost entirely from dropping phone and devices, not TV.
What does this have to do specifically with nationalism? A globalist government could conceivably do the same things.
Personally, I prefer it when you can rate posts on a multitude of factors, like with XenForo post ratings or Facebook reactions or what not. That way instead of the downvote button being used as a dislike button, you can split those into more relevant categories like disagree, spam, poor quality, etc. Same with the upvotes, which can say whether people find the content interesting, creative, etc.

As for the other questions? Well, I guess whether seeing votes is useful depends on the community, especially its size and whether the topic is particularly controversial. I have no issues with people seeing who voted on my gaming specific forums, but I suspect a political forum with a similar system will quickly become utter hell.

Still, those are my thoughts on it. Categories for upvotes/downvotes should be the norm on any community with a voting system, and votes should only be public if the community can handle it well.
I'm not buying the fact that co-working is an untenable business model. For small businesses, there is overhead in signing a long term lease, making sure that facilities are maintained, and that they are conducive to a productive working environment. I also definitely see value in having a community that spans different companies, as the mindshare must have benefits. From the perspective of a consultant/freelancer, I can't think of a better way to learn about potential clients' challenges and possible opportunities than having a conversation at the water cooler with them.WeWork isn't the only co-working space in town, but it has a tremendous amount of brand recognition in this space.

I don't think WeWork was doomed from the start. I think their execution was sloppy. I think they made some short-sighted financing decisions which they are paying for now. I think they have a long uphill battle, but I do think that there is something of value that they are providing.
It being triggered certainly depends on very specific microarchitectural conditions that happen to be created by the instructions generated for those two functions and the 16-byte alignment also happens to be one of the required triggers.

Applying this fix to all other functions would certainly bloat the binary due to unnecessary padding and likely reduce performance for all, since the shipped binary is same for everyone.
>a cunning plan to funnel money into the pockets of the 20-something children of well connected people.

You're thinking of Silicon Valley/NYC. The money in Southeast Asia is going to washed-up 30- to 40-something financial types who're hoping to make it big with their startup.
If inmates are allowed to live in squalor and treat each other badly, its the fault of prison staff. I've been in state and federal prisons and numerous jails. Where staff maintain control, conditions for inmates are decent.
Judging from comment history (esp from around 8 month ago) the probability of a shill account seems exceptionally high.
VAT specifically zero rates or reduces rate on many of the necessities. Which makes it far less regressive than an across the board sales tax. To name just a very few: Children's clothes, food, books, and public transport are all zero rated and in the UK at least there's a lower rate on utilities.
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Around here VAT is split so you pay full VAT on general things and services, half VAT on food and no VAT on electrical vehicles (for now I think).
Specifically the belief that "my country would never do that". It's crucial to be able to believe that it can happen.
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