skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you read the complaint that you linked to, the government alleged that the foreign sellers shipped the items into the U.S. as "tile samples" and nowhere alleges that Hobby Lobby knew anything about or had anything to do with that. That's a fundamentally important distinction.
I call the CFO the money guy and the CEO the boss guy. I work at a pretty relaxed company though so it flies.
This is what I got out of the story:

One liberal arts college decided to admit more diverse, poor students and fewer white rich students. Then to make things worse, they decided to give the rich white students additional financial aid. Then, surprise! They ran out of money.

This article does not touch on the real problem. A new Massachusetts regulation says that colleges must have enough money to guarantee that they can operate for four years.
https://www.mass.edu/bhe/documents/THESIS%20Working%20Group%...

"The resulting Teachout Viability Metric (TVM), ... focuses on an NPIHE’s ability to meet its teaching obligations to currently enrolled undergraduate students through to their expected graduation dates."

An NPIHE is a college.

In other words, if a college doesn't have the money to guarantee it can stay open for four year, it has to start taking drastic steps which will probably scare away next fall's students.

Hampshire never had enough money to make a guaratee like that. Hampshire has always operated paycheck to paycheck, with almost no money in the bank. But it wasn't a life or death problem. They managed to slide by decade after decade. But now, with this new regulation, Hampshire is required to take drastic actions including admitting a tiny freshman class. Hampshire finances were on the shaky side and heading down. But this new regulation turned a manageable problem into an existential crisis.
> I am a white, male software developer. I have absolutely nothing to complain about or envy others.

Congratulations for your situation in life and happiness. Many people will never know that.

> I am a white, male software developer. I have absolutely nothing to complain about or envy others.

Then you must feel very privileged because of your ethnicity, your country of citizenship, and education.

> Find something more solid to lean on than a straw man.

You're the one that raised the example of the garbageman/artist and just because I point out some flaws in that example, your personal situation makes this a strawman?

> If those who feel entitled to the work of others enrage you, then perhaps you should point your anger at the parasitic bourgeoisie who siphon wealth away from society for doing absolutely nothing useful.

Like, maybe sit at a screen all day and tap at a keyboard once in a while? Does that count as "the parasitic bourgeoisie"?

You realize that there are people in your age group which because of differing backgrounds, live in unimaginable squalor, get paid piddling amounts of money, and fight for those jobs. Also, mess their country up with pollution because we can't do that here.
Telemedicine is pretty cool. I was pretty amazed when I had a pretty nasty rash on my leg, went to my insurance site looking for a nearby doctor, and saw the "talk to a Doctor in 5 minutes option". Filled in some basic info and was talking to a Doctor who prescribed me the appropriate medication all within 30 minutes.

Seems likely it will just be a matter of time until little storefronts pop up in strip malls with various user friendly diagnostic equipment to give the remote Doctor more data to treat more conditions (maybe this already exists)?
If this is a recent occurrence, I'd be happy to have our application security team take a look. To be clear, there hasn't been any kind of breach, but our customers are often targeted in phishing schemes that results in the disclosure of account credentials. We're continually adapting our defenses, but this is responsible for the majority of credential leaks.
I have seen some simulations of the "collision" – lots and lots of stars getting ejected from the combined galaxy.
Firefox does stop rendering videos in background tabs (or used to, at least). You can see it take a couple of frames to restart.
> what happens is you pay and become the product

I remember the first time I saw an ad on the in-flight entertainment system on a plane. (I think it might have been United, but they all do it now...) This and the shilling for their special miles-reward credit card, while you're literally captive (in a tube in the air), having paid to be there, is pretty much the epitome of hypercapitalism-gone-wrong today.
1% chance you can, and even if you, your “sponsor” will be earning far higher profits off of your work.
No need to wait for the sun to kill us. We're either extinct in the next 1k to 10k years or we've colonized other planets.
What kind of impact would that have on a star and its planets?
Financial Independence (Retire Early). ie have a ton of money saved up and invested to live off the interest without working.
Where did you get this idea, not to mention the confidence to repeat it authoritatively? It's the opposite of correct: not only is this NOT true (GMT does NOT have daylight savings time or spring forward/fall back at any point during the year) but there are other differences between GMT and UTC as well.
Anywhere in the observable universe. If it is truly infinite and we pretend the laser instantly reaches wherever we point it then the chance is pretty much 100%.
I am working on an application[1] and library[2] to create smalls polls using (so far) 8 different voting systems (approbation, borda, instant-runoff, kemeny, majority, minimax, schulze, two-round-runoff). Feel free to play with it, but it is still unstable, and I drop the database often times.

Condorcet.vote[3] is the only similar application that I know, it lets you use 14 different methods!

[1] https://www.elzear.de/poll/BLIwuJIX

[2] https://gitlab.com/lzear/votes

[3] https://www.condorcet.vote
> Heck, I don't think we could even wipe out humanity - or even civilization

You are talking about global warming and the like, right? There's another possibility, and it involves nuclear weapons. THOSE can sterilize the planet many times over.
It's not a reputation but an actual policy. It's hard to untangle but the policy has more to being surrounded by other states (no ocean) and having big walls around it already, and being too small for geopolitical strength.

The country was last invaded in the napoleonic wars.
Issues with accessing S3/RDS resources inside Droplets across all regions
Alternatively, this is just some guy asserting that everyone at McKinsey thinks they invented a brand new concept, when in fact, it’s just a heuristic they teach people to communicate more effectively, because communication is hard.
Unit Expressions built into Java, seeing is believing
> proportions of a character don't matter much―they're just strokes in a grid that you can squish without harm to legibility.

I'd say that's even less true than it is for latin letters.
Ignore the legal aspect of this - if the technology gets good enough and cheap enough people will make their own nano-fabs and damn the laws. People would LOVE to pirate pharmaceuticals. It's an industry just begging for disruption.
According to this random quora link: https://www.quora.com/How-much-does-McDonalds-make-in-a-day the average McDonald's unit in the USA has $2,670,320 in annual sales. 25% - 40% profit margin sounds really high for a restaurant, but I don't know enough about the industry to dispute it. Are you sure those numbers were presented as averages and not the high end of what you could make? Or does the typical owner have multiple locations?
Seventeenth-century Europeans ate mummies (2015)
And of course Route 53 still has a green checkmark.
To expand upon this, UiPath also announced acquisitions of ProcessGold (https://www.uipath.com/newsroom/uipath-acquires-process-gold...) and StepShot (https://www.uipath.com/newsroom/uipath-acquires-stepshot-add...) as a step towards bringing the process documentation and automation planning tasks down to the level of understanding that SMEs and BAs have about automation. These tools will be a really great addition to the ecosystem as I (and clearly they) have found the most difficult work in this space to be understanding the client's existing process and planning to automate it.
When I mentioned "bonus if it could include a 'link wheel' I think it used to be called(?)" above, what I was actually trying to recall is the days many web sites had a "web ring" type thing in the bottom footer...
( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webring )

I'd actually like to see the return of these, maybe some plugins where people can select the top ones to show first, or randomize as others have voted to put other sites within certain rings..

give me that, and an open source thing that does what google calendar does with the ability to suck in info from fbook, google cal, and apple cal - then we would have a couple of plugins that groups and small shops could add to their web sites that would actually help others in similar industries and get updated when one or more of their in-house people don't know who to update html can depend on calendar edits.

now I'm wondering if a list of sites can be stashed via git so it's easy to clone - and can an api be used to pull from those to display the needed web ring things and such.
He almost certainly is - he doesn't have nearly the same gift for public speaking that Obama did. As pointed out elsewhere in this discussion, his speech patterns are pretty simple and repetitive, and thus ideal for RNN training.
I'm an application developer at Semios (Vancouver, BC).

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We have a complex stack composed of hardware, embedded, applications, data engineers and data scientists. We're hiring!

As an example, Semios helps growers reduce pest populations organically by disrupting the insect communication channels using pheromone released by IoT devices in the field. We track the effectiveness of pheromone using cameras in the field, and machine-learning algorithms to count pests.

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They've definitely caught on. Depending on the community, lots of bots are appearing to shill for specific brands, some better than others. Example: /r/malelivingspace has a big interest in Eames Lounge Chairs, and every time they get mentioned, a few new accounts pop up like clockwork to say how much they love their specific brand censored replica lounger. A ton of other random sites get these astroturf responses too, if they talk about it.

The worst part is that if they were a bit more skilled about it, it would be indistinguishable from an actual recommendation. Give it another few years.
The nice part about the google storage is your Android phone can make automatic use of it. If you're just doing cloud storage from a computer or something, Backblaze can make sense.
Everyone listen to this - this is 100% accurate and SUPER applicable. Have reached out via email - thanks for the offer to chat in your other comment =)
Reducing demand massively drops price, it means that in a very real way, tons of reserves that are too expensive to access due to a lower price stay in the ground.
Aerialod: An interactive path tracing renderer for height maps
Does that factoid assume that the laser beam's width doesn't increase?
When MCAS was running rampant for Forkner, was it during a simulation of a failure of the angle of attack sensor that MCAS relied on? If so, then they basically predicted the failure that people are saying likely caused the crashes. If not, then perhaps there is another scenario where MCAS runs amok. Either way it's incredible.
100% agree that there are better systems, but don't let perfect be the enemy of good.
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Set theory is magnificent
yeah i hear that a lot about Evangelion its like, just watch some Gundam or something dude.

The characters being so overwhelmingly flawed is a big part of what makes Evangelion what it is. You might as well say a museum is great except for all the exhibits.
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What do you expect from a bunch of 24 year-old self-proclaimed "experts" fresh out of Harvard?
This is a terrible take. For 8 years, whenever Obama or Holder were asked to make things right at the expense of their future employers, they proclaimed just how powerless they were. The White House and the DOJ have the power to squash wall street like bugs, and make "normal people" whole. They CHOSE not to.
press release: https://ai.facebook.com/blog/craftassist-platform-for-collab...

the paper: https://research.fb.com/publications/craftassist-a-framework...

the code: https://github.com/facebookresearch/craftassist
> > And, yeah, at that point you have a bit of coercion

> Which is it? Can you compel a poor peasant farmer to stay on the farmer and grow food because that's what society needs as a right?

Of course not. You can, however, compel people to pay taxes. And you can compel people to not just throw their garbage out into the street.

If you think taxes are equal to slavery, you've never been a real slave.
Condorcet [0] is widely recognized as the best voting system to address voting issues raised by Arrow's impossibility theorem [1]. No voting system is perfect, but Condorcet gets as close as possible.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condorcet_method
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow%27s_impossibility_theore...
I see you are unfamiliar with McKinsey.
Do you really need to make fun of someone disadvantaged to have comedy? Do folks not approach things like rape and discrimation and dealing with American cops with comedy?

Have you not seen the bit by.. Josh Johnson? ... where he accidentally catfishes the KKK?

Or watched Frankie Boyle? Or the Mash Report?

It is pretty obvious there is plenty of comedy out there that approaches difficult and tough subjects through humor. Society is becoming less tolerant of racism and sexism and homophobia and things like that - you know, the political correctness of it. If your comedy includes making fun of men for being too "gay" or women for being too manly... sure, political correctness has caused a demise in your sort of humor, and good riddance.
I've played with devices all my career. It's always had some traction, but I wouldn't call it The Big One.

I tend to program for the love of the art; not to get rich, which I guess makes me a heretic, but there you are...
That result is a rather strange anomaly. As far as I can tell it's not explained. Given that the system of ranking this is based on a simulation of agents, it may be unwise to jump to any conclusions about what "strategic voting" looks like here.
I am seeing this affect s3 content, most likely because the domain is not resolving correctly.
Ditto here!

Spent over 1 year cruising through their free credits, now happily paying a couple hundred a month without a second thought.

It's really intuitive and easy-to-use to see errors, read text of emails, and so forth.

Side note: It's neat to see people come out of the woodwork on this thread for Postmark, which is normally one of those products consumed so quietly, and under-appreciated. I bet their team is really happy to see this. :)
Knuth is one of the founders of analysis of algorithms as an academic discipline and the original publication of TAOCP played a role in founding the field.
The first thing I did on OP's article is ctrl+f "chris farley"
>Every single one laughed and said they'd move to our competitors if we send a new contract through with increased prices.

What competitor complies can offer better prices while also paying the charge for the ULEZ? Does that competitor have electric vans and trucks?
AI System Predicts World Series
For me, my main schismatic infighting is that "approval voting" ballots might not forward-compatible with ranked systems (IRV, Condorcet, etc.)

In other words, if we're going to go through the trouble of upgrading ballots and machines and voter-training, let's at least do so in a way that doesn't close the door on that other universe of possible schemes due to a minor technical limitation.
Check out music apps like Pandora, Spotify or Napster. All these are built as a single page app to ensure that music keeps on playing while browsing the catalogue.
This is who they're working with: https://www.powerpc-notebook.org/2019/09/slimbook-to-provide...
> For fun, I'll throw you a specific plausible hypothetical. If an app has a gender identity field, and a user enters "Apache Helicopter", should this be treated as valid data or not?

Depends on what the data is being used for? This is irrelevant, unless you're an app that collects statistics on its colleagues.
> Find everything that eats fossil fuels and electrify it

You start off with a free lunch fallacy.

Open an led bulb sometime. You’ll find a large heat sink, at least one fiberglass circuit board, 30-100 electronics components with their own printing / cases / production footprints, ROHS-exempt parts have heavy metals like lead and mercury, you’ll find metal stampings and plastic coated wire, there will be plastic lenses and injection molded mounts, there will be LEDs themselves of course which have tens of thousands of hours time into their design that come from specialized facilities... all the production and shipping and testing and development that goes into each bulb.

... remember old light bulbs? Glass, a wire, a metal thread.

Remember the argument that LED bulbs will last 10 years? They don’t. Tell me... which one do you think will be better in a landfill?

I still think it’s the right move to go with LED bulbs overall - but I’ve been around the world, I’d like to think I have a sense of scale.

When I see people write “just make it electric” i think of things like but not limited to my bulb example and I’m confident that person doesn’t understand much on making things at scale.
Why does it have a switch for that, and wouldn't it have a big overhead?
When I say charisma I mean literally being charming, like Google didn't have the tact to role out glass, because glass _looked_ creepy. Apple would have had the tact to know not to. Furthermore I think we're looking at the first couple of pseudo-generations of of Apple AR glasses in the form of the latest iPhones and Apple Watches. Watches are testing the hardware that will be colocated with the UI and the A13 the overpowered chip responsible for doing the more powerful CV functions in like the users pocket.
Millennials have dinner parties, they just don’t call them that
The issue started happening much sooner, around morning time in EST, but it got worse as the day progressed. It looks like the Amazon engineers woke up and realized something was wrong and they updated their status page 5-6 hours late. But I agree, AWS is super reliable, it's unfortunate that this problem occurred and I hope it's resolved soon.
My solution is to have a blinking green, which indicates that it’s about to turn yellow. We might also lengthen the yellow duration, but knowing that the light will switch gives time to decide if you can speed up or decelerate safely, without wasting energy.

I’d be very curious to see how a blinking green system plays out in tests.

Another thought: if we manage traffic like regulating fluid flow and pressure, we could avoid situations where a single car exiting a parking lot shuts down the highway instantly. That single car should have to wait maybe 5-10 seconds before triggering the lights, and the blinking green would let highway drivers adjust. Forcing 20 cars to rapidly stop for an already stopped car makes no sense.

As the single car waits, pressure “builds” so to speak, and eventually the light decides that the fluid flow should change.
What short time danger, geologically speaking, can be averted by space colonization?
Somewhat related, I saw a site today that did a fake Cloudflare style bot check countdown, and then said “click allow to confirm you’re not a bot” before popping up a notification send request UI. I bailed then but presumably it wouldn’t show anything if you declined that, who knows what spam they were sending if you didn’t. Thought that was a clever-ish very shitty way to work around permissions.
You're confusing me more. Stars passing through each other like you said before to me implies collision. Would you say these sailors are going to pass through each other?
You should add arrow key mapping, so we can beat the captcha with the keyboard. Using the mouse is tiedous.
DDos against amazon's DNS servers. One mitigation is to use regional endpoints for bucket hosting if your website relies on serving assets - i e foo-bucket.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com instead foo-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com
Navigators and Escalades are luxury SUVs. Of course those are going to cost a lot.
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> Note that a big reason for cash use in Germany is privacy (no trace of your purchases)

Well, no. That explains why consumers might pay with cash, but not why businesses would only take cash.

> thriftiness (stores avoiding card payment fees).

This one, yeah makes sense. Although it has less explanatory power for EC cards than credit cards imo. Aren't EC card payment fees quite low?

Plus IIRC studies show people being more willing to spend more with 'plastic' than cash, so it may actually be a false savings for the business.

And it's not like Germany is collectively taking some principled position against digital payments, they're just slower on the adoption curve; it IS still happening. To me this points more to the general conservatism on digital things that you can see elsewhere as well (e.g. uptake of digital books, downloaded vs physical video games, downloaded/streamed music, etc.) rather than something specific to payments themselves.
Just to give some numbers:

The Dutch greenhouse horticulture sector has emitted 6-8 megatons of CO2 per year between 2000-2015 and emissions are expected to decrease to ~4 megatons of CO2 per year in 2020 [1]. 7 megatons is approximately 4% of national emissions [2].

[1] pdf, https://www.wur.nl/upload_mm/c/e/c/f827af2c-9ae6-4bb5-bb47-9...

[2] https://www.cbs.nl/nl-nl/nieuws/2018/37/co2-uitstoot-in-2017...
Likewise, s3 ops are failing for me too.

Specifically ${BUCKET}.s3.amazonaws.com is failing to resolve.
Hypnosis for HCI. (Neuralink et. al. are looking through the wrong end of the telescope. When you want to connect a computer and a brain the most effective thing to do is program the brain.)