skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This might just be a regional thing. In the Pacific NW where I was skiing ~100 days/year in my teens and early 20s in the 90s, "Backcountry" was the term used to describe any skiing out of ski area boundaries. Touring or Randonee, where you skin uphill and then lock your heels to ski down, inbounds or out of bounds, were called Randonee and weren't particularly associated with the term Backcountry at all except that is typically where you would go to do Randonee.
> No one has any innovative ideas on how to do both? Disappointing

Because it is literally impossible to run a social network with encryption. It is possible to run a messenger but the demands of police/secret services are already enormous on private companies, what do you think will happen with a government-run service?
Although I agree with your point, cmake+vcpkg goes a long way for hobby projects, cmake with a bit of custom scripting goes a long way for larger scale projects.

The cmake language might not be beautiful, but it does allow for simple sub-projects/library scripts once the main cmake script is set up properly.
As another mentioned, these models currently can't maintain a believably cohesive train of thought for any longer than 3 or 4 sentences. They are great at drawing statistical probabilities related to what words best conclude sentences and how punctuation should properly be used, but thus far have proven quite lacking in the ability to replicate true human creativity. The Economist ran an excellent article on this very concern recently:

https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2019/10/31/dont-fea...
I'm not sure why autonomous cars won't solve traffic someday.

Traffic causing problems like people blocking intersections, not moving when the light is green, or improperly merging, won't happen anymore.

Cars will be able to talk to each other and set up optimal routes. They'll be able to more efficiently match up users with carpools. I'm sure you can imagine more.

These things won't happen for a long time and definitely not with the first generation of truly autonomous cars. Once every car on the road is self driving though? Things will definitely change.
Bell Labs – Ways of Using Light to Transmit Sound
Cant fix murdering people either, even punishing them dosen't stop it. We just have to accept that sometimes people get murdered. /s
That's a pretty hilarious google search string :) I wasn't sure if you were complaining about them as a service or the way they run their business. The latter certainly has plenty of fodder.
Dart can now produce self-contained, native executables
How is this different from a mining company providing everyone with temp housing? Think 1800s.
You need to translate the researcher's commercial projection https://xkcd.com/678/ :)
This is a good advancement on CRISPR, it gets us one step closer to having treatments for disease that is genetically linked. It also gets us one step closer to having a 'genome debugger' which would be a tool for analyzing what every gene does in isolation so that the effect of changes can be more accurately modeled (and predicted).

The scary part of that for me is that we get closer to having genomic 'zero days' where an underground lab has figured out how to create a pathogen that has a specific (and negative) targeted effect on a particular gene or gene group. Such a tool in the hands of someone who is looking to do some "ethnic cleansing" is a concern for me.
I think there's something weird about relying on corporations to be judges on other companies. I'm not trying to defend big oil, but I think the focus should be on more scrutiny on how government and other institutions deal with it. If googlers wants to actually change things maybe they should develop ways to monitor these agreements. There is a sense of arrogance in believing that (in this case googlers) know the best course of action on every issue - especially when they are unelected
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I really hate Uber, but you're partly wrong. Brand loyalty works when there isn't a competing brand of similar quality. So Uber at worst will always be second choice. Driving is getting cheaper as better cars are built, but they have to work against inflation, which is not real value, but you'll measure that anyway. Lastly, Uber can limit their fleet to efficient cars and effective drivers if they want. This should limit costs, but I think this happens almost naturally without them doing too much.
Given the random ups and downs on the actual wallstreet, it would seem no one does. Makes sense as it's mostly gambling.
I wouldn't say it is quite the same threat model, but certainly a powerful attack vector if you happen to control 1/3+ of the voting power. In the unlikely event that someone does compromise 1/3+ of the voting power, the remaining validators can always hard fork to a new quorum, though this is an expensive and highly synchronized affair.
You didn't answer my question. Yes, of course clinical trials take forever. Why share this article here or anywhere? There is no cure or treatment for anything mentioned in the article. There might be one, but if there is it's a decade away. How is that news?

It's like someone writing an article about a few people potentially being President of the USA a decade from now. Except nobody is actually named in the article. Would you share such an article?

Is there a lot of money invested in CRISPR? Is this all about building hype for CRISPR? Because I can't think of another motive.
Solid comment.

It'd be interesting to see how much of an effect DG stores in areas with few to no businesses have on mega retailers like Wal-Mart.

My parents are 15 mins. from a Wal-Mart, but 4-5 mins. from a DG that opened two years ago. They've probably reduced their Wal-Mart spend by at least 20% from what it had been for two decades.
It doesn't make sense because they did a dreadful job of controlling costs. China pays between $17M and $21M per kilometer to build high-speed rail in challenging terrain, and even Europe only pays $25-39M per kilometer. [1]

California on the other hand was going to spend $100B for 840km (phase 1, beyond the central corridor on both sides) or $119M per kilometer. That's obviously 7X China's cost and 5X Europe's cost. Yes, that Europe, the one with the onerous regulations.

It's hard to point at California's staggeringly inefficient attempt as a reason why rail is bad.

A better starting point would be Via Rail's corporate plan 2017-2021 [2].

[1] http://www.globalconstructionreview.com/sectors/why-china-ca...

[2] https://www.viarail.ca/sites/all/files/media/pdfs/About_VIA/...
"Next he goes to the local stables. After watching horses mount each other for a while, he buys a thoroughbred foal for $20k. At Bible study that night he meets someone willing to pay him $19k for breeding rights to the horse as an adult."
"Commendable job" is about the only praise I can give, sadly.

I just spent the last two weeks attempting to get an Ubuntu Touch phone to work as a mobile transceiver / network hub for a BLE peripheral that my company is developing. Our device works very well with the standard Linux bluez stack and tools (bluetoothctl, hcitool, etc.), so we thought that this would be the easier route for a one-off project than developing an Android app from scratch, given Android's BLE quirks (e.g. minimum notification interval of 11.25 ms instead of the 7.5 ms that the BLE spec requires -- we have a high bandwidth device that needs the shorter interval).

It was a nightmare, and we eventually gave up and wrote an Android app.
Just because RH is in legal/regulatory trouble does not mean your money is just going to disappear. It's a fiduciary, not an ICO. Financial firms must have disaster plans that involve giving or transferring all of your assets back to you if it all ends. Selling your positions because of this would be a misinformed decision.
I wish that were true, but there are already uninhabited islands that have sunk below the waves [1]. There are inhabited ones (e.g. the Carteret islands) which are on their way out and already suffering:

"Since 1994, the islanders of the seven atolls, lying only 1.2 metres above sea level, have already lost about 50 per cent of their land. Traditional food sources have become scarce, regularly placing the islanders in situations of near famine. The communities also face severe water shortages due to prolonged droughts and sea-level rises that affect their freshwater supply." [2]

[1] https://www.newscientist.com/article/2146594-eight-low-lying...

[2] https://www.resilience.org/stories/2019-06-11/understanding-...
That's true. Bastillion mentions its available in the aws marketplace, so it could be an option to run it in aws.

I was thinking there might be web terminals available, e.g. https://www.serfish.com/console/ . I don't know anything about them though, and you'd want to trust the provider.
what if I used the agent to generate 1 paragraph at a time, and did my own editing after the fact to clean it up?
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Berkeley has some of the lectures available online.

https://hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu/courseguides

I use that to navigate to whatever course I want in EECS. Personally I found them higher in quality compared to most of edX.
Rep. Khanna Backs Public Takeover of PG&E:‘For-Profit Does Not Work’
It wasn't just him though. By the sounds of things lots of players smelled blood in the water. Saros has 10bn, but other players probably had a lot more between them...
Most consumer insurance companies are selling upstream insurance. They buy insurance wholesale, and then resell it making a cut and taking care of the customer facing part.

T-Mobile does the same. So in that way they're no different than any other type of consumer insurance company.
Sounds like something Privacy.com could do without much trouble, though I don't think they actually have a CLI (yet).
Word on Reddit he had done this before and understood what was happening just fine but did this to make a point. There are specific processes to get the leverage that high and he was allegedly able to handle it. See a comment higher up in this thread.
Very important context. Thank you.
Now that Stripe offers a corporate credit card, it's likely only a matter of time until they enable people to build their own credit card on top of Stripe. I assume they've built the API's internally already for themselves.
The next frontier is conditional generation. The CTRL model (https://github.com/salesforce/ctrl) with a similar architecture to GPT-2 emphasizes conditional generation (e.g. generate a news article based on a URL) and the results are pretty good: https://minimaxir.com/2019/09/ctrl-fake-news/
Dimon Says He’s Learned a Few Lessons from the WeWork Debacle
Well, there's Conan, which helps a bit, but these days what I simply do is use CMake to download a package from GitHub or wherever and build it.

Sadly the C++ ABIs are standardized the way that C ABIs are (I'm OK with why but it's unfortunate in that it creates a barrier) so you have to have separate libraries compiled with g++ and clang++ if you use both on your platform (we use both because they catch different bugs, and for that matter exhibit different bugs). But it means you can't simply install, say, fmt in any system-wide directory like /usr/lib or /usr/local/lib

Just as an amusing side note: Common Lisp used to be criticized for the massive size of its libraries and later likewise C++. It was true they were quite large. Now both are criticized for their tiny libraries. Which by today's standards they are.
Yes, I should have used a more general term, like "land use planning"; I'm glad that gave you the opportunity for the zinger.

In any case, (literal) urban planning is definitely relevant to determining how many places someone can affordably live without owning a car, and lead to less people being in the kind of boxed-in situation where their best option is to live far out and car-dependent while having to drive far for necessities.
The confusion, I think, comes from the conflation of two separate questions:

1. In ski area boundaries our outside (in-bounds, or "backcountry")

2. Downhill skiing, Randonee/Touring, or x-country (nothing to do with backcountry since you can do all of the above in bounds or in the backcountry).

Backcountry, at least where I grew up in the PNW in the 90s, only pertained to where you were skiing, not to equipment or technique used to ski it.
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And many many many more don't. It's the second largest city in the US.
Sounds like a guy I knew who would "buy" a brand new TV just before the Super Bowl, and then return it immediately after.

This was before all consumer electronics were consolidated into a few chains, so he was able to go to a different place each year.

These days there are companies that monitor that sort of thing and will alert the stores when you try to return stuff. But considering the state of online shopping, I wonder if he's still doing it.
Fault and responsibility are two entirely different concepts. The kids doing the kicking might be at fault for bringing the house down, but the kids are not responsible for the house being in such a sorry state that kids kicking it's stilts can lead it to collapse.
> They have explicitly stated that a move to a permissionless system is their end goal.

Of course, they were very happy to make all kinds of vague, rosy promises right out of the gate... it doesn't cost them anything to do so.
Montana and Wyoming are a treasure trove of the ills of both government and business ran amok. Our high school history classes were always super interesting due to this.
Go ahead and install Wine x86 on a Gentoo x64. Only then you will understand what it means to support 32 bit apps.
Offtopic: I saw your technical book posting - if the leaning book shelf turns out to be a problem, maybe stabilize its shape by pulling two wires diagonally at the back?
> I only reference the article for its quote from Mill, in which truth-value is a concern in a situation Mill happened to think warranted the suppression of falsehoods.

Mill's main reason for conceding an exception to the freedom of speech wasn't the falsehood of the speech, but the threat of mob action. I stand by my statement: Mill would be more concerned about cancel culture rather than fake news. Of course, the latter can feed into the former, but again the question comes down to whether we are looking at genuine incitement.

> And while Ben cites the usual opinions on the subject, I don't think he's made a sufficient effort to grapple with the different media/discourse environment we live in today. That doesn't mean he must necessarily come to a different conclusion, but it's a mistake not to give it more consideration.

I disagree? That's a difficult criticism to respond to given it's vagueness: like trying to put fog in a box. You could criticize Ben for his lack of originality, but I think there is value in reiterating a truth, even an obvious truth, in a clear and persuasive manner.

As for his thoughtfulness, are you perhaps just nonplussed that he sounds more certain of his convictions than you think he should be? Outside specific criticisms of his arguments, I'd have to say his position seems well thought out. I'd say that even if I thought he was wrong.
It's funny because this is how money is created in the American Economy -- through recursive loans like this from banks. Since most money is digital now, nearly every loan becomes another person's bank balance and every bank balance is subject to be lent out. With a federal reserve requirement of 10%, the theoretical max leverage ends up being 10x so $100,000 of bank-created money for every $10,000 entering the banking system. This assumes the system works as intended and a bankster hasn't yet found a Robinhood-like glitch in the financial system to create unlimited money.
Yes it does. That is exactly the definition of Education.
T-Mobile don't just sell "extended warranties" they also sell theft, accidental damage, and similar even on phones (on their network) you didn't buy from them (e.g. €10/month). There's no distinction between what they do and other insurance companies insuring the same product class do.

So as I said, unless you sub-divide the insurance industry on arbitrary lines, they are both selling insurance to the consumer. Claiming that because it is only "extended warranties" (which it isn't anyway) isn't really a legal argument for trademark law. We're talking about markets here, they're both in the insurance market regardless of how you frame it.
Privacy.com gets pretty close. They can generate burner cards or "per service" (such as a card just for your netflix account) that have spending limits per some period of time or in total. Their autofill plugin for firefox works pretty well. That's the extend of my usage of the service, it might do more but I'm not sure.

Personally, I use them for anything that doesn't accept paypal or similar payment systems. Hopefully that's helpful.
Having a non-profit tax status doesn't prevent you from paying large salaries if you make more money. That really wouldn't do anything to take away the incentive the press has to sell more news.
After you compile your app for ARM you'd also want to test it, but not many developers want to buy a separate ARM system just for testing for a small minority of Windows users.
Not formally, but as you were responding to a comment on style: indeed, you don't really need * that often; there are more powerful, safer options in most cases.

But C++ is a systems programming language and * is still quite useful.
Taking this line of thinking a bit further, they may have been trying to get more money from investors, and if they haven't already, now these stories are out they might not be able to. So I wouldn't be surprised if Robinhood freezes all accounts over the next week, and the SIPC gets involved.

What SIPC does: https://www.sipc.org/for-investors/what-sipc-protects
And thankfully Robinhood Financial LLC of Menlo Park CA is a member: https://www.sipc.org/list-of-members/R

I would assume there is almost no one with over $500,000 using Robinhood, but if so, you better get your money out now.
I haven't used it, but https://developer.privacy.com could probably accomplish things like that.
Two downvotes and no replies. Set your system time several years in the past and see what happens to secure sites.

I encountered this issue several times as a PC repair technician. We would turn a computer on after summer break and find its CMOS battery had died and the system date had reset. The computer was unable to browse sites secured with SSL certificates. The start time of those certificates were in the future relative to the system time, so the system thought they were invalid.
MUNI Bonds Contain New Fine Print: Beware of Climate Change
Huawei to spend $40B on supplies from Europe to offset US ban
>It's what I believe is going to hold up Chinese manufacturing

What sense of "hold up" are you using here, "support" or "delay?"
Can you please open-source it? Otherwise it will turn out to be another low code attempt I am afraid.
This strange conspiratorial angle you have going on is ridiculous, there is no narrative and no convincing needed. Look at the facts and educate yourself.
I'm from upstate NY, and the loss of "breadbasket" status was great for the local ecology. When we were the breadbasket of the country (when the country was much younger), all the forests were cut down and erosion and water quality were a much bigger issue.
I was excited to get one of these myself. I joined the waiting list towards the end of last year and finally got mine around July-ish. As others have mentioned, the keyboard is only serviceable and the trackpad is very cheap only having like corner left/right clicking. I enjoyed mine all of about a week or so before I encountered issues where it won't boot up when I turned it on. Tried looking for a solution for a while but eventually just gave up...It's not really worth the extra effort.
Never said his craftsmanship couldn't be matched, I just said its harder than it looks to create something like that, and while he of course did not intend for every drop of paint to be just there like with traditional paintings, neither is it "random".

If I kept up with it for some time and gained more knowledge of the paint materials and how they worked together, I'm sure I could create something similar. Art doesn't have to be painstakingly "difficult" or require superhuman skill in order to be considered "good". Sure, some forms of art do require more skill than others, but that by no means translates 1-to-1 with cultural impact.

You mention elsewhere that Pollock's main contribution is art as "process" which I would agree with, its something that he shared with a few of his contemporaries. I'm also very interested in generative art, and he is an early example of this idea. I'm aware he didn't invent abstract art or anything like that.
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How might we change/regulate internet communication in such a way that someone could anonymously get a message out on the scale of a pamphlet but not on the scale of a tweet or social media post?

Stated another way, my concern is that any changes to free speech might overcorrect and result in it being difficult to anonymously get an unpopular message out to even a modest audience.
The Power of APIs
I work at hCaptcha so I can't speak to any particular arrangements. We provide data labeling services and use the captcha as a means to lower costs for annotated datasets. To that end, we intend to open source most of our captcha stack and would be an obvious choice for any privacy-concerned company rolling their own captcha.
Which Europe are you talking about? 20k gets you a halfway decent Dacia at best...
For what it's worth, the IGA near me seems pretty nice. I think it's the best grocery store in town.
I had to implement a corporate version of this; they had a backing account and credit line, so this was an integration that involved four parties: the vendor, the owner of the credit account, the bank backing the credit account, and the card distributor. It was a messy process, involving key exchange and SOAP requests - very much a back-channel API more than a public-facing one.

I think a more publicly-friendly API might be created if it's merely the same credit card company providing temporary virtual credit cards that are backed by your main credit line. VCCs like that are already in use, the question is merely one of how freely accessible they are through programmatic means.
Similar to ABSL_PREDICT_FALSE: https://github.com/abseil/abseil-cpp/blob/master/absl/base/o...
What specifically does dollar velocity indicate with respect to consumers? Is it more or less a measure of purchasing power?
Apple Mac App Store tells cross-platform Electron apps to get lost
Despite having more years of schooling would be more accurate. The watering down of the curriculum over the last half century likely makes it very difficult to get a 'better education' today unless you intentionally work to make it for yourself. However, it is also much easier to do that today, if one is so motivated - what's needed here is a better proxy for quality of education than years of schooling or degrees obtained.