skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In this case corporations are spending money instead of the government. Who spends money changed but the fact that an incentive to continue bad behavior is implemented is the same (and the whole point of the cobra effect). In this case the california government becomes enabler of the wage gap, the incentive is tax revenue.

What does the war on drugs have to do with this? Do you think taxing drugs is a solution? Why not legalize it without any tax, if it is harmful, require people to take it under medical supervision where they can get help with the real cause (if they choose to). That's such a straw man argument.

It's not just "poor" states that rely on taxes as revenue. Granted a small revenue stream has little power, but in this case not only would the revenue not be small but even if it was, large states are operated like large corps, this means no revenue stream is too small, it should at least be enough to cover for enforcement costs. Laws are meaningless without enforcement. If they're willing to pay the tax,guess what happens? Politicians start making unrelates promises counting on this revenue.

Bottom line, taxation is a means of revenue for a government. It is not a way of punishing people, you can't and shouldn't make punishment profitable for the punisher. That is a recipe for injustice. But if you do go ahead with this, the revenue should be used strictly for enforcement costs and to remedy the situatuon (in this case directly to the pocket of low level employees).
The students are paying for a service from the University. It's very reasonable that the University provide parking space for those who can't afford to live on campus. Actually, it's in their best interest, unless they want to be an online school. And thus similarly in the best interest of all students, if they want a locally accessible University to exist.
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Physical goods are easier to track than services, since the former have to go through a port.

The UN has made great efforts to standardize goods data, but AFAIK they don't have services data. This is the data that this website is using: https://comtrade.un.org/.

That said, the Harvard version of The Observatory of Economic Complexity, the Atlas of Economic Complexity (there is an MIT/Harvard rivalry here), includes services data: http://atlas.cid.harvard.edu/explore?country=231&product=und....

From the Atlas's website: "The raw trade data on goods are derived from countries’ reporting to the United Nations Statistical Division (COMTRADE). The trade data on services are from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Direction of Trade Statistics database, via the World Development Indicators."
Bose was never the best. They were attractive and well marketed, but there’s a reason they were the only major manufacturer that didn’t publish a frequency response for their speakers.
Thank you for pointing out some bad phrasing on my part.

When I said "small dataset", I should have said "small subset of all collected points that are initially fed to the model". The issue isn't that you have to collect the data little by little. The issue is that, once you've given a linear model an input that is outside the distribution which you're hoping to model, nothing about the model can be trusted.

So you collect all the data points, but you don't give them all to the model at once. (I'm describing the RANSAC method here now) You start with a large number of "candidate models" that are all fit with a small number of input points, and then test which of the candidate models predict well the points you have not yet given the model. Then you feed the best of these candidate models only the points which it predicts well, and create a more refined, still outlier-free model. This can be proven to work in the presence of a small number of out-of-distribution points.
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My SUS company, EasyALPR focuses on commercial parking enforcement / vehicle control.

First, the people who get "in trouble" are often absolutely brazen in their unfair use of common parking. They're warned multiple times and even when given a "last chance" notice they'll just keep breaking rules.

At that point you have to TOW them. And let me tell you, a TOW is something you can't lampoon or get free internet off of. Towing SUCKS and drivers bend the knee after this happens. I have data to prove it!

Anyhow, another thing about these folks is that they will go so far as to dispute that the vehicle was in fact in violation of whatever parking rule.

They'll say the warnings were not real and the tow reason was definitely not real. They'll tell the business IT needs to pay for the tow. Well, their faces change when confronted with photos and maps and times showing each violation!

It isn't really that funny, but it is a big deal to any facility because some low-level administrator has to face some really pissed off people who will break rules and lie because it has always worked. So it is really important to give them great evidence so there isn't really a discussion needed.

If you want to check out my product, here's the landing page: https://easyalpr.com/products/parking-enforcer
Really demonstrates why “security through obscurity” is no security at all.
People who reach out to them are probably cheaper than people that Google has to reach out to.
This project accepts Bitcoin [1] and it even accepts 0 confirmation payments [2].

[1] https://smsprivacy.org/
[2] https://incoherency.co.uk/blog/stories/zeroconf-payments.htm...
> This distinction is mostly philosophical and historical

Not in a court of law, where it matters. We can be dismissive, but this distinction has true and legal significance. As I mentioned in one of my notes, this is the reason the government of New Zealand can decide to confiscate weapons while, in the US, it is so close to impossible that it is.

> laws, even constitutions, can be changed, and regularly are

Laws and the US Constitution are two different things.

The US Constitution can be changed, yes, but it virtually impossible. This is particularly true of REMOVING rights in the Bill of Rights.

In order to make any change you need --by law, as spelled out in the constitution:

2/3 majority vote in the US Senate.
AND
2/3 majority vote in the US House of Representatives.
AND
3/4 of State Legislatures approve it (via direct vote or ratifying convention).

The other way is:

2/3 of State Legislatures ask the US Congress (House and Senate) to hold a constitutional convention.
AND
3/4 of State Legislatures approve it (via direct vote or ratifying convention).

In other words, it is just-about impossible, particularly given today's political climate.

There's a practical element to this. Proponents of enhanced gun control (or gun confiscation) are wasting a ton of time, energy and money in an exercise in futility. It would be far more productive to focus on addressing the real causes of gun violence than to try and remove constitutional rights from people who have never and will never harm anyone.
No, you don’t, but AFAIK, you’ll have to reinstall your app every week. https://codewithchris.com/deploy-your-app-on-an-iphone:

”Note: Without enrolling in the Apple Developer Program, your app will only last for 7 days on your device. After that, you’ll have to re-deploy it to your device via Xcode. If you’re enrolled in the Apple Developer Program, you won’t have this inconvenience.”

That’s “less than ideal”.
A swing state’s votes are worth far more than a non swing state. You get the executive branch (president) plus the judicial branch (president picks Supreme Court justices). And almost universally, states with less population receive more in federal tax benefits than states with more population, since they have more congressional power per capita:

https://www.businessinsider.com/federal-taxes-federal-servic...
> I can't even imagine a scenario where I'd want a "smart home".

You get hit by a truck on the way to work and you're not longer able bodied enough to do these things.
No, it isn't. The literature department is a fundamental component of the university. Providing land and infrastructure for students to store their property in the middle of campus is not - especially when campus is accessible through a variety of modes of transit. Sure, if the university is in a cornfield in Iowa then parking costs are less of an issue given the low cost of land but the majority of campuses I have been to are limited in land. The university has to make a choice between using that land to educate people or for letting people store their cars.
There are some birds that are better at tool use than you might think, too.

It's worth pointing out that Go is a purely mathematical game. You don't need a board at all to play it, especially not if your memory is good enough. Chess Grandmasters don't need boards to play Chess, for example; they can simply say the moves to each other and both will have the same image of the board in their mind.

So you could have intelligent aliens playing Go entirely verbally. Considering how many alien species there are likely to be, perhaps this is almost a certainty?
At my school, they did many of these things. In fact, it was generally accepted that you shouldn't drive to school, and they made many alternatives.

For the small amount of parking they did provide, they charged a fee for. I think that is a reasonable way of dealing with the limited resource. Make it so you dont need it as much as possible, charge some to the people who decide to use it anyway.
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This new engineering building is just spreading the cost of classrooms to people who don’t use it.

This new fitness building is just spreading the cost of athletics to people who don’t use it.

The new wheelchair ramps are just spreading the cost of being handicapped to people who don’t use it.

You could apply that logic to all of a college (or life, if you count taxes and insurance) experience. Not everybody is going to use it, but the cost is spread to not disproportionally applied to a single demographic.
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Cambridge University has it right: undergraduates basically aren’t allowed cars.

https://www.proctors.cam.ac.uk/motor-control
I don't get it either. How is this different than a "left luggage" place?

A coupla' years ago, I landed at Heathrow, dropped off my luggage at the left luggage shop, travelled through Europe for two weeks, went back to Heathrow, picked up my luggage and flew back home.

Just google "left luggage near me" when you land somewhere. No need for an app that is most likely (not necessarily nefariously) tracking you.
For some reason it is ok to break the law in this case.
We have public records here in DC. Most times I report someone doing something antisocial (e.g. blocking lanes, crosswalks, refusing to yield, etc. - things which actively inconvenience other road users) using hmdapp.io there’s at least a 50% chance that they have multiple unpaid tickets. The highest I’ve seen is over $10k, but others have found drivers over $40k.
Its a college. This is what college students do.

"Those dang kids! Stay off my lawn!"
Movies make humanoid aliens because it is much cheaper. Books are much more various and imagine all sort of body shapes or amorphous possibilities.

I think the assumption there is that the alien race is smart enough and dexterous enough to create machines. Wether they use tentacles, fingers, snouts or talons, it makes sense that such a species develops board games at a moment
Victor Stinner (python dev) wrote a good series on trying to get stable benchmarks in python:

https://vstinner.github.io/journey-to-stable-benchmark-syste...
https://vstinner.github.io/journey-to-stable-benchmark-deadc...
https://vstinner.github.io/journey-to-stable-benchmark-avera...
I agree, I'm just clarifying what was meant by

> Board size - gravity rules - scoring etc. are arbitrary

So 'gravity rules' refer to falling speed, which is unimportant and doesn't fundamentally change the game, same with board size.
That’s just awful. So much for cognitive diversity, eh? I wish your brother best of luck.
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Are you kidding? If parking was free then nobody would be able to park there. Everyone would drive even if they only lived a few blocks away or a single bus ride away.

It would be unavailable to students who actually need it.
When an account on DO is late with a payment, you go through three stages: hold, suspension, termination.

The hold happens right away and prevents you from creating new billable resources.

Then a suspension happens several weeks later, which powers off your servers.

You don’t get terminated until a couple weeks after that, at which point the data is irretrievable.

The time between each stage can vary depending on how long you’ve been a customer or what your monthly payments in the past have been, but that’s the gist of it.
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The gross invasion of privacy is not taking pictures of people in public spaces. It's cross-referencing those pictures against images people have uploaded to various online services, many of them before this kind of use in facial recognition databases had even been conceived by anyone except science fiction writers.
Been going on about giving our neighbors too much political power by allowing things like HR to filter for the sort who will shut their head off and follow orders.

Get downvoted every time.

A desire for top down control of life at scale hasn’t gone away with the fading of church life. That’s emotional memory living in the limbic system still. Perfectly reasonable to use a control technique on the masses.

The math of economics is right, in the proper combining and separating of numbers is present, they don’t make 2+2 = 4.

It’s what the quantities represent (us), and who controls the weights (not us) that matter.

It’s politically indefensible to enable extreme ownership over property. They believe it gives them control over agency since only they own the useful machines.

On the upside private army ownership is at an all time low and they need us to manage these machines at scale

One day of peacefully staying home or even just a serious enough push to make it look like that is happening (remember SOPA blackout and teacher strikes), this goes away and we can work on our own ideas.

Probably just get downvoted again for suggesting no way all these people are confused like I think. But sitting on their hands going along erodes their political capital and empowers threats to our own agency at scale.

The government should guarantee healthcare and military security to short circuit gamesmanship of private power. We ditched the idea of a king in political contexts, but kept it alive in daily life contexts. Serve your CEO

A minority of rich elites are not important enough literally to give them broad ownership of ideas we individually literally imagine up and build.
But you’re still logged into the browser with one’s Google account. They get the cross site tracking benefit but competitors don’t? Not to mention limited by a vendor sandbox. Not saying I’m into tracking.
Of course not all of them, we enjoy games, and we're the only actual data point we have. But since we're just one data point, we really don't know anything about the probability of different subsystems of the mind evolving. I certainly hope we encounter sentient empathetic aliens that enjoy games as much as we do!
WebGL is a different beast from OpenGL ES, it doesn't require OpenGL ES's presence and can be implemented on top of any other 3D API that provides the necessary functionality (same with OpenGL and OpenGL ES of course).

FWIW i'd expect OpenGL on the desktop to exist for far longer than OpenGL ES on Android and iOS since the latter two do not put as much emphasis on backwards compatibility. Of course this wont stop others from implementing it, but that only helps when you have the source code and want to recompile an application - it wont help existing applications to keep working.
Well, you have to draw the line somewhere. Do we pay for all food students eat? The clothes they wear? The houses they live in? The cars they drive?

Obviously not... some schools might provide some of those things, but all schools will draw the line somewhere (I don't know of any schools that provide clothing)

Why is it anymore of a slippery slope to say "the college won't subsidize student parking" than "the college won't subsidize student clothing"?
This is common for public universities, for the obvious reason: they're already a branch of the state, so it makes sense for security to officially be state police.
"The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons" - Ralph Waldo Emerson
You're still working to oppress poor people man. Literally surveillance capitalism. You can separate the bad effects your work is having on people from the marginal good of confronting scofflaws.
The yellow Post StreetScooters are a common view in my region but as I just found out, there are a number of variations possible for other use cases. Interesting...

https://www.streetscooter.com/de/modelle/umbauloesungen/#pic...
Making up your own definitions is gay.
I rented an AirBnB filled with a few thousand dollars worth of Sonos speakers. Some issues...

1. I was traveling with an older Android phone (Android 4.4.4). I couldn't install the latest version of the app. I tried installing an older version, but it simply said I needed to upgrade. So, I couldn't play any music from the phone. I checked online and a number of people were complaining they used their older phones and tablets in the house as simply a Sonos remote, and they now had to upgrade all of those devices after support was dropped.

2. I installed the Windows app on my laptop to play music. This worked, but then I noticed the subwoofer wasn't plugged in (likely so people didn't annoy the neighbors). I thought I would briefly test it out to get an idea if Sonos would be a good future purchase for myself. Well, I plugged it in and I needed to do a setup process from the app. Well, apparently that can't be done from the Windows app, and I couldn't install the app on my phone, so the subwoofer just sat there as decoration.

3. My partner came home and she had a newer phone, so I had her install the Sonos app so we could setup the subwoofer. She installed it, I went to the app to configure the subwoofer, and it said it couldn't be done unless I updated the speakers to a newer software version. Well, this wasn't my apartment and the owner lived there when it wasn't rented, so I figured it wasn't my place to update their speakers.

In the end, I never got a chance to test out that subwoofer, and I lost interest in Sonos because I felt like for the investment, the rug could be pulled out from under me at any time. I hooked up some of my 15 year "dumb" Klipsch speakers in my new apartment instead. Didn't need a new mobile phone to set them up, didn't need software updates, just plugged them into the wall. It sure felt easy. I can't help but feel like we lost our way a bit in recent years.
And the first group is applying for every job out there whilst the second is too discerning.
So awesome to hear this. Bounce is very present in Boston with more than 30 locations. We didn't develop that market until summer, however. We love runners and it's super cool to hear this story. Do you have any ideas for how we get the word out to that community?
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Not exactly a board game but I would expect rock paper scissors game patterns to be universal.

I think dice combination games are going to be popular as well.
"I don‘t understand why people keep buying these inkjet scam printers. It‘s been like this for almost 2 decades."

Genuinely interested to know your thoughts on the danger of toner particles - either during normal operation or potential leaks/spills in changing cartridges.

We wanted out of the inkjet scam and I initially leaned towards a solid laser printer but then decided I didn't want to worry about toner in the air or potential toner spills.

I got the b&w brother printer (inkjet) that everyone loves and we've been perfectly happy with it...
Most people who smoke don't even know cigarettes have a special tax. It costs what it costs, a little than a bigmac at mcdonalds for a pack of cigs and less than six-pack of beer.

I agree with your last argument, but companies like apple and google will remain and they might end up paying billions in taxes and shrug it off as an operating cost. Now, politicians will say a lot against wage gap but man...who's gonna mess with a few billion dollars of revenue, this is money they can say "I will do ______ without raising taxes" with
Headphones are changing the sound of music
> I hate parking fees as much as the next person, and totally appreciate the creativity of the people who defeated this device.

However, how should we handle distributing a limited number of parking spaces when there are more people who want to park than available spaces?

This isn't a parking problem. At its root, this is a personal transportation,public transportation and/or cultural issue. Demand for numerous things are increasingly, but supply is effectively static. That is, for example, parking decks are expensive.

It's probably not possible to solve this as a parking problem But zoom back, dig for the roots and perhaps sone behaviors can be changed, and some cultural progress made?
Because it rewards depth-first expertise rather than breadth-first, and there are few deep experts and many broad experts.
Not all heroes wear capes. Thank you on behalf of all those administrators having to deal with the abuse!

PS: Do you have stats on the overlap between parking violators and people who refuse to pick up after their dogs?
https://zenius-i-vanisher.com/v5.2/arcades.php

This site is very consistent for Pump it Up machines, might work well for you too.
Semantic Noodling and Meaning Machines
Yah, UC Davis runs its own bus service (entirely run by students, actually), and has run a decades long psy-ops campaign to get people to ride bikes. It seems to have worked quite well!
Google hires tons of people fresh out of university, they're not going to be "at the absolute top of their field" or well-connected. (they do seem to hire previous interns a lot, but that moves the filter having to handle the flood to people applying for internships instead)
You took the picture with your phone? You own the copyrights. You can issue a DMCA takedown if someone illegally copy your copyrighted creation and profits from it.
Bose is getting screwed by the competition and they know it. On the speaker side you’ve got Sonos and the smart speakers, plus tons of low cost home theatre systems that sound plenty good (heard a Visio system recently, sounded fantastic).

Then on the headphone front, everyone is going with first party systems like AirPods. And it’s only a matter of time before Apple brings out over ear headphones. I’ve been a loyal QC customer for over 10 years, but the second Apple brings out its competitor I’ll probably switch (and Bose knows it).
I test drove a Tesla. That thing is constantly calling home and it's only a matter of time before it starts snitching on drivers who break the speed limit, run red lights, or park incorrectly.
People still need motivation to learn. Just because the knowledge is available doesn't mean they'll ingest it on their own. College may provide a structured environment helping with that. Or in this case a different kind of motivation to learn.
Perhaps there is just a small group of people who apply for every job and are continually rejected. Whereas most good people aren't really applying for any jobs or very few.
Isn't that exactly why they charge for parking? To encourage students who have other modes of getting to school to use those?

If you have free parking, students will drive 5 blocks to go to school, is because why not? It is free and faster and easier.

If you charge for parking, many will walk or ride a bike or take a bus.