skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Especially in Canada. The directions are basically to get on the highway, and stay on it for 1000km
Southwest is often cheaper than United or AA for certain destinations (especially LAS and DEN) and I've yet to have a negative experience.
Growing Number of Banks Are Introducing Negative Interest Rates
List of Epidemics
I was lucky enough to meet Clay Christensen once when he came to speak at a company I worked at.

First he delivered a brilliant lecture on how companies repeatedly found themselves put out of business by new technologies, even after having made only decisions that actually increased their profits (his famous theory of "disruption").

Then he went on to talk about how easy it was as a driven, career-focused person--like most of the folks in that room--to invest too much in your career and not enough in your family. He pointed out how you can see whether your efforts in the office are paying off after a year or two, sometimes even shorter--while you don't really know whether you raised your children well for 20 years or so. Since so many smart people are addicted to feedback loops of quick success, he argued, that put them in special danger. You could easily spend year after year making choices that increased your success in your field, only to discover--too late--that you hadn't been paying enough attention to things that mattered more.

He was one of the best speakers I've heard, picking precise words and moving smoothly from topic to topic, but every once in a while he would hold up his hand, bring his fingers together as if he were gripping a pen, and then twirl his hand in a circle as if he were asking for the check. After the fourth or fifth time, he stopped and apologized. He'd had a stroke recently, he explained, and occasionally he couldn't remember the words he was trying to say unless he pretended to write them in the air.

A brilliant, humble man, whose essential goodness was impossible to miss.

May he rest in peace.
Why do you think the five miles twice a week is not responsible? Long runs are the classic recipe for building endurance as far as I know. I’ve found in my own running that the 4-5 mile range is where I start building real endurance, I’ve always assumed because that gives your heart a long enough work out for your body to take it seriously and make changes. I was surprised to learn that one long run a week built more endurance and gave me better race times than shorter runs every day.
> The price for these types of airlines have just about every nicety set up as a DLC, if you will

DLC? Not really. It's literally not something you download. Microtransactions is a more apt term.
FWIW, 32 bit x86 (i386) and ARM arrived in the same year (1985.)
Most times I have flown spirit I got upgrades including bags dirt cheap. But even when I don't, they are still a pretty good price.

As for southwest, it depends on timing. They are cheap early on when major carriers are asking standard prices. Then as you get closer, southwest cheap seats fill up while major carriers start cutting prices, sometimes drastically if it turns out to be a bad travel season.

Traveling with four bags is too much of a pain even when it's free to bring them.
What culture eats bats?

It’s not a Chinese thing. So which ones do?
iOS First Impressions (2018)
Just look for things people would throw money at. This can be anectodal or with data.

Things with a high CPC are good targets. Things that have a lot of users but are built terribly or neglected are also good.
ive never heard of acorn before, does it have smart fill or tool for adjusting raw images? for me, those features are what separates photoshop from everything else
Is developer preference not important?

What advantages does C have over processor specific assembly?
I'd probably start with good snow tires, 12V compressor so you can air down, traction boards a shovel. Winches are expensive and need to be mounted to your truck or to a hitch receiver. Better advice in this case was to drive on the highway.
OP, just invest in a low cost ETF.
Check out the 2010 movie frozen about skiers getting stuck on a lift.

Not the best movie, but I love this idea of just how close we live to total disaster... And all it takes is a few small missteps. We think we have a lot more control over our lives than we really do.
Just because wetlands should be protected doesn’t mean that they are protected under the Clean Water Act. (Congress doesn’t have the authority to regulate every body of water in the US. It’s limited to regulating the “channels of interstate commerce.”)

States can, and do, regulate intrastate wetlands. And they can do it more efficiently, because they already handle permitting of local construction projects.
Good that you decided not to "wallow in buyers’ remorse" and spread the story + your brand.

A perfect case of finding opportunity amid crisis.
It's really weird to evaluate GPT-2 based on its ability to say things no reasonable person would ever say. If I were born in Cleveland I wouldn't be jumping to proclaim my fluency in English. If I told you I left my keys out at the pub, I wouldn't immediately repeat myself and say that my keys are now at the pub. If I'm talking about two trophies plus another trophy, I'd probably try to end it with some punchline rather than saying there's three trophies.

A lot of the things we write assume the reader can make connections on their own. That's a writing skill. It's the reason why Hemingway's famous "For sale: baby shoes, never worn" is so impactful. As such I've found GPT-2 to be incredible at writing fanfiction.
This is a copy of https://blog.samaltman.com/how-to-invest-in-startups.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22035997
Time value of money of a $200 plane ticket at federal funds rate (for half a year) is like what, $1.5?
And google did the effort to build the NLP...

There is no moral high ground in this story.
Yea, I’ve gone there using a stock iphone and a stock iPad both using Safari and neither one with custom fonts, plugins, etc.
iPhone: only 48 browsers have exactly this fingerprint
IPad: only 14 browsers have this fingerprint.

My list of fonts is only 0.55% similar
And user agent is only 0.34% similar

Those are hard to believe on a device where these things really don’t get customized.
Art Experts Warn of a Surging Market in Fake Prints
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22148825.
Agreed. Non-null pointers also come with their own set of problems:

- Increased language complexity. Initialization of (arrays of) structs with non-null pointer members is more complicated because there is no straightforward "default" value that can be used.

- Performance tradeoffs. Initialization of arrays and other containers is more costly for non-null pointers (or structs containing them) because we cannot simply zero out a block of memory.

- In memory unsafe languages it is possible for a non-null pointer to become null if its memory is overwritten (e.g. in custom allocator scenarios (also mentioned by the author of the article), interop scenarios, etc.). The type system now makes a false guarantee, and it becomes possible for a "non-null" pointer to trigger a null pointer crash. (It's worth mentioning that enums generally have a similar problem).

- I'd like do a more rigorous evaluation on this, but my gut feeling is that most null pointer bugs that I've encountered usually happen in situations where the pointer would have to be declared as nullable anyway, because I'm using null to represent a possible state.
How to Choose Travel Insurance – What's Covered and What to Look Out For
This idea has come up a few times on conspiracy subreddits, but it seems like a pretty big stretch. Look at all our landfills full of old obsolete electronics. The fact that we don't find similar things make these "hidden civilization" theories pretty unlikely in my opinion.
> How is that even economically viable?

Are you kidding? It's like drilling up geysers of money.

The ten most profitable companies in the world are nine oil companies and Apple.

Count the cars and trucks and planes and generators and leaf-blowers and chainsaws and every piece of plastic ever and thousands of chemical byproducts... oil is everywhere.
I think some of the appeal is probably that the listener need make no outward sign that a message has been received.

There is also very little papertrail or other evidence that anything has happened, or about the content of the message. It self-destructs forever, even more securely than Snapchats ever could.
> ...we read it when we're young and naive and our eyes are opened...

First, you're projecting.

Second, it's not at all surprising that you're young enough to have first read Manufacturing Consent when you were "young".

Third, books like Manufacturing Consent and Discipline and Punishment are primarily sociological. They do have some normative content, of course, but their primary goal is to explain how the world works.

> It's called 'PR', it's used all day, every day by most companies and political organizations, social movements and even the government.

This is an over-simplification. Of course that's true. Manufacturing Consent is not merely pointing out the existence of politics or merely making the observation that political operatives attempt to use media to shift opinion. It's a book about ___how___ that process works in the age of mass media and in a democratic capitalist society.

The way in which cable news is used to warp people's perception of reality seems pretty obvious in 2020, with hindsight.

And so Manufacturing Consent might seem trite and obvious today. But the book wasn't written in 2019. Or 2018. Or 2008. Or even 1998. It was published in 1988.

Just to put that in context: it was written prior to 9/11. It was written almost a decade before Fox News was founded. It was written only shortly after cable television was even invented. In 1988, "Cable News" as we know it today didn't exist. CNN barely existed, and looked more like a combination of NBC Nightly News and CSPAN. And most importantly, manufacturing Consent was published at a time when most Americans really did believe that the nightly news was a mostly unbiased source of information.

You might read it today and think "yeah, that's obviously how mass media is used to influence how people think about the world". But that's very much not the reaction most people -- even, perhaps especially, hard-nosed realists -- had when reading it in 1988.
For anyone wondering, that quote appears in this article:

https://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/20200122/insys-fentanyl-s...

Not the submitted NPR link.
Sure it is. Imagine a website with a self signed cert. You're over HTTPS and still encrypted, but it's you vs the (statistically unlikely) MITM entity holding that cert's private key, rather than you vs everyone in traceroute running wireshark. It's strictly better.

Granted this meant more before the days of LE, but you get what I'm saying.
"?id=22107823" which is meaningless to most users

Absolute rubbish. That is obviously a number identifying the item. I wish a lot of URLs would be shorter, but that's different. I also offer this piece of evidence:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7678729

People are intelligent. They can learn and see things if you give them a chance, and you're basically advocating for keeping them stupid and unknowing by hiding things from them... why?
Reuters has pretty decent coverage of the US and international news. Their coverage of the UK may or may not be objective (I don't have the knowledge to say), but as far as I can tell, their non-UK coverage is pretty solid.
Only 4% of the users who visited this test page use Ubuntu. Linux on the desktop is really not a thing.
You paid for a game which can be taken from you.

That's what you got.
Rust has limited operator overloading. You can do common operations like arithmetic, but you can't define symbol soup
It's an interesting way of thinking of the age of the earth and geological changes that there could have been a civilization and we wouldn't know.

Or someone later wouldn't know about us.... outside say an abandoned car floating through space...

That would be an interesting story. We travel into space to find things out there only to find things that seem to have come from... home.
It's been a while since I've interpreted delta 13C measurements but it seems like adding 13C could mimic older materials, however you are correct about 14C unless you want to make something modern look like its ~1960s era. You would need to reduce 14C (either by dilution with depleted ethanol [quick search doesn't find a source for this] or somehow purify the scotch itself) to make it look pre-1950s.
The distinction is still arbitrary even if you omit the hardware compromise aspect.

I mean, let's go back to that quote about assembler from Theo:

http://web.archive.org/web/20060603230017/http://kerneltrap.... — «Of course, also note that we don't want to become Hermes (the architecture of the Lucent/Prism/Symbol chip) assembly language programmers... we have more than enough to do. Just a specific example. Please, people, don't load us up with more tasks ;)» (NB: Theo's talking about the wi(4) firmware, see http://mdoc.su/-/wi.4 .)

DDG for "Stallman microwave" returns this page and this quote:

http://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html — «As for microwave ovens and other appliances, if updating software is not a normal part of use of the device, then it is not a computer.»

Now, what does that firmware for wi(4) actually even does? How's it different from the hardware itself? What sort of language is it written in? I'm mean, I'm a kernel developer here, I've hacked drivers and subsystems because they weren't working properly, but are you seriously going to argue here that actually updating this firmware is any more common than updating the software of the microwave?

I mean, let's take a look and find out. NetBSD appears to have it all in a single dir over at http://bxr.su/n/sys/dev/microcode/wi/ — clicking on any individual file, then the CVSweb link, reveals that it's been committed 15 to 17 years ago and not once updated (apart from the whitespace in the .h header file). Searching for these files in OpenBSD reveals the same situation — http://bxr.su/o/sys/dev/microcode/symbol/ .

So, basically, the manufacturer decided to save a few cents by omitting a ROM component on their cards; requiring you to bootstrap the device by giving it its firmware on each boot. How's that any different from the situation where the ROM chip is fixed from the factory? As a user and kernel developer, I don't really see a difference. Would it be nice if the firmware is OSS? I mean, sure, but it's written in a proprietary language anyways, for proprietary hardware, and it's really much more part of the hardware than it is of the software or the OS, and there's better battles to fight here than getting this sort of useless thing FLOSS'ed.

In fact, those 12-hour clocks on most microwaves are really annoying, and there's never an option to fix it. It should be possible to get the source code for all those microwaves to fix them to use 24-h time; I'd much rather campaign for that than for making wi(4)'s firmware OSS.
In this case, it's actually 3000km on Highway 1, that's it, the main highway in Canada and pretty much the only real highway to get anywhere across Saskatchewan to South Western Ontario.

They would have no reason to leave this highway unless maybe they wanted to take the shorter route through the states, but I have no clue how they could have ended up where they were in the middle of nowhere not even on a road. Glad they were ok, but jeez, common sense or look at a map at least once.
sorry for the total aside, but this article reminded me of one of my deepest typo curiosities: why is the misspelling ratio -> ration so common? there are lots of words that can have a character erroneously appended and still be a correctly spelled (different) word. for example: most verbs in english (ride -> rides, bake -> baked, etc.). but for some reason, I see ratio -> ration all the time. 'n' isn't even that close to 'o' on the keyboard! it really jumps out when you subvocalize; the 'n' changes the pronunciation a lot.
Why aren't electrons photons?
But you could increase the size (admittedly, only one point per turn) of the TER up to maximum, you couldn't an IRR.
Another learning from this story is that SMS (cell phone text message) can get through even when you think you don't have reception, and based on the weather. Also phones will keep trying to send them until they can. So it's always worth sending a text for help with your exact coordinate.
Everyone but people in Southwestern Ontario that is!
It's times like these that we come to depend heavily on basic science, that up until now few would have realized is really important. There's a long chain of publications cited in the top answer, that all represent years of person hours trying to discover these behaviors and then share them with the world.

Politicians sometimes ridicule basic research in an attempt to claim that government is irresponsible, and during recent elections it would have been a simple thing to ridicule the idea of studying "how many As are at the end of a viral genome" as an egregious waste of tax funds. Yet here we are.

Basic science without any known applications are how the really big discoveries come about. Sometimes we can guess that an area will be fruitful, but it's now always the case.

Next time somebody attempts to ridicule science as pointless, think back to why anybody might care about a strange pattern of nucleotides at the end of a virus.
Maybe making human brain actually crave such activities would be even more... valuable.
Canada’s ‘first cybersecurity accelerator’ launches
Isn't there some level of radiation that is ubiquitously present ever since we started nuclear testing? Seems like we could figure out if there ever was a nuclear-capable society in the past just by looking at radiation decay.
When can I buy something similar for a homelab?
According to the article, there’s no way to distinguish organic grain from standard grain. So if by all accounts “organic” is a marketing ploy, why should the government spend money on an inspection program to facilitate that? Let the farmers pay a private certifying authority.
I would recommend reading "The Haywire Heart: How too much exercise can kill you, and what you can do to protect your heart." The author has some athletes story on similar lines.
I think article accounts for that.
The real immediate value of GPT-2 is human/computer collaboration. Think code completion or completion/prompts in other mediums, such as writing. Many art forms work - music / game design / painting / etc.
I agree with you as well.

I think country-wide, there need to be, usually, 3-bodied system of inspection/certification (whether it is financial organizations, law firms, doctors, educational or food suppliers.. ).

one organization should be multi-state collaboration of supervision & certification.

The other should be industry collaboration of supervision & certification.

And 3rd -- is academia-powered.

Any business claiming to have certificate in something needs to strive to get it from all 3. 2 out 3 may be acceptable, and 1 out of 3 is not.

This model would prevent corruption that more likely occurred in single-bodied systems.
Albert Camus: The Plague (1948) [pdf]
Hadn't read the original essay, but Eevee is always a great blog.

Honestly, Rust hits a lot of good points for me. My only concern so far has been `.await` and a minor concern that they'll keep adding junk and end up like Perl with too many features.
Maybe when they go to tap the space bar they end up clipping the 'n', just a guess.
>For example, the US very quickly shut down one of their largest cities and all air travel in the country on 9/11.

Locking down an entire city (cities?) is much more severe than shutting down commercial flights.
We already have some obscure bureaucratic infrastructure in place from the 70s called the "public broadcasting service". It's funded and everything. Could just re-purpose that I suppose.

Perhaps the public broadcasting service could have a nightly program that dedicates an entire hour of primetime to this type of reporting. And we could even name it in Lehrer's name! Of course in that case we should also give MacNeil credit as well. So perhaps the show could be called something like the "MacNeil-Lehrer News Hour"!

;-)
I wonder if it has to do with the suffix -tion. Maybe muscle memory is triggered when the letters “tio” are typed at the end of the word and “n” is automatically added to the end of the word.
Yes sitemaps are great for search engines. Makes it easy for indexing.

> I'm not sure I've ever searched for something and got a different landing page as a result

That is probably because Google was shortening the destination URL. If you are running Google Ads you can set your own URL destination even though the actual landing page might be something totally different. You can check it out if you like by searching for something and focusing on the Ad. You'll typically have the landing page different from the Ad URL.
Voluntary servitude does strike me as quite valuable.
I’ll be honest. I don’t feel like studying viral genome patterns is high on anyone’s list of useless science.

My second thought is that the observation of an unnatural pattern would be really important. Naively an early hypothesis might be the something that looks unnatural is man made.
I see, yeah that's the right reading.
There were some good in depth articles out there on this topic.

What I didn't get was how many people there would see statements about what they were doing and wondering "we aren't producing that much...." when it came to the actual products.
I only read half the article and skimmed past that to the end.
Where does the article or in any court case is any individual buyer called out?

While the case may of hurt the image of the organic re-sellers as a whole, how many people in the organic marketing space are advertising this?
The FAA already had discretionary authority over US airspace. Saying “no” to everything all at once was unusual, but didn’t exercise any new power. Martial law is more like “sudo” for the executive branch, letting it do what would not otherwise be legal.
Process acceleration and Uber models for resource allocation
You can watch the Macneil-Lehrer News Hour (now rebranded as just PBS News Hour), the program that Jim Lehrer hosted for the better part of his professional career and the reason people care about his opinion on journalism. It still runs every night: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/
it's not about the lost opportunity to make an investment so much as tightening the margin for stuff like paying rent, utilities, and credit card bills. $75 isn't enough to make or break my budget, but it's still a lot to have tied up over a service I'm planning not to use. if you're the type of person to aggressively optimize travel for price, it could be a meaningful sum.
Will our geostationary satellites still be there, say, 50 million years from now? The lunar landers probably will be, unless meteorites take out all the landing sites.