skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Along with all of the above, AAA still has free paper maps. If you're traveling anywhere outside the major cities, always bring a paper map with you. It doesn't need to be your primary method of navigation, but when your phone battery is dying, or your navigation app refuses to load because of spotty signal, the paper map will still work.
I had the same thought, especially since 73% of their funding is owed to the $10,000 nondescript "retail package" tier.

I can see people throwing away their money at a silly Kickstarter idea, but I have a hard time believing that not one but two "retail entities" saw this and came to the conclusion that $80 retail price for one candle is viable enough to pledge 10 grand for a mystery custom retail package.
My kid starts elementary school at 9am with one late start day a week. We’re able to spend more time with her in the evening because we don’t feel rushed to get her to bed so she gets enough sleep. I also find she doesn’t seem totally exhausted when she gets up in the morning.

That being said, my spouse and I are very fortunate in that we have flexible jobs with part-time remote work ability. I can’t imagine how a single parent working two jobs would deal with the schedule change and late start day.
DigitalOcean owns their own servers and networking infrastructure inside existing datacenters.

https://www.quora.com/Does-DigitalOcean-have-its-own-datacen...
Yes, I vividly remember the awful feeling when it was dark, cold, wet and on the way to school half asleep.
We too had 2 shifts for school, the first 4 grades were in the morning and then it would alternate every other grade in the morning or evening. I liked when I had school in the second part of the day but in the winter I had a nearly similar experience returning home, at about 6 or 7 it was already dark, cold and snowy. And this schedule would eat out the whole day.
They certainly have no plans to charge me a fee to use a third-party keyboard. This won't be any different.
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This is eerily similar to RadioShack who was so hellbent on collecting personal info that I stopped going - mainly just I just didn't want to be annoyed.
I don’t disagree with you, but central server for money is what we have had since the beginning of time right? We have central banks, where banks have cash, and and central securities depositories, where they have their securities.
Maybe, but this doesn't appear to be an actual example of brazen Trump corruption. The journalist's summary of the lawyer's summary of the ex-congressman's statement appears to be inaccurate to the point of being fake news.

https://www.rohrabacher.com/news/my-meeting-with-julian-assa...

At no time did I talk to President Trump about Julian Assange. Likewise, I was not directed by Trump or anyone else connected with him to meet with Julian Assange. I was on my own fact finding mission at personal expense to find out information I thought was important to our country. I was shocked to find out that no other member of Congress had taken the time in their official or unofficial capacity to interview Julian Assange. At no time did I offer Julian Assange anything from the President because I had not spoken with the President about this issue at all.
Probably a nonexistent POSIX errno constant, corresponding to a nonexistent message like "No time available".
I think if there were less people there would be more resources to go around.
A large reason why wages have essentially "stagnated" is because the workforce has doubled with the advent of women entering the workforce. Laws of Supply and Demand say that wages should go down...it is to be expected. This is why for many a two income household is now necessary for a family these days.
Article mentions Mark Twain's visit to Pompeii brothels in passing, as if he stumbled upon it during his travels, which certainly is not the case.

Twain is probably not the first name that pops to mind when erotica is mentioned but he was quite into it. His posthumous 1601 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1601_(Mark_Twain)) was an early example of "pornography" in America; scare quotes since the content is quite tame by today's standards (you can judge for yourself: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3190/3190-h/3190-h.htm)

His sex toys were in the news about a decade ago (https://www.thedailybeast.com/mark-twains-sex-toys, but see for a less hysterical writeup)
Have you tried SaltStack?

It uses YAML too, but always felt much more cleanly composed, and smoothly integrates with scripting languages.

I've never truly broken into orchestration and am still salty about that so please, take my post with a grain of salt.

(Full disclosure: I have literally no professional affiliations whatsoever.)
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Cognitive Distortions of Being Present-Centered
If anyone has a bricked FlyWheel bike, I'd love to poke at the hardware and see whether an open-source control system could be fitted. Honestly, the electronics are NOT the expensive part of this bike and it would be fun to play with an instrumented exercise bike.

My email is in my profile.
Not entirely sure what this is yet but I was looking for a resource of scientific data in nice formats and I was very surprised I couldn't really find any. If this could do that in a way that doesn't upset any licensing agreements (Don't really know what I'm talking about in that regard) that would be pretty cool.

I needed a Resitivity-Temperature dataset for a Tungsten alloy and I ended up having to manually type up a series out of the book, not fun!
> Primarily due to primary school start times, bussing schedules, and athletics.

Not only that. Starting late also creates a problem for parents.

Parents need to go to work. If kids take bus, kids usually need to board on the school bus before parents leave home. If parents drive kids to school, then the late school start time will become totally unacceptable for many parents because of the conflict with their work start time.
This twitter thread is complete garbage. The headline statistic is cherry picked to include the categories that have outpaced inflation the most. They also double count health insurance, which for most full time
employees is a benefit they receive on top of their salary.

Contrary to what rose twitter tells you, real individual compensation has increased over the past few decades, not decreased (albeit perhaps not by as much as it should have, and a lot of the increase has been diverted to surging healthcare costs).
I don't understand the point about the cars and inflation, don't your inflation measures use a basket of goods and services that get updated looking at current market shares? That's how it works in the UK.

Source: https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/meth... (search vehicle)
This is why I run anything online-gaming related on OVH (or SoYouStart and Kimsufi, their cheaper offshoots that still use the OVH network) - they are very good about handling the everyday DDoSes you get in that sector without taking the site offline or charging extra. I think they will disconnect a site that draws a very high rate attack, but they've soaked the kiddie DDoSes just fine.
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You're exaggerating. I don't know why you immediately jump to the assumption that any regulatory change would be all or nothing. A more likely political outcome will be some sort of compromise.

For example, Internet services which host user-generated content might be able to retain liability protection only if they also provide some reasonable degree of transparency and accountability. Clearly document their editorial policies and algorithms, and provide a formal appeals process for users who were censored.
He talks a lot about cars costing more (and being better). But he neglects that cars (and houses) are financed.

Financing a car decades ago was expensive. You are now paying the same monthly price for a better and more expensive car. Fewer of your dollars go to the bank for financing, because interest rates are so low, and more dollars go to the car maker.

The same goes for a lot of people looking at housing sticker prices, and not the actual cost people are paying for houses. When you look at how cheap financing is today, a lot of the inflation of these goods declines, or evaporates entirely.
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It might be time deaf but it's also true. Inflation is measured by looking at what people actually buy - it will measure iPads to the extent people are spending money on iPads.

Now, if working class people spend less than average on iPads, then the inflation they experience will be different. But the government isn't going to produce dozens of different inflation metrics for different groups. Maybe they should - it's theoretically possible to calculate inflation based on consumption groups. Margins of error would be higher. But to suggest that they should just exclude quality improvements on technology completely is wrong.
More commonly known as Hitchen's Razor, Quod grātīs asseritur, grātīs negātur never ceases to be true in these situations.
All instances use shield by default IIRC.
Buddy of mine tried telling his wife the same story, but she didn't buy it.
Data?

Although having said then when you say data to me, I do imagine some level of immutability. Logging scientific results using git would be pretty good if required, in the sense that there is a habit to just use folders and text files which is fine at the time but is really really hard to take over sometimes (Like code written by scientists with their single-letter variable names and hatred of functions, in my experience of Fortran - yuck)
Should the person whose content is blocked be able to face their accuser, know precisely what line they crossed over, and have recourse against arbitrary, malicious, incompetent ... moderation? As it now stands, one entity is judge, jury, and executioner, which is a recipe for abuse of power.
I don't know, if your generative model is something like getting the knn of each data point, then fuzzing each point by the local statistics of each point (from the knn's), I don't think you will miss the important trends and you get a bit of differential privacy.
See also everyone (including Oracle) that copied Perl 5's regular expression API, and typically even say that straight in their own documentation (again, including Java's).
I feel it's also a bit about perspective. Is school for learning, or is it a state sponsored day care with a guise of learning? Especially in the early years.
> Spherical/cylindrical tankage is needed only to contain high pressure, but we don't need to contain pressure.

You want the minimum surface area to volume, to minimize heat losses (and minimize the surface area that has to be insulated when weight matters such as in an aircraft). Spherical being the optimum, but obviously unpractical. If you look at tanks in current aircraft, typically in wings, they have huge surface area vs volume.

Lifting body might be better, I'm not sure.

> Not so easy to know the net effect

Luckily we have researchers who have dedicated years, if not decades, to studying this exact problem. Still, not an easy problem, surely. Some quick searching turns up this overview: https://www.carbonbrief.org/explainer-challenge-tackling-avi... (and it seems I was wrong, it's not water vapor that is the major factor)
Probably mostly natural materials.

That'd be risky now.
My head just can't operate on max level at morning for years. "go to bed earlier" isn't helpful here, working at nights too. Tried several times to change my owl-type nature, but without any viable success. The fix is easy: pretend to be productive, and be a rock star at the end of day.
Indeed. And on top of those hundreds of marketing companies pretending to be mattress companies is the even weirder world of online mattress reviewers, who are all ensnared in a tangle of kickbacks and referrer fees and endorsements. Fast Company had a great piece on it a few years ago if you want a taste:

https://www.fastcompany.com/3065928/sleepopolis-casper-blogg...
I don't believe that's accurate. I've heard first hand from lawyers that the bill of rights guarantees protections from government action, not other citizens or entities like corporations. That's why, for example, we have to have laws that make it illegal for people to break into your home and steal stuff. Otherwise, we could just apply the 4th amendment.

No individual or company has to necessarily "respect" your first amendment right to free speech, as that is something that can only be violated by the government or a government affiliated entity for which these protections also apply.
One issue with using eye contact for self driving is low reliability (or need for true general intelligence).

But long before that, you'd need to realize a camera suite with an effective resolution between 200 and 500 megapixels, sampling at 60 Hz. We're nowhere close to that today.
I used to say something to this effect about homelessness. That part of why we have a housing shortage and other countries do not is because we have made certain types of housing illegal and thus made the "bottom end" housing too expensive for some.

Things like shanty towns etc.

Now, I'm not advocating for a society that houses people in shanty towns as an end goal. But I am advocating that shantytown might be an upgrade for some and we need to help people upgrade.
First,"original business". Second, there's no problem with the approach, it's literally validated as not having a problem in the wild. Right now.
Not my area of expertise.
Is the innovation here searching over generated training examples that appear optimize training efficiency/rate of learning for the target task?
In reality, compelling political science evidence suggests that people do not decide for themselves, and that in the absence of concentrated outside interests, elections are essentially random functions based on arbitrary group identity. We're now pretty close to sure that voters around the world don't generally individually map candidates to issue profiles (it's likely that the influence goes the other way), and that the electorate in the large doesn't aggregate preferences to a median acceptable policy. In that landscape, the one thing that does move outcomes is large amounts of political spending.

(This is the core argument of Democracy for Realists).
I read the thread, and it didn't address root causes at all.
Oh hey Mickey :)

Obviously, if what I really need is security, these aren't overriding concerns! But I think part of the point is that you should be using these things even when you don't need security -- otherwise when you do use it, it's potentially suspicious. Secure messaging needs to be ordinary, not something special you only do when you need security. Signal accomplishes that well for text messaging! Nothing, apparently, really accomplishes that well for email while also being seriously secure.

Edit: Or to put it another way -- tptacek talks about people "LARPing" by using attempts-at-secure-messaging when they have no need for security. But, such "LARPing" is actually important, as it creates cover for those who do need it! Just, y'know, we still need the actually-secure part.
I would like to point out that this is part of the reason that daylight savings time (not just the clock changes associated with daylight savings time) is so dangerous. This is one thing that a state could do today to implement a change for the better: outlaw daylight savings time, giving teenagers and children (not to mention adults) another hour to sleep for much of the year.
It's worth reading the article to get context before commenting.

What experience do you have to assert "These companies are all marketing companies. There is no “science” they literally get rolls of foam from foam makers, throw them on in layers and try to find the right combo. I was there, I’ve done it myself."
>Also, we allow high-risk private sector stuff all the time: aerospace, automotive, medical, etc. all have literal life and death stakes beyond a school that doesn't work out. Regulation should be proportional to the risk involved, and I just don't see it with the Lambda / ISA model.

Except getting yourself into huge amounts of debt $30000! is life ruining for basically everyone that Lambda is targeting.

We don't allow experiments on high risk populations with medical testing without informed consent. This was faulty in the Lambda case, where they out and out lied about their funding model. We don't allow the public to fly on planes without tons of testing. We don't allow people to drive cars that haven't passed independent crash testing.

So Lambda's ISA shouldn't be allowed to be sold to the public without independent financial advice, like any other complex debt product. And yes I think the same should apply to student loans.

You and I cannot just go and enter into a debt futures contract (well, maybe if you're an "accredited investor" i.e. rich enough to be ok if it goes south). So why do we let vulnerable folks enter into a shady financial agreement with an operator who's more concerned about growth than a good education? It's not good for society for every 1 new engineer there's 3 debt-enslaved washouts. Lambda's still profitable at those horrible numbers.

>As far as what Lambda offers, it seems like they're currently the strongest executors from company growth perspective in the ISA/bootcamp space, and we'll have to see how they do on the factors I named above to see if it's effective. Being a trailblazer is high risk / high reward. I welcome their attempt.

The problem is that their failures ruin people financially. Growth at all costs is a _bad_ thing. Going slower and getting things right is required to create a good product that first does no harm.
>It's factually untrue that the Grand Caravan went up in price when adjusted for inflation.

He explicitly says that right before? "4/ For example, our inflation-adjusted data say car prices have not increased since the mid-1990s."

I believe his argument is more around how we're calculating inflation, i.e. that prices have actually gone up more than economists claim through inflation. Looking at inflation adjusted numbers in the fifth thread would lead to circular reasoning and is besides his point. That said I am not great at dissecting these kinds of twitter threads and may be misinterpreting too; I agree that the way he is arguing it is confusing.
Block trackers and the problem goes away. Very few companies track these types of links on the server, it's all easy to block front end JS.
I vehemently disagree with this. The problem is that there are only 24 hours in the day. That's just not enough time to go to school, sleep 9.25 hours (recommended for teens, as I've been told), and still participate in sports, do homework, and (god forbid) play video games.

This would only move the problem later, not solve it. Even worse, parents would have to move around their own work schedules to get kids to school on time. The real problem, in my opinion, is the massive unchecked amounts of homework that get piled on students every year. Each teacher thinks that their amount of homework is reasonable but it only takes one bad teacher to cripple a kid's schedule. Writing a 5-6 page paper in middle school never taught anyone anything, but it did take away time that could have been used constructively.
One aspect I know of is internal private-business analytics. For example:

- How many truckloads of widgets did the widget company ship out of Warehouse A compared to Warehouse B in 2019 vs 2018.

- What is the purchase ratio of titanium to steel for Company X over the past 5 years?

This type of data is valuable to seek out emerging trends, risk minimization, stock analysis, etc. Very hard to find legitimate data on your own.
A basic computer was quite expensive in 1985 and took quite some time of diligent saving to afford if at all possible.

A C64 was $149 in 1985.
In many ways, the advent of dual-income households has made everyone poorer

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/1/23/18183091/t...
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When I went to Waterloo, most of the math classes were scheduled around 8:30 - 10 while most of the computer science classes were scheduled in the afternoon.

I'm pretty sure my major would be different if I was a morning person.
I used to wake up around 6:30-40 for a 7:55 start time. I didn't officially "wake up" until after 9:30 or so.

The high school juniors had statewide exams every year so the rest of the high schoolers got to go in after 9/9:30. I woke up much more well-rested and oddly enough, I felt happier. I really wished that a later start time was the norm.

I doubt it'll be, since one of the reasons why schools start early is due to parents' schedules, but who knows.
The title isn't supported by the underlying data. The key chart in the Tweet thread is this: https://twitter.com/oren_cass/status/1230505794686373888/pho...

This looks at "major household expenditures" versus "median male income." Right off the bat, that should be a red flag--why are we looking at just male income? The percentage of women working since 1985 has only increased a little bit. But women's wages have gone up 50% adjusted for inflation.

Of course, when women have been bringing more money into the family, people will spend more. For example, the chart shows expenditure on housing increasing. But the average American house today has twice as much square footage per person than in 1985: https://azgolfhomes.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/American-.... Expenditures on housing are increasing--but the number of vehicles per household has also gone up since 1985. The cost of college has gone up, but the percentage of people attending college has also doubled in that time frame. Colleges, moreover, are far more luxurious than in 1985. (The community college where my mother in law works now has far nicer facilities than Georgia Tech did when I attended just 15 years ago.) College itself has become something of a luxury consumption good--with large numbers of young people attending, drinking and having fun for four years, but getting degrees of questionable utility.

There are a lot of sound bites (and Twitter-level analysis) on this subject, but it's actually extremely hard to figure out how to precisely measure changes in standard of living over time. For example, even just looking at the "median" is misleading. In 1990, when I came to America, the percentage of foreign-born people was 7%. Today it's double that. Even in an economy that provides tremendous upwards mobility for immigrants, doubling the share of the immigrant population is going to make the median income seem lower. The median household is also much smaller than in 1985, and less likely to be comprised of married couples. Since 1985, the percentage of people 18-34 living with a spouse has decreased by 2/3. (That observation is particularly significant because the percentage of women participating in the workforce hasn't changed significantly since then.)

Accounting for these differences is important. When people think of the "median" they think they're comparing like with like. "Two-income middle class American-born family with two kids in 1985 versus 2015." They don't think you're comparing a married young couple from 1985, where both spouses work and share household expenses, to unmarried individuals maintaining two separate households in 2015. But unless you account for changing demographics, that's exactly what you're doing.
How do I order something if I can't make a contract with a company? It's a contract of sale.