skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Although the percentage of birds killed by wind turbines may be low compared to other hazards, each wind turbine might kill a higher number of birds compared to a single building. That's probably why people are worried about them. That said, I don't know the numbers so I'm just speculating.
right but "educate people and then they will use their will power" never even remotely works.

imho the next step is to learn how to measure in much greater detail (and on a personal level) where thresholds for immune, organ, hormone, etc responses occur. Then use that to design and customize diets.

Essentially I wanna capacity plan my carb/sugar intake to keep it just about 20% shy of of triggering an insulin response. That's just one potential example.
Please don't post snarky dismissals to HN. We're hoping for more thoughtful reactions than that.
USPS found the 100 lost NES games [duplicate]
> I disagree, in the sense that I don't take that as a given.

Well it depends who you're talking to. If you're poor, the impact on your income tax will be nothing. If you're like me, i.e. you have a fantastic employer plan with an annual premium amounting to ~4% of your annual salary, then you can bet your ass you'll be paying more in taxes and getting a worse product to boot.
2% extra calories per day ~= gaining 6 pounds a year. I doubt you can get within 2% making this far less useful.

Basically, you need a feedback mechanism like your actual weight. Counting calories is not about actual calories it's a way to cut back if your not getting the results you want.
Saying that we're special doesn't make it true. There's no conceivable reason why anything we have now or will have in the foreseeable future would be worth traveling multiple light years to anyone. Perhaps if an attacker could remotely hypnotize us into spending our own resources to send it other resources, that might make us viable prey?
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>There is no "full current subsidy" - the existing contributions from Medicare are already a partial subsidy.

In the context, I meant "100% of current level"; I didn't mean to imply that it was "full" in that sense (and my point didn't depend on such).

>t this is kind of a meaningless debate after a point, because the number of unmatched residents is already an upper bound on the number of additional matches (you certainly wouldn't have more people interested when you increased the price to them)

You wouldn't have enough doctors if residents had to bear $1 extra in costs? That is implausible.

With respect, this exchange does not feel productive.
Abercrombie & Fitch completely changed - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Abercrombie_%26_Fit...
Oh ya, Illegal immigrants totally pay their medicals bills after going to the emergency room.
This is literally exactly what they want you to think. The CIA is smarter than you, and they have a lot to gain by misleading you otherwise.

Some of the most talented software engineers in the world work intelligence, and they can write better than you, exploit faster than you, debug more thoroughly than you, etc.

State intelligence is especially dangerous and devious. The average security researcher doesn't stand a chance, much less the average basement hacker.

Understanding what the CIA does and why they do it is designed to be more or less impossible from the outside. It's the nature of intelligence really, to be incomprehensible from outside the sphere.
Millennial's attitude towards loyalty a concern for governments and businesses
But let's look at the relative difficulty...

Apparently it's at a level of difficulty such that Australia and the UK stores have already been doing this for the past 5-10 years...
That wasn't the question, however, any more than the far more important question of what you get for those taxes.
Ha - awesome that you saw this first-hand. It is definitely in Born to Run.
As bizarre as it may sound, I have found that buying only pre-packaged food for a few weeks really helps people get a ballpark feel for what 1900 calories (or whatever) looks/feels like. Because the calories on packaged food exist by law (even if they aren't always completely accurate), it's a really easy way learn about it. After that people can develop some intuition (like, "I only ate a few mouthfuls of cheese. How many calories could that be?" or "It's just trail mix. It's healthy. Peanuts and raisins. Like 0 calories!" or "I just have a single bran muffin and a coffee for breakfast. It's not even a meal" or... well you get the idea).
>With only this information, which person is more likely to engage in backstabbing or sexual harassment?

>Can somebody explain the fault in my reasoning please?

The fault is in insisting that you have to come up with an answer.

I think the biggest lesson I learned in grad school was learning not to make decisions with inadequate data. And rooting out those who do.
I felt exactly like you until my baby boy was born. Now Instacart and I are pals.

In a while, when schlepping him around isn't such a production and I'm back to an appropriate amount of sleep, I'll probably start going to the grocery store again - but honestly, right now I can't imagine my life without delivery services.
> Just because it happens not to be served from your domain doesn't mean it's not yours.

This is exactly what means not be yours. It's Google and they lease it to you.
Calories-in-calories-out is important if you want to lose weight.

Diet patterns and periodic fasting has other wealth effects.
Yep, you're entirely correct. But there's a reason those bonds are non-marketable; they're redeemable at face value at any time. They are the safest assets in the world, backed by the full faith and credit of the US government.

"By law, income to the trust funds must be invested, on a daily basis, in securities guaranteed as to both principal and interest by the Federal government. All securities held by the trust funds are "special issues" of the United States Treasury. Such securities are available only to the trust funds.

In the past, the trust funds have held marketable Treasury securities, which are available to the general public. Unlike marketable securities, special issues can be redeemed at any time at face value. Marketable securities are subject to the forces of the open market and may suffer a loss, or enjoy a gain, if sold before maturity. Investment in special issues gives the trust funds the same flexibility as holding cash." [1]

> The federal govt selling bonds to itself is a really strange form of savings.

Not at all. If you need something extremely reliable for decades, you essentially self-insure. There are no markets or assets the federal government could invest the Social Security trust fund in without creating market distortions, so it lends the funds to itself (which has the side effect of hopefully growing the economy, reducing the financial burden in the future).

If the trust fund runs dry, the federal government will top it up with general revenues. This would not be the end of the world.

[1] https://www.ssa.gov/oact/progdata/fundFAQ.html

EDIT: @ Retric (HN throttling has kicked in on my account, can't reply directly to your reply)

Too risky for a retirement trust fund that guarantees payments at nation-state scale.
the press release says:

> nouns such as “dog,” “flower” or “human” or verbs such as “run,” “swim" or “fly”

that out of the way... i suspect you wouldn't need video to detect those things...

and the screenshot you're referring to is an specific application of the API... not a kitchen sink:

> It can even provide contextual understanding of when those entities appear; for example, searching for “Tiger” would find all precise shots containing tigers across a video collection in Google Cloud Storage.
Perhaps because one of the factors is job/title. The 0.70 cent figure, isn't controlling for the work being done. It's a uniform blanket stat, that is severely short sited.
IBM has found a way to store data on a single atom
Am I the only one who got a Reese's video ad when loading this article?
I just started doing this a few weeks ago, along with counting calories during my "feeding" window (which I actually try to restrict to six hours). So far so good.

I find I'm actually more successful at counting calories on this schedule. I think it's easier for me to completely abstain during the fasting period, and I'm less tempted to snack with lunch and dinner so close together. I've been planning and allocating my calories like I never have before, even though I've tried many carb- and calorie-counting schemes in the past.

I'm also toying around with taking a little MCT oil in the morning to help with cravings and mental focus and give me a little keto boost. It's unclear to me whether or not this defeats the purpose of the fast. Many people seem to think it's fine ("fat fasting") and maybe even a good idea, but I'm not yet convinced one way or the other.
Strange to call the 6502 as "an Atari Chip" (yes, I know that was the Wired title). Yes, several Atari systems, including the 2600 and 400/800 series used the CPU, but they didn't design it and many other companies also used it. The Commodore 64, Apple II, and BBC Micro also were 6502-based.
It seems that this short story was originally published in an old science fiction magazine (that my local library doesn't stock). Was wondering if it also made its way into a compilation of some sort. Google hasn't turned up anything for me yet.
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Me neither, which is surprising. I would have expected the CIA to feed them some false flags to then discredit them from a long time ago.
At the time former US National Coordinator for Security, Infrastructure Protection, and Counter-terrorism Richard Clarke told The Huffington Post the crash was “consistent with a car cyber attack”.

“There is reason to believe that intelligence agencies for major powers [know how to remotely seize control of a car],” he said.
Why zebras? By all accounts they are difficult to domesticate. If you want a non-magical unicorn, just get a horse. You can even get white ones.
I live in New Zealand, population 4 million. If scale alone was critical, then Aetna (which covers about 23 million people in the US) would be squeezing really good pricing deals out of their suppliers, while NZ would be seeing really high costs. Nothing could be further from the truth.

(This is true, incidentally, because in large part NZ's low costs come from just buying less stuff. Fewer fancy drugs, fewer fancy machines, smaller and older hospitals, and lower salaries for doctors and nurses. Works great, but this is politically infeasible in the US, to say the least, which is probably why California isn't even dreaming about trying it.)

Yes, California has 38 million people or whatever, but other large groups of in the US can't get good deals (be that insurers like Aetna or Kaiser, or government programs like Medicare). They're not larger than Medicare, so that's out. Are they going to be greedier that Aetna? Really? Or is the famously dysfunctional and lobbyist dominated government in Sacremento going to make some hard choices and piss off the voters?

> But it does mean they can band together to see that a demonstrably good model gets implemented at the Federal level.

I'm a very strong proponent of federalism and the states as laboratories of democracy and all that. But... What California is proposing to do is not really new or untested. It's an expansion of a system that already exists in the US, and closely replicates systems from other countries. Yes, it works great if costs are low, and will bankrupt the state if costs are high. Costs are currently high. How do you square that circle?
It was difficult for me to read the rest of the article once I came across that sentence. Granted, I have not read everything regarding Ada Lovelace, but she has always been acknowledged and respected. There is a major programming language named after her!

The "assaults" on her credibility did not happen to her during her lifetime. Even if they are proven to be true, her proven contributions are still impressive.
The exciting part is if they successfully land it again.

Consider: eight first stage rockets have been landed already. One is a show piece (the first one) and at least one is too beat up to ever be reused. But that leaves a fleet of six-ish rockets. How many Falcon 9s would SpaceX need to run an active fleet that is constantly refurbished and reused, never replaced? They'd start to look less like Boeing and more like Delta.
It's not every day you make a "fix CIA bug" commit. Kudos! lol
They put this ridiculous sign up bonuses, mass mail them and expect people not to take advantages of them. Want loyalty give better service and value and not the first 3 months only.
I think this uses one of the available GIF extensions (e.g plain-text, custom data, or other) since gif is a block based binary file. Animation blocks in one part of the file, then for the other blocks you could just put random data (which is ignored by the GIF parser) until you find the MD5 collision.
Why is rust still not standardized?
Right now, I can't think of a good way to have everyone voluntarily fund infrastructure. No nation-state has ever functioned without the threat of state-imposed force. It's not a pleasant reality, but nobody really knows how to do better at the moment. The only known alternative is scaling back civilization to pre-city-state conditions. But perhaps you have some suggestions on how to actually do this.

Regardless, this idea you have - that governmental "force", or any kind of institutional force that suppresses your individual will, is some kind of ultimate evil - seems very misguided. The laws of biology and physics will override your will and force you to degenerate and die. Micro-organisms will force you to cough up blood and die. Wild animals will force you to give up your flesh and die. Collective human institutions are the only things that have successfully imbued individual humans with an order of magnitude more power and more rights than our primitive ancestral conditions would allow. Many of these human institutions are also abusive, however there doesn't seem to be an alternative to forming collective human institutions that require forced large-scale group efforts if we want to actually not die of malaria all the time.
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Seems to require a chosen prefix attack that is much more expensive.
That attitude will get ya killed in the trenches, soldier.
My bad, I assumed everyone else had access. Someone else posted a link in the comments section.
Their application is file systems and no file systems offer that capability. In order to provide transactionality for multi-file operations, you have to have a file that represents "the transaction" and move it or create/delete it.

In most file systems, you can't even update a file atomically, actually -- what you can update atomically is a disk page, 4-16k. Database servers might then maintain a separate, small file that contains only a transaction token, which is atomically updated to contain the last transaction written to disk in full.
Wow. Thanks for the detailed response. I will try to answer point by point.

#2 that tight coupling can ever be good comes as a shock to the learner

#3 any breakage is an opportunity learn from and about failure — also when it's broken and you know that is better than if it's broken and you don't know

Regarding regression testing: writing tests is a design activity so if it is "driven" by whatever happened to break last, that sounds like treating the symptom not the underlying cause. That is why I have never been a fan of "bug-driven development" nor of large-scale regression testing.

#20 "who draws the lines" is an incredibly important political question. So who makes the declaration that the so-called black box can not or is not to be opened? This was my point. I understand what a black box means in software testing parlance.

#31 check out this great article then: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/larryosterman/2004/03/30/on...

#51 testing is runnable documentation and sufficiently advanced monitoring, particularly ubiquitous StatsD usage, is indistinguishable in practice from testing, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSo8i1N18oc

#66 I truly do not understand the objection you are making here. If an event goes unobserved and is without impact it is the same as if the event never occurred.

#83 no bugs always cluster at the interfaces between components

#84 Uh oh. I need to check my math and will respond further in another comment once I do so. Thanks!

#93 It's not that testing doesn't help. It's that if you have X amount of testing and you add Y amount of additional testing, THAT is not correlated with better quality. Likewise if for Reasons you do less testing in the future than you do right now, that is not guaranteed to degrade your quality.
Yikes, what the hell?!?
Ask HN: I want to get hired for an entry level, developer role
tldr; I graduated. I need job. I'm only good at computer science stuff. Language agnostic.

Proficient: JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Java, C#

What is this: I'm going to keep making these threads until I get hired. I haven't been able to find a job since graduation. I get rejected practically from every new grad role. Even for roles posted by my university (my resume doesn't pass the resume screen, even though the university reviewed it). I don't know why; I've never done a tech interview. Even passing HackerRanks leads to rejections. I do know that I've bombed irritating framework trivia (no, I don't know the order of arguments).

About me: located right by New York City. I have a B.S. degree in Computer Science. I graduated in May 2015. I am a U.S. citizen. I can relocate. I can't work anywhere that requires me to drive a car. Programming is all I know; I have done this for my entire life.

My skills:

Disclaimer: some are ugly and incomplete; others are great. It's a variety of stuff that I put many weeks into for each.

- Spent one year working on an eCommerce website for a business. I worked on the front end, back end, and simple database work involving entering products.

- Volunteer coding for a non-profit involving using the Google Maps API, JavaScript, and XML.

- Contacts manager using ASP.NET MVC and Entity Framework.

- simple Chrome extension that a startup stole code from, and proudly displays on their page.

- 2 month Node.js contract at a startup, involving developing features for their app platform.

- Lib for reading embedded data from TIFF files using C#.

- API that serves RESTful endpoints through Node.js.

- To-do app written in AngularJS 1 and PHP.

While a lot of this is related to web development, I love all areas of computer science.

Other stuff: volunteer at PropellerFest (Hoboken), and meetups and stuff.

Finally, thank you for reading this, and sorry if I annoyed you.
Yes you still control most of it. My argument is that the traffic /would/ be going to your actual site (where you aren't limited at all) but now it is going to a google AMP page with strict limitations. Which isn't great, but the big deal is that bar on top that doesn't link to your site. That is so bad for your site and massively increases the bounce rate.
Costs are still per capita. We will only be able to negotiate so much and we'd be negotiating with providers rather the insurance companies.

To be very clear, I think CA can afford this and I think we should do it.
Not the end of the world. You can buy potassium permanganate tablets to purify drinking water.
I totally read the title as "Remnification" and "Remnyfication". I didn't see the right spelling until I got to section 5! "OH! RE-minification"... ;)

Very nice, this is a fun project and a nice write up. I would definitely worry about lossy minification on production code, I've bumped into many minifier bugs that broke my valid CSS.

Also, pretty sure you could get Bootstrap.css down to a couple k-bytes and really truly pwn the file size leaderboard if you could dead-strip all the rules not actually referenced in your HTML & JS.
What do you mean by "subconsciously undervalued"? Do you have studies that show it? What about participation in opensource? Side projects? StackOverflow profiles? - none of these can be affected by "subconscious undervaluation".

And how to value, let's say, a developer? How do you, personally, differentiate good and bad programmers?
Even the women who say they have never experienced blatant sexism have no idea how many job offers or interviews they didn't get simply for being a woman, or how much less money they are making over the course of their life, etc. Sexism is not always explicit and obvious.
>The Senate has rules, and those rules are fairly enforced regardless of gender.

Later that same night, a male senator from Oregon read the complete letter that Warren was trying to read from the floor of the senate.
California had guaranteed issue before the ACA. Any small business with at least 2 employees could get it. Premiums were reasonable as the "rating adjustment factor" was capped on these plans. A one time 6 month waiting period on pre-existing conditions is waived if you have prior credible coverage without more than a 62 day gap in coverage.

For example, a husband and wife working together in a sole proprietorship, would qualify.

I'm not sure the current state since ACA passed, but I depended on CA guaranteed issue myself for several years before ACA and it provided access to high quality expensive insurance (~$500 / person / month) with unlimited annual benefits, as well as somewhat cheaper HMO plans (~$350-400 / person / month).

Google 'AB 1672'.
> What exactly did he prove with Jet, other than he can spend more money to acquire customers than they will pay?

So true.

- Did they prove the membership model would work for them? No.

- Did they prove their loyalty program / gamified shopping (discounts, opting out of returns, etc) would work. No.

- Did they prove they could use technology to minimize shipping costs? No. they acquired customers by essentially giving away money.

They were basically fulfilling from Walmart and others at a loss. I can't think of another company post dot-com bust that deserved to crash and burn more than Jet. And yet they got a nice exit. The pixie dust must be amazing. Or it's just blinding FOMO on Walmart's part.

Anyway - the part that's ignored in their gamified shopping is that saving money requires work from the consumer:

- Use a debit card to save credit card fees - little to no consumer credit protections, no rewards points, can't delay payment. People that want to use this option aren't going to be the penny pinchers.

- Watch for the tag icon so you can bundle items that can ship together and save money. Requires work to save compared to competitors. Not everyone is a stay at home coupon clipper.

- Forego the ability to return your item and save money. If they know it's not likely to be returned - they should just lower the price on their end so the consumer doesn't have to think. And if there's a chance they might return it - now the consumer has to gamble? Sore taste the first time you gamble and lose.

- Free shipping, but only over $35. Another thing to think about.

I find it hard to believe that even with Walmart's audience, the gamification will pay that $3B off. Jet's trying to compete with Amazon on price, but they added more work for the user to save. And because of inventory/reviews/value, Amazon is the first stop for consumers. I don't see how Jet's offering is compelling at all.
In a free market you can chose to go with another company.
CA #1? What are you talking about? The state with the highest tax burden is NY. CA doesn't even make it to the top 10.

https://wallethub.com/edu/states-with-highest-lowest-tax-bur...