skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe you were referring to this:

2. Boarding Priorities - If a flight is Oversold, no one may be denied boarding against his/her will until UA or other carrier personnel first ask for volunteers who will give up their reservations WILLINGLY in exchange for compensation as determined by UA. If there are not enough volunteers, other Passengers may be denied boarding involuntarily in accordance with UA’s boarding priority:

+ Passengers who are Qualified Individuals with Disabilities, unaccompanied minors under the age of 18 years, or minors between the ages of 5 to 15 years who use the unaccompanied minor service, will be the last to be involuntarily denied boarding if it is determined by UA that such denial would constitute a hardship.
+ The priority of all other confirmed passengers may be determined based on a passenger’s fare class, itinerary, status of frequent flyer program membership, and the time in which the passenger presents him/herself for check-in without advanced seat assignment.

Some relevant points:

>> no one may be denied boarding against his/her will until UA or other carrier personnel first ask for volunteers who will give up their reservations WILLINGLY in exchange for compensation as determined by UA

>> If there are not enough volunteers, other Passengers may be denied boarding involuntarily in accordance with UA’s boarding priority

Note that after the phrase UA's boarding priority, it explicitly stated that: the time in which the passenger presents him/herself for check-in without advanced seat assignment. This is very clear that their IDB clause is solely focused on a person not yet physically inside the plane, with a seat allocated to him/her.

Again, contracts and clauses are always open to different (mis)interpretations and the bias goes down to which entity one would want it favorable to.

Update: Capitalized the word Willingly as it is implied in this contract.
ConvNets can handle sequences just as well (cf. TDNNs), you just treat time as another dimension. Whether you want to call this a "frame" or not is subject to question.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1611.02344.pdf

With an explicit (potentially arbitrarily large) memory component, they can also capture long-term dependencies that don't have to be maintained in, say, the convolution parameters between presentations of data. This is one thing we want to pursue with the Faiss library at FAIR.

Regardless of how something is implemented, it's the what that is important. What's the actual algorithm or algorithms that the brain uses? It's likely easier to explore this question in floating-point math than putting together a lot of spiking neuron like things and trying to cargo cult your way to the answer.
Totally agree with you. Rust is just a baby growing up. C is a middle aged guy with tons of experience. Rust just needs to catch up.
> Basically if you've got a prion disease it's just a matter of time before they end you.

Unless you had a mind backup and a second body ready.

Which, I think, all medicine ultimately aims, should aim, for; Why bother learning how to repair the single same body over and over (which won't help in unexpected catastrophic failures aka fatal accidents anyway) when you can just grow and jump into a new one?
Not sure if you noticed but your username fits the mythological setting :)
We detached this flagged subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14072825.
Ask HN: Are all Facebook accts in america phone-verified?
Swallowed bile and created an FB account so I could pay them for their cheap ad platform. The account locked after 30 minutes and is asking me for a mobile number to continue.

Do I have a suspicious behavior pattern or is this standard operating procedure?
For an experienced C++ dev it might not seem sensible. I can appreciate your viewpoint here.

But it can become a hot place for higher-level people to do lower-level things and rapidly learn a lot, as it has for me and some other Rubyists.
Thing is, if you're using Angular (or most likely any of the hot SPA frameworks out there), you don't need semantic CSS class names, since the model bindings will make the meaning quite clear.
Python unicode handling. Should be fixed. Thanks!
So middle class people should pay more taxes to subsidize the wealthy? Remember, college grads make several times more over their lifetime than high school grads.
I'm not even sure where to begin with this. Why did Mr. Reyes even write a public article about this topic? He is putting his ego and his company on a very high horse. In striving to be politically incorrect, he is reinforcing political correctness through the questions; candidates will now have to optimize even more for what answers they think he's going to want to hear. Why would any candidate willingly expose their true beliefs to such a combative process (and person)? His list is a bizarre mix of hot-button political topics, personal never-talk-about-this-at-work questions, and a few legitimate questions.
> In my experience, the people with enough savvy to get a shareholder proposal passed for an individual company will instead field their own candidates for the board.

Boardseats are usually handed out to representatives of large blocks of stock so there may be a set of people who are savvy enough but do not have enough stock to propose board candidates, or if they do propose them will likely not have a whole lot of chance of seeing their candidates make it to the board.

Probably roughly equal to how much chance their proposals have of passing in the first place but still, such people can and probably do exist.
There's nothing in this article about Turing. The claims are that Moore's law is dying.
>> My family and I have had very frank discussion about death earlier than we would have otherwise.

It would benefit any family to have that discussion, even if both parents are in their 20s and there has been no "scare scenario". Many people die every single day due to unpredictable events, with no warning whatsoever. Unfortunately, too many people have never really pondered their mortality, leading them to be incapable of even considering what it would mean if man/woman/child died tomorrow. Having a sit-down meeting is likely to be brushed off as a "meh, it'll never actually happen to us".

Any one of us could be dead in the next 5 minutes. That's more reality than paranoia. The trick is to get to the point where you understand just how fleeting life is (you or a loved one might be gone any day now), but without letting it negatively control your life.

>> I did make peace with the fact that I have a much higher probability of dying from it than the average American

You should stop thinking that way. A decade past the initial scare, you're likely no more at risk than anyone else. You weren't given the disease, you were exposed to a small possibility of it. It's still the responsible thing to not donate blood or be an organ donor, but as far as your day-to-day life goes you should consider yourself squarely in the "average" category.
I just looked at numbers from years close to mine (2003, but found 2004-2005 data). 1020 was the 50%ile score.
Sure, but part of the point is that it isn't an accident. Airlines are paying attention to what people respond to so instead of going out of their way to compete on quality or whatever other factors, they compete on price.
of course, you can still get CJD/kuru genetically, sporadically, from bone marrow transplants, etc.

Also: fatal familial insomnia, but that is a dramatically different pathology and we don't know why it's different from CJD.
Why you might care is that if you build something today, that something could reap some benefit in the future from the language becoming "mainstream".

Possible benefits:

* users not going "gack, this is written in an obscure language that we have to install to build it".

* the implementation quality being better: the thing I write now will benefit from the language being less of a moving target and with fewer bugs, better performance.

Maybe a lot of that is just psychological, but so is "I like it" versus "I don't".
> (1) Ridiculous - if you need segfault protection, you're a bad programmer. Let's be honest, you don't segfault unless you're doing something idiotic. I've not segfaulted in the past 8 years in anything but assembly.

So let me get this straight. Is your position that Google's Chrome developers (just to name one project) are idiots? You can't hold your opinion without believing that Google, and in fact pretty much every other company that develops C++ developers, hires mostly idiots.
I believe incremental compilation is already being worked on, which should speed up your compiles (well, the first compile would be slow, but subsequent compiles would be faster).
Secret Knowledge – or a Hoax?
Will AI eat the fund manager’s job in India? AccuraCap shows it will
When many of the greatest silicon valley firms were founded by drop-outs, the value of cheap university in building silicon valley is questionable.
The fetch API is probably the closest to what you're asking for, as it allows for streaming a response, but is basically a plain HTTP request.
Memoization in Ruby (made easy)
> - Threads without data races - C++11 introduced a threading library as part of the language. We can avoid a lot of data races, deadlocks, etc. if you actually look deeper into how to implement the modern threading library well.

So - we can implement threads without data races if we implement threads without data races? The reason people cite memory safety as a feature of Rust over C++ is because you get it for free, without having to do any additional work to achieve it.
> I think what I was trying to say was that getting around 1050 (out of 1600) is very easy as long as you are willing to study.

It's designed for 1000 to be the median result of the population taking the test (though it hasn't been renormed, AFAIK, since 1990, and the 1990 renormed was because on both halves the actual results had drifted down from 500 medians since the original design half a century earlier, so there may have been some drift, though there have been a lot less of the kind of changes in population taking the test than those that drove the earlier drift.)
Large scale e-ink always seemed like a good medium for digital signage because it works in bright light.

A friend's wife works at the United Nations, and a couple years ago I got invited to have a drink at their bar, I was really looking forward to seeing the e-ink wall display (made of tiles of smaller screens - not an entire surface) but unfortunately it was broken so I never got to see what it was like in person :( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnb4tFK4I90
Anyone can get an education. Anyone can do art. You don't need government for either.
I agree and would add one more property that makes Rust likable - it's about two years old, so still a greenfield language and standard library. It's easy to overlook that.
Show HN: Goto – Fast command line navigation
Prions are nature's grey goo.
Cannibalism seriously threatens a species' survival. Risk of disease from eating same-species meat is a good way to stop it.
- providing the most value

Which for software development usually means how many people jobs can you replace with automation.
Also, Halo: Reach, the last great Halo game.
at least for room and board you aren't required to actually atay at the university, most people I knew lived off-campus
A much better paper worthy of attention from the HN crowd is this: Using Human Brain Activity to Guide Machine Learning (https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.05463)
The point of the tests are to test aptitude not knowledge. So if someone can spend 10 hours learning basic algebra and massively raise their score the test is failing at being an aptitude test, it's now a knowledge test. If the college wants to know how much alegrba knowledge a person has they can just look at their math grades. They want to know aptitude.

Some standardized tests have fairly narrow topics or have patterns in their problems that are learnable. Beyond just testing knowledge, these only specifically reward studying for the test.

The SAT used to have a set of "SAT words" that you could memorize for the verbal section. That somewhat helps your vocab, but only to the words used on teh SAT.

The ACT used to have a trick where the short answer of the grammar section was the right answer like 70% of the time.

The LSAT has logic game problems that can be categorized and then solved with specific techniques. If you learn the techniques you'll never get more than a few questions wrong. This is purely rewarding studying for the test. If a new type of test is used the techniques fail until someone creates new techniques.

If you just learn the five most common equations for SAT algebra your score jumps up but your math ability isn't much better.
Well, differentiating airlines is hard.

In future one might consider, "how likely are they to violently drag me off a plane?"
So true. And even when they nail it, as they did with Vaio G1 10 years ago (~2 pounds, 10-hr battery, optical drive, a combination you still can't get today), they abandon that product. If Sony had kept iterating on the G1 I would have never switched to MBP.
What about a continuum of symbolic logic systems?
> I assert that all people who don't do "well" on the SAT fall into the two categories you posed.

I think that's provably wrong. SAT prep courses offer a bump, but even ones with big promises don't deliver all that well. Evidence suggests 300 points is very large.

The "smart but unstudied" pool I mentioned is likely small and tends to get strong gains up front - these are people who get 100+ points from the PSAT or 1-2 practice tests. (This pool is anecdotal. I knew several people in it, but I don't know of studies at the high end of the scale.)

The other pool is real but not the same as you described. It largely represents people who missed core content like 'geometry' and did prep so long and extensive they learned totally new material there. There are lots of kids with low scores from bad education, agreed, but fixing that is not "studied for a week" stuff.

More broadly, I'm saying that in practice "I studied for a week and gained 300 points" is an extreme outlier. Mostly people either see <100 gains from studying or only see big gains from serious, new-content education.
Andreessen is quoted in the article as saying ..."Most of the good ideas are obvious," Andreessen says. "They just might not work right away."

If the good ideas are obvious, why bother listening to him?

He seems to ignore that an obvious good idea still requires exorbitant amounts of capital to enable it. No one can hack together a Netscape and win big anymore, been there done that.

Honestly, this "advice" comes off as a) obvious b) tone deaf.
It makes a lot of sense if you take that "weird" is about familiarity, not functionality.
This +100. I'm not sure who, other than fanboys, would argue that Go is on par with other languages when it comes to building a standard web app. Just take html templating as an example. Go feels like a kludge when it comes to this.
> The reason GLSL isn't C is because you can't do everything C does on a low end cellphone GPU - so obviously you have to restrict the language.

Yes, but why create another language that looks like C but behaves subtly differently? Could the compiler not simply reject usage of C features which are problematic for GPUs?
> educate wife and children

I'm guessing you don't have teens who have to have the latest mod for every game they play. Giving up a very real download for the slight chance of a virus is a risk they are very willing to make.
> I think at some point, Rust will have enough tooling that people will try to start using it for graphics and videogames

The game developer community is actually one of the communities that jumped onto Rust really early, well before it hit 1.0.
Hi everybody,
I put the book up on GitHub:
https://github.com/titojankowski/sustainable_energy_without_...

MacKay in his brilliance published the book under a Creative Commons license for non-commercial use (https://www.withouthotair.com/about.html).

Feel free to modify and make changes to the repo. Would love to continue what MacKay started!

Tito (tito@impossiblelabs.io)
Not to be rude, but why do you care?

If it's illegal, it's up to Apple to deal with it. Why go out of the way doing free work for them?
haha. Twitter is not a public utility.

If you represent an organization and you need to control your social infrastructure, you need to self-manage that infrastructure. Getting involved in the development of GNU social or Mastodon would be a great start.
Only if the product is something which is generally useful and affordable for the entire population. Evading taxes on, say, megayachts and passing the savings on to the consumer doesn't seem particularly benevolent.
If we do devlop a cure for prion diseases, short of a biofilter in a transporter beam, it will probably be some sort of directed antibody that magically only recognizes prion form of the prion protein, sequesters it and prevents spread; and maybe if we're clever at molecular engineering, also recruits the body's natural capability to clear these proteins (insulin-degrading enzyme).
Children of the elite rarely go to public institutions, so what incentive do they have to maintain them?

We can easily import some highly educated and skilled people as required, while a less educated populace is easier to manipulate and presents less of a competitive threat to their children.
I agree. Learning all of C++ is much harder than learning all of Rust. C++'s saving grace is you can easily get away with learning only a much smaller portion of the language.
Code for Airplanes (and cars and other safety critical applications) follows a special set of rules in order to eliminate wonkiness that tends to crop up in complied programs (usually the result of undefined behavior, not always the programmers direct fault).

See:
http://blog.regehr.org/archives/213 (particularly part 3)

http://blog.llvm.org/2011/05/what-every-c-programmer-should-...
Good point. Some of the SUNY schools do require students to live on campus, although I think most students in NY could either live in off-campus apartments (which tend to be cheaper) or with their parents if they're local.
The section I was referring to for removing a passenger independent of boarding is #21 - Refusal of Transport.
Do nothing. The board doesn't back it, and they get your vote if you don't bother.
You can also go to the gym three times a week, give 10% of your income to charity, call your mom every weekend, never raise your voice in anger, and never have more than two beers.

On the other hand, to those of us not 24/7 paragons, the goddamn store being deliberately set up to stimulate three year olds to beg for sugar is a pain in the ass.
Why can't we reverse hashes?
Silly but as fiction, this is brilliant. We've all met this person.

Getting an applicant to answer 'no' to safe spaces probably makes it harder to sue for harassment down the line. Hmm.
I doubt very much that they have the funds to pay for it. We're probably looking at a Puerto Rico style bailout, only this time much bigger.
Twitter is not a public utility.
Very interesting and timely considering I just bought a Kobo Aura One. The Aura One is a really nice device, and you don't realize how small and uncomfortable the Kindle Voyage is until you use a big device with a textured back. Plus the eink Kobo's epub rendering engine is easily best-in-class. It blow's Kindle's rendering capabilities out of the water. (Assuming you use their dumb ".kepub.epub" format extension--if you upload regular epubs it'll fall back to rendering with Digital Editions, Adobe's eldritch horror of a renderer.)

If OcherBook is meant to entirely replace the Kobo firmware, why not base the document rendering portion on something like Readium? That's another best-in-class renderer designed to be used in other software but it seems like it's almost always overlooked.

On a side note, It's always been a faraway dream of mine to do a Kickstarter-like project to fund a completely open and libre eink ebook reader. As far as hardware startups go it'd be on the simpler side (the stripped-down minimum device is just a touch eink screen, ram/cpu/storage, usb-c; wifi and backlight not required). But, I have zero hardware experience and honestly I don't know if it'd be a venture that could be made profitable or not. Kindle/Kobo devices are loss leaders for their ebook store, so an ereader without a store, and competing on just libre-ness can't compete on price. If anyone's interested in chasing the dream, get in touch...
Or bind with it such that it is now inert, refolded back to a proper configuration or label it for destruction by the immune system.
I am not arguing you can't implement a solution. You literally just repeated what I said by specifying A specific implementation. My point earlier is that you will never be able to keep anything secret. There is always a point of trust you have to give up and hope your extreme defense system doesn't crack / expose.
Uh, I went to a top magnet high school and don't remember taking the PSAT, nor many of my peers. Now, many of us took SAT Subject Tests[0], and most of us took at least one AP Test.

As for the SAT, everyone studied their butts off. I also went off the beaten path like the author of the article, and enrolled in a local, inexpensive, SAT study course run by a Korean teacher for mainly Korean-American students in an upstairs office above a takeout restaurant (I was one of the only non-Asian students there). The course involved long hours of drilling vocab and some math, and expected us to drill much more at home.

In the end, the most valuable technique for the SAT was time management. One book[1] even had pages of "answer bubbles" in the back for you to practice penciling your answer, saving precious time. It also recommended skipping/guessing on questions you were having trouble on and moving on to the next one.

Students coming into the SAT with no foreknowledge have no clue that they will be racing the clock. It's not obvious that time management is one of the most important factors and if you simply told someone taking the test cold "make sure you fill in an answer for all the questions" their score would improve by 100 points or more. But I would guess that most students turn in answer sheets with blanks.

As they say, the SAT is a great test of your ability to take the SAT.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAT_Subject_Tests

[1]: https://www.workman.com/products/up-your-score-sat-2018-2019...
I would put bacteria in that role and call them green goo.

One thing I find interesting is that gray goo would have to compete with bacteria for resources. I'm not sure that it would necessarily be easy.
Or how about a molecule that binds to the harmful part of the prion?
Ok, fair point. It's not that being unmotivated should be encouraged, it's that you can get away with it much better if you're wealthy. I guess the question here is whether we want the SAT to be resource-blind.

If you come from a rich enough family (and damn have I seen this happen), you can throw money at low motivation all the way through college. Take 8 years, pay summer tuition, hire tutors, whatever. So the SAT is an accurate reflection of future prospects in that sense, but people arguing it should reflect personal attributes instead of whole-culture odds of success aren't going to be pleased about it.
Doesn't matter if you re-install the OS. They spyware was baked into the BIOS.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/08/12/lenovo_firmware_nas...