skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did you read the article? Some of these dogs have attacked other people and dogs. If people are getting attacked by dogs they will lobby for policy that gets these dogs banned. Legitimate service animals, genuinely necessary emotional support animals, and fake emotional support animals are all likely to get swept up in the resulting inquisition.
There's a severe shortage of quality jobs and people who want those jobs. An unbelievably high percentage of Americans are either underemployed or working low paying low quality dead-end jobs. Even if this were a small percentage, the fact that even a single person has to suffer or go homeless due to their not being an employer willing to hire this person for a quality job is reason enough for a "living wage".

You suggested that the commenter might be biased against those people and feel above them. Those who oppose a living wage for everyone are the ones who tend to have this attitude because they believe that poverty is the individual's fault.
In my opinion, the biggest problem is the focus on learning math subjects as dependencies for learning the next math subjects. This problem is exasperated by tying a subject to semester or school year.

If I'm not supposed to learn Calculus until I learn Algebra, that must mean I can't learn Calculus until I learn Algebra.

If my Algebra class lasts for a year, that means it must take an entire year to learn Algebra.

If I am supposed to learn Algebra first, then I must not be able to sufficiently wrap my head around anything related to Calculus.

That means that whenever I hear about "limits", "d/dx", I should immediately lose attention; after all, those are Calculus-related things, and my underdeveloped brain will not be able to comprehend such subjects for another year, and I shouldn't even try.

Of course, none of those are true. If I wanted, I could

* learn at my own pace
* learn in the wrong order
* wrap my head around limits, d/dx, L'Hopital's rule, etc. before understanding factoring, trigonometric functions, etc.

In fact, any of these would have put me far ahead in my education.

"Traditional" education requires a student to be lazy, or hold [him/her]self behind academically. To make matters worse, it requires that student to be a specific, quantified amount of lazy/held back.

For me personally, I struggled to keep up with the obscene amount of expected rote homework, while also feeling miles ahead of lectures, even though the homework and lectures were from the same class.

When I started learning about programming on my own, I suddenly had the freedom to do all of the things I mentioned above. Programming, as a subject, is especially applicable: There are abstractions, paradigms, languages, etc. You can jump into any aspect headfirst, and still get your bearings.
when we meet sentient aliens and they laugh at us?
This reminds me of the issue of the comic book, titled Mr. Majestic, written by Alan Moore, in which the universe suffers heat death and among the last few remaining survivors alive to witness it, is a hyper-intelligent strain of syphilis, which is able to communicate telepathically with its hosts.
Except some people are violently allergic to dogs, so if a coworker brings their dog to work, it actually impacts other people. At work, someone brought their dog into the cafeteria and it was roaming around the food area, etc, which is not cool.

I have 3 coworkers that registered their dogs as service dogs, just so they could bring them on planes and bring them to work. They have no psychological issues, they simply wanted the convenience of bringing their dogs whereever they wanted. It's pure selfishness.
You aren't allowed to ask for paper work anyway. Here is all they are allowed to ask: "A public entity may ask if the animal is required because of a disability and what work or task the animal has been trained to perform." See section f at https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/28/35.136

That said, just asking people with apparently inappropriate dogs what task the animal has been trained to perform would be a first step towards removing fake service animals. If they can't answer, I assume there is something you can do, but I don't know what that is exactly. It may depend on your state.

In the case of a specifically badly behaving fake (or even real) service animals, section b of the same document says: "A public entity may ask an individual with a disability to remove a service animal from the premises if - (1) The animal is out of control and the animal's handler does not take effective action to control it; or (2) The animal is not housebroken.", so a dog barking or pooping in a business can definitely be ordered removed.
The value is called "bonded by love of product" not "Employees use product". I'm not really convinced that's what it means.
I'm no WMI expert but I was told (and said in the post):

A polling query is particularly tragic in the case of Win32_Process, since Win32_ProcessStartTrace does the same thing without polling.

So yeah, I think you can get process creation notifications without polling. Reference:

https://twitter.com/kobyk/status/901561105570570242
The Apollo module was 20,000-kg. We could do it in 50,000-lbs chunks but we would have to process it on the moon first so it wouldn't crater when it landed.

If the commodities market tanks, well, we'll value add it by selling it as "all weather platinum or gold siding" at Home Depot. ;-)

Apollo weight info:
https://www.google.com/search?q=apollo+commad+module+weight&...
> abstractions like the relationship between a value on an x and a y axis.

That's entirely the point. You can understand calculus without understanding graphs.

It may sound crazy, but it's true. You can understand a subject without all of the dependencies academia tends to categorize Maths into.
This Harvard Business Review article [1] interviews a reputable professor on the topic. America adopted English law corporations, replacing the Crown with the states. Early corporations were limited compared to today's because early enterprise was fairly limited--the American Revolution occurred on the cusp of the Industrial Revolution.

You are correct in stating that it took political capital to form a corporation in Revolutionary times. But that didn't mean they existed at the pleasure of the state. Furthermore, the close nexus between corporate chartering and political proximity showed its seams in the 19th century. That's why states moved the chartering process to independent bureaucracies.

[1] https://hbr.org/2010/04/what-the-founding-fathers-real.html
Good point. I don't value flat organizations, but that doesn't mean my company has a hierarchy. You're definitely right.
> "If this sounds to you a lot like Object-Oriented Programming (OOP), you are right."

This sounds like Alan Kay's aspirational viewpoint of independent "computers" interacting through messages. Not the object-orientation invented by Nygaard and Dahl in Simula, that introduced objects, classes, subclassing and virtual functions. Kay's vision is not reflected in modern object-oriented languages, while Nygard and Dahl's remain paramount.

The argument that the Actor Model is really a form of object-oriented programming is an unrequired appeal to credibility.

Edit: grammar
Fun fact: while home runs are obviously the eye catcher...he's broken more bats than even given up runs
Heh, more fun to run something interactive. Something that puts some fish, roaches, or whatever walking around and hiding behind windows.
Polygon map generator
Even bigger on my list of pet peeves regarding Bitcoin naming is using the term "bit" to refer to a fraction of a Bitcoin:

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Units
It's not that it's right wing - it's the general incompetence that is slowing progresss. The scary thing, as an outside observer, would be a vaguely competent extreme right wing president, such as the current VP.
Most of those problems are associated with small domes. As domes get larger, the edges get closer to straight and many of those problems go away.

Large domes are usually built with only the top third of a sphere or less. This generates huge outward stresses at the base, so there's a steel ring in tension to support them. This works fine. Often the outer walls are raised, so the dome doesn't go all the way down to the ground. This allows roofing a big area with a sturdy structure.

Syufy Theaters built many domed theaters around Silicon Valley. The original ones were radial, not geodesic - radial beams tied together by ring beams. The Houston Astrodome is a similar design. Although vacant and unmaintained, the Astrodome is holding up well. Later Syufy went with octagonal buildings, such as the Century Cinemas next to Google HQ. This kept their round branding, but allowed better subdividing into multiplexes.
Published early 2016.

The author wrote this in a comment https://80000hours.org/2016/02/what-the-literature-says-abou...:

> You're right. This data doesn't tell us much about the earnings of startup founders. We'll be going to that in a later post.

> This post is just about self-employment on average.

Is that post available somewhere?
I was talking about enforcing stigmas via the law, not about the pets.
That seems an odd claim, as right leaning states have the highest incarceration rates per capita.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_incar...
Feels like that Chrome is becoming a full-featured operating system. Not sure if it's good or not.
No One Cares Until Everyone Cares
Every website you and everybody know you visits is full of telemetry used to improve the website. Why should "real" desktop software be any different?
On the outdated page https://www.reactos.org/wiki/Version_Status you can see that Windows 2003 (the server version of XP) is a bit of a target.
The way math is presented to children is like so:

Here's a function, now practice evaluating it on this list of 200 inputs. Due tomorrow.

I would prefer:

Here's a concept. Play around with it. Tell me its limits, and I'll tell you another concept that breaks them.
Thanks for the read, it was... interesting.
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>just asking that one question would be enough to screen out most fake service dogs

This seems to be true. About a week ago I witnessed my boss question someone on if their dog was a service animal. He was adamant that it was but his demeanor betrayed himself.

I never saw someone get so maliciously defensive before, the person had to be told to leave because of his attitude from that point on. He actually called back and threatened my boss (on voicemail!) some time after leaving.

That one simple question blew him out of the water. Dog seemed nice despite his owner, but it didn't seem to be doing anything but dogging about.
Managed object internals, Part 2. Object header layout and the cost of locking
Once upon a time it was common to write non-consing Lisp code precisely in order to get predictable behaviour; I think that it worked pretty well. Non-consing code won't have GC pauses; it won't have weird runtime crashes; and it probably wouldn't have gigantic exception chains unless it needs them.
Because the Trump administration has promised to do what it can to make it even harder for consumers to fight back.
There are plenty of meaningful ways to contribute to the body of open source software that don't require strokes of genius. Bug fixes and refactoring come to mind.

I just picked this thread as a starting point Uber may have a legit need for a particular framework.

My main point is there is no need to make frameworks for frameworking's sake. Purposeful OSS collaboration is just as good, if not a better way to gain influence than a PR splash.

Of course that assumes that the goal is to make cool things, which seems loosely connect with wooing investors at best. (Again in general, not picking on Uber.)
Reading this reminds me of the Clojure style of code... anyone else?
William Giraldi on life as a bookish bodybuilder: 'A poisoned way to be a man'
Intermediate level python resource
An autocorrect of tldr
I'm not sure if I can find a direct citation, but Penn & Teller have said that rubbing butts is more sanitary than shaking hands, and that they'd be happy for fans to greet them that way.
It's not required, but, in most self-serve stations I'm familiar with (Costco being the exception), you can prepay with cash (e.g. ask the attendant for $20 on pump 5, or whatever), and the pump can be set to stop after $20 worth is dispensed. If less than $20 in gas fills your tank, you can get change from the attendant. This is commonly done late at night or for pumps not visible from the attendant's vantage point, to prevent drive-offs.
They're testing for Dunning-kruger - either you're below average and you rate yourself a 7 or you're a 10 and you rate yourself an 8.
So that means no more Bitcoin mining in China? Why would they ban it when there's a huge amount of revenue coming to their country.
ISO 9660 is not at all a general purpose filesystem. Although fairly trivial to reason about and implement, little and big endian systems required entirely separate structures written to disc or files would not be accessible.

Myth 2 was a popular testing media in those days due to Apple and PC endian differences. As I recall Bungie did some clever crafting on the structures to share some of the media between platforms while keeping binaries separated. Even had a fun picture of soulblighter in Finder through icon trickery.

-wrote commercial CD mastering and storage software many many moons ago
How to Get Paid to Test Websites on TryMyUI
The article gives examples where untrained animals cause distractions for actual service dogs trying to do their job. And that the backlash against fake service dogs, give real ones a bad reputation.
Poorly cared for, pets can do an epic amount of damage to a property (getting the cat piss smell out of flooring is more than just a few dollars).

Do you believe that landlords who forbid water beds are also misers who deny others small joys out of avarice?
Xamarin Forms is a dead end in my opinion. I enjoyed writing non-Forms with a shared MVVM framework, but my job was in Forms. I also find mobile development to be too cornered. I was doing both platforms by myself with no room to grow as a developer. I spent too much time in Forms chasing down Forms bugs and trying to figure out why the latest version of Forms broke something new. So a bit of burnout as well. Hope that helps.
Thank god one lawmaker had the for thought to consider edge cases. The law seems entirely unreasonable until you get to the last paragraph.
There's #rust-osdev (which has been pretty quiet lately) and #rust-embedded at least; I think Tock has their own channel too?
A Personal Visit by Dr. Puneet Chawla at Your Place
That's how I feel about most projects I see on here. Toy languages are my personal pet peeve. So much talent being wasted on useless projects. I'm not really one to speak - none of my projects make a substantially positive impact on society, but they have their niches.
Yes, I plan on adding something like this in the future! However, my goal is to do learning in real-time in the style of the current pianist. NNs need quite a lot of data to train correctly so it might be hard to do in realtime. Although there could be a neat hybrid (some kind of iterative NN...).
Unions would be nice if the syntax for accessing substructure members could be nominally short circuited. For example:

struct ab {
int a;
int b;
};

union c {
struct ab ab_short_circuit;
int a;
};

union c c1;
c1.a = 1;
c1.b = 2;
I work in IT for an MLB club, each team has a video coordinator who has to basically watch the game from the stadium feed and chart each pitch etc. That was the guy texting to the Apple watch device.
The Army, the Inventor and the Surprising Uses of a Batman Machine
I'd need some statistics to be convinced that the anecdotes in the story are actually commonplace, to be sure we're not banning 90 million people and their dogs because of one bite.

I live in Seattle and people take dogs everywhere, and I seldom or never see any issues. My initial reaction when I see articles like this is to feel like this is nothing more that people wanting to shove rules down each other's throats (and to think pretty snarkily that people can move to Kansas City if they like) but then, my lack of observation of obviously fake service dogs causing any sort of problems, is it itself anecdotal.
ICO of the day: Litra Healthcare blockchain
Litra are building a new health economy centered around the consumer, focused on transparency and convenience. Replacing 16 apps and platform with 1 app for better healthcare.Built with interoperability that drives health information exchange.

WHY CHOOSING LITRA?

We want you to have easy, secure access to your health records - On your mobile phone or on your computer. In the same way that you can easily check the weather or the status of your flight, your health records should be accessible to you and your designated healthcare providers. The US healthcare market is a $5.5 Trillion Dollar industry - You deserve better. You deserve LITRA
Meanwhile they've some of the shittiest GL and graphics drivers on the planet. So much for vertical software integration. But hey, they've got proprietary replacements for GL and Vulkan, no need to be standards compliant or portable!
This is very interesting. I've thought several times fantasized about setting up a Kickstarter to fund hiring blackwater for things like this. I wonder though if this isn't what we originally created government for. Does the fact that people are thinking about this "hack" say more about where technology has gotten or about the state of politics?
Something doesn't have to be a fundamental right in order to expect a lack of discrimination or the bare minimum of accommodation.

What about accommodating those people who have allergies to dog or cat dander? I think their need (i.e their need to breathe without discomfort) takes priority over the want of pet owners to bring their pets to all public venues with them.
My biggest question is why you and yours consume so many pickles that you have established protocols for opening the jars.
It's still sold ink though. If you have a performance metric of total ink sold, anything that helps you get more ink out the door is preferable.
This seems to have the same built-in delay as ETW. But thanks for sharing, I wasn't aware of this one.
> What entity bestows the privilege of pet ownership?

At least in Switzerland, we had to take a theoretical course, get certified and ensure we were properly taking care of our pets [1].

[1] https://www.stadt-zuerich.ch/pd/de/index/stadtpolizei_zueric...
They're called limousine liberals/champagne socialists.
Working with the FiveAM test framework
Checkout systems are going autonomous
Depends on what you mean by "block". Your OS is probably interacting with the SSD in terms of 512-byte logical blocks, but most likely grouping most I/O into 4kB or larger chunks due to the 4kB virtual memory page size. But the underlying NAND flash has a native page size of more like 16kB, and an erase block size in the MB range, and an internal RAID-like striping of data across multiple channels on the SSD controller. Sequential access is still much simpler and faster than random access.
I still think that corporations have too much power. They own the system.
What if your son was just smarter than the other kids?
Reminds me of an idea from the novel "Makers", by the very same Cory Doctorow, in which there's a mass VC-funded lawsuit against a particular known media megacorp.
Download and analyze Twitter followers
Probably the state of politics. I suspect crowdfunding would never raise enough for the likes of Blackwater.
This is incredible, you can get an accurate sense of the news bubble that both sides are in by looking at the headlines alone!
I've more often seen that called "property value shorthand", but it does compliment destructuring
I think we found someone who has never owned dogs or property, perhaps both.
First of all thanks for the recommendation for "Bad Samaritans". He makes an interesting set of arguments against free trade, and I think I might buy the book and explore them.

But almost every argument you bring up, was brought up a decade ago by economists, and is now considered party mainstream economics literature.

Unemployment rate - Every economists knows this, unemployment rate is not the only measure of employment they use. Another one is the "prime age employment population ratio" which doesn't suffer from these same problems.

GDP is again only one measure. Here is the OECD talking about how GDP is only one measure of life and well being. http://www.oecd.org/statistics/measuring-well-being-and-prog... So economics is well aware of this.

You say they failed to foresee the financial crisis, but western medicine fails to cure cancer. That doesn't mean Western Medicine is bunk, because it's still your best shot at not dying of disease. And it would have been far worse if we didn't know about fiscal or monetary policy.

It's true free trade is still thought of as unequivocally producing an increase in efficiency and GDP. But the negative effects are starting to be researched.

A minority of economists think individuals are rational and utility maximizing.

EMH is again something economists are split about, and most economists are have much more nuanced view of this that doesn't prevent asset bubbles.

And with the money multiplier, there is an argument about the mechanism. But that is different than saying that money isn't multiplier, or that reserve ratios don't have any influence on the monetary base.

Philips curve describes a correlation between inflation and employment, a relationship that holds 90% of the time.

It seems like your problem is with a straw man Chicago school hardliner(not for instance Paul Krugman), not with the majority of the field of economics which pretty much agrees with you on everything(besides free trade but this is changing). And maybe Ha Joon Chang is right, but there is also a lot of evidence on the other side that free trade is very beneficial to economies. It's not an open and shut case against free trade.

Remember economics is really hard. Especially macroeconomics(the portion you are critical of) which is probably the hardest science there is. There are no controlled trials. You have statistical experiments where n is maybe a 100, and all trials are hopelessly confounded.
> You have a point. Describing their workflow has value to it.

This is a really valuable thing to acknowledge. There is some sharing of company philosophies, but seldom do I see companies fully "open sourcing" their workflows and strategies. Perhaps because the people at the top see that as the real value their company brings - that knowledge. Nevertheless, it's extremely valuable and I wish I could see more things like that. Basecamp's book "Getting Real" is close to what that might look like, I think.
Many companies run decisions based on seniority. If you're on top, you choose. You have no responsibility to explain your choices, or have detailed reasoning. You earned the privilege of deciding through your success, and your continued status lives or dies by your continued success.

That's very different from a company where the value is to be transparent, solicit input from everyone, and let decisions be questioned by underlings with rational concerns.
> "You can be right or you can be happy."

To flesh this point out beyond just being agreeable, you can both do a cost-benefit analysis on whether something is worth arguing about. A lot of the time you or your partner are just nitpicking because of some fucked up power dynamics going on at work, with friends or some other external factor. Your boss being a dick is probably the reason the bathroom being messy is such a big deal and you want to vent about it. You both need to be reasonable, introspective and effective at communicating.

...but that shit flies out the door when 1.) either of you are hungry 2.) you have kids and they're hungry/crying/fighting. Always plan your meals.