skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My Dad liked to tell a story. The parts of the body were arguing about which was most important. The heart pumps the blood, the brain keeps everything working together, the lungs bring in air etc... Then the anus closed up!

Even if no one vouches for the butt hole in department C they can still be necessary. Something to keep in mind before making sweeping changes without regards to the details.
Imagine how much safer NYC would be if the cars and pedestrians were isolated. A dedicated car layer with an extra lane on each side (at current level) and a new pedestrian layer built above the cars with physical barriers preventing falling to the level beneath.
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A remarkably poor hueristic.

Though you should carefully examine just that.
That's true, you're right. There is a fine line between the two in my mind. For me, spirituality is recognizing the complexity of the universe and my part in it. Mindfulness helps me tap into that complexity and derive meaning for myself.
If you can figure out Twitter, you can definitely figure out Mastodon. They have similar levels of complexity — you're just not familiar with Mastodon's quirks yet. If you don't want to put in the effort, though, that's fine.
Thinking about it this way is interesting. It could be an issue with bias or unbalanced training data.
Uh, there was never such a cliché? I've never heard anyone say French people were bad engineers.
Using any version of PHP before PHP 5.6 is reckless from a security standpoint, let alone a language feature and performance standpoint. If you are on a version of PHP that old, you should make upgrading a very high priority.

Edit - downmodders, please see: http://php.net/supported-versions.php
It makes you wonder how many other ridiculous laws there are out there, that just any innocent person could get arrested for.

Considering this, I'd say we owe it to society to at the very least enform everyone what's legal and what's not. Maybe, make basic law part of the high school curriculum or something.
I think the important part is community, not habit or ritual. Rituals are clearly one way to build community, but they often come attached to other baggage and I don't think they are necessarily the best way to build community.
The bourgeois are highly incentivized to convince everyone else that Wealth Signaling and Virtue Signaling are the same activities. Everything and every lifestyle choice sold to you as “virtuous”, “good for you” or “good for your kids” is, un-coincidentally, expensive.
I think "bahn" translates to "path". Autobahn doesn't connote "car train". (Disclaimer: 1 year of college German)
Nice. Stand by for roadside billboards linked into your Google account which flashes custom advertising as your car nears.

Google - "You are our product"
> It's largely been the political left in the US which has had control of large urban areas.

Control of what, exactly? Inheriting a broken series of communities from the weight of the history of slavery? Let's remember the US's history of slavery and Jim Crow did to these communities and how hard the urban north fought against it while the south reveled in it.

Also let's remember northern urban African-Americans didn't live under the constant threat of lynching like their southern counterparts did, so the conservative handling of black communities was far worse historically and a lot of the northern urban systems were overwhelmed by southern migration to the north to escape these very social issues! Its like chasing jews out of your country than laughing at the jewish ghettos in the country next door.

>Poles and Italians were able to increase their average IQ's to parity with the US as a whole in that period.

People without a history of being slaves here and, of course, people with white skin. This isn't apples to apples.

I really think you're missing the forest for the trees here in some hamfisted attempt to blame everything on the bogeyman "of the left." You can't just dismiss racism and the legacy of the Jim Crow era as a non-existent factor in the lives of black communities.

As for progress peaking in the 60s lets remember how Republicans treated blacks during and after the civil rights movement. Its no coincidence.

Lee Atwater on using blacks as society's scapegoats to push for tax cuts and other unrelated policies by driving race hate as much possible in he GOP's Southern Strategy.

You start in 1954 by saying ‘Nigger, nigger, nigger.’ By 1968 you can’t say ‘Nigger.’ That hurts you. It backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states rights and all that stuff and you get so abstract. Now you talk about cutting taxes and these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites. And subconsciously maybe that’s part of it. I’m not saying that. But I’m saying that if it is getting that abstract and that coded, we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. Obviously sitting around saying we want to cut taxes and we want this, is a lot more abstract than even the busing thing and a hell of a lot more abstract than nigger nigger. So anyway you look at it, race is coming on the back burner.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy
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In this light, I've come to see "patriotism" in the US sense as a secular religion.

Consider:

* The Pledge of Allegiance as a prayer

* The Constitution and Delcaration of Indepence as scripture

* The Federalist Papers and other writings as apocrypha

* The flag's design as a religious symbol

* The physical flag as an idol

* The courts as clergy

This view is further reinforced by how Islam mixes the political and religious spheres. In many cases, the clergy act as courts. The flag of Saudi Arabia and many other Islamic countries include religious symbols.
This whole line of reasoning frustrates me somewhat. The story of "Uber Disabled the Safety System" paints Uber out to be negligent for doing so. Outside of consideration of all the other facts (which unlike this one, do indeed suggest that Uber are to blame), this element of the story is not indicative of negligence. Of course they disabled the existing safety system - they were aiming to build a new, safer one that could operate without reliance on or interaction with the existing one. That (again, on its own) seems like a totally reasonable engineering call.
4-6 hours per day on both Saturday and Sunday, sometimes more.

I am trying to learn as much as I can right now, and hoping to one day start my own company or build my own app.
Fines can increase without hiring more people or buying more cars. Fines could be made proportional to income, at least one other country has already done that.

Why would they need to make a net profit? That standard isn't applied to anything else the police do. We already have traffic enforcement as well as many other police services paid via taxes. The argument that it costs too much to increase enforcement in any way doesn't really hold much water. Whether people want enforcement is a different story, but the point I brought up that you responded to is purely one of safety. We can debate all the myriad reasons why we can or can't change our cultural attitudes, but it's still true that increased enforcement of human drivers would have a far greater impact on overall safety than fine-tuning autonomous cars to break certain laws in certain locales.

Letting driverless cars break some laws or have "aggressive" driving profiles will never happen anyway, so it's moot. It would be too much liability for the car manufacturers. So how would you make roads safer?
[...] it might be assumed that the flying machine which will really fly might be evolved by the combined and continuous efforts of mathematicians and mechanicians in from one million to ten million years--provided, of course, we can meanwhile eliminate such little drawbacks and embarrassments as the existing relation between weight and strength in inorganic materials.

More fun facts: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Incorrect_predictions
> 70-80% comes from where?

Mostly from twin studies. This number (at least the ballpark figure) is essentially uncontested amongst researchers at this point (see e.g. [1]). However, this is the heritability of the variability of intelligence in adults. In children, that number is close to the one you cited. The rest of what you’ve said is essentially true: heritability is extremely complex and we’re only now getting the first few association studies in to ascertain which genomic loci are associated with changes [2].

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25985137
[2] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-018-0040-6
The conferencing prototype seems very similar to https://www.owllabs.com/
But this isn't really the case. Both git and blockchain track a history of actions, true, the difference is that in git anyone can rewrite history at any time and there is then no way to agree amongst untrusted parties whose history is the true one. With blockchain, there is. That's the innovation, that's what makes blockchain novel.
One of the differences of American society is that it was created with the idea that all people were "equal" unlike Victorian society which had an actual aristocracy, and therefore, explicit classes. The perspective that there are no classes is an inherently American perspective.

Of course, the left perspective is specifically that this is an illusion, people are divided into economic classes and capital is what discriminates instead of birth right. That's the point of this article, that even though capitalism pretends all people are equal, it creates a society where they are not.
This post is a perfect example of this mechanism in action. It takes as a given that the criteria for university acceptance are fair, objective, attainable - 'meritocratic'. The only explanation for underrepresentation is that the under-represented are simply inferior.

Note especially the conflation of 'minorities' with 'poor people'; this lets those members of the bourgeois who miss out on their exact institution of choice (and might have to attend UC Santa Cruz instead of Stanford, the horror) reconcile their own sense of self-worth with the class myth that failure to get admission to college denotes inferiority: they did meet all the fair, objective, meritocratic criteria, but the university gave their rightful slot to an undeserving black / hispanic person instead.
From an ecological perspective, consider this.

Humanity is now one of the most successful species on the planet. Seven billion humans is an enormous biomass, and that our livestock make up most of the mammalian biomass on the planet. [1]

So that alone makes us a big juicy target for diseases and parasites which will prey upon us.

A communicable disease which targets, for example, bobcats, isn't going to spread very far or fast, given their low population and disjointed territory.

[1] http://www.kalaharilionresearch.org/2015/01/16/human-vs-live...
Young tech workers' growing obsession with early retirement
To be fair a half decent set of cycle shorts will be lycra and have a padded crotch. You can get quite sweaty on a longs, so the lycra reduces chaffing and the padding just makes things more comfortable. I usually wear something over the top as its not a good look on guys in my opinion, but they are pretty practical.
It depends on the plugin. Some of these methods are just helper functions for template rendering. Loose coupling isn't going to contribute a ton there, but not polluting the global namespace is important regardless of coupling.
I mean, the iPhone is only 10 years old, and the difference between the first generation and the iPhone X is astounding.

That said, I generally agree with you: I think a lot of the advancement we'll see in the coming years will be in the VR/AR space, which will present a different enough experience that users won't be comparing it to existing interfaces.
"Twitter for Google TV" suggests that they may be using a Twitter API key that wasn't issued to them. Probably not a good idea...
They often find other ways to express their jerkiness, like stepping on the gas, swerving around you and cutting you off, or aggressively tailgating, or you know... hand gestures.
The ubiquity of religion means that it is probably an evolved trait in some way. Evolved traits are not typically useless...
Unless we have WW3, I can guarantee you the lightweight personal transportation will take on 3D shape (personal flying machines) within next 25-50 years, but it will not overlap with ability to control them. And that even better! In 20 years AI will drive much better than best human driver in worst road scenario. Why bother giving steering wheel to non-pilots, if AI can do better work by then ?
>Then why the opposition to school choice?

Because 'school choice' is a loaded political term for defunding the public school system these people depend on so that the money earmarked for these systems gets handed out to private or charter schools, thus leaving the public system in a worse place, especially when the public system must take the worst students while charters can dismiss them. In other words you're socializing your losses and privatizing your winnings.

Even then, the "opposition" is more like healthy skepticism. Even in liberal Chicago we have a charter school boom and thus far the results aren't impressive especially when you consider they benefit from the 'cream of the crop' issue defined above. They can dump the low performing students onto CPS while enjoying the test scores and metrics more motivated students or the students without learning disabilities or the students when more involved parents can produce.

But no, we're not going to defund CPS entirely overnight and hand out its budget in its entirety to charters. That's not "opposition" that's sane thinking. And yes, if charters can't deliver the goods and if they cannot deal with the worst students or improve them, then they have failed and shouldn't be subsidized by the taxpayer. My tax dollars shouldn't be an entitlement to those with experimental and untested educational theories who can fill out an application to create a school. You have to earn it by showing your methods produce results - with all the kids, not the cherry picked one. That's what they currently don't seem to be able to do. Even then we still give them money hoping they do someday or that the added competition creates a stronger educational dynamic.

That said, many charter schools are just a ploy to get taxpayers to fund weirdo religious schools. A lot of charters are extensions of churches/mosques/temples or ethnic groups (often with religiosity as the main motivator). That isn't exactly the education revolution you're looking for here in many cases.
Augur is my favorite shitcoin for this very reason.
I don't disagree that PHP 7 is much better in this regard than 5 is, and most clueful hosts have picked up on this and made the move.

The problem is that there are a lot of less-than-clueful web hosts out there. And if you're less than clueful, the economic rationale for the upgrade probably looks less compelling to you than the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" rationale for staying with 5 does. (Not to mention that staying with 5 means you don't have to do anything, and less-than-cluefulness and laziness often hang out together.)
I think anyone familiar with how class dynamics works would have seen the writing on the wall for the startup ecosystem a long time ago. There's just no way that venture-capital funds are going to willingly march into a regime where their money goes into systematically making anyone else rich but their own.
I loved my little maroon-bellied conure and miss her greatly, but frankly, cockatiels are better pets. Sassy was many good things, but “sweet” and “even-tempered” were not among them.

Sometimes she was estatically happy, other times she wanted to take my fingers off and didn’t only because her beak was too small. And she could make that shift with little or no notice. She was able to open any cage fastening that did not require a key or human grip. All this in a bird most people would think was a funny-colored budgie.

I’m not sure about keeping parrots of any size again, at least until I’m retired or it looks like remote working will be the norm for a long time - and then, I’d lean towards cockatiels, and definitely rescues.
You seem to like writing. So try this instance,

https://mastodon.theubergroup.org

There is one writer there I follow and whose posts I enjoy:

https://mastodon.theubergroup.org/@eleanor

Look at who she's following to get an idea of other people you might consider interesting.

Also look at the #GetOnOurLawn hashtag. You have to be logged in to an instance to search for it.

EDIT: My mistake, it is possible to view hashtags without logging in. Here it is from wandering.shop, an instance larger than the one I suggested above:

https://wandering.shop/tags/getonourlawn
> Obviously a non-standard port is the weakest fellow in the bunch, but that does not mean the effect is zero.

Like I said, nobody argues that it adds zero security, but that, for all the hassle it introduces, it adds way too little security to be worth it. 16 bits is nothing, and can be brute forced quickly.

Regarding port knocking: I’m assuming that most people don’t write their own port knocking software, but use something standard. The configuration of any port knocking scheme is equivalent to an additional separate key of length log2(number_of_possible_port_knocking_configurations). What is the effective “key length” of port knocking schemes?

Also remember that the “key” of port knocking, just like a non-standard port number, is transmitted in the clear, so anybody listening to the traffic can see it. (And if you assume that the attacker can’t listen to the traffic, why are you even using SSH instead of something simpler like telnet?)
Closest thing to UBI you can get these days.
> Why is taxing the rich more than the poor bad theory?

The idea is that basic living expenses do not wildly differ between the poor and the wealthy. Think of things like clothes, child care, and food. After accounting for basic living expenses as a proportion of total regular compensation poorer people will have less remaining capital than wealthy people. It is this greatly increased remaining capital, disposable income, that allows wealthy people to purchase extravegant trifles. Taxing that purchasing potential punishes people, wealth returned to the state, in proportion to their purchasing capability without consideration for exemptions.

Wealth consolidated to personal holdings is ripe for taxation and isn't necessarily returned to the public unless gifted as charitable contributions. There are social arguments both ways to that separate discussion.

Taxing businesses is not straight forward. Business benefit their local economies unless large enough to invest into different geographic markets. Local geographies generally want to not tax businesses whose capital is tied to local vicinities as they are economic stimulators. On the other hand they generally want to tax larger businesses highly on capital leaving the local vicinity. It is challenging to write a business tax policy that isn't discriminatory and simultaneously free from local economic constraints. These arguments largely do not apply to wealthy individuals.

> On the topic of home ownership: This is an extremely complex game that mostly relates to the A: supply of housing and B: proximity of jobs to a specific location. The reason San Francisco has such insane housing prices is that there are also a large number of high paying jobs.

That argument loses steam outside the Bay Area. The Bay Area is not unique with regard to a cluster of high paying jobs. Housing prices don't escape the basic economic principles of supply/demand merely because high paying jobs are present. For pricing to become an order of magnitude more expensive other factors must be present, such as limited supply and artificial constraints.

There are many favorable reasons to rent opposed to ownership, but that discussion is orthogonal to discussions of property taxes.

In order for UBI to be a favorable enhancement it must exist as an economic stimulator rather than a poverty eradicator. Poverty is corrosive, stressful, and burdensome. If a UBI were present just enough to free people to make more meaningful employment and financial decisions than it is a favorable stimulator of employment and education. If, on the other hand, it merely exists to cure the ills of homelessness and hopelessness as a welfare system it may become a compromised system for enabling less economic contribution in impoverished social contexts.

Many welfare systems have existed in the past that sometimes work well and sometimes make things worse. A UBI isn't going to eliminate payday loans or prevent people from spending all their money at casinos, but it will likely allow many people to pursue new career choices or skills they would have otherwise not considered.
I figured chrome would show something saying it blocked yet nothing. That's really the annoying part for me.
I'd do what I generally do with reasonable questions: point the questioner at a FAQ and suggest they simply dive in and try it.

https://github.com/tootsuite/documentation/blob/master/Using...

https://github.com/tootsuite/documentation/blob/master/Using...

This isn't rocket surgery. Or solving the homeless & mental health crises.

Sign up at https://Mastodon.social (big main Engish-mostly instance), or I can vouch for https://toot.cat (run by a friend, Woozle). I'm @dredmorbius at multiple instances, though I mostly monitor mastodon.cloud (which has been increasingly flaky).
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I don't disagree. Not at all. Rituals are very important for society, even the small ones we don't even notice we're performing. Every Friday a number of my coworkers and I go out to a particular burger place for lunch. We catch up on the week past, talk about the weekend ahead. It's a milestone indicating that we're one step closer, almost to the very edge, of the weekend. That's a ritual and it's an important one.

But, I think some of the examples cited by this article - and presumably by this design team - are rather silly. Do we need a ritual for how to cope with getting a parking ticket? The death of a laptop? And... frankly, I'm not even sure what they're trying to say with "How can I keep a smart car from exacerbating my loneliness and narcissism?"

I'm not one of these people who likes to blame the mythical incarnate persona of "them millenials / Gen X / Gen Y / hipsters..." etc. But, if I may beg your indulgence here for a moment, this is some real millennial (or whatever straw man you chose) shit, right there!

Rituals, and the social exchanges that come with them are important. I completely agree. But what this design lab is touting sounds like answers to questions no one asked.

Edit: Forgot to mention, while I'm none of the religions cited further below in the article, I do think the idea of their pop up worship centres is interesting. Far more interesting than the dead-laptop-ritual idea. I'd have started the article there, if it was me writing it.
and here we're comparing "average" of supersonic flight half a century ago to a potential future outlier. i don't think i'm being outrageously unreasonable here.