skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FOSTA and SESTA are ridiculous laws that both restrict freedom on the web and also make it harder for law enforcement to track down real sex trafficking. I'm not sure what could realistically be done about them though.
Do you really think so? I imagine a $100 ticket would go to something like $97, and there might be a $5 fee for a small overhead space (regular size purse), $10, for a medium space (backpack or large purse), and $15-$20 for small luggage, and then going up steeply from there (since you should be checking things that size). Checked baggage prices might drop by $5 or so too, since they aren't subsidizing free overhead space.

Free additionals that have direct cost to the the provider but may or may not be useful or utilized by the customer are things for luxury products. Overall, everyone is better off (even if they don't feel better off) by paying for what they actually use. The people that lose out are the people that used to use more than their fair share. If you still like the idea of paying one (higher) price and having things like luggage covered, that's what other classes (like premium economy, business and first class) are for. It's called economy class for a reason...
Show HN: Image Fusker
That's just what I wanted. What kind of search skills did you use to find it? Is there a convention?
I'm not going to let the domain lapse for exactly this reason.
Governments don't have competition in any meaningful sense, so they _only_ have bad incentives.
I agree, but flight search tools need to start factoring this in their price results (but it's not always simple, some budget airlines charge for large carry on bags, and the size limits vary)
We should outlaw all tracking for car licenses and cell phones. I am not naive enough to think this would pass Congress but it should. Otherwise there is basically ubiquitous surveillance of everyone available to
everyone who looks.
The trick is always to go TO somewhere not FROM somewhere.
Cool, I'll just video conference in to my next vacation in Hawaii.
Tickets have gotten dramatically cheaper over that period. A round trip ticket to Europe from the US costs under $300. A ticket to Australia can be had for about $600. In Europe, prices have dropped so much that planes are cost-competitive with buses between
many neighboring countries.

Part of this is because of reductions in services provided to basic economy fares, but ultimately even similar tickets are now about 40% cheaper than they were in the 90s. It's an amazing time to travel.
This isn’t correct - since deregulation airfare has consistently gone down - 17% over the last two decades. That trend has slowed as we basically have gotten to the point where the cost per available seat mile has really can’t get any lowere without firing half the pilots and skimping on maintainence. Airplanes are being used until they can’t fly any more.

Here’s a reasonable summary

http://www.aei.org/publication/the-cost-of-air-travel-in-the...
To me the article's tone sounded more surprised at how little coverage there was on the bill, than outraged at the bill's contents.

In fact, I thought the article gave a quite positive view of the bill.
even advil has an LD50. dosage matters
>Why did you work so hard when you hated the job and coworkers so much?

I think you might have good intentions with this question, but it seem a bit silly. You could ask the same question to anyone about any job. Why do you think the millions of investment bankers or consultants or lawyers or medical residents work long hours? Why do people work long hours in shitty retail or food service jobs? Why do people work in sweat shops? Not everyone has the opportunity to work somewhere they "enjoy more", but they keep working anyway because at the end of the day we all need a paycheck.

>Why not find a similar role at a place you enjoyed more?

That's precisely what I'm trying to do now. If you mean "why didn't you find a similar enjoyable role to begin with?", because those enjoyable roles don't pay nearly as much, and I wanted to build up a decent-sized savings so that I could take time off, travel, and work on side projects. My "plan" was to spend a few years working hard, build up a nest egg and a resume, and then transition into something more "enjoyable" though lower paying. The first part of that plan went swimmingly, but the transition part has been a little rocky.
A few times on local trains, eating on express trains (most people seated) is normal. It's common to see salarymen drinking booze too
Drugs of abuse are incredibly cheap, and doing dope for decades doesn't harm anyone.

You can take solace in the knowledge that these recalcitrant addicts will face eternal torment in Hell for refusing to kick the habit
No. If there was a leak then it wouldnt pressurize properly on the way up. If it was holding pressure, it would probably keep doing so.
Very few people need high quality photo printers. Usually they have a document that they need on paper. For most users, you are better off not having an expensive photo printer and paying Walgreen's to run off a good print of a photo when you need it.
I really hate flying in airplanes in America. I avoid them whenever possible. You cannot go through a line without being molested by the TSA. I really hate being touched, and really really hate it when people touch me below the belt and then try to touch me above the belt (serious OCD).

When I do get the additional pat down (which is almost every time because those scanners are useless and have a false positive rate so high that they should just be replaced with a random number generator) I give the TSA person specific instructions to replace their gloves for each part of the pat down. They do ... now ... but haven't in the past (public outrage has made them a lot nicer ... but their jobs should still go away and we should just go back to metal detectors like in the 90s).

Also America is the only country I've flow through which still makes you take off your shoes. Fuck that nonsense.
Cargo is definitely pressurized. Not heated/aced, but pressurezed the same as the rest of the cabin. Everying from the skin inwards is under 5000ish feet of pressure.
I used to work in an office and was kind of astounded there was not a line out the door for this place across the street from the office.
http://www.iheartbentocupertino.com/menu
They only had about 8 seats in the place and did a very brisk take-out business.
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It actually common on European short haul for the company to “offer” to stove carryon in the hold at the gate at least from what I have personally seen.
It totally depends. A weakened structure can hold pressurization for a while, and then suddenly (and possibly catastrophically) fail.

A famous example of this is American Airlines flight 96 (1972): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_96
Yea it really did. They could have just left the entire Trump part out really. It's just a bill, that was passed and signed into law. Nothing unusual. It seems to help people and it's weird the Trump administration didn't try to do more marketing around it to make him look better.
Air travel is still one area ironically the US is way more regulated then overseas. With the exception of two airports (if I recall correctly), airports are still government owned. It’s only been since the 1980s that carriers could fly between two separate cities without govnrnnental approval.

That said, having flown a few times in India and Europe on some truest loathsome airlines, it works. Airfares are going down or are holding constant at a time when all of the other stuff - housing, health care have skyrocketed.
I'd rather not trust my life to "probably". If there was some damage to the hull or a cargo door that could lead to failure, it's under more stress and is more of a hazard as the altitude increases.
Probably one of those things that's slipped in last minute rather than creating an entire separate bill for it. The same people would probably vote yes on it anyway.
Yet another trendy hip service folds with little to no notice. Meanwhile sourceforge keeps on going.
>Mathematicians are famous for embracing the fact that they have no intuition.

That's just plainly false. Mathematics is all about intuition.

That's how we all know that Riemann hypothesis is true, regardless of whether there's a proof of it. Or that Fermat's Last Theorem holds.

That's how we still do math, even though we never really had a solid system of axioms for it -- and Godel showed that, in some sense, it's not even possible.

That's how even famous theorems were proven after many attempts, with people accepting proofs with errors in them.

That's how Calculus was invented before the notions of the limit, derivative, and integral -- the most fundamental ones! -- were solidly written down. Newton and Leibniz built up the math upon heresy, and everyone took it, because it felt right.

What you are writing about is surprise that mathematics still gives to practicing mathematicians.

And your first quote is a trick on how to extend one's intuition, not abandon it!
Lets hope they scrap that aircraft..

i could not find a reference but i remember an incident where an aircraft only scraped its backend on take off and repairs were made, but years later the aircraft was lost with everyone on board after cracks propagated up and around and the aircraft lost its whole tale section
As a pilot once told me: "If it ain't Boeing, I ain't going"
That's how we do it also. You need to integrate a new process that is triggered on base image rebuild that redeploys your container with the new base image (which has security fixes, etc). This pipeline needs to start in Dev and be applied in all your environments, so that you know you are promoting a good base image once you get to production.

We use Kubernetes to trigger rolling restarts with new images when we release a change to the base image, and so far it's been painless, but a lot of work went into it. We use Gitlab, but any CI/CD should allow you to do it.
If you want to re-enter the workforce without any ill effect from the break - it really helps if you do something!

If your going to travel, travel. Travel around the world, drive the pan-american highway. Travel can be cheap as long as you can save up enough for transport to a cheap country: Go to mexico, learn spanish. Go to India, live on a mountaintop. Its actually fun to keep in the loop tech wise from a random location somewhere! And the hiring manager in two years time will be jealous, not suspicious.

If you really want to work (during your only long holiday for the next 30 years!), then make that your focus. Make the side project happen, join an accelerator, make it a full time job - because it will be if its successful. If its to learn a new field (carpentry, art, mechanic) then take the time to be become an apprentice, don't just google youtube videos.

Do something fun. Take a few chances. And I can pretty much guarantee you wont regret it at all.
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In some better, brighter universe, I like to think that Tom Wheeler is laying the smackdown on those scamming assholes (and hopefully doing something to limit the non-scam-but-still-annoying calls as well).
Thank you for sharing that.

Our awareness of our own attention is quite a "superpower". Harnessing it is a non-trivial matter, but strengthening our muscles requires focused exercise too.
It's probably to force people to check them and free up overhead space for bags. With baggage fees there's less and less space up there as everyone tries to cram everything into their carryon.
It's heated above freezing too as far as I know, I've never had anything in my luggage freeze.
Also Japan Airlines Flight 123
Spot Robot Testing at Construction Sites – Boston Dynamics [video]
In the server logs I see that RSS services tend to send the number of subscribers when they check for new content.

It's kind of a useful data point, and I could imagine the controversy if RSS services made an attempt to share more.
They have their freedom to loose and nothing to gain by not sending in an anonymous tips.

You have groups of multiple peoples there, where only one has to talk for everyone to go to jail. This is how organized crime has been prosecuted for years. The only one of the guilty who gets out is the snitch.
Luckily you live in SF where you can find a direct flight to Hawaii from half a dozen different airlines so this theoretical monopoly problem will never happen to you for this particular problem.
ngrid looks pretty cool! I've spent some time looking for something like this - combining structural editing with music. I'm not adept with music theory or production techniques, so I find many of the traditional tools do not work for me. I put my email in the form and I'd love to hear more about it.
Its obviously a 'self aware' chan joke. There is a pretty big chan culture and furry culture overlap because of the many conflicts between the userbases. Eventually the furries won and now inhabit quarantine boards on 4chan.

The whole "brony" thing, for instance, was started on 4chan and started a practical civil war that ended with the dedicated quarantine board /mlp/. Furry and mlp porn was so frequently used to nuke threads on various boards that another quarantine board, /trash/, was created to hold everything that no one else wanted to look at. The idea was that the spammers would be happier hanging out, umm, discussing their artwork of choice, and forget to mess with everyone else. It seems to have worked actually.

As for over the top, well, we are talking about people who spend thousands of dollars on animal costumes
"Predisposed to addiction" is how we say it in the industry, and it really means "has a shitty life."

The diagnostic criteria for addiction are whether the person can't stop doing the thing despite wanting to, and whether doing the thing causes problems. If they're stable-- whether on or off medication of any kind including opiates-- then the addiction is considered successfully managed.

Also, mental illnesses are never cured. They're managed, and the best possible outcome is stability over a lifetime. Typically stressors induce un-managed relapse, so staying on dope and keeping tolerance stable really is the best outcome for people living in adverse circumstances.
> saying that this is a desirable property of an economic system seems like an inhumane and, if taken to extremes, systemically dysfunctional position to take.

You have it backwards. The problem with simplicity is that your options for a PC become Performance, Mainstream and Economy. If Economy would have been sufficient except for the storage, sorry, you'll have to pay +$300 for Mainstream (which also has a faster processor and more memory) even though faster storage by itself would only have been +$100.

There is efficiency in not paying for what you don't need, but it has intrinsic complexity. Or you can just buy Performance, not have to worry about anything, but pay +$800.

Having the simple options available is good because some people value time more than money. Having the complex options available is good because some people value money more than time (or can make a complex decision in a small amount of time).

Having said that, the charges for checked bags are still ridiculous, but only because the fees exceed the airlines' cost for carrying the bags by such a large amount. Fortunately they're likely to be destroyed by the price comparison sites now listing the fees next to the ticket price, which should reintroduce price competition for the checked bag fee and either get the fee reduced/eliminated or benefit the customer by giving those who don't need to check a bag a disproportionate discount.

Or some enterprising airline will realize they can profit from selling the empty space in their planes not being used for checked bags to someone like FedEx to carry packages. Then FedEx will realize they can open a storefront in the airport and charge less than the airlines to ship your luggage and you'll be able to pay FedEx $15 to pay the airline $10 to check your bag, instead of paying the airline $30. Then the airlines will just charge $14.
From the comments: "We have begun field testing the Spot robot for commercial usage around the world. After an initial mapping run, Spot autonomously navigated two dynamic construction sites in Tokyo and used a specialized payload for surveying work progress. An additional camera in its hand lets Spot do even more detailed inspection work on site. The Spot robot will be available in the second half of 2019 for a variety of applications."
Mathematics is invented - it is only an approximation to reality. The "truths" of mathematics are what you start with - I am finding that looking at the Metamath system is a good way to see this.

It is a very useful tool in many areas but is just plain useless in others. Unfortunately, in my little opinion, there are too many people who give too much credence to the use of mathematics to discover the "truths" of the universe. They have an idealised perspective as to its efficacy instead of having a more pragmatic perspective.
It's more than just the absence of a like/dislike system, visibility of posts is directly determined by how much discussion they generate - for threads this means its position on the board stays higher for longer, so more people see it, and for replies the number of replies is visible while scrolling through the thread. This links agreement/disagreement with actual discourse (or, at least, communication), unlike e.g. Reddit where agreement and disagreement are done via voting, which doesn't contain any information other than the upvote/downvote itself. In systems like this, disagreeing via replying is actually suboptimal in terms of return on the labor involved with communicating this disagreement, because downvoted posts (posts people don't like) are less visible, meaning replies to them are less visible as well, even if they agree with the majority of the people downvoting their parent post.
Show HN: FaaStRuby 0.2 released – feedback appreciated
Hey all,

I just put out a new release. Would you spare a couple minutes to try and give some feedback?

If you already have the gem installed, you will have to update it: gem update faastruby

Tutorial => https://faastruby.io/tutorial.html

Top 3 Highlights

- No more fiddling with git.
- Functions are packaged, deployed and managed individually.
- TESTS! Functions can have tests and they can be configured to run before each deploy, aborting if it fails.

Thanks in advance!
I don't think it took decades... I was 410 at 14... that's a decade/half maybe... but I was always obese...since birth practically. (80 @ 6, 300 @11, etc..)
I've always wished they'd have totally embraced their shortcuts and added as many as possible.

they could shorten every setter and function so c.width could just be w() or c.w= and c.fillStyle could just be fs(style) or c.fs=

They arbitrary shorten somethings but not others seems well... arbitrary
In most formats partners play as a team of two (or as part of a team of four or six) and are not mixed.

Cheating at bridge has some interesting information theory elements. Communication between partners is explicitly allowed during the bidding phase of bridge via bids (e.g. a bid of "2 clubs" may imply a lot about the cards the bidder holds) but must follow a convention which is known to your opponents (so they learn just as much from that bid as your partner does). Communication during the playing phase of bridge is explicitly forbidden, e.g. you are not supposed to take a long time making a decision about which card to play, from which your partner could infer which cards you are probably choosing between. Most cheating schemes occur between the two phases, after the bidding but before the play starts where the defenders try to tell each other some critical feature(s) of their hands (e.g. that they hold the queen of trumps). Because a tiny amount of data can make a difference (a single bit could communicate the above fact) cheating strategies come in many forms. Making a noise (e.g. coughing or tapping) were classics, but can be overheard and may be obvious in review. The position of a body part, the choice of which hand to touch something with, the angle that a pencil or the bidding tray are placed at can all communicate information.

If you want to see some analysis of a relatively recent cheating scandal (and some of the anti-cheat devices that are used at top tournaments) YouTube has a few videos on the Israeli pair Fisher & Schwartz:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=831tJ4EHLBY
Drunk on genocide: how the Nazis celebrated murdering Jews
Please do share. Have you looked at the various CAS's that exist to see how these are implemented?
Yes, you're right, as long as it's not the government's boot grinding my face into the pavement, then everything is fine.
McDonald's sales shrank (for the first time ever?) a few years back so they have been trying hard to not suck.
"Rand told her husband, O’Connor, that he would have to vacate their apartment twice a week while she and Mr. Branden had their trysts."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/nathaniel...
He was a notorious formalist, and a damn good one; but it's hardly the only style of mathematics. Compare with Groethendieck who also invested a whole new field of mathematics, but had a completely different approach: saturate oneself in the problem until one understands it, then write the solution down.

http://www.landsburg.com/grothendieck/mclarty1.pdf
Obligatory: https://xkcd.com/1172
I receive 3-5 robocalls per day, and answer none of them, and only pick up if the caller is in my contact list. Robocalls are ruining my trust in the phone system. Both email and the telephone networks are saturated with spam.

It would be nice to be able to microcharge callers like in one of those old pay-per-email schemes, to reduce some of this noise.

From ads, to emails, to phone calls, these mass unsolicited efforts to compel our attention will ultimately result in the "cord-cutting" we've seen in the TV space.
Fuck their marketing.. .I knew it was too good to be true.. double checked it earlier when I was putting it in myfitnesspal... I'll search around for a better deal.... I was using Dymatize which has more servings per bottle for 30g proteins... and a lot less carbs...
My honest read of the study is that it's a poor attempt at making a case that sets out to prove something, ignores several variables that disprove its central hypothesis (like weight loss) and then steam rolls the idea that its showing something it absolutely is not.

The study, like all similar IF studies, showed that people who do IF sometimes are able to use it to consume fewer calories. That is important from a compliance standpoint: it means you can use this diet to treat obesity for some portion of the population for whom it is going to be effective because it will get them to comply with not eating too much. Not eating as much is associated with weight loss which is associated with all kinds of good outcomes. That's awesome, but it doesn't mean that metabolically there is something significantly different going on outside of eating less.

This is an important discussion in nutrition in general, and shows up in IF as well as keto discussion frequently, with proponents of each arguing that beyond the compliance aspect, there is also something special going on with your metabolism (ie: insulin sensitivity and other metabolic markers). The problem is that all of these are things that improve when you are in a caloric defecit, and the studies never disambiguate between the effects of a caloric deficit and the meal timing itself.

Fung makes the same mistake the authors of the paper do in interpreting their own results too optimistically. The dietary controls are set up in a way to make it seem convincing in an abstract if you are familiar with this area and what the current core issues are, but it is not at all if you dig in.
The government has actually been trying to kill it for years but no one wants it: https://money.cnn.com/2018/05/31/investing/air-india-privati...