skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The potential reputation hit is harder to justify if you've got robust other income streams.
Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if uni for tech becomes a thing of the past. Uni didn't teach me anything I didn't already know from working on personal projects and im fairly sure my public git repos had far more effect in job interviews than uni did. I have talked to others who have finished and they hardly know anything compared to those I know who are self taught.
Sociologists Peter Berger and Grace Davie report that “most sociologists of religion now agree” that the secularization thesis—that religion declines as a society becomes more modern—“ has been empirically shown to be false.”
Most striking of all are the demographic studies that predict that it is not religious populations but secular ones that are in long-term decline. The April 2015 Pew study projects that the percentage of atheists, agnostics, and the religiously unaffiliated will slowly but steadily decline, from 16.4 percent of the world’s population today to 13.2 percent forty years from now. University of London professor Eric Kaufmann, in his book Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?, speaks of “the crisis of secularism” and argues that the shrinkage of secularism and liberal religion is inevitable.
Why didn't she use the rear foot brake? If you're going down a hill, you will definitely want to hover your back foot on the brake.

The foot brake can't malfunction because you are physically pressing the rear guard against the wheel with downward force. If the user isn't aware of the rear brake, that's user error.

That said, maybe lime scooters don't have rear brakes?

The other thing is, these scooters are great. I wouldn't rent one, because you don't know if the last person was doing jumps and stunts on it, which they are not designed for. But they are amazing little transport devices which help people get to their destination quicker.
I don't see any moral failings in trying to win a game at all costs.
Also called a Hypertive (hypermedia narrative)
Awesome! A million thanks
Google and a few office programs seems to be an entirely normal level of computer competency for one's parents. Many of our parents aren't even using a general-purpose computer anymore, just iPads.

Why do they need to use a general purpose computer more than they are today? Is it for their work? The answer to what to do seems like it depends on the answer to that.
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File under "pretty obvious if you think about it".

On motorcycles, the rule to live by is All The Gear, All The Time. On mopeds, it's apparently Helmet With Maybe A Jacket. On electric scooters, it's Lol. The truth is that it should always be ATGATT on all 3. Going down on any of them is going to be exactly the same as going down at the same speed on a motorcycle.

One of the things you learn during rider training is that "stuck throttle" is usually panic freezing your wrist in place. Same goes for brakes that aren't working. I'll grant you that the scoots probably aren't maintained super well either, so it might be more likely there than on your personal machine.

All these rentals are adding up to just one thing: A lot more untrained, inexperienced motorcycle riders on the roads (and sometimes the sidewalks). The results are pretty obvious if you think about it.

Edit: Typo that I noticed.
Facebook pondered, for a time, selling access to user data
The interesting part of the article for me was that Bird helped change CA law which previously required wearing helmets in electric scooters.

Transportation of any kind is a fairly dangerous activity. I assume it’s more likely to be injured on a scooter than in a car, but I don’t think the hard numbers are in.

For example if you multiply the number of miles not driven by the vehicular accident rate, you would want to subtract that number of injuries off the scooter injury total, but surely it would still be positive.
This article is a prime example of the genre. I strongly believe it is intentionally optimized to take people who would be sympathetic and highlight maximally unsympathetic behavior, for the purpose of generating an argument between folks who empathize with the couple and folks who decry their choices and privilege. (This is the toxoplasma of rage thesis; from a perspective of virality, lovable people you can hate are a lot better than lovable people or hatable people.)

This shows most clearly on the part about buying a prom suit on a credit card because one is too poor to rent one, which is the Sam Vimes boot thesis about poverty phrased in a way to sound pathologically out of touch.
Prepare to be inundated with anecdotal responses about how the church did this thing or another and it really made them feel great, while the responses completely, willfully, disingenuously ignore the net damage churches and religion have done.

None of them will ever illicit real, substantial, socially positive change. But they sure do love involving themselves sporadically for the branding.

OP's comment hit the nail on the head.
IS it Istio? Someone on Twitter mentioned it uses the same ports and MIGHT just be Istio...
Nope, it's a good thought. Churches are a tremendous waste of land that could be put to good use, often in the middle of cities. Many of our cities have affordable housing crises and churches sit empty all but a few hours of the week. I'd love to see the useless land re-developed for people to live in and put back on the tax rolls.
"If you hit the ground at 20mph [on a scooter] or a baseball bat hits your head at 20mph, that's about the same thing."

Sure, riding these scooters may be the most dangerous thing that some people have ever done besides using a motor vehicle, but they are also really fun and useful. I'd say, let them exist for awhile and see how it works out in the long term. Could be great for public transit and the last mile problem.
> Going down on any of them is going to be exactly the same as going down at the same speed on a motorcycle.

I'm all for better safety, but I think this is an overreaction. I'd compare falling off a scooter to be similar to falling off a bike–you're dealing with similar speeds and similar weight vehicles in both.
My apologies, I misread your original comment.

In any case, Carlsen said he wasn't aware of the prize money difference after reaching tie breakers, so it probably didn't factor into his decision making.
> Care to elaborate?

Not the OP, but I grew up in a place where churches influence politics. My niece is in high school there and I recently learned that she lost most of her friends when she decided she is an atheist (this broke my heart).

Private faith is probably not so problematic, and some church functions are undoubtedly beneficial to their communities. However, I see organized religion as a negative for society.
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This is very interesting. I'm curious to see how they will execute on several points:

1. How it will deal with multiple templates that the system hasn't seen before. Especially when there is significant difference between the templates.

2. UI/UX. E.g. how it will trace the extracted data to the original source and how it will show the confidence scores of each entity.

3. Verification process, how will the workflow look like when the confidence score is low and the document has to be checked by human operators.
Some of them get marked terribly because they made a spelling mistake on a page or some other trivial difference.
This has to be a joke? This looks more like 'how to use a k-v store 101 for non programmers'

I don't want to put more content under a terrible post, but the best resource for this material Jennifer Widom's MOOC.

https://cs.stanford.edu/people/widom/DB-mooc.html
Nothing major. Elixir is just such a good experience it has the effect of making everything else feel really clunky.
> teaches you how to create a database system from scratch with Node.js and JavaScript

This can't possibly be serious
Red Hat usually backports those sorts of fixes to their old-looking kernel versions.
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i was an e-scooter ocd fan before it was cool,because i grew up as a cyclist in manhattan in between the goldendays of pre-fax machine messengering, and the post platinum days of smartphone gps based uberdeliverpostmates everything.

before bloomberg thestreets were garbage, and no bike lanes, plus theft was even worse than it is now.

so i did a xootr for a while. the roma. because none of the early 90's nickel-cadmium battery scooters were good enough. i tried the i-ped it kinda sucked also.

and now the not so new revolution.

this too shall pass
valuations are based on the far fetched pitchthat millenial overconsumers will overpay for scooter use for years because they are paying for a 'network' access rather than owning a scooter which limitstheir access. , so insteadofbuying a scooter for 500 dollars and riding it to kingdom come as super users, you can get an order of magnitude more users who will over pay out the ass.

it thelong run this model is doomed accept for tourists, like bird on the santa monica boardwalk.

the more popular this model gets in new york, themore it will be destroyed by commonsense consumers on one side and theives and vandals and government on the other.
As an atheist I’m sympathetic but that’s not the raison d’être for a Church and never has been. It’s about bringing people to God.
According to recent studies, neither of those are really happening. "Secularization theory" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secularization#Current_issues_...) is the current sociological term for (a) and it is pretty well established that while there may be regional fluctuation in the numbers of religious people, at a global level, religiosity is not in decline.

As for (b), at least in the US, it is the large mainline denominations that are in steep decline and the smaller, more theologically conservative denominations that are growing most rapidly. Mega-churches are a phenomenon, but not one that falls easily into either of the above categories because they can range all the way from progressive to prosperity gospel to theologically conservative and nearly anything in between.
> How do they both have college degrees?

They paid for it! With credit!
My favorite antitheistic quote that I wrote out once, long ago, expresses the joy and benefit of losing religion:

"When I became convinced that the universe is natural, that all the ghosts and gods are myths, there entered into my brain, into my soul, into every drop of my blood the sense, the feeling, the joy of freedom. The walls of my prison crumbled and fell. The dungeon was flooded with light and all the bolts and bars and manacles became dust. I was no longer a servant, a serf, or a slave. There was for me no master in all the wide world, not even in infinite space. I was free--free to think, to express my thoughts--free to live my own ideal, free to live for myself and those I loved, free to use all my faculties, all my senses, free to spread imagination's wings, free to investigate, to guess and dream and hope, free to judge and determine for myself . . . I was free! I stood erect and fearlessly, joyously faced all worlds."

It is from one of Robert Ingersol's writings, but I did not write down which. I have never been able to track down more than a few pamphlet length documents of his.
I recommend The Culture of Narcissism by Lasch, the focus on the self has been going on since well before millennials showed up.
Ceres is great for sparse, structured non-linear-least-squares problems (that is, problems where levenberg-marquardt is applicable). I believe it was initially designed for bundle-adjustment problems arising from structure-from-motion applications.

Ceres also does work for dense problems and general convex optimization, but it doesn't provide as much of an advantage over other packages (that is, you could just call into any existing l-bfgs implementation and wouldn't benefit much).

For some other problems, Ceres doesn't scale or can get in the way. For example, if you have a single value to maximize and a large number of variables, then ceres' auto-diff system won't work (ceres::Jet is based on "forward-mode" automatic differentiation, storing partial derivatives on the stack. If you have a high-dimensional gradient, it can exhaust stack space). On the other hand, Ensmallen doesn't seem to come with any auto-diff functionality.
The ports that are common are the envoy ports. In the roadmap it's mentioned that support for istio mixer is planned implying that mixer isn't supported now which, if it was istio, it would be.
This one is definitely on the company. The current fleet isn't designed with durability in mind.

That said, unlikely, but could have been a malicious citizen who intentionally damaged the brakes (people are super disrespectful to the green transit)
As others have said, in the US the formal paper invite is considered official. When my wife and I married we still did this but we encouraged people to RSVP via the website or email. No sense in sending more paper.

It’s sad to me that we felt so pressured to do the paper invites. They’re ridiculously overpriced and all of that paper and emissions for delivery for something that can easily be delivered electronically and instantly for near zero cost.

The entire wedding industry thrives on norms like these and it’s amazing to me that technology doesn’t displace more aspects.
It doesn't rain often in New Mexico, but when it does rain, it is frequently torrential, with flash flooding. Perhaps that has something to do with it.
I think the contention isn't whether liberal government is better, but rather whether it's stable.
Great post, thank you for sharing it!
That’s why you don’t use the threshold to trigger anything more punitive than further investigation.

And by "you", you mean "no one ever". Teacher evaluations have immediate and universal impact. There is essentially no filter and no interpretation on this. It's like tweets. Once a social signal is out-there, public, everyone is acting on the implications regardless of hypothetical mitigating factors.

A lot of people talk about this stuff in the abstract, as some hypothetical, like we'll do this and we'll have safeguards in place. The news is, this is how things have been for college teachers for a while. You get an evaluation and it has an impact and there's no mitigation and no contextualizing.
Regarding the exceeding 15gb and throttling...

If it is a family plan, does this affect just the user who exceeded the 15gb limit or does data get throttled for all users in the plan.
It's like how a lot of environmentalists seem to be opposed to nuclear despite it being statistically safer than even solar (let alone wind or hydro) and much better for the environment than even natural gas (let alone coal).

By letting perfect be the enemy of good, they're leaving the environment worse off.
This probably mirrors the concentration of power that’s happening.
The town in which I lived in Minnesota had a few churches come up for sale. The price was not much higher than a typical home in the neighborhood. Some friends bought one, and it was a unique place to share between roommates. Definitely a nice building.
Amazon ads are usually for things Amazon sells... Windows sorta advertises too... Products Microsoft sells too
Ask HN: Holiday book gifts for/from a hacker
One of my favorite recent HN threads was, "Books that changed your life." And it actually changed my life too! I bought John Sarno's "Healing Back Pain" and left two decades of back pain behind.

Here, I'm looking for recommendations for hackers - what would you recommend a hacker read - and books that a hacker would give, something quintessentially hacker-ish, but which you'd give to someone who isn't a hacker.

Recommend you label your threads, "From Hacker:" and "To Hacker:" to distinguish, and to provide color as to why you picked the book.

I'll start off with a recommendation:

From Hacker: Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions, by Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths.

I learned about this book from the 80,000 Hours Podcast. They spent half an hour talking about the algorithm to pick the optimal restaurant when you travel to a new city for an extended period of time. They called it the "explore or exploit" spectrum, and it was fascinating.
Wow, "Windrift" looks pretty freaking cool. I'm inspired to play with it. Thanks for the list. Be sure to check out "Unflattening" by Nick Sousanis!

http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674744431
Yeah, I've gone down on a motorcycle at a low speed and I crushed my foot. On a bicycle it would have just been scrapes.

I stopped motorcycling after that.
Could you provide some examples of oddities?
i gave you my email address. what have i done? haha
The brakes may have malfunctioned since last inspection.

Another idea is when you're 63, find a more suitable form of transportation.

If that's too offensive, then check the brakes work before going down a steep hill. Also learn how to use the rear foot brake (if it has one, which I know the Segways and others do).
I've been Stylus instead of it just fine.
Nice job with the design/layout... that is a great way to present it. Also, nice move with the red envelope request, cash is _way_ better than useless wedding gifts.
That seems at odds to the decline of religion across Europe.

UK is now majority atheist, and Ireland once devoutly catholic is far more secular than it was. A majority voted to end the ban on abortion in Ireland only this year. So I am baffled at what "crisis of secularism" Kaufman is imagining.
As per the name, only one of those models actually interrupts your meal though. Quite often it's literally as I'm chewing the first bite. So by those metrics, the most irritating waiters would have the best times.

My pet hate is when I'm asked questions while I'm actually eating and I'm expected to answer with a mouth full of food.

I always dreamed of a restaurant that has call buttons on the table, like in a plane or hospital.
Yup, been there. I was advised by my boss on my first day to ignore him, as this person was at a different department. When I had some work to do with this person I acted as professional as I could. Hope that helps.

A bully, he is still working at that company, and the best workers have quit...
Do you have any more details on “the reasons” for the performance and syntax oddities?
Twitter has proven we would much rather spend Sundays brigading
> people are super disrespectful to the green transit

I've found the general sentiment is that people are disrespectful to Bird and Lime, rather than green transit in general. Something about them being an eyesore.
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The sad truth is that in order to bear the cost of a long time horizon in the pursuit of elegance you need one of two things: extreme trust or total control. Even then the pursuit may lead you astray and ultimately result in failure. Until there are ways to transfer experiences from one mind to another in an efficient manner, few manager/higher ups will sympathize with a desire to take on more long range, highly technical code improvements (assuming we're not talking about a FAANG).
I agree, but think of the change to Valley culture. Everyone wearing leathers or plate armor jackets. Full wrap face helmets and MBP's at all of the eateries. Eventually we could see roving gangs of electric biker faangs with their corporate emblems displayed widely across their backs. Soon territory disputes with comments like "Get outta here, crapple!"
Why would a pedagogical project choose JavaScript of all languages?

Unless the project specifically needed to leverage features of the language, or a web browser, it's an incredibly poor choice for building anything with well maintained abstractions. Or anything at all ready, when the language is covered in warts.

I imagine the author hasn't yet discovered for themselves why it's a poor choice, given only a key-value store has been implemented (using JSON.stringify, no less)
And yet such a feature would more or less solve the problem for a large majority of users. What you describe as terrible seems like a pretty good feature to me. If a URL is visually indistinguishable from amazon.com yet differs at the byte level its probably not legit.

If I were implementing it I would render the domain text and then check how significantly pixels differed from its nearest "known" domain. We used to do this with render tests where there was a bit of noise.

Don't let perfect be the enemy of good.
One of my favorite roller skating spots is in a converted church. https://youtu.be/uWSTlDXDNXk
Greetings to Hacker News. Sharing a recently completed collection of essays. This probably isn't the forum for such a thing but since Y-Combinator played a part in some of the startup material thought I'd share. Best regards to this community.
This argument was compelling enough for me to have flagged the post, for what it's worth.
Yes, that's right. He does have issues with how ".." works in Unix though. There's a pretty detailed explanation from him here: http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/lexnames (scroll down to about the third appearance of "..")
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I think that the factor for Europe is immigration. A majority of new Europeans are Muslims and that is by far the fastest growing religion.
The fact that the slope of the growth line is not 1 does not imply that economic expansion is not tightly bound to population expansion, or that economic expansion could continue under population contraction. Consider the simplest possible linear model Y = beta * X + noise where beta != 1; to say nothing of nonlinear models or interaction effects between population growth and other factors. Surely output per capita matters, and the true data generating process is far more complex, but you have not come close to demonstrating population growth and economic growth are decoupled through this example.
In the US, the major team sports are not at all "very thin edge". In fact, lack of parity is a real issue facing several leagues.

Between "tanking" (teams that are deliberately bad in order to get better draft picks), massive budget differences (it's not unusual to see large-market teams with payrolls more than double those of small-market teams), and structural issues in the games themselves, parity can be very very difficult to achieve. 538 attempts to use chess-style Elo ratings to track the major sports, and currently they have:

* ~200-point difference between best and worst major-league baseball team

* ~400-point difference between best and worst NFL football team

* ~400-point difference between best and worst NBA basketball team
It's hardly conclusive, but I did an analysis using data from the General Social Survey[1] last year for a stats class, and found a downward trend in "religiosity"[2] in America between 1974 (or so) and 2014 (or so).

Granted, that's only looking at America, not world-wide, but at least here in the US there seems to be some support for a general decline in the importance of religion.

[1]: http://gss.norc.org/

[2]: a synthetic metric based on multiple questions on the survey which related to religion - some like "how frequently do you attend a religious service", "how important do you consider religion to be in your life", etc., etc.
How do sources influence the news we see on television/social media?
I didn't know who Ricky Jay was but ages ago i ran across this youtube video and was just floored, the whole thing just builds and builds and builds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWvRorX0KhQ&t=
We did one quick and easy with squarespace. We had people RSVP with a form we set up there. Took about an hour. Worked awesome!
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