skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From what I have gathered, much of the reason behind the licensing process for barbers is for shaving, with a straight razor, which does have considerably greater risks of cuts and infection.

However, very few people go to a barber for a shave anymore. It used to be that most people would go to a barber for a shave, and shaving yourself was unusual. Since the advent of the safety razor, cartridge razor, and electric razor, it's the other way around, where it is unusual to go to a barber for a shave. But in many states, training on shaving is a large part of the training for barbers.

In fact, it also used to be the case that barbers were the surgeons as well, though I don't know how much of that time overlapped with the licensing era.

I don't know how much of the remaining licensing process for modern barbers has to do with actual safety concerns, or is just inherited from the times of barbers being surgeons or doing the majority of shaving with straight razors.
Maybe we should accept that different people want different things and not try to shoehorn everyone into the same situation.
While it exists, learn how to use occupational licensing to protect your interests.

The next time you need a contractor for work, ask for his license and a certificate of insurance. Using a search engine, confirm that the phone number on the COI corresponds to the insurance company. Once verified, call the insurance company and simply tell the agent who you are and that you're verifying the account.

On an estimate for thousands of dollars of roofing work, I caught a property manager colluding with a handyman acting as a roofer with the intent of defrauding a condominium association of thousands of dollars. The license # provided was years expired. Further, the insurance company had no record of the customer. It was a complete fraud.
There's speculation because bird strikes occur constantly (>13,000 reported to FAA in 2014) and they aren't newsworthy, but a hypothetical drone strike will light up social media. And Bloomberg has no journalistic integrity.

https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/23420/how-many-...
It's weird to me that almost all posting/commenting platforms are about the same. You get a series of small boxes with text in them and a small box to type into, usually too small to fit more than a couple of sentences, perhaps a button to promote, a button to reshare, and that's it. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Medium, Disqus... all the same.

We've explored so little of the design space.

If I had to hazard in extrapolating from only a few data points, it seems that shame-storming behaviour correlates with (a) how easily you can reshare without thinking and (b) how easily you can reshare without context.

It would be fun to brainstorm all the possibilities for how we could be communicating online differently. Here are a few stupid ideas I've thought of; I'm sure there are millions more and I'd love to hear yours:

* You have to wait at least 30 seconds before you can hit the reply or reshare button.

* Short or low-information comments are discouraged; if your comment is short or an exact duplicate of something previously written (e.g. a common insult), it's blocked or you have to wait longer before posting it.

* You must listen to your comment read back to you aloud before you can post it.

* Even when reshared, your comment is always presented together with, and close to, the content of the original source article so it's hard to ignore the source.

* You have to correctly answer a simple question about the article before posting a comment on it. A Norwegian newspaper tried this (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14883842).

* After you've gone back and forth a couple of times with the same person, the only option presented to you is to make a voice call directly to that person. You can't just type text at them any more.

* Variant: after a thread gets long enough, you can't type text any more. You must record yourself speaking.

* Every comment must be approved by its parent. (If you never approve replies, then your threads aren't interesting to read, and maybe you get a reputation for never approving, so no one will bother to reply to you.)
The ROI on Google+ has been negative since before it launched.
https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/8/17951914/google-plus-data...

https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/10/18134541/google-plus-pri...
Look at University of Illinois Urbana Champaign.
Supercomputing centre and home of Mozilla, but the talent and firms leave.

And they don't head to Chicago either.
You can run so many more stories! (just need to make sure the prediction algorithm is good)
A well-built modern fission plant is far safer and more environmentally-friendly than almost all the other solutions out there save for solar/wind/geothermal.

Fusion is the holy grail, though, and with good reason. At least with fusion (as with flight 100+ years ago), we have only to look up during the day to know it's feasible because it's being demonstrated, live, every day!
They weren't forced to partition, but they were led down that path by the British in an attempt to divide them as they left. The thinking was that the divided former colonies would drive themselves into such a state such that they would invite their colonial masters back to rule over them.

There was definitely religious violence in South Asia before colonization, but the scale and depth definitely increased during and after.
This feels particularly delusional.

Even if the law said that this notification must be delivered via certified mail, that would obviously not prevent Centurylink from also doing this.

Why is it that you so badly want to blame lawmakers for this?
Is this a Foucault meme?

I think I agree with you, but I've seen people make similar statements without elaboration and feel I may be missing some important subtext.
No need to go that far back. Try 2013.

And unless anything changed since the Snowden revelations, the US is still conducting (or attempting to conduct) industrial espionage to this day.

In some cases they were in direct violation of agreements they had with other countries concerning such espionage[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_espionage#Germany
Bullshit. Nobody ever wants to talk with another human being and line up to touch kiosks. You contact far more pathogens by touching public handrails and doorknobs.
There is PlaidML[1] - a cross-platform deep learning framework that works, among others, on Raspberry Pi's GPU.

[1] - https://github.com/plaidml/plaidml

Edit: they don't support RPI GPU yet - https://github.com/plaidml/plaidml/issues/141
7-year-old girl who died at border did not receive medical care for 90 minutes
> China realized than in their dire request to transition out their entire energy reliance on carbon-based energies, it's impossible to do without nuclear. Also, newer reactor designs are much safer and last longer so a long of the concerns of radioactive waste have largely been alleviated.

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612564/chinas-losing-its-... (December 12, 2018 | Sustainable Energy
China’s losing its taste for nuclear power. That’s bad news.)

HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18675453

Quick points: Too expensive with necessary safety measures, Chinese citizens don't want it after Fukushima, renewables are already cheaper, and electrical demand growth has declined unexpectedly.

My opinion: We should still explore fusion technology and spend on R&D, but fission is already dead. Renewables and storage full speed ahead.
I wonder what is behind that damaged section of the plane. Passenger seats?
Posting like this will get your account banned. If you can't comment civilly, don't.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Commercial Drivers Licenses are a requirement for anyone driving a vehicle over 26,000# or towing more than 10,000#.

You're plenty free to cut your own hair and that of your friends and family without a license. And you can drive your family around with minimal licensing. But there's a threshold you cross where licensing becomes mandatory.
True, I did forget about the Qwest acquisition from Centurylink because that was so long ago (to my memory). I do remember the days when routing problems and outages with Qwest in public forums always led to the 'Qworst' name popping up.

I also work for a shop that I recommended Level(3) DIA fiber/Layer 3 services on about 1.5 years ago. Now that it's CL, not much has changed on service or reliability.

The sales people however are still trying to expand their grasp into our organization so it's always a battle there.
I think one of the biggest misconceptions that anti-mob people have is that there is no cost to letting people go un-shunned.

There is much hand-wringing over the handful of people wrongly shunned, but many of the wringers give no thought at all to the victims who are forced out of their careers, families, and communities every day because the people around them refuse to consider the possibility that there is a wolf in their midst.

Nieces absent from Thanksgiving while their uncle sits at the table. Talented women leaving tech while their spiteful coworkers are promoted.

Should we allow abusers to hold power because there’s a shadow of a doubt that they might be innocent, thereby sending their victims to start over in a new city?

Outside of the court system, shouldn’t we try to hit a 1:1 ratio of wrongful excommunications to failures to excommunicate?

Or should it be 1:1,000,000 like the courts do? A million unpunished rapes for every wrongful conviction? A million women pushed out of their rightful career path for everyone one man who was wrongfully fired?

When the information doesn’t exist to make perfect decisions, how do we decide who takes up the burden of our mistakes?
As far as builders are concerned, isn't that precisely why they are usually bonded[0] in the US?

[0]: https://www.angieslist.com/articles/hiring-contractor-whats-...
Don't install Arch, install Antergos or some other Arch derivative that packages it up with an installer.

High school me would have loved installing Arch (I did LFS back then). Current me doesn't have time for that bullshit.
We were still on waiting lists when we left for Germany...and came back a few years later in an old and ugly brown Toyota Tercel which was so much better ;)
Dow Drops 400 Points Because the Market’s Worst Fear Could Be Coming True
People here are calling for draconian measures without considering low-hanging fruits first - why not just require the platform to disclose this within its primary medium?

Bright big popup right over main facebook.com (and peripheral webs/apps) dismissable only if you scrolled it all the way down, confirmed to have read it, saying "private photos of millions of users were leaked" in big bold letters, would go a long way.
Also, as in all of these products, at the end of the day a developer (or developers) typed in the code. "Whelp, boss said to do it!"
Or, in one line of shell:

echo 'int square(int num) { return num*num; }' | gcc -S -x c - -o -

How about this: open an editor on "test.c". Then in another terminal window, run this script:

#!/bin/sh

rm -f test_copy.c

while true ; do
if [ test.c -nt test_copy.c ] ; then
cp test.c test_copy.c
clear
gcc -S test_copy.c -o -
fi
sleep 0.3
done

Every time you save test.c, the compiler output updates in the other shell window (within a fraction of a second).
Check these ones out, they're the ones designed for drones:

https://uavionix.com/products/ping2020/

20g, 25mm x 39mm x 12mm
At the risk of inciting a flame war that I might not be able to understand, is there any way to characterize current fusion projects against each other? For example, what can be said about the promise of ITER vs Wendelstein 7-x?

Part of me realizes that there’s no such thing as a “failed” scientific experiment and that diversity of approaches is good. The other part of me thinks that a public and competitive spectacle would also be good.
It's difficult to describe the "how".

I've had the experience of talking with a friend and having a conversation along the lines of "Do you remember the guy that was in that movie?". If there's enough shared context, I might "know" exactly who they are talking about, but not the name of the movie or the name of the actor. I'm internally apprehending some kind of abstract "node" to which properties are attached, but not immediately available for recall.

I'm not thinking about the phrase 'that guy in that movie'. I'm not thinking about the name, because I don't (yet) recall it. I apprehend a connection between a person-node and perhaps as well a recent-experience node, the latter being an unsymbolized apprehension of the recollection of having shared an experience.

If I focus on the apprehension, I can begin to recall its properties.

To abuse a computer science analogy, it's as though there's some kind of abstract associative cache between nodes, linking them to other nodes but referring only to their object-ids. To further abuse the analogy, raw object-ids are a private type that have very few public methods. Mostly:
- more_or_less_the_same_thing_as(oid1, oid2)
- randomly_select_a_few_related_oids(oid) returns set<oid>
- recall_concrete_properties(oid, timeout) returns maybe<propertyset>

These apprehensions don't have an appearance or a sound, but they have a... brain feel? They have connections between them, and they have rough quasi-shapes, and can "fit" or "not fit" into certain other apprehended "structures".

Depending on what mode my brain is running in, I can generally render these apprehensions into words. Sometimes I can't seem to get them to cross the idea->word barrier.
I understand not wanting to appear on "our incredible journey" blog or whatever with a bunch of sap, but surely more information can be made public without everyone emailing? Why shutting down? Why only a couple of weeks? Will the code be open sourced?
I just want to throw out there that you're not wrong but keep in mind that there's a pretty big difference between operating 100ft off the ground in Denver and operating 1 mile above Los Angeles.

Know why?

You need enough battery/fuel to climb 0.99 miles minus 435ft in L.A. (and presumably safely descend) through progressively thinner atmosphere, in Denver you need need enough battery/fuel to climb 100 ft in thinner atmosphere.

The amount of planes flying 100ft above the terrain is considerably less than those that are operating between 100ft and 0.99 miles above the terrain.
McDonald's outsourced the work traditionally done by their staff to the customer. Their staff is forced to wash their hands at common intervals, the general public isn't. Interesting article :)
Anything that deals with the source data, such as aggregation, sorting, or partitioning, should be done with SQL.

Anything that deals with the formatting/display of the columns in the result set rows can be done in SQL, but doesn't have to be done in SQL. It's really a matter of convenience to do it in SQL, especially when dealing with multiple front-end languages, because it means that the formatting is done in one place.
I prefer the chikken wings, which are probably wings but cant be legally called chicken.
"I don't like their attitude" is even more rife for abuse than blocking nominations on the basis of unsupported allegations...
Face to face, non audit-able interactions are important in finance. Maybe the same for show business, plus LA has really nice weather and scenery.
The Rest of America
Turns out solving 3000 Leetcode questions doesn't teach you now to do security right
It baffles me that people willingly give their data to Google. Not only that, but some pay for it too.
You say this, but in the great depression it was perfectly normal to open up extra rooms to borders if you had the room.

We live in a time/place where money is reasonably readily available; You take that away and "society" makes all sorts of accommodations for "you're preventing homelessness" and "you're doing what you have to do to pay your debts". Though given rising inequality, we might be closer than we think.
Yes, this approach assumes universal parity in the result of the act, which is far from true. For example the leaked health records of a healthy individual are not as damaging as those of someone with a lifelong condition, yet both cases are very, very bad.
The part in Ciarcia's "How it all began" article starting with:

"During the same decade all this was going on at my end, BYTE was experiencing significant changes as well."

is also very interesting. Several paragraphs from there describe how he started his own magazine, Circuit Cellar, after BYTE changed direction.
Seems straight forward to write that compliance to certain measures is based on gaap annual revenue.

Though in practice, enforcement of regulations in general is already handled this way.

For example a new startup in the valley doesn’t get a note from the gov because they launched without a privacy policy.

Same in the App Store, a minor app breaking App Store rules doesn’t get knocked out because the downloads are too small to bother.
To be accurate:

Boeing 737 Passenger Jet Damaged in Midair UFO Collision
I tried looking for their landing page on the wayback machine, but every snapshot I tried just shows a 404 page for some reason.
Especially not at home.
The issue I see is also that they didn't notify the customer of what the law requires. The law requires they notify the customer that the customer can request content guessed to potentially be somehow harmful to minors be blocked. It doesn't say anything about the customer having to pay to buy software that they then have to operate themselves in order to block such content. The law, at least as far as I read it, puts the entire responsibility for blocking the content on the ISP - not the customer. So what the ISP is doing seems in direct contravention of the law.
Thanks for making this point. After the Amazon/Apple hack fiasco, Bloomberg is a bottom-tier news site for me. They have clearly demonstrated (IMO) their lack of integrity or competence (or both).
From my broke college student mentality, they are too small for what you pay. You want twenty bucks for three hundred calories?
Thanks, we've reverted to the original from “Utah ISP blocking internet and using DNS to show ads; says it's required by law”.
>"But HIPAA" has never, in my experience, been employed except by people who find the idea of doing the right thing inconvenient or inconveniently expensive. (It is virtually never that hard and its benefits are clear.)

Thank you for directly attacking my character without even addressing my actual argument.

I'm not arguing against HIPAA, I'm arguing against such regulations in spaces that don't require that kind of sensitivity. I think that medical data absolutely requires the protections it has. But it absolutely has had the unintended consequence of making current medical data more insecure and stifling innovation in the space. Most doctors don't even follow HIPAA compliance sending patient medical records over email.

I would estimate that 40% of doctors today are not compliant with HIPAA, sending X-rays and other similar patient information over email with providers that they haven't signed BAAs with.

>There are reasons for not modernizing tech stacks in the medical space. HIPAA is, in every case I've ever observed, not a meaningful one.

Then please enlighten us. Up until a few years ago (maybe even just a year) you couldn't use AWS to host medical data. Today you can't use Google Cloud to host medical data unless you are a large enough business to be able to get into contact with one of their sales reps. Can you even sign a business associate agreement with digital ocean? So up until a year ago you could not even have a small healthcare startup hosted on the cloud. Please explain to me how this hasn't stifled medical software innovation.

If it isn't HIPAA it's some other outdated regulation.

https://slate.com/technology/2018/06/why-doctors-offices-sti...
Yeah yeah whatever
The alternative is imperative UI design à la Win32, so I'm not sure what there's to expand on. Unless you really think writing a couple hundred lines of code to set position and apply event callbacks is a good idea.
When you say "downtown Minneapolis", are you talking about just downtown, or about the whole area of Minneapolis proper? I don't think the parking rule applied to downtown in the first place - and if you include the warehouse district with "downtown", the downtown population has grown tremendously over the past two decades.

I think this matters a lot more for, say, my neighborhood in SE (down by Minnehaha Park), which is almost exclusively single-family, and a pretty expensive place to live. A lot of 100 year old bungalows are getting torn down and replaced by ugly oversized single-family houses. I'd rather see some small apartment buildings to get more density, but it won't happen if there are strong parking restrictions.
GE laid off 12k people from its power division last year [1] due to lackluster outlook on nat gas generation. Also, GE's stock price is a poor indicator of future outlook of power generation, due to their financials unraveling [2].

[1] https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2017/12/07/ge-job-cuts/...

[2] https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?stor...
How to create a Tor hidden service on a Whonix KVM
The collision happened shortly before landing, so the plane may not have been that high.
In an interview yesterday, the CEO said they were an "Engineering first company". While located in silicon valley, they have no right to subscribe to the "move fast and break things" mentality when they are playing with people's money. Any financial institution that holds external accounts should be a finance first company. Good technology is essential, but not as essential as following rules and regulations to protect your customers.
This seems like an all-in-one solution and quite complex, I highly doubt that this can be exchanged in a short time or maybe even at all...

I really feel bad for those who committed their company to this company.
Show IH: Keys.run – Scalable Key-Value API for Caching
I'm one of the authors. There's more discussion on this other recent HN thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18676986 where David Duvenaud (Senior Author) answers some questions.
> I’m happy to wait until the right candidate shows up

Well, you're in luck, because he was confirmed.
Is the comment really that inflammatory? I think it's good to point that a lot of the "civilized" nations did a lot very bad things at the same time they were talking about freedom and humanity.
Not joking. That, and it doesn't require toughness so much as good aim:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Hudson#Duel_and_disast...

I'd much rather roll the dice with duelling again than introduce some new, elaborate, and untested form of social engineering.
> And, India got partitioned into 3 countries

Technically two, one of which had non-contiguous parts which later had a falling out.
I agree to some extent with your thesis. I think another factor is how many other words you have to see. This could even be a quantifiable metric.

In order to post a comment on Hacker News, you simply cannot avoid seeing hundreds of other words around it, dozens of comments. It is much harder to read and reply to a single comment out of context.
The definition of what constitutes a food desert is deceptively narrow and has little to do with actual nutrition. No, you can't find organic free-range avocados in many of these areas but you can find canned green beans and frozen broccoli, which for nutritional purposes are equivalent and much cheaper. We should be more concerned with adequate nutrition than the form of that nutrition.

Calling a place a "food desert" because people choose cheaper vegetables with less spoilage risk is condescending and easy to say from a position of economic privilege. I know an urban 1%-er that still eats canned green beans -- she loves the taste, having eaten them as poor child (I detest them, though for the same reason).