skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is obviously fault to be attributed to the walker by lying about what had happened but I think its worth thinking about how many animals are killed by cars on a regular basis. We probably all know someone whos pets were killed by cars and the local wildlife is regularly splattered across the roads. I think we need to seriously slow down the speed of our roads to avoid killing so many pets and endangered wildlife.

Its possible the walker was doing nothing terribly wrong and the dog was hit and then the walker panicked and made some wrong choices in communication.
It definitely seems they could and need to do more to tighten up the accountability on the platform. No doubt about that.

I don't know that it's accurate to say the contractor doesn't care. If they were a psychopath I could agree with that, but most people have had the experience of having either a pet, friend or relative die and know how deeply it affects people emotionally and to know you were responsible for that would likely generate a strong, negative visceral reaction.

Edit: Platforms don't kill dogs; people do. Stop trusting people.

Actually this is the part that fascinates me. On some level people expect things to never go wrong. Yet things going "wrong" is kind of the default. It's extremely hard to engineer a situation in which no one ever experiences a negative outcome. To the extent that you can attribute a cause to an outcome, you do.

Infact, it's not at all clear whether the frequency of dogs dying while being sat by pet sitters is higher on platforms or higher when not through platforms. You'd actually have to do quite a lengthy, expensive analysis to compute the truth value of that.

What can likely agree on is that we want the most safe and convenient system. I'm fascinated by thinking about the various trade-offs made when organizing a system one way vs. another. Are we trading more convenience for less safety? Or are we actually getting both more convenience AND more safety, but also increased observability is skewing our perception of the risk such that we think we have got a less safe system when in fact the opposite might be true?

I don't have the answers. But damnit it's important to attempt to look at things the right way in an attempt to compute that actual reality.
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And my simple observation, one that you seem to keep ignoring, is that they had two years to fund the wall. They had two years of full governmental control to pass a bill which could've allocated all of the funding they wanted for the wall. They could've done it during Reconciliation, they could've invoked the nuclear option, they had multiple opportunities to do so. If you keep reading the wikipedia article you can clearly see that there was nothing stopping them from employing it, outside of a lack of unity on the Republican party side of things.

You're effectively saying that Republicans holding the government hostage instead of employing the nuclear option in the past is far less damaging to the country than if they had lifted the parliamentary procedures. This is also ignoring the fact that there has been bipartisan clean CRs which have been outright denied by the Senate.

Can you explain why it would've been more damaging to the country than the current shutdown? I would like an actual explanation.
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Why stop with vampiric devices? Let's just let them forage in the garden overnight:

https://www.wired.com/2001/10/slugbot-enemy-of-slugs/
Wow I had no idea until now. And I've been using Linux at work for close to a decade.
"developing country" is a term used in economic discourse to mean something rather specific -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developing_country. It has pretty specific criteria what qualifies, and America (the richest country in the world) does not.
Absolutely not. Look at colleges like Devry or University of Phoenix. Little to no regulation in curriculum, incredibly expensive, etc.
> has side projects

That's your biggest asset. The perfect GPA will help you get pass the useless HR gatekeepers, a demonstrated ability to build something will mean a lot more to the technical interviewers. Bonus points if those projects happen to use common industry things like an sql database and contains unit tests.

Most graduates, if you sat them down with some fairly simple requirements and said "build this with whatever tech stack you're familiar with" would have no idea where to start.
You could definitely make a cute logo as well. Maybe a thatched hut with a computer screen inside, and "> SR HT" in a terminal-looking font or something like that.
I was going to reply with a reply about this being "statistically bound to happen", until I read this:

> If we wanted to be compensated we had to agree not to tell anyone what happened, we could not leave any negative reviews, we could not make posts on social media, we could not hold Wag or the walker responsible, and only then would Wag reimburse us for Winnie’s cremation. When we responded that we would not sign the agreement, we were told that the agreement would remain available in case we changed our minds. The next day, we received an email stating that the agreement was now “null and void.”

What assholes. (Wag) All these gig economy apps are super shady.
> Combating glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to fuelling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance

What about communism ?
This is a fantastic way to completely destroy your business. What a naive way to try and cover for a lack of investment in safety.

My heart breaks for that dog and her family. Absolutely unbelievable.
Prefer the use of types over preprocessor defines - ex: static const vs #define PI, RAD2DEG, etc. (https://github.com/raysan5/raylib/blob/master/src/raymath.h). Also, take a look at using the GLSL data types for vectors and matrices - https://www.khronos.org/opengl/wiki/Data_Type_(GLSL) along with explicit use of SSE when appropriate and supported.
Anyone with legal knowledge about how services like this and https://www.locast.org/ are able to operate?

It doesn't seem significantly different to me than the aereo tv situation.

Very cool project!
You don't happen to keep a copy of Tor Browser around do you? Just toss it in there.
I was in highschool in the United States 20 years ago, and middle school just before that. We learned a wide range of history, including every war the USA has taken part in (for example, the american revolution).

At no point did textbook or teacher make any assertion about the morality/immorality/justice/injustice of any particular side in any of them.
My experience on Android is that it makes the actual back button on the phone to no longer respond.
"ethical advertising"? Example?
Seriously.

It should have been the easiest decision in the world for them - a persons' dog is more important than most other humans to most dog owners, yet the law treats dogs as nothing more than property. Pay up and grovel to these people. In-action doesn't make these things go away.

EDIT: just read the non-disclosure section. I understand the impulse to do that, but it's a MUCH better gamble to just kill the story with boundless kindness.
That's a great point, that said, I'll bet they're aware of the problem you mention :)

But macro-macro I see China going the very same thing Germany/UK/France, then Japan, then Korea did after WW2: they all rebounded to a certain degree and did so with nationalist fervour where applicable, and then kind of softened as they stopped having as many kids... and the kids lost the hyper passion their parents did.

China is almost there with a lot of this, and soon it won't matter what they do, there's a limit to the demand for their stuff, they can only build so many homes, and they're having fewer babies, and those babies don't want to be slaves.

China is 1980's Japan, just a lot bigger.
The author is referring to traditional system administration - this is Windows - SCCM, SCOM, Exchange, SharePoint, VMware Virtualization, Citrix, Networking, etc.

SRE or "DevOps" roles new roles that are similar to system administration but the biggest difference is the use of cloud technologies, automation and most importantly those in need to be or at least understand software develop and code.
Wow, this is something I did not know I wanted. After having left Twitter a while I find myself missing some of the tweets from the more interesting people I followed.

I mainly stopped using Twitter because of the ads, slowly ruining third party clients (Tweetbot was what I used), and the tracking.

Thanks for sharing this!
With this many applications I would be looking at getting one higher powered server and running docker on it. Would be more power efficient as you only need one OS and one PSU as well as likely much cheaper.
I go on facebook for the ads
SF residents are nowhere near rich enough to afford the struggles. Even people in the top 2-5% struggle desperately to afford housing, renting out every bedroom in the house just to afford to stay there.
Lesson 2: Email is more intimate and leads to better conversations.

Lesson 3: You control the narrative completely in email which provides a much better opportunity for story-telling.

Facebook Messenger?

Facebook isn't just a place to post publicly on your wall. Arguably the reason why Facebook messenger exists on the platform is provide intimacy.
Actually, the supply of unskilled labor is too low. On agriculture, large corporate farms like Tyson Foods can afford to invest in automation to deal with the lack of labor supply (1), however, many employers of unskilled labor do not have the resources that Tyson Foods does. Limiting immigration has never been good for the economy (2). When farmers cannot hire enough people to harvest a crop, the field goes fallow, and the farm folds.

1. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/20/us/farmworkers-immigrant-...

2. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/02/business/trump-legal-immi...
Very important point.
A common way of measuring China's surplus housing stock is by "months of sales". Housing inventory actually peaked back in 2015 at nearly 28 months of sales. It's now back at late 2013 levels of a little over 23 months of sales. Nothing to be alarmed about, even if it rises a little.
This is a real story (in Russian), that help you understand the problem better:

Definitely trolling.
Wasn't there some research done several years ago suggesting that simply the act of looking at a rapidly-flashing computer or TV screen has an effect on the brain, regardless of what's on the screen?
The best they could hope for is compensation for lost/damaged property. It's messed up considering the human/dog bond, but AFAIK there isn't much they can do legally.

If this gets picked up in the news cycles tomorrow that'll be FAR more damaging.
I doubt it is running out, what a dumb article. https://www.mining-technology.com/features/featurephosphorus...
You are right, thanks for pointing this out. I hate making mistakes like that.
So basically, it's a tiny Linux server, and can run various server stacks/webapps, and is relatively accessible to beginners.
How exactly is a "smart" "contract" going to decide if some code fixes some bug? And how is it going to measure someones MRR?

The fundamental problem with "smart contracts" is that they are neither "smart", nor are they "contracts". Contracts deal with ambiguous meatspace issues, and are resolved through courts. Smart contracts are in no form a novel idea, they are just trading/finance bots with some added blockchain to get the suckers to give up their money. They cannot make any decisions on things that can't be verified on the network itself, which includes things like "who does this apple belong to?", "does this code solve the issue?" etc.
I guess. IMHO dissenting minorities are treated pretty well in California

Sure. "Not too bad, but showing disturbing trends." Right now, we're at the stage where the police give certain people extra attention, and attitudes are brewing in the majority society.
I don't disagree, but I think that sharpens the learning curve.
Look at the cloudification or automation in Windows Products - Windows Updates are pushed through Intune over the internet, Exchange, SharePoint are all through Office 365. Entire On-Premise Datacenters are pushed to Azure.

Yes, someone still needs to manage all of this but you need a lot less people. Or you ship these "trade jobs" to low cost areas like India.
It's not even speculation. Urbanization is an ongoing process. Those properties will be filled. Whether or not the developer is liquid enough to hang in there until they do is irrelevant from a societal point of view. That's all numbers and loans. People will inhabit those homes in a few years and the local communities will thrive and generate economic growth
Capitalism won and in return we got Trump.

That doesn't sound like winning.
Source on that, please. Sure, the construction work can be shoddy (though it's improved a lot in the last five years, and unsold property in CHina right now is usually younger), but it's absolutely livable
Do note: I don't give access to my asset management software. The site at the moment is just when to enter and leave a given asset, not cross asset.

That being said, haven't tested myself. Given the advantage we're using (a method called ExpertRank), we recommend holding for at least one quarter. So I expect it wont work as well for that short, but maybe
Great app even though it crashes every time I close a window on Mojave.
I'm personally a big fan of TablePlus: https://tableplus.io
Yes, for some $200 is still a very non-trivial amount of money to spend on something. If your situation makes this a no-brainer for you, you're in a better spot than many that make 6 figures.
Git's UX isn't that bad if you're only cloning projects to build them locally and keep them updated.
The UX only gets really crufty as you use more and more of the features.
The problem is I can’t tell which ones care, and those are the only ones I’d want to do business with.
Being the adults in the room is not setting 5.6 billion dollars (and the projections for the entire project are well north of that in total) on fire to appease a mob. The project is a shakedown, that 5.6 billion dollars will go straight into a private contractors pocket for absolutely no reason other than to appeal to bigoted logic. How much will Trump and private sector lobbies ask for next year? Do you pay ransomeware?
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Edit: bitrate and resolution varies - I've seen bitrates as high as 20 megabit/s.
Only in a few tier-1 cities
Nah, I misunderstood completely.

I was thinking of how a hypothetical code might, in the abstract have evolved from binary, through ternary up to the (current base-4).

I haven't got enough biochem knowledge to speculate how three nucleotides per amino acid can evolve to have three.
I really wish people would internalize that auto accidents rank pretty highly as a cause of death, and that we could all but make it disappear by just paying attention and putting safety first. A lot of people will do reckless things routinely to save 15% or 20% of the time off of a trip, and can't stand to pay attention to the road. We should really treat it like the dangerous activity it is. When I sit down to drive, I usually remind myself that I just want to get to the other side in one piece.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1w9_cob_zw

Compressed to all get out, but shows some accompanying visuals. There is another version of this article with great photographs (the original from Scientific American), but I can't seem to find it any more.
Yes, this is old as time but it's just now we've starting eating into positions that with a moderate education investment you could have a decent technical career.

Now that isn't the case. The traditional system admin will need to adapt, but adaption looks like going back to school for software development.
Do you actually think people outside of the US make six-figure salary?
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> The guardrails Paul Graham put in place are beginning to break as Hacker News ages and the immigrants are able to use the downvote button.

...seriously? Give me a break.
Agree. This is extremely cut and dry – something like this is a very rare occurrence, so you can afford to go absolutely above and beyond for your affected customer. For example, AirBnB changed their policy when a house was wrecked and now offers $50k guarantee they will make it right if something horrendous happens:
https://techcrunch.com/2011/08/01/airbnb-offers-unconditiona...

It’s also the right thing to do.
if you are so busy that you need uber to walk your dog, maybe don’t buy one
fanfold paper ... reseating boards in computer (the heat made them shrink/expand and they needed to be pushed in again) ... hex conversion by hand ... single-step button on console ... hand punching paper tape one hole at a time (not one row, one hole) ... tty ribbons ... 8 inch floppies ... key sequences for bootstrap ... JCL statements ... 73-80 column sequence numbers on punched cards ... overnight turnaround ... floating point magic ... modem switches ... n-8-1 ... voltage vs current tty links ... uppercase only code ... EBCDIC ... binary coded decimal ...
My thought is that the text from the walker saying the dog was home safe wasn’t the actual person who took the dog. In that case the vetted person subcontracted to someone else, and perhaps didn’t know the dog had died at the time of the text.
There must be a lot of vacant/abandoned homes in the countryside with such a rapid shift.
> The law of the universe dictates that our world is always moving toward entropy (chaos) no matter what,

Unless you put in energy, which this glowing thing in the sky seems to do quite well and human civilization has also been quite good at. Furthermore, entropy is not the same thing as chaos and does not fit into the picture you are painting. For instance a random Gaussian distribution of wealth has much higher entropy than the very ordered distribution where 1% of the population has almost all the wealth.

> Nobody has been more wrong throughout the history than those expert economists.

Plenty people have been more wrong, e.g. the Great Leap Forward.
nobody should have to commit extra effort to your endeavor. i’ll sum it up for you. the dog is dead. thanks for letting us know about your facebook policy.
I think this is the problem with social media / networking... it used to be when I was a young kid that if someone wanted t heir dog walked ... you would find someone in your neighborhood that you knew.

Now we use online services and trust people blindly...

As far as the person who lost their dog; I am sorry. I know I did not cause the harm; but it's the only thing I can say.

As a pet owner I would be mortified. I also don't trust anyone with my pets (and they don't trust anyone). So it works out.
Having just got a puppy less than two weeks ago, this is terrifying. I can’t imagine the feeling of helplessness and shock that they must have felt.
Easier access to (I think) the same content here: http://www.dspguide.com/pdfbook.htm
No offense intended, but ... that isn't the most glowing recommendation.

I read it as "This book is great, really helped me understand the concepts. In fact, it helped so much I failed the class."
That's what the article says, but the definition of "well-being", and the methods, are not explained. Even if the results of this meta-study are reliable, that doesn't mean they rule out all possible negative effects of screen time.
The debug printing method p in Ruby have been returning it's argument for years now. Dbg seems possibly better for the usecase though as you get the location as well.
I can respect that. You want to maximize the likelihood the dog survives.

I call this "The Hard Problem of Delineation". You can't delineate between who will and won't kill your dog no matter what system you use. That's the problem.

Though I take your point about the cold, uncaring, capitalist dog walker. Hmmm.

Edit: now that I think about your point I can see what you mean. The "sharing economy (Uber for X)" has become a widely known abstraction that people realize they can exploit for monetary gain and thats likely to attract more people walking dogs who wouldn't otherwise care about, be familiar with and/or know how to handle dogs. I agree, at least in principle, that may be a phenomenon that is occurring.
"It takes years or even decades to build community trust. It takes about 15 minutes to destroy it." - my old boss
>I just wish we had a good alternative for event organizing

There are many alternatives, see: https://blog.thefetch.com/2013/05/28/10-cool-sites-for-event...
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I admittedly wasn't a huge fan of Wag ever because it always seemed like taking the lowest available bidder to walk your dog (instead of someone who truly loves dogs and has years of experience training them), but I'm curious how much of an influence Softbank has been since their investment.

Everybody talks about how Softbank is the smartest money in Silicon Valley. Obviously time will tell, but I feel like Softbank is actually the dumbest money and just has more cash to throw around than anyone else.

That said, this is really an unnecessary tangent to what is truly a horrible incident and I grieve for the dog owners.
Americans trust the military more than Big Tech to develop AI
Or just use a programming language instead of a calculator with various features bolted on.

[Speaking of cvxopt, originally written in matlab]
"Fortunately, it has since been rewritten in a real programming language." - Stephen Boyd
I have always been quite paranoid about port forwarding anything into my home network.
I was told the ICANN handover was merely a formality?
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several corrections, apartments are typically leased for 70 years, 40 is for commercial property which are sometimes inhabitable.

some apartments are finished, these days it’s more likely you’ll find a fully finished apartment, ready for move in, but they do have the unfinished apartments, but it’s too much trouble and trending down lately.

you’re right about the investment aspect, i believe in early < 2012, there was no limit to the number of houses you could own or mortgages you could take so the extremely weathly purchased apartments in batch as investment, never considered living or renting these out, many of these back then were unfinished, so you pay off the downpayment, get a mortgage, and leave it as an investment to sell later without having to deal with the complications of outfiting the apartment with drywall, hardwood floors, appliances, fixtures, paint, etc, and having to deal with rental hassles. basically what they purchased were these concrete enclosures with basic plumbing and electricity in place.

i used to rent an apartment in downtown shanghai, 2 bedroom, 1 bathroom, roughly 100 sq m (1000 square foot) new apartment, fully furnished with 60 inch led tv, furniture, etc, that cost me about 6k rmb a month (1000 usd a month), to buy would have cost me about 4m rmb (670k usd), i had pretty good relationship with the landlord, her father owned about 20 similar apartments in the complex, they were from a small town.