skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a Jew, would you feel confortable indicating that via a checkbox? Anywhere, for that matter? Let alone having that used against you in college admissions? Of course not.

If this mess with Asians isn’t truly a double standard against non-Whites, then you should be willing to accept the same treatment for the same reasons we supposedly think it’s okay to do it to Asians. If you wouldn’t be comfortable with that, your argument isn’t very useful because you clearly haven’t empathized far enough to understand how we feel.
I was just about to comment that it looks like a joke or a scam of some kind.
Alaskan Way was a busy 4 lane road prior to the seawall replacement project and SR-99 construction, the two addes lanes are dedicated for busses.

Really wish we had kept rail along this alignment (rather than letting Seattle Art Museum destroy the waterfront trolley), but short of that we are stuck with making busses fast and reliable.

Wrt cutting this down to 1 lane in either direction for regular cars, in the context of the ferry queues clogging Alaskan Way currently, narrowing the road would create a waterfront parking lot between ferries.

Running the park down the middle of the road would be enjoyable, Portland has a few nice parks of that style
Wait, their customer facing UI only supports a timezone that virtually no humans use?

That doesn't sound like a datetime library design problem, it sounds like they totally neglected to use a datetime library at all.
Oatly Skinny and Oatly Whole differ in the amount of fat, but have the same carbs, fiber, and protein content.

So, it appears to be quite similar to skim milk, which is milk with reduced fat (cream skimmed off), not watered down milk.

What amazes me is the strong opinions people have about this topic.
Don't forget about shoeprints, dental imprints, drug dogs, and other bunk
Tesla Model 3 Is Top Rated Luxury Compact Car by Consumer Reports
As far as I know, the 24 hour cancellation rule is not international. I think it is mostly applicable to North America. If this was an international flight, it is possible that the law did not apply.

European airlines have different policies regarding cancellations, often based on the type of fare you select. Sometimes you get a full refund, other times only the taxes and fees.
There's one interpretation which says that isn't required:

https://cr.yp.to/softwarelaw.html

> In the United States, once you own a copy of a program, you can back it up, compile it, run it, and even modify it as necessary, without permission from the copyright holder. See 17 USC 117.

> For example, after purchasing a copy of Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Workstation---which is a poorly tuned version of NT 4.0 Server, minus a few utilities---you can back it up, apply a small patch that fixes the tuning, and run the result.

Whether the law is enforcable in court is another matter:

> Ten years ago, the SPA convinced Louisiana to subvert the will of Congress by passing a law that declared shrinkwrap licenses enforceable. In Vault v. Quaid, 847 F.2d 255 (5th Cir. 1988), this law was struck down. Federal copyright law preempts state law.

> The SPA didn't give up. It keeps arguing in court that, gee, if all these software makers claim that you can't use the software without a license, then they can't all be wrong, can they? (Ignore the fact that they're willingly selling their software to the public.)

> The SPA lost again in Step-Saver but then won in ProCD. I expect the Supreme Court to step in within the next few years to resolve the dispute in favor of Vault and Step-Saver.
So much this.

The convenience must never be underestimated. Paying with PayPal is just _easy_.
In addition to hiring an infinite number of human reviewers, what's the solution?
There's a very simple solution to this: Don't run apps that you don't trust.

If you simply must, use a VM or AppArmor or SELinux. Don't inconvenience everybody because you're too lazy to be responsible for your own data.

Besides, untrustworthy apps will bypass the protections anyway. Judging by the popularity of "curl <url> | sudo bash" lately, they'll probably just ask for root directly.
I don’t care for that style of dress and 19th cenury villian mustache, even on young folks.
I know it’s tiresome to talk about how Japan lives in the future, but this kind of thing (and more) has been available in Japan in apps like Yahoo! Transit for years: https://transit.yahoo.co.jp
Well, it can't be called juice since almond milk contains no juice. It could be called an almond drink or beverage. The fact is, that both animal milk and almond milk are fat water emulsions with various additives to serve their purpose.
Obviously, this style of building is simply a reflection of the hedonistic culture of the Italians and supported only by the Military-Cottage-Industrial Complex and should be rejected by any self-respecting civilized nation. (LOL)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dover_Western_Heights

Funny old world.
I don't drink milk. But we do buy a half gallon of heavy whipping cream twice a month from Costco. It's not about the taste, but macros. Try getting the same fat/protein/carb ratio with soy.... FWIW I still drink almond milk occasionally. But it's no replacement for heavy cream in my coffee.

For me it's the same with fake meat. They tend to be carb heavy and little fat. Although beyond meat macros look pretty decent. Unfortunately it's $14/lb.
32 port 100G switches are dirt cheap. If the network is your bottleneck you likely overspent on the wrong hardware.
Yes, but I want to point out on odd edge-cases that's not always true.

For example, when designing something for 3dprinting, I sometimes prefer modeling programs over CAD programs because I have control over, for example, however a sphere is made up (the style of polygons, tesselation, that sort of thing). When you're slicing for a 3d printer, you can get odd bugs if your stl is made in a non-optimal way.
This depends on what the barrier is. A financial barrier, for instance, to submit apps to an App Store does not introduce any quality test. So removing it doesn't reduce quality.

If removing a barrier means removing a quality check, then sure it could lower the bar. But not all barriers are quality checks. Show that cargo removes a quality check, and you can come back and claim it's lowering the bar.
I want it to have the GIL, because I want it to maintain compat with C extensions.

We already have a plan to bypass the GIL: multi interpreters.

Having an implementation in Rust may make future improvement to Python easier, so it's better to have something exactly similar first, then start to hack it.
Anybody know the year?
Just wrote a friend who is a telecom professor and suggested they run a summer experiment here in Michigan like this guy did with students collecting the data.

I don't know what he will think of the idea but I'd sure like to see a coverage map with real data, not the carriers version of the truth.
I lived through a "empower the developers with Devops", "prevent you doing menial tasks" project a while back and ended up with:

- A mail server which was an open relay, promptly shutdown for abuse

- Every single internal server on an external IP address with an allow any/any ACL

- Brand new environments built with PHP 5.0 in 2018 to run new development projects (EOL over ten years ago)

- Managers patting themselves on the back about the power of Devops
How to protect humans in a fully automated society
I think what was missed during this viadoom was that SR-99 allowed many employers to demand people needlessly commute to an office, when most of the former daily users could work from home or at a closer location.

The Wednesday after the Viaduct closed, I dropped by a few office buildings, and business after business was operating with only a handful of the usual staff on site. Most of those office employees are only on site daily due to poor management IMO.
Forking implies keeping the C code.

I think a rewrite in rust is more future proof: we benefit from a safer, more modern language to implement it, which comes with cargo, and hence, the potential of an hybrid python/rust toolchain and dev plateform.
Am remembering the video about how millennials don’t do mornings, etc.
> Not the departments at universities but the course of study

Why are you making this distinction? I think most people undertaking that course of study will be doing at the department in the university.
There is some truth to this. A couple years ago I bought three tickets from AirAsia. A week before the flight there was a volcanic eruption which canceled all flights at the destination. They issued me a credit voucher for future flights. Half the credit expired before I next needed to travel to an airport they service.

I still use them because sometimes they are $300 cheaper. And they don't play hardball with luggage weights, unlike some full fare airlines like British ("Your bag is 7.8kg, the limit is 7kg, if you want to carry it on you need to remove five pieces of clothing and put them on yourself").
Venezuela Voices: “We Are Starving Here”
Again, I'm not trying to dispute the fact that genes are the blueprints to our bodies.

The point I'm making is in regards to the OP's comment about how people coming from legacy will be much higher due to the fact that smart people reproducing with other smart people greatly increases the chances of producing a resultant smart baby. Random variation has much greater effect in determining the end result of that baby's genome is what I'm saying. You could have paired the person with almost any other human being, and the resultant IQ outcome would be no less likely to occur.

Only through concerted effort to discover and understand how the brain is constructed genetically in addition to developing methodologies for testing changes to those key markers will it be possible to meaningfully alter the statistics of intelligence. Anything else will be lost in the noise primarily because of, again, what I stated above. Intelligence of humans is likely already very close to some local maxima and it is also a highly conserved trait.
The Windows version only supports Linux apps, not native Windows apps. So it doesn't really replace Chocolatey.
Do you have a source for California alfalfa mostly being sent to China? Most places on the Internet say that it's mostly used to feed California dairy cows. And that alfalfa cultivation is changing to higher value crops over time, as farmers take advantage of the value of their water rights.
But how many store data locally as opposed to in a database? Even for stateful applications, if you have the source code, you could put an http listener on it for your target group to ping as a health check and put your data on FSx. If the app became unhealthy, kill the server and bring a new instance up. Have a minimum and maximum of one.

I wouldn’t go that far though. I would probably use something like Consul to do a local health check first and restart the app if it dies and then do the target group/health check as a second level check.
And the reply is hilarious. It's a screenshot of his conversation with Microsoft technical support. https://i.redd.it/9zkgslagked21.png This is either a troll or someone who's gone off the deep end.
Sort of unrelated but god do I hate the fashion of SV. The guy pictured at the top of the article looks like some kind of hyper-hipster. Everything about his clothes screams “down to earth,” “humble,” “stoic,” “thoughtful,” etc. it drives me insane because this guy is the exact opposite of that. He’s a cut-throat business person. It’s part of a broader trend in SV where people put on the appearance of wanting to improve the world, caring about social justice and all the other tired out virtue tropes. But in reality these businesses are no different than those that came before them. The dishonesty is astounding to me.
Nerf Bastion!
Great read. What would be a good introduction to Feyman's writings for physics noobs such as myself?
AirAsia used to store passwords in plaintext. I know this because they sent me my original password when I asked for a password reset

This was a couple years ago. I don't know if they've fixed it since.
There's no license listed, so it may be "open source", but it's not FOSS (which is what people usually mean by "open source"). It's tagged "public domain", but I wouldn't go off a tag for a license statement. The only actual license I can find is in the font files' metadata: "(c) 2018 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved." I don't even know who Piotr Grochowski is or if he actually works for Microsoft/has permission to relicense this font.

It's also not open source in the sense that there's no source -- he's just using the repository as a dropbox for each final version of the compiled font file. The uncompiled versions of each character aren't there, and I can't track changes through the commit history. Here's an example of what an open source font repo should look like: https://github.com/konpa/devicon/

If this really is from Microsoft (which I'm doubting more and more) and they're trying to make Consolas open source, I'm all for it, but there's more to open sourcing something than just dumping it onto GitHub.
>a few users are too lazy

Running untrusted programs is the default way we do computing. No one has time to audit every single program they run. The current desktop security model comes from when people mostly ran the programs that came with the OS and programs they wrote themself. Its vastly inappropriate for modern computer usage.
It's not even that. Old Windows sources are available via torrents. That does not attach any kind of open source license.
Meet the data guardians taking on the tech giants
see also yesterday's article on Raspberry Pi, where it is mentioned that ThreadX runs on the Broadcom GPU.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19061656
I recently chanced upon this chess video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G90SVhxKeig I believe you could spice up the presentation with some cinematography and a clearer narration and it will make for good cinema. Chess has a nice battle rhythm of quick simple moves and long periods of thinking about pivotal moves. It's still not 100% super accessible if you have to speak and explain the meaning behind the moves, but it's probably a good idea in a movie about chess. In another kind of movie, one in which chess is used more as a proxy, you could have the narrator sort of in the midground, focusing on wordless interaction between onlookers, so people who don't care about the commentary aren't forced to think and understand the game and can instead immediately empathise and get the appropriate emotional response.
Doesn't apt track installs?
> Maybe extremely high SAT and grades are correlated with poor 'holistic' qualities such as social skills, communication, leadership, creativity, 'round character' (i.e. athleticism, disposition, generosity, musicianship).

If that were so, it would affect members of all ethnicities who had the same high SAT scores and grades equally.
Going to guess Microsoft is completely unaware of what has just happened and we'll be hearing more Monday.
Sounds like a fundamental misunderstanding about the difference between a birthdate and an instant on a timeline.
Lactose intolerance isn't an allergy. It's lack of an enzyme, so microorganisms end up breaking down the sugar, leading to the gas and other symptoms.
> The small number of humans available to review contested claims means that people who fall afoul of machine error, sloppiness and criminal mischief are often unable to get a fair hearing or justice.

This is possibly one of the key points in this report. Google is synonymous with their blackbox/magic "AI".

These systems become remarkably interesting to game (their ad platform has been subject to fraud, but on a different layer). I wonder how many levels of "AI" they think they can automate before they realize that it's probably not possible.

For some good news though, there was a story a little while ago for some educational platform that noped out of YouTube and migrated to self-hosted.
Is Transit (https://transitapp.com/) available where you live? If there's no official API for realtime updates, it also allows you to share your GPS data to the rest of the app users for crowdsourcing this info. Overall it works pretty well for me.
Not sure how much Hollywood or real football the author has watched. "But the home team was wearing their away uniforms! How can the director not know which color goes on which side?"
WinFS. I don't know much about it, but I understand it was to have some properties similar to what I've described.
The comment I responded to explicitly states that "discrimination for _any_ reason is illegal".

That doesn't work and can't work; it's not even meaningful. By that standard, the existence of Google is, in itself, criminal.
su - <username> also works.

Indeed the capability exists (unix/linux pioneered it?), but it relies on manual containment by the user. It should be automated, with prompts at install or execution time, like on mobile OSs.

An idea is each file should have its own user, basically, with both relative and absolute file creation/modification permissions. If you run an arbitrary executable as a user there's great security risk since it can do anything you can (without sudo of course).

It seems like the natural progression from

Run everything as root ->

Separate root and day-to-day user ->

Don't use root and achieve things with sudo ->

Each file has its own permissions (i.e. essentially its own user) set by the parent user

Permissions should be both for individual actions and permanent classes of actions, on the user's discretion (i.e. allow it to create this file or always allow it to create files)

This approach is even naturally hierarchical, executables could create other executables as long as they have permission to do so, and set the child permissions to at most its own. In this context an executable asking for permissions can be akin to sudo: it really is a file-user asking for its parent file-user for expanded permissions.

To give a real life allegory, consider a Technician in a company wants to make a tool purchase, so he asks the Engineer. The Engineer doesn't have permission, so he denies or asks the Manager. Finally the Manager either denies or asks the CEO which has permission over everything.
It should be noted that if admissions were perfectly race blind and did (rightfully) correct for financial means, you would likely still end up with more poor Jews and Asians in the student body than Blacks and Hispanics. And that is why they don’t do it. Because it still wouldn’t give them the pretty superficial picture of diversity they’re looking for. The uncomfortable truth here is that they’re using a coarse-grained and super messed up attribute (race) to correct for a problem that goes much deeper than pure economic disparities.
A few months ago I had to book a round-trip and one-way trip with the same flight for the first trip.
Naturally you cannot do that in one go so I book the two things in two different orders.

I made a mistake, during the booking my credentials were automatically filled in the passenger form, I didn't checked and I ended up booking two time the same flight for me, on the same plane, with the same passenger id.

Fun fact, when I check-in for the first ticket, then the second, the website told me that I was already checked-in (which shows that internally the two tickets were seen as one).

I called the support and they reimbursed me the second (one-way) ticket. I had to book another flight the same day which cost me around 300€.

KLM, if you read me, your booking system is really fucked up. I can't understand that with the volume of order and the price of the tickets we don't have a bullet-proof system in place for years already.
copper doesn't rust (it does patina though)
The problem with einsum is that you have to explicitly specify the mapping between dimensions and indices every time, without any way to enforce consistency. It would be more ergonomic if each tensor had labeled dimensions. That would prevent the kind of silly mistake where you mix up the ordering of dimensions and only notice it when you later change the shape of the tensors so the different dimensions no longer match up.
ITV News Editor on-air “hypo” sends warning to diabetics
Do you self-identify as a cynic?
Just because you can now search for them (a bonus), doesn’t mean they should then be buried (a negative).
I have the Wirecutter recommended tiertime mini 2. It was my first 3d printer, and it works ok. I've enjoyed it and learned a lot. But it's serious drawback is you have to use their software, which doesn't have many settings. Want to use a non tiertime filament? Good luck. Also, print area is small.

My next printer will be a prusa. Haven't decided if I'll buy it assembled or do it myself. There's a 10 hour YouTube video of the assembly...it's a lot.
My money's on total ignorance of copyright law. In a world where people post videos with disclaimers of "no copyright intended," I can believe that someone could think that a work they don't own can made open source by simply declaring it so.
I think there's a valid place for "Hey, we can make this a bit easier and more efficient for everyone and here's what we, the state, are prepared to give up in order to facilitate that."
What was your most interesting ending?
That makes you a customer!
Who cares? Does this have something to do with my comment?
Most probably yes. Google hasn't been friendly to his content makers for a while.

They were nice before they had the monopoly. Now they don't care.

That's why I really hate all those speeches about how it would be great if everybody used chrome.

A lot of thing the privacy savy tech community predicted about Google 10 years ago arrived exactly as expected. And the reason is not that they are seers seing the future, but because it's always the same story with entities growing and getting power.
Nvidia Vulkan Ray Tracing Tutorial
> Using the XDG standard leaves you with whatever the distro decides is the correct location for these files.

This is not true. Even if the distribution sets global xdg variables (none that I've come across do) - the user can always override them.

> While their recommendation is all in the home directory, I wouldn't put it past some of these distro developers to make some crazy /var/users/{uid}/config directory

This sounds like a strawman. Are you aware of any existing distros doing this? Users don't have write access to system directories in the vast majority of distributions.
Someone has come back in time to open-source Consolas and kill Hitler. And they're all out of Hitler.
And here I am, still wanting my save files to reside next to the games exe...
Unique 'dialectogram' drawings capture a regenerating city
I did not know about NSERC funding deep learning, thanks for mentioning that.

Maybe "relatively isolated" was the wrong term. I meant to convey that deep learning advances didn't come from where you would expect, the MIT/Cal/Stanford places. Which is a good thing in that sometimes the usual suspects get stuck in a local minimum doing the same things and thinking the same way. And someone going off in a different direction, for whatever reason, can pop out of the local minimum and arrive at a better place.
I have some degree of distrust of most of my applications. The "open trust" model usually ends up getting abused to the point where we have to lock it down...like early Windows, wide open for easy of administration, leading to things like the notorious "Blaster" worm, or the open architecture of the Internet, where we now have massive spam and DNS amplification attacks and all sorts of problems based on the notion of a trustworthy network.

In general, everything in computing will keep going in the direction of "trust everything as little as possible for it to do its job" forever, I think, and probably has to.
Portland also entirely replaced our waterfront highway with an enormous park, probably not the precedent you're looking for.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbor_Drive