skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So there was something that really opened my eyes, the story goes like this:

Chic fa la has now just gotten in trouble for not letting someone use their bathroom.

Insert other witnesses or talk about 2nd parties in the story.

Chickfla is the group that came under contrivesery for supporting anti gay charities.

Look for that you'll see it in a lot of stories. I started noticing that when I saw the Milo stories on the BBC. They like to harp on something that he did (usually it's something that the writer doesn't like), they'll also inflate the second party members in the story [who was surrounding it] to their liking (we'll the SPLC said this and that), and then they'll try to bring a call back to something that'll make the person look bad and unrelated (i.e. prior controversy).

Like/dislike the guy, the selective journalism/editing and the unrelated call back is: unproductive, dishonest, and is propaganda.

> But, of course, it's funny how this complaint truly surfaces when those biases are ones that the complainant does not like. It's interesting how biases that do not challenge the majority intersection of "affluent, white, male" get so much leash in places like HN.

I think you should point that out if it's a legitimate concern. (I mean not concern trolling i.e. "well all the interviewed was white people" vs "from the people they interviewed were white and se engineers which is a concern when talking about COL")
so, with operational margin 28.42%, aws outruns apple with operational margin 22.72%.

if you've told me aws takes more premium on their products than apple per $, i wouldn't believed.
Case in point:

- the XIII comic series, very popular in Francophone countries but not much beyond

- The Bourne Supremacy, directly inspired by the series, a massive movie success worldwide.
Hi fellow meterologist hacker. I too have a B.S. in atm sci and enough years in grad school that I'm still paying for it lol.

Yeah, the extent to which models are verified against their own data is pretty interesting -- even the reanalysis data only represents a best guess of a place with physics similar to Earth. It includes a lot of advected observations, thousands of miles from the original observation site, but still useful because at least you know something about the air over the oceans.

Even if we really do get a good handle on cloud physics, ultimately there are limits on how much we can model. Parameterizations have to happen, because of limits to computer time -- a 24h forecast completed in 26h is worthless. I'm honestly surprised that they've been pushing to get models to third order and higher approximations, because the errors in your initial conditions are larger, but apparently every little bit helps.

But forecasts are pretty good considering that weather modeling is a initial value problem where we only know the initial conditions at a few observation points of varying quality, a boundary value problem where the boundaries can have complex interactions with the internal state, and simulation run time really matters.
I mean, maybe, but GP also said they filled out a survey with their diagnosis information, so it's certainly plausible that the company added that information to their profile immediately.
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I thought you did that intentionally to be sarcastic / ironic...
1. Why would they leave the area where they can most likely get work?

2. Why/how would these autonomous cars cooperate in this way? Why would they be willing to pen themselves in at all?

3. If people-sized cars are filling the streets, traffic will be far far worse than it is now, which is the point of the article.
Is the implication that people/businesses will stop developing and using web services? I just don't see how we can go back now. Further, web tech is cheaper to scale than anything else, so when the wallet tightens it seems that's where budgets would focus.

Also, AWS moves faster than web tech on the whole, so even if the general shift to k8s continues, AWS will be there to make it easier than rolling your own, and at a price point that's "worth it."
Thats a fair point.
My question, perhaps poorly articulated was why would someone focus on improving single-node performance vs. cluster-wide performance? I wasn't implying that one would want to run a single-node cluster.
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As a dev that has been promoted to manage (not just lead, manage) a reasonably sized team, but is still expected to code regularly, what you're describing sounds like paradise. From both the management, and dev perspective.
I wish people more readily accepted they human lives have a monetary value of some degree. If you cause a lot of monetary damages to a large number of people then that's going to lead to a cost in human lives. This way people might more readily accept what impact this kind of defrauding has.
No, basically the isotope composition of the sea changes when a lot of water evaporates and doesn't come back over the rivers (because it fell as snow and just stayed on land). The heavier isotopes need a little bit more energy to evaporate, so the remaining sea water has more and more heavy isotopes left. The most commonly used tracer is oxygen 16 vs oxygen 18 [0].

The isotopes are also used by sea organisms when they grow [1]. When they die and their shells become part of the sea floor (this is optional, there are also old corals that can be used), the signal can remain for a very long time (essentially as long as the sea floor remains, a few 100,000 years).

So we know quite well how much water was missing from the ocean at these points in time. The method can also be used to deduce temperatures from back then.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9418O

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foraminifera
Most of the discussion was around things like Wikipedia and other internet knowledge which you would have to print anyway. For books you would buy, or course what the publisher will agree to sell you is a limit - and you are probably not big enough to get an acid-free version printed.

Though if civilization collapsed bad enough to need this I think most of the useful information I'd want saved was published in the 1800s and so out of copyright. We wouldn't be able to use the knowledge of how to make a transistor until long after even acid free paper was useless.
>It is probably wrong to think of DNA as personal property.

Are you kidding? Is there anything else more personal than THE VERY THING THAT DEFINES WHAT YOU ARE AS A PHYSICAL BEING to a level of detail that science may never fully understand it?

Other than one's own thoughts, I, personally, cannot think of something more personal.

Conflating this with air pollution is simply nonsensical.
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If the Brightline project can't make this work, then no one can in the US. Florida has a large population, its densest clusters of population lie along a small number of linear corridors, and it attracts many tourists and a fair number of business travelers. It has attractions and busy airports that will be nodes in such a system. It also has ideal rights-of-way mostly unobstructed.

In the northeast there's infrastructure baggage, in the southwest there's unforgiving geography, and in the Midwest there's not a co-linear arrangement of multi-million-population metros, and in the Piedmont there's not a fortunate right-of-way for truly high-speed rail. Texas is the only other place to make this work, and they're trying too.

But the problem is always that construction costs for these kinds of projects are way too high. In Europe, EU-wide transportation funds pay for renovating and building EU-designated corridors. Individual countries subsidize it too -- much like you'd expect with roads. This structural subsidy would be absent here, and US construction costs (including materials and wages) are high as well. This is a significant financial hurdle that neither road-based transport nor air transport has to contend with.
Someone who has worked in a service job can answer this better but I'm not sure that is true. My understanding is that restaurants routinely pay less than minimum wage and then up your wage to minimum if your tips don't come up to at least minimum wage. I'm not sure how this is any deferent. Though doing it without the person being paid even knowing is abhorrent.
Alright, which government institutions worldwide are not "bumbling and third-rate"?
Instacart should fix the other glitch, it used to be roughly one hour. Now it is tomorrow, or the day after. Not exactly insta.

And the quality has gone way down, they'll buyers would suggest a better deal, now they pick the worst if it makes their shopping faster
This doesn't look that more space efficient than a normal parking garage. I'm sure better implementations could exist that would make it way better. Also... I'm imagining having to wait in a huge line during rush hour because everyone wants to get their car out, and they have to wait for the car retriever arm to travel to each car and back for all 20-30 people in line ahead of them.
The original article https://www.workingwa.org/instacart-eighty-cents has a screenshot from an email with Instacart explicitly describing how it works and confirming that the calculation was correct.
Fingerprinting is a notoriously inaccurate pseudoscience along with polygraph testing.

As was seen on HN[1], consumer DNA tests are also inaccurate. In fact, up to 40% of gene variants on consumer DNA tests are false positives[2]. False positives happen with criminal investigations and DNA testing[3]. And now, consumer DNA databases are generating false positives[4] that upend and potentially ruin innocent people's lives.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18938750

[2] https://www.nature.com/articles/gim201838

[3] https://gizmodo.com/when-bad-dna-tests-lead-to-false-convict...

[4] https://www.theadvocate.com/new_orleans/news/article_1b3a3f9...
What you described still has significant drawbacks. I don't want to have to input into an app, an hour ahead of time to get where I need to go.

If "on demand mass transit via large multipeople vehicles (IE busses)" were feasible, then you'd already see companies like Uber doing it.

On demand point to point, where you don't have to wait a dozen stops to get where you want, is just strictly better than the alternatives in many many ways.
emphasize the public's interest in the GPL license? emphasize the interest of all contributors that spend time on modifications?
I believe this is the case for AMC theaters even in San Francisco.
fact checking has always been a silly, hopeless attempt to find a technocratic solution to fundamentally political problems.
An obsession with computer vision shows the lopsided nature of the AI boom
IIRC, much of the land for the 85 was never developed when they were building the suburbs in the 60's & 70's. The southern portion was planned decades before it was built. There were these long swaths of old orchards and empty lots that ran between otherwise fully developed neighborhoods that have since been transformed into the highway.
Great read. Points #5 (on being able to use a longer time horizon when investing in ideas to let them grow) and #6 (on the growing importance of consumers) stood out to me as well.
Yes. I read on here a while ago that theaters actually don’t receive much revenue from movie tickets, due to the studio negotiating a 60% or so share of ticket sales. So most of the money has to come from expensive concessions.
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Example 1: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/mass-shootings-in-2018/

Q: Were None of 154 Mass Shootings in 2018 Committed by a Black Man, Illegal Alien, or Woman?

A: Mixture.

The answer should be entirely false. If you measure by suspects, two-thirds of shooters in the 154 shootings were black men. If you measure by convictions, there were zero mass shootings in 2018. By any measure you choose, the claim is incorrect, and probably by a very wide margin.

Example 2: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/united-states-lower-death-...

Claim: Between 2009 and 2015, the United States had a lower mass shootings death rate than several European countries.

Rating: Mixture

The analysis is extremely muddled, and claims that the European shootings were "outliers" and therefore presumably should not be counted, rather than relying on the law of large numbers.
The city government.

Governments exist to define and allocate common resources.
As an introvert who was a manager for several years, I agree that it is very difficult and draining. I believe that I have the skills to be a good manager (empathy, EQ, organization), but I did find it extremely draining. Towards the end of my experience I could tell I wasn't giving my best to my direct reports and so I've gone back to being an individual contributor.

I still entertain the idea of getting back into management, but I'll have to figure out how to offset that drain, or even gain energy from personal interactions, as you said, in order to sustain it for more than a few months/years.
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Why unfortunate?

Did u have a bad experience ?
Funny. That would have been an interesting postmortem but I think they just eat the tip. That’s what it sounds like at least.
Thanks for reading, and for the good questions!

>How many items are listed on Is it Keto?

It's currently at 131 foods.

At the beginning, I deliberately made browsing hard to obscure the fact that the database was so small. Now that it's a bit bigger, I'm considering making it possible to browse by category.

>I'm not seeing results for my first two searches Pickles, and Mayonnaise.

Yeah, those are in the queue. My writer actually wrote a draft of Mayonnaise but I still need to edit it. Mayonnaise is the #21 most 404'ed page and pickles is #45. But it's a long tail. "Beans" is the #1 most 404'ed and it's only 1.7% of 404s.

>Also its not imminently clear after doing a search that the search bar will let you do another "Is it Keto" search because of the change in style.

Good point. I'll tweak the UI to make it more obvious that the user can keep searching.

>Did you do a "Is X Keto" keyword search in Adwords to come up with your initial list of foods?

I do it a few different ways. At the beginning, I would just look in Facebook groups and wait until someone asked "is X keto?" then I'd quickly write the article and link it. Then I started looking at which pages got the most 404s and I'd write those.

Now that the Twitter account is more popular, I have more control over what people read (as opposed to only reacting to what users search for) because I can drive people to a page by sharing it on Twitter. And if a product is keto and I @-mention the manufacturer, sometimes they'll RT it and give it more exposure, so I look for manufactured foods that are keto friendly. Because for something like "lettuce," it's hard to make money because they have to click the link, then click something else that's keto-friendly and that they can buy on Amazon.

For SEO, I also do look at Google Trends and look for "X keto" keywords where there isn't already a good result. A query like "is xylitol keto" is hard to win at in SEO because a lot of big keto blogs already have dedicated articles to it. But I think Is It Keto gets top spot for "Is Propel Keto?" because none of the bigger sites ever bothered to write an article about such a specific product.
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Nah, midlatitude west coasts are worse because of the lack of good data over the oceans. Satellites can't tell you as much as you think, especially in the vertical direction. Knowing how much water is in a column of air is useful, but not as useful as if you knew precisely which layers it was in.

A considerable amount of data in models for California is from observations that were made in China and Japan, that flow with the wind across the Pacific. Or conversely, you can look at it as a data hole that advected across the ocean, too.

I'd like to note that of the few blown forecasts we get in Southern California, almost none of them have to deal with the jet stream. It's actually the cut-off lows offshore that don't have steering winds, which makes it difficult to predict where it will go next. The same is true with hurricanes.
The UK has substantial access to the European markets it's particularly strong in though, like marine insurance and financial services (including a large amount of Euro-denominated services business), European markets which we have voluntarily traded London dominance of for inability to participate in without relying on European business units. The fact that despite a general presumption in favour of a right to to bid on them, UK companies are not well placed to actually win contracts to (e.g) provide advice on German law in German is largely irrelevant to that and not in any sense an economic rationale for Brexit. We're not going to get more comprehensive services agreements with more promising trade partners as a result.

Obviously Canada and Japan have no freedom of movement requirements in their trade deals, but they also haven't asked for any access to many of the markets the UK has up until now benefited from. And as you say, the EU has some inclination to non-recognition of British services as a simple penalty, but it also has perfectly good reasons to keep Britain out of many of them in the interests of giving advantages to Member States where the business can be moved out of London without significant disruption, and because the UK's negotiating position starts from the ludicrous position that any standards harmonised with the EU should be possible for the UK to unilaterally rescind at short notice because sovereignty innit.

The UK has not been told that to "accept unlimited immigration...if it wants a trade deal of any sort whatsoever" - quite the opposite - and it is sad that in an otherwise pretty nuanced post you have resorted to such blatant misrepresentations.

(It's pretty emblematic of Brexit that the post hoc rationale for leaving the EU has become so focused on how relatively unattractive the options offered afterwards are...)
Have you tried Linux recently? I installed arch a few months ago, and almost all of my steam games run on it out of the box (no extra setup required).

I have an AMD Vega 64 graphics card, drivers are all handled automatically.

My Xbox 360 controllers with wireless dongle are handled automatically.

If you want to use xbox one controllers, any bluetooth adapter will work out of the box, but you do have to install a package called xpadneo.

AMD drivers on Linux are great right now, and most hardware is supported with nothing extra.
Neither can Lyft, Uber, etc. if there is not available GEOMETRIC capacity.

There is a fixed road area to work with.
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And what happens when you insurance company drops you because of potential chronic illness or an employer doest call you back.
This article in particular is in a section of the Snopes website that is intentionally false/misleading:

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/category/lost-legends/
This is helpful and provides somewhere for me to start looking.
It is very disappointing that organizations of the pro-eminence of UNICEF would engage in mass vaccination campaigns and not follow the due diligence. Someone is administering vaccine to minors without parental consent.
Generally, risking a lawsuit (or worse, criminal charges off of CFAA) is a net negative expected value.

OkCupid threatened as such when researchers published scraped data: https://www.vox.com/2016/5/12/11666116/70000-okcupid-users-d...
As a German, I see many problems with this point of view. What is a crime can change fast, and it can also mean just being of the wrong group. Don't think it can't and won't happen again.
History is littered with attempts at eradicating certain ethnicities and purging those deemed genetically inferior.

> Use the internet via an ISP? Murderous regime will know what you look at and come kill you.

This is a legitimate concern for some, hence why things like Tor exist. We don't just throw our hands up in the air and go, "What can be done?" We acknowledge that risk exists and try to mitigate it.
I pointed this out in another one of the lay-off topic HN threads (the linked twitter thread isn’t me)

You’re plenty spot on within the entire media world.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1088503510184927233.html
I'm glad that you are thinking about it. I don't know if there are any easy solutions.