skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If someone is looking to switch for sustainablity reasons, they shouldn’t be buying liquid non dairy almond either. You must need a handful of almonds to make your own almond milk. It’s wasteful in so many ways..from processing to transporting to the water content and all the middle men charges in the supply chain.

Soak almonds. Peel. Purée with water..strain. Or don’t. Fresh almond milk.

I realize many people won’t have the time to do it. And that’s ok. But I just want to put this out there because it’s so easy and there is no special process or ingredient. And it’s cheaper and more sustainable. And lesser carbon and fossil fuel foot print.

Plus pistachios make a great nut milk too.
Ask HN: Recommended Courses for Introduction to R/Data Science?
Hi y'all,

A friend of mine with a non-technical background is looking to learn R and apply it to her daily work. She has a background in statistics and clinical research but is non-technical. I was wondering if anyone on this forum has gone through any courses and their experiences with those. The reason I ask is money is a little tight for her so she is trying to do some research before she spends on it.

Cursory google searches for ratings of courses had a lot of companies advertising their own products or courses like Edureka, for instance.

Thanks in advance!
Isn’t every liquid mostly water? Even coke is 99% water?
File extensions are more nomenclature than file type indicator. More than one file type might share the same extension, more than one application might be used to open the file according to its extension. They mostly work, but file extensions != file types != file creators.
Pretty Good Gentle Introduction to ML – Panoptic Segmentation
> low in protein and fat is a bad sign.

By that standard, human breast milk should be considered unhealthy (0.8%-0.9% protein, 3%-5% fat).
Yeah every other travel site seems to at least show you the proper date range. Let's not make excuses for shitty work, a date picker component isn't an NP Complete problem.
The problem with GIL is that it's a mutex that you don't control. So you can't use it to do atomic updates, if that involves more than one low-level operation that is atomic.

So in practice I don't think it simplifies things all that much. If anything, it creates a false sense of security - first developers get used to the fact that they can just assign to variables without synchronization, and then they forget that they still need to synchronize when they need to assign to more than one atomically.
Actually, as a Jew, I faced something even more frustrating: "Jewish" is not even a box on the admissions forms. I never had the choice to identify myself as a Jew. For the purposes of affirmative action programs Jews are not a race and we are expected to just indicate "White" on the forms (unless you are talking about African Jews, who are expected to indicate "Black," or Asian Jews who presumably are expected to indicate "Asian").

I understand your complaint, I just think you are focusing on the wrong problem and greatly over-simplifying the situation. Harvard's exclusion of Jews took the form of an explicit quota, and was specifically intended to benefit White Christian students (except for Italian Catholics, but back then Italians were not considered to be "White") and to prevent the student body from becoming too diverse (at the time they would not even consider Black applicants). Your complaint is over subjective admissions criteria that are intended to support a diverse student body. I also think it is a mistake to focus on affirmative action when "legacy" admissions comprise 14 percent of the student body -- surely that is even more unfair to people who worked hard for years.
Assuming that Air Asia's customer support's purpose is to care about customers, rather than enforce policy.

It seems the more legacy a business is, the more defensive and less proactive its customer service remit becomes (e.g. insurance and telecom).
This is a straightforward, if not simple, math problem.

Likelihood of happy path * happy path exit amount / happy path years until liquidation + equity-heavy salary

A few considerations in terms of populating those numbers:

1. The entrepreneur's fallacy: You expect it'll either go gangbusters or fail suddenly and spectacularly, but the third case is most likely: the zombie case, where the company isn't thriving, but isn't dying either. You're still expected to work at that below-market rate for that underwhelmingly-performing equity.

2. Stockholm Syndrome fallacy: You assume that the company will vest according to plan, and future investors won't wash out your equity. Sometimes early employees make out like bandits when the company does well, but other times the management will get in bed with partners who sportf••• the early employees out of their share at the last possible minute.

I'd head over to thefunded and do your own due diligence on the prominent companies and VC's. Are they the sorts who dance with the girl they brought, or toss her aside and laugh about it later?
Can't wait for airlines to add another confirmation screen to the checkout process. Please type "Yes I want this flight and I double checked the dates are correct" to proceed.
PLCs are one of the devices we might communicate with. Not the sort of thing I'd call a trade secret though. I don't want to go into too much detail, but we've done a good deal of work with undocumented/poorly documented/difficult to work with APIs and network protocols (and serial communications). We're able to provide more functionality than equipment manufacturers in some cases, and do so within a single piece of software which works with a large variety of machines. The idea is to provide a unified API for all equipment which provides stock functionality for customers too small to have developers on staff.
Other than refcounting (which is not a part of the Python language spec - it even specifically says that conforming code shouldn't rely on it), what other semantics did you have in mind?
AmEx provides me this benefit when I book through them.
Another great Amazon price tracker to check out is bittopper. https://www.bittopper.com
Very much this. I work on a "web app" with all custom components, even the most basic input is a custom component... everything about it sucks. Keyboard navigation sucks and is redone poorly, dropdowns are godawful, styling them is no joy.

I don't know what our way out of this is. Everyone imagines their own UX and wants this or that thing to behave differently from everything else out there on the web. We'd have more usable webpages (and web apps) if we didn't spend most of our time reinventing the button... over and over and over
I haven't used My Documents for documents for years now. The directory is useless because of all the cruft, I store useful things elsewhere now.
Because this generation knows how to raise hell on social media if they've been legitimately wronged.
> Milk may not be the healthy food it was touted to be, but neither are most if not all of these "milks" that are basically mostly water and sugar.

I don't know why you'd write that. The almond milk I buy is unsweetened, and I'm pretty sure it's a popular one since they sell it by the pallet at Costco. All the common soy milks offer an unsweetened option AFAIK.
Many YouTube publishers also maintain their own successful portal with paid subscriptions, memberships, product affiliations etc...

There is always plan B.

Google of course prefer 100% dependence on their platforms.
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The use of weaponized bots in YouTube
1. That's not an argument that it's unhealthy. That's an argument that it's risky. "We haven't proved it's healthy" isn't the same as "it's unhealthy".

2. Some people have been on 100% Soylent diets for years now. I don't believe there's been any indication of nutrient deficiencies yet.

3. This argument seems weak because you don't know how unhealthy the diet you're replacing is. If I grab a Soylent for lunch instead of getting a burger or pad thai at the food court, which is healthier? Are the high levels of cadmium in spinach unhealthy? How many naturally occurring carcinogens in natural foods are still undiscovered? Any diet has risk. You need to show why Soylent is worse than what it's replacing.
If you live under a system where the justice department cannot be trusted to find truth in good faith, then that is the problem. Not the tools at their disposal. It doesn't matter the tools. Every tool used to date can be abused.

But if DNA, video and audio can be used to help the justice department find truth, then I don't know why they get hated on so much. And if they are dishonest, I would rather make them go through the effort of faking DNA evidence and manipulating video instead of simply lying about confessions and coercing witnesses into making false statements.
They have been criticized for that, yes, but I think undeservedly so. Fundamentally, I just think it's pretty dumb how we allocate domains in the first place, and that this sort of thing should be seen as the natural consequence of allocating resources stupidly.

As for the other thing, I think front-running is a pretty different situation, and is bad for reasons that don't apply here. Although I believe most of the legend of that came in part from a misunderstanding of what was happening. Some registrars would put a hold on the domain you searched for, which would automatically be released after a day or two. Their rationale was that it was a bad experience to search for a domain, and then have it snapped out from under you during checkout. Of course, it also conveniently prevented you from buying the domain from a competitor, and I have no doubt that that was part of the motivation for doing it. I agree that that's a bad practice, but true front-running is much worse.
Like I said it was a random example, there are many options for different models.

And yes, the pricing on a microSD is different than an SSD, the SSD is 100 times the weight.
git has supported ~/.config/git/config for a very long time. You don't have to use ~/.gitconfig.
Make the financial consequences of bogus copyright claims expensive and enforcable.

Youtube needs to make it impossible for "VengefulFlame" to register a copyright claim, without a real-world identity attached to it and a ironclad agreement that they 100% have the right to enforce this specific copyright claim, under agreed up front financial penalties if they are wrong (even if they're accidentally or algorithmically wrong, they still owe the penalty). Youtube should pay (or perhaps 70:30 split?) those penalty payments with the content creator who was fraudulently or accidentally accused, if paid out via Youtube T&Cs and contractual arrangements, and Youtube should provide all required evidence and documentation (including verified real work personal identities and their digitally signed assurences to Youtube of copyright ownership) to the victim in a super-easy "boilerplate" form, so that it'd be a slam dunk legal case that any lawyer with an associate with an hour or two spare would happily take on on a no-win no-fee basis.

There's probably some cross jurisdiction legal difficulties to address, but I reckon YT should step up to actively take abusers of copyright claims to court in their own jurisdictions on behalf of their victim content creators. If you live in a jurisdiction without strong civil copyright law which includes penalties for fraudulent claims, maybe you should pay a bond before being allowed to file any copyright claims?
A 49-inch ultrawide monitor is extravagant, ridiculous, and amazing
The Serverless Framewrok Plugin for AWS Service Proxy Integration of API Gateway
That is also something I have wondered about and I think that’s a great idea.

One could also base it off the Maslow pyramid for multiple currencies.

There are many possibilities. We don’t have to stick to this system of money/currency.

Being healthy..being a ‘good’(in as far as there is a community prescribed moral code one is following), being educated..being young/not old are also attributes. But this would shake the notion of fairness and it might smack of discrimination. I have to think about that.

For example, if your parent had accumulated good reputation, can you inherit it?

I am also aware that this kind of system is closer to what the Chinese have implemented in a bizarre ‘life imitating art’ parody of that episode of Black Mirror with their social credit experiment. So yea..
Yeah but the problem with unsweetened soy and almond milk (and even slightly sweetened) is that it's fucking disgusting so it has no use for me and for anyone that feels that way. I highly doubt any of the other veggie milks here are less disgusting. I would guess that lactose free milk is also disgusting before they add sugar back in but can't prove it.
I think Amazon also has some kind of checkout service. At least I've seen "Use Amazon to Pay" on some websites, and it works similar to "Use PayPal".
It's even worse than that. My brother-in-law, who doesn't speak much English, accidentally selected the wrong option at a check-in kiosk in Las Vegas and was upsold some kind of "premier" ticket option that let him board a flight first for the low low price of $42.

After he realized he made a mistake he sought out the airline staff and they told him he had to go to some website which showed that he had checked in, but not the extra charge or option. Eventually he made his way to a service desk at the airport and they told him to call a number after he landed on the other side.

The "customer service" representative then informed him that since he had already taken the flight, he couldn't get a refund.

I helped him file a complaint with the airline explaining the English and the lack of help from airline staff and the confusing remediation directions he received. They responded very quickly informing him that he would not be refunded but to please fly again with them.
I mean, clearly a lot of people don’t know it’s the law, so it doesn’t hurt advertising it as a perk. Especially if the other guys don’t advertise it.
You would be surprised how often my US credit card has saved my a... from insane European customer service.

Hello Wizzair :-)
> This means opening Google Maps less, and opening the Uber app more.

I have both installed on my phone. What possible reason could I have for picking the uber one to open up if I'm looking to take public transportation? Is it better in any way whatsoever?
I don’t have any issue with these things as beverages, but cringe when I read mothers of babies old enough to switch off of human milk (or formula) ask “what kind of milk” they should be giving their child. As if almond milk is a “kind of milk” in any meaningful sense.
it was true, from a revenue perspective.

it wasn't a good thing, but it was still a true thing.
More accurate headline, "Google's CEO still has incredible employee support, despite year over year dip".
This happens because people need pretty fancy UIs. And companies want to provide these UIs.

We should be using text and structured data for all services by default. Companies should be providing simple, very simple text (or JSON if you want that) APIs by default and people should and could learn to use them.

Web browsers or other apps should and could be packed with nice UIs to browse these APIs.

Optionally, after these default browsable easy-to-use APIs were working, people could translate them into more fancy UIs, but for most things, like booking flights, that wouldn't be necessary at all (who wants a flashy colorful experience when buying tickets?).
English nicknames
http://nlp.seas.harvard.edu/NamedTensor
Few independent observers claim that Russia or China are places with legitimate governments that serve their people well. China is rather well known for its ethics-laundering industry, doing unsafe and polluting manufacturing work for others.
Not particularly. As they were in control of the state, their goals were considered the national interest. It may not have reflected the will of the population or government, but that's often the case with national interests.
I am interested now...what is thou product!?
We built our own framework, but do make use of d3 for charts and jQuery for cross browser events. We modified d3 a bit to make the animations more performant.
The announcement says that the Uber app will have ticketing, so with Uber you could complete your whole journey, not just plan it.
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Perhaps college admissions should switch to a two-phase process:

* application score (without race, name, gender, place of origin, etc)

* justice curve (weight score by race, name, gender, place of origin, etc)

The application scoring and justice curves should be carried out by separate impartial groups, with the justice curve preferably applied by a government entity to prevent corruption.

If we truly believe that a student's financial and demographic background have nothing to do with his or her score, then we'd see no statistical evidence of it in achievement tests.

But of course we do. So I think that while your heart is in the right place with respect to fairness, you have overlooked how justice factors in.
...which is certainly how this post came about.
Hi folk,

As my pet project, I myself as a developer created this new website for the developer community to help with our day to day jobs in developing and maintaining applications by providing tools such as JSON lint, XML formatter, SQL formatter, test credit card generator, epoch time converter, timezone converter, SSH keypair generator, and many other tools in total of 20 right now all in one place.

You can also personalize the dashboard for these tools. So please check out at the URL provided and please feel free to leave a comment here or at the website for any suggestions or bug reports.

Thanks a lot!

Regards,
Kevin
Oh, I was talking about AppImage, not Snap. Sorry.

I actually tried the Snap thing too, I don't remember how it went but I would say it was bad. I think I couldn't find a way to search for packages from the CLI.
You are right. I have to think about this more.
Netgate makes some very nice appliances. For example:

https://www.netgate.com/solutions/pfsense/sg-1100.html
Kubernetes doesn’t help with storage integration with S3, ETL processes involving Redshift, using queues and notifications setting up security, etc.

Kubernetes is no more the be all end all of maintaining cloud agnosticism than using the repository pattern means that you can tell your CTO to get rid of your company’s multi million dollar Oracle installation.
Oh wow, more downvotes than I anticipated. Just to clarify, I'm not saying that the blame and hate are deserved. I was countering OP's point that people don't blame job-migrants for rising prices in California.
This thing is trash and never should have been built, but pointless highways are big business so let's pretend climate change isn't happening and keep building highways
As far as I understand, they are mostly displacing paralegals and assistants, not lawyers. Lawyer still will have to do bunch of supervision, but software will do the drafting work instead of paralegal, and manage workflow instead of assistant.
Sorry, that was the wrong ankylosing spndylitis reference. The last link, like the first, I passed on because it is full of references to primary articles.

In any case, you don't seem to have the background in rheumatic diseases to evaluate any of this, and I don't have the time to pass on the knowledge I've garnered, as a sufferer, and also a life sciences engineer working on autoimmune and genetic engineering problems. Consequently this has already devolved into a Joe Rogan-style internet argument.

If this stuff is important to you,keep watching the news, there's a lot of good research that's going to reach outside academia in the next couple of years, regarding hyper/hypothermia, heat shock proteins, and autoimmune and mood disorders.
Terraform doesn’t abstract creating resources on different cloud providers. Each provisioner is tied to specific resources for the specific cloud provider.
Where is mathematics in ML today? Most of that are happening under the hood and all algorithms are just a black box.
Better cameras make photography easier and more successful. You don't need $3K but a $1000 DSLR kit can do amazing things for you and make it fun to practice.

> Poorly lit.

Better cameras capture more light.

> Out of focus.

Better cameras auto-focus faster and choose target points better.

> Half the subject out of frame.

High resolution cameras can capture an image for later cropping without early zooming.
The goal is to let the Uber app do (or at least suggest) the mode choice for you. So instead of thinking 'hmm, I'll use PT, now I need to open app XYZ', you could be 'I want to go from point A to point B. Let me open the Uber app to check my options.' And those options would include the travel times and costs of all available modes.

Basically, the goal is to have one 'transport' app, and that would be the Uber app. Removing mental overhead - never having to think about what app you want to open (I realize how ridiculous it sounds to call that 'mental overhead', but let's just pretend that any non-zero cost is equal and an inefficiency).

Of course this could only happen if the Uber app has all functionality the Google Maps app has, and every bit as good, and also all functionality of all local public transport apps (like, it would have to have up to date information on the exact current location and time of the trains on the route you're looking at, as some PT apps do). This is a huge, dare I say it impossible task. But still, baby steps and all.
http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_01.html

The first of the referenced Feynman lectures. It's quite the fun read for an introductory physics text.
You can list.append from 2 threads without worrying about crashing, although I would not recommend it.

It's possible to do without the GIL, but up to now, it's been a damn to way of doing that.
Do you work for a company that has a business support plan?
It depends on the youtuber of course, a few of them have an audience that legitimately allows for a plan b.

For most of them there isn't. They might have seperate portals which they earn money from, but the business still goes poof fast if they get banned from youtube. Without publishing on youtube they won't reach enough of an audience to have a sustainable business.

Twitch alleviates this somewhat for some youtubers. But we don't have to go far back in time to consider an era before that existed.
yes, Amazon Pay or its more intrusive brother, Login With Amazon.

We implemented Amazon Pay a few months ago and have seen a couple dozen transactions, vs hundreds with PayPal and thousands with credit cards.

It's not huge, but people do use it. Would those people have bailed if all we offered was Paypal and credit cards? Probably not. Good convenience on mobile not to have to re-enter cc info and risk another place mis-using it.
During the transition to LTE, T-mobile did something similar -- they updated phones to report HDSPA+ as "4G".
Yes, I did a cooking course in Thailand and they showed us how to make coconut milk by hand - it really was amazing how quickly the water went unctuous, creamy and thick as you massaged grated Coconut into water. Best coconut milk I've ever had without a doubt.
Encountered the ghost of Mark Zuckerberg

Social credit score was too low to travel
Are you saying they called you out for your fuzzy thinking, and changed the topic of conversation to be more welcoming to your outsider perspective? You have sharp and kind coworkers.
I have great difficulty understanding why the snap developers think the excuse “it’s hard to change!” flies.

If it’s hard to change, you should’ve either fixed your architecture from the start, or thought a bit harder about the implications of magically creating a new directory in $HOME.
What's the purpose of taking pictures and fixating on the past?

Anything can be meaningless if you axiomatically don't care about it.