skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ugh, I hope their system avoids some real messes, but unlikely:

1) massive number of scam sites charging tons of money to submit your application (hopefully)

2) doesn’t crash on the first day

3) doesn’t exempt rich people that come by private plane (unlikely)

4) still allows EU nationals to get into EU with the Canadian or American passports. I’m technically an EU citizen by lineage, but havent bothered to get that passport since I don’t even speak the language.

It will probably still have to loophole if flying into a non-EU country and then driving in.
Governments love the fact that cash is going away. No more anonymous transactions (besides Bitcoin, but it's not that easy for the general public to use or understand) and an easy way to track potential taxable revenue.
It would be great to have a Win95 speed run on SGDQ or similar. :)
Yes and no. It works great in Scala thanks to extractors but Java is a bit of a mess, example: https://github.com/patriknw/akka-typed-blog/blob/master/src/...
You are very fortunate that your parents could help you raise your first kid. That is not something universally available and my first year as a parent was very rough.
Don’t you think that we got things like women’s suffrage, paid vacations, democracy, public healthcare, free public education, modern medicine, engineering, etc precisely because idealists can have an impact?
Yes, other than aluminum, it has been debunked for some time:

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6klo0p

It’s so religious that most people won’t even consider a debate about it. Anyone speaking out against it is a heretic.
It won't be a problem. It's not like Americans bring any tourist money to the EU.
IIRC, the order of deliveries depended on state and the specific build and options. This was clear up front.
I really like the A16Z podcasts. Although a bit startup'y, I like how they bring smart people to talk about the future.
This is impossible to answer because there are so many variable factors involved.
Snow from the sky or poop on the sidewalks. Take your pick.
There is knowledge beyond wikipedia. I still trust books
The tax should still be on the purchase price. If essential goods end up too expensive for poor people, then the answer is to raise income levels for poor people via some kind of redistribution.

In order to solve the problem systematically, incentives need to be aligned so that desired global collective outcomes emerge from local individual choices.

If the cost isn't on the purchase price, there's little incentive on consumers at the point of purchase to choose a product with a cheaper disposal cost. Disposal is geographically and temporally remote; and if you're poor, you can economize on it by cheating (littering, fly tipping, illegal burning, man with a van who takes the problem off your hands, etc).
For better or worse, people don't apply purely rational thinking about trade-offs to healthcare. I think it would make a lot of people squeamish to hear this argument about why somebody, where somebody might be mom or dad, isn't going to receive certain care because they didn't pay for it earlier in their life.

Unfortunately the trade-offs don't go away, and we haven't figured out a way of making these trade offs that doesn't feel horribly statist (so called "death panels") or callous (private insurance denying care).
It's really depressing knowing that no matter what policies other countries adopt to bring drug prices down it will never happen here in the US because there's too much money to be made from bribes^H^H^H^H^H^H donations from the pharmaceutical companies.
Lisp is definitely not going to happen, but given the ongoing expansion of C++ to (to me) unlearnably huge levels I think Rust will find a substantial niche in embedded and HPC systems, not to mention Firefox.

For "just write a thing that works" I've come to really prefer C# for desktop apps and Python for small things.
Mhm, I figured. My travelling is usually more like the hanging-out-somewhere kind.

If you have a return ticket to a place, your visa and safety information (eg what not do to in order not to die) in place (and are not trying to go someplace small in peak season!) that's usually all you need. A guidebook is nice-to-have too, because there is a map and information about the country and language.

Sometimes you get stranded somewhere for longer than you'd like, sometimes you cannot find food (arriving too late or not in shop distance), you might miss some sights.. but that's fine.
> A skilled carpenter has the tools that are necessary for the job, their price doesn’t matter

Very true. A skilled carpenter is discerning about his tools and know where it matters to spend more money.
The other day I had diahrea for 2 days, I initially thought food poisoning, then my surfer friend made the connection I had surfed in the last 24 hours, and we had heavy rain in Bay area those days.
California and Texas are sovereign states, and becoming a citizen of California is really just a matter of moving there. Acts and corporations of Texas are recognized as "foreign" in California. Citizens of California have to swear a loyalty oath to the state to work for it, and all able-bodied male citizens of California are members of the unorganized militia and are subject to the state code of military justice. Treason against California is punishable by death, as is treason against Texas (apart from treason against the US). Per the Tenth Amendment, the federal government has only the sovereignty granted to it by the states via the Constitution.

As a country, you can move almost anywhere in the US and have full citizenship rights. (Note that Puerto Rico, American Samoa, etc are not part of the US, and you don't get automatic rights when you move there. American Somoans are not even US citizens by birth, for example, because it's not part of the US. Palmyra Atoll and DC are the only part of the US not part of a state, and residents are not citizens of a state and don't have full US citizenship rights.)
A lot of the time, for PC games, someone will have made a plugin that integrates into both the split and the game that removes loading screen times, turning it into an "in-game time" run
Rebranding according to what's in demand is all fine, but if you choose data science please make sure that you actually have a solid understanding of statistics and software development. Because ultimately that's what data science is.

"Hugely credible" and actual experience in data analysis/statistics are completely different things. And if you don't have the statistics/math background, you'll find out that now instead of just programming, you need to learn programming and statistics. Which might be too much for someone who doesn't know where to start.
It had type specification for years: https://learnyousomeerlang.com/dialyzer

They are opt in of course, but have the property that the more specifications you add and the more precise they are, the more type errors they'd discover. After it run it tells you if there is a type discrepancy. If it can't decide it doesn't say anything.

The technical term for that is "success typing" http://www.it.uu.se/research/group/hipe/papers/succ_types.pd...
Yes, that makes sense. It's good to have guests over, they help a lot with this.
Last time I used UserLand I couldn't install something major (maybe typescript from npm, it's been a while) because there was some file path limit (maybe 143 bytes, again, it's been a while) that a bunch of the package's files violated. Has this been addressed with new versions?
I mentioned nurses because I know there are many UK nurses who use Twitter. The discussions are under hashtags like #wenurse and #wenurses

I agree that discovery is hard for Twitter, but these communities are there.

I use Twitter to talk to people.involved in suicide prevention, safety of MH services, and quality improvement of MH services. It's given me easy access to a bunch of people.

I'd prefer a different platform because Twitter has problems with hostility on top of user unfriendliness, but people are there.
If you conduct business or "work", you might have to get a separate visa with different terms. EU seems to be pretty strict about "work-permits". There are risks to doing such activities on a regular tourist visa.
Maddeningly, this article wanders around without really making the key points. The self-checkout experience could be done reasonably well, but hasn't been. Why? The article doesn't talk about it.

Yes, companies want to cut costs, but there's nothing wrong with that. It is true, though, that there needs to be something in it for the user, or else why bother? So, for example, how about a 5% discount for self-checking?

I've noticed also that huge kiosk rollout at McDonald's has apparently failed. They're not as bad as grocery self-checks, but they're not good. And few people are using them. Who thought this was going to work?
Anecdote: back in the early 2000s, I regularly installed Windows XP on the machines of school friends and family members and got pretty fast at it. After a few months, I realized that I had memorized the original Windows XP "default" CD key (the one starting with FCKGW...) by accident. I haven't done an installation of XP in 15 years, yet you could wake me up in the middle of the night and I could tell you this damn key.
Not at all. Recycling glass and metal can be virtually perpetual, and applies to far more than just packaging. Recycling paper and plastic is obviously much more limited, and there should be funds derived from disposal fees that are used to research better, longer cycled alternatives (as well as improvements to existing recycling tech). But a 4-6x reduction in paper/plastic waste through recycling is extremely significant nonetheless.

Of course lifestyle change is an important part of any solution, but certainly not a panacea or even a desired exclusive remedy.
> Tit-for-tat response is a geopolitical reality.

It's also an evolutionarily stable strategy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionarily_stable_strategy
There's another speedrun category: time to bluescreen https://mobile.twitter.com/Foone/status/1103384684812255233
If these students don't have better options, then surely these are market wages by definition, no?
Any comparison should take other effects of work culture into account as well, such as how much time per week we can devote to living once you subtract work and commute times.
Those two cars happen to have really terrible visibility for the driver. It's not just the safety aspect or just the pillars. It's the rake of the windshield, low seating position, and body shape all together.

I imagine it's because the designers wanted a shape that emulated the old cars, and everything else had to work around that.
I was stating that stating 'good things' are wrong, when there is reason to believe they are, is not then "attacking" those things. As for the cartoon, when the media references something without showing it it's often wise to check it out for yourself. You'll find their description is often horribly biased. Here [1] are his slides, in full.

The cartoon "deriding women campaigning for equality in science" is 5th from the bottom. It shows women at a 'major/career fair' choosing to join gender studies instead of STEM fields. It then shows those same individuals later complaining about a lack of women in STEM. I would not consider this in any way whatsoever impairing equality of opportunity. Far from it, it demonstrates an extremely important point about utilizing the opportunities that you have.

The only other cartoon he had was of one woman telling another who was bringing in a volcano to a science fair that "science is male dominated! they'll never accept you, you'll be harassed!" The slide then asks whether the purpose of this rhetoric is to get more women into STEM or to try to indoctrinate individuals into an ideology.

[1] - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1c_NyUhOZ8erdqU2AGZJZtNfFeA9...
(1) I think waste-to-energy is underappreciated, especially if a certain elasticity is planned rather than just running the turbines 24/7 it can meet the elasticity needs of the electric grid.

But then you have to process the ash: https://www.thisiseco.co.uk/news_and_blog/what-happens-to-wa...

(2) is roughly the Green Dot or WEEE approach: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Dot_(symbol)
I find that Amazon is one of the worst offenders. It's clear, especially for Amazon fresh orders, that they have zero incentive to care about their plastic footprint, and they take full advantage of this. Should be taxed or disincentivized.
I've had to study and use my share of programming languages, from C to Haskell. Java is just one of them, and it's the one I like the most.

Want to know a language undoubtedly worse than Java? Easy. Append "Script" to it.
People who work hourly are in the same boat and come to work sick.
Ask HN: How do I report a security issue without getting sued?
I have noticed a security issue on a certain webpage. The impact is quite severe - there is user data (Credit Cards information) leaking and a user without valid credentials can access information for assumed logged in users (like Forum comments).

I have not tried to create or update any information on this website.

I am not a Security Researcher, White Hat or any color Hat Hacker. I am just a Webdev from next door.

So my question is: How do I report this issue to the website owner without getting sued?

The website contains a disclaimer that forbids "Breach or otherwise circumvent any security or authentication measures". This is actually not necessary - since there is no working security or authentication measure. But still - how does one approach this properly?
Deadlines and sprints are bad for you
I consider the 1958 Lisp to be dead. The Lisp family's longevity doesn't stem from maintaining legacy code from 1960, but because it actually embodies attractive concepts that continue to captivate new generations of coders, often not in connection to anything mundane, like a job.
A lengthy reply could be made to each statement in particlesforjustice.org, which would be the healthy way for an academic conversation, but I will make an exception and just point out a few flaws.

1) The bell curve difference in variance is not rebutted, which is the central argument. It is the very first claim in the article, and the basis for all other claims. How should we interpret that the central argument is silently not mentioned by the rebuttal?

2) the Istanbul convention rebuttal misses that in modern studies on gender based violence, men report the same amount violence from partners as does women. The humanity of male victims should not up for debate and yet the here the particlesforjustice is arguing in favor of such discrimination.
It varies so much depending on the business that this can't be answered.

It depends entirely on your transaction size, margins, cost to acquire a customer, and customer lifetime value.

It takes a lot more capital to earn $1M selling widgets for $1 each with 10c profit than it does to earn $1M in sales commissions on $20M real estate transactions.

To figure this out, you need to put together a spreadsheet with a business plan for your own business, including product, marketing, and overhead costs; transaction size and volume; and growth rates.
Wonder what the risks are.
We need a few mandates that will affect the decisions.

Someone will step up to make the money and be more human about the whole thing.
TechCrunch Shares Sneak Peek of HBO’s Elizabeth Holmes Documentary, the Inventor
is this exactly the same as 'soft types' (http://wiki.c2.com/?SoftTyping) or subtly different?
This is the same way I feel about CLI only tools. Too much fiddling around with hidden switches and config files for my taste. I'd much rather use a straightforward GUI like VSCode instead of some monstrosity like VI/VIM/Emacs/whatever.

Rote memorization of commands is a ridiculous way to interface with computers in 2019 IMO. I consider it a failure of modern computing every time I have to use a CLI.

Mostly, I blame the automation zealots who have thrown out the discoverability baby with the GUI bathwater. Yes, CLIs are easy to automate. Yay! Why not automate them with a GUI then?
It seems it was made emulating an ancient processor using current processors and in fact creating a massively overclocked virtual processor + virtual disks. Very nice.
So basically the argument I had with my dad (conservative blue collar) a couple years ago when he argued "No we're not going to pay $2/mo for recycling bins, this whole recycling thing is just a scam for the trash companies to skim money." Me: "Blah blah blah rainforests, blah blah blah manufacturing waste to produce, etc." I guess he was right?
One thing that is typically not mentioned in these debates is the fundamental structure of the industry. Let's say someone finds a research compound which looks to be promising, and they start a new company to try to commercialize it. Often, they are looking at at least 1-2 decades to get that product to market. Assuming they don't sell out to a big company, they almost certainly have to go public before starting trials in order to amass the required funds. Normally, a public company is expected to show regular profits and growth. This is impossible for a new pharma company because they don't have a product yet, so they are expecting investors to foot the bill for years and years of development and trials. During this time, if the compound fails a major trial, the entire company can go under because it may be prohibitively expensive to start over again if there is a problem. Therefore, not only is there a massively delayed ROI but a lot of risk. As such, when a company gets something to market, investors expect massive profits for shouldering that risk and delay. It is simply not feasible for companies to charge small amounts of money because no investor could justify locking up capital / taking those risks for something other than a huge return.
Fixing Unix/Linux/Posix Filenames: Control Characters (Such as Newline), 2009
I agree up until the last part. Habits aren't formed in a vacuum. Corporations sell products in bad packaging and for most people most of the time there is no reasonable way to avoid purchasing products in that form. The only way to change the situation is to legislate. A tax on packaging seems most pragmatic. Unfortunately, pragmatism would go against the prevailing dogmatic faith in the free market being the solution to all problems and so we do nothing.
https://lobste.rs/s/luehpr/fixing_unix_linux_posix_filenames
Making Sense with Sam Harris.

Sam Harris is very controversial. Yet, IMHO, intellectually honest. Also, his voice is very relaxing lol.
For the implementors, “visa” is a 4-letter word because it would eliminate all kinds of reciprocity agreements where EU nationals get visa-free travel.

Usually they claim some loophole like you don’t need it to hitchhike/drive, just to board a commercial plane/ship/bus in.

Those flying in a private jet need not worry about such issues.
I hope you don’t believe that about all art. Art is one of the pillars of Homo Sapien behavior, and it is found pretty much anywhere human settlements are found. I worry that many of us are becoming too distracted with life, logistics, and “productivity” to take time out to experience the things that make us human. Maybe that’s why art has become associated with the rich - maybe they’re the only ones who have time to enjoy it.
Rcast 21: The Currency of Concurrency
I don't mean to ruin it for gef3233 here, but seeing that it's missing the magic header required for PDFs, I'd be surprised if there are PDF viewers that would try to interpret this. I would even consider trying to interpret this "PDF" without checking for the magic number to be a bug.

Looking at the PDF spec[1], it says:

> The first line of a PDF file shall be a header consisting of the 5 characters %PDF– followed by a version number of the form 1.N, where N is a digit between 0 and 7.

where a line is:

> Each line shall be terminated by an end-of-line (EOL) marker, which may be a CARRIAGE RETURN (0Dh), a LINE FEED (0Ah), or both

On binary data:

> If a PDF file contains binary data, as most do (see 7.2, "Lexical Conventions"), the header line shall be immediately followed by a comment line containing at least four binary characters—that is, characters whose codes are 128 or greater

I'm sorry, but I don't think the file qualifies as a PDF if it doesn't meet these requirements. Still, it's pretty cool if this is PDF-like.

`gunzip`, `tar`, `jpg`, etc. fail when I give them things that don't have the magic header they expect. It's a good convention to use magic numbers to not misinterpret files.

[1] https://www.adobe.com/content/dam/acom/en/devnet/pdf/PDF3200...
Yes and collecting data is a lot more expensive and less detailed for brick and mortar stores
Also Amazon is less likely to have an issue with respect to stock since they do not buy most of the stock they just store it, where as brick and mortar stores invest in their inventory which gives them an higher incentive to promote them. And this also gives them an incentive to have disfounted sales on slow moving products that are either of slightly lower quality to a comparable product or it is a new Unknown brand resulting in a win for the customer. In case of Amazon if a new Unknown product is not selling it is all up to the seller to manipulate the algorithm to move up the seller ranking( we already see all the way sellers manipulate reviews and change products to have a high number of reviews) this is a big loss for the customer. And if the seller puts in all the effort and succeeds Amazon can just copy the product and say MY PRODUCT NOW, and show an Amazon basics product for the exact same price as the buyer and bump him Lower than its own product.
It's not human nature either. I highly recommend that you don't brush it off that quickly.

There are two kinds of 'body movements' by humans, 'involuntary' or 'non-rational', like sneezing, or tripping, vs voluntary or rational, like you choosing to brush your teeth, or driving a car or negotiating a contract.

If a human says that he doesn't want to divorce his wife but he can't feel the same passion towards her, or if someone is trying to lose weight but is unable to stop eating, then trying to understand that action is psychology.

However, if we just stop to the fact that if you perform an action, irrespective of your 'stated' reasoning behind it, it does demonstrate something.

When we look at these actions which are pertinent to monetary aspects of those rational or voluntary actions, we find out that we can build a whole system of science (or logic, if you don't like saying it's a kind of science), which leads us to other conclusions.

For instance if you say that you would love to spend the spring break in France, but then when the time comes, you find out that tickets are cheaper for Mexico, and instead you spend it in Mexico, then that means that your demonstrated preference was to have that extra money and do other things with it in Mexico, instead to have less money in France (irrespective of what you said).

What this means is that if prices of Mexico tickets were changed and it becomes as expensive as tickets to France, then you will change your decision also (though you don't have to, in which case we will learn that you actually didn't care about going to France anyways).

Either way, when you build a system of all the logical inferences, like in Mathematics, smaller concepts and axioms can lead you to build other complex mathematical conclusions, you have the same thing in economics (which leads you to the concepts of interest rates, prices, supply and demand, autistic intervention, binary intervention, triangular intervention etc).
biodegradability of individual items is less of an impact when the majority of trash is disposed in non-degrading plastic trash bags.
It's not unreasonable to be discouraged when you reach out to two professionals and neither of them seem to think that it's worth their time.