skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bing got 'caught' doing something completely innocuous: using opt-in data about what Bing Toolbar users click on to improve search results. They never looked at what google would return for any searches. Google had to install the Bing Toolbar, enable that data sharing, and actively submit their 'honeypot' keyword->click data to Bing before it would show up in Bing results.
Ok.

1. No one is going to get violent because they can’t find housing in the Bay Area.
2. Violence is a very expensive endeavor for human beings. It extracts lives, property and depletes resources. Most human beings avoid violence unless they have nothing to lose. This is what happens in war torn areas.
3. People MOVE when resources become scarce. That’s why America is made of immigrants. From the time it was formed, people MOVED in from places that got too crowded or when resources became thin. Trying to cram everyone into one tiny desirable geographically area in California is exactly the opposite of what to do to avoid violence due to social unrest.
4. This is a land of opportunity. People TAKE opportunities. Spoon feeding and force feeding after the threat of malnutrition is not the same as offering a plentiful plate of food. There is ‘fabric of life’ beyond certain zip codes in California.
5. Asking property owners to give up quality of life and environment for higher density homes with minimal benefit to them is most definitely asking them to GIVE UP something.
6. There is dignity outside certain zip codes in California. This is bordering on nonsensical now. I fail to understand the import of your communication. We have a hot housing market where people below a certain earning potential are priced out. And there is theatrics all over. News flash: This happens everywhere in the world. Every single decade. Only in California is this about loss of dignity and potential for violence and obligation of retired old folks to give up their homes for high density while on fixed incomes because someone just out of college can’t afford a mortgage.
7. No. We can’t cram everyone who wants to live in the most desirable zip codes in California because that means they lose dignity.
8. And no. We can’t make everyone happy. We can’t make everyone feel not resentful. We can’t control how people feel about their entitlements or inadequacies or whatever. The best we can do is NOT enable it.
Bringing this to a conclusion. No. We are built out. Some of us want quality of life. Some of us don’t. Some of us can afford to live where we desire. Some of us can’t. And there is a whole lot of us in between the book end choices.

Sometimes it’s better NOT to act outside one’s sphere of influence. If you feel that more people need to move in a low density area, feel free to demolish your home and built multiple dwellings in it. Maybe you can evangelize your position and convince others. Be the change you want to see, but don’t expect others to be the change you are unable to create yourself. It doesn’t say so in the rulebook of life. It has only three things: Welcome. Live. Die. You can define that any way you want and find meaning in it for yourself only.
But there are already two AoA sensors on the plane. They already made it redundant. They just didn't write code to perform an agreement check as an input to MCAS.

I don't think any aviation expert would agree that the case for requiring redundancy in the MCAS system is weak.
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THAT IS SEXIST
A fair amount of waste comes from idling in port.
There are still issues with loading and unloading containers if you cover the ship with panels.
Every time I click the share button in Android, the icons are in completely different order. Not last recently used, not alphabetically. Completely random.
The labor theory of value has been widely discredited.
Every 737 has two AoA vanes. They are redundant and the redundancy is not optional. MCAS just doesn't take advantage of there being two sensors.
i'll defer to lispm's expert opinion, but i always thought of macros as _conditional_ evaluation. `if` is a special form because it does not evaluate the branch not taken. it's tricky to implement `if` without using `if` or `cond`. macros make it easy to implement your own special forms. in your example, you might want to implement `first`.

(first b c) -> (eval b)

i can't think of a way (but it might be possible) to not evaluate c with a regular function. first is trivial and dumb, but it's obvious how to turn that into short circuiting `and` or `or`.
I realize this is meant as a joke, but in all seriousness, this does go against some of the absurdist grain of what we're seeing today. No one should be bullied or made fun of for their beliefs, but the idea that biological sex is some type of subjective personal choice is ideological; even religious. Papers like this could seriously face censorship in the future, and it's something we need to address and take seriously.
At least you get paid in an apprenticeship.
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Tradespeople work more hours than anybody I know, and the unfortunate reality seems to be that they have to. Otherwise projects would take twice as long, and in the event of an emergency there could potentially be nobody to answer to it.

Where I am, it's not uncommon to see an electrician or millwright working 70+ hour weeks to meet deadlines or make emergency repairs.
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pixelfed.social is a particular instance; https://pixelfed.org (the project home page) is probably a better overview.

Though - as that page points out - it's still a work in progress. There should probably be huge barriers to adoption for everyone regardless of nerdiness. But at the moment I'd guess they're targeting existing fediverse/Mastodon users.
https://m.imgur.com/gallery/HEZ1eJY
Cool. I'm glad this idea has a name. I've often thought that higher level politics are really untouchable by the average person because: candidates tend to be chosen by large parties either through appointment or proxy voting, changes made made by the politician are hard to measure because they are often made in places where the voter doesn't reside, policy is determined by the party (and enforced by a "whip") meaning that voters are forced to vote for specific parties rather than the best candidate, etc, etc. Municipal level politics usually has far fewer roadblocks and is much more visible to the average person. Using that to leverage larger changes seems like a doable process.
> No 737MAX with this option has ever crashed.

I mean there are only two 737MAXes that have crashed in total, right? It's not like we have such a huge sample to work with for this to carry that much weight.
Debian?

For upthread comparison, the debian:stable-slim container is 22MB.

That includes perl, tzdata, apt, bash, coreutils/util-linux and... basically nothing else. It's a very minimal rootfs that can still be easily extended. (The standalone perl docker image is over 300MB.)
> No one should be bullied or made fun of for their beliefs, but the idea that biological sex is some type of subjective personal choice is ideological; even religious.

You’re confusing sex with gender.
>Eventually they will get tired of paying for worthless clicks

They'll just start paying less per click. A worse outcome for everyone, not just the bad players.
I'd ask everyone who came to this article with the assumption that someone would object to or get offended by this finding, to actually observe if anyone does.
This "human" factor was also characterized in the movie Sully when it was apparent that just a few extra seconds for pilots to process the issue made all the difference between landing safely at a nearby airport vs. landing in the Hudson River.
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The article says nothing about how many trans people they had enrolled in the study. I thought we were already past this but no, in 2019 trans individuals are still second class citizens.
It works, but the syntax isn't nice enough to use as-is, so in practice you need a macro.

The innovation here is using better syntax for anonymous functions to make such things practical in languages without macros.
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Programming competitions are to programming as fencing is to sword-fighting.

I'm not trying to denegrate people who compete in programming competitions—they require hard work and talent like any competition, but it is a very specific set of skills that are developed which are different from real-world programming.
The mechanism of action of analgesic drugs is very simple and well-understood.

Considering the fact that the very same painkillers that humans use are effective on drastically different organisms, such as snails or crustaceans, I find it extremely unlikely that gender plays any significant role in their effectiveness.

To be honest, it feels like this study was politically motivated.
Generally speaking startups don't borrow money to finance themselves.
I believe explanation is that they simply excluded mentally ill applicants.
This, exactly. If a doctor can be essentially disbarred for providing a recommended treatment specific to one's biological sex regardless of the patient's view on their gender, and that demand is made by the patient _to the patient's detriment_, doctors are put in an impossible situation, forsaking their oath in all courses of action.
Until there’s a politically viable solution to homelessness, reasonable people are going to prefer spaces with basic socioeconomic filters like “doesn’t reek of urine” and “isn’t obviously an untreated mentally ill hard drug user.”

Exposure to human feces is a legitimate factor in transportation mode choice right up there with cost and door to door time. We are all worse off for transit advocates’ side dismissals of its role.
I always want to think of sulfur in HFO are contributing to the total heating value because the stuff used to be 3% sulfur. Realistically it's probably 1%. Sulfur only has about 1/3 the energy content as HFO.

But they are phasing out high sulfur HFO in 2020 I think ships are restricted to 0.5% sulfur.
The actual title is “Here’s Why You Can’t Trust What Cops and Companies Claim About Automated License Plate Readers”.

The title currently shown above is a bit of a non-sequitur.
Maybe not straight up misinformed, but from my experience, many Westerns know very little about China's history and how it affects their outlook and actions.

One reason Chinese rulers crack down hard on religious cults because they have a history of sowing widespread chaos and death if not kept in check:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiping_Rebellion#Death_toll

Led by a guy who claimed to be Jesus Christ's brother. 20-30 million is in the range of WW1 casualties.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19437920 has some other examples
Right above you, someone getting offended that there aren’t enough trans people in the study. I thought that was an interesting coincidence.

https://pasteboard.co/I6fhTWy.jpg
There could also be other reasons for this, like rent being so high that trades people can't afford to live in the area. One of the other comments even points out that trade schools are closing in CA left and right.
Some takeaways that underscore the fact that it took the NIH until 2016 to require animal research to feature both male and female animals -

"Women greatly outnumber men among migraine sufferers, and women made up about 85 percent of the participants in the Phase 3 clinical trials of the three anti-CGRP drugs approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 2018. Price wonders if the anti-CGRP drugs aren’t specific to migraines—but to women. His work with mice suggests that the drugs don’t work in males, but block pain in females.

Mogil once emailed a researcher, asking whether a pain drug worked better in men than women. The researcher didn’t know, and couldn’t pursue the question because the data was controlled by the pharmaceutical company. Mogil was left wondering if drugs that looked promising in male-only animal studies might have failed in clinical trials when the results were blended with those in women, depriving men of a viable treatment...

[Meanwhile] medicines that could work best for women wouldn’t make it into the pipeline at all when basic science excluded female animals. Price wonders if unresolved pain among women might have led to their higher levels of chronic pain."
I'm afraid everything you're saying is just very wrong:

> [Boeing self-assessed] a failure of the
[MCAS] system as one level below “catastrophic.” But even that “hazardous” danger level should have precluded activation of the system based on input from a single sensor — and yet that’s how it was designed.

-- https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/faile...

Even at Boeing's understated safety risk, redundancy is required. And the system actually has much more risk than they stated, since it will eventually totally deflect the stabilizer -- as happened to both fatal flights, with the jackscrews found in their farthest position in the wrecks.
...what?

So now all you're proposing is just a different currency with these tokens. This solves absolutely nothing. Nobody needs to use tokens when they already have real currency to use along with various transfer services to move money physically and digitally.
Is there a reason you need to make it flow as opposed to simply conveying it mechanically? It seems like you came up with a complicated solution (making solids behave like liquids) when there are plenty of simpler solids handling techniques that could be used. For example a belt or screw conveyor.
I wasn't a slacker until I took a computer graphics class that consumed more of my time than my other 4 classes combined, and I still failed it on a technicality (out for a job interview the day partners were assigned for the final project. Wasn't allowed to do the project alone, there were an odd number of people in the class. If you fail any "section" of the class, you fail the whole class. After back-and-forth with the professor, I contacted my class dean. He said he'd contact the professor, didn't, told me it was too late to change the grade, and then quit)

After that I realized grades were fairly arbitrary and explicitly aimed for Ds in classes I didn't care about and settled for whatever in the classes I did care about.

I've been doing graphics since high school, it was one of the few classes I was really excited about, and it's what I'm currently getting paid to do. I've never failed any other class.

In my opinion, the first two years of CS actually matter. Fundamentals like data structures, algorithms, and maybe even operating systems classes are great. Beyond that, most CS programs tend to be severely outdated - you'll learn more from internships and co-ops than another 2 years of classes.

Of course, take that with a grain of salt since I did know exactly what I wanted to do coming into college.
Thats completely untrue. They just dont borrow money from a traditional bank. Lots of growth is actually fueled by debt.
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I've met with quite a few doctors in my life and many aren't that important or specialized, they simply went through the motions to get there like any profession.

We (society) like to put MDs on pedestals because the relationship to life is direct and obvious, but we often ignore just how resilient the human body is and how in most daily situations, doctors aren't dealing in difficult life or death situations.

We also tend to ignore the indirect effects of other professions' on quality and longevity of life. If a traffic engineer saves tens of thousands of people 10 minutes a day in their commute, that adds up to saving an entire life of time quickly. Just an example of indirect effects on life.
No personal attacks, please, regardless of whether some other comment was being an asshole.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It's already difficult to get enough funding as is, you can't realistically expect the researchers to allocate a meaningful amount of resources to survey 0.6 of the population.
Please don't cross into being a jerk in HN comments. It only makes things worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Totally agree with what you say about multiple choice programming tests. I have a PhD in computer science and have worked as a programmer for over a decade. For fun, I took a practice AP CS exam with my son, which had similar multiple choice questions.

I did not get 100%. I actually thought the exam was pretty good, but it tested something like 1% of the skills I use as a working programmer. Skills like API design, software architecture, documenting code, and yes even naming variables, which I think are important to writing quality code.
Since ibuprofen impairs testosterone production, a key sex differentiating hormone, I'd not be surprised at all if there is a gender correlation in effectiveness or side effects.
That will teach you to pay attention. Heh!
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> I'm sure most of those people have had to use their insurance in their period of time of working at their job. I find it harder to believe the opposite.

Using your insurance for regular doctor appointments or the occasional flu or bronchitis is quite different from realizing you have a serious chronic condition, or require a major surgery. You don't buy insurance for regular needs, you buy it for the unforeseen serious ones. These are rare, but it's here where the quality of insurance really matters.

Judging the quality of insurance from the standpoint of the "average person" is not the correct perspective. You need to judge it by the person who needs to file serious claims. From this perspective, 70% of "average people" being happy with their insurance seems remarkably low.
This one's actually a memory item, not a checklist. But it's the memory item for "runaway trim", which is a very different qualitative experience than the slow march of an MCAS system that you didn't know existed.
Great list. Easy to follow. I will be using this next time i write an auto complete

My only objection would be

> Autocompletion to the nearest ambiguous prefix. If I type “g” and that matches both “Google” and “GoodReads”, this operation would fill in the two “o”s, allowing me to then type either “g” or “d” to select the option I want.

Dont change the input as i am typing otherwise you qill get 4 o's. Show it as an option and allow me to choose the help with right arrow or something
If a ship's in port, there is no need for using the on-ship engines at all. You could just connect it to the land based grid, which, optimally, uses renewables. Hamburg harbour has project to do this precisely, and it seems Cuxhaven has one too.
It's mentioned here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-North_Shelter_Forest_Pro..., but the cited reference to it is in "The Epoch Times", which from what I've seen has quite an ideological bent against china, so I'd take it with a grain of salt
Because they can't. Most people would be far less inclined to sell equity in their company if they could get a loan on fair terms that wasn't secured by their personal assets.

If you watch the videos on Sweetbridge, reducing the WACC for startups and small businesses is one of the main promises of DLT.
The national shortage of truck drivers in America does not support your argument. I heard from someone at 160 Driving Academy that you can make six figures with a CDL and the trucking companies will pay you to get one.

That's not even as hard on the body as other physical jobs. It is not a well regarded and the community of peers you interact with means that it isn't a very desirable job.
Startups get more VC funding in a low rate environment, as money chases deals in search of yields. I've seen many silly startups funded this way, as well as "burn cash to grow" outfits like Uber and Tesla.
https://e360.yale.edu/features/chinas_reforestation_programs...

Not only that, there are concerns around lack of biodiversity in the trees being planted: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/09/160907125303.h...
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Seems like a reasonable comment to me, and not an objection to the finding.
Microsoft's approach would likely be xCloud.
https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/13/18263405/microsoft-xcloud...
" first major tech company "

I don't think that is even remotely an accurate statement, unless EVERY company with a website is now a "tech company".

I took a peek at the data object in https://www.kickstarter.com/team

And to me it looks like an art company, with very little focus on tech.

"favorite category" counts by # team members
Art: 32
Film & Video: 29
Design: 27
Publishing: 15
Games: 14
Technology: 8
Music: 5
Comics: 3
Food: 3
Photography: 2
Theater: 2
null: 2
Journalism: 1

# of backed projects by "favorite category"
Film & Video: 6264
Design: 2372
Games: 2325
Art: 2238
Technology: 1228
Publishing: 777
Theater: 310
Music: 181
Food: 119
Comics: 44
Photography: 28
Journalism: 5
null: 0

I would add that I find it incredibly ironic for a "creative" company to have such rigid categories for what it deems "creative".
When lights are normally not lit and one lights up a pilot or other machine or plant operator should take notice.

A detailed explanation should not be required since they should know what the different warning lights mean and what can cause them to be lit.

I personally would like to see a list of the airlines that bought the more expensive 737 max that included the additional safety features.
I go back to Bulgaria every summer exactly because I want my kids to spend time in places like Altimir, not rot in toxic urban environments in the US. In fact, my kids spend their time in a much smaller village. They are around farm animals, they roam free all day long unsupervised and only come back when they are hungry, i.e. twice a day. My only worry is the ticks, but so far, we've been lucky, plus, I have Tetracycline always handy.
It's a housing crisis by spillover - all the people in the Bay Area who can't afford houses there are going to Sacramento instead. Here's a particularly pointed and opinionated editorial on the subject: https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/erika-d-smi...
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Or as another approach:

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This is a product I might buy - if I could actually buy it.
Nottingham UK: cheap but with strong uni nearby so interesting people to meet or study with.
There's a difference between jaded and cynical :) Not that I know the answer to your question any better. We'll have to wait for the HBO documentary.

To play devil's advocate anyway, as someone who has not been following this actively, I find this article to cement the idea in this reader's mind that a Boeing malfunction is involved in all three incidents. Is this even conclusively established? Would Boeing want this spin at this point?

The suggestion that an extra brain might randomly have averted two multi-fatal crashes and that this error mode has occurred at least three times seems like it would be a bit pyrrhic for the PR people at this juncture, no?