skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I wonder if part of this settlement was because he actually cares about being the richest person in the world and she was kind enough to make sure he stays that way?

I doubt it. What is he getting from that title, at all? His already obnoxiously rich. He is totally willing to divest just to put money into risky bets like Blue Origin. He even bought a newspaper, in what I believe was a personal move to deeply understand the role of press in society development and policy making (because all other reasons are stupid, as already proven by the multiple issues that have originiated from his association with WaPo).

I think he has a goal that goes beyond being the richest person in the world or at least it doesn't depend on that. His personal bets under a investment light are the oppostie of trying be the richest person in the world. I suspect that's not his goal.
> Metaethical claims are positive claims about normative objects

You can't make positive claims about normative objects, because any such claim ends up being a normative claim based on your personal judgment. You can't objectively test normative objects to establish claims about them the way you can with ordinary objects like rocks.

> Why should our ethical committee entertain such a futile endeavour?

It's not a futile endeavor, because if there are in fact groups of people with fundamentally opposed meta-ethical positions--for example, not agreeing on what the Good or the Right is--then figuring out how such people can coexist in the same society, or even on the same planet--or even whether they can--is an important ethical question that needs to be investigated. And it can't be investigated if only one view of what's Good or Right is represented.
CSS Battle
You've probably already heard of this but there's always http://textfiles.com
I disagree. I wrestled at a DI level in college, it was grueling, it was incredibly hard, some days I hated it. But it wasn't the same kind of burn out that I feel from software development. I don't wake up excited for work the way I would wake up excited to train. It's just different. The harder you work the better you get in sport.
You may work harder at software development and become a better developer but the gains you may get aren't so concrete, you don't win, you likely won't even get a raise.
If that's the case, it would be appreciated if this was moved back, or at least re-posted. It appears worthy of being visible based on the amount of discussion it generated in a short time. Moving it to this thread effectively threw a bucket on the fire.

This document is a big deal.
Well, I would enjoy seeing one, I admit.

I've often thought that a suitable airburst would be a great climax for large fireworks displays. But then, there's the EMF. Sigh.
To be fair, cheating and stealing is a cultural norm over there!
Kurt Vonnegut said that when you curse you give him the right to ignore you. And I agree with you.
Unfortunately, C with MSVC is dead. Personally nowadays I prefer to use cygwin and vs code, it's a good pair for pure c development when I need it. No real ides for pure c though...
For all you know you don’t even experience time going forwards. At any given instance, how do you know that you “experienced” the past second. What if your conscious experience is just an instance at that point of existence? You can’t point to recollection of the past second because that recollection happens through time as well. What if that’s just an illusion of the brain state at that time?

Did Descartes really think?
The significance of this metric is questionable because transferring money to yourself (for example, from one device to another) counts as a transaction here. Financial transactions with Visa or PayPal are more likely to be transfers of value from one person or organization to another.

It's unlikely that Bitcoin is used for a larger total amount of person-to-person payments than these other systems.
https://loopback.io/
Yes, I use ssh Unix socket forwarding.
There is a shitty think called "Card refresh". Big companies can have deals with Credit card companies, because, at the end of the day, both of them need your money.

Lets say, you gave your card automatic monthly billing to company 'X'. You would normally expect that when card expires, it won't be billed anymore and they will ask you for new card details. The reality is company 'X' goes to credit card company and tells them "We have these card details with us. Everything except expiry date is same. So you can conclude that we legitimately obtained the card details. Can you give us the new card details. We will update the account accordingly. It is even useful to the customer as he will be (cough cough) inconvenienced."

I think something similar happened in your case.
Source: I implemented this in a big e-commerce company(Not AMZN).
It's funny how these richest people lists calculate people's worth. When Jeff Bezos and his wife were together, all of their assets were considered his alone.
Historically, in EU the private industry chose not to solve the problem because (just like in USA) the problem is profitable for them. Sometimes people need fast payments and you can charge them lots of money for that; if everyone's basic payments are fast and cheap, then you lose that revenue.

The point of change in EU was legally mandated changes (PSD) which (after a transition period, something like 2 years maybe?) essentially required banks to deliver payments within a certain time or compensate the payer for any losses/costs caused by the delay, at which point suddenly the private industry managed to quickly solve all the technical and organizational problems that were impossible before.
> There's nothing inherently immoral about rationing healthcare.

That a subjective statement, it is only true for you and those who agree with you.

>In fact healthcare is already rationed everywhere for most patients.

That is not an argument for the morality of rationed healthcare.

We could make some sort of objective argument based upon ethics though. Suppose the smoker became addicted to cigarettes as a by-protect of being drafted into the military where he served in a distinguished role perhaps saving lives and protecting your freedom. Being a draftee and not particularly well educated, this persons means in retirement were quite limited, often depending on government assistance in various forms.

A different person was ensured to be wealthy by inheritance then draft dodging then engaging in tax evasion, illegal migrant labor, various kinds of fraud and strong arm tactics. Yet this person didn't smoke and is quite wealthy.

Should we invest in healthcare for tobacco users?
Did you think that the recent Apache privilege escalation exploit is a malicious piece?
This has been debunked thoroughly. That guy went up to the kids and started beating his drum right in their faces to intimidate them and somehow the media painted the kids as the harasser.
Sure, but it's not easy to find all of the debate about a given assertion in a particular article, much less contribute to that debate (given that it's probably distributed across a bunch of social media venues).

One can easily imagine hovering over a given assertion (e.g., "Damore posted an anti-diversity screed") and see the fact-checks, perhaps ranked by fact-checker's credibility in order to suppress conspiracy theory crap as well as contribute to the debate.

Anyway, that there is lots of noise among the criticism doesn't mean that there isn't a lot of valid criticism. It's only been a few months since nearly the whole American newsmedia willfully mislead the nation, sending an angry mob after innocent kids, after all.
I've been reading this thread and I'm curious if you've had any cardiac checkups done.

I had a friend who was very healthy and fit but, like you, experienced elevated heart rate (and some loss of energy) for a few days after hard exercise days. Turns out, he had a partial blockage in a cardiac blood vessel. It was not blocked enough to be noticeable under normal workloads. But under hard work loads, part of his heart did not get enough oxygen and experienced damage. Eventually he experienced a heart attack, which is when it was caught and stented. Every other vessel was clear... it was just one of those flukes.

Who knows if you have the same issue, but I would suggest it's worth getting checked out.
Backward-Compatibility Fido U2F Support Shipping Soon in Firefox
Show HN: Treon – Testing Framework for Jupyter Notebooks
That's a big "if".
I've seen this recently in my job search. I reached out to 2 ex-coworkers who are now leads/managers looking for work. Both offered my jobs without hesitation, because they have seen me work and know what I'm worth.

However, going through traditional routes, I have something like 15+ no-responses, 10 tech screen rejections, and 3 on-sites with 2 offers.
Title should probably be "CSS Battle" or "CSS code golf".
They money freed up by not having a car is promptly swallowed up by contending for a smaller pool of usable land.
With respect to booting with a conflict in the system memory map: the Windows behavior is the right one, IMHO. An operating system shouldn't just ignore self-contradictory system configuration information and try to continue anyway. Who's to say that the resulting behavior is the right one? You're in undefined behavior territory. Failing fast when encountering invalid state, as Windows does, leads to more robustness in the end: fail-fast gets problems fixed, not swept under the rug.
Heh, I've actually been doing TFNA for about two months now. Just finished the "transition period."
So, basically a routing/allocation problem? You could throw SAT solvers at it, right?
What is a “premium” carrier and what are they offering for the extra price?
Trust me, no programmer loves their work in the same way a gamer loves gaming.

Even implying they do is blasphemous.
Ask HN: Any Financial Model Tips/Tricks?
Hey there, this is such a common problem I have to assume there are some good "new school" startup style SaaS companies that are good at financial modeling and projection, for managerial accounting.
I'm a startup founder and I want to model projected/actual P&L statement, statement of cashflows, and so on.

I use Quickbooks Online, and I have a bookkeeper and accountant, but am wondering what other software type tools people are using these days to get more sophisticated understanding of their numbers.

Would also be interested in any great books, blog posts, or anything else other people in the same position have found helpful.
Project Azorian
I think you are reading more into the argument than is there. It's not an argument that the current system is good or that the new system is bad. It's an argument that the premise that we thought they were free is a bullshit premise.

Debating which tax policy is better is a perfectly fine thing to do. But it's not fine to begin that debate by mischaracterizing the status quo.

The new system might be wonderful, but that doesn't exist hyperbolic, inaccurate journalism.
can anyone cite an example of a major-media news story that was actually factually wrong in a way that "open source fact checking" could have detected it?

There have been many of these recently. One striking one was the Boston Rally for which the mainstream news pushed a "white supremacist" narrative. This was odd, as the few people who managed to come out included a large proportion of brown people, including one South Asian senate candidate. The fact checking seems to go out the window, so long as the story pushes one of the "sacrosanct" narratives.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wWeksF6XZs

Another example was the coverage of the public harassment incident at VidCon between Anita Saarkesian and Sargon of Akkad. The way it was reported, it sounds like Sargon did something, whereas videos online show that all the harassment was done by Anita Saarkesian. You may not like Sargon, but the fact that the news narrative goes 180 degrees against the truth on the ground should disturb everyone.

I find the bias, when it exists, is in the presentation, not the facts themselves.

Manufacturing Consent covers how western media entirely fits a "Propganda Model" of operation through presentation alone. However in recent years, even facts are thrown out in favor of narratives which run entirely counter to the facts.

And mainstream journalism is really committed to getting the facts right.

Not so much. I recall reading a NYT article about a storm-in-a-teacup thing involving who gets to walk first as valedictorian. The article was amazingly nearly fact free. It seems that articles and reports get a free pass, so long as they are pushing the "right" narrative. It has been this way for a very long time (re: Manufacturing Consent) but the quality of fact checking and the quality of the writing used to subtly spin the facts has gone down.

People complained mightily about how all of the "Weapons of Mass Destruction" evidence was one big circle-jerk of "Citogenesis."

https://xkcd.com/978/

Now, the same media organizations are involved in the same circle-jerks of "Citogenesis," but it's given a pass for tribal reasons, because the narrative supports "our side."
VOMIT, Victim Of Modern Imaging Technology, is a term among doctors for a reason.

Generally the more you know the better, but sometimes things can be stumbled upon that might otherwise be irrelevant yet the intervention can then introduce new risk or some other unique problem or undesired side effect. There aren't always easy answers.
> They need to know that, because they need to decide if it's worth it in the first place

Thats only if that feature is optional. Often it isn't, and then it is pointless to estimate. Absolutely pointless.
Who cares? This has no place on HN.
Lest ye forget how 'The A-Team' is
OK! We've put it back.
> C++ seems very different to me now vs the early 90s.

True, but it's still very far from optimal. For something MUCH closer to optimal, see Rust.

All that said, from a practical standpoint I think Julia is near perfect as both a prototyping and implementation language, with the ability to drop to Rust/C/assembly easily as needed.

High productivity, and C-like performance. That's a sweet spot.
The thing already had ring 0 permissions, the code with the bug in it is a kernel driver.
> Taxis and Ubers are forms of public transportation, and likely reduce the overall number of cars on the road.

Yes, they used to claim this, but studies show the opposite:

https://www.npr.org/2018/08/01/634506179/ride-hailing-servic...
All the German car manufacturers have in terms of engineerig talent and cultural is mostly mechanical, and brilliantly so.

But, the electronics suck.

Some of the most talented chemical, physical materials and electrical engineers work for Musk’s companies.

You can just tell that Tesla’s were not designed with teams in silos. I don’t think car makers are currently capable of that.
If the pilot, who hopefully has thicker skin than people on the internet, moves the buttons and levers properly MCAS should never have to do anything. It's only supposed to actually do anything when you let the nose pitch up a little too much (which the system will detect using the AoA sensors)[0]. It's like automatic braking in a new car, if you drive the way you're "expected to" you shouldn't be activating it often.

[0] https://theaircurrent.com/aviation-safety/what-is-the-boeing...
Ultimately the freedoms we take for granted here stand on preserving sovereignty.
I wish they'd hand the data off to some group that actually would do something with it, like the internet archive.
Nice blog btw, I'll definitely be digging in.
What do you think the chances of Nordic Valley's planned expansion are?
I took a train for a commute for a while and I found it hard to focus on anything on the laptop for fear of missing my stop. Certainly wouldn't have worked for music. The anxiety's just too much in those situations. I like long Greyhound rides though.
"The real question is what keeps networks from being collective madness in service of themselves?"

Competition keeps it from being that.
SPURV Will Allow You to Run Android Apps on a Linux Desktop
Well, I would say, Google+ didn't succeed, rather than Google+ failed. That's more better way of wording.
Sounds like Australia, except it extends to all citizens so it’s worse.
Maybe that's part of it, but there are plenty of examples of the media deliberately misleading their audience. "Can't afford fact checkers" doesn't really explain that.
>> And mainstream journalism is really committed to getting the facts right.

Is it? Maybe it once was but the collapse of local news and the massive drop of talented writers and support staff like editors and fact checkers seems to have changed the environment. Most news today is little more than Twitter posts cobbled together.
Zcash Meme Contest
Is it hosted anywhere, or just in a vault?
Or just a national security letter, not even on steroids.
> Everyone in the USMC is first and foremost a rifleman. Your actual MOS is secondary. The other branches are the opposite.

Maybe put down the POG Kool-Ade and take a deep breath?

> although these days, the kids get ACOGS, which I didn't have

If you were the Commandant would you change this? Everyone has an ACOG on their weapon in the fleet; doesn't it make sense to train like you fight?
Tax complexity is mostly unrelated to bracketing (progressive or otherwise); it's mostly due the difficulties of computing "income" against the torrent of schemes out there to obfuscate it.
And here is the second part of the quote you posted (the first result if you google your quote).

"Under a socialist system, everyone works for wealth that is in turn distributed to everyone. ... The government decides how wealth is distributed among the people" which is UBI.

I am really sorry, but you're very cheap fraud.

P.S. Also in our discussion the only person advocating violence was you, so don't you dare comparing me to terrorists. Don't you have at least a tiny bit of self-respect? And you have also called me a conspiracy theorist - this is funny now.

"When the only tool you know how to use is a hammer, everything seems to be a nail."
MIT study concludes that humans do not over-trust Tesla Autopilot
> Smart contracts on public blockchains solve this by committing coins to the contract. In effect the contract is an escrow facility in which the coins are locked up until the contract terminates.

So if this is true, one could never write a call option on Ethereum because the downside risk for the writer is unbounded and you cannot put infinite coins in escrow.

As an aside, given the escrow component, there seems to be no credit/counterparty risk in any ETH smart contract, but for the most part if there is not risk transfer or sharing is there really any commerce to do?
Well to be honest you're complaining of the UK system which in 30 years has seen Thatcherism and then Blairism bend the country's social contract into some half-baked neoliberal inferno.
Right, but there's no reason for the parent process to keep root privileges after binding to the privileged ports.
Honestly curious: are most radiologists actually following guidelines like Lung RADS in practice, especially just after publication? Is it part of any standardized CME?

It's my impression that there's often a big gap between ACR best practices and what's happening on the ground in most places, which was a key point the doctor in the article was making.
>It is incredibly hard to have consistent results on e-sports tournaments.

The NYXL are a great example of this. Often undefeated in normal season stages but then choke when it actually matters.

It doesn't help that their strategies and skillsets become very rigid, and any changes in opponent strategy or game rebalances can completely throw them off. https://www.theringer.com/2018/7/24/17606796/overwatch-leagu...
This seems like it's just adding the extra step of 3D printing to anatomical models that are already made en masse.
The end result of adapting our language to the medium is to lose in expressibility and gain in portability. Forcing technology to catch up is a more coherent option in the long run
With hockey, or any other professional sport, it doesn't matter if the skills aren't transferable, as a good hockey player will be in demand for as long as hockey is around. There's a built in longevity to the game that there isn't in e-gaming.

If you dedicate years to honing your Starcraft 2 skills, but consumer interest shifts to Overwatch or Destiny, can you retrain fast enough to compete at a similarly high level?

In IRL sports, the rules of a specific game don't change. Neither does the size of the field, the goalposts, the ball itself. So as long as you're able to improve your physical/mental focus, you can improve your performance. That's not the case when multiple variables around the game itself are changing.
Who Writes New Laws
There's also complex text layout (vowel-sign reordering) for Indic scripts, where some (not all) vowel signs require repositioning from phonetic order to visual order. Adding just that aspect to your example (without other complications like positioning of matras or conjunct consonant glyphs) makes it something closer to:

b&t&u&t&i&m&g&h&t&i&b&s&e&m&o&t&e&h&n&g&i&l&k&i&t&e&h&s&i
If dealerships were a good arrangement for manufacturers, dealerships wouldn't have to turn to legislation to ensure their own continued existence. I mean, how much do you think it bugs the shit out of the German auto manufacturers that they spend an unfathomable amount of time and energy making world class cars, only to have their customers have to deal with a car salesman in order to actually buy one.
When this was released I posted this comment on the Haskell subreddit, thinking I was on the rust subreddit. It's got some musings about what the dangers of becoming like Haskell are:

I wonder, were the Rust community be given the same power as the Haskell community, would they use it to create a complex more advanced idiomatic Rust that you could only read and understand after months of training?

There is this weird phenomenon in Haskell, I attribute it to Haskell having a syntax that feels limiting, but a type system that seems almost limitless.

There are two branches of idiomatic Haskell. One is the style anyone would recognize as generic "functional programming" and would be able to work with and be productive after a week or two of practice.

The other is where a dozen language features are enabled, and the latest and greatest utility libraries are imported and Haskell shows itself to be as flexible and alienating as Lisp. An expert can wield extreme expression under purity and safety. A beginner stands no chance.

It would be interesting to see more expressive power come to Rust. But it would be a bad thing if it would come at the cost of being beginner friendly. Rust might be challenging to write as a beginner due to the borrow checker, but at least it's easy enough to read.