skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have several issues with this article.

One, 175% of market rate vouchers?! So the homeless are living better than non-homeless stable working families who are actually able to take care of themselves? In what world is that just?

Two, why do they classify gentrification as a problem? Would they rather have a uniform distribution of crime and poverty across the city? Because if so, the rich people will move somewhere else, and the poverty problem will only snowball from there, bringing the general quality of life in the city down.
Unfortunately I don't see this cult of ignorance dissolving within our lifetimes.
Seemingly no amount of factual data can counter human "feelings". Until then, politics will continue trying to convert the thoughtless masses into votes.
If you're using Firefox you can Control+H then right click on the site and select the option labeled "Forget About This Site".
Done.
I'm not a student of philosophy, but I would think that for the two examples you gave, their meanings are still very contingent on one's world view.

I.e., depending on context, there might not be much use on agreeing about those sentences while still leaving the definitions of "truth", "evil", etc. up to individuals' iterpretation.
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A very little bit of poking around on the web turned up PC Basic at https://robhagemans.github.io/pcbasic/ which should be usable for a lot of the simple exercises. At least this one from https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bxv0SsvibDMTUzdWckVpSUlIb0E...:

LIST
10 LET A$="***"
20 FOR J = 1 TO 7
30 PRINT TAB(J);A$
40 NEXT J
50 FOR K=1 TO 3
60 PRINT TAB(J+1);A$
70 NEXT K
80 FOR L = 7 TO 1 STEP -1
90 PRINT TAB(L);A$
100 NEXT L
Ok

works perfectly.

I rather like this way of working, define a bit of program, try it out, refine it, try again without having to either compile or switch context from editor to command line.

Edit: formatting.
Use something like Searx [1], either self-hosted or hosted by someone or some organisation you trust. You can still get Google search results if you feel the need, either by explicitly asking for them (!go for search, !goi for images, !gon for news, !gos for scholar, !gov for video) or by enabling the Google engines in your config. In the latter case you get Google results mixed up with the other enabled engines. The results are presented as normal links without redirection through the originating search engine.

Searx can be extended so it would be possible to create a plugin which rewrites AMP links into non-AMP equivalents, where available. It can already do things like Open Access DOI rewrite (Avoid paywalls by redirecting to open-access versions of publications when available) so the ground work has been done. I'm currently working on improving (and fixing, where necessary) the image search engines and will probably start on such a plugin if nobody else beats me to it.

[1] https://asciimoo.github.io/searx/
From what I've read, it didn't sell well in Spanish-speaking countries because "no va" translates to "no go."
you watch too much TV
And a correlation of 0%
Must've been carried away by this sea monster...
I was just reading in Le Monde yesterday that this approach is used on historical buildings as working inward would trap the fire and essentially create a localized furnace that would damage the artifacts inside.
I second this I don't think it's unfair in the least.
What do drones and GPS owe to a 1744 shipwreck?
Google just gives users what they want. I've checked the link you provided and the website is total wreck in terms of user experience (subscription popup, large obtrusive ad banners and so on).

I have push notification disabled but it wouldn't be surprise for me if they asking to subscribe for push notifications on the first page view.

Current era of content websites is a disaster except few cases like medium and maybe reddit with a discount.

AMP is an only solution for general users who just want to google a cooking recipe or latest news in their town.
I’ve seen the open plan sold as what engineers are asking for, but anecdotally I don’t see them asking for that, so I wonder what drives it. Does it attract people right out of college? (if so, it would be important for recruiting?)
LingPipe http://alias-i.com/lingpipe/ had an example that did this IIRC it was their newsgroup example http://alias-i.com/lingpipe/demos/tutorial/classify/read-me...., I adapted it in to running a trial classification of Danish Laws. I remember I had greater than 80% precision without fiddling with settings and for less than a days worth of work setting up, don't remember the recall but it was also pretty reasonable.
Then why do we send in firefighters?

I didn't say we should stop the forest fires, I said we want to control them. Almost 100 people died in California last year and there was $3.5 billion in damage:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_California_wildfires
I confess to not usually using a checklist when I travel because most times are a bit different. What I do though--I travel a lot--is I have a couple containers of "travel stuff" down in my kitchen including some pre-made kits that I just throw in my bag. I pick out what I need, add clothes as needed, and that works pretty well.
"I'm just some fucking guy"
I've used a packing list for travel for a while now. My current method is to set everything up with checkboxes, uncheck them all beforehand and then recheck them as I pack or as I decide I don't need them for this trip.

I used to just group items by category (outerwear, electronics, etc), but now I've found it better to group items by where they're going to be packed (pockets, under-seat backpack vs carryon / checked bag).

Below that, I have short supplemental lists for things like camping, international, trips with swimming/beach, formal (wedding, etc), or trips longer than a week.

Also, a "Before You Go" list that's stuff to remember when literally walking out the door (take out the trash, shut down home theater computer, etc) that isn't realistic to pack or do in advance. Still a work in progress, but it really helps free up mental energy.
You're advocating for weeks if not months of effort on every subject, and then there's the burden of keeping up with the literature. I'm reading this all as "you'll never know anything, so don't bother".
Probably in his own handwriting.
Yes, it's clumsier than intrinsics, but ever since Go 1.10 added mnemonic support up to AVX2, I've found it usable enough. (And it's easier to efficiently exploit multiple processor cores in Go than most other languages...)
for better or worse, politics IS a skill!
Meshroom: Open Source 3D Reconstruction Software (2018) [video]
Also: Mise en place
>Is the argument that switching insurance plans is stressful?

I think it’s clear the article is promoting universal coverage, and simply highlight how ridiculous it is that healthcare is a benefit of employment by highlighting nearly 1/3 of employment based plans are discontinued within 12 months.

I’m not sure how you can conclude switching private insurance plans is hardly comparable to a transition to Medicare-for-all, when millions of people make the jump from private insurance to Medicare every year and you don’t hear much complaining from that group. Not to mention a 1 time transition compared to nearly 33% of the workforce going through this annually.
You know the bombs are coming and you have less than 30 minutes. Do you alert the public or grab your family and get to safety?
It could also be the diversity of testing as well. If the machine is tested to work with such dense hair from the beginning the algorithms can be adjusted.

Kind of like the Amazon facial recognition, [0] that really didn't work well on minorities, likely due to the training models used

[0] https://medium.com/@bu64dcjrytwitb8/on-recent-research-audit...
I think part of the reason pilots are so diligent is that it's their own lives on the line too...
Caught by the camera at the University of Maryland Observatory: https://www.facebook.com/UMObservatory/posts/101592265399548...
I guess yours are at least, in a way, semantic.

I've seen attempts where any connection between the symbol and what the method was doing was purely coincidental.
For non-Americans and confused Americans reading this, this isn't precisely true. Any employer with over 50 employees has to cover all pre-existing conditions from your previous employer. But there is no guarantee that your old providers will be in your new network, so you may have to switch providers, with all the bureaucratic headache that entails. Also, if you are getting care for that condition that isn't 100% standard and established you may not get it, or have to spend a bunch of extra money while it gets re-approved. Also, your deductible will reset, so if you switch jobs in the middle of the year you could potentially be paying thousands more out of pocket.
Postgres now has pluggable table storage
Doesn't even need to be under microsoft.com though. Just include the word "microsoft" in it.
> So as long as the resulting output was short enough you shouldn't have to worry anyhow about plagiarism

Ya, that's what I was trying to get at when I mentioned summarizing paragraphs into sentences. I think we're on the same page there. :)
It’s not just when you change jobs. My wife handles large employer groups and the insurance companies ask for a 15% rate increase every year so the employers have to threaten to switch every year to negotiate down then actually switch every other year. It’s a wasteful, useless game. Even if you stay at same employer, your insurer and networks will regularly change.
Or dark, if it's night time.

Amy preemptive strike will have no warning . Otherwise it would defeat the purpose.
Or, just open in a new tab.
> Ah yes, the good ol' You start out in 1954 by saying, “Nigger, nigger, nigger.”

You haven't got a shred of evidence of malicious intent, so you just toss around accusations of racist conspiracies. That's insane and shameful.

(I happen to think the TSA is misguided and unnecessary, but that's irrelevant to the question of discrimination.)

> If you build discrimination into the system you don't have to explicitly discriminate

There's a problem with people smuggling dangerous items on to aircraft, and the system is trying to address that to prevent people of all races dying.

The system has to find things that are hidden, and that means it has to discern between people who have more places to hide items on their body.

That design of the system is a natural consequence of the parameters of the problem, not some vast conspiracy to oppress minorities.
A while back I picked up a copy of "LISP Lore: A Guide to Programming the LISP Machine" at Goodwill, for $1

The Lisp dialect is dated, and the code isn't runnable on a modern machine, but it's still interesting to see the Lisp idioms and techniques used, the API design, etc.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/LISP-Lore-Guide-Programming-Machine-e...
It's not "the machine". It's that people have genuinely variable ability to conceal dangerous items. You have to check the wheelchair of people who come in on a wheelchair, and you don't if they don't have one. That could be seen as unfair to the handicapped, but not checking the wheelchair isn't really an option.
I'm summarizing for a general audience. I could say, r is " the strength of the linear relationship between two variables on a graph" but I'm not sure that helps the average person understand the connection.

If you have a better description, it's more helpful to chime in with that instead of "You're wrong!"
One big difference, I've always suspected, is that a plane crash is very visible and affects hundreds of people at once.

Somebody sick dying in hospital, on the other hand, is just something that happens, and draws very little attention - even though way more people are affected than in plane crashes.

So, the clustering and visibility of plane crashes leads to excellent check list discipline and other best practices in aviation, by and large (CRM, Crew Resource Management, is another thing Atul Gawande brings up in The Checklist Manifesto, and also eminently transferable to surgery), while I suspect that in surgery it is easier to drift away from best practices again without anyone noticing.

That's why these large studies and the educational efforts of Dr Gawande and others are so important.

edit: typo
I think it's caused by the rise of advertising as a funding source for these companies. To maximize profits, they have to make sure that nothing appears on their platforms that will piss off the advertisers. This combined with "engagement" as the metric of success.

So they want things that will anger as many users as possible, so that they will stay on the platform and share the outrage with their friends, but not so outrageous the advertisers will leave.

I don't think this is going to end well.
Read this: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/12/10/the-checklist

Same author as the book, but earlier. Contains all the meat, but none of the repetitions and the tenuous analogies.

Gawande had enough for a long-form article, but not for a book, and IMO it shows.

The book isn't bad. It's just that the essay is better.
Again, I'm summarizing for a general audience. If you have a better way to describe it that doesn't devolve into polynomials and linear relationships between variables on a graphs it's more helpful to do so than just say, "You're totally incorrect!"
I think Zuckerberg and Page should exercise their clout as a media moguls. Murdoch is scared of them. Also, Obama and Trump's Presidential victories show how a well coordinated social media campaign can win you the Presidency. Zuckerberg wants "to give people the power to build a global community that works for all of us." He should double down on that. You are right though.. Europe is really the only regulator we can rely on right now... but the global alt-right movement is trying to change that (see Steve Bannon in Europe).
Sony? https://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/News/Press/201601/16-008E/inde...
This story is about a different country that presumably allows that sort of discrimination.
Dawn of DevOps: Managing and Evolving Schemas with Confluent Control Center
Maybe I missed attempted terrorism by malicious actors hiding explosives in their weaves? Has the TSA taken a break from not detecting 95% of weapons and explosives[0] to detect weapons hidden in hair?

The context to keep in mind is that the TSA has repeatedly demonstrated incompetence at their stated goal.

[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/06/the-tsa...
I was just using the 10% number posited by the OP
Glad you mentioned Network Effects[0]. I forgot to mention that in my original comment. So yeah; that's why DNS is popular & centralized; the more people that use the network, the more valuable the network.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect
The idea is that the ice mass is increasing, because the millenia-old snow cover over the ice is melting and compacting into the ice sheet itself.

Took me a few reads to reconcile that myself.
> there are probably lots of you using Macs and from what I understand, Firefox on Mac is even worse than Chrome on Mac?

From what I've read (I use Firefox on Ubuntu), there's a longstanding bug with Firefox on Macs using a scaled resolution that causes it to become unusably slow.
Generally speaking, I find it effective, when I disagree with someone's sources describing an event, to explicitly provide my own. This ensures that the person I'm speaking with knows what sources I find credible, and knows the version of events that I'm willing to defend as accurate.

Also, if you feel that the Wikipedia page is misrepresenting the situation, I encourage you to engage on the talk page, and update the event section to provide an alternative view point. Yes, you'll get some pushback, but you can then cite the same published sources that you find to be more reliable, making it easier for people to follow the different threads.

The events in the Ukraine during 2014 are important, and I would like to have Wikipedia be accurate on it.
Eggs relate to Easter because it's the end of lent (and you can eat eggs again).

The Easter bunny has about as much to do with Christianity (or pagan religions) as Santa Claus.

So yeah, I'm sure you can loosely trace lots of this stuff back into the distant past. My point was just that this isn't an instance of Christianity taking over or "rebranding" some older pagan tradition.
GitHub and GitLab support task checklists in Markdown and also project boards which add and remove labels like 'ready' and 'in progress' when cards are moved between board columns; like kanban:

- [ ] not complete

- [x] completed

Other tools support additional per-task workflow states:

- [o] open

- [x (2019-04-17)] completed on date

I worked on a large hospital internal software project where the task was to build a system for reusable checklists editable through the web that prints them out in duplicate or triplicate at nearby printers. People really liked having the tangible paper copy.

"The Checklist Manifesto" by Atul Gawande was published while I worked there. TIL pilots have been using checklists for process control in order to reduce error for many years.

Evernote, RememberTheMilk, Google Tasks, and Google Keep all support checklists. Asana and Gitea and TaskWarrior support task dependencies.

A person could carry around a Hipster PDA with Bullet Journal style tasks lists with checkboxes; printed from a GTD service with an API and a @media print CSS stylesheet:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipster_PDA

I'm not aware of very many tools that support authoring reusable checklists with structured data elements and data validation.

...

There are a number of configuration management systems like Puppet, Chef, Salt, and Ansible that build a graph of completable and verifiable tasks and then depth-first traverse said graph (either with hash randomization resulting in sometimes different traversals or with source order as an implicit ordering)

Resource scheduling systems like operating systems and conference room schedulers can take ~task priority into account when optimally ordering tasks given available resources; like triage.

Scheduling algorithms:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15267146

TodoMVC catalogs Todo list implementations with very many MV* JS Frameworks: http://todomvc.com
After Obama ran on hope and change and won, one thing he did was shut down his very capable campaign organization without transitioning it to something else. It was maybe one tactical reason that later midterms became a mess for Democrats.

It's pretty clear the Bernie's organization, as well as the loose independent collective of progressive organizations around similar national and local causes who have also sprung up, will continue full bore to change congress as well as keep pressure on congress to make, well, progress.
Italy has a thriving market based private health care industry. You can call in and get prices and everything.

Just that it's in addition to the single payer system, which means the private one is cheap because the competition is 'free'.

As a % of GDP, Italy spends a lot less than the US in health care, and people live long and productive lives.

I mention Italy because 1) I lived there and 2) it's not some perfectly run place where everything works. It's not, and yet the health care is still better, overall, than in the US.
It's more a question of if you think anyone (in possession of icbms at least) would take that risk in the current state of the world? Seems unlikely. That said after I posted I was reminded of the time I woke up the sound of the air raid siren in Latvia. That was disorientating to say the least.
it's a machine that detects areas of suspect density that could presumably be hiding contraband.

And literacy tests for voters simply ensures that our electorate is properly educated. Any side effects are a convenient freebie.
If you find a new job and you’re eligible under group insurance, the insurance company can’t deny a claim under pre-existing conditions. This was true before the ACA. What the ACA changed was that insurance companies couldn’t exclude treatment based on preexisting conditions if you go on the open market.
AMP pages will now show original URL in Chrome's address bar
On three test machines, HDD and SSD, the single decompression thread ranges from 9% to 15% CPU, and has maxed out the read+write capacity for my storage. But maybe you have super fast source and target storage?
> but the item will remain on the checklist in perpetuity,

Why do you say this?

Everytime you see a system flaw because of a missed step, you add to checklist. Everytime you have a process flaw because of a uselss step, you remove from the checklist. There's no problem here, checklist maintenance can be a step in the checklist.

> ("Skins, skis, boots, .

"Spectacles, testicles, wallet, and watch!"
INS drifts a lot, not sure how precise is stellar
Pig brains partially revived four hours after death
I remember when it was about animated "under construction" gifs on millions of pages across the likes of geocities, and everyone self-publishing... until the social networks came... MySpace allowed for customized css which had a lot of user activity... then facebook normalized it all.

While I do appreciate the clean aesthetics most of the time... I really do like to see the creative individuals gets some things in.

Additional ideas mentioned include animated favicons and titles... I'd throw in that an audio waveform with music would be cool too.
Stalin’s Approval Rating Among Russians Hits 70%, Record High
You're still looking at the issue from a developer standpoint.

From a client side, all tiles are generally needless clutter.

Even a large amount of savvy tile developers won't resolve the problem of the general mess they create by existing.

The newer desktops that have start menus without tiles finally feels like a step in the right direction.
A single bomb is not as good as lots of MIRVs
"Prohibited items." Not sure why this was downvoted. It is literally how the TSA refers to them on its site and answers the parent's question:

https://www.tsa.gov/travel/civil-enforcement

Save your downvotes for the TSA.
Hmm, the Netflix presentation there seems to make sense superficially though.

The key attribute of the "Thundering Herd" problem is the LOOP. The Thundering Herd causes another Thundering Herd... which later causes another Thundering Herd. In the Netflix presentation, the "Thundering Herd" causes all of the requests to time out, which causes two new servers to be added ("automatic scale up"), then everyone tries again.

When everyone tries again, there's more people waiting, so everyone times-out AGAIN, which causes everything to shutdown, add two more servers to scale up, and start over. Etc. etc. Its a cascading problem that gets worse and worse each loop. You solve the Thundering Herd not by adding more resources (that actually makes the problem worse!!), but by cutting off the feedback loop somehow.

The problem discussed in the blog post has no feedback loop. Its simply a problem that happens once on startup.
As much as your comment might be taken in the wrong way, it is important to point out first world countries have this sorted. I simply don't get it. When did patriotism become about military might and waving flags instead of making sure your fellow countrymen don't live in agony, fear, and poverty?
Entitlement programs dwarf military spending.

https://www.quora.com/What-percentage-of-the-Federal-US-budg...
Taleb should stay in his lane. He sounds like a "get off my lawn" old douche when he talks about anything other than financial markets. His central tenet in that article is that IQ doesn't correlate with wealth and is therefore useless. How enlightening.
While there is probably a slight amount of expansion in liquid water from heat, water expands most when frozen solid. this is the entire reason ice floats