skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm the first one to admit that the line is fuzzy.

I read this story [1] by Glenn Greenwald (of Snowden interview fame), and I realized that I was not ok with gestation crates for pigs, or the practices espoused by the industrial farming of any animal.

I do not object to raising animals and eating them, but I do object to essentially keeping them in brutal, squalid conditions. Animals should have access to the outdoors, be allowed to pursue their own social connections, have enough space to stretch and exercise, have feed that's natural and high quality, and generally exist in a comfortable way.

Totally acknowledge that's my own definition. It's an arbitrary line in the sand to say, "Killing an animal is ok, causing suffering to an animal before killing it is not".

I just... read the article and couldn't stomach letting any of my money flow to companies that would think that sort of behavior was ok.

[1] https://theintercept.com/2017/10/05/factory-farms-fbi-missin...
Things are breaking both in the OECD and developing world. The transition is messy but there's really little alternative.
At the very least, they can’t violate IRS §7216 without your explicit consent, which they ask for with the default sync to their parent company. And for now that isn’t required to use their filing.
Cloudflared <3
Greek numeral Phi ?

I can't find a Roman use from quick searching, and the Greeks represented 500,000 with it.
For some startups, there’s no buzz needed – Poll Everywhere (YC S08)
And you have no idea what you are talking about. By that logic every company thats an OAuth 2.0 provider ripped off their "whole public facing architecture". Or rather, Smartcar ripped off someone elses'.
I'm really not sure what you're saying here, which is surprising because you said so much of it.

>But this is a double-edged sword.

No, it's really not.

Yes, I pay Amex an annual fee for the level of card I carry. I've done the math, and I get a good value back for this fee -- especially given the level of customer service AX provides. Paying for a service does not make this a double-edged sword; there's no downside for me here.

>There is also an inherent risk in this kind of scheme, in that some quasi-judicial process is making decisions about who gets to keep the money in the event of a dispute, and if it goes the wrong way in one party's view then the result is either losing out on money they think belongs to them or taking more expensive action to recover it, possibly via the courts.

This is true in literally any transaction, at some level. I mean, even in a cash-on-the-barrelhead scenario there's the possibility of bad faith or swindles, so I have no idea what your point is.

>Ultimately I think everyone has to learn to be more responsible about these transactions.

This is one of those things that sounds true and wise, but is actually just noise.

>Of course it shouldn't be possible for a merchant to take money from a customer without authorisation,

It will perhaps surprise you that it ISN'T, and that the disputes in discussion are generally over overbilling or billing after permission has been revoked.

>but equally it shouldn't be possible for a customer to arbitrarily reverse a payment several months later even if the merchant has done nothing wrong, or to cancel the payment authorisation as some sort of informal proxy for cancelling a legal contract with a merchant.

Truly, the merchants are fortunate to have such a wise defender in Silhouette!

>I think the direct debit schemes tend to be better at this sort of thing than the card schemes.

You have not even APPROACHED explaining why you think this, or why anyone should agree with you.

As long as there are automated billing systems, there will be errors.

In the scenario I outline, Amex functions as an intermediary, so a screwup doesn't literally take money from my account. This is objectively preferable to your scenario, where that's precisely what would happen.
I am mostly in the same situation (except Facebook has _maybe_ found me something I would be interested in buying), for all their information, for all their smart people, etc, they have 1 product...

My guess is that it is because most ads suck, because a) 90% of all products are crap, and b) good products don't need that many ads.

If somebody comes up with a better whatever, I will probably hear about it, but most new products are not revolutionary enough for that, but they are also not revolutionary enough for me to be interested in them as an ad.
Which is why any actions Google would take against the organizers would be especially carefully scrutinized. That's why I'm surprised- to take this action, Google HR would have to know they would be watched closely and likely end up with a court case (a skeptic might surmise that the protestors were hoping such a case would occur).
Apple employs an in-house philosopher but won’t let him talk to the press
"We're a plucky startup that seeks to disrupt the labor laws industry"
Somehow I had assumed such things were produced using recombinant DNA, but I guess only one brand does it this way.

I'm kind of mind boggled at the concept of pregnant women selling their urine to medical companies. How does this work?
It is still here: http://otonomo-docs.readme.io/docs

(found on another internal forums/board) Save a copy maybe?
Makes me think of Jiang Zemin's 767.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2002/01/19/c...
If I was a strange doctor, in possession of a green stone, who watched fourteen million, six hundred and five possible outcomes - I’d choose the one where Claire Stapleton became the employee representative on the Alphabet board of directors. But I’m not.
Wary of Chinese Espionage, Houston Cancer Center Chose to Fire 3 Scientists
Or, you know, the US could refrain from starting three trillion dollar wars, and cut the bloated military budget.
Geomagnetic jerks finally reproduced and explained
Every article/report about online privacy reminds me of how many people I know ignore these facts, don’t know them, or brush them off as they ‘don’t find it harmful’/‘have nothing to hide’. Can anyone give me some suggestions/point to a resource on how to present these facts to the not-tech people I care most about in a way they will actually care?
Seems like there should be other ways to boost your reputation. Maybe putting a deposit down which you can lose if your acceptance ratio gets too bad.
Good points about ease of cooking and error.

So much of short-term adoption of these is tied to marketing and time, but their long-term success strikes me as a foregone conclusion.

In marketing, they will need to get past a latent psychological hurdle and in time, waiting for the crotchety older folks who insist, no matter what, on a "real burger." Both things are related to the living generations who have grown up with "real burgers."
Standard advice is to move weight from equity investments to income investments as you near retirement. Lots of people stay(ed) heavy with equity because the potentially higher returns and shucked off the general advice.
often there is a paper trail. When IBM fires a lot of old people, they make sure to have 6 months of negative performance reviews. Google's way is to make it hard to work on the projects you enjoy working on so it eventually becomes less painful to just leave.
With python being a language that tries to only have one way of doing each thing, maybe they should have figured that out at the beginning stages of the language's design phase.
Hannibal came from Carthage and Hannibal was Rome's public enemy number 1. Really though, it's always been about the Mediterranean. Whoever owed that owned the "global" economy at the time. Carthage threatened that.
Understanding Data Modeling Part 2: “E/RM” and “RDM”
You're not using or deriving benefit from the existence of roads, schools, the EPA, or the FDA?
In a previous thread about China ripping of IP and blatantly sabotaging others illegally, many commentators supported them saying it’s better for the world. The fact that people are this naive scares me. I’m so sorry this happened, I am glad more light is being shined in unfair practices like this.
Near constant. Planning the next one before starting the ones that you've booked. Showing a very clear feedback loop of internal stress, escape, escape itself causing more stress, leading to further perceived need to escape.

I don't want to get into lots of personal detail, but it's the kind of thing that when you see it from the outside it's clear as day. And saddening.
> the second word you used again to describe the position.

I didn't describe "the" position, or any single position. That seems to be the crux of misinterpreting my comment.

I should have included it in the reply, but I was responding specifically to the idea, in semi-isolation, of "TBH I don't agree that one level of skepticism should be warranted for all things." and how we should be careful that we don't allow it to go to the other extreme, as (it has for some subset of people) in the example I gave.

> Is your position not that you believe the poster is creating an unfair framework of skepticism on how convenient evidence is?

My point, as it often is, since I find some themes cause me to comment over and over, is that both the extremes of a spectrum are often unappealing but in different ways, and a middle ground is often best. While applying the exact same level of scrutiny to all things isn't useful or efficient, neither is allowing political, economic and cultural narratives to the degree that we never accept results that are "inconvenient" in that they run counter to those narratives. The example given was one where it is inconvenient politically and economically to accept the results of man made climate change. Culturally, that could be results on the effects of marriage, or religion, or lack of religion.

My statement should have been interpreted as a refinement on a specific point, not necessarily supporting or refuting anything absolutely.
There's definitely a bit of an arms race going on, and it's unfortunate. I find both products to be very different, and we could stand to have some diversity in the area of alternative meat products.

Off the top of my head, in terms of commercial availability I've seen them at:

Beyond:
- Safeway (both meat patties, and frozen boxed crumbles)
- Del Taco
- Carls Jr.
- Veggie Grill

Impossible:
- Umami Burger
- White Castle
- Smaller retail locations
- pilot w/ Burger King

Beyond also has a lot of products, from sausages, crumbles, and different flavors of meat.

I think Impossible is highly focused on reproducing ground beef.
>>what constantly baffles me is: Why are they still there?

Money. But if you ask them..."we're trying to chance the system from inside blah blah blah..." Google is not gonna forget all the bad press.
Evanescent fields exist sure but Far field is really just a useful mathematical construct. It is typified by a wave-front where you can approximate no phase difference wherever it lands on a planar antenna.

It's like how you can approximate the Earth as flat when making a platting because it is very large and you are very small. If you look at the Farfield approximation calculation for a large antenna or phased array, you'll see that the equation is a function of distance, wavelength, and aperture size.

Edit: I should point out that Evanescent waves do not carry power (no net energy flow) so the power transfer is always reciprocal between 2 antennas.
> Why the hell is the tax code so damn complicated that it requires certified experts and special software to perform personal tax filings?

My response is:

>Nah, you're missing the forest when looking at the trees. Go bigger.

Why are we even having to file our own taxes? The IRS already checks everything. They have all the information that you enter into these systems (in fact, turbo tax has frequently had my W2 before my employer gives it to me, as well as many other documents).

So having us, or some middleman, doing it is double work. Let the IRS do it (because they determine if there is fraud or not), they send you a copy and you send it back either as is or with modifications.

If taxes are done this way who cares how complicated it is? (I'll hedge that in that it is harder to check the IRS's work, but I think less people care about this)
So great to see all these recent IPOs coming from tech investments and innovation. California is making the Stock Market for everyone much stronger.
Consider that already, purchases for mobility and communication are restricted based on social credit scores:

Cellphones

https://www.sfgate.com/business/amp/China-requires-ID-to-buy...

Trains

https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowTopic-g297411-i3650-k1024500...

There are official confirmations

http://amp.timeinc.net/fortune/2019/02/22/china-social-credi...

They also officially admit they can:

Throttle your internet speed

Ban your kids from some schools

Banning you from certain jobs

Taking your pets away

http://www.businessinsider.com/china-social-credit-system-pu...

I think that predicting possible restricting ability to buy food is not “unfounded speculation” but rather pointing out something that can literally be one step away. If you help someone with a low social credit score who has been restricted, your score also lowers. The AI can track where you’ve been and who you helped. Uyghur markets are gone. Their freedom of movement has been restricted as they are in the re-education centers for years.

Are you really taking issue with the suggestion that food can be next, how much hyperbole is it given the scale of what happened in 2018 and 2019 thus far alone?
> Automated theorem checking is typically very difficult for any nontrivial theorem

I'm not sure this is true -- I thought the whole idea of these theorem systems was to make the kernel of the proof system as simple as possible (to allow a manual proof, or at least high confidence of correctness).

If your program can produce an instance of a type, and it type-checks, then it true. Type inference can be tricky, and a lot of what makes the systems usable is the fact that you can omit types and allow the compiler to infer them, but a fully-expressed typed proof outline is enough to quickly verify correctness of the proof.
I feel Tesla livestreams are very much like their cars - they never launch on time, but when they eventually do, they're pretty good and worth the wait.
>Companies have been known to talk about expensive and complicated features or options in order to get people trying to copy their success to waste time and money on something for which there is no actual demand.

Anyone know of a specific documented example of this? I'm not really doubting, just interested.
Lots of things are contrary to my evolutionary makeup. My job (I sit on my butt - plenty of articles of late about THAT), my house (we've seen lots about the perils of modern houses in regards to sunlight, particulates, etc), my diet (beyond vegetarianism - modern diets are NOT paleo or any other "whole grains & meats") - pretty much all of it.

Now you make a very good point that these decisions aren't free - there are lots of concerns to care about and you are 100% correct. But saying there are impacts does not mean (1) that we shouldn't consider the change and (2) that NOT doing the change is somehow free of impacts.
I'm with you. I haven't eaten red meat or birds for going on 25 years now and though I do enjoy a good salmon burger, I honestly prefer a beyond burger when I can find one (trying to cut down on the fish, for health and over-fishing reasons).
The Nordic model, while not totally free of problems, seems to be doing quite well, as does other models of, say, healthcare under systems which are less profit motivated.
What does that have to do with anything? The original thread was about performance guarantees of API functions.
>What do people mean by this exactly?

Historically, “race” was a term invented to group/categorize people by language. From there it evolved into a reference of nationality. Most recently it has become a word to define an attempt to group people by physical characteristics.

So for example you associate race with ethnicity...the question is why? Ethnicity after all is a word to group people through nationality and culture, having nothing to do with physical characteristics...for example Irish is an ethnicity (in addition to just a nationality), but there are both black and white irish.
Buca di Beppo, America’s Most Postmodern Red Sauce Chain
This is a neat little writeup. Although the issues were not fundamental and relatively easy to spot and fix, it's valuable input especially since http/2 advocates seem to insist that you just need to put your webapp behind a http/2 capable proxy and you won't even notice a difference. We didn't enable it yet on our servers and now there's definitely something to test first before we roll out.
> It also has a cute set of version names based on atomic number.

This reminds me of my favorite lab numbering scheme. Each computer in the lab is assigned an element name, with the last byte of its assigned IPv4 address being its atomic number.

So if your machine were `cobalt` your IP would be 192.168.0.27, If it were `oxygen`, 192.168.0.16, etc.
I think you're misunderstanding my comment.

If I made a creme brulee recipe without having ever tasted it done correctly by someone else, I wouldn't know if the texture/taste was correct.

I have the same fear with the Impossible burgers - I want one cooked the way the company intended, so I know what it's supposed to taste like. Otherwise, my first impression of it might just be due to me over/undercooking it.
There's a lot of reasons I expected to see as their justification, but "our application can't handle concurrent requests" wasn't exactly one of them.
>I could be wrong, but I assume that Google mostly does this because of the huge amount of malicious garbage bot traffic on the web. Once you go fully anonymous and private, there's no way to distinguish you between the hordes of malicious traffic.

What's "malicious" about simply opening a page on a website? Google bots are doing this all the time and they don't have to solve CAPTCHAs.
“There are no users from North Korea trading on our platform”
> ... our bodies are clearly designed ...

Grant for the sake of discussion that your body is the work of a designer. The designer's design for childbirth is clearly abysmal: fifty thousand American women yearly suffer severe maternal morbidity. https://www.npr.org/2018/05/10/607782992/for-every-woman-who.... A designer who flunks childbirth should not be trusted with carnivory.

You contradict your first sentence with your second, when you refer to "evolutionary makeup." Do you have a robust definition of "evolutionary makeup" ?
3% is a big deal. This isn't a problem with a single big lever that suddenly solves 60% of the problem. We're going to be looking for opportunities to reduce by 1% here, 0.5% there.
oh it's simple, you just have to invert a binary tree
Very cool! What gave you the idea to (ab)use a database to generate fractals? ;)
Modify your online habits? I just read "The Shallows" and it really brought home to me how the web has altered my attention span.
Effective retaliation turns a difficult HR and employee morale problem into a minor legal problem. A court case is a bad outcome for labor organizers—they can never hope to match the resources their employer can bring to bear, and the proceedings can last for years. For that reason, it's a good outcome for the employer, and why you see large companies using the tactic at the first sign of labor unrest.
They didn't try to do that, though. They tried to organize a group of people who largely (although not exclusively) knew nothing about AI, or ethics, to rubber-stamp their actions and assuage the concerns of regulators & watchdogs. Ethics laundering, basically.
Overview of the three main improvements in this release:

1. Pipelines on the Operations Dashboard
The Operations Dashboard allows users to have an overview of project information throughout the entire GitLab instance. You add individual projects, one by one, so it’s flexible to whichever specific projects are of interest. Also, the pipeline status information is added to the Operations Dashboard. This should help teams view the pipeline health of all the projects that they care about, together in a single interface. [1]

2. Pipelines for Merged Results
When working in a feature (source) branch, it’s normal to have it diverge over time from the target branch if you aren’t rebasing frequently. This can result in a situation where both the source and target branch’s pipelines are green and there are no merge conflicts, but the combined output will result in a failed pipeline due to an incompatibility between the changes. By having your merge request pipeline automatically create a new ref that contains the combined merge result of the source and target branch, then running the pipeline against that ref, GitLab can better ensure that the combined result will be valid.Please note that if you are using merge request pipelines (in any capacity) and you use private GitLab runners that are version 11.8 or older, you will need to upgrade them to avoid running into the issue described in gitlab-ee#11122. Users of GitLab’s shared Runner fleet are not impacted. [2]

3. Suggest changes to multiple lines
Collaborating on merge requests often involves spotting problems and suggesting a solution. In GitLab 11.6, we introduced support for suggesting a change to a single line. With 11.10, changes can now be suggested to multiple lines when leaving a comment on a merge request diff, and accepted with a single click, by any user with write permissions to the source branch. [3]

[1] - https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/operations_dashboard/

[2] - https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/merge_request_pipelines/#pipel...

[3] - https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/discussions/#multi-line-sugg...
From a quick search, at least four apps for remote car unlocking are available. Not clear what makes this new one special.
> windowless bedrooms

For the record, this is usually against codes, and typically indicates an illegal sublet.
> If the animal is free from suffering, including lacking awareness of what's happening during the killing

How do you measure this? How do you know for certain that what you're eating had no idea it was about to die when it did?

How do you know animals don't experience existential suffering, similar to how humans experience it? Why do you believe that humans are in control of their livestock's emotional state, even when they provide the best environment for them?
We use the worst-case analysis to drive Big-O notation; if the worst case is hard, then we say the problem itself is hard. This is the main limitation of Big-O, as normally taught: it tends to ignore the practicability of the algorithm for typical cases.

Usually, the practice for solving these sorts of problems is to have your algorithm return three values: the solution, unsatisfiable, or timed out. There is literature on how to structure such problems to make it more likely you're going to get answers, but I'm not personally familiar with this area.
that sounds like her old tgif fanfic.
The vast majority of Impossible Burger's distribution is in restaurants. I haven't been able to find them in stores. Beyond Burgers, I buy weekly at the local mainstream (non-Whole Foods) grocery. Comes out to about $2.50/burger. Works great for my near-vegan partner, and we can still cook out at home!
Okay, to be fair, I wrote the comment, then immediately thought, okay that could be misinterpreted, then added the parenthetical right afterwards. I didn't do an "(EDIT:)" because I thought no one would have come in so soon. The poor sap might have fallen prey to my foolish decision to use an optimistic concurrency protocol.
EU votes to create cross-border biometrics database for 350M people